The sun is just starting to rise, and the sky is blue. The survivors of flight 815 are just starting there day.
This however is not their story. This is the story of Travis the tree frog.
These events shall be told through the eyes of a frog.
Day 1
*Yawn*
What a good night sleep. I do so enjoy sleeping. I think today I shall head down to the beach for some sun. Maybe I'll catch up with the puppy I see running around here all the time. He seems to be really excited all the time. I'm not sure if he's happy or is it just him being a dog. I'll have to ask him when I see him next.
Well I got to the beach, and it seems like it's business as usual here. The sun is shining so I'll stay nice and warm on this rock. I noticed some commotion between a couple of those humans. One of them was yelling at another. Not long after that the little guy pulled his hood over his head and walked off into the jungle.
I think that guy with no hair could be a little nicer. He seems like he is always worried about something. Oh well there's nothing I can do about that. I'm just a frog.
I was just heading back from the beach, and  I ran into Montague the monkey on my way. He's talking about taking a jaunt into the jungle for some bananas and has invited me. I told him I couldn't because I've got to start looking for a date. So he went off on search of his lunch, and now I've gotta start my search.
Whew...All this croaking sure dries out a fellas throat. I think I will stop my search for my next conquest, and hop on over to the caves for a swim and a drink.
Oh man this water feels great. I can't think of anything better after a long journey, and a day spent on the beach than a nice swim in this cool water. Oh $hit I better get out. Here comes someone. I still can't figure out why some people insist on coming here for water. I know that they got into that place in the ground, and Montague tells me that he's heard rumor that there is food and everything in there. He really seems to be interested in those people. He said if they keep taking his "Nanners" he's going to start an army and go after anyone looking to take more. That's one monkey I wouldn't mess with. He's got a really good arm I see him practicing his poo flinging at least 2-3 times a day, and he's the best I've seen. If he gets a group of his friends in on this it could be a real mess. I think I'll just stay the night here and head back to the trees tomorrow. I like the cool moisture here, and I think I might have heard a female somewhere nearby.
This is Travis signing off for the day

Day 3

I’ve been thinking about heading over to see Montigue again today. I’m not really sure if I should though. I don’t agree with him trying to gather an army. I understand that he needs to eat, but what about just going for a little walk to get something to eat. I mean he’s a monkey. It wouldn’t take long to just swing off to a different area for a bit. He could eat, check out the island, and maybe even find himself a better home. He’s always complaining of being awakened by loud noises in the middle of the night. He also says the smell of the ocean bothers his nose. I guess that’s just him though. He’s too stubborn sometimes. Well I’ll go visit him anyways, because I need to check up on Billy. Nate told me last night that he was worried that Billy got himself involved with the humans on the beach.
This has got to be the saddest day ever. I went to go see Billy and when I couldn’t find him I decided that I would ask Monty when I got to his place. When I got to Monty’s I found him at the base of his tree crying. I thought at first that he had fallen out of the tree. Well he did fall, but he wasn’t crying because of that. He was crying because…*sniffle*
because Billy was dead. I didn’t believe him at first, but then he said he’d show me. He had me jump onto his back, and then off went. When we got closer to Billy’s bed I noticed lots of footprints, and hoof prints. It was a mess. Monty told me that this was where that bald human and a couple of his friends attacked Billy. I asked Monty to take me to the beach. He didn’t want to, but I asked him again, and told him it would be faster than me going there alone. Well when we got there it was almost dark, but I could see many of the humans around a fire. Then I looked a little closer at the fire…..OMG!!!!! They had Billy’s body tied to a stick, and it was over the fire. I could see clearly that he was dead, but why? There’s more than enough fruit in the jungle for all of them. They didn’t have to do this. At this moment I turned to Monty and told him that I would join his army, and I would do whatever I could to get help for him, and the rest of us animals in the jungle.
Later that night I watched as the humans tore Billy apart, and ate him. They were laughing and joking with each other. I have now got the task in my mind that in the near future, I along with whomever I can get to join will start to make the humans regret their actions.

