1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,240 Speaker 1: Hey friends, it's mister jim Man. Welcome back to Kit 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: Short Stories. If this is your first time, welcome to 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,360 Speaker 1: the family. We are the podcast that turns your ideas 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,239 Speaker 1: into an amazing adventure every single day. You know, we 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: couldn't even exist without imaginations from kids just like you. 6 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea for a story, I'd 7 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,319 Speaker 1: love to see it. Check down in the show notes 8 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: below for how you can submit your own story idea 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 1: and maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. And parents, 10 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:38,640 Speaker 1: if you're new to kids podcasting, I'm gonna challenge you 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: to listen to podcasting for five days in a row 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,760 Speaker 1: with your kids. It's going to increase their imagination, decrease 13 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: screen time, and we're gonna have a lot of fun 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: along the way. Are you guys ready for today's adventure? 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: Me too, Let's go. Delia was a dancer with a 16 00:00:58,760 --> 00:01:03,280 Speaker 1: special kind of man. She was able to spin around 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: above the ground on silks of her own making. But 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: while other aerial dancers also used silks to spin around 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: above the ground, Delia's magic gave her special vantage. She 20 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: didn't just make silks, she shot them out of her hands. Wow. 21 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,360 Speaker 1: Because of this Dahlia was not only able to spin 22 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: and glide through the air on silks, she could make 23 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: them appear wherever she wanted. That's amazing. The other dancers 24 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: would say, do it again. Some would even make special requests, 25 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: make them pink and sparkly, and then Dahlia would laugh 26 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: and shoot them right out of her fingers, to her 27 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: friend's delight. One day, Dahlia was swinging and practicing her moves, 28 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 1: shooting out silks in every color of the rainbow, red, orange, yellow, green, 29 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: Foo and go and violet. Dahlia sang out as each 30 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,080 Speaker 1: beautifully colored silk left her hand. She was swinging faster 31 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: and faster from silk to silk when she lost track 32 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: of her rainbow, red, orange, green. Wait, that's that's not right. 33 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: As Dhlia paused, trying to remember the next color, she 34 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:32,080 Speaker 1: looked around, where am I? She wondered. All around she 35 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: saw large green trees. There were long vines that stretch 36 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: from the tops of the tree canopies to the wet, 37 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 1: rocky ground below. She heard birds tweeting and cawing all around, 38 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: and the rustling of other animals throughout the bushes below. Somehow, 39 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:58,040 Speaker 1: Dahlia had swung her skills all the way to the jungle. 40 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: I bet I better find someone to help me, thought Delia. 41 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: She began swinging towards the rustling in the bushes. When 42 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: Delia approached, she saw something orange peeking through the green leaves. 43 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: It was as large as a dog and cheesy. Hello, 44 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 1: called down Delia, Hello, okay, can you help me? A 45 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: growl was the only reply. Ger growled the creature, and 46 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: then it pounced up. Delia screeched as the orange, cheesy 47 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: creature exploded from the bush, reaching up towards her. It 48 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 1: was a Cheeto cheetah. Delia shot a silk at the 49 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 1: Cheeto cheetah as it tried again to reach her. The 50 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 1: silk hit the creature in the belly and began to 51 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 1: wrap it up. Now it was a Cheeto burrito. Delia 52 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: sighed in relief. Oh that was close. But as soon 53 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 1: as she said it, more bushes began to shake and 54 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: a low rumbling sounded through the air. Oh dear, I 55 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: gotta get out of here, said Delia as she took off, 56 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 1: swinging towards a river as the fast as animal in 57 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 1: the jungle. The Cheeto cheetahs were right under Delia the 58 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: whole time they leaped and snapped their cheesy jaws at 59 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 1: her silks. Delia used her flips and spins to confuse 60 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 1: the cheetahs. When she reached the river, she did a 61 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: leaping split to the silk, dangling above the middle of it, 62 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:46,400 Speaker 1: just as Cheeto Cheeta bounded at her heels er roared 63 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: the cheetah as it missed and landed splash in the water. 64 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: Delia watched the cheetah float away down the river. Oh yuck, 65 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 1: soggi Cheetos. Just when Delia thought she was if, she 66 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: heard splashing in the river behind her. Clutching her silk, 67 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:11,719 Speaker 1: she turned around. What pizza said? It confused Delia. Floating 68 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,799 Speaker 1: slowly towards her were slices of pizza. There was a cheese, 69 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: pepronian pineapple slice. They started to slowly circle her from 70 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:27,239 Speaker 1: below when she noticed that cheese slice had a tail. 71 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: What pizza slices don't have tails? Now she could see 72 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,479 Speaker 1: the tails on the other slices too, and when she 73 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:40,359 Speaker 1: looked back at the pepperoni slice, she saw a row 74 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: of teeth just underneath the layer of cheese, and pizzas 75 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: don't have teeth. She shouted that pizza slices responded by 76 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:54,359 Speaker 1: snapping their sharp teeth up towards her. They weren't just 77 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:00,400 Speaker 1: pizza slices, they were pizza alligators. Holy smoke, what kind 78 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: of jungle is this place? Delia tried shooting her silks 79 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:07,640 Speaker 1: at them, like she did with the Cheeto cheetahs, but 80 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: it didn't work. The pizza gators chomped the silks in 81 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: their mouths or dodged them, diving under water. While the 82 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 1: silks landed harmlessly on the top. She heard more splashing 83 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 1: and looked past the two pizza gators waiting for her below. 84 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: Headed up the river towards her were more pizza alligators, 85 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 1: and riding on their backs. We're the Cheeto Cheetahs. It's 86 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: time to kick it up a notch, Delia shouted. She 87 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,680 Speaker 1: reached inside to where her magic lived. The type of 88 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: magic she needed was tricky and required concentration, but Delia 89 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: believed in herself. It's time forsome hot Cheetos, she shouted 90 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: as she held her hands out, shooting not only silks, 91 00:06:55,279 --> 00:07:02,919 Speaker 1: but now hot lava out of her fingers. Soom hot 92 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: lava flu at the Cheeto cheetahs, knocking them off the 93 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: pizza alligators. The lava cooled to rock when it landed 94 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: in the river, trapping the cheetahs that fell in. The 95 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: pizza gators were running out of places to swim now 96 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: that there were cooling lava rocks all around. They reached 97 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: their big jaws up towards Delia as she swung overhead. 98 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: Delia shot silks at the pizza gator's jaws, and this 99 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: times shop the silks wrapped them shut before they could 100 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:39,600 Speaker 1: chomp them. Delia continued to swing away high above the 101 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: jungle ground. She caught sight of her rainbow silks from 102 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:48,119 Speaker 1: earlier and followed them out of the jungle and back home. 103 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: Holy Staledo, Wow, that was wild. I've never been to 104 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 1: a jungle like that before, have you. Wow, she's gonna 105 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: be it. Need to be a little bit more careful 106 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,640 Speaker 1: next time to make sure that she doesn't get eaten 107 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: by some pizza alligators or some cheeto cheetahs. Well, friends, 108 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: that may be the end of the story, but it's 109 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 1: only just the beginning of the amazing adventures that I 110 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: had for Delia. We'll be right back after a brief 111 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: word from our sponsor. Hey, friends, I need your help 112 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: celebrating a birthday. Drum roll please, Happy birthday Christian, who's 113 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: turning seven years old. Christian loves wrestling, baseball, and Minecraft. 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