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THE GRUMPY KID

The Howling Forest was a horrifying place that nobody even dared to enter. The folks of the nearby
village always heard some howls coming from the forest and it was not their first option to go to the forest to
have fun. And the legend about the forest was an enough reason to keep their children away from the forest.
There was a family living in the nearby village. The family had seven children. And when they had their
eighth son, everybody was so surprised because the baby was not normal and had a grumpy face like old
people. One day, one of their elder neighbors came to visit them and see the new born baby. She saw the baby
had a grumpy face as her old husband who passed away. He was grumpy but a brave man. So the parents
name the baby as Bravery. He grew up but his face never changed, always grumpy. He was never afraid of
zombies, spiders, the howling forest but was afraid of unreal stuff such as he thought that his shirt button
would be stuck in his throat and unable him to eat and he would slownly start melting because of starvation.
As his siblings started going to high school, he was the only child who studied in primary school. He had
to deal with it alone and also his schoolmate, Gorkem, who always bullied him.
One day, Bravery sees his brother Zech going towards the forest at night. He was a sleepwalker. He
follows him until the howling forest and meets invisible people. And their sister, Nehir, followed them too.
They finally made it back home and started thinking of the forest all the time after that day. They started
going to the howling forest very often and befriend the invisible people.
The invisible folks told them the forest was once so happy and green, filled with birds singing but since
people did cut so many trees, an old woman cursed on people and it became true. When they became
invisible, the old woman gave them a seed. She said them if they succeed to protect this seed well, protect
the forest and befriend a normal, visible person, they would become visible again. That’s why the invisible
folks started howling around to stop people entering into the forest. They planted the seed and protected the
blue flower. They sometimes brought children from the village, waited until the morning in a hope to become
visible.
Gorkem hears the entire story and tells his dad to destroy the forest and turn it into a better place. His
father was a man with a big power. Bravery, Zech and Nehir are told this story and they return to the forest
to warn the invisible people.

Bravery sees the old woman in his dream and she told him that there is a water source right under where
the blue flower is planted. Bravery runs to the forest and realizes that the invisible people successfully
completed the mission and being visible again. Nehir takes the blue flower out of the soil and puts it in a
vase. Suddenly, the water starts floating and the forest becomes so beautiful again. Since the invisible people
didn’t become totally visible, Zech thinks of taking the mayor to the howling forest and make him talk to
invisible people. They tell the mayor everything and he believes.