R.I.P.
Billy the boar
A good friend, he left us to early

DAY 5

I was up day at first light. Monty and his other monkey pals were up and wanted to get going. So after a quick stretch, and a little scratching of my unmentionables I hopped on over to Monty’s tree and off we went. The trip into the jungle was pretty dull. The only interesting thing I noticed was the little dog (Monty calls him Vincent) running back towards the beach. We finally found a nice grove that had not only a large supply of "nanners" for Monty and company, but also a rather nice view of the open plain in the middle of the island. Granted you needed to be up pretty high in the trees to see, but it was worth it. It was so beautiful, and that’s also when I noticed something else. Some of the humans were there. A few of them were swinging sticks, and I saw them strike a white rock with their sticks. After hitting the rocks they would walk to where the rock stopped, and hit it again. I guess they must like hitting the same rocks. Me personally…I would just grab another rock, and hit that one. Just another odd thing these humans do I figure. Monty called me over not long after I had decided to settle in for a nap. So rather than getting comfy, and enjoying some sunshine I headed back down to the ground. This is where things get a bit weird. When I got to the ground Monty was all freaked out. He was jumping around, and yelling really loud. After getting him to calm down I asked him what was going on. Monty then told me that his brother Dexter had just seen Patty running after a few of the humans. Patty was chasing them into the vine grove. From what Dexter told us it sounded like she was still really pi$$ed off about her man Peter getting shot and killed awhile back. Not to say that I blame her, but we didn’t think that doing the same thing as Peter was going to be very helpful to Patty. She could very easily end up getting hurt or worse. So even though it was just starting to rain, and the sun was getting a bit low in the sky we ran off in the direction that Dexter said that he had seen them going. When we got there Patty had "The Orange Man" and a darker colored human caught up in a tree, and we also noticed that she had trapped the little human that runs around with Vincent on the beach all the time. After talking between ourselves we decided to do what we could to get Patty out of there before something happened to her. So while Dexter ran interference, and was distracting the two humans in the tree. Monty and myself got in close to Patty, and tried to get her attention. Trying to get the attention of a big white bear is tough enough, but when she’s mad. You better look out. She nearly took out Monty. If not for a quick jump to the side he’d be gone. I took this chance to jump up onto her back. When I got on her back, and had steadied myself. I climbed up near her ear, and yelled to her to stop. She heard me the second time. After looking around, and realizing that some of her friends were there she calmed down just a bit, and listened to us. While still keeping an eye on the humans she waited for us to explain that this wasn’t going to make her feel better, and that she should let them go. I told her that if she hurt one of them, more of them would come into the jungle looking for her, and maybe they would hurt someone else also. While we were talking the humans used this break to lift the little one to safety. After one quick glance at them she came to her senses, and decided we were right. So off we all ran into the jungle. All of us hoping that the humans didn’t follow us, and try to get revenge. Well they didn’t come after us, and after a short while we all stopped and decided it was time to turn in for the night.

DAY 7


I awoke this morning feeling very refreshed. This surprised me after the day I had yesterday. After a nice stretch, and a quick meal (horseflies are my fav J) I decided to check into what happened last night. I looked around, and noticed that only the tree I was in got messed up. So what was that all about? After looking around the hole in the ground, and all of the area nearby I noticed one very strange thing……No tracks. Whatever it was didn’t leave any kind of trail behind to follow. Well Since there was no way to find out anything more about that I decided to go looking for Monty.
I didn’t find any sign of him until I was half way home. Then I found sign of the group. One sure-fire sign of any group of pi$$ed off monkeys. That being…POO. At some point during the groups traveling someone must have gotten mad, and proceeded to start a poo flinging fight. It was a terrible scene, and I left this area as soon as I found tracks leading away. Then to my surprise I just about fell right on top of Monty. He was lying in the bushes a little ways down the trail, and he didn’t look good. So when I couldn’t wake him (hey I’m a small frog give me a break) I hopped off as fast as I could, yelling and looking for someone to help. After a little while of random searching, and no luck finding any help. I decided to go back, and stay with him until he wakes up. When I got back I found that not only was he awake, but that he was really angry. I asked him what had happened to him, and when he told me all I could do was laugh. (sorry Monty)
He relayed his story to me, and told me how after a short poo fight everyone settled down, and decided to head to the grove for a few more nanners before going home. As they were heading away from the area of the fight Monty thought he noticed something behind him. He wasn’t sure what it was so he decided to slow down, and try to find out. He told the rest of his group to go on without him, and that he’d see them tomorrow at the grove. He then told me he was looking around for what he thought was a horse. As he started looking for signs of this imaginary horse he heard a sound from around the corner. He walked towards it, and just as he peeked his head around he corner….. He got a face full of hoof. He doesn’t remember anything after that until just before I showed up. So while he was getting his wits about him I went and looked for a trail. Sure enough I noticed 4 hoof prints heading in the direction of the beach. So once he got up, and moving around a bit we headed off towards the beach, and followed the prints. When we reached the beach we did not end up finding anything. The tracks led us out onto the beach nearly ¼ of the way around the island from our homes. One good thing about this was that we found a great tidal pool to swim in. Monty and I took our time, and relaxed in there for nearly an hour. After that I climbed on up, and we started off for home. But as you can guess that didn’t last long. This was turning out to be another one of those days. We had no sooner headed back into the jungle, and BAM!!! We get bowled over. I went flying off into the underbrush, and when I was getting to my feet I could hear someone shouting. All be damned if it wasn’t Babu. He was running as fast as I’d ever seen. Then not far behind was Betty. At first I thought that she was chasing him. But to my surprise (and Monty’s) she wasn’t. They were both running from a very large lion. I’d never seen any of them on this side of the island before, but at that moment I wasn’t about to try and chat with him. I grabbed onto Monty and up into the trees we went. After the lion ran past us Monty and I hurried after them. Not long after that we heard screams. Then it was silent again. When we came around the bend in the trail the first thing we saw was blood. There was blood all over the leaves, and the trail. But I didn’t expect to see Betty, and Bapu standing there. They were looking down at the lion. He was a bit of a mess. Come to find out that they had decided to stop and together try to fight the lion. When the lion turned the corner he was so surprised to see them standing there that when he moved to avoid running into them he ran into a tree. So here we are. Looking at a bleeding lion, and trying to figure out what to do with him. Since it looked like he was going to be out for a while we all decided to stay there with him, and confront him when he woke up. So now I’m of to bed, and hoping that the lion doesn’t eat us all while we sleep.
I guess we’ll see what happens tomorrow.

