The Lost Animals

Prologue
''On the other side of the oceans, on the other side of the lands beyond that, and further than the mountains beyond that, is a whole new Jamaa. The most common legend that there was only ocean beyond those mountains, but that is far from the truth. There is a now-abandoned village there, once home to several previously unknown animals. Now there is nothing, nothing but a black phantom wasteland, that stretches all the way to the phantom ocean, a horrible place that was once the planet's largest ocean. Jamaa is the only clean land. But before the land was turned to muck, before the phantoms spread, before the phantoms existed to capture those animals heartstones, there where the lost animals.''

Chapter 1: Secret Village
I awoke from her hammock. My blue eyes set on the new day. I spread her great heron wings in a stretch before ungracefully falling out of the hammock. As I got to my feet, the jam-a-gram-man, Major SunnyGem appeared at the door. "Huh-hi m-Major," I managed to squeak. Major's eyes shone in amusement as I spoke. He quickly handed me a Jam-a-gram, blushing he ran and hid. Like all kiwis do; they are shy. The package was addressed to Snowflake IcyBrave (That's me) and from Mystical RainyChamp, a whale who I had helped get back into the sea after she had been beached. The Jam-A-Gram said: "Meet me at the secret village!" Now, when I had first heard of the place, I thought that it was on land, but that was not the truth. The secret village was an abandoned settlement in the ocean. By going there, I had to stand on a rock a the edge of the shallows to be there.

When I arrived at my destination, Mystical and I where not the only ones meeting. There were four others: Juniper RainyFoot the platypus, Eternal TinyKelp the swordfish, Blooming FastBird the hummingbird, and Victory DashLily the snake. They were all friends of mine too, but I didn't expect all of them to be there. I knew Victory and Juniper could swim, but not for that long. I soon found out that I had limited space on that rock. Once we were all settled, Mystical began to speak of her findings.

"I know this may seem crazy, but there is something strange approaching from the south," Mystical stumbled over her words, as if she were in great fear. "It's rotting the land, turning land and ocean into uninhabitable wasteland. It's not one, but thousands, of eight-tentacled-one-eyed, ...Phantoms. I call them phantoms," she ended in a murmur, after being all worked up. There was silence for only a moment after that, and then everybody was talking worriedly over each other. However, one sentence seemed to be common with everyone. "WE HAVE TO TELL THE OTHERS!"

I quickly when through my mind all the other animal species we had to tell: the bats, the bison, the cows, the Komodo dragons, the servals, the kiwis, the ostriches, the skunks, the doves, the ducks, the armadillos, the tortoises and the manta rays! That. Is. A lot. Of. Animals. I started to wonder how we could possibly tell them all when I had an idea. We should call an assembly. One that hadn't been called in years. One that would bring the animals together. One that would unite us. We would call a meeting of all the animals.

Chapter 2: The Meeting
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