1 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,680 Speaker 1: Hello friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to Kids 2 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Today's story comes to us from one of 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: my friends, Grace. Hey Grace, she sent me an awesome 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: idea for a story, and you can't do Just head 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: over to kids short stories dot com, click the link 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,600 Speaker 1: to fill out the form first story submissions, and then 7 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: send me your idea. It can just be a couple 8 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: of sentences or something that you think is really cool. Well, friends, 9 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: are you ready for a world where there's alien trees? 10 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. It was a beautiful day as 11 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: Grace and all of her friends were building treehouses in 12 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 1: their neighborhood. Holy smokes, that sounds like an amazing neighborhood 13 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,279 Speaker 1: to live in. Whoa that they have a forest right 14 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: there and they're all building tree houses. Have you ever 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,360 Speaker 1: been inside of a treehouse before? And you have to 16 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: climb up a ladder to get all the way and 17 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: you pull yourself up and then wow, it's like you're 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: in a different world up there. I love going in 19 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: treehouses and treehouses that have walls and windows and even 20 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 1: a roof. Those are the craziest coolest ones. Hey, guys, 21 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,959 Speaker 1: have you seen all these vines that are like connected 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,199 Speaker 1: to all the trees, asked Grace. I didn't notice those before, 23 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: but those are pretty strange looking, said one of her friends. 24 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,959 Speaker 1: She was right. All the trees had this strange vine 25 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: connected to it that seemed to be all running in 26 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: the same direction through the forest. M I definitely need 27 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: to check that out later. Chrice thought to herself, Hey, guys, 28 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go grab some more nails and some more tools. Okay, 29 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: I'll be right back. Okay, see you. Grace great started 30 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: jogging back to her house. At her house, there were 31 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: all the kind of tools that she needed, like some 32 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: rope and a hammer and a screwdriver and everything that 33 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 1: you need to build an amazing treehouse. All right, I 34 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: need some of those and some of these. She had 35 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: grabbed a bag and was filling it up with all 36 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,720 Speaker 1: the things she needed and wanted to share with her 37 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: friends as they were building this amazing community of treehouses. 38 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:34,320 Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, she heard some screaming, help, help, 39 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: somebody help us. It was coming from the forest. Grace 40 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 1: dropped her bag and started running as fast as she 41 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: could to the forest. She thought that somebody might have 42 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: gotten hurt. Guys, what's going on? Are you okay? Somebody hurt? Girls? Help? 43 00:02:57,480 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: We're stuck inside of the treehouse. Something weird happened in 44 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: the tree just like closed us in herb Grace couldn't 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,640 Speaker 1: believe her eyes. The branches on the trees had almost 46 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: It looked like they were hugging the treehouses and it 47 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: made it impossible for the people inside to escape. What 48 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:25,639 Speaker 1: in the world happened to those trees, she thought to herself, 49 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: and then she saw it. The tree branches started to 50 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: move like arms the trees and come alive. Grace knew 51 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: exactly what she had to do. She had to call 52 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: into h Q, so she ran back to her house 53 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: to grab a walkie talkie. HQ, this is Grace. I 54 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: have a huge emergency over Grace. What is the emergency? Something? 55 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: I don't even understand what happened, but me and my 56 00:03:57,080 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: friends we were building treehouses in the forest and all 57 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: of a sudden, it looks like the trees came alive 58 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: and they've trapped my friends inside of the treehouse. Do 59 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: you have any ideas what could be going on? I'm sorry, 60 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: but we do not. You're gonna need to search around 61 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: and look for clues, look for something that looks unusual 62 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: and let us know what you find over. Grace put 63 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,799 Speaker 1: her walkie talkie in her pocket and started running towards 64 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:25,520 Speaker 1: the forest. She had to start looking for clues. But 65 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: what does that even mean? To look for something strange? 