Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to bedtime Stories with mister Jim. Oh.
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready for bed, are you as well?
Speaker 1: Oh good, I hope you brushed your teeth and found
Speaker 1: all of your comfy things like pillows and blankets and stuffies.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh good. Well, as long as you have
Speaker 1: all those things ready, then it's time for our story. First,
Speaker 1: we must close our eyes so that we can travel
Speaker 1: to an imaginary world. Phoenix and Nova loved the moon.
Speaker 1: Every night they would look out their windows to get
Speaker 1: a glimpse of it before drifting off to sleep. Phoenix
Speaker 1: would call up to the sky good night, Moon, and
Speaker 1: Nova would tell it sweet dreams, and off they'd go
Speaker 1: to sleep. They loved how big and bright and round
Speaker 1: the moon was. But one night, Phoenix looked out the
Speaker 1: window and found the moon was not the way it
Speaker 1: should be. Nova, Nova, look at the moon. Something's wrong.
Speaker 1: Phoenix was at the window, waving his hands for his
Speaker 1: sister's attention. She darted to the window next to her
Speaker 1: brother and looked up in the sky. Sure enough, the
Speaker 1: moon wasn't itself. No bright, round circle greeted them when
Speaker 1: she looked up. Instead, only a sliver of the moon
Speaker 1: remained in the sky. It looked like a bit banana
Speaker 1: up there. Nova gasped, Oh, no, the moon. What's wrong.
Speaker 1: Phoenix shrugged and said, it looks like it's going to disappear.
Speaker 1: The two kids put their hands on their faces in shock.
Speaker 1: The moon gone. What were they going to do? Both
Speaker 1: Phoenix and Nova knew that all good dreams came from
Speaker 1: the moon. If the moon disappeared, would they ever have
Speaker 1: happy dreams again. They had to find out what was
Speaker 1: happening and how the broken moon was affecting their happy dreams.
Speaker 1: We have to go to bed, Off to dreamland now,
Speaker 1: Nova shouted to Phoenix. She looked him in the eye
Speaker 1: before heading to bed and said, I'll see you in dreamland.
Speaker 1: Phoenix nodded and went to his room too. He lied
Speaker 1: down bed, but it was hard to get to dreamland
Speaker 1: without the bright, round moon to guide him. He closed
Speaker 1: his eyes and imagine the moon was all better, back
Speaker 1: to normal, round and full and shining. Eventually he drifted
Speaker 1: off to sleep. When Phoenix arrived at Dreamland, Nova had
Speaker 1: been waiting there for him. Finally, you're here. I've been
Speaker 1: waiting forever. The broken moon is affecting dreamland. Look, Nova
Speaker 1: motioned around her as Phoenix noticed for the first time
Speaker 1: how dreary it was all around him. Dreamland was dark,
Speaker 1: much darker than normal. Without the light from the bright moon,
Speaker 1: there was nothing to brighten up the place. It looked
Speaker 1: like everyone in Dreamland needed their moods made happy. Phoenix
Speaker 1: saw mopi manatees, sulky snakes, and glum guinea pigs. How
Speaker 1: everyone is so sad here. It's making me sad. Do
Speaker 1: you think it is making all the kids have sad
Speaker 1: dreams too, Phoenix asked Nova. Nova nodded, looking pretty down herself.
Speaker 1: It has to be the moon affects Dreamland for everyone,
Speaker 1: not just us. Nova was holding a box in her
Speaker 1: hands and lifted it up for Phoenix to see. But
Speaker 1: it's okay, we can fix it. I grab Dad's tools
Speaker 1: on my way here, so we can head to the
Speaker 1: rocket ship and go fix the moon. Great, thinking Nova,
Speaker 1: let's go. Phoenix and Nova hurried over to the marina.
Speaker 1: They called out to the manatees. Manatees, we need a
Speaker 1: ride to our rocket ship. Please a mopey manate man
Speaker 1: it's way over to them, sniffling it said, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel so dreary. I just want to nap. Phoenix
Speaker 1: patted the manate on its big head. It will be okay.
