title: albert's amazing adventure
when albert went to school as usual he did not predict the DANGER that he would face laterr that day. he hated when people shortened his name. why do so many people try to change my name. almost every kid he met in school shortened his name.
at recess break he would introduce himself to a kid saying "hi my name is albert what your name?" the kid did not even say his own name he just said "hi bert" and that made albert mad kuz they changed his name... and so many kids changed his name calling him ali or al... sometimes he would argue "you would not like of i changed YOUR name." but that did not work they would argue back that they DID have friend names and that they were GIVING a friend name. rebeka was called bekka by her friends. "we dont mind" they claimed so could do it to him. soon he realized that names were just for official purpose like a name on a test paper and when the teacher checked who atteneded the class, but friends could shorten a name. so he told people to call him ali.
ali thought that animals were talking to him. he had asked his parents for a puppy... because he thought the dog in the street told him to adopt a puppy.
ali's parents refused saying that a dog is much hassle and they do not trust him to spend time taking care of it. however they offered him a chance to prove himself if he could take care of the hamster responsibility for a year maybe next year maybe they will get a trained dog.
so they went to the pet shop and ali looked around and saw a very cute puppy. he thought it was talking to him so he begged "ma get me that one he wants to be with me". however his parents were as stubborn as ever and told him to choose one hamster or none.
so he chose a glass box and he spread the woodchips that he would need to change each day. he looked at the hamsters but each one told him that he should get a puppy instead. so he repeated to his parents "they are telling me to get a puppy." ma argued "you just make excuses due to wanting a puppy." ma lifted a hamster and said yu want this one or none?
ali heard the hamster say "hey put me down leave me here why cant you just get a puppy insted". ali knew arguing did not help so he nodded and his ma put the gray hamster in the glass box.
ali asked the hamster what to add to the box? it told him "i need water and yellow flowers. then the hamster lay down to rest a bit.
ali carried the glass box called terrarium to their car. ma drove them home. the whole time the hamsterwas silent. ali asked the hamster what was its name but the hamster ignored him. maybe he was sad that he left his friends?
ma drove the ford car into the garage attached ot the house. ali carried the terrarium into his room and put it on the floor. then he ran outside to search for flowers. he saw the yellow weed called dandelion they were pretyy and yellow so he picked many yellow ones and also the white puffy ones.
ali hurried back inside to give his pet the flowers as requested. he put the yellow dandelions in the terrarium and "grover gray" said "i am very happy" about the yellow flowers. "i was angry" explained grover gray, "whne your ma picked me up."
"because you wanted to stay with the other hamsters?" ali guessed
"no! i always wrestled with them just i was scared of the big human. but now that you made my home nice with flowers i will show you i can do tricks."
then the hamsters did the SAME tricks that trained dogs do!
he held a paw to shake hands and rolled on his back with four paws up in the air and stood in two hind legs without even leaning on the glass.
grover gray said "if you throw me a round cracker i can catch it like a frisbee."
ali was amazed and ceratinly believed. so he ran and got a round cracker that was a pale orange color but not yellow it was a bit like li's light skin.
then ali folded his wrist and spun the salty round cracker toward the glass wall... suddenly grover gray LEAPED up far and high and grabbed the cracker like a dog grabs a frisbee.
"wow," ali praised," you are fer better than any dog and you jumped so high up. when did you learn the tricks?"
gr' said "all animals know how to do these tricks just we dont bother unless the human indicated that they wanna see. so we never need to LEARN them. just we did not know that the human wanted to see them. so you dont need to teach me tricks just bring me flowers whenever those dry out gr' pointed to them, "and i will show you tricks.
then gr' peed on the cracker.
what did you do that for?" asked ali.
"it is too salty and dry. please bring me lettuce."
"LETTUCE?" ali responded in horror. "hamsters do-o-ont eat lettuce!"
"as if you know anything about us. go bring me some moist green lettuce."
so ali went to the frij and pulld a green leaf off of the ball of lettuce. he hurried back to his pet to bring him the lettce and joy.
gr' said "i wish you were my size the same size as me then we could play."
"if i become small, how will i ever return to enlarge again to my natural size?"
"in less than a second you can change sizes."
