Mama Leopard, Author at Fern The Leopard

Fern’s Precious Jewels

Once upon a time, Fern was sitting on the couch sorting her jewels on the coffee table. She was sorting them by color in rainbow order.

She had one necklace made out of diamonds and emeralds. She had a tiara that had little glinting sapphires among all of the diamonds. Almost all of her jewelry had one or two diamonds; There was a bracelet that had rubies and pearls on it, and there was another necklace that was also made out of rubies. She had an anklet that was made out of amber with a matching tiara as well. She wore her bracelets on her front paws and anklets on her back paws. She also had a crown inset with emerald and aquamarine beryl gems. And an amethyst ring.

But her favorite item was a big, beautiful, magnificent choker that had all of the gems you could think of on it; it had diamonds and emeralds, sapphires and rubies and pearls, and amber, aquamarine beryl, amethysts, pink beryl, and in the middle, the most precious gem of all, was the famous Allnatt yellow diamond. She couldn’t wait to wear it when Tsunami’s family came over for dinner tonight. But for now she couldn’t decide how to sort it because it had all of the colors of the rainbow. She decided to put it in the yellow pile because the center featured a yellow diamond.

Her second favorite jewelry was a pair of earrings which had beautiful, smooth, sparkly, polished emeralds in the center. Her most special jewelry was a necklace made out of amber, emeralds and diamonds.

She would wear her jewelry to ceremonies or if there was a special guest coming over, like Tsunami’s family.

One time for Halloween she was a queen and wore the jewelry for trick-or-treating. She had loved how everyone commented and pointed at her when she walked past.

Another time she wore her jewelry for Christmas because there was a show and she was the queen in it also.

As she was thinking about these good times, Fern noticed an anklet that she hadn’t seen before. It was astounding, made of silver inlaid with amber, sapphire and pearls. Fern looked at it for a bit before she picked it up and put it on.

There was a sudden flash of white light and to her amazement, Fern found herself floating in the air. At first she was kind of scared, but then she realized that she could still control her movements. She started to experiment with her new power:

When she swished her tail back and forth she went forward, and she could use it to turn as well. When she wagged her tail down, she went up, and when she wagged it up, she went down.

Fern was so amazed and surprised! “This is awesome!” she exclaimed. She noticed that her anklet was glowing. “That’s funny,” Fern thought.

Suddenly there was another flash of light and she dropped down on the sofa. “What happened?” Fern blinked. “Why did I drop down? Did I do something wrong?” She looked down and realized that her anklet was no longer glowing. “Maybe the anklet glows only when it is giving some of its power to the person wearing it. Maybe it only glows when you actually need it. Maybe this was the first time it glowed because it needed to show me its power. Maybe it’ll glow when I actually really need it. Maybe I’m right.”

Fern looked at the anklet. “Where can I put this without losing it?” Fern thought. About ten minutes later after a lot more thinking Fern decided to keep it on. “Maybe one day, when I really need it, it will glow.”

She looked at all the jewelry laid out in a rainbow pattern on the coffee table. Then she went to the garage and got one of her sorting boxes. She had a bunch of these boxes because she loved to sort stuff. This particular box had exactly seven sections. Fern quickly finished sorting her jewelry and put each of the piles into the container.

She brought the container up to her room and put it on a shelf. At that moment, the doorbell rang. Fern heard Mama Leopard running down the steps to answer the bell. She put on her favorite choker and the amber tiara along with her favorite emerald earrings.

Fern went out of her room and into the bathroom. There she polished her claws, cleaned her teeth, brushed her fur with her furbrush, and adjusted her jewelry in the mirror. Then she went down the hallway and stood at the top of the steps.

Looking down, she could see Queen Anemone, King Shark and Princess Pearl all together talking with Mama Leopard on the couch. Tsunami was sitting on the rug, she must have come in with her family. The King and Queen looked exactly as Fern had expected; Queen Anemone had a magenta tail and King Shark was a deep green color. Pearl looked exactly like Tsunami but a little bit smaller and instead of a deep blue tail, hers was violet.

Fern went down the steps and bowed to the King and Queen.