66 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 1: But all the trees, that's pretty strange that they're like 67 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: coming alive. Oh grooth wroose. All of our friends were 68 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: still stuck inside of their treehouses with no way out. 69 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: All the branches of the trees had blocked the windows 70 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: and the doors and they were stuck inside of their treehouse. 71 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: Don't worry, guys, Grace shouted, I'm gonna get you out, 72 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: and it's like the trees heard her. As soon as 73 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 1: she shouted her voice, the branches started creeping closer to her. WHOA, 74 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: that's creepy, said Grace. She ran back to her backyard 75 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: to find a safe place out of reach of all 76 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,960 Speaker 1: those tree branches. But as she was running back, she 77 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 1: tripped on one of those vines that she had seen earlier. WHOA, 78 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: wait a second, these vines. I've never seen them before. 79 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:32,520 Speaker 1: I've never seen a bright purple vine before. Wow, very strange. 80 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: And then Grace remembered what HQ had said on the 81 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,919 Speaker 1: walkie talkie for her to look for something that was strange, 82 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: and that's pretty strange. All right, I'm gonna need to 83 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: follow these vines and see where they lead to, because 84 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: maybe the vines are a part of this thing that's 85 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: going on, Grace said to herself. But she has to 86 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: think about how she's gonna be able to sneak past 87 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: these trees because earlier it looks like they were able 88 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: to hear her, and so she's gonna have to be 89 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,680 Speaker 1: really quiet, and just in case, she should probably wear 90 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: some camouflage, right, Yeah, if you needed to blend into 91 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: that forest, what would you use as camouflage? I think 92 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: I might get some sticks and leaves and and like 93 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, tie him onto my back to make 94 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:27,239 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, then I could look like a giant bush. 95 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: What's your idea for a good camouflage trick in the forest. Well, 96 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: I think Grace took my idea and started to build 97 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,599 Speaker 1: herself into a bush bush that was gonna walk through 98 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: the forest. A walking bush, you know, that doesn't look 99 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: strange at all. That would be pretty silly to see 100 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: if you saw a bush moving through the forest. I 101 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: think that would be pretty suspicious, but maybe maybe we 102 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: can trick these strange trees. What do you think. As 103 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: Grace started to crawl through the forest, mine to act 104 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: like a very non suspicious bush, she actually made it. 105 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: She was able to sneak past all those trees and 106 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: started to follow those very strange vines that were on 107 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: the ground. Do you remember what color those vines were? Yes, purple, 108 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: very suspicious vines. She got deeper and deeper into the forest, 109 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden there was a clearing up ahead. 110 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 1: A clearing means there's there's no trees in the area, 111 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: just grass, and she couldn't believe what she was seeing. 112 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: Oh boy, I can't believe how many little kids wait 113 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,200 Speaker 1: cutting and those tree traps. Yeah, that was pretty surprising 114 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: that it actually worked. So what do you think we 115 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: should do about it? Well, the boss wanted us to, 116 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: you know, test it out with just a couple of trees, 117 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: and then if it was successful, then we can roll 118 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: it out to all the forests in the entire world. 119 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: Oh no, that sounds like a purple Ninja plan. Are 120 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: they really trying to catch all of us inside of 121 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Speaker 1: tree traps? That sounds absolutely terrible. How in the world 122 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: is Craze going to stop them before it's too late. 123 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll have to wait and see what 124 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:32,560 Speaker 1: happens on the next episode of Kids Short Stories. Great 125 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: job you listen to all the way to the end 126 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for 127 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: kid shout out. I want to say, Hey, Takoa and 128 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 1: Luca from Vancouver, Meyer from New Zealand, Kai from New Zealand, 129 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: Claude from the Philippines, Charlotte and Jack from Washington, d 130 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: c Ali from Kansas City, and why It from San Francisco. 131 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the Kids Short 132 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,679 Speaker 1: Stories family and on the spy team. We could not 133 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: stop Dr Stinky Breath and his crew without you, my friends. 134 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: Will you have a superduper day and I will see 135 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:16,440 Speaker 1: you on our next adventure. Bye.