I open my eyes, looking around to see if anyone survived the storm. I move my arms, then my legs, then my salted mouth. I coughed and coughed. I see all my strangers from the zoo. Some are stuck in cages, others have splintered from crated boxes. I can see the sun burning my eyes and feel the sand running my feet. It feels like home, but this does not feel like Australia. I am happy. Feels like home, I said. I continue to look around and found a blue alien child. He has two medium silly antennae, dark blue spots, and precious yellow and blue eyes. He spots me like a cheetah, but I am a quokka. I asked him loudly, “Hello! All my friends are hurt! Can you give us any medicines or herbs? Please?” 

The alien boy walked in front of me and pulled his long, slender, sword-like fin hands. Shiny and pointy, he is about to slice me up into pieces! I jumped and ran around in circles. Fast like lighting, but the boy stabs my tail and sees my blood gushing! I screamed and alerted some of the sleeping animals. One animal, who is a tiger, is famished so much he sees the blue meat. The tiger jumped at the boy fearless until the alien turns around and slice it in half. The tiger roars and awakens the rest of the animals. As for me, my small brown body could not take this monster as my tail continues to bleed like a waterfall. I’m beginning to go dizzy and cried, “I am dying!” 

The alien boy ran to me as I run-up to the mysterious island that approached me. For such, the boy that killed the three-day-hungry tiger triggers me. All he wants is food and a family. I remember the time I was alone, looking for friends but smelling the stench of the animals shit and does not clean up for three days. I hate it and want to throw up. Meanwhile, tourists were wanting me to be the spectacular prize as I smile at the camera for all the humans. But I smile for their happiness and all the animals there. My life turned around after the evil people took me to this small cage that could not make me move. From being with a big family to my own as an adult I was about to die in this zoo until the petition created by activists send us to a new zoo. While in the ship, a huge sea demolished it into pieces and take the animals to a deserted island while the people drowned and died. As for the tiger, he is also alone, hungry, and seeing nothing but death. He is not the only one. 

WHOOSHED!!!

A German Shepard bites the boy’s right wrist and growls at it. Scratching the boy’s ribs and sniffing, there is some sort of chemical that triggers his head. Burning from the acid blood, the boy counters back by chomping the dog’s nose. The dog was dropped and he whines over his nose. The boy grinned until an elephant with splinters ran over the alien, squishing him hard until the body exploded. The elephant panted and sees his right leg burning. He falls and touches the boy’s corpse. The blood enters the elephant’s skin, and it cries. While hiding in the small bushes, I got out and was shocked to see that the elephant from the boat was about to die. I ran to him and when I was about to touch the blood, he alerted, “Don’t get any closer!” 

I paused and asked with worry, “You cannot! You are dying and have hope in your future!”

“I am sorry, but I have no future,” the elephant panted, and his heart stopped. 

Seeing him dead reminds me of a bunch of caged zebra finches.