Sleepytime Adventures, Chapter 2
The adventurers woke up the next morning, and looked around them. Below them, the forests of Vancouver Island stretched out in all directions. Suddenly, Wolfy heard the flapping of wings and shouted "look out!" A giant eagle, whose wings spread over ten feet in both directions, swooped down and came to rest on their platform.
"This is my bush!" said the frog.
"What?" said Wolfy, "I've never even heard of a talking frog before!"
"I'm not just a frog, I'm a frog fairy!" said the frog. And sure enough, magically there was suddenly a tiny little person with wings standing there, with a green wand. There was a squeak in the bushes next to her. "Hey, you woke me up!" said a very sleepy little furry thing with wings. "Oh, sorry!" said the Frog Fairy. "This is my friend, Vampire Bat."
"Hello, Frog Fairy and Vampire Bat." said the ninjas. "Would you like to come have breakfast with us? We are gathering berries and our friends the eagles are bringing some salmon."
"Sure!" said the fairy, and with a flick of her wand she had a basket in her hand, and with another flick it filled itself with berries! "Let's go."
They all headed back to the tree platform, and had a wonderful breakfast with Eagle and his eaglets. After breakfast, the Canadian Ninja said "I'd like to turn our platform into a treehouse. Do you know anyone that could help us?"
"Sure!" said Frog Fairy, "You should talk to Beaver! I'll show you where his dam is, over where the river meets the lake."
Our friends all traveled to the beaver dam, and a furry brown creature came waddle-scurrying toward them. He had a big paddle-shaped tail, and giant teeth sticking down over his chin! "Hewwo, how can I hewp you?" he asked.
"We want to build a treehouse. Will you help us?" said the Canadian Ninja.
"But of couwse!" said the beaver.
For the rest of the day, the beaver and the Canadian Ninja showed the others how to chop down trees and turn them into logs, to stack the logs one atop the other , with notches in the ends and mud in between to hold them in place. The Red Ninja Kai used his flame swords to burn away the base of the largest trees, and the beaver packed mud on top so that the rest of the tree would not catch fire. "This is just how the local Haida people have cut down trees for as long as anyone can remember!" said the Beaver. "We should make you a Haida totem pole for your new treehouse home, one with each of your faces on it."
And so they did.
They created a totem pole with an axe and a maple leaf (for the Canadian Ninja),
And so they did.
They created a totem pole with an axe and a maple leaf (for the Canadian Ninja),
two crossed flaming swords (for the Red Ninja Kai),
a wolf showing her smiling teeth (for Wolfy),
an eagle holding a salmon (for Eagle and his eaglets),
a beaver with giant teeth and a cross-hatched paddle tail (for Beaver),
a bat with long pointy ears (for the Vampire Bat),
and a frog with berries on her tongue (for the Frog Fairy).
When they finished placing their totem pole in their new treehouse, our friends were tired. The little fluffy eaglets were tumble-bumble-yawning all over the place, and papa Eagle took them home to their nest to rest. The beaver went home to his dam, and the rest of our adventurers went inside the treehouse. They snuggled into their snuggly pillows, and cuddled under their cuddly blankets, and had wonderful, salmon-and-berries-and-treehouses-and-totem-poles dreams.