Speaker 1: We are going to fix the moon. Then you can
Speaker 1: be happy again. Then there's no time to waste. Hop on,
Speaker 1: I will bring you right over. Phoenix and Nova hopped
Speaker 1: on the manatee's back and headed out to see the
Speaker 1: usual crystal blue water was looking gray and dull. There
Speaker 1: were no shimmering waves, no bright sea birds. Everything looked
Speaker 1: still and empty. As they made their way to their
Speaker 1: rocket ship. The palm trees on the island where they
Speaker 1: parked their rocket ship were the first thing they saw.
Speaker 1: The next was how dark it was. They could hardly
Speaker 1: see the shore. As the manatee approached the beach to
Speaker 1: drop them off a little light please, Nova called out
Speaker 1: for help, hoping the fireflies weren't too sad to come
Speaker 1: light their way. Luckily, a few lightning bugs appeared right away,
Speaker 1: fluttering along the pathway to the ship like little lanterns.
Speaker 1: Nova and Phoenix climbed up into their rocket ship and
Speaker 1: ready themselves for takeoff. Three two one blast off, they
Speaker 1: soared into space at the moon. Nova and Phoenix floated
Speaker 1: out into space and took a good look. Huh it
Speaker 1: looks like someone took a bite out of it, said Nova,
Speaker 1: who saw a big chunk missing. Phoenix floated around to
Speaker 1: the other side of the moon. That's because someone did.
Speaker 1: He was face to face with a space alien chewing
Speaker 1: the missing chunk of the moon. Hey, shouted, Phoenix, put
Speaker 1: that back, spit it out. Surprisingly, the alien listened, you
Speaker 1: can have it. This cookie tastes terrible. It's hard as
Speaker 1: a rack. Nova floated over. That's because it's a moon,
Speaker 1: not a cookie. And now it's broken. Oh no, let
Speaker 1: me help fix it, said the alien. So Phoenix, Nova
Speaker 1: and the space alien glue the moon back into place.
Speaker 1: Why let's nail it in place to make it sure
Speaker 1: it stays. Nova passed out. Hammers clang, bang bang, what's
Speaker 1: all that racket? Called a voice from inside the moon.
Speaker 1: Out of one of the moon's craters squeezed a big
Speaker 1: blue worm. What are you doing to my moon? Oh,
Speaker 1: we're just trying to fix it. The space alien thought
Speaker 1: it was a cookie, The worm sighed. This happens once
Speaker 1: a month. Everyone always thinks it's a cookie or made
Speaker 1: of cheese. I don't know where they come up with
Speaker 1: these things. I was just inside trying to sleep. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry we woke you, said Phoenix. We made the moon
Speaker 1: round again, but it's still not bright. Do you know why?
Speaker 1: The worm quickly flicked a bright blue light. You're a glowworm,
Speaker 1: Phoenix shouted. That's why the moon isn't bright. Why aren't
Speaker 1: you glowing, he asked. The glowworm responded, well, if you
Speaker 1: must know, I'm feeling sad. No one comes to visit
Speaker 1: the glowworm in the moon. Hey, just come by and
Speaker 1: try to eat it and then leave. I just don't
Speaker 1: feel like glowing lately. I wish I had some friends,
Speaker 1: Nova piped up. Will be your friends? Really you mean it?
Speaker 1: Of course we will come here on our rocket ship
Speaker 1: to visit and help you fix the moon whenever another
Speaker 1: hungry alien comes along. Nova looked at the space alien,
Speaker 1: who looked a little embarrassed. The glowworm was so happy
Speaker 1: to have friends he shined even brighter than before. Please
Speaker 1: come back any time. Well, right now, I have a
Speaker 1: job to do, and the glowworm squeezed back into the crater,
Speaker 1: making the moon glow bright again once more. With the
Speaker 1: moon fixed and glowing again, Dreamland returned to being happy
Speaker 1: and colorful. Everyone was back to having good happy dreams,
Speaker 1: and Nova and Phoenix's mission were complete. They couldn't wait
Speaker 1: to take their rocket ship back to go visit their
Speaker 1: new wrenn, who lived in the Moon. The end