"how do i do it?" ali asked.
gr' taught ali the magic words to change size and urged him "do not forget". you dont need to eat nor drink anything.
first ali said the formula "adventurus shortus" and shrunk like a balloon losing its air. sadly he was outside the glass so he could not get in. he tried to climb the glass walls but they were slippery and too steep. the big question was how? ali looked at the flowers that were now just as tall as him. he ad changed to their height of their green stems. he did not see anything for the purpose of getting in. ali asked the hamster which words can move himthrough glass. grover said "only a wizard can move thru glass."
ali said the formule "danjurus tallus" and returned to his child size. than he stretched his legs over the top of the box and said the shrink formula... and his whole body moved toward his shoes... his head flew forward and soon ali with both sneakers fell into the wood chips. ali crawled to a flower and TRIED to lean on its stem to stand but the soft stem just bent and the yellow flower toppled down sideways.
"which game should we play?" asked ali.
"we should play tag so start in the opposite corner and i will chase you."
so ali and grover gray started chasing each other and dodging each other until ma came to check on the hamster.
ali felt so hot due to running. he wished that he had an electric fan to cool him, but at his size it would probably blow him away. he looked around and saw a wide "shaving" of wood so he waved it to fan himself until ma entered the room she saw ali's sneakers in the terrarium and she hollerd "ali come here this instant! get your sneakers out of your pet cage."
when ali did not come, and she did not see him hiding behind a sneaker she pulled out the two sneakers and put them under the bed. ma left but soon returned with a HUGE giant mushroom not like those little one inch ones but the size of a humburger bun! she gathered wood chips around its stem to hold it up.
meanwhile grover the gray furry hamster said a formula and pretty red flowers grew up from some wood chips. near it. ali and grover were the same height.
after ma put the mushroom in, she searched for ali. she looked under his bed, was he hiding there? she looked beside the bed and checked the floor behind the bed by the window.
despite looking all around she failed to find ali. she saw he was not ON the bed but thout maybe he was under the blanket? first she folded the blanket on the side near her. then she stretched across the bed... she checked under the blankets on the soft mattress. the THING that was there was invisible. ma only saw the dark blue sheet on the bed and pale blue blanket.
grover and ali watched thru the glass wall and their eyes quickly met the eyes of a butterfly with orinj wings standing on the bed where ma had folded the blue blanket. it was GIANT and each orinj wing was as big as a child's shirt.
it rubbed its arms together like flies do. ma did not noticce it. the butterfly stood still as ma folded the blanket back over it... and the blanket was smooth on the sheet like NOTHING was thereno big butterfly or anything.
ali looked across to the butterfly who was now under his blue blanket.
whe ma left the room, it folded the blanket and appeared. from under ali's pillow it pulled out a long torquise towel. it and ali stared at each other. it rubbed the long towel on its wings and when it finished it returned the towel under the pillow.
it introduced itself, in a slow effortless calm voice "hi i am albert what's your name?" the hamster answered first "my name is harry the hairy hamster but he named me grover gray." ali then said "my name is also albert."
the butterfly argued "your name does not tell ANYTHING about you. i am a butterfly but what ARE you?" it asked.
that can start an interesting dialog. gr' said "i am a hamster." ali answerd "i am a little boy."
"little indeed!" emphasized the big butterfly.
ali did not know why he felt shy talking to the butterfly. the butterfly continued the interrogation "i saw little boys but YOU are something else! so WHAT are you."
"i am a small small boy." ali explained.
when it was silent ali continued "this morning when i awoke i was a young boy but now i changed into a small little boy.
"that is impossible. i know about changing. i changed from a caterpillar to a butterfly but you dont get smaller! you grow bigger!
"i AM the same one" ali insisted. the butterfly shook its head no.
ali repeated very politely "i am the same boy all day, that is the clearest i can explain."
"firstly you are too small to be a boy i dont understand how you are so small yet your face looks like a human.
"i used magic words to change sizes" ali explained.
"magic is not real" it replied in a very awkward tone.
"wait, you cant be sure magic is NOT real. just because you have not yet experienced magic. but you can try it yourself say "danjurus tallus."
it said different words... and was suddenly wrapped in a fluffy coccoon.
then from inside it ali herad more words and the caterpillar appeared.
"as you see i know about changing forms but only to my forms the caterpillar and its phases now i will switch back.
again it changed into a coccoon and the butterfly climbed out.
"try the formula see for yourself."
"fine," replied the butterfly "danjurus tallus"
poof! the big butterfly was even larger!
