Hello hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back into my head! Today we are here to talk about our Frankenstuffies. If you don’t know what this is then allow me to tell you. A frankenstuffie is a stuffie that we cut up and sewed together to represent an “evolution” that occurred to help it with its environmental change. The reasoning for these changes and why they occurred where to be written in an epistolary story and my story is below.

Solomon’s Tails
by Solomon the Salamander

Day 1
Hi I am Solomon and I am a salamander. I don’t really know what type of salamander I am I just know that I’m black. I live in a crevice in a rocky cliff and it’s very moist and has a lot of lichen nearby. Luckily, I am also very close to a creek for water and maybe some playful swimming. Because of this, live near a lot of amphibians and other river animals. Sadly, no one likes me because I am different. I have a “curse” apparently that makes it so that I can steal, I guess borrow is a better word, their abilities. They don’t let me get that close to them, nor do they even talk to me. Well anyways I getting kind of hungry so I’m going to head to the river to eat.

Sweet! I caught a fish today and oh my god! I love fish they are so delicious, but they are hard to catch because my tongue can’t go as far or fast underwater. Other than this, I saw some other amphibians today! Yeah as you probably guessed, they ran away. However, it’s the first time in a long time that that happened. Anyways, I’m going to go to bed now, talk to you tomorrow my imaginary friends.

Day 2
Hello again! Today I went hunting again, but I only got some spiders. I also found an ant hole a few boulders, my way of measuring, up the bank of the river! Sadly, there are some snake dens around there which I don’t really want to hang around. But hey, I found a reliable food source so I can have a meal everyday. I might go eat from there if I can’t find anything today.

Well shit. There are some birds that are trying to eat me and are just outside of this hole I found. Also, I think this might be a snake hole. Lets just hope it isn’t and that I am in some burrowing animal’s hole. Even better if it’s an amphibians hole! Well, I’ll just wait this one out and I really hope that it doesn’t take too long because it’s starting to get kind of chilly. I know right! It’s mid summer and it’s already getting chilly! There has to be something wrong with that!

Yay! I don’t hear the birds anymore! However, it’s now night time and I don’t want to leave this hole I’m in at night. So, I’ll just wait until tomorrow.

Day 3
Good morning my dudes! It’s time to go home and I’m starving because the birds got in the way of my hunting. So, I decided to go check out the ant hole and have a little meal before I go home. Let’s hope they’re the tasty ants instead of those nasty red ones. I couldn’t get close enough to check last time.
The water in trees. The water in rivers. The water in the oceans. All water evaporates and then condenses into clouds. This water builds up until the cloud can no longer hold it and then it begins to fall. This cloud has begun precipitation. However, it is colder in this region and it lets out solidified blocks of ice, in other words hail.

Holy SHIT! Help me! It’s hailing literal rocks, like rocks, rocks not pebbles or any of that shit, big, gigantic rocks! Like this could actually kill me. I was just walking back to my crevice peacefully and then this had to happen! Like what the hell is mother nature thinking! It’s still summer for god sakes, it’s supposed to be raining! Oh yes! There it is, my crevice I’m almost there!

The speed picks up as it goes faster and faster until finally it hits the ground and shatters. Millions and million just falling down and accelerating until finally they hit something. This particular one has chosen a target and is accumulating momentum as it approaches, It hits.

Three, two, one. Just like that. Yep I died or at least I think I did. I got hit. Thanks mother nature you bitch! Throwing shit at me like this. Fuck you! Well…… I’m dead now so it doesn’t matter now….

Day 4
WHAT THE FUCK! I’m alive, how the fuck does that work! I got hit by a giant block of ice and was unconscious for at least 12 hours! Like you’d think a bird or snake would’ve eaten me by now. Or maybe they thought I was dead or something and was like “EWWW!”. Ha laugh out loud! Could you imagine that! Get recked Mother Nature I took your worst and survived! Or at least I hope that was your worst. Anyways, it’s not supposed to be hailing at this time so I’m going investigate.

Guess what I found! A gigantic snake that kind of looks like a human. Now I couldn’t get too close because it was so cold around it, but I feel like my curse saved me a little. Anyways since it’s a reptilian that obviously mean it’s an ectotherm, meaning it can’t produce its own body heat. So instead it’s sucking up all the heat that’s comes from the sun and not letting it distribute the heat correctly. You may not this it’s a huge problem, but it is because amphibians are also ectotherms. If we can’t get the heat and this creature is hogging it we are probably going to die because our metabolic rate will turn down. Anyways I’m going to try and tell everyone else.

Day 5
So… I tried telling them, but they kind of just ran away and ignored me. I yelled into a couple of homes that I knew about and they told me to screw off. So mission failure. I guess I’ll have to wait for them to notice it themselves. I’ll be fine, after all I have my “curse” to “protect” me. However, I am worried about them even if I don’t owe them anything.

