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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories Today. Stories brought to

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Speaker 1: us by one of our friends, Mia. Hey, Mia, she

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Speaker 1: sent us an awesome my dear for a story, and

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Speaker 1: Riley from Canada and Peter from Maine. Hey, guys, I'm

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Speaker 1: him to submit your name and where you live. And

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Speaker 1: I would love to say, Hey, are you guys ready

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Speaker 1: for today's adventure? Me too? Let's go. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: heard the story of Mia the Forest Guardian? You haven't?

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Speaker 1: All right, listen close. Mia the Forest Guardian wasn't a

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Speaker 1: very special forest creature whose job was to guard the

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Speaker 1: forest and all of its creatures. She had very special

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Speaker 1: magical powers, one of which she could fly. She was

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Speaker 1: an amazing creature and would protect the forest from all

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Speaker 1: kinds of dangerous things that might happen, and so one

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Speaker 1: of her jobs was to help creatures that might have

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Speaker 1: gotten stuck, or if a tree was feeling sick, she

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Speaker 1: would heal it with her special powers. Mia was looked

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Speaker 1: upon as very famous and like a celebrity in the forest.

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Speaker 1: All the creatures loved Mia the Forest Guardian. She had

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Speaker 1: made friends with almost everyone in the forest, but there

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Speaker 1: was one mean creature. The beast is what she called it.

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Speaker 1: The beast was very scary and caused a lot of trouble.

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Speaker 1: It had the body of an alligator, the head of

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Speaker 1: a lion, the legs of a horse, and a snake tail.

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Speaker 1: It was a very strange creature and she doesn't even

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Speaker 1: know where it came from because nothing else looked quite

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Speaker 1: like the beast. And you see, the beast was always

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Speaker 1: looking to make trouble and sometimes hurt other creatures. So

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Speaker 1: Mia the Forest Guardian most of what she did was

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Speaker 1: either stopping the beast or cleaning up the mess after

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Speaker 1: the beast had done something. Today, Mia, it was a

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Speaker 1: nice day and so she was enjoying what she thought

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Speaker 1: off as she was laying high up in the branches

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Speaker 1: of a tree. Oh, she yawned, and just was enjoying

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Speaker 1: the sunlight. It was a nice cool day, but the

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Speaker 1: sun was warm on her face. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: she heard a sound. Oh what was that? Mia looked

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Speaker 1: all around. The cry for help must mean that the

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Speaker 1: beast is near. Mia jumped out of the tree and

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Speaker 1: flew to where she heard the cry for help? And

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Speaker 1: what is that? Mia had never seen a creature like

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Speaker 1: that before. It was it had hair on the top

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Speaker 1: of its head, and two arms and two legs, and

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Speaker 1: wore clothes and it ran really pretty fast, much faster

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Speaker 1: It was fast, but Mea had never seen a creature

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Speaker 1: like that before. And as she was getting closer, she

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Speaker 1: squirrels ran over to her and Mia said, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: mr squirrel, do you know what that is? And the

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Speaker 1: squirrel said, yes, that's a person. And it looks like

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Speaker 1: the person is I don't know. I think the person

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Speaker 1: neats help because he keeps yelling for help. Oh, that's

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Speaker 1: a person. What is what is a person? Mysa? Mia

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Speaker 1: had never seen a person before. A person is why

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Speaker 1: they don't live in beforeest Ertually they'll live in these

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Speaker 1: big um box boxes. Um, I don't know. And they

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Speaker 1: they drive these big mettle things that drive Herod really fast.

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Speaker 1: They're very terrible, sir. Just be careful because those persons

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Speaker 1: Mia I wasn't quite sure what to do because Mr

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Speaker 1: Squirrel she had known him for a very long time,

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Speaker 1: meant Mia had to be very careful. So Mia flew

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Speaker 1: very close and shouted down, Hey, are you okay? And

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Speaker 1: forest guardian had to make a choice. Does she believe

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Speaker 1: What do you think she should believe the person? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think so too, And so Mia helped the person

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Speaker 1: lot of trails in the forest. And then Mia asked, hi, um, well,

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Speaker 1: my name is Mia, and what's your name? Oh? Oh, hi, uh,

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Speaker 1: my name is Dennis. And I got lost in here.

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Speaker 1: My family was camping, but I'm not sure where they are.

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Speaker 1: And Mia didn't understand something he said. She asked, you

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Speaker 1: were camping. What does camping mean? Oh? Well, camping is

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Speaker 1: when like we we had we brought a tent and

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Speaker 1: Mia still did not understand what in the world camping was.

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Speaker 1: That was very strange. But Mia had to save this

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Speaker 1: forest creature that the squirrel called a person. She had

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Speaker 1: to save him from the beast. And so wait a second,

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Speaker 1: what's that run? The beast had caught up. It was

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Speaker 1: very close. It was right behind us. Mia and the

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Speaker 1: person were running as fast as they could. Mia was

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Speaker 1: stopped and started growling at the beast ger ger, but

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Speaker 1: Mia thought he was safe. But then the beast jumped

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Speaker 1: use my special powers one, two, three go. Just like that,

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Speaker 1: Mia created a big energy explosion and the beast was

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Speaker 1: are you okay? Dennis had gotten trapped under the tree

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Speaker 1: and Mia had to pull the tree up, and then

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Speaker 1: Dennis scooted out, Oh okay, yeah, my leg hurts a lot,

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Speaker 1: but I think I think the beast is gone. Do

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Speaker 1: family is? And then Mi A thought for a second,

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Speaker 1: all right, I don't want to leave you here alone,

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Speaker 1: so why don't you hop on my back and I'll

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Speaker 1: fly you back to your family. Just then, Dennis carefully

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Speaker 1: climbed onto MIA's back because remember his leg was hurt,

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Speaker 1: and she flew him all the way back to where

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Speaker 1: Dennis's family was. And that was the day that Mia

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Speaker 1: first discovered what a person was. She was a little nervous,

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Speaker 1: thankfulness because she saved their son Dennis. What an amazing

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Speaker 1: adventure from Mia the Forrest Guardian. She saved the day

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Speaker 1: again the end do