Saboosa Comes to the Forest

Deep in the forest, there was a magic tree. It was the oldest tree in the world, and in it lived many fairies.

One day, the fairies heard a loud sound that shook the forest. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The fairies were frightened. They closed all the windows and doors to their tree home.

Bell, the brave fairy, flew out and followed the booming sound.

She found a large blue monster, whose footsteps made the ground shake. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Bell flew right up to the monster's face and yelled at him. "Stop!"

The monster didn't notice the little fairy. He kept walking, shaking the forest as he went.

"I said, STOP!" Bell punched the monster on his head.

The monster stopped, rubbed his head, and said, "Ow..." in a low voice. He looked around and finally noticed Bell. "Did you do that?" he asked slowly, pointing to his head.

"I did. I'm sorry," she replied. "I'm Bell. What's your name?"

"I'm Saboosa."

"Where are you from, Saboosa?" asked Bell.

"I live up in the mountain," Saboosa answered.

"What brought you here?"

Saboosa thought for a long time before he answered, "I wanted to make some friends."

Bell felt sorry for him. She decided a big monster like Saboosa would make a very good friend, so she sat on his shoulder and said, "I'll be your friend. Let's go this way!" She led Saboosa right to her home, the oldest tree in the forest.

"Watch out for low branches!" Bell warned Saboosa. She didn't want him to get tangled up in the trees. Saboosa was surprisingly gentle, for such a big monster.

"You better stay here," Bell told him, pointing to a mossy spot on the ground. "I'll tell my fairy sisters about you."

Saboosa sat waiting right where Bell showed him, while she went into her tree home.

Suddenly, a little green monster jumped on him, cackling, "I've got you now!!!" The little green monster tied up Saboosa with vines hanging from the trees.

"Little Brother, let me go!" Saboosa cried.

"I'll let you go, but only if you help me steal the fairies' gold!" Little Brother plotted.

"No!" Saboosa yelled. "Never! It's not right to take what isn't yours. Don't do it, Little Brother!"

Little Brother scoffed at Saboosa. "Then I'm just going to have to do it by myself." He ran off leaving Saboosa struggling in the vines.

Saboosa growled and stomped his feet, shaking the forest as loud as he could.

Bell was in the middle of a conversation with the other fairies, telling them about how kind and gentle Saboosa is, when the loud stomping and growling sounds reached them. The fairies trembled in fear. Bell flew out to where she had left Saboosa.

"What happened?" Bell asked, as she loosened the vines around Saboosa.

Saboosa told Bell about his Little Brother's plot to steal the fairies' gold.

Bell flew quickly into the magic tree and gathered her sisters together to where they hide their gold.

The fairies found Little Brother filling a sack with gold coins. Saboosa grabbed his Little Brother, tossed the sack of gold back to the fairies and walked back to the mountain holding his Little Brother squirming and screaming all the way home.