A few hours later
“Everyone calm down,” said the old toad. “I know we have a problem on our hand, but we need to calmly find a way to solve it” After this everyone quieted down and began to listen until one frog exclaimed, “And how are we going to do that?” Mummers spread instantly across the crowd trying to brainstorm ways to solve the problem at hand. What is the problem you ask? Well, the one our lovely friend Solomon was talking about. How the snake humanoid was stealing all the heat. Anyways the mummers were broken a few moments later when a poison dart frog suggested, “Why don’t we ask Solomon for help?”, “How does that help us? He’s just going to make us weaker,” a jumping salamander said revolted. “Well we could use his power to fight the snake,” ” What makes you think he would want to help us after all we’ve done to him?” said the old toad with pity. “I just have a feeling,” the frog retorted with a smile “A really good feeling.”
Day 6
Hey guys! Guess what happened today. A whole load of amphibians came to ask me for help against the snake humanoid, which I’m going to nickname Naga for easier use. I know right, long time coming. Anyways, their plan is to use my “power”, they now call it, to kill or scare off the Naga. Pretty cool, but I don’t know how it’s going to turn out. Now I’ve use my “power” once before and I only had the ability for a couple days and the other animal still had it during that time. I guess someone had it before me and did something bad with it, but hey not my problem anymore. So let’s get to it!

Well I feel very powerful right now. I have a higher regeneration ability by stacking it on top of my own with other salamanders. I have poison from the frogs and I some how was able to get a shell from a turtle that agreed to help. I’m like a walking tank with legs and a tongue for a cannon. Now let’s get me some Naga booty.

The fight is intense. I am at a severe disadvantage because my tongue was entirely useless against its scales. If I didn’t have this shell I’d be long gone down the Naga’s throat. However, I still have one way to win and that is my bite. I got a little extra force from the turtle, but sadly didn’t get its jaw. I mean I’m glad I have the shell, but if I got a snapping turtle’s. Jaw this fight would be over in no time. Now I just have to wait for the right moment to strike. The moment he paused I lunged. My tiny teeth sunk into the scales like needles into flesh and I drew blood quickly. I did not however, inflict a deadly wound and this caused my defeat. The Naga quickly bit me back and pumped me full of toxins. After this everything went blurry and I barely saw the Naga glide away on his tail as if he were floating in the air. My vision was slowly darkening ad I just hoped the poison dart frogs abilities would help me survive this plunge into the abyss.

Day 7
I am now in recovery which is very hard because my metabolic rate is decreasing. The fight only made the temperature worse because the Naga needs the sunlight to heal and is now taking more of it. Again I’ll be fine because of my useless “power” that only makes you feel the power not use it. Fuck! I’m so god damn useless I only made things worse they’re going to hate me. I really wanted to help them and I just failed. Now they’re never going ask me for help.

“Solomon? Are your okay?” A frog called. “Go away,” said a withered voice in the darkness. “Solomon it’s okay. You tried your best we all know that. We watched you fight with vigorous spirit,” he said. “I did well? You’re not mad or disappointed?,” the same withered voice responded. “No, we are not disappointed. Solomon it’s okay to not succeed,” Upon hearing these words I sprung back to life trying to come up with ways to help them. The only way that came to mind was to pass on the curse to all of them, but how? How could I transfer my curse to all of them? The same way the give me their powers! Ingestion! I can cut of my tail and give a small amount to each amphibians. Sure it would be cannibalism, but if it’s to survive I don’t think they will care. Their moisture is disappearing in the cold and it’s killing them slowly. Would they rather die or commit a sin? Anyways, I’ll bring it up to them tomorrow.

Day 8
“Hello everyone,” I said bravely with a grin, “I came up with an idea that could save all of you,” I paused and looked into all of they’re attentive eyes and said happily,”As you all know I am safe because of this so called curse I have” they all nodded in their own amphibian way,”So all I have to do is pass it onto all of you!” They all broke out into gasps as I explained how I would do it. They were all sceptical at first and didn’t want to do it, but shortly realized it would be their only way to survive. So we got a Snapping Turtle to bite off my tail and then we cut it up into pieces with a sharp rock, 2 hours later and ta da! Everyone had eaten a piece and my regeneration had kicked into effect to regrow my tail. With this we had to hope my idea worked and everyone had gotten the curse. And guess what, it did! So now we’re all safe and we can attack the Naga again with multiple people instead of one. The End.

Do you like it? Great! Anyways, after this we had to make an iMovie or a video and post it on YouTube. The video could be the entire story or just a small part of it. I chose to make the very start of mine and here’s how it ended up! Thank you for reading!