"i see you are correct now how do i get to my natural size."
grover answered "say adventurus smallus".
it did and returned to its natural size.
ali complained, "you are too big for a butterfly i think you need to say it again and change to the size of ALL butterflies."
"dont tell me what to do! i can hurt you!" screamed the butterfly.
the giant butterfly flapped its wings and flew toward the little tiny boy.altho he was terrified by the huge butterfly he called out "adventurus tallus" and despite the worng words due to his stress he returned to normal child size and when the butterfly saw him big it turned away and flew toward the wiindow and THRU the glass so the danger ended.
grover said "i told you only a wizard can fly thru glass." then it asked "how is a tiger like your dresser drawers?"
"i dunno" answered ali.
"they both can eat you."
"i agree that a tiger can eat me but drawers cant eat me."
"oh yeah?" challenged grover growing to the size of a child. it grabbed ali in its paw and hopped out of the glass cage and said "time for dinner".
to ali's horror the top drawer of the dresser popped out and a tongue waved from side to side as the hamster put him on the soft red tongue. ali was terrified that the drawer would chew him! but drawers lack teeth but he still did not want to get eaten. the tong wrapd around him and pulled him into the drawer. "oh no" moaned ali it DID eat me like a tiger. then once he was in the drawer it slid in and he was trapped.
on the floor of the drawer he saw a metal staple. "oh man that could HURT if it poked me when i dressed." good thing i found it before it got tangled in clothing as i pull them on. ali lifted the staple and poked the two sharp points on the wood drawer.
OUCH hollered the dresser and spat ali out... he flew across the room onto his bed. then he jumped back in to play with the hamster... but it was on the outside of the box.
"are you a wizard?" asked ali.
"obviusly since only wizards can go thru glass."
"please go back in, i need a pet and i promise to take care of you and bring you lettuce that you like."
"but i feel trapped in the glass and cant go anywhere."
"still you can have as much lettuce as you want and i will always take care of you and pet you" said ali.
grover sighed "i do like that" so grover walked thru the glass back into the cage and ali kept his word and rubbed his hand on grovers kneck and shoulders. ali's dangerous adventures will continue!
when albert went to school as usual he did not predict the DANGER that he would face laterr that day. he hated when people shortened his name. why do so many people try to change my name. almost every kid he met in school shortened his name.
at recess break he would introduce himself to a kid saying "hi my name is albert what your name?" the kid did not even say his own name he just said "hi bert" and that made albert mad kuz they changed his name... and so many kids changed his name calling him ali or al... sometimes he would argue "you would not like of i changed YOUR name." but that did not work they would argue back that they DID have friend names and that they were GIVING a friend name. rebeka was called bekka by her friends. "we dont mind" they claimed so could do it to him. soon he realized that names were just for official purpose like a name on a test paper and when the teacher checked who atteneded the class, but friends could shorten a name. so he told people to call him ali.
ali thought that animals were talking to him. he had asked his parents for a puppy... because he thought the dog in the street told him to adopt a puppy.
ali's parents refused saying that a dog is much hassle and they do not trust him to spend time taking care of it. however they offered him a chance to prove himself if he could take care of the hamster responsibility for a year maybe next year maybe they will get a trained dog.
so they went to the pet shop and ali looked around and saw a very cute puppy. he thought it was talking to him so he begged "ma get me that one he wants to be with me". however his parents were as stubborn as ever and told him to choose one hamster or none.
so he chose a glass box and he spread the woodchips that he would need to change each day. he looked at the hamsters but each one told him that he should get a puppy instead. so he repeated to his parents "they are telling me to get a puppy." ma argued "you just make excuses due to wanting a puppy." ma lifted a hamster and said yu want this one or none?
ali heard the hamster say "hey put me down leave me here why cant you just get a puppy insted". ali knew arguing did not help so he nodded and his ma put the gray hamster in the glass box.
ali asked the hamster what to add to the box? it told him "i need water and yellow flowers. then the hamster lay down to rest a bit.
ali carried the glass box called terrarium to their car. ma drove them home. the whole time the hamsterwas silent. ali asked the hamster what was its name but the hamster ignored him. maybe he was sad that he left his friends?
ma drove the ford car into the garage attached ot the house. ali carried the terrarium into his room and put it on the floor. then he ran outside to search for flowers. he saw the yellow weed called dandelion they were pretyy and yellow so he picked many yellow ones and also the white puffy ones.
ali hurried back inside to give his pet the flowers as requested. he put the yellow dandelions in the terrarium and "grover gray" said "i am very happy" about the yellow flowers. "i was angry" explained grover gray, "whne your ma picked me up."
