The Animals: Book One

part 1: the beginning

As I gazed into the fog, something mysterious emerged. There was a smile like the Cheshire cat smile. The thing appeared like the Cheshire cat. Head first, body next, legs last. It took on a human-like form. It came closer and closer until it was right on top of me to see what it was. It had a human body, eagle head, legs of an eagle, and the thing had no arms. I looked up and down that thing. Out from behind it, wings appeared. The wings spanned 15 ft. The thing went past me.
Then it stopped, then it asked ¨what are you doing here?¨ that was a good question. I didn't know that I even went to another realm.
¨I don't know¨ I said. ¨where am I?¨
¨You are in the land of Zamboo¨ the thing said.
¨Who are are you? And why did I come here?¨ I said.
¨I am Jojo. Why did you come here? I can't answer that. Who are you?¨said Jojo.
¨I am bear¨ I said. He started walking again. I almost have to run to keep up with him. I was following him to see where he went. I kept hidden almost all the way there, till the tree was starting to spread out the underbrush came less dense. I didn't know where to hide anymore, so, I followed Jojo to a clearing. I made sure that he did see me. He went through some gates and he vanished. I looked around. There were some trees here and there. I went up to the gates and they didn't open up as they did with Jojo. Maybe he said a magic word to open the doors. But there was a lot of words I properly didn't know. So I just stood there waiting for the doors to open. This place, Zamboo, is weird everywhere has very thick fog. The fog and so thick that you could not see 10ft in front of you. By nightfall, nothing happened. So I made camp outside of it. I gathered wood and made a fire. The doors opened. Jojo was standing there. Jojo was coming towards me.
"You don't know when to stop do you?" Jojo said. "I came out here to give you this" He pulled out something from his pocket. He unwrapped it and gave it to me. It looked like red mush.
"Here," he said, "tack it. It is food."
"What kind of food is it?" I said.
"There are strawberries," he said.
"Thank you," I said.
"Your welcome," he said. I wondered how did I get to this place and how to get out of it.
"I know how you came here," said Jojo.
"Are you going to tell me?" I said eagerly and rudely.
"I will tell you what I know," Jojo said. "There was a flash of light and everyone went to the windows towards the flash of light. Everyone parted for me to see what will happen next. The next thing I knew I saw someone falling from the sky, and it was you, I sprinted and burst through the window. I went as fast as I could get to you in time you hit the ground. I got you in time and I steady with you, and steady at a safe distance until you wake up."
"So, I somehow got here by a flash of light. And before I woke up I don't remember anything." I said. "But I remember my name and one other name."
"What is the other name you remember," Jojo said.
"I the name is Apollo," I said.
"There is an Apollo where I work but, I don't know if he is the same person you remember but, ...."
"I want to see Apollo" I blurted.
"It the place closed now you have to come to live with me till something happens to you," Jojo said. I stared into the fire to process what happened today. I fell out of the sky almost died once and was in a very new place. Then there was howling. Jojo studs up and looked around.
"We have to get away from here," Jojo said. Somehow Jojo splashed water in the fire and started to walk to the front gate. Then turned towards where the howl came.
"Jump on my back, quickly boy," Jojo said. I obeyed Jojo, hopped on Jojo. Jojo started flapping then as we lifted off the ground. There were these things that surrounded the place where we took off from. They were heads of a wolf and the bodies of a fox.
"What are those?" I asked.
"They are Zimboos," Jojo said.
"Why did they want us?" I asked.
"They caught your scent and followed you here," Jojo said. "But I don't know how they caught your scent so fast?" Jojo was still flapping his wings, we were higher than I realized. We were above the top of the gate and flying towards the building behind the gate. Now I realized that the Zimboos just like wolfs. When I look back at the building inside the fence. The building had a broken window in it, I could see creatures who were the same as Jojo. Some were taller than him, some were shorter than him, some had hair as people do back on earth. Each one was different from the other. Jojo flew back into the broken window. Everyone was staring at me. Someone whispered "it has legs coming out if its chest and no wings"
"Don't worry everyone he is just staying here till he has a place to stay permanently, ok everyone?" Jojo said.
"Pist," someone said.
"What?" Jojo said quietly.
"The head person wants to see you," that same person said. Then Jojo left immediately and headed to the left to me and said, "be good." then Jojo left sprinting down the hallway like is he was going to take off again but did not. What is good any more? Should I just stay here? Or start wandering?
"This way," the stranger said. I obeyed to the stranger. The stranger took off to the left. The stranger veered to the right and went down another hallway. Then the stranger stopped abruptly and turned around and said: "Where did you come from?"
"From planet earth," I said. I didn't know what question was that.
"How did you come here from planet earth?" the stranger said.
"First things first, what is your name?" I said.
"My name is Allie." the stranger said, "Now how did you come here from planet earth?"
"Well, I don't know," I said.
"So Bear, when Jojo burst out of the window did he tell you his point of view on it?" Allie said.
"Yes, but I still I don't know I made it here before the explosion," I said.
"Follow me," Allie said. Allie started walking again. After a while, we came to a door and Allie pushed me inside and shut me inside. Ok I thought, this might be my room. I looked around it did not have much inside of in beside hundreds of makes grouped up in 5's through it on the walls. There were a bed, a chair, and a desk and nothing else. The door opened Jojo stood there and said: "come with me." I went with him down a few different, plain, corridor. We came to a door with a sign that said 'Mis. K's room', Jojo opened it and pushed me through and said "good luck." I looked around the room. It was nothing like my room. It was like an elementary school classroom. Bathroom in the corner, teachers desk in another corner, and all over there were people my age playing with toys, but they weren't like me at all. Some had wings, others had hooves as feet. No person (or thing) was the same as the other. Then I looked around for a teacher and I did not see a teacher.
"Who are you?" someone said behind me. I wiped around and saw the teacher.
