Prince Sawyer lived with his brothers, Princes Taylor and Preston, and the King and Queen in the snowy, windy mountains.
Sawyer had many cousins, too. Sometimes, all the cousins had adventures together, which were his favorite times in the world.
What Sawyer liked about adventures is that you can never tell how they will end, and you must be very clever to look for the solutions hiding inside problems.
One of his favorite adventures began when a friendly creature from another planet arrived in his royal bedroom one morning as he woke up.
“Well, good morning,” said Sawyer.
“Globbedy gook,” said the alien.
“Do you want some breakfast?” Sawyer knew that even if he couldn’t speak our language, the alien might well be hungry after a long trip.
“Globby gloo!” said the alien, with some enthusiasm. Maybe he really was hungry.
Calling to Taylor and Preston to join him, Sawyer took the alien’s hand, and led him down to the royal dining table, where the Queen had lovingly prepared a wonderful breakfast, as she does every day in her queenly way.
The alien stepped onto the table, and started eating a bowl. The glass made a terrible crunching sound, but he looked happy.
“Gloop,” he said. The princes stared at each other. Obviously, this creature did not eat earth food. But he did seem to find what he needed on their table.
“What shall we do with him?” Taylor asked Sawyer, as the alien walked across the table, and started eating a coffee mug. The coffee splashed all over him, but he didn’t mind at all.
“I’ve been thinking about that,” said Sawyer. “Why don’t we take him on a trip to visit all our cousins? That way, he’ll see all sorts of earth things while he’s here.”
Sawyer called Samuel, who came and picked them all up in his royal helicopter. By then, everyone had started calling the alien Gloop, because that was what he said so often. The alien didn’t seem to mind.
Samuel took them to visit John and Max at their royal zoo with the dinosaurs. Gloop really seemed to like them.
In fact, he tried to eat the guard rail, but it was too thick for his teeth! He left a big dent in the side, though. John thought a dent left by an alien would be a good thing for people to see. He put a sign next to it that proclaimed: This dent was made by Space Alien teeth!
Max let him ride on the zoo train, which was a big treat for Gloop. I’m sure he would have thanked them, and perhaps he did in his own gobbeldy language.
Next, Samuel took Gloop and Sawyer to meet Adrianna and Abel at their mountain fortress with the animals. They were delighted to meet him, and Abel led Gloop to their barn, where many animals live.
Of course, Gloop took a bite of the rake, leaning against the wall of barn. A loud crunch told the cousins he enjoyed eating the wood. Abel was glad he had extra rakes where Gloop could not see them!
Sawyer decided they’d better leave before Gloop tried taking a bite out of anything else. They loaded him back into the helicopter and took off for Samuel’s castle near the Rock.
Madelene, Olivia, and Bennett were waiting for them at the royal heliport. Madelene drew a coffee mug, three bowls, and a rake on her magic pad, so Gloop would have plenty to eat while they made plans. He chomped away happily.
They decided it was time to send Gloop home. Sawyer knew Samuel could design an excellent spaceship for him. Madelene could draw it on her magic paper to make it come to life. Olivia could choose some animals to send with Gloop to keep him company on his long trip. Bennett could protect him from any dangers that came until he was ready to blast off safely.
With his team of cousins, Sawyer prepared to send Gloop back to his home planet. They did their work carefully, and soon they had a ready spaceship and a happy Gloop, globbedy-gooking his way home.
After Gloop’s take-off, the cousins celebrated with strawberries and cream. The King and Queen flew along with them to Sawyer’s castle, where they had an even larger party, because it was Sawyer’s birthday. That was the beginning of all sorts of new adventures.
I wrote this story in March, 2011
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