1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:06,520 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister Jim and welcome back to Kids 2 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Short Stories. Hey friends, did you know that story Button 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: makes it so much easier to listen to my podcast 4 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: and some really other great kids podcasts and audio books? 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: So have your parents check down in the show notes 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,720 Speaker 1: below and visit story button dot com to learn more. 7 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,400 Speaker 1: Story Button is my invention with my goal to make 8 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,240 Speaker 1: it easier for you to listen to great audio content 9 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,080 Speaker 1: made just for you. 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Chroma 18 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:24,959 Speaker 1: woke up one morning to the same gray sky with 19 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: gray clouds and gray birds, and decided he had had enough. 20 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 2: Great great gray. Oh, this dreariness is so tiry. I 21 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 2: need something bright, colorful even. 22 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: So Chroma set off in order to find it, he 23 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:52,640 Speaker 1: set over the pale ocean, battling colorless waves as they 24 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: attempted to topple his ship. When he caught sight of 25 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: the foggy shore, Chroma dropped his anchor into the shallow 26 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: water swam to the dull, sandy beach. There he continued 27 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:10,760 Speaker 1: through a dusty desert until he saw something bright and 28 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,679 Speaker 1: beautiful growing out of the ground head. The little flower 29 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: was stuck out its red petals, the only bit of 30 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 1: color in the entire desert and as far as Chroma 31 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: knew the entire world. Can you imagine living in a 32 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: colorless world? Wow? And then just imagine if you saw 33 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:41,800 Speaker 1: the very first red flower. So Chroma did what any 34 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: monster would do in this situation, and he plucked it 35 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 1: from its stem and gobbled it up. Oh wait, what 36 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:59,160 Speaker 1: he ate it? Why would he do that? M delicious? 37 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: Chroma licked his lips and patted his belly. As he did, 38 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:09,119 Speaker 1: he noticed his fur was beginning to change from its 39 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: boring shade of gray to a dusty red. Chroma was amazed. 40 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 3: I need to find more colors. 41 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: He followed the bright pops of color in the distance 42 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 1: until he was out of the desert. A bubbling stream 43 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: cut through the gray grass around him, gray grass. What 44 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 1: the stream looked just like the ones he was used 45 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: to butt down Below the clear water were brilliant blue fish. 46 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: Oh dear, do you think you know what's gonna happen? 47 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 3: Oh dere, Oh, what a pretty color? 48 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: And he gulped down the water fish and all oh deer. 49 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:07,040 Speaker 1: Chroma looked at his fur expectantly. He watched as the 50 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: red tint mixed with blue, until Chroma became purple all over. 51 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: I need more colors, Chroma shouted. He wanted to see 52 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: all the color combinations he could make. As he ran 53 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: through the field, more new colors appeared all around him. 54 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: Chroma ate, oh dear, every single one he saw, turning orange, yellow, pink, green, 55 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:44,159 Speaker 1: and then back to purple. Sometimes the colors mixed to 56 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 1: form new ones, and other times only part of him 57 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 1: would change a color while the rest became another. Wow. 58 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: Can you imagine that? As Chroma gobbled each color, he 59 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:02,039 Speaker 1: didn't notice how everything he ate reappeared, but this time, 60 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: oh dear, in a washed out gray, like that red 61 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: flower he ate. The flower grew back, but it was 62 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: no longer red. It was a gray flower. All behind him. 63 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 1: The wonderful colors he was finding had disappeared, replaced by 64 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 1: the dulness he was trying to escape. Chroma also didn't 65 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: notice how noticeable he was becoming. A boy named Finn 66 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 1: was walking through the town square when he noticed puffs 67 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: of color flickering in the far feel the way. What 68 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,359 Speaker 1: is that, wondered Finn. He stood and watched as the 69 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:46,599 Speaker 1: colorful furry creature hanging closer, leaping from flowers to tree 70 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: and gobbling them all up. Gruma had just eaten a 71 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,279 Speaker 1: patch of yellow and blue flowers, and as fur was 72 00:05:54,360 --> 00:06:00,040 Speaker 1: turning a bright green. He looked up and saw a 73 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: hairless creature standing in front of him. Ah. He jumped 74 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: in surprise at the creature's colorful attire, the green shoes, 75 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: yellow shorts, and a tie dye shirt. Oh dear, Chroma 76 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: wanted all of those colors for himself. What are you, 77 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: Chroma shouted at the creature. I'm a boy. My name's Finn. 78 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: Oh what are you? Finn responded my Chroma. 