The Japanese Toad

Collaborative Stories: Sienna, Laila M., Keyaira, Hillary, & Rihito

The Japanese Toad

There once were some teenagers who moved to Tokyo with their parents. They were staying in a hotel until they could move into their new house, and they found a toad in their hotel room for no reason. They decided to carry the toad outside. One of them, Angel, went to pick up the toad, and as soon as she touched it, it turned into a man. “Ahhhh!” screamed the kids. “Thank you,” the man said. “I came inside because I thought I saw a blue slug in the laundry, and I had a sudden craving for blue slugs, so I jumped in and got carried into the hotel.” “How did you get turned into a toad?!?!?!? And how did you turn back into a man?!?!?!?!? And what are you?!?!?!?!?” asked the kids with wide frightened eyes and a surprised look on their faces. “I’m not a man, I’m a toad spirit. By the way, do you want to visit a famous castle with cool gods?” said the toad spirit. “Sure,” said the kids. “Since you guys made me turn into a human, you have to help me get a magic crystal. We have twenty-four hours to find the crystal, or you’ll all turn into toads as well.” “Can we have some proof?” the kids asked. The toad spirit made a swarm of flies suddenly appear. “How do we know that you made the flies appear? They could have just flown in!” Then the toad spirit splashed a potion on the kids that made their voices higher. “Stop this now!” one kid said. Another kid said, “Let’s bully him to get started!” “We should help him find the crystal,” the other kid said. “I have a map with the places you will go to look,” said the toad spirit. “In all the places, there is a key. When you get to the last place, there is a puzzle to connect all the keys with, and then out pops the crystal.” They had to bear-crawl through a snake tunnel and find a key. The second place was a muddy river that they had to search through. The third place was a booby-trapped house, and along the way they lost some people because they got booby-trapped or stuck. Now, they had to depend on the last kid, Angel, to get to the final place. The last place was a puzzle tower where you had to step on a certain stair or the others would fall all down. Angel was terrified, but she remembered what would happen if she didn’t do it. She was shaking and felt weak and fidgety. She remembered she had five minutes left to get to the top of the tower, or her friends would turn into toads. She got to the top of the tower with five seconds left and did the puzzle to get the crystal, but she didn’t know how to get back to the toad to give him the crystal. She panicked and panicked and then heard a sound. It was her friends and the toad spirit at the bottom of the tower! They remembered that the toad had spells, and he cast a spell to get her down. The man used a magical crystal to take them to a castle filled with gods and goddesses. But the gods and goddesses didn’t like tourists and wanted them to leave their castles. They hated tourists, loved tourist-free places, were very self-absorbed, and thought they were the best. They looked like whatever they wanted to look like. Most of them didn’t do anything except bless the people they liked, and they could cause a lot of trouble for the people that didn’t respect them. They wanted everything, to have the world at their knees and for people to make sacrifices to them again. They also wanted the tourists to get out of their castles so they could be left alone. When they saw the gods and goddesses for the first time, the kids saw a radish spirit that looked like a giant radish with arms and legs, and a giant chicken spirit that looked like a giant chicken. The kids looked on GPS and found a tall, abandoned skyscraper that wasn’t being used. It had modern-day