An Odd Spotted Elephant Who's Named Spot

An Odd Spotted Elephant Who's Named Spot

Once upon a time in a huge metropolis called Danville, Va. There lived a spotted elephant who’s named Spot. His parents named him that because when the stork brought him, (which is where all babies come from), it accidentally dropped him on the ground and he rolled in some meezols bacteria and so when he got to his mamma's place, he was covered in spots. Later as he grew up, the other elephants would tease him because it made them seem bigger, which is really important to all male elephants. They'd yell things like, "Hay, Spot! You want me to 'spot' you on the balance beam?" "You're in the wrong, 'Spot!' " “Looks like you've got the chicken-pox, so go, 'pock' your suitcase now if you're not, 'chicken!' " "Go put a 'chick-in’ your mailbox for that advice!" and other teasing words like that, then they'd laugh. That made poor Spot laugh with them, but on the inside, his great big heart was shattering. Since his heart was so much bigger than any of the other animals, it was that much more painful for him. Those others were so cruel it would always make him go straight home and commence to bawling bitterly in his cave-room.

When he got home he told his parents, "I don't belong here! I am sick and tired of all the other animals teasing me so much and it really does hurt my feelings big-time, like you always taught me to do everything quite, 'big' just like all of us have been brought up that way! So just be just be proud of it!"

"Don't worry, son," they’d always tell him, trying to be comforting, "You are just so much better than they all are, now just keep that in mind because an elephant never forgets, honey!"

He would take those words to heart, but every time he went back near them they would each just commence to teasing him all over again. After a while they began to get creative and started calling him some bad names such as "Fire-Snout," "Really Big-Guy," "Jumbo The Dumbo," "Rudolph The Long-Nosed Elephant" and other extremely harmful names that were quite painful to him. Each election day he would always vote Republican, for obvious reasons. Besides, he didn't want the country to be run by a donkey which had too much, “kick” in him. Also he didn't hate anybody since he always forgave them for doing everything bad to him, he would always remember the kind of things they had done to him because, it’s like the old saying goes, “an elephant never forgets.” That was also the reason why he had invested in some, "Elephant Insurance” for his entire family. The only thing he was afraid of were those little, stink- ing, creepy, pests who were more commonly referred to as mice. Each time he’d see one he’d say, “Ooh! There’s another one of those little things! ‘Rats!’ “ That would always make him want to move somewhere else. He wanted to pack each thing he owned in his, “trunk.” The main thing was he wanted to be absolutely positive that he did remember to always, “pack-a-durn” lunch when he went off to his job. Then he tip-toed, “through the tulips,” as Tiny Tim would sing, except there was nothing tiny about Spot. Besides that, he didn’t have any toes either which made it become extremely difficult to be as quiet as a mouse, (on steroids).

Yet one day while he was taking a warm bath, he heard the sound of an animal who was in great pain, and it sounded like the same one who was the ring-leader who had started all the terrible name-calling and teasing he got from the other animals who also lived in the jungle. Still, he went running to see what was causing the noise. Actually, he would have charged over to see where all that horrible noise was coming from, except he didn't have his credit card handy so he was unable to, "charge" anything. He ran quickly to reach the poor-sounding animal who was in such turmoil. Unfortunately, he ran into a rynocurous who happened to be walking down the same path that he was sprinting on. They crashed into each other, creating an entirely different kind of animal called, well, the "elliphino." That started a stampead of all the eliphants and other extremely emmence animals who also lived in the jungle with him. That caused the already high-rictor scaled earthquake to get even more catestrophic than ever. The ground opened up, causing many trees, and even some poor, unfortunate animals to get sucked down into the abyss. Yet all that mattered to Spot was getting some help for the mean, old animal who treated him so badly and didn't deserve any kind of assistance, but really needed it at that point in time.

"Jeace!" said Spot as he sprinted through the jungle, "I wish there was somebody I could ask for some help from! Anybody who knew what to do!"

Suddenly while Spot ran, a tiny angel appeared beside him and kept up with his steps because she was flying through the air. "A wish?" she said, "Did I hear somebody wish for something? Oh, it's you! Oh my! Aren't you a big fellow! Well, it doesn't matter what size you are! I was sent here from Fairy Land to grant you your request! Now, let's see! It looks like you need help for some unworthy animals! Now, are you sure that's an official wish? Now, I don't get too many for the bad-buys in life!"

"Yeah! Yeah!" said Spot, "Please get that mean, old animal out of the trap he's in! His needs are a lot more major then mine are at this point in time!"

"Oh, well," sighed the angel, "I don't get too many wishes for the enemy! You're the boss, though!" then she waved her magic wand and immediately the gigantic crack in the ground close up with the jerk on top of it. Unfortunately, Spot fell into the crack, which swallowed him up, then it closed up, thus crushing him into a pancake-size fir-ball.

All the animals who saw that gasped in terror. That heroic animal who had saved other animal's lives was dead. All the other animals screamed.

The praying mantis came back out and started to preach a youlegy over the heroic elephant who had just sacrificed his own life just to save the life of some animal who didn't even like him at all. Even the prying mantis filled-up and couldn't talk plain. Still, he managed to get out, "Oh, Father in Heaven, You really are a miracle-working God, so right now we're asking you in the Name of Jehova, to just do another miracle and help that poor elephant who was so unselfish and sacrificed his own life for the life of another animal he didn't even get along with."

As all the other animals chorused, "Amen," the ground began to shake under their feet again. They all thought it was an after shock. Yet a few seconds later the Earth opened up again, and out came Spot, who wasn't even crushed. That lead to some great jubilation between all the other animals in the jungle with lots of singing and dancing, if you can imagine how all the jungle animals would look at a disco.

Spot truly was a hero if there ever was one. From that day on every animal in the jungle gave him a lot more r. e. s. p. e. c. t., find out what it means to me.

Word traveled about the heroism of that brave elephant who'd tried to sacrifice his own life to save an animal who wasn't even worthy to be saved. Be-cause of that, all the female eliphants wanted to date him, which meant he had a lot of mates to chose from. He chose Miss Right who married him. Later they blessed the whole jungle with some small, if you want to call them that, caffs, who grew up being pretty like their mamma and fearless like their daddy, and so, like the best-written children's stories of all-time will officially finish up with,

"THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!!"

---------------------------------------- The end.

By, Cuz Roye.