Henry
by:Gabe Ruiz
      It was in the early morning.  It was foggy and the leaves all had dew.  The birds were chirping.  The lizards were coming out of their boroughs to get the first feel of the sun on their backs.  The air was fresh, and smelling clean.  You can hear the water splashing down the waterfall into a deep cold water hole.  All the animals were waking up.  Henry the woodpecker lives there in that forest up in a tall oak tree that is 100 years old.  Henry had never seen a human before.  That day a family came.  He was curious and excited till the kids came running and jumping joyfully from behind the car. There was a pile of camping gear piled as high as a mountain.  Two kids had two be guns and screamed like little Indians and ran to a lizard and shot it over and over until it died.
     At first Henry thought it would be to have a family visiting but now he is wishing they never came into his life.  Henry immediately flew away and the boys tried shooting him but the boys were unsuccessful.  They shot every thing that moved.  They even shot the 100-year-old oak tree! Everyone hid and stayed in his or her homes because they knew that if they showed their face it would get blown apart. Henry thought how nice it would be if they would just leave, but that mountain of camp gear proved they were staying longer than Henry wanted. First they pitched their tent right over a tarantulas borough, he didn't like that. The tarantulas tried to get away but the humans smashed their little heads like grapes. They hammered stakes into the tree and chopped some of its branches off. They stirred up the dust, rearranged the rocks and they made a campfire and singed the leaves and branches of the 100-year-old oak tree. Henry was afraid for his life. Afraid he would be next. He had seen fire before and knew what it could do.  He had to do something before he lost all of his friends.
     That night the campers stayed up late, they were loud and obnoxious.  They ate junk food and left their trash everywhere like pigs. They ran around the camp acting crazy, and did stupid stuff like telling scary stories and flashing lights in our faces. We were all afraid of what might happen next.
     Henry got an idea, to get rid of them.  He thought if him and his friends made the campers miserable they would leave.  So Henry got all his friends together and they made a plan to get rid of the campers. Everyone had a job to do. Their jobs were risky but they decided to go along with it tomorrow.  They thought it would be best to attack when they weren't there to stop their plan. The plan was to take their food, ruin their tent and make their camping trip miserable. To make them think twice if they want to camp there again.
     The next day the animals were set in their places waiting for the campers to leave to the water hole.  When the campers left Henry and his friends moved in.  The squirrels gathered all the food they could steal and hid it in the bushes.  The birds destroyed their tent by pecking and clawing holes in it.  The skunks sprayed all over their car and sleeping bags.
The bears tipped over their cooler and ate everything in sight.  Every ant and spider came out of hiding and covered the ground, and they left a path leading to the car.  All the flying insects flew over to the water hole to force the campers back to the camp.  The wasps, and bees were pestering the campers and stinging them right and left.  The deer flies were biting. The campers tried to get away in the water but even the fish, frogs and tadpoles were bugging them, sucking on their fingers and toes, swimming in their shorts and poking them with their spines. The campers knew it was a sign to leave. So they ran back to the camp sight and found it demolished. There were ants and spiders crawling everywhere!  The campers didn't like that so they got in their car and drove off. Never to be seen again by Henry and his friends.