After a long nap, Jasper slowly opened her eyes to darkness. She stood up and faintly heard voices in the distance. She slowly walked toward the sound of the voices. "Is anyone there?" she shouted. No one answered. She thought she might be close to Emporia. Then she remembered the Summers End Party. Every year the animals would have a big party to celebrate the last few days of summer. She remembered how her and her mother would get so exited for for the Summers End Party; this would be her first party. She was born not long before last year's party. She thought of her mother, she missed her so dearly. She missed her father, too. She missed them both so much. All the memories dwelled in her head. Like the time her and her father went to catch fish in the river. There were so many fish! And then she remembered the time her mother and her found that big rabbit in the meadow and chased it. That was fun! All those memories will stay dear to her heart forever. But, it was time to move on now.
She slowly walked closer and closer to the voices in the distance. And then she saw faint lights, glittering in the moon light. Then she heard loud whoops of joy and talking. She was running towards the sound but stopped herself when she came across a whole crowd of animals standing in front of a fire.
"Hello?", she said loudly. None of them answered. " HELLO!?", she yelled. She looked up to see a whole crowd of faces staring at her.
"Are you lost?", one animal said.
"Its a leopard and she looks like the guardians daughter!", another animal said.
"Who are you?", said a monkey.
"I am Jasper, daughter of Mel and James, leopard guardians of Emporia.", she said politely.
"Are you really? You mean the guardians who where killed by wolves?", exclaimed the monkey.
"Yes," Jasper said sadly. "I have been trying to find the village for a few days now."
"Come join us!" said the monkey. Jasper came and sat by the fire. "You must be hungry. Lucky for you, Raven over there is selling amazing fried slugs!" said the monkey.
"Okay.." Jasper said. She walked over to a small stand that said 'Fried Slugs'.
Then a koala popped up and asked, "Hello, what would you like?'
"Fried slugs!" Jasper said.
"Okay, how many would you like?" said Raven (the koala who owns the fried slug stand).
"Five". Jasper said.
"Okay, five it is." She handed Jasper some fried slugs wrapped up in a leaf.
"Thank you." Jasper said, and walked off with the slugs is her mouth. She tried them, and they were delicious!
That's all for today! Sorry for not posting for a while.