DAY 9

I can’t believe how nice today was. After the last few days of craziness I finally got some rest, good food, and of course some lovin from Fergie. She has indeed decided so move to my tree on a permanent basis. I think we are going to be very happy together now that she’s close by. I hope to spend lots of time with her. It sure was nice to get back to the beach and enjoy the sun for a while. After getting some sun I decide to just go take a closer look at the humans on the beach. I watched the same that Patty had caught in the tree and another guy I hadn’t seen before. They seemed to be building something, but I don’t really understand what. They have been cutting a lot of the trees lately, and of course that has Terry all pi$$ed off. He’s telling everyone that the humans need to be taught a lesson now because pretty soon there will be no trees left. So now the birds and the monkeys are all upset with the humans. Who’s next? Maybe the fish in the ocean will start getting upset cause the one human seems to catch a bunch of them every day. Well when it comes to the fish I think it would just be common sense. When you see him coming...leave. It can’t be that hard to find food that they need his bait, and that net has really big holes in it. I mean come on fish..use your brains. But I think I’ll step down from my soapbox now.

When I got back to my tree I was greeted by Cliff, Terry, and Nathan. Nathan told me that Cliff was interested in seeing the humans on the beach. He didn’t look mad, just curious so I told him that if he wanted to go we could head out in the morning. I told him that was better since it’d be dark soon, and then we could get closer in to their camp before they started waking up. Cliff agreed that it was better to wait. I left them to go see Fergie, but before I got too far, Nathan caught up to me and mentioned that he thought Cliff was up to something. I decided to tell him that I thought the same thing, but what were we going to do. Really Nathan..He’s a BIG F"N LION!!! If he’s up to something we aren’t going to be stopping him. Even if Patty and Bapu were around I don’t think it would matter. Nathan agreed, and asked to stay in my tree tonight. He said it was because he could keep an eye on Cliff better from there, but I know he’s just scared. I decided that one night away from Fergie wouldn’t do me any harm, and if it made Nathan feel better why not.

I spent the rest of the evening checking in with a few of the locals to let them know about Cliff being around, and that as of now he wasn’t there to eat anyone. Monty was just about ready to gather the troops and go after him when I first told him. After calming him down and telling him that he still may be needed before it’s all said and done. He was off like a flash to warn his brethren, and I continued on my way. I found a few more locals, and warned them, but as I progressed out farther I found that word of Cliff had spread, and although it was a Lion, and he should be feared not many were afraid. In fact by the time I got back to my tree I found that I would be sharing my tree with more folks than just Nathan tonight. Most were there just to say they got to see the lion, but most were there (as Monty had told them) to protect our way of life.

Now I love Monty, but he sure does have a flair for the over-dramatic sometimes. I know he’s just looking out for all of us , but I would still like to give Cliff the chance to show his true colors regardless of what they are. If he is in earnest, and he only wants to see them because he wants to see if they are the same ones who messed with him and his wife. Then in that case he will make a very strong friend to have around if we need him against the humans. If he is in fact just out to hurt us then I actually think with the coming morning and the coming reinforcements ( Patty and Bapu) that we will be just fine.

Well it’s late, and now that my branch is taken I must head up higher, and with a full day ahead of me I think it’s time to turn in. Here’s hoping that with the morning comes a new friendship, and not a battle for our lives.

Day 10

Well you’d think after all the running around on this island that I’ve done lately, and the various places I slept that just being in a different branch of my own tree wouldn’t affect me. Wrong..I got no sleep at all last night. Between the chatter from the extra visitors, and the dream I had when I did fall asleep. I’m now very tired. I’m hoping if I talk to Cliff he’ll give me a lift to the beach, and I can sleep a bit on the way. I’m really hoping things get straightened out soon. I need a few days and nights of R & R. As I figured Monty not only was already here when I awoke, but he had a few of his pals with him. (Well Monty I hope you’re wrong) When we finally got everyone ready to go I had to try and convince a large group of meerkat, and a pack of wolves that their services wouldn’t be needed. At first they resisted the idea. Saying that if Cliff went bonkers, or the humans attacked that they would be needed. After talking to Monty and a few of his pals they decided that a smaller group would be a safer way to get close to the human camp. They did however require that one of the meerkat go with us, just in case something happened she would be the fastest to get back here for help. Now with our team assembled we were off. I did get that ride from Cliff, but sleeping on the back of a trotting lion isn’t an easy thing, so I just tried to close my eyes and relax. Well I ended up relaxing too much. I fell off of Cliff’s back, and when I hit the ground I managed to find the only place on the trail with a rock on it. I bonked my melon pretty hard, and out I went. The strange part of this is that I don’t remember hitting the ground. The next thing I know I’m waking up, and nobody is around. With everyone that was with us I would have thought that someone would have seen me fall. After sitting up, and getting my bearings I realized that I had no idea where I was. This looked nothing like the trail we were on.

