Chapter 1: 14 Years Later...
Daphne Bomba raced through the trees on her hummingbird. Her father, General Nod, flew past her.
"Try to keep up, sweet pea!" he called.
"Oh, I will!"
She flew right past him. She turned to look at her father and smirked. She turned back and saw she was about to hit a branch!
"Fly away, Blu! Fly away!" she told her blue-green hummingbird.
The bird did a corkscrew upward. Daphne could barely hold on to Blu's reins.
Just when they reached the top of the tree, Daphne looked out to the forever spreading forest. Daphne squinted through her dew goggles and saw something in the distance.
It was almost as big as a tree in the forest but it wasn't a tree at all. It was oddly shaped and didn't even have leaves! It was big and brown and had lots of holes in it.
What is that? Daphne wondered.
Suddenly, Blu did a downward corkscrew and landed on the forest floor. Daphne patted Blu's back and said, "Great job, buddy!"
"He's not the only one," her father said as he landed. "You did a pretty good job too, Rose Petal." Nod called Daphne his Rose Petal because of her rose-colored hair.
"Now, let's get back to your mother. We'll drop the birds off on the way back."
"Alright."
As they walked back, Daphne couldn't stop thinking about the big brown thing so far away.