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Speaker 1: Welcome to Kids Short Stories. Today's story it's called the

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Speaker 1: Legend of the Moon Eater. One day, Mason, who was

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Speaker 1: seven years old, was playing in his backyard. His family

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Speaker 1: lived on a farm that had a large pond on it,

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Speaker 1: and he'd never it's so big. He'd never even been

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Speaker 1: to the other side of the pond before. And he

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Speaker 1: loved to throw rocks and throw sticks in the water

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Speaker 1: and watch the frogs and the turtles jump in. And

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Speaker 1: today was a very crazy day. Something had never happened

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Speaker 1: before to him. As he was throwing the rocks, he

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Speaker 1: saw bubbles coming out of the water. What is that?

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Speaker 1: He said? You see, Mason had never seen bubbles like

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Speaker 1: these before. They were really big bubbles. And as he

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Speaker 1: looked closer, he saw some light underneath the water starting

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Speaker 1: to come up to the top. What is that? All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, a giant creature popped out of the water.

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Speaker 1: It had five legs and eight glowing green eyes and

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Speaker 1: very big ears, kind of like an elephant, and on

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Speaker 1: the bottom of its feet were rocket boosters whoa Mason said,

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Speaker 1: are you going to eat me? Please? Don't eat me,

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Speaker 1: I'm only seven, And the creature said, why, hello, there

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to eat you. Why would you think that?

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Speaker 1: Mason said, oh, thank you, thank you. But what are

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Speaker 1: you do? You live in my pond? Why, of course

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Speaker 1: I do. I'm the moon eater. Um, what's the moon eater?

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Speaker 1: Mason said, Oh, well that's me, But I guess they

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Speaker 1: call me that because I eat the moon. You you

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Speaker 1: what you mean? The moon in the sky? What are

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Speaker 1: you talking about? He said, Well, when I get very hungry,

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Speaker 1: and I'm very hungry right now, I blast off into

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Speaker 1: the sky and take up home big by of the

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Speaker 1: moon and helps me sleep, and it gives me burped sometimes.

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Speaker 1: Mason couldn't believe it. He'd always wondered why sometimes the

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Speaker 1: moon looks like a circle, and sometimes it looks like

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Speaker 1: there's a piece missing out of it, and he always

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Speaker 1: wondered how that happened. But is this how? Because the

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Speaker 1: moon need to really do that, Mason said, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe you. That can't be true. You have

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Speaker 1: to prove it to me. Do it right now? Okay, then,

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Speaker 1: I'm very hungry. This is a perfect time. And just

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Speaker 1: then his feet turned on. I can't describe it any

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Speaker 1: other way than that, These blue rocket flames started to

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Speaker 1: pour out of the bottom of his feet, and then

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Speaker 1: he just blasted off into the sky. It was it

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Speaker 1: was incredible. I've never seen anything like it. In Mason,

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Speaker 1: he was watching this creature, the moon eater, blast off

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Speaker 1: through the clouds, aiming right for the moon, which was

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Speaker 1: a perfect circle. It was very bright. Wow, there he goes, whoa,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's a piece missing out of the moon.

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Speaker 1: What happened? Just then the creature splashed and crashed down

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Speaker 1: back into Mason's pond and he said, oh, I feel

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Speaker 1: much better now that Mike Tommy is full. And Mason said,

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Speaker 1: how often do you do this? He said, oh, about

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Speaker 1: once a week, that's how often I eat. Goodbye, And

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Speaker 1: just like that, he was gone deep back into the water. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Mason couldn't believe it. Did I really just see that creature? Wait?

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Speaker 1: Does that creature live in my pond? Well? I guess

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Speaker 1: he only eats the moon, not me. That's good. So

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Speaker 1: Mason every day would come back to the pond and

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Speaker 1: wait for his new friend to come back out. And

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Speaker 1: it wasn't until next week that he met the moon

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Speaker 1: eater again. And that is another crazy story. The end