Now as I check my head to make sure it’s not too bad, and I sit here looking around. I try to see if there is anything at all that looks remotely familiar. Nothing looks right. The trees look more like the ones that I noticed the day that I was with Monty, and we were watching two of the humans swimming near the waterfall. There are a couple differences though. I don’t see any of the big trees with all the vines on them, and I don’t smell the water from the waterfall. Well since I don’t know where I am sitting here. I might as well start out by climbing a tree to see if I can tell where I am. After a long climb I got to the top, and lo and behold.....I have no clue where I am. :(

now the sun is setting, and I might as well stay up here for the night.

Day 11

I’m up with the sun today, and I’m set to try and find my way home.

After getting down from the tree I start to notice that there are no other animals around. I don’t hear anything. So off I go, and I’ve decided to head the direction of the ocean I could see in the one direction. I figured that going into the jungle really doesn’t help. I could get spun around, and just do circles forever. Getting to the ocean will at least let me follow it around till I see something that I recognize. As I head of in the general direction of the ocean I decide to use this time to try and figure out what happened to me, and also a few other questions that have been bothering me lately. First I start by thinking about the thing that the humans have been building on the beach. What could they need all that bamboo for? Next I want to try and figure out what the humans would want from Cliff and Devine. Are they special, do they have something wrong with them, and are the humans really doing things to animals on the island like Cliff told us about? Then lastly....WTF!!!!!! As I come around a bend in the small trail I’m following I come across a human hanging upside down from a tree. At first he looks like he’s dead, but then another human comes out of the jungle and cuts him down. She looks like she’s mad at him for being in her tree. I don’t think he wanted to be there, but accidents happen. She didn’t seem to want to listen to him. She tied him up, and dragged him away. I thought about following them, but I have enough things to worry about myself. I don’t need to waste time watching humans.

So off I go...Why do I have this strong curiosity about humans? I decide that I’m not getting home by sticking around, and when I think about Fergie being alone I pick up my pace. When the sun reaches the middle of the sky I decide it’s time for lunch, and a break. I find a small stream, and jump in to refresh myself. After I get a bite to eat it’s off on the trail I go. Now I know that I might be heading in the right direction when my brain finally kicks in and reminds me that I had seen that human before. I remember that I’ve seen the one that was hanging in the tree. He was out in the Jungle a day or two ago. He was out there with two other humans. He seemed to be really mad at the one guy. He had the one guy tied up to a bamboo tree. After a little while he was asked to leave by the really pretty girl. She ended up kissing him. Then when she stood up and left she looked mad. I didn’t understand that. I know whenever I kiss Fergie I’m happy afterwards. Then the one guy came back and when he let the one go they started fighting. After a short time rolling around it looked like the one guy had really hurt the other. I left then, because I’m not one to sit and watch humans fighting. I just don’t get why they always seem to be looking to fight each other. By the time I realize the sun is going down I have no more answers to my questions than I had before, but I figure I’ve gone over half the way to the beach. So after I find a quick dinner I climb up to the top of a Nanner tree to see where I am, and grab some sleep.

This is Travis signing off, and Fergie I’m coming home soon.

Day 13 (part 1)

Morning everyone..:)

I have decided to move to a nanner tree today. I have slept so well in them lately, and even Fergie agreed that it’s a better place to sleep. So after a bit of breakfast I’m going to spend the day finding a tree that’s not occupied, and claim it for Fergie and myself.

After all the commotion the last couple days I’m so glad to be home. Monty stopped by this morning already, and was telling me that he’s not sure about what to think about Cliff. He told me that Cliff has been lying in his little place at the bottom of the hill since we got back, and nobody has seen him move. He will not talk to anyone when they go over there, and he hasn’t eaten at all. Now this does worry me a bit, but I’m still not sold on the fact that we can trust him. Monty seems to have given Cliff the OK, but I’m not so sure. Monty made a good point when he said that he saved Bapu and the rest of the group yesterday. I still think that with or without us that he would have done that. It seemed that there was something bigger involved between him and the lioness than just protecting us. His protection would have been understandable with the Panther, but not one of his own.

So know I’ve been asked by some of our group to go try talking to Cliff. Why me? I mean I’m just a frog. Wouldn’t it make more sense if Patty or even Monty and pals went to get the scoop from him? But I guess from what Monty told me the rest of the group respects me for being level headed when it comes to things like this. So off I go to try to talk with Cliff.