"because you wanted to stay with the other hamsters?" ali guessed
"no! i always wrestled with them just i was scared of the big human. but now that you made my home nice with flowers i will show you i can do tricks."
then the hamsters did the SAME tricks that trained dogs do!
he held a paw to shake hands and rolled on his back with four paws up in the air and stood in two hind legs without even leaning on the glass.
grover gray said "if you throw me a round cracker i can catch it like a frisbee."
ali was amazed and ceratinly believed. so he ran and got a round cracker that was a pale orange color but not yellow it was a bit like li's light skin.
then ali folded his wrist and spun the salty round cracker toward the glass wall... suddenly grover gray LEAPED up far and high and grabbed the cracker like a dog grabs a frisbee.
"wow," ali praised," you are fer better than any dog and you jumped so high up. when did you learn the tricks?"
gr' said "all animals know how to do these tricks just we dont bother unless the human indicated that they wanna see. so we never need to LEARN them. just we did not know that the human wanted to see them. so you dont need to teach me tricks just bring me flowers whenever those dry out gr' pointed to them, "and i will show you tricks.
then gr' peed on the cracker.
what did you do that for?" asked ali.
"it is too salty and dry. please bring me lettuce."
"LETTUCE?" ali responded in horror. "hamsters do-o-ont eat lettuce!"
"as if you know anything about us. go bring me some moist green lettuce."
so ali went to the frij and pulld a green leaf off of the ball of lettuce. he hurried back to his pet to bring him the lettce and joy.
gr' said "i wish you were my size the same size as me then we could play."
"if i become small, how will i ever return to enlarge again to my natural size?"
"in less than a second you can change sizes."
"how do i do it?" ali asked.
gr' taught ali the magic words to change size and urged him "do not forget". you dont need to eat nor drink anything.
first ali said the formula "adventurus shortus" and shrunk like a balloon losing its air. sadly he was outside the glass so he could not get in. he tried to climb the glass walls but they were slippery and too steep. the big question was how? ali looked at the flowers that were now just as tall as him. he ad changed to their height of their green stems. he did not see anything for the purpose of getting in. ali asked the hamster which words can move himthrough glass. grover said "only a wizard can move thru glass."
ali said the formule "danjurus tallus" and returned to his child size. than he stretched his legs over the top of the box and said the shrink formula... and his whole body moved toward his shoes... his head flew forward and soon ali with both sneakers fell into the wood chips. ali crawled to a flower and TRIED to lean on its stem to stand but the soft stem just bent and the yellow flower toppled down sideways.
"which game should we play?" asked ali.
"we should play tag so start in the opposite corner and i will chase you."
so ali and grover gray started chasing each other and dodging each other until ma came to check on the hamster.
ali felt so hot due to running. he wished that he had an electric fan to cool him, but at his size it would probably blow him away. he looked around and saw a wide "shaving" of wood so he waved it to fan himself until ma entered the room she saw ali's sneakers in the terrarium and she hollerd "ali come here this instant! get your sneakers out of your pet cage."
when ali did not come, and she did not see him hiding behind a sneaker she pulled out the two sneakers and put them under the bed. ma left but soon returned with a HUGE giant mushroom not like those little one inch ones but the size of a humburger bun! she gathered wood chips around its stem to hold it up.
meanwhile grover the gray furry hamster said a formula and pretty red flowers grew up from some wood chips. near it. ali and grover were the same height.
after ma put the mushroom in, she searched for ali. she looked under his bed, was he hiding there? she looked beside the bed and checked the floor behind the bed by the window.
despite looking all around she failed to find ali. she saw he was not ON the bed but thout maybe he was under the blanket? first she folded the blanket on the side near her. then she stretched across the bed... she checked under the blankets on the soft mattress. the THING that was there was invisible. ma only saw the dark blue sheet on the bed and pale blue blanket.
grover and ali watched thru the glass wall and their eyes quickly met the eyes of a butterfly with orinj wings standing on the bed where ma had folded the blue blanket. it was GIANT and each orinj wing was as big as a child's shirt.
