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Speaker 1: Welcome back to kit Short Stories. Today stories brought to

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Speaker 1: us by two of our friends, Jackson and Miles. Hey guys,

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Speaker 1: Me too? Let's go? Hey Jackson, come in over. That

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Speaker 1: was Miles reaching out to one of his great friends, Jackson.

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Speaker 1: They had walkie talkies that could talk to each other

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Speaker 1: when they were at each other's houses. Hey, Miles, what's

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Speaker 1: going on dude? Over? Hey Jackson, look out your window.

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Speaker 1: The moon hasn't been out in a really long time,

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Speaker 1: and it's really strange. Do you see the moon at

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Speaker 1: your house? He looked out his window and sure enough,

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Speaker 1: the moon was still not there. The moon had been

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Speaker 1: missing for weeks. The whole world was wondering what had

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Speaker 1: happened to the moon, and if you remember, there's been

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Speaker 1: a lot of bad guys that have been trying to

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Speaker 1: get the moon, but they didn't succeed. No missiles blew

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Speaker 1: him up. But what about the moon Eater? I wonder

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Speaker 1: what he's up to. Miles radioed over, Hey, let's go

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Speaker 1: check out the moon eaters Pond to see if he's

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Speaker 1: there and ask him what's going on with the moon?

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Speaker 1: Over all? Right, let's go there first thing in the

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Speaker 1: morning and we'll see what we can find out. Over

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Speaker 1: and out, Jackson and Miles the next morning met at

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Speaker 1: the moon eaters Pond. Have you heard the story the

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Speaker 1: moon Eater? Yeah, you need to go way back to

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Speaker 1: one of those stories a long time ago and listen

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Speaker 1: to the moon eater story. Well, Miles was the first

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Speaker 1: one there, and as he waited for his friend Jackson,

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Speaker 1: he began to look around the pond to see where

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Speaker 1: the moon eater was because he was really good at hiding,

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Speaker 1: and I couldn't see him anywhere. And then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, why, hello there, hey, mr moon eater? Um,

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Speaker 1: do you know what's going on with the moon? I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but I'm getting very hungry and it's been

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Speaker 1: very strange that there hasn't have been no moon for

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Speaker 1: me to eat. Jackson just ran up to the pond. Hey, Miles, Hey,

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Speaker 1: Mr mooneater. Jackson and Miles had met the moon eater before,

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Speaker 1: and um, they you know, needed to figure out what

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Speaker 1: was going on with the moon. WHOA, I don't know anything.

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Speaker 1: I'm just really hungry. But I've always heard of the

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Speaker 1: moon turtle. Have you heard of the moon turtle? The

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Speaker 1: moon turtle? No, I have never heard of the moon turtle.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? Well, I think he's a part of,

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Speaker 1: you know, making the moon grow back after I've done

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Speaker 1: eating it. What Okay, where does where does he live?

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Speaker 1: I don't have a clue, but there's a cave up

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Speaker 1: the hill that supposedly I've heard a rumor that he

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Speaker 1: let's go. Miles and Jackson ran up the hill in

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Speaker 1: the direction that the moon eater pointed, and it was

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Speaker 1: boulders to climb over, and finally they reached a cave.

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Speaker 1: There's a little spooky in there, so they had to

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Speaker 1: turn on their flashlights and headlamps. All right, that's a

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Speaker 1: lot better. Jackson said, all right, Miles, let's stay together. Um,

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Speaker 1: So all right, let's go. Jackson and Miles started hiking

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Speaker 1: Miles both were shouting and looking for this moon turtle,

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Speaker 1: and in the distance, they heard a sound, Um, HER's

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Speaker 1: HER's there. Hi. We're Miles and Jackson. We're we're here

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Speaker 1: kind of on behalf of the world and the moon eater.

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Speaker 1: We heard that there's a moon turtle in here. Can

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Speaker 1: we talk to him? Am? Okay, come on in. And

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Speaker 1: as they walked in deeper to the cave and turned

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Speaker 1: Hi are you the are you the moon turtle? Jackson

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Speaker 1: nest loss, bro, what's going on? Well? Okay, great, this

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Speaker 1: is fantastic Miles said, Okay, me and Jackson, we were

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Speaker 1: here and we need to figure out why the moon

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Speaker 1: isn't coming back because the moon eaters taking bites out

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Speaker 1: to like help the moon grow back each time? Is

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Speaker 1: that true? Roll less does um And there's been a problem,

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Speaker 1: a problem. What kind of problem is it? Well, a

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Speaker 1: little soul. There's something that I'll need to help the

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Speaker 1: moon go back. And I've had a lot of trouble

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Speaker 1: find loom thaton. What is it? Maybe we can help

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Speaker 1: um modal brod. I don't know, we'll see. There's a

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Speaker 1: very special apple tool at the top of this hill

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Speaker 1: amongst my moon apples moon apples? What are moon apples

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Speaker 1: or all? They're kind of love foods for the moon.