When I get there I notice that Cliff indeed seems to not have moved in a long time. At first it even looks like he could be dead. Until I see his chest rise and fall I start to think that he may have been wounded in the fight yesterday. When I get up close to him he just turns his head away from me so he doesn’t have to look at me. I decide not to worry about that, and sit down to just try to talk to him. After asking him what’s wrong and getting no answer I decide to try to wait him out. After an hour or so of complete silence he finally breaks, and asks what I really want, and why we all want to know what’s wrong with him. I smile a bit when he has his head turned away from me because I know now that I’ve got a chance to find out what’s wrong, and maybe clear up my uneasy feelings about him. Just before I start to try and get this info I see Monty off in the bushes. I love him for his protective nature when it comes to all of us, but this time I need him to not be here. I wave him off, and after a second time he realizes that I’m serious and He takes off. I wait till I hear him off in the distance chittering away with his brother. Cliff asks why I brought Monty with, and I tell him that I didn’t, and that I sent him away. He thanks me for trusting him, and stands up to stretch. I ask him if he’s interested in heading to the caves for a cool drink. He agreed that it sounded good, and I hopped up on his back for the journey. He wasn’t in a hurry, and I decided to take this as my chance to chat him up.

When I start of asking why he was so upset he changes the subject to the humans on the beach. He tells me that the other day they never made it to the beach like was originally planned. He told me how after they noticed that I was missing everyone put all there efforts into looking for me. He admitted that he didn’t want to go looking for me, and that he argued about continuing to the beach. It was only after Monty and Patty talked to him that he consented to go with the search party. I was a bit shocked by his openness, but it was also refreshing. I had expected him to beat around the bush, and not tell me anything of value. I had even thought that he might try to get rid of me on the trip to the caves. I was instead surprised by the fact that after opening up with this info he continued to talk about himself, and his life from before coming to our side of the island. (At least the parts he could remember) He talked about how he can’t remember anything back farther than maybe a year or two. But he knows from other lions that he has been around over on that side of the island that his size told them all that he was at least 4-5 years old. He went in to detail about some of the things he can remember from being held by the humans. He doesn’t seem to have any clear memories of that time, and he said that his memory of those things has just recently started to come back. Even though it’s only coming in little pieces he’s excited that he seems to get a bit almost ever day since coming over here.

At this point we arrived at the caves, and we stopped our conversation to get a good cool drink. And while he was doing that I checked in with Nathan and Terry. I asked them to take a little walk/fly, and to make sure that anyone else in the caves did the same till close to dark. I told them that I was making progress with Cliff, and that I wanted to keep it just us two. He seemed to open up more when nobody else was around. So off they went and Cliff and I just enjoyed the water, and a bit of silence.

DAY 14 (part1)

When I woke up today I was surprised to see that I was alone. I sat for a minute or two thinking to myself. Was it all a dream? Did Cliff really kill his mate, and align himself with the panther? I really didn’t know what to think about those questions at first. However as I decided I should leaves the caves, and head home I realized the truth. Even before Cliff walked in the cave I knew it wasn’t a dream, and it was all true. I was in the caves, and if I was here then it meant that it all had happened and that at some point Cliff would be coming back. So I decided when I heard him coming back in that I should try something to get out of this mess. I started off by finding a small hole in the wall near the entrance to the cave. I crawled in it hoping that he’d walk right by, and I could get out before he knew I was gone. As Cliff headed over near the pool I headed for freedom, but just as I thought I was out, and could breath easy. Crap!!!! How could I....

Yes indeed I forgot that Peter was outside this side of the cave. When he brought me back in Cliff was laughing. He said he thought it was funny that I couldn’t remember that he was out there. I told him to try being held captive, and think straight at the same time. It’s a bit overwhelming knowing that at any moment your life can be over because you’re 100 times smaller than the one who’s holding you. Cliff’s smile actually seemed to grow a I said the last part. Now both Cliff and Peter were in the cave laying near the pool. I couldn’t hear what they were saying now since I was being held in a small nook in the wall right behind the small waterfall. Peter had come up with the idea. Telling Cliff that this way I had to go into the water to escape, and as long as one or both of them was watching the water I couldn’t escape. Now it was my turn to laugh. Surprising how it seems that most times the larger the animal is the dumber the get. It’s not always the case, but with these two it’s most deffinately true. They both forgot the one essential part of being a tree frog....Climbing.:) At this point I decided to wait a bit before I made good my escape. Since I just got caught earlier I’d guess that they I’ll be watching me a bit closer. While I waited I just hoped that none of my friends tried anything stupid. With these two here I don’t think any one individual could do anything. Even Patty would have trouble fighting off both of them. So I decided to lie down, and nap. I was going to need my strength for getting out of here, and back home.

Man I must have been tired, because when I woke up it was dark. How I could sleep that long I don’t know, but I can worry about that when I get out of here. What the???? Well that explains why it was dark. I didn’t sleep too long.... Cliff and Peter put a small piece of wood in front of the hole. Well now...This sure puts a damper on things. I have to give Cliff credit. I never thought that they would do this, and I’m thinking that indeed my situation is a bit more dire than I thought a few hours ago. I’ll have to sleep on this, and hope that some clear plan comes to me.

Travis the tree frog signing out.

