1 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. On the last episode, 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,119 Speaker 1: Ava and Lucas went on a trip to Hawaii and 3 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,600 Speaker 1: then Ava got turned into a mermaid. It's up to 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Lucas to save her and turn her back into a kid. 5 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: If you love Kids Short Stories as much as me, 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: please leave a five star review to tell the world 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,279 Speaker 1: how awesome this podcast is. Are you ready for this 8 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:45,280 Speaker 1: next adventure? Me too, Let's go. Lucas is very worried 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: on the beach right now. He just doesn't know what 10 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 1: to do. How in the world did his sister Ava 11 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: get turned into a mermaid when she got hit by 12 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: that giant ocean wave? He said, Ava, this is crazy. 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: How in the world are we're gonna turn you back 14 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: into a kid? And Ava was actually not as scared 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 1: as she was. She was like, well, you know, Lucas, 16 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,040 Speaker 1: this isn't as bad as it looks. I've kind of 17 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: always wanted to be a mermaid, so this is pretty cool. 18 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: Lucas said, are you kidding me? This is not cool, 19 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,400 Speaker 1: because what happens when mom and dad see this, They're 20 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:28,840 Speaker 1: gonna freak out And what are we gonna do? What 21 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? All right, um, Lucas, first, 22 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: let's take a big deep breath. All right, everything's gonna 23 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: be okay. We're gonna get this figured out. Lucas was 24 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: looking all over the place when wait, what's that that's weird. 25 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: There's a big bottle that just washed up on shore 26 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 1: and there's a big, like a roll of paper in it. 27 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 1: He picked it up, pop the top off, and pulled 28 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,960 Speaker 1: the paper out. It had one sentence on it, a 29 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: message that read, to turn a mermaid back into a human, 30 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: you must find the purple star. Wait, that's it. What 31 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: kind of instructions are these, Lucas said, Oh man, what 32 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: does that mean? A purple star? A purple star? Why 33 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: does that kind of sound familiar? Star like in the sky? 34 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: Purple star? I've never seen a purple star before. Wait 35 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: a second, a starfish? Do you think it's talking about starfish? 36 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: So all we gotta do is find the most rare 37 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: starfish in the whole world, the purple starfish. I've never 38 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: seen one before. They're so rare and so hard to find. 39 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 1: How in the world are we gonna find that and 40 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: turn Ava back into a kid? Ava? What do you think? 41 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:03,799 Speaker 1: As he turned around, Ava, what's gone, Ava, where'd you go? 42 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 1: You see Ava? And actually just swam away for a minute. 43 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: She wanted to try out her new mermaid fins. She 44 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 1: had always dreamt of being a mermaid, and she didn't 45 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 1: know that that day would actually come true. She was 46 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: so excited to swim in the ocean as a mermaid. 47 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: She was having so much fun swimming around and exploring. 48 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: She found all kinds of cool things. She learned that 49 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: she could talk to fish while she was swimming. And wait, 50 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: what's that? She said, there's a cave down there. Let's 51 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: go check it out. Ava. The mermaid swam down to 52 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: the cave to go investigate. Wow, this is so cool, 53 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,320 Speaker 1: she said. She had never been in a coral cave before. 54 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: Do you know what coral is? Yeah. Coral is a 55 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: really cool organism that lives under the ocean, and it 56 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: needs the ocean to stay very healthy and clean. So 57 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:18,920 Speaker 1: that's why we don't throw our garbage in the ocean, 58 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:21,719 Speaker 1: because when the garbage goes in the ocean, then the 59 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: coral dies and that's really not good. So we gotta 60 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: keep our oceans very nice and clean. And so she 61 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: was exploring this super cool cave. Coral. Wow, there are 62 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: all kinds of cool little creatures, things that she had 63 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: never seen before. Giant lobsters and crabs and tiny little shrimp, 64 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 1: all different colors of fish. This was absolutely amazing, Ava, 65 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: Her dreams had come true. This is amazing. I could 66 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: live down here. Well, I would definitely miss my parents 67 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,760 Speaker 1: and Lucas. This this might not I don't know if 68 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: I want to be a mermaid forever. Maybe maybe Lucas 69 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,799 Speaker 1: was right. Maybe we should kind of figure this out 70 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: and find out a way to get me turned back 71 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 1: to a normal kid. Mm hmm. Ava then thought it 72 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,120 Speaker 1: was a good idea to swim back to where her 73 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: brother was. As she was picking up some really cool 74 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: seashells that she had found and putting him in her 75 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 1: mermaid pockets, she swam out of the cave, and just 76 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:45,880 Speaker 1: as she was leaving the cave, she was swimming pretty quickly, 77 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, blank, she smacked right 78 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,800 Speaker 1: into this giant pink wall. What wait that that's not 79 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 1: a pink wall. Oh no, that was not a pink wall. 80 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:09,600 Speaker 1: That was a giant pink fish maybe or sea monster. 81 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:14,799 Speaker 1: But it had a giant like unicorn head horn coming 82 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:21,320 Speaker 1: out of It's the top of its head. Ava was 83 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: so scared. Done done Dune. What is Ava going to do? 84 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: Make sure you tune in tomorrow to hear what happens next. 85 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 1: Mm hm