A/N: Inspired by the 1962 comedy film of the same name. The title means "danger" in Swahili.
Prompt: (For LJ's 78tarot communit) The Hermit. Stands for caution, patience, old age and experience.
Hatari!
Children flocked to him like little black birds on a telephone wire. The flash of a curved back slouching through a corridor or the low, gravelly sound of his voice as he reprimanded Uncle Finn about the busted lamp in the bathroom, the herd of diminutive legs skittered across the bridge and clung to his brown pants like jelly to peanut butter.
It was his stories that made Uncle Stork the favourite. Heaving a great sigh of despair, the tall green one led the pack to the main area of the Condor and with a finger, instruct them to sit down, be quiet, and behave – or else.
They could never take him seriously. They ooh'd and ahh'd and beg him to add more details about the time Uncle Junko took on the monsters in the Black Gorge, or how Auntie Piper wasn't afraid of the dark as she stepped into the light with her Solaris Crystal. Lying on their rotund bellies, elbows black with dirt, the kids scrunched together into a pile on the floor, their eyes wide with imagination.
No tale was too morbid, no deed too dangerous. The oldest one puffed out her chest and declared to the whole world (which only included important people like her best friends and her mom and dad, younger annoying siblings weren't allowed) that when she grew up, she wanted to be a carrier pilot just like Uncle Stork. She was going to inherit the airship after all, and if the Cyclonians struck the war hammer once more, her one-child army would stop them.
But first, she had to defeat some evil vampire-bats in the hangar bay. Tossing the invisible cape over her shoulder, she squared her shoulders, saluted her commander, and ran for the kitchen to steal some cookies for her heroic escapade.
The littlest one clutched the shirt tails of his twin brother, and wished Elsa didn't shout so loud.
Stork sighed and brushed the oily black hair out of his yellow eyes.
"What do you want to hear next?"