Beautiful Butterfly

In a time long, long ago, in a land now forgotten; there was a hidden forest. In this forest was one pretty butterfly, this butterfly was the only butterfly in the forest. It was twice as big as most other butterflies. It was a pretty bright yellow, with black spots on its wings. When it would fly around the forest, all the animals would stop whatever they were doing and take notice; that was just how beautiful this butterfly was. When it would fly it looked so graceful. All the other animals in the forest would marvel at the butterfly, and wonder why it was so unique, yet they were so plan. Now this was a simple and peaceful forest, nothing unusual ever happened.

 All the animals were friendly, and never bothered each other. There was always plenty of food, along with plenty of water. All the animals in this forest seemed so content, and happy. All the animals wanted to be as beautiful as the butterfly, and the butterfly wanted to be like them. You see the other animals all had more than one of a kind, but there was only one beautiful butterfly. He had no one that was like him. All the other animals thought he was special, since he was the only butterfly in the forest. Beside that he was so beautiful flying through the forest. All the animals just loved their forest; they loved the pretty green grass, that grew all year round, and the sweet water brook, which flowed through the middle of the forest. It never got too cold or too hot. The animals just thought this was the best forest that could be. 

One day all the animals were around the brook, taking their midday drink. All of a sudden there was this sound, like a crackle in the forest. Then this strange looking animal entered their peaceful forest. All the animals stopped drinking, and stared at the strange animal. The animal was big, very big, hairy, and just gruesome looking. Just at that moment, the beautiful butterfly came flying along, it flew right over the head of the big ugly animal. Right then the beast reached up and grabbed the butterfly, and closed it's big gruesome paws. All the animals just gasped, their eyes got real big. The butterfly was so pretty; all the animals just admired the butterfly so much. Now this ugly hairy beast had smashed the pretty butterfly, and it was the only butterfly in the forest. They thought how they wouldn't see the pretty butterfly fly around the forest anymore, how sad the forest would be now. 

As the animals stared at the beast it turned and walked away. Seemed like the whole forest changed, the grass didn't look as green anymore, the water in the brook didn't taste as sweet as it once did. The animals just weren't happy anymore, without the pretty butterfly. The forest just wasn't the same. It seemed like the butterfly was so special to their forest, with its pretty yellow wings , covered by black spots. The butterfly would fly in such pretty circles for the animals' everyday. The animals kept wondering, why did this ugly animal come to their  pleasant forest. How could something so ugly be in their beautiful forest? Days and days went by; the animals tried to cheer themselves backup. They tried to forget about the terrible animal that had come into their forest. How he made everything so unpleasant for them, and took their pretty butterfly. Everyday they would watch the sky, and then they would remember that they would never see the pretty butterfly again. They started trying to think of ways to forget. They would dance around the brook, or sing happy gleeful songs; but nothing could make them forget. They thought how could you forget something so beautiful, something so unique. 

Then one day the animals thought, why be sad everyday, that wouldn't change anything. So what they decided to do is remember the beauty that the butterfly use to bring to the forest. They made up in their minds to go on with life, and enjoy the beauty that was left in the forest. The beautiful green grass was still beautiful, if they looked at it right. They still had the sweet brook to drink from, and they still had a wonderful forest to live in. One of the animals even remembered how the butterfly thought that they were special, because it was more than just one of them. So when they thought about all these things they were happy once again. One day all the animals were playing, when they noticed something flying around. They all looked in the air, and much to their surprise, there was the pretty big yellow butterfly, with black spots on its wings. It looked happier than ever before. 

Then they seen something really unexpected, not only did their pretty butterfly come back, but he brought a whole lot of smaller pretty butterflies with him. It was said that the ugly animal took the butterfly back to his forest, which was really a ugly forest. In this ugly forest was nothing but ugly animals, like the one that took the beautiful butterfly. There was one pretty sight though in this ugly forest. It was filled with all kinds of pretty butterflies. You see the ugly animals' forest was so bad looking, that they would go to a pretty forest, and take all the pretty butterflies. When the big beautiful butterfly told the other butterflies about his forest, they wanted to be there so bad. 

They all got together and spoke to the gruesome animals, and told them if they wouldn't look so sad all the time, that maybe their forest would be happy, and it would be beautiful. So they taught the ugly animals how to be happy. When they did this their forest started to cheer up. All the grass started to turn green, the water sweeten up. Even some birds came to the forest to sing for them. As a reward the ugly animals, which were so very happy now, let all the butterflies that wanted to leave. Since the beautiful butterfly talked so much about his pretty forest a lot of the butterflies wanted to go there. Now all the animals were happier than ever before. Now the big beautiful butterfly had plenty of butterfly company, and the forest was always happy.

  Chris Brown ©