endangered animals

One bright summer morning the grass was blowing. The sea looked like a never ending bright blue tear shining with happiness. Timothy’s Mother said, "Why don’t you kids go and play on the dunes?" in a light comforting voice.
"Why don’t we?" said Timothy’s older sister Vanessa.
"Alright" said Timothy sounding quite scared. "What about the seagulls?"
"Well," said mother. "Just make sure that they don’t eat you. We’re their pray you know."
"Yes we know Mother," said Vanessa. "Come on Cory."
Cory was Timothy’s twin brother. Timothy and Cory were both 9 months. Vanessa was 1 year, and their mother was 2. Pretty soon she would have babies, care for them and die. Then Vanessa would be the head of the family.
"Alright off we go to the dune."
"If somebody gets eaten I’m never going out there again" Timothy said.
"Boy oh boy isn’t it such a nice day" said Vanessa.
Truly, it was a nice day. The sun was shining. The water was sparkling. The dunes were blowing. Suddenly out of nowhere came a flock of seagulls. They were all over the place. Some were brown with white spots. Some were white with brown spots. Some had a little bit of gray. It was very scary.
"Yokes" said Timothy.
Suddenly a gray speckled seagull came down from the white fluffy clouds. It snapped. It bit. It fought. It was planning on a juicy desert.
"Help," yelled Cory!
The gray spotted seagull had bitten him on the tail. He was already being lifted into the clouds. He was heavily sucking for air! Timothy started to sob. He was sad that his brother was dead. I will never see him again except in heaven. How wonderful it will be. Cory will have a wonderful time Timothy thought. On the other hand, Vanessa was violently thinking now mother will punish me for letting Cory go to heaven. Mother will never be able to see him again. Oh how dreadful she thought. How can mother punish me bed enough for letting Cory die? It is horrible. Oh no, oh no, she will never be herself again. Oh no, oh no, how will I face Mother? How will I? How? Finally, Vanessa had enough courage to go and tell mom.
"Come on Timothy. Time to tell mom."
"OK" squeaked Timothy.
He hardly had enough breath to say that. The instant they got to the nest and before Vanessa could speak, Mother said, "Where’s Cory?"
"He’s dead" meekly answered Vanessa.
"Oh no" answered Mother with wet blue tears dripping from her face.
"My poor Cory. Time to eat. Lets go down to the water. Hmm, what should we have today? Snails? Mollusks?"
"I’ll have both" Timothy answered in a wet teary voice.
"OK" said mother. "Vanessa what shall you have?"
"I don’t know mother. But I think I will have snails."
"Well I’m having mashed up leaves up at the dunes today. I’m having my babies you know. We’d better get going or I’ll have my babies right here. Come on. Hurry up."

Then the sun started setting beneath the sea. The colors were magnificent bright purples, soft pinks, light greens, dark reds, and beautiful oranges. All was dark and lovely. Stars popped into the night sky. The darkness filled Timothy’s heart. Soon he fell asleep. Finally, Mother had her babies and named them Cory Jr., Colby, and Christopher.

The next morning when Timothy woke up his mom said, "Time to eat. Better go get food down the sandy ledge."
Oh no, thought Timothy, a DOG. Timothy tried to hide under a shell. Oh no, now he saw something worse. The DOG was not on a leash. However, a boy was near the dog. Oh no. He remembered he could not talk to humans. Suddenly an old man came up and said, "Excuse me young man, but do you see that mouse thing? That is a least shrew. It is an endangered species. To help it you should not let you dog run on the beach without a leash. Or you can help support programs. Thanks for listening young man. I bet you can help and quit being harmful like other people. "

"Phew" said Timothy. "That was a close call."

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Written by: Kira

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