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The Rainforest Rescue SHORT
STORIES

It was a clear sunny morning in the Amazon The Waterfall was a 10-meter drop to cer-
rainforest. That morning, Emma and her tainly cause death to anything that would fall
siblings were to be taken out by the water- from it. Since their mother was underwater,
front for the very first time. Emma was told Emma took one last look at her 13 siblings
all her life “Emma you’re an Anaconda, you possibly for the last time, and dove under-
have to be ferocious, cunning, and brave”. water. It was murky; she could barely tell be-
But Emma wasn’t any of those things nor did tween the sand on the bottom and the water
she want to be. Unlike her siblings, she pre- but Emma kept going. Eventually, she felt the
ferred to be shy, quiet, and normally didn’t current growing stronger. She lifted her head
like the taste of meat so her mother decided to see Luna clinging to the very tip of a boul-
today was going to be the day where she will der but her grip was slowly slipping. Emma
taste her first bite of fresh, newly caught fish. looked around frantically for something
that could help her. She spotted a long twisty
They soon reached. The water was a lovely branch and reached for it. After grabbing it,
shade of sap green but still quite murky. she started shoving it between the two rocks
“You can all jump in little ones but don’t connecting herself to her sister. Slowly, she
drift too far!” Emma’s mother
sa id. Emma’s over-enthusiastic
siblings had already jumped
headfirst into the water. Emma
sighed, her siblings were a bit
much at times, but then she
slowly slipped into the wa-
ter followed quickly by her
mother. When Emma’s moth-
er re-surfaced she did a head
count “12…..13….14, Wait,
only fourteen? Who’s miss-
ing? Is it Sally? Sally, are you
here?”. “Yup. Right here mom.”
a voice behind Emma replied.
“Who is missing?” Emma’s
mother asked in a clearly wor-
ried voice. “It’s Luna” replied
a small frightened little voice
whom Emma understood was
her little sister Malory. “Oh!
Luna- has anyone seen her?”
Fear struck in all their hearts. But Emma’s started slithering across the branch to where
mother had just dove underwater, not able Lune was grasping the boulder. Emma ex-
to hear that screech. It was true that Luna tended her tail down and yanked it with all
was over-enthusiastic about everything, she her might. Then the two snakes swam for
was the oldest out of all of them but she was their lives. Their mother and siblings were
also very kind to all her little siblings and frantically looking for them. Nobody could
was well-loved among the group. Then an believe what Emma had done, and well nei-
ear-piercing screech was heard and from the ther could she. On her way home from the
looks on her sibling’s faces, she knew what pond she realized that she didn’t have to be
they were all thinking “That was Luna and like her siblings. She was herself and that’s
we all know what’s in that direction. what she should be.
by Dipashna Karki

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