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Speaker 1: you ready for today's adventure? Me too, Let's go. Chroma

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Speaker 1: lived in a cold grain land. Everything was shaded, nothing

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Speaker 1: was vibrant. Trees were light gray with darker gray trunks.

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Speaker 1: The sky was off white during the day and black

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Speaker 1: at night. Even Chroma's fur and antennas were washed out colorless.

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Speaker 1: Chroma woke up one morning to the same gray sky

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Speaker 1: with gray clouds and gray birds, and decided he had had.

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Speaker 2: Enough great great gray. Oh, this dreariness is so tiry.

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Speaker 2: I need something bright, colorful even.

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Speaker 1: So, Chroma set off in order to find it. He

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Speaker 1: set over the pale ocean, battling colorless waves as they

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Speaker 1: attempted to topple his ship. When he caught sight of

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Speaker 1: the foggy shore, Chroma dropped his anchor into the shallow

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Speaker 1: water and swam to the dull, sandy beach. There he

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Speaker 1: continued through a dusty desert until he saw something bright

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Speaker 1: and beautiful growing out of the ground head. The little

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Speaker 1: flower was stuck out its red petals, the only bit

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Speaker 1: of color in the entire desert and as far as

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Speaker 1: Chroma knew the entire world. Can you imagine living in

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Speaker 1: a colorless world?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 1: And then just imagine if you saw the very first

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Speaker 1: red flower. So Chroma did what any monster would do

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Speaker 1: in this situation, and he plucked it from its stem

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Speaker 1: and gobbled it up.

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, what he ate it?

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Speaker 1: Why would he do that?

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Speaker 3: M delicious?

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Speaker 1: Chroma licked his lips and patted his belly. As he did,

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Speaker 1: he noticed his fur was beginning to change from its

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Speaker 1: boring shade of gray to a dusty red. Chroma was amazed.

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Speaker 3: I need to find more colors.

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Speaker 1: He followed the bright pops of color in the distance

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Speaker 1: until he was out of the desert. A bubbling stream

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Speaker 1: cut through the gray grass around him, gray grass. What

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Speaker 1: the stream looked just like the ones he was used

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Speaker 1: to butt down? Below the clear water were brilliant blue fish.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, do you think you know what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 3: Oh dere, Oh what a pretty color? And he gulped

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Speaker 3: down the water fish and all, oh dear, Chroma looked

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Speaker 3: at his fur expectantly.

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Speaker 1: He watched as the red tint mixed with blue until

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Speaker 1: Chroma became purple.

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Speaker 3: All over. I need more colors.

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Speaker 1: Chroma shouted. He wanted to see all the color combinations

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Speaker 1: he could make. As he ran through the field, more

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Speaker 1: new colors appeared all around him. Chroma ate, oh deer,

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Speaker 1: every single one he saw, turning orange, yellow, pink, green,

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Speaker 1: and then back to purple. Sometimes the colors mixed to

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Speaker 1: would change a color while the rest became another.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? As Chroma gobbled each color, he

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Speaker 1: didn't notice how everything he ate appeared, but this time,

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Speaker 1: oh dear, in a washed out gray like that red

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Speaker 1: flower he ate. The flower grew back, but it was

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Speaker 1: no longer red. It was a gray flower. All behind him.

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Speaker 1: The wonderful colors he was finding had disappeared, replaced by

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Speaker 1: the dullness he was trying to escape. Chroma also didn't

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Speaker 1: notice how noticeable he was becoming. A boy named Finn

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Speaker 1: was walking through the town square when he noticed puffs

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Speaker 1: wondered Finn. He stood and watched as the colorful, furry

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Speaker 1: creature came closer, leaping from flowers to tree and gobbling

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Speaker 1: them all up. Gruma had just eaten a patch of

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Speaker 1: yellow and blue flowers, and as fur was turning bright green.

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Speaker 1: He looked up and saw a hairless creature standing in

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Speaker 3: Ah.

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Speaker 1: He jumped in surprise at the creature's colorful attire, the

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Speaker 1: Chroma wanted all of those colors for himself. What are you,

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Speaker 1: Chroma shouted at the creature. I'm a boy. My name's Finn.

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Speaker 1: Oh what are you? Finn responded my Chromad.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm going to eat your colors, and Chroma opened

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Speaker 4: his mouth, swallowing fin hole, Wait, what that can't be real?

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Speaker 1: Is that really what the story? Oh dear let me

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Speaker 1: read you this part. Chroma's legs turn the color of

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Speaker 1: Finn's shorts, while his fur turned the cool ti hid

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Speaker 1: eye color of Finn's shirt. The green of Finn's shoes

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Speaker 1: appeared on his antennas, and then as Chroma continued down

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Speaker 1: the street, Finn reappeared completely gray. Finn felt his head

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Speaker 1: and arms to make sure he was really back. Shoe huh,

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Speaker 1: I thought that really happened, but must have been just

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Speaker 1: color monster A. Then Finn began running back down the

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Speaker 1: town square, trying to see where the monster was going next.

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Speaker 1: As Finn ran, he saw all of the color drained

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Speaker 1: Oh dear. The monster ate his way through town. While

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Speaker 1: Finn ran behind Chroma, the color monster gulped up people

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Speaker 1: or camouflage designs with each person whose color he stold.

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Speaker 1: The people reappeared each time, started but gray. They were safe,

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Speaker 1: slow to stop the color monster, so he began to

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Speaker 1: He's after your colors. The alarmed people looked around at

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Speaker 1: the gray town and quickly ran inside, locking their doors.

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Speaker 1: Chroma ran all the way around the town square and

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Speaker 1: He saw the trees, the cars, the cats and dogs,

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Speaker 1: and then he looked at Finn. Chroma shuddered, everything is

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Speaker 3: Blah.

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Speaker 1: The color monster looked toward the field where he had

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Speaker 1: come from and spotted one lone flower he had missed.

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Speaker 1: He leaped toward it, admiring its color among all the droptness.

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Speaker 1: Then he ate it.

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Speaker 3: Time to find somewhere poor colorful.

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Speaker 1: And now Chroma, the now very colorful color Monster, leaped

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Speaker 1: back through the field toward the desert and out of

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Speaker 1: sight the end. Wait a second, I can't be the end. Wait,

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Speaker 1: he just stole all the color from the town. I

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Speaker 1: need your help coming up with this next part of

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Speaker 1: the story. Down in the show nuts below, you can

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Speaker 1: have your parents submit your idea of how to save

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Speaker 1: and rescue this very gray town. How do you think

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Speaker 1: we can rescue the Color and Finn and all those people.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I can't wait to see your

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Speaker 1: story submissions. Great job, you listened all the way to

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Speaker 1: the end, and you know what thumb it is. It's

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Speaker 1: time for Kurd shout out. So I want to say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: cam Move from Georgia, Rowan from New York, David and

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Speaker 1: Thomas from Sydney, Australia, Sloan and Cole from Saint George,

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Speaker 1: Isabelle and Joshua from Ireland, and Canon and Bowen from Oregon.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the Kitschenen story's family.

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Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun with imagination without you,

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Speaker 1: my friends. Well, you have a super duper day and

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see your story ideas for part

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Speaker 1: two of this adventure. I'll see you on the next story. Bye.