Once upon a time, four animals named Jana the fox, from Germany, Alex the bird, from France, Carlos the squirrel, from Colombia and April the bear, from United States, walk in the forest.

They find a big tree trunk with a big hole. 

They go inside and the trunk starts rolling down the hill.

It hits a rock and stops. The four animals get out of the trunk, but they don’t know where they are.

Then they find an empty village, because there was a fire.

They decide to stay in the village. They repair a house to spend the night.

During the night it is windy, the windows open suddenly and they listen steps outside. They go out to find what this sound is. 

The four animal friends are outside and see a shadow behind the house .They decide to follow it. They make circles and circles round and round the house for a long time  but the shadow is very fast!!! They can’t catch it, it is very difficult .

April the bear is very hungry …..she runs after the shadow quickly and she thinks that the shadow is an animal.

But as they all run away ….. ….they find a huge wall and huge  trees in the forest and the shadow can’t climb it .

Jana the fox, Alex the the bird,Carlos the squirrel and April the bear catch the shadow and they feel so happy but the shadow is a vampire.

The vampire started to change for a normal person. His eyes were completely different color: darker than butterscotch, but with the same golden tone. The skin was more pink and the teeth were normal. Like people usually have.  Animals didn’t understand how that could be. 

He started to talk with the animals:

Half vampire and half human suddenly started to cry. Animals were surprised and didn’t know what to do. They felt sorry for him. Half vampire and half human calmed down and started to talk.

‘I am sorry about this. I couldn’t control myself. My name is Tom. I was a normal human a long time ago, but a witch cursed me. 

After that, I became like this; a disgusting creature! I wanted to kill myself but because of that evil witch I’m immortal. But if you help me to find that evil witch maybe I can be normal again. Please help me I’m so desperate’ said Tom. His eyes were still full of tears.

Animals were in shock. A while ago, they felt very frightened because they thought this monster will kill them all. But now, he seemed like a poor innocent man who was in need of their help.

‘How can we trust you? We don’t know you. Maybe you are setting a trap for us? Maybe you and that evil witch you are talking about are going to harm us.’ said Jana the fox.

‘Jana is right. We can’t trust you.’ said Alex the bird.

‘What can I do to make you trust me? I will do whatever you want!’ said Tom.

‘OK then, we are very hungry. First feed us.’ said April the bear.

Tom suddenly started to run. He was so fast; the animals couldn’t follow it with their eyes. He brought a lot of food in front of them in a few minutes. Animals were very impressed by this. They quickly ate all the food.

‘Thanks for all of this food. We were about to starve’ said Carlos the squirrel.

‘Do you trust me now? Will you help me?’ said Tom.

Animals looked at each other. ‘We will talk about this and decide it together. Give us some time, please’ said Jana the fox. 

Suddenly the tree branches started to shake.

Animals and Tom set out to find the witch. They walked through the forest for a long time until they came across an old wooden cottage. 

They decided to go and look into the cottage. They saw an old witch there by the cauldron. They told the witch to disenchant Tom because he wants to be a normal person. The witch laughed loudly. “Why should I do that?”, she  asked.

“Tom wants to be a normal person. Don’t you understand?”, said the animals.

“Well, what’s wrong with me then?”, asked the witch.

The animals suggested to the witch that they play rock, paper, scissors. If they win, the witch will disenchant Tom. But if they lose, she can bewitch them, too. 

The witch agreed because she thought she would win. The animals won three times, so the witch had to disenchant Tom. Tom was really happy and he thanked the animals.

THE END

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