it rubbed its arms together like flies do. ma did not noticce it. the butterfly stood still as ma folded the blanket back over it... and the blanket was smooth on the sheet like NOTHING was thereno big butterfly or anything.
ali looked across to the butterfly who was now under his blue blanket.
whe ma left the room, it folded the blanket and appeared. from under ali's pillow it pulled out a long torquise towel. it and ali stared at each other. it rubbed the long towel on its wings and when it finished it returned the towel under the pillow.
it introduced itself, in a slow effortless calm voice "hi i am albert what's your name?" the hamster answered first "my name is harry the hairy hamster but he named me grover gray." ali then said "my name is also albert."
the butterfly argued "your name does not tell ANYTHING about you. i am a butterfly but what ARE you?" it asked.
that can start an interesting dialog. gr' said "i am a hamster." ali answerd "i am a little boy."
"little indeed!" emphasized the big butterfly.
ali did not know why he felt shy talking to the butterfly. the butterfly continued the interrogation "i saw little boys but YOU are something else! so WHAT are you."
"i am a small small boy." ali explained.
when it was silent ali continued "this morning when i awoke i was a young boy but now i changed into a small little boy.
"that is impossible. i know about changing. i changed from a caterpillar to a butterfly but you dont get smaller! you grow bigger!
"i AM the same one" ali insisted. the butterfly shook its head no.
ali repeated very politely "i am the same boy all day, that is the clearest i can explain."
"firstly you are too small to be a boy i dont understand how you are so small yet your face looks like a human.
"i used magic words to change sizes" ali explained.
"magic is not real" it replied in a very awkward tone.
"wait, you cant be sure magic is NOT real. just because you have not yet experienced magic. but you can try it yourself say "danjurus tallus."
it said different words... and was suddenly wrapped in a fluffy coccoon.
then from inside it ali herad more words and the caterpillar appeared.
"as you see i know about changing forms but only to my forms the caterpillar and its phases now i will switch back.
again it changed into a coccoon and the butterfly climbed out.
"try the formula see for yourself."
"fine," replied the butterfly "danjurus tallus"
poof! the big butterfly was even larger!
"i see you are correct now how do i get to my natural size."
grover answered "say adventurus smallus".
it did and returned to its natural size.
ali complained, "you are too big for a butterfly i think you need to say it again and change to the size of ALL butterflies."
"dont tell me what to do! i can hurt you!" screamed the butterfly.
the giant butterfly flapped its wings and flew toward the little tiny boy.altho he was terrified by the huge butterfly he called out "adventurus tallus" and despite the worng words due to his stress he returned to normal child size and when the butterfly saw him big it turned away and flew toward the wiindow and THRU the glass so the danger ended.
grover said "i told you only a wizard can fly thru glass." then it asked "how is a tiger like your dresser drawers?"
"i dunno" answered ali.
"they both can eat you."
"i agree that a tiger can eat me but drawers cant eat me."
"oh yeah?" challenged grover growing to the size of a child. it grabbed ali in its paw and hopped out of the glass cage and said "time for dinner".
to ali's horror the top drawer of the dresser popped out and a tongue waved from side to side as the hamster put him on the soft red tongue. ali was terrified that the drawer would chew him! but drawers lack teeth but he still did not want to get eaten. the tong wrapd around him and pulled him into the drawer. "oh no" moaned ali it DID eat me like a tiger. then once he was in the drawer it slid in and he was trapped.
on the floor of the drawer he saw a metal staple. "oh man that could HURT if it poked me when i dressed." good thing i found it before it got tangled in clothing as i pull them on. ali lifted the staple and poked the two sharp points on the wood drawer.
OUCH hollered the dresser and spat ali out... he flew across the room onto his bed. then he jumped back in to play with the hamster... but it was on the outside of the box.
"are you a wizard?" asked ali.
"obviusly since only wizards can go thru glass."
"please go back in, i need a pet and i promise to take care of you and bring you lettuce that you like."
"but i feel trapped in the glass and cant go anywhere."
"still you can have as much lettuce as you want and i will always take care of you and pet you" said ali.
grover sighed "i do like that" so grover walked thru the glass back into the cage and ali kept his word and rubbed his hand on grovers kneck and shoulders. ali's dangerous adventures will continue!
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