Adventure Stories for Daring Girls by Khoa Le

Author:Khoa Le
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781398800519
Publisher: Arcturus Digital Limited
Published: 2020-07-14T16:11:44+00:00

The dancing went on for hours and hours. Then, everyone began to tire and went to their hammocks for the night. The monkey lady fixed up a small hammock for Chimidyue next to hers.

Chimidyue climbed in, her mind whirring from her strange day in the forest. She tried to go to sleep, but the Monkey Lord was snoring loudly nearby and the noise kept her awake. As she lay in the darkness, listening to him, she heard the Monkey Lord muttering in his sleep!

Curious, Chimidyue pricked up her ears.

“I will eat Chimidyue. I will eat Chimidyue,” the Monkey Lord murmured again and again in his sleep.

Chimidyue squinted through the darkness and saw that he was covered in black spots. He was changing from human form—into a sleeping jaguar! He wasn’t a monkey at all!

Chimidyue slipped out of her hammock as quietly as she could and grabbed one of the torches. She ran away through the trees, trying to get as far away from the jaguar as possible.

When dawn began to push through the leaves, Chimidyue stopped at last to rest. She still had no idea where she was and she was very tired and scared.

“It seems that every animal in here wishes me harm,” she said.

“Now you know how we feel about humans,” said a tiny voice.

Chimidyue looked up to see the big morpho blue butterfly sitting on the branch above her. “You again!” she gasped. “You led me here!”

“You followed me for fun,” said the butterfly. “And I think you have learned much about the forest, little one. It is much bigger than your human world. Every creature in here has their own life, wants, and needs. They will not always behave how you want them to.”

Chimidyue nodded her head. “We share the forest; it is not ours to use just as we want,” she said.

The butterfly flapped its wings. “Exactly. I think it’s time to go home. Follow me.”

It fluttered its wings faster than Chimidyue had ever seen before and began to glow an even brighter blue.

Chimidyue felt herself shrinking, shrinking. Then, she looked down. Her arms were gone and she had two beautiful blue wings. “I’m a butterfly too!” she exclaimed.

The morpho butterfly led her through the forest and over the wide river to her home clearing.

“This is so much fun!” said Chimidyue. “I wish I could be a butterfly forever!”

“You belong with your family, Chimidyue,” said the butterfly. “But now that you have been one of us, I hope that you will keep the forest in your heart and be mindful of how you treat us animals.”

Chimidyue touched the ground and instantly changed back into her human form.

“I will,” she promised the butterfly.

From that day on, Chimidyue always made sure that she and her family respected the animals who shared their forest home.

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