Draft Narrative (With illustrations)

Narrative Draft: 2 (With illustrations, to be updated as each new one is completed).

Once upon a time, there was a rodent named Kiwi who lived in a place called smokey creek.

Kiwi was a carefree little hamster, who enjoyed playing in the vast golden meadows, and frolicking in the shallow streams that surrounded the area.

Kiwi Loved the outdoors, and he spent all of his time to himself. He was different to all the other animals.
He wasn't the strongest, nor was he the the fastest, or smartest. However he was the tiniest.
In fact the tiniest around, he could sneak around wherever he wanted to and nobody would notice him  . Some of his favourite past times involve playing hide and seek alone but this never worked well most of the time. After finishing playing tag with his tail he began to trot off to his woodland home.
Along the way he encountered a group of two large dogs, one a smart wolf, and one a tall dumb greyhound, each had a huge grin on their faces.

"Hello" said the small hamster.
"Oh my how small are you?" asked the red hound of the group.
"Well two foot, to be correct why might you ask"said the little rodent with a smile.
"You must be the smallest animal I have ever seen" exclaimed the greyhound.
"Some would say cute" said the little hamster, wagging whilst wagging his tiny tail.
"Some would say useless, how can you be of any contribution to the pack?"
"But..." Said the little hamster in a confused and upset tone.

Off the two dogs went, laughing, and casting longs shadows on the little hamster, as he wept.
"What's wrong?" said a large majestic wolf, with a bow in her hair.
"Go away exclaimed the little rodent with tears in his eyes.
The she wolf looked away, and then told the small hamster all about her own life in the valley. She went into depth about how she enjoyed lying in the sun day after day, watching the clouds go by. She loved trying to figure out what shapes they were in.

The little one began to open up, telling the large wolf of his love for playing in the meadows. The larger wolf offered to play with him for a bit, and suggested they try hide and seek. The little rodent got excited and agreed.
The large wolf counted to 10, and yelled "Ready or not here I come!"  After an hour of searching, she gave up. "Here I am!" yelled the little rodent. "You are quite good at this"said the wolf with a cheeky grin.

After the game, the two sat next to each other, and talked about their wishes. "I wish I was taller" said the small rodent. "Hmmmmmmm" hummed the wolf. Out she whipped a pair of talllllllllll boots  , and strapped them to the fragile, little hamsters paws. However, when standing up, the rocent tumbled over into a patch of thorny roses.

"Nope" whimpered the little hamster, as he sat pulling out thorns from his small paws.
The large wolf scratched her chin, and she let out a loud whistling sound.
Suddenly a large flock of birds appeared, and the picked the little hamster up high into the sky.
"DOES THAT WORK?!" shouted the wolf
"NOPE, PUT ME DOWN!" screamed the little rodent.
Again, the wolf scratched her chin. She noticed two sticks lying beside her, and let out a large smile. She crafted a crude pair of stilts, and handed them to him. "Try these on for size, she said".

The little rodent slotted his feet into the crudely crafted sticks, and stood up.
"Why, I feel 10 foot tall!" the dog said with a huge grin.
The she-wolf smiled, as she peered upwards toward this huge, happy hamster.

"Why you are the largest animal I have ever seen!" Exclaimed the wolf.

Out of the corner of the hamsters eyes, he spotted the group of wolves from earlier, and began venturing toward them.

"Roar!" Yelled the little hamster.

"Agghhhhhhhh look! It's a monster!" Screamed the two in unison.

The two bullies ran as fast as their legs could carry them, leaving a trail of prints behind them.

The next day, the whole valley looking in awe at the tall rodent, and he looked done with a huge smile.

The end.








Thomas.