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Speaker 1: The rudd apples with grouling spots and well, I don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what happens, but idols take one of those apples,

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Speaker 1: bring it up to the moon planted on the ground,

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Speaker 1: and then the moon gets bigger. Wow. Miles and Jackson's

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Speaker 1: believe one that they had found the moon turtle too,

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Speaker 1: that the moon turtle uses some kind of special magic

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Speaker 1: apple to make the moon grow. Wow, what a day.

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Speaker 1: All right, So what you're saying, Mr. Moon turtle is

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Speaker 1: you need this tree up on the top of the

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Speaker 1: hill to give you the special apples so then you

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Speaker 1: can take them to the moon. But there's no apples loss. Okay,

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Speaker 1: well that's something we can work with. Let's go check

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Speaker 1: out the tree and so we can we can find

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Speaker 1: As my and Jackson hiked up the rest of the

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Speaker 1: of the top of this hill was a tree, only

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Speaker 1: one tree, and it looks like an apple tree, but

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Speaker 1: it looks a little different, had spots on it, and

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Speaker 1: this must be the apple tree that the moon turtle

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Speaker 1: look at that. Jackson reached down and picked up there

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Speaker 1: was an apple on the ground that had a big

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Speaker 1: bite taken out of it. Hold the phone. What is

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Speaker 1: going on? You mean someone's sneaking up here and eating

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Speaker 1: these apples? Do you think some kind of creature is

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Speaker 1: eating these apples on purpose? And oh no, or maybe

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Speaker 1: it's an accident. Yeah, Miles thought that it was an accident,

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Speaker 1: and so they needed to find what creature was eating

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Speaker 1: these apples and making an impossible for the moon turtle

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Speaker 1: to bring the moon back. All right, well, w wait,

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Speaker 1: look over there, here's a squirrel or is that a squirrel?

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Speaker 1: I'm not a squirrel. Oh, I'm sorry. My name's Miles,

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Speaker 1: and this is my friend Jackson. When tell us what

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Speaker 1: are you? I'm a prairie dog. What is a Oh? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You see, prairie dogs can be

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Speaker 1: pretty sensitive, so you should definitely not get them mixed

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Speaker 1: up with a squirrel. Yeah, we are not squirrels. There's

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of us that moved up on top

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Speaker 1: of this hill. And why are you up here? Well,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's so great to meet you. There's

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Speaker 1: been a huge misunderstanding and a big mix up, and

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Speaker 1: I think we can all fix it. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've noticed, Mr Prairie, but the moon has been missing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's been no moon at night. I've noticed. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: you see the problem is there's this magical turtle called

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Speaker 1: the moon turtle that he needs these apples from this

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Speaker 1: tree to help the moon go back every night. It's

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Speaker 1: a long story. There's a moon eater. He takes a

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Speaker 1: bite out of the moon. It's a story for another time.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, have you guys been eating the apples from

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Speaker 1: this tree? Yes they're delicious. Okay, I'm sure they're delicious,

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Speaker 1: But I'm gonna have to ask you to stop if

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Speaker 1: you ever want to see the moon again, because yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just can't eat these. Is there anything else that

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Speaker 1: you guys can eat? Wow, we can eat all kinds

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Speaker 1: of foods. So yeah, I won't stop eating the apples.

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Speaker 1: That would be perfect. Oh, thank you so much. Let's

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Speaker 1: go tell the moon turtle. Aisles and Jackson ran back

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Speaker 1: down the hill to tell the moon turtle what they

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Speaker 1: had discovered, and the moon turtle was so happy. Rats,

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Speaker 1: that's the mills one grow job. Girls, we're all hurtful.

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Speaker 1: Another apple grows tomorrow, because then I'll take a road

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Speaker 1: to the moon. That is the day that Miles and

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Speaker 1: Jackson save the moon. You see, if you go back

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Speaker 1: to that other story a long time ago about the

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Speaker 1: moon eater, you'll learn that the moon eater is the

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Speaker 1: one that takes a bite out of the moon. And

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Speaker 1: when you look it up, look up at the sky

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Speaker 1: at night and see the moon with a peace missing.

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Speaker 1: That's because the moon eater eats it and as normal.

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Speaker 1: But I guess there's this magical moon turtle that needs

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Speaker 1: to like plant this magical apple on the Moon so

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Speaker 1: that the moon goes back. Oh well, great job Miles

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Speaker 1: and Jackson. You guys save the day again. We'll see

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