Day 15 (travis's entry)

As I was hanging out in my little hole in the wall I was trying to think how I would get out of here. I thought maybe I could try to convince Cliff that I wasnt worth what he thought. Then I realized that with all the trouble he had gone through proved that he wouldnt fall for that. I decided I would try to find a way to dig a small hole near the one edge of the entrance to the hole that I might be able to squeeze out of. So after Cliff allowed me a quick swim to get me back to my froggy self, and a bite to eat he had me get back in there. As I realized that the waterfall near the hole would hide my work I started digging. It was about this time that I heard some commotion outside the hole. I had gotten the hole just big enough by then to take a look out of the hole. What I saw then was incredible. My eyes gazed upon a group of animals that would make no sense in any other situation. There were Small ferrets and geckos lined up beside Bapu, Patty, and even Walter the wolf. They had surrounded Cliff and he was pacing with an anger that showed his surprise, and also his hatred for these animals. When Cliff made an attempt to leave the group made sure this didnt happen. I personally wished they would just let him go so that I could get out of the hole, and let us just be done with it. At the same time I figured that they had no intention of letting him run free on our side of the island if at all. Cliff would not be harming anymore of the animals ever if this group had anything to say about it. So when I noticed Cliff getting ready to attack I started yelling to anyone to let me out. It just so happened that at that same moment Nathan was pulling the stone in front of my hole free along with a gecko and a small lemur I didnt know. I thanked them for the help, and I was heading over to the side of the group where Bapu and Patty were when Cliff tried to make his escape. At that sign of movement Bapu rushed in and attacked Cliff. I tried to scream for him to not do it, but he couldnt hear me over his anger, and the roar from Cliff in his ears. This ended up being a very short-lived move on both parts. Because just as Bapu went in after Cliff he realized his mistake as Cliff had lured him into a trap. Just as Bapu tried to stop his forward progress towards him Cliff sidestepped him, and attacked him from behind. With two swift and vicious strikes from his powerful claws Bapu was down, and not moving. Patty started to run in to help, but by then Cliff had turned around ready for anyone who thought to try and attack him. I arrived at that moment and jumped up on Pattys shoulder. I calmed her a bit, and reminded her that it could cost us all more if we didnt do this just right. She settled down a bit, and I started to try and figure out how to get this to end as quickly as possible, and without any more innocent animals getting hurt.
I had just settled onto Pattys shoulder when I here a commotion coming from the far side of the cave near the entrance. As I look I see Monty running into the cave, and swinging his stick wildly in the air. Monty was stopped just before he got close enough to take a swing at Cliff. At this point he also noticed me on Pattys shoulder. He ran over to where Patty and I were, and as he did this he sent Nathan out to see if things were still under control outside. When Monty came over to me it was good to see him smile for just a second before he looked over at Cliff again. Montys smile immediately turned into a scowl again, and he looked to me wondering what to do next. I first asked him what had happened to Jasper, and he told me the short version of how they took him down. After a couple minutes of Cliff pacing and snarling at us, and a few growls out of Patty I decided we still needed more firepower to deal with this situation. I had Monty relay a message to get George to come in as soon as possible. Even if it meant having all the monkeys that were out there (excluding Monty) swinging their sticks at him, and knocking him out every time he started to come to. After a couple minutes I see the big gorilla.well big is an understatement. I would say hes more on the gargantuan side of things. As George came into the cave with his tree branch in tow Cliff seemed to have trouble evaluating this new threat to his plans.
After seeing his reaction to George I realized that we might finally have the upper hand over Cliff. Then as if to reassure my thoughts on this I noticed Bapu stirring behind Cliff. As he lifted his head I motioned for him to stay still. Bapu winked to let me know he understood, and at this point I whispered into Monty and Pattys ears to let them know to pass the word that we would be attacking soon. I then jumped up onto Georges shoulder and told him what I needed of him. At first he seemed a bit thrown off by this, but then seemed to understand why. Once I was sure that word of the plan had reached everyone inside and outside the caves I gave the signal. Cliff stiffened as he saw me start hopping up and down and start shouting, but just when the attack that he thought was coming a loud roar came from outside the cave. Cliff then softened a bit, and was starting to grin again. George started to head for the cave entrance, and when he did Cliff to this as his chance. He leaped into the air and headed directly towards George as he landed. As soon as Cliff made his move all the rest of the animals made theirs. Cliff was caught completely off guard as George abruptly spun around swinging his log in a wide arc that was heading directly for Cliffs head. Cliff managed to avoid the swing, but as he did he barreled directly into the pool. At this point Patty, Bapu, Monty, Walter, and the rest of the available monkey crew attacked him. Between the ravaging bites and claws of Patty and Walter, and the wild powerful swings from George and Monty Cliff didnt stand a chance. It was only after Bapu had gotten to his feet and limped over that they stopped the assault on the evil lion. As bapu got there he could only say one thing. why.. Now that wasnt quite what I had expected from Bapu. Especially since Cliff had done such serious damage to him. Thats also when George ran out to get Jasper. When he returned with the panther being dragged behind him George just let him lie in the middle of the cave, and then Bapu told the monkeys to release him. ??????????? WTF!!! I had to look at Bapu like everyone else did. He then explained that he wanted Jasper to see what had become of Cliff. Now I understood what he was trying to get at. Bapu had said why because he didnt know how one animal could do something like what Cliff had done to another animal without being provoked. Now he wanted to show Jasper what the consequences of these actions had been. Once I realized what he was doing I also asked for them to release Jasper. As the monkeys reluctantly untied him you could see everyone tense. As Jasper stood up he lowered his head to show he was not going to try anything. Then Bapu went over to him, and told him to look into the pool. At first Jasper refused, but after a poke or two from Montys stick he slowly walked over to the pool. The look in Jaspers eyes the moment he looked at Cliff told us all we needed to know. He turned to look at the whole group with tears in his eyes. As he started to speak Bapu cut him off, and said you are free to go, but if you or any of your twisted brethren from over on the other side of the island ever come over here looking to hurt anyone on our side again hell be the first one to be dealt with. Jasper nodded his head in understanding, and slowly started to leave the cave. Terry offered to follow him as far as the dark place in the middle of the island. I thanked him, and told him to only follow as long as felt was needed. So Terry went off to follow Jasper, and most of the other animals also decided it was time to head home.
Thankfully my closest friends agreed to stay here with me to help take care of getting Cliff out of the pool, and to get rid of his body in the morning. I only wish there had been another way we could have dealt with Cliff, and also another place. Now with the blood in the pool I couldnt even take a swim. L
As I fell asleep I could only think of how nice it will be to see Fergie when I get home in the morning.