"I am Bear," I said.
"Why is your name is that?" the teacher asked.
"Because I act like a bear when I am playing with my old friends," I said. "Also my parents like bears" Mis.K was looking me over contemplating what to say next. She left and walked over and talked to some kids. I think I am off the hook, for now, I thought, now who should I play with now. But I thought that I was too old to play anymore but I guess that I should start playing with the others. I walked over to some other people, then they left. Ok, I think that everyone will not play with me just wait for them to get used to me and me being here. I thought. I started to play with the action figures the other boys were playing with. Some girls started snickering at something I looked at them and saw them pointing at me and trying to hold in some laughs. One started to come over but ran back with others. I walked over to them.
"Which one of you want to talk to me?" I asked the group of girls. One came out.
"I did," she said. She had no hands like Jojo, and goat hooves as feet I did not know if she had wings or not but, I wanted to say something witty like 'what nice weather we are having'
"So what did you want to ask me?" I said casually. She looked back at her friends and said: "where did you come from?" I should make up something and fast!!! I thought.
"I came from the world from above. Where everyone has hands and feet and no other things on your body," I said, "where people fight everyone else."
"Wow," she said, "how is that even possible?"
"How are you even possible?" I asked her. Then I walked away from the girls. Went back to playing with the toys I was playing with. The Mis. K came over.
"Don't question anyone here" Mis.K whispered to me. And walked away. I went back to playing with my toys. Mis.K had an eye on me, very close eye on me. No one was paying me any attention to me. So I went on playing with my toys. The others were going to their rooms and I was the only one left in the room. Mis. K went to me and said, "you don't talk to anyone unless they talk to you." Jojo came into the room, I went with him and went to my room. I will talk to no one unless they are talking to me. The next day was the same as the other. I only played with myself. Every day was the same as the last. I only got one meal a day and I only got a bath only once every two or three weeks. But I did not mind that at all. Slowly everyone got used to me with me. People started to play with me. I forgot what the other world is like. Every day and every night was as good as it could get. I still felt something was wrong with this. I was not learning anything, my IQ was not getting higher than it was when I came here. No one wanted to complain, everyone was happy with what they were doing. I was ready to go back to the real world but how could I go when I liked it here. That thing that I was feeling was not lonely for the real world but I wanted to go to the home with my family but how will go home with my family, I felt like something was trying to get out. One day I stopped going to Mis. K's room. I was going somewhere with Jojo. That somewhere was not a classroom, not a new bedroom, not anything. I was forced into a room with another person like me. The figure had two hands, two feet, one body. The figure turned around and said "Bear, I called to you because I am dying and I want you to take over for me"
"How so?" I said.
"It is very simple," the figure said.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I am Luna," the figure said, "and your lost grandmother" the figure started to lay down and closed her eyes and did not open her eyes again. I looked over at Jojo but he was gone and the door was closed. I had so many questions that are not answered. I walked over to the door and yelled "does anyone know what I do?!" no one came to me to answer any questions I had about my job. I looked back at the other 3 walls that are plain.
"Now how am I got to pass the time when I don't have anything to pass it with?" I asked myself. I walked over to the bed. I saw no one there but my grandmother Luna was just laying. She disappeared from that place. I laid down on the bed and looked up to the ceiling. The ceiling was painted of a beautiful creature. The creature had feathered wings, hooves as hands and for feet, it had human feet and a tail. The background was a noisy big city that I went to before. The creature was almost like it was coming off the ceiling. It was coming closer and closer tile, it came crashing down on me. I pushed off the creature. The creature looked around the room then, looked over to me. "You must be the new boss," it said, "might as well start learning about your job, first you need to have a notebook, a pencil, and a computer. Let's go get those things" it grabbed my hand and took off through the painting.
"What is your name?" I asked the creature.
"Don't you know who I am?" it said, "I am that great flying -"
I cut him off, and exclaimed, "Maffey!! I didn't know that you were real?"
"I am really," Maffey said, "but I was in the back of your head" I looked down at the city, it was getting closer and closer.
"Where are we going to?" I asked.
"You know where we are going to" Maffey replied. We landed in front of a gourmet bakery. I loved going into when I was a little kid. I smiled and walked inside the store. When I walked through the door there was a ring as it closed. Someone said something behind the counter but I did not hear it. I was looking around at the baked goods, that I thought I never see again.
"I thought that I'd never see this place again," I said.
"I know," Maffey said.
"What is this city?"
"What you see in your dreams. When your grandmother died this painting was redesigned just for you when you laid down on the bed. Shall we go to another store?" Maffey said. I wanted to stay here forever in this dream world, but I knew that this is where I went when I feel alone in the other world when I had nowhere to go. The place where I went when I wanted to get the negative thoughts of my real world. But I was here. I never thought in my wildest dreams I would have my own painting filled with my desires.
"Well I will leave you to your own thoughts," Maffey said, and then left out the door. I wanted to explore the world around me alone but I did not want to but, in my dreams, I was always alone in them. I woke up from the painting, I wanted to go into the painting again but, there was someone next to.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"I am your nurse," said the person. I looked up to the painting really wanted to explore more.
"The head people want to see you," said the nurse, "that's why I woke you up" I asleep that whole time?!
"You slept for two days"

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