It was a regular Saturday afternoon and I decided to go out into the deck and enjoy the view of the mountains. Oregon had amazing sights and my backyard was one of them.
I stepped onto the deck and took a big breathe of the outdoors. I loved the smell of a nice summer morning. I went back inside to grab my book and enjoy the morning. I came back outside with my book and forgot my glasses. I put the book down on the table and went back inside for my glasses.
But when I came back out my book was gone. I swear I left it on the table. Scratching my head I out my glasses in the table and went inside to look for my book. I just couldn't find it.
"Hey mom. Have you seen my book?" I asked as I walked into the kitchen.
"No, Matt I haven't." She told me
I sighed and went back outside, I decided to just sit down and enjoy the view. I got out my phone and out on some music, closing my eyes and falling asleep.
I started hearing some noises, like little squeaks and babble. I starting opening my eyes, rubbing them as I woke up. I looked over at my phone, watching it being grabbed right before my eyes. By little fuzzy hands!
I rubbed my hands again, I didn't understand what I was seeing! Some little furry thing was running away with my phone!
"Hey! Come back!" I said getting up and running after the little thing. I followed it out into the lawn and all of a sudden it disappeared. I got up to the place where it disappeared, just below my was a small hole, to small for me to fit.
"Dangit." I said to myself, unable to get my phone back. I sat down next to the hall wondering how I was going to explain this to my mom. Then I thought, maybe I was dreaming and I would wake up any second laughing at myself for thinking this was real. But that did not happen.
I sat there thinking of what to do next, I could sit here and wait for the little beast to come out, or go back to my house and explain to my mom what happened to my phone. Then a thought came to my head, I could drive it out of the hole!
So I grabbed the hose, put it in the hole and turned it on. After awhile I saw water going out of the hole I turned the water off. What? Shouldn't the little thing have come out? Maybe there was another entrance?
So I walked around looking for other holes it could have come out if. After an hour of searching I went back home. Once I got home I was bombarded by my mother.
"Mathew! Where have you been? I've been calling your phone for the past hour!" She was angry
"Oh, well ya see." I scratched my neck trying to come up with something that doesn't make me sound like a lunatic.
"Well I was trying to take a picture of the view and dropped my phone down the hill, I've been searching for it and kind of got lost. Sorry mom." I said hoping she would by it.
"Oh, Matt. Why didn't you just stay home! I was worried sick!" She gave me a hug and afterwards I went back to my room. I had to find out what this thing was, so I took out my laptop and started searching.
I looked up 'small furry creatures' and 'stealing animals'. Nothing really matched what I saw until I came across 'tarum' some Latin word meaning troll I think.
As I researched more it said they traveled in groups. But I thought that was weird considering I only saw one. I went to bed that night thinking about how I could get my phone back.
The next morning I left my house early and decided to get help from one of my friends. I walked up to her door and knocked, being greeted by her mom.