This is Travis signing off.

Day 17 (part 1)

After a nice quiet evening by ourselves Fergie and I decided to head back to the grove. I decided it best to get there early so I could catch up with everyone before they headed off to do whatever they had planned for the day. I was going to tell Monty first if only because of our friendship, and he might take it the best. Boy was I wrongHe was not very happy about it at all. He wasnt going to listen to me, but I told him I needed this because I wanted to have some calm back in my life. He told me that he understood, but after all that has happened to me lately he didnt think it was a wise move. Especially with Jasper on the loose he didnt want me to be without some protection. I reassured him that it would be fine, and after seeing the look in Fergies eyes I think he knew it was something I needed to do. So after he calmed down I asked him to follow me to my new pad after I talked with everyone I needed to talk with. He agreed that it would be nice to know where I was living. Before Monty and I went off to find Bapu, Patty, and the rest of the group he told me that something bad was up on the beach last night. I asked him what, but Monty said I needed to talk with Bapu about it because he had seen what happened and could explain it better. So off Monty went to gather the troops from around the area of the grove, and Fergie and I headed for the caves to see who might be there. When we get to the caves Im a bit surprised at whos there. Now Nathan and Terry.. They were no surprise, because they live there. Now JASPER..Thats a different story. I immediately tell Fergie to go get Monty and George, and off she goes. As I start to enter the cave I notice that it looks like Jasper is in fact helping Nathan clean out the pool near the waterfall. Now at first I get to thinking I should stay hidden until help arrives, but I change my mind when I hear them talking to each other. At this point I decide I need to know whats going on, and I hop on over to where they are. Nathan sees me first, and is all smiles from the get go, but terry however is just sitting high above the pool watching this all. I ask Nathan to come talk with me in private for a minute, and he runs right over. What in the sam hill is he doing in here? I ask Nathan as he gets close enough to hear me. Hes helping clean up. Nathan says. I shake my head and look at Terry who has just glided down from his perch. Terry looks at me, and shrugs his shoulders. Nathan then explains that about 2 hours ago Jasper came back to the caves, and sat down outside the cave near the main entrance. After about another hour Nathan decided to see what was up, and got just close enough to talk to Jasper. Thats when Jasper told him that he wanted to talk with either Monty or Travis, and that he also came back to help clean up the mess that Cliff created. So Terry and Nathan agreed to let him help and if anything seemed out of the ordinary that Terry would scoop up Nathan, and they would zoom out of there. However Terry told me that Jasper had been nothing but nice, and was doing a lot to help get the pool cleaned out. He even offered to try and find a way to clean the blood off of the floor. With this I decided Id go talk to him myself. When I remembered that Fergie was off going to get help I asked Terry to fly off and catch her. Since it didnt seem that we needed any help at this time. As I approached I noticed it looked like Jasper had been beaten up since the last time I saw him. Now I know he took some lump, but I didnt think they were all from the monkeys and George. When I got up close I watched as Jasper slowly lowered his head, and seemed to not know what to say to me. I asked him what he wanted to talk to me about, and also why he came back after being warned not to. At first he didnt say anything, but then he looked up at me and told me he had to. After he got as far as the middle of the island he was greeted by some of the other animals he thought were his friends but he was wrong. When he told them what had happened to Cliff and himself they came sown pretty hard on him. The group attacked him, and called him a failure. They told him he could either stay with them as their servant or he could leave. When he told them hed leave they gave him 1 minute to get out before they attacked him. So at that point he ran for all he was worth, and headed to a little hideout he knew of. When he got there he found that the others had ransacked his place, and left him nothing. When he woke up after a short nap he noticed he didnt feel quite right. He felt sort of woozy, and had to sit down for a bit until his head cleared. While he was sitting there he started to check out his new wounds from his latest scrape, and found something weird behind his one ear. Thats when he showed it to me. It was a small metal thing that seemed to be stuck to his ear. I dont know what it was, but Jasper said all of the other animals over on the other side had one also. Next Jasper went on to tell me how after clearing his head he began to think about all the stuff that had happened over here, and how he felt like he needed to make up for it anyway he could. Thats why he came back, and right away asked to see either Monty or myself. He knew that everyone over here trusted and respected us, and that we were the only ones to talk to him about his situation. I told Jasper that I didnt think it was a very smart thing for him to be here, and that he might want to leave. Thats when he told me that he had nowhere else to go, and that he was willing to do anything to prove that he wasnt the same as he was when he was here before. I told him Id take it into consideration, but before I made any decisions I would like to have a few others nearby when we continued of talk.

