The pee moth part 2

Kesho galloped to his buddies. His circle of best friends consisted of a funny, light brown-eyed male a year older than Kesho named Inyange; an amber-eyed, sensitive female, Keyta's little sister, Mahane, who was neither fat nor thin; and Shabani, a creative, greenish brown-eyed male a few months younger than Kesho. Amal's son depicted Mothra to them in a detailed way then, told them the fabricated story of her. He ended up arousing the same feelings in them which his half-uncle did when he shared the tale with him. The children decided to spatiate further from the troop to be absent from the presence of adults and to check the clearing where the Old stated he'd seen the moth-like creature. When they reached the line consisting of the trees splitting the meadow from the forest they stopped there and each climbed up a tree to get a bird's eye view of the grassland.

"I don't see any pee moth here," concluded Inyange after studying the place.

"Me neither," said Mahane.

"Maybe it doesn't even exist," presumed Shabani doubtfully. "Maybe the Old made it up and your uncle Kong added to it to get you to listen to your mother."

"You think so," asked Kesho. "I'm unsure of that."

After about half an hour of waiting and occasionally scanning the clearing the gorilla kids descended. The last to climb down, Mahane, got startled and screamed while returning to the ground.

"I saw it," she exclaimed, her eyes were widened. "It was carrying a dead whale."

"Seriously," asked Shabani.

"Yes! It just landed somewhere over there," she claimed pointing in the direction where it may have touched the ground. "I want to go home," she added.

"I want to see the pee moth," said Kesho with determination. "I just want to be sure whether it exists or not. I have doubts."

"Me two," chimed in Inyange.

"Me three," said Shabani.

"Then, let's go find it," exclaimed Kesho.

"But I saw it, it really exists. Believe me. I want to go home," protested Mahane indignantly.

"We want to see the moth," replied Shabani. "We're going."

The three hastily but quietly began creeping toward their destination. The female finally decided to join them. They thought they had reached the desired place but couldn't see any giant winged critter anywhere.

"Mahane, are you sure you gave us the right direction," questioned Inyange.

"Yes," she replied seriously.

"Maybe it's in the grass and it could be lying down," assumed Shabani. "I think we should try searching in the grass," he suggested.

"Good idea. I wish we were taller. This grass is higher than us even if we stand on our back legs," replied Kesho.

The four kids started crawling through the dense, yellowish green grass in a single file line.

"Everyone stop," whispered Inyange the leader. "Come next to me silently, you should see this!"

The three obeyed, but Kesho failed to completely follow the orders because he didn't succeed in holding in his gas, therefore an audible fart split the air. Mothra, who was lying down, her wings spread apart, rose hearing the sound and stared down at the gorillas with huge, Crayola cerulean, lidless, still eyes. Her large, brown caterpillar having a bluish tint and the same eye-color as her mother, who was right next to her, who had been munching on the whale, stopped and erected its first half of her body and ogled at them with her mother. All four children's eyes bugged out due to fear and they screamed in terror simultaneously. Then, they began confessing, pleading and begging whilst crying.

"Please great pee moth, have mercy on us! I don't always listen to my mother because I don't feel like it! I just don't want to," wailed Kesho. "I don't always want to stay close to the troop!"

"Pee moth, I just don't want to stop climbing so high on trees! I get in trouble if I do it but I do it anyway," shouted Shabani while in tears.

"I have tried ruining my big brother's dates by stalking him and his girlfriend then, jumping out of my hiding place and unleashing a roar to scare them! My mom couldn't stop me, she forbid me to do it, but I rebelled! I just don't like my brother's girlfriend," confessed Mahane before a crying spell overtook her.

"My mom keeps telling me to stop peeing out of the nest but it's more fun to pee from above than on the ground, oh pee moth," yelled Inyange while crying.

After the youngsters finished they continued their noisy grieving as they looked to the ground.

