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Shay is a Premium member from Calgary in Canada, and
he would like a story with a bunny, a fox,
a cat, and a Walruss. Don't forget to listen to
the animal facts after the story to learn more about
these creatures. For now, it's time to sit back and
get comfy, because it's time to begin Scary monsters. Shay
hopped down the forest path a little faster than normal.
His skips were excited, his twitching nose alert, while his
eyes flickered back and forth through the undergrowth. The little
bunny could barely contain himself. He was desperate to find
some one to talk to, and all because Shay had
seen a monster. He'd been down at the beach searching
for shells when he'd seen it. A giant, hulking blob
of a creature had risen from the water, far bigger
than anything Shay had ever seen. He'd been too scared
to stick around, but in that fleeting moment it emerged
from the sea, he had noticed the creature's whiskered face.
At first, the bunny had been terrified. He'd run faster
than he'd ever run before, kicking hard with his long
legs over the sand dunes, across the field and into
the safety of the trees. Feeling safer now that he'd
put plenty of distance between himself and the monster, all
she wanted to do was tell someone what he'd seen, and,
as luck would have it, Shay ran into someone almost instantly,
quite literally, charging into a brown, fluffy backside. The animal yowled,
leaping into the air in fright to hook her claws
into the tree above Kyler. It's you, said the bunny
to the upside down tortoises shell cat. You gave me
quite a scare. I scared you, said the cat, pulling
her claws from the tree's trunk. She dropped effortlessly to
the ground and gave herself a shake. You're the one
crashing into animals out of the blue. What has you
in such a hurry? Anyway? Sorry about that, said Shay,
but Kyler, You're never going to believe it. I saw
a monster, A monster, Kyla repeated, her eyes narrowing. What
do you mean a monster? It was huge, even bigger
than a horse, Shaye said. It made a sound like
a trumpet as it rose from the water, right by
the sand dunes. What did it look like, Kyla asked,
suddenly full of curiosity. I didn't hang around to get
a good look, Shae confessed. I ran away before it
could get me, But I did see its face. It
had long, bushy whiskers around its nose, sort of like you.
The cat wrinkled her face as she looked down her
own nose at her whiskered muzzle, whiskers like mine, you say,
she said, it doesn't sound very scary. Doesn't sound scary,
Shae repeated, sounding shocked. Didn't you hear me? It was
a monster, so you keep saying, said the cat, waving
him off. But this monster of yours doesn't sound all
that scary to me. And I should know, because I
saw an even scarier monster just yesterday. What, Shay cried?
Where what did your monster look like? Well? It was
far bigger than your monster, for a start, Kyla said,
mine was more the size of a moose, and the
noise my monster made was even louder than a trumpet.
It sounded like an airhorn blasting my ear drums. No way, say, cried,
and was your monster near the sand dunes too? No,
it wasn't by the sand dunes, Kyla said, it was
much further down the beach, upon the rocks. And what
did it look like? The bunny asked, did you get
a good look at it? Er? Well, no, Kayler admitted,
it was half hidden by the rocks, and the sky
was gray and dark because it was raining. But I
did see that it had two enormous tusks sticking out
of its mouth like fangs. If you'd like to hear more,
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