Story 4

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An lost young rhinoceros was on the way finding his family ,On the journeys he met friends that he have never see before and dangerous encounter  that had transform him to an brave and mature rhinoceros.

STORY

There was this story somewhere in the semi-arid plains and savannah grasslands southern areas of the African continent, there is this a family of rhinoceros .And among this family, there is this young rhinoceros called JOJO .The family always stay close together so that they won’t got separated .Then there were this day ,a big lion leap out of nowhere trying to hunt them down, in the moment of chaos ,JOJO got separated with the family. And now, he needed to find them.

As sun was still shining brightly ,the young rhinoceros had searching for his family for some time until, he saw an strange looking creature ,and was amazed by the length of its neck and irregular patches of color on a light background on the body. So the young ones decided to get its help and hopefully it doesn’t not eat him. So JOJO slowly walk with caution. The creature was tall enough not to even notice JOJO was standing right beside him, as JOJO has to shout as loud as he can “Excuse me Sir!!!’’.The creature swings his neck and lower down his head, only then he could saw him.

He said “Oh, hi little young ones, my apologized that I didn’t notice you, what can I do for you?”.

JOJO  took a deep breath and reply “Please don’t eat me Sir, I lost contact with my family and I need your help”.

He bust out with laughter that even he fall to his feet and just couldn’t stop himself  and answered “I  don’t eat meat my friend, my only food is what the tree can provide me, Well...ok I did saw a group of  your kind  seem in an hurry traveled toward that  direction.

And JOJO ask him “sir can I know why is your neck so long”

The creature answered “we are called giraffe, and we can use ours neck to look far and reach the tall tree to find our food”.

Then the giraffe, swing his neck to one of the tree and grip a few apple and give it to JOJO and said “I can see you have travel far, take some of this apples along so that you can continue your searching  and Thanks you’re for your entertainment, good lucky”.

“Thank you, Mr. Giraffe”. JOJO said, and continue his searching.

Then JOJO come upon an two-way junctions now he got no idea which path to take. So he look around and decided to approach another strange huge looking creature with a long nose standing in the river .

“Hi Sir; I lost contact with my group, did you saw them taking which path?”JOJO said

The creature answered with his nose swinging right and left“. Ah, I see ,I do saw  a group of rhinoceros rushing passed  me, I can tell you which path  only if you could get me some foods “.

So JOJO took out a few apple and give to him “Here some apple for you sir”.

The creature quickly stretch his nose and grip the apples, and put it into his month and started eating.

There JOJO ask out of curiosity “May I know why do you have such a long nose”.

The creatures answered while trying to finish all the apples in his month”. Well, I am called  elephant , my nose works just like hand ,it’s did everything’s for me eat , drink , wash. However your family took the path on the right”.

The elephant  plunk out a big leaf and pour in some water on it and fold it into a bag so that the water wont drain out using his long nose and give it to JOJO and said “thanks you for your food, here some water that might help you through  the hot weather”.

JOJO  took the bag and answered “thank you, Mr. elephant”. And continue his journey.

On his way of his travel, he discover there were this creature with feather all over the body lying on the ground dying shouted softly with an weak voice “water....I need water..”.

So JOJO quickly took out his bag of water and slowly feed him into his sharp hard month.

Then the creature push himself up and said “Thank you young ones, I own you one”

JOJO ask “you only have two legs, you can’t travel fast this way, and it must be tiring for you”.

The creature laughs at his innocent and lifts up his wings and said “I am a Crow, I don’t walk, I fly in the sky with these wings.

JOJO was amaze by how he can fly but then he ask “When you were flying, did you happen to see any group of my kind?”

The creature trying to recalled and answered “Yes, I saw them and I knew where they were , well you saved my life I can do you a favor by fly there while you follow up the direction I be flying”.

So the crow help JOJO made his way, until he encounter a huge group of creature with beautiful distinctive black and white stripes that’s stripes come in different patterns unique to each individual, that’s stop JOJO  and ask one them “What are you guy, with this beauty looks of stripes”.

The creature answered in an arrogant manner “we are called zebra, we have the strip that made us beautiful and grand, and unlike you with only grey all over the body and it is ugly”.

JOJO was started to doubt himself for being common, that everyone seem to have their own special abilities or talent.

Suddenly an big lion leap up from nowhere and got hold of one of the zebra, everyone of them started to escaped .But JOJO wanted to help the zebra but he do not know what to do until the crow shout at him “Use your horn!!Use your horn!!Just run toward the lion!!”

And so JOJO use all his strength rushing toward it’s and knock the lion on the ground, this is the first time the lion had encounter prey fighting back, and he was scared and run away.

JOJO finally realize he is talented and had abilities just like anyone of them, and he is so glad. The zebras apologized for mocking at him and they are so amazed by the courage and horn that JOJO had .The next moment JOJO family found him due to the distinctive pattern the zebra had ,attracted them to found him. They were back as a group again, with an grown strong rhinoceros that can protect them.