"Pee moth, is that what you call me? Why," asked Mothra strictly. "Is it because an idiot of your kind peed on me?"

"No," replied Kesho still weeping. "It's because you appear in badly-behaved kids' dreams, get close to them in their dreams and screech scaring them so much that they wake up noticing they peed under themselves in the nest," explained the boy.

"I don't do that. Until I met that old, grey male of your kind, I didn't even know that your kind exists! From where did you hear this," she wondered.

"My uncle King Kong told me," replied Amal's son.

Little did the young gorillas know that their disappearance had been already noticed and a search party consisting of Kong, Terk, Amal and the other 3 kids' mothers had already caught up with them and had been listening to their conversation with the giant moth from the start whilst hiding behind some bushes in the forest. When the silverback heard his name, he and the other adults crawled out from behind the bushes and cautiously neared the ones in conversation.

"Excuse me miss, I am his half-uncle, which he refers to me as uncle, my wife, Terkina, and I made up the pee moth story to get our half-nephew, Kesho, to listen to his mother, Amal, who is my half-sister. So Kesho has been giving his mother a hard time lately, she tried several ways to discipline him, they didn't work in the long run, we thought we'd give a scary story a try, but we see that this backfired. Moreover the Old, the oldest silverback in our band, claims that he saw you and interacted with you, but we assumed that he made it up because we find him a source of information to whom we cannot give full credibility. So up until now we didn't even believe that you are real. We are sorry for what we caused. Terk and I just wanted to help Amal solve a parenting problem," explained King Kong.

"My name is Mothra. I understand. I have a caterpillar as you can see, she's my daughter. By the way I came here to lay my egg and raise her. This place seemed calm but I was mistaken. Only after I laid the egg did I realize that there are carnivorous dinosaurs here. When I left it unattended and was on my way to find food I caught 3 tyrannosaurus-rexes approaching it. I had to turn back immediately and fight them off. I killed them for food so that I wouldn't have to leave my egg at all. Days later it hatched. Luckily for us, actually for my daughter, there was left over dinosaur meat, which she devoured in 2 days then, she shed and increased in size. She was hungry again, she is always hungry, it's incredible how much food she consumes a day and how fast she grows. I have had parenting problems too and one still lingers, it is disobedience, the same problem the parents of your offspring have. Currently I have been trying to explain to her in an understandable way, when she questions me or doesn't listen to me, what happens if she would do what I say and what happens if she doesn't. If she has further questions I answer them. Well, if this doesn't work, I don't think it's my fault since I did the best I can to persuade her into making a good choice, but sometimes, children just have to learn things the hard way by making mistakes, we can't always control their every move. Yesterday we saw an abandoned baby brontosaurus on the other side of this clearing. She wanted to go see it. I told her that its mother may be nearby and may be watching her child. If she goes close to it, its mother may count her as a threat and will attack her as a result to protect it. I would protect my kid if some creature, who I think would pose as a threat, would draw close to her, I also added. She disregarded my warnings and crawled off to where the dinosaur was. It was startled by her and began crying to its mother who suddenly burst out of the woods, swiveled around and slapped my daughter on the face with her tail. My daughter quickly returned to me crying, I comforted her and we discussed what had happened and why it happened. She's learned her lesson about baby animals," expounded Mothra.

"We haven't tried explaining to our kids what would occur if they obey and what the outcome would be of disobedience. Among us 3 are beginners in parenting, we have had 1 child so far," explained Amal. "Shinda, have you had any trouble with Keyta's obedience when he was a kid?"

"Not really. I didn't have to do explaining to him about the outcomes of obedience or disobedience because punishing him always worked on him. I guess Mahane is different in this case and regarding parenting it doesn't seem one method goes for every child," she responded. "I count myself a beginner too, I have an adult son besides my daughter and I just found out that my daughter needs to be reared differently," she added.

The mothers called their spiritually and emotionally worn out children to them. They thanked Mothra for the advice. The gorillas retreated to their nests.