Orko & Family - Part 1

“You may come back home when you’ve learnt to be a daughter who can obey my words and be sensible!”

Those were the last words Furaha’s mother ever said to her before she left her alone in this dark, gloomy forest. Furaha just sat there and cried. She had never felt so lonely in all her life. The next miserable grey day, Furaha made her way along the forest, but didn’t have much luck along the way - she got caught in a sticky spider’s web, grazed her knee on a spiky stone and fell in the mud and was covered in the stuff. It was horrible. Her mother was a horrible lioness woman, wasn’t she?

After a few hours of giving up hope, Furaha finally collapsed in the fog, unable to walk any further. Her paws felt hard and ached, and she was covered from head to toe in mud. Suddenly, a light appeared, and the fog parted to reveal a cosy log cabin. From inside came the squeals of two children. Delighted, Furaha ran to the door and banged on it. “Hold on, hold on, I’ll get it.” said a voice from inside. The door opened and a wizard with a shadowed face peered out. His name was Orko. “Well hello there, stranger! I’m Orko. You don’t look too good.” “Tell me about it,” sighed Furaha, “My mother won’t allow me to come home until I apologise for god knows what I’ve done.” “Aaaaawww, poor thing. I know! You can come and live with me and my family if you want.” “Forever?” asked Furaha excitedly. “Forever.” said Orko. “Now come on in, my wife and kids would love to meet you.”

The Great Holiday: Parts 3-4: March 1-2

As they went to bed that night, they snuggled under the soft covers and thought in their minds as they slept what they would plan to do on the 2nd of March.

When they woke up the next morning, the first thing that sprang to Furaha’s mind was: blanket fort. “Hey, you guys,” she said as they woke up past 8AM when they were supposed to be going to work but weren’t, “How about we build the most super epic blanket fort you promised to build?” “I’m sure that sounds like a good idea,” said Optimus.

So they got to work on building their fort. Optimus found as many pillows and blankets as he could, and found tent poles to hold up the blankets, while Furaha and Orko made it as soft and as cosy as possible. They added their favourite soft toys, books and snacks, and even added some fairy lights. Once the blanket fort was completed, Optimus shut the curtains and dimmed the lights. When he turned on the fairy lights, Furaha and Orko’s eyes sparkled. It was the best fort they had ever built - and it was big enough to fit all three of them!

“You know, Furaha, it’s been ages since we built a blanket fort together.” said Optimus, lying back on some pillows. “It seems like the years of work have torn away your perspective on being able to have fun,” said Furaha, “But I think by doing all these things, you are able to experience the joys of being a kid again. Speaking of, let’s bake a cake to celebrate your time off!” “Oh yes please!” said Orko and Optimus Prime in unison. “And make it as awesome as ever!” added Furaha.

The trio got to work on making their special cake. They got out the recipe book and put everything into the mixture accordingly - butter, eggs, flour, sugar, milk and vanilla essence. As they stirred the mixture, the cake batter became as moist as sand after the sea had splashed over it. When it was Furaha’s turn to stir, she stirred so fast she got cake glop all over her, Orko and Optimus. How they laughed! Optimus found a heart shaped cake pan and poured the mixture in, they they put it in the oven, and for the amount of minutes it took to bake (how many minutes, I can’t remember), Furaha and her two roommates just sat, relaxed and waited.

When they heard a ding on the yellow chicken shaped timer, Optimus took the cake out of the oven. Mmmmmm - it smelled delicious. Using icing sugar, warm water and pink food colouring, they made pink icing for the cake and smoothed it all on perfectly, so it looked like they were made to love each other. Furaha got out some red icing and wrote, “Happy 7 Month Holiday!” on it. In smaller writing, she added, “+ I love you both dearly and forever”.

Furaha and Orko shared the cake between them once it was cooled. Optimus said, “No cake for me, thanks, I’m on an Energon diet.” “As always,” sarked Furaha and Orko in unison. “I think this is getting to be the best time off ever!” cried Orko, tucking into his third slice of cake. “Well, that cake is as awesome as the times, Orko, you just got to roll with them.” “Okay,” said Orko, and with that he started rolling on the carpet. How Furaha and Optimus laughed loudly with him!

Don't Cry, Orko - Part 1

One fine Summer’s day, Orko was sitting by a tree, crying. Furaha, being the only one who could trust him, saw him sitting there alone and miserable. She galloped up to him and asked, “Why so sad?” Orko took a hankie out of his sleeve and blew his shadowed nose into it. “I’m not sad because of all the mistreatment back on Eternia. It is because I miss my Uncle Montork.” “Uncle Montork?” thought Furaha. “Yes,” sniffed Orko, “He was the wisest, kindest person I ever met in my life. He taught me that magic is everywhere, not just in the tips of my fingers. But when that cosmic storm came and brought me to Eternia…oh dear oh dear, all memories of the good times I spent with him flew out of my mind, and that lesson was erased from my memory forever.”

Furaha put her small paws on Orko’s shoulders and said, “Don’t worry, Orko. Don’t cry. I’m one of the people on Earth you can trust. I can re-teach what your uncle taught you.” “He’s probably dead by now,” whimpered Orko. “He’s not dead,” said Furaha softly, “He’s in my heart. I hold his spirit within me. Come on, and I’ll show you.”

First, Furaha took Orko to the lake, where it was raining heavily. “Is this Uncle Montork’s real magic?” asked Orko. “No. Wait until the rain stops.” While they waited, they rested under the shade of the tree and talked about what they’ve been up to recently. After a while, when the rain did finally stop, Orko saw what he couldn’t believe: a huge, bright, colourful rainbow, glistening in the afternoon sunlight. “Wow…” gasped Orko. “Uncle Montork showed you that a rainbow is one of the signs of real magic around us.”

Simba's Day Out

One day, Simba was driving in his orange old-fashioned car with his daughter Kiara and his friends Timon and Pumbaa to Invergordon to get some treats for them. Kiara had recently earned her merit for completing her first footie test at school, and Timon and Pumbaa were told by Nala that they needed a change from bugs, because bugs were all they ever eat.

First, Simba and the crew stopped off at the sweet shop. They went into the shop and were amazed at all the sweets, toys, slushies and ice creams that were for sale. Because she was a pro at football due to her footie test, Kiara chose a quarter of chocolate footballs. Simba chose a quarter of flying saucers, and Timon and Pumbaa chose some Irn Bru and Vanilla ice cream, which made a change since there were gummy worms in one jar. Kiara desperately wanted the Paw Patrol lollies and dummy sweets, but Simba told her she was too old for dummies, and that they’ll buy Paw Patrol lollies when they next come.

Next, they went to the newsagent’s across the road. This time, Simba left it to Timon and Pumbaa to choose what they wanted. Whilst Simba got a magazine for Kiara and a newspaper and some Golden Oreos for him, Timon and Pumbaa decided on the pink wafer biscuits. Although, one problem: Timon found the red plastic lips rather creepy, so Kiara offered him a pair of glasses so he couldn’t see them. He kept bumping into things, so the glasses had to be removed.

So Simba got his newspaper, sweets and biscuits, Kiara got her chocolate footballs and magazine and Timon and Pumbaa got their ice cream and biscuits, and they drove all the way home.