Kali Frees Willy

Chapter 8

Awhile later that night, Kali and Jesse snuck out of the house, went down to the amusement park and sat down by Willy's tank, thinking long and hard about what they were gonna do now and where they were gonna go.

The lonely whale soon swam up to them. 

"Uh... hey, guys" He greeted the kids quietly.  

"What do you want?" Jesse glared at Willy, not understanding the whale right now since they weren't in sink with each other with a pure heart and clear mind like truth talkers were suppose to be. 

"I want to apologize... about earlier" Willy said softly, feeling ashamed of what happened.

"What happened today?" Kali asked the sad orca like a concerned mother. 

"You choked, didn't you?" Jesse added, glaring at Willy. 

"I'm sorry, Jesse" Willy brought his toy over that Jesse and Kali had made for him. 

"Now you want to mess around" Jesse scoffed at the whale before throwing the toy far out to make Willy go away.  

But Willy didn't, and instead started squirting water at the kids. 

"Quit it" Jesse told the orca whale. "Willy, stop that" 

But Willy continued squirting at them. 

"Quit it!" Jesse yelled. 

"Willy, please stop" Kali told the orca gently. "It's not helping Jesse" 

"Sorry..." The poor orca frowned. "I didn't mean to hurt you guys"

"It's okay, boy. It wasn't your fault" Kali soothed, reaching out to pet the whale's rostrum. 

While this was going on, Jesse looked at his whistle Rae and Randolph had given him. 

"See this?" Jesse showed the whale his trainer whistle. "See this, Willy? It's going bye-bye, and it's never coming back!" Jesse then threw his whistle far away. 

"Jesse..." Kali frowned, feeling truly bad for her friend who was so hurt. 

Willy then started making that strange vocalization noise at the kids.

"Don't you start that now" Jesse told the orca whale. 

"Why do you make such a strange noise like that anyway?" Kali questioned the whale. 

But Willy didn't seem to answer her and kept making those strange vocalizations even the tomboy couldn't understand. 

Jesse then grabbed his bag, sniffling just a little as he told his two friends. "I'm out of here. Going to California"

"What?!" Kali looked shocked that her friend was leaving. "Jesse, no!" 

"I'm sorry, Kali" Jesse looked to the tomboy, then at Willy, telling the whale. "Have a good life" 

Willy started shaking his head no at Jesse. "You can't go, Jesse. You're my friend" 

Jesse started to leave, but stopped in his tracks once he heard something. It sounded like... orca whale calls?

Kali heard it too, and she and Jesse both climbed up to the top of the lighthouse by the stage while Willy came up to the edge of the tank and kept making those strange vocalization calls. 

The kids looked out to discover out in the bay not just one, but a whole pod of orca whales all calling to Willy.  

"Wow" The kids were amazed, having discovered Willy's pod. 

"It's your family" Jesse said to Willy while he kept making those vocalizations back out to his pod.  

"Oh, you poor thing" Kali felt her heart ache as she and Jesse realized how miserable Willy truly was in captive.