“Hello Your Majesties.” She said as politely as she could. “Would anyone like some tea?”

“Yes please.” said Queen Anemone and everyone agreed.

After tea, Fern asked “Would you like to see our garden?” and they all went into the backyard.

“It is wonderful,” said Queen Anemone.

“Hey Fern” Pearl asked, “Do you want to play tag?”

“Of course!” Fern laughed, “that’s my favorite game!”
Suddenly Pearl jumped toward her and touched her shoulder. “Tag! You’re it.” Fern jumped up and ran off after Pearl, still laughing. After a little bit, Tsunami joined in and they enjoyed a fun game.

Too soon, Mama Leopard announced that it was time to go inside to eat dinner. They had prepared a special meal for everyone, and when they went to the dining room they immediately sat down to have the best dinner they had ever had.

Once they were seated, Pearl, who was sitting next to Fern, said “I really like your choker and Tiara.”

“Thanks” Fern said shyly, “I love your pearls also.”

“Thanks,” Pearl replied. Pearl was wearing a strand of shimmering pale teal pearls with a seashell and coral tiara. “I love Jewels” she added.

“Me too,” Fern said

“Fern,” Tsunami asked from across the table, “what are we having for dinner?”

“Taro soup, Pato no Tucupi, maniçoba, roasted cassava, with Bolinho de Macaxeira to start. And then there’s going to be a dessert, which is cacao ice cream with mango.” Fern replied.

“Wow!” exclaimed Tsunami “that’s a lot of food!”

Suddenly Mama Leopard came out of the kitchen, carrying the appetizer, which was the Bolinho de Macaxeira. She set the fried balls on the table and went back to the kitchen. She came back out with bowls of Taro soup for everyone, went back in again and got even more food. She also got a lot of veggies and fruits. Soon the table was so crowded that it looked like a dream come true. They all stopped talking as they began to eat.

After dinner, everyone had left. Fern got into bed, turned out the lights, and went to sleep smiling, sure she was going to dream about flying through the sky.

The End.

Fern’s Bad Day

Once upon a time, Fern was still a five year old kitten and she would lose her temper really quickly. One afternoon she was walking along to Marsh’s in a really annoyed mood. And as she passed by a bush, her little brother popped out shouting “boo” and made her jump.

“Haha I got you” Pine cried!

“No you didn’t,” snapped Fern, “you just startled me.” She was beginning to feel even more annoyed. “Now go and leave me alone.”

“Okay,” Pine scampered off between the trees.

So Fern continued walking but this time she was really annoyed.
“Hi Fern!” Marsh called when she got there. “Did you know that I just learned that leopards are related to a type of cat that stays in the house all day and almost never leaves?”

“I did know that” snapped Fern to her cayman friend. At the same time, Fern was thinking “We are?! I didn’t know that.”

“I’m going back home” Fern told Marsh.

“But why?” Marsh asked, “You barely got here!”

“Because” Fern snapped, “I sometimes need a little bit of privacy.”

“Oh” said Marsh. He slid back into his swamp. “I hope you have a good day” he called after her.

Fern stomped away into the trees and snorted. “He’s lucky he doesn’t have a little brother” she thought to herself.

That morning her little brother had woken her up by singing the good morning song in her ear and practically jumping on top of her. Pine had laughed but Fern thought that it wasn’t funny at all.

Next, at breakfast, Dada Leopard had asked Fern to empty the entire dishwasher. Fern hated emptying the dishwasher, it was her least favorite job. So she had stomped all the way to her room and stayed there until breakfast was over.

When she came back after breakfast, Mama Leopard had asked Fern if she could play with her brother. Fern has said no because she didn’t want to be with her annoying little brother again. But Mama Leopard was busy so Fern eventually had to play with her little brother.

After that Fern’s dad had reminded Fern about the dishwasher. He said that he would take away one of her toys if she didn’t do it. So Fern had to do that also. And thankfully, right after that, she had a little bit of free time so she took it up with reading.

