Stuff in itallics are the translations.
The airship landed in the middle of the night. The sounds of bugs chirping, animals grazing nearby, and the occasional breeze that would rustle the tall grass was all knew to Zak Saturday. Usually when the Saturdays would arrive on scene, it was either chaos every where, or deathly silent.
"I was expecting much worse." Doyle said. "But I could get used to this."
Zak looked at his surroundings. He noticed a faint orange glow on the horizon.
"Why can I still see the sun in the middle of the night?" he asked.
"It's not the sun. It's a village." Doc replied. "Me and your mom where thinking of driving over there and and see if theymight know about the weird creature we saw in the end of the video."
"But what about me and Doyle?" Zak asked.
Doc was about to answer when the sound of engines cut him off. Drew drove down the ramp on an ATV that was towing another ATV behind it.
"No way! We have ATVs?" Zak exclaimed.
"Yes, we do." Doc said flatly. He unhitched the other ATV from Drew's and got on it.
"So what's going to happen to me and Doyle?" Zak asked.
"Well," Drew said as she turned off the ATV so Zak could hear her better. "It's way past your bedtime so your going to bed. Doyle is going to watch you and the airship. Aren't you,Doyle?"
"Fine." Doyle, who was ready to blast off on his jet pack, turns of the engines and crosses his arms.
"But," Zak stutters.
"No buts, Zak." Doc interrupts.
"Fine." Zak crosses his arms in defeat.
Doc and Drew turned on their engines and drove off, leaving Zak and Doyle in the dust.
"Well, you heard what your mom said. Bedtime." Doyle commands.
"Yeah, yeah. I know the drill." Zak sighs and walks up the ramp.
As Doc and Drew and the village crowds of people wearing bright colored robes and tons of jewelry surrounded them.
"Hulle het aangekom! Die redders het gekom om ons te red!" They yelled.
"Drew what are they saying?" Doc asked as he but his glove on.
"Thay have arrived. The saviors have come to save us." Drew answered.
"Kalmeer almal! Kalmeer almal! Calm down everyone! Calm down everyone!" yelled a deep voice. Everyone grew silent as a tall man wearing huge earings and a huge necklace pushed through the crowd and up towards the Saturdays. Doc and Drew turned off their engines and got off the ATVs.
"Ons het...tot akkers... speel." Doc stutters. The man looked at him weirdly.
"I don't think they know how to play acorns. I don't even know how." Drew says. "Vergewe my man. Hy bedoel om te se dat ons heir aangekom het, net om te prat. Pardon my husband, he meant to say that we came here to talk." she says.
"You speak english?" the man asks.
"Uhh, yes." Drew says dumbfoundly.
"Come then, we can speak in my house." he motions the Saturdays to follow him and the crowd of people clear a path for them.
"My name is Manu, I'm the leader of this small tribe. We are called the Aparte, meaning seperate in english. We seperated from the Maasai tribe, that is how we got our name." Manu explains as he leads the Saturday down the main road. Small herds of goats and chickens would occasionally pass by. The village was very active for the middle of the night.
"Is it always this active at night?" Doc couldn't help but ask.
"It has been for the last couple of weeks." the village leader replies. He leads them to a big hut. He opens the door for them as they walked inside.
"Please, take a seat on the rug." he says. Doc and Drew did as they were told while Manu started a small fire. He then mumbles some words to a woman that was standing in the corner. She nodds and walks out.
"Please, forgive my people. They don't know what they are saying." he says as he sits on another rug across from them.
"So why is it so active around here?" Doc brings up the question he asked before.
"A few months ago a strange man walked into our village. He threatened us that if we wouldn't let the animals go, something would happen. Of course, I said no since the animals we had were our only source of meat." Manu was interrupted by his door opening. The woman he had talked to walked in with two wooden bowls in her hands.
"Please enjoy her homemade soup."
The soup looked like a brown paste with green dots mixed in and chunks of something that couldn't be explained.
"What's in it?" Drew asked as she moved the bowl around. Doc on the other hand went all in and took a big sip out of it, but then he quickly put the bowl down and covered his mouth with his hand as if he was going to hurl.
"It's chicken broth, with different herbs and goat meat." Manu told them.
Drew set the bowl down beside her and slowly moved it away.
"Anyway, back to this man you were talking about." she said as Doc forcefully swallowed his soup.
"A few days later, the Nandi bear attacked our village and took three children with him. The strange man came back the next morning and asked me the same question, but I still said no. Then the Nandi bear appeared again the next night. Took another two children with him. Again the strange man came back. He told me he would stop if I would give him the animals. I gave him five goats, one for each child the Nandi bear took. I guess that didn't satisfy him, for he came back the next day. I told him no again and he got angry. He asked me again but I still said no. He then took out a golden staff and turned one of my people into a lion. So I decided to make a deal with him. I would give him one goat and two chickens every other day. He agreed and left us alone. But now, we are running out of animals and my people are fearing the worst. That is way the swarmed you. They thought you were going to save us all."
"Wow, that's uh," Drew struggled to find words. A crash from outside and people's screams broke the conversation. Doc, Drew, and Manu rushed outside. Some of the huts were on fire and people were running back and forth screaming, "Dier man, dier man! Animal man! Animal man!"
A tall man wearing a cheetah pelt on his head and brown fur for his clothes stood at the entrance of the village. By his side were four lions, two males, and two females. The man's eyes glowed bright yellow, along with his golden staff.
"Why can't things stay peacful for once?" Doc asked as he put his power glove on.