Grandpa and the Alien
"tell us a story Grandpa, please!" Said the twins, Rudi and Runi.
"well, alright. How about I tell you of the time I met an alien?"
Answered Grandpa
"yah!" screamed the children joyfully. So Grandpa began.
"on a cold and stormy night. I was lounging by the fire with Suzy lying at my feet. When there was a big flash of light outside. I thought it was just lightning, but then I thought, wait that's not a lightning storm, it's just raining.
Then I heard the crash. Suzy started barking like crazy. I had to go check it out. So I grabbed my raincoat and a lantern. The crash sounded like it came from the barn, sure enough. There was a huge thing crashed right in the side of the barn. I cautiously went in, and then I heard something. I whirled toward the sound and saw it, and it saw me. We both screamed and started running in circles, then we both hid behind something. We hid there for about a minute I think. Then we slowly came out and looked at each other.
The alien looked a bit like a lizard. He was gray in color, there was a fire at the end of his tail. He had longish strange ears, big red eyes, wore a tunic like thing, and only had three long clawed fingers on each hand.
I was sure he was surveying me the same way. Then he spoke. I couldn't understand a word he said. It sounded like gibberish to me. I said "What?" Then he pushed something on his tunic. And what happened then was, he said "Hello" I was shocked, this guy can speak my language! I thought. "Hi" I said back. We sort of stared at each other for a bit. So I said, "Looks like you're in a bit of a bind."
"yah, I crashed my ship" He answered.
"Can you fix it?"
"Yes, but it might take some time, and I'm sorry about you're building."
"Oh that's alright. It needed a new wall anyway… Well, it's kind of late. Would you like to come inside and get warm?"
"Yes, I would like that very much, thank you."
So we went inside. I fixed us some hot cocoa. He didn't know what it was, but he liked it. We talked for awhile. He said his name was Kanka, and that he'd been heading to his sister's birthday. Now he was gonna miss it. We talked a lot that night. It took three days to fix his ship. I helped as much as I could, which wasn't much.
"Well, it's finally done. Thanks so much for all you've done" said Kanka
"No problem" I replied
"Well I guess this is it. I'm gonna miss you."
"I'll miss you too."
We smiled at each other. Then he pulled something out of his tunic.
It was a beautiful amulet. It had two wings intertwined with a ribbon. "This is for you, friend, I found it a long time ago on a far away planet." He said as he handed it to me.
"Really? For me? Thank you" I was amazed.
"we'll be friends forever."
"Yes, forever. Travel safely now, yah hear."
"Of course."
Then he got in his ship and waved as he flew away.
"Did that really happen, Grandpa!" asked Rudi. "Oh yes it did. About two years ago, I think" Grandpa said.
"Wow, do you still have the amulet?" asked Runi. In answer, he showed them the amulet around his neck; the very same one. "I wonder what Kanka is doing now" thought Grandpa.
