A few of my friends and I find ourselves floating blindly in a humongous cruise ship. With no one on board but ourselves, I can feel my stomach squeezing recognizing that we are lost and alone. As we stare out of the decks main window into the vast fog covered ocean, a sudden image begins to appear… an ISLAND!
Our giant boat comes to an expected smooth stop onto the desert island beach and docks us all. We begin walking into the forest covered land and I immediately begin thinking about feeding ourselves. As we continue into the unknown forest, I come upon a massive hippo and decide to take my chances. I hurl a spear that I happened to have at the perfect moment and cheer as the massive beast falls to the ground. My excitement for having provided food for us is soon interrupted by a worry in my stomach. I’m worried that if I start killing every hippo I come across, the hippos will become extinct and we’d run out of food.
I raise my eyes to the site of a giant tree, so big that I feel like a pebble in front of it. It was cracked open and empty in the middle, all that remained was a moss covered outer layer of bark that made you wonder how it could withstand to be so huge. As I’m looking at this tree I notice a bright green bean like module implanted into the moss. I squint enough to realize what it is. It’s a cocoon! A cocoon in the shape of a hippo! That’s when I realized that hippos may not be going extinct after all. As I dissipate my focus on this cocoon, I drift my eyes further up the tree. I find another, and another and dozens of cocooned hippos all inside this tree. I am filled by a strong, sensational feeling of longevity and excitement.
Moments later I find myself back in the docked cruise ship with my friends. We are standing on a balcony observing what we can about our new environment from our impressive top story view. I notice a large cream colored stone wall bordering the top of the island as if it was blocking something from coming in. I point this out to my friends and also mention to them my unique ability to fly by flapping my arms up and down. I climb onto the balcony ledge and start flapping my arms. I begin to levitate and gather enough momentum to fly without much effort. I fly long and hard to reach this wall and as I look down to the now not so giant cruise ship my eyes open wide in shock. This was no ordinary island, it was a zoo! I could see other parts of the island were animal exhibits and that we had simply landed in the hippo exhibit. I realized the surrounding wall was not to prevent things from coming in but to prevent them from going out!
Moments later I find myself back in the cruise ship with my friends, we are running from room to room, level to level trying to find our key. These were not ordinary keys but seemed to hold some extraordinary value. I find mine first and head to the elevator knowing my friends are not far behind. I rush to the door, insert my key and exit. My friends soon follow behind.
THE END