Topic: True Tall Tales of the Explorer Brat!

Hochi Banto

Date: 2009-07-23 23:09 EST
Hochi stood in front of the small crowd of kids with a big smile plastered across his face. "Hi, Hochi Bird Onyxfire is the name, this is Lenny and Peanut' the spider monkey poked his head out of the collar of Hochi's shirt chattering happily as he was mentioned. "If you have not heard, Hochi is the best explorer ever and Hochi is here to tell some amazing stories of exploring, that are all true by the way." Giggling he rubbed his hands together thinking for a few seconds.

"Hochi is going to tell you about Yellow Skull Island, and the treasure that Hochi found there" he looked around the recovery ward, "this island, is surrounded by miles and miles of cold, harsh water. Covered with forests, which is filled with dangerous animals. No one has ever been to Yellow Skull Island, Hochi was the first explorer there." He paused for effect, "we landed the boat onto the beach and ran onto the sand and then we moved into the scary dark forest it was dark...and..." pauses thinking "gloomy Hochi could hear scaaaarrrry animals. Suddenly there was a loud crash," he claps his hands together to add emphasis "then, a very, very angry elephant saw us and ran right at Hochi! Hochi and Lenny jumped out of the way but Peanut stood still! Hochi watched as peanut stood still as the big ol' mean elephant ran straight at Peanut. But instead of being killed Peanut Jumped and climbed on top of the Elephant."

He started to giggle as Peanut jumped onto the floor flexing his arms chattering, Lenny moved towards one of the children. "Peanut held onto the elephant and started to tickle the large animal, Hochi didn't think it was going to work. But then the elephant crashed into the ground and started to laugh' Hochi giggles now as Peanut puffs out his chest all proud like. "The elephant wasn't mad anymore and just left us alone and just walked away. So we continued to explore this dangerous and deadly Island, we walked for hours and hours until we finally found a cave. This cave held the treasure of Yellow Skull Island, this treasure legend says is massive!" He spread his arms wide to show them how big the treasure is "As we came up to the cave two lions jumped out of it and were growling at Lenny and Hochi." Now Lenny wagged his tail watching Hochi as he hears his name called.

"These two lions moved closer to Hochi and Lenny, Peanut vanished" He gave Peanut a playful mad look, "So Lenny and Hochi attacked the lions punching and kicking and biting" he punches and kicks the air, "Then after Hochi fought off these lions we entered into this scary cave. Lenny and Hochi moved through the cave slowly, suddenly we came up to an edge we looked down and saw" He stops for a few seconds "a river full of giant Hochi eating sharks, Lenny and Hochi didn't know what to do, after a long time of discussing our options. We had decided to jump across over these hungry sharks, we took a few steps back and ran and jumped over the water four sharks jumps out to eat us!" Flailing his arms in the air "but we landed on the other side rolling back to our feet then there it was, the treasure of Yellow Skull Island, we walked up to the glorious treasure and it was" stopping he looks at all of the excited faces "it was a bag full of shiny rocks, Hochi returned from the Island with his crew to share Hochi's treasure with everyone here." He pulls a bag out of his pocket and moves to hand each child a few rubies and diamonds "These are enchanted to bring good luck so keep them safe." He smiles happily as he finishes his story quickly.

LadyAjaBird

Date: 2009-07-23 23:21 EST
Aja sat back and listened to Hochi's tale, grinning broadly. He had a flair for this kind of thing and the kids seemed to really like him.

If there was a proud mama expression, Aja was probably wearing it. She watched as Peanut helped the story along, having developed some new habits since hanging out with Hochi.

And just like his mama, he passed out candy to the kids that went with the story. She was very proud indeed.

When his story was finished and they were on their way out, she smiled down at him. "Best explorer in the world." with that, she was rewarded with a very bright Hochi smile. Best gift in the world.