Josiah's "Hmebry and the Humans"

In this story, is "food basket",
is "Hembry", and is "Peas".

Once in the great seas there roamed a little fish named . He took a deep liking in exploring submerged caves. Once, when he was exploring, he saw a creature with colorful skin, a tail going into its mouth, and a big lump on its back. It also had big eyes with little straps going to them. He went to the oldest person he knew and told him about the big creature. The fish's name was Feronicus. He told what he knew. "I once heard of this sort from an adventurer bigger than you." "He said that the creatures are called humans." "He also said that they were interested in taking fish with them above the sea and you would sometimes see cut up fish thrown over their ridged rafts." "Oh No!" said "I ought to stay away from those creatures!" Then thanked Feronicus and went on his way. After eating at his home, he took his bag and set out for the place that it looked like the human would go. When he got there, he was careful not to be seen and went into a little hole in the rocks. Then he spotted a big raft that a diver came down from. He took some out of a bag and tossed them to the ocean floor. Then heard a voice with his amazingly sensetive ears. "I don't see any fish eating them yet, over." He thought the diver looked like he was saying it. Then he decided to see how tough the diver was and picked up a big stone in his mouth and threw it at the diver's foot. Then, he heard another voice. "My ankle hurts too bad for me to swim." "Send down another diver, over." watched as the diver took his hand down to the plce where he was hit and rubbed it, then sitting down on a rock for fear of sting rays, it seemed. decided to come out and he stayed out of the diver's grasp until, groping for , the diver fell down onto the sand and got to look very closely at him. Then, relaxed into the hole and ate a kelp and seaweed salad sandwhich from his .



The End


Story by: Josiah, age 10, USA

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