79 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:42,000 Speaker 3: Oh, I'm going to eat your color, and Chroma opened 80 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 3: his mouth swallowing fin hole, Wait what. 81 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 1: That can't be real? Is that really what the story? 82 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 1: Oh dear let me read you this part. Chroma's legs 83 00:06:55,880 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: turn the color of Finn's shorts, while his fur turned 84 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: the cool hide eye color of Finn's shirt. The green 85 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: of Finn's shoes appeared on his antennas, and then as 86 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: Chroma continued down the street, Finn reappeared completely gray. Finn 87 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,240 Speaker 1: felt his head and arms to make sure he was 88 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: really back. Shoe huh, I thought that really happened, but 89 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 1: must have been just a dream. Fin side and relief. 90 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 1: Then he shouted a color monster ah. Then Finn began 91 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 1: running back down the town square, trying to see where 92 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: the monster was going next. As Finn ran, he saw 93 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: all of the color drained out of the town and 94 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: bright rainbow flashes coming from up ahead. He saw the 95 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: monster devour a red truck and turn cherry red, then 96 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: a cherry blossomry and turn pink. Oh dear. The monster 97 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: ate his way through town. While Finn ran behind Chroma, 98 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,600 Speaker 1: the color monster gulped up people on the sidewalk, his 99 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: fur turning into pretty flower patterns or camouflage designs with 100 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: each person whose color he's stold. The people reappeared each time, 101 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: started but gray. They were safe, but they had no color. 102 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,560 Speaker 1: Finn realized he was too slow to stop the color monster, 103 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: so he began to yell to anyone who still had 104 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: any color, run hide, He's after your colors. The alarmed 105 00:08:45,880 --> 00:08:50,359 Speaker 1: people looked around at the gray town and quickly ran inside, 106 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 1: locking their doors. Chroma ran all the way around the 107 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:59,440 Speaker 1: town square and now was back to where he had started. 108 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: He looked around. He saw the trees, the cars, the 109 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 1: cats and dogs, and then he looked at Finn. Chroma shuddered, 110 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: everything is so gray. 111 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: Blah. 112 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 1: The color monster looked toward the field where he had 113 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: come from and spouted one lone flower he had missed. 114 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: He leaped toward it, admiring its color among all the draptness. 115 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: Then he ate it. Ti'm to find somewhere poor colorful 116 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: and now Chroma, the now very colorful color Monster leaped 117 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: back through the field toward the desert and out of 118 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 1: sight the end. Wait a second, I can't be the end. Wait, 119 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: he just stole all the color from the town. I 120 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: need your help coming up with this next part of 121 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: the story. Down in the show nuts below, you can 122 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 1: have your parents submit your idea of how to save 123 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: and rescue this very gray town. How do you think 124 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: we can rescue the Color and Finn and all those people. 125 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: I'm not sure, but I can't wait to see your 126 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 1: story submissions. Great job, you listened all the way to 127 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: the end, and you know what, Tom, it is. It's 128 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:31,720 Speaker 1: time for Kurd shout out. So I want to say, Hey, 129 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: cam Move from Georgia, Rowan from New York, David and 130 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: Thomas from Sydney, Australia, Sloane and Cole from Saint George, 131 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,800 Speaker 1: Isabelle and Joshua from Ireland, and Canon and Bowen from Oregon. 132 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the Kitchen Story's family. 133 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: We could not have this much fun with imagination without you, 134 00:10:51,679 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 1: my friends. Well, you have a super duper day and 135 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: I can't wait to see your story ideas for part 136 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: two of this adventure. I'll see you on the next story. Bye.