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Speaker 1: Have you ever heard the story of Mia the Forest Guardian?

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Speaker 1: You haven't? All right, listen close. Mia the Forest Guardian

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Speaker 1: wasn't a very special forest creature whose job was to

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Speaker 1: guard the forest and all of its creatures. She had

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Speaker 1: very special magical powers, one of which she could fly.

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Speaker 1: She was an amazing creature and would protect the forest

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Speaker 1: from all kinds of dangerous things that might happen. And

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Speaker 1: so one of her jobs was to help creatures that

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

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

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Speaker 1: looked upon as very famous and like a celebrity in

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Speaker 1: the forest. All the creatures loved Mia the forest Guardian.

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Speaker 1: She had made friends with almost everyone in the forest,

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Speaker 1: but there was one mean creature. The beast is what

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Speaker 1: she called it. The beast was very scary and caused

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Speaker 1: a lot of trouble. It had the body of an alligator,

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Speaker 1: the head of a lion, the legs of a horse,

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Speaker 1: and a snake tail. It was a very strange creature

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Speaker 1: and she doesn't even know where it came from because

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Speaker 1: nothing else looked quite like the beast. And you see,

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Speaker 1: the beast was always looking to make trouble and sometimes

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Speaker 1: hurt other creatures. So Mia the forest Guardian most of

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Speaker 1: what she did was either stopping the beast or cleaning

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Speaker 1: up the mess after the beast had done something. Today, Mia,

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Speaker 1: it was a nice day and so she was enjoying

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Speaker 1: what she thought was a day off, but it was

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Speaker 1: not a day off. As she was laying high up

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Speaker 1: in the branches of a tree who she yawned and

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

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Speaker 1: but the sun was warm on her face. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, she heard a sound. What was that? Maia

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

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

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Speaker 1: and flew towards 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: than like a raccoon or a fox or something like that.

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Speaker 1: It was fast, but me never seen a creature like

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

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Speaker 1: a little nervous if this was a you know, a

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Speaker 1: good creature or bad creature. And one of the squirrels

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

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

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Speaker 1: that's a person and it looks like the person is

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the person needs help because

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Speaker 1: she keeps heelling for help. Oh that's a person. What

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Speaker 1: is what is a person? Mysa? Mia had never seen

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Speaker 1: a person before. A person is where they don't live

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Speaker 1: in before Usually they live in these big um box boxes. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. And they they drive these big metal things,

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Speaker 1: like driving round really fast and they're very scared. Sir,

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Speaker 1: just be careful because those persons I don't know about them.

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Speaker 1: And then the squirrel ran off. Mia I wasn't quite

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Speaker 1: sure what to do because Mr Squirrel she had known

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Speaker 1: him for a very long time, and so she trusted

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Speaker 1: everything he said. And if he said to look out

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Speaker 1: for the person, because the person he didn't know if

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Speaker 1: it was good or not. That meant Mia had to

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Speaker 1: be very careful. So Mia flew very close and shouted down, Hey,

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Speaker 1: are you okay? And the person looked up and said yes,

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Speaker 1: but no, there's this crazy creature chasing after me and

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Speaker 1: and I don't know where to go. Can you help me? Mia?

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

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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: find which path to run down because there was a

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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's 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 then this here, this really scary creature was that

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Speaker 1: just came out of nowhere, and so that's why I'm running.

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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: we set up our tent in the forest, and then

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Speaker 1: we were sleeping in this tent um. It's really fun.

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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: a lot faster than the person, so she didn't know

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Speaker 1: what to do, and so all of a sudden, she

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

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Speaker 1: the beast was not afraid. The beast growled even louder.

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Speaker 1: The person Dennis had run really far away and so

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Speaker 1: Mia thought he was safe, but then the beast jumped

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Speaker 1: over Mia and crashed a tree on top of Dennis.

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Speaker 1: The person me it was so worried. Oh no, I

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Speaker 1: gotta use my special powers. One two, three go. Just

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Speaker 1: like that, Mia created a big energy explosion and the

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Speaker 1: beast was knocked over, very confused, and then he ran

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Speaker 1: off crying, Dennis, are you okay? Dennis had gotten trapped

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

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Speaker 1: a lot, but I think I think the beast is gone.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how I can get back to where

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Speaker 1: my 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: but they showed a lot of kindness to her and

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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 forest Guardian. She saved the day

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Speaker 1: again the end