She read her feelings book. It was a big book with a lot of small writing. And it had everything you need to know about feelings. It had a couple of pages with pictures, too. Fern’s favorite page was one with a leopard saying “How are you feeling today?” and a list with different feelings and pictures with their different expressions. Not too long ago she had copied the page onto a poster and hung it up on her wall opposite of the bed. Her favorite expression was the goofy one, which had a picture of the leopard sticking his tongue out in a weird and funny way. It always made her feel a little bit better.

Then, at lunch, Pine had purposefully kicked her under the table because she hadn’t set up a tower properly when she was playing with him. Fern had pretended that she didn’t notice so Pine then started kicking her even more. Then she yelped “Ow” and her Dad fined her because he thought that she was playing around at the table. Fern tried to convince him that Pine was kicking her but when Dada Leopard asked Pine, he lied that he wasn’t kicking her and stopped. So Dada Leopard fined her for lying too. And then, when Fern went to get the money to pay her dad, Mama Leopard called “Fern! Lunch is over.” “What!?” Fern growled. She had only eaten half a spoonful of cereal. And when she went to her room and slammed the door, she heard her dad calling “Fern! You owe me a dollar now.” Well that made Fern really angry. She was cold and hungry because she hadn’t eaten anything that day yet except for that one spoonful of cereal. She had to pay her dad that dollar and that’s when she decided to go to Marsh’s swamp.

But she hadn’t thought that Pine would scare her on the way. And she didn’t think she’d be annoyed by her best friend. And now that playdate hadn’t worked out. She needed some alone time. So she went to Quiet Meadow.

Quiet Meadow was a little field and there was a rule there, that whenever you went there you had to be quiet. That’s why it was called Quiet Meadow. It was a meadow in the shape of a circle and it had a stream bubbling through it, and a pond in the middle, which merged from three separate creeks that came from different directions. It formed a sort of peace sign.

When Fern entered the meadow she noticed there were a lot of people whereas usually the meadow was empty. “Today must be a bad day for everyone” Fern thought. She went over to her favorite little pond and sat down and closed her eyes trying to calm herself down.

Suddenly Fern heard yelling. She opened her eyes and looked around. There was a leopard who was yelling at a porcupine.
The porcupine looked very very very spiky, and was almost as round as a ball but also had a long tail. It was brown in the front but bright yellow on its back half.

The leopard was about Fern’s age and he looked very mean. “Uhoh” she thought, “I know that leopard.” His name was Strike, and he was Fern’s worst enemy.

Strike was yelling “I don’t like the look of your spikes. They are ugly and they make you ugly too!” He was very mean.

“They don’t look ugly,” shouted the porcupine back at the leopard, “I think they look splendid.”

“Hah” shouted Strike, “I’ll bet you’ve never looked into the mirror.”

“I have looked into the mirror,” said the porcupine, “and I think they look good. They certainly look better than your fur.”

“Hey” yelled Strike, “my fur looks much better than spikes!”

Fern stood up and walked toward them. “Hey Strike,” she said “I think the porcupine is saying that she likes the look of her spikes as much as you like the look of your own fur. You didn’t like it when she called your fur ugly and she doesn’t like it when you call her spikes ugly.”

“Hah” Strike said “my fur looks much better than her spikes.”

“Does not,” said the porcupine, “I’m with Fern. My spikes look good!”

“Ha ha” sneered Strike, “as if that’s true.”

Fern paused and looked around. Every single animal in the meadow was staring at her. Fern shifted her paws. She didn’t like getting all this attention, especially not before she had combed her fur. “Look Strike” she said, “why don’t you just go, and leave this porcupine alone? How did you two even meet?”

“In Flower’s Field” murmured the porcupine. “I wish we hadn’t met.”

At that point, Fern exploded. “Strike whey don’t you just go and leave us alone?” She repeated louder. “Why did you even get involved with this? You didn’t have to get involved with this.”

“Fine” snarled Strike, “but I don’t think it’s going to last that long.”

Pleased, Fern sat down again. He had actually listened to her! Fern stood up again and started walking back home. She could sense that Strike was glaring at her but she wasn’t worried too much. Right now Fern had to go back home and apologize. To apologize for yelling at Dada Leopard, Pine, and Mama Leopard. She was feeling in a much better mood as she skipped home.