So thats when I left him to his cleaning, and headed back to the grove to find Monty. Ill let you know how it all ended up later on.
This is Travis the tree frog signing off.

Day 18

Yawn...
Man I sleep so good in these trees near the waterfall. Im sure its because of the extra moisture in the air, but regardless its a nice thing. Ill have to make sure when Fergie and I move to the new place I talk her into a trip here at least once every other week.
After a quick swim I decide its time to try and talk to Patty again. Seemingly out of the blue she appears out of the jungle. Smiling at me as she jumps into the water, and causing a huge wave of water to wash over me, and almost knocking the breath out of me. As I get my bearings I find her floating in the water with the smile still on her face. Then I see Patty wave me over to her, and so I swim out to her, and climb up on her belly as she floats around on her back.
Immediately she starts telling me the story of how Peter and herself had gotten to the island, and how the humans had been watching them for a long time after they first come to the island. The first thing she explains is how they had placed them in cages when they first got here. Then after the humans had poked them both with a lot of really big needles, and watched them in the cages for few days after that. Once they were let out into the jungle Patty said that her and Peter didnt understand where they were, and that she had been really scared for the first couple nights. Peter had managed to find this waterfall, and they decided that as long as no other animals were living here that they would stay here as long as they needed to. For the first couple of weeks Patty and Peter were convinced that the humans would come back for them. They never did come back for them, but Peter always felt like there was someone watching them all the time. The next surprise came one night when they were lying down to go to sleep. Peter put his head on her shoulder , and when she turned to talk to him she finally noticed it. Peter had one of the tags that Jasper had mentioned. When she told Peter that he had this thing clipped to his ear he went nuts. Roaring, tearing at the trees, and clawing at the thing on his ear. When he started to bleed from trying to pull the clip off she had to tackle him to get him to stop. She told him to go swim to wash the blood off, and after that they both talked about what it could be. They never did figure out what it was for before the human killed him.
After a few moments of silence she asked me if I was ready to go talk to Jasper to find out what the clips are all about. I told her that I would like that, but before we headed to the caves I needed to head back and talk to everyone else in the grove real quick. When I go there I noticed everyone seemed to be gone. Then I noticed Fergie up in my tree. She came down and told me that most of them went on a run to get more nanners. Only Bapu and his brother headed back to the beach to see what the humans were doing after the big fire. So as the sun started to set I hopped up onto Pattys back to ride to the caves. Once I got there I was surprised to see that Monty, George, and the monkey patrol had decided to drop in on Jasper in the caves. When I noticed them hanging out there I fully expected to see Jasper either tied up or worse. Instead I was greeted to howling laughter, and Jasper sitting next to Monty telling a story. (Sometimes Monty is just crazy)
So I decided to hang out in the back with Patty till things calmed down, and then we could go talk to Jasper. Unfortunately Monty and Co. Were having such a good time with him that Patty and I didnt get to talk to Jasper until well after the sun had gone down. As tired as I was Patty had convinced me to have the talk with Jasper about the clips tonight.
Jasper was more than willing to answer any questions we had. He informed us that Peter hadn't been to far off in thinking that someone had been watching them. Because the clip seemed to help the humans find them wherever they went. He explained to Patty and I that on one occasion he thought he had gotten far enough away from the humans ands their living places that he might be able to relax. When he woke up he had noticed that he felt like something wasnt quite right. When he stood up he fund that his front right leg was sore like after being poked by the humans shiny sticks. Then another time when Cliff and him were out hunting for food they felt like they were being followed. After a little while Cliff told Jasper to keep walking for a minute or two, and he would hide and see who it was. Cliff ended up being right. After about a minute or two Jasper had looped back around towards Cliff, and just before getting to the spot where they had parted he had heard a human screaming. After arriving at the source of the noise Jasper was horrified to see Cliff standing over a human body that was torn to shreds. Cliff said that the human had been following them, and when Cliff came out of the bushes the human had tried to shoot him with one of the small shiny sticks with feathers on them. Knowing full well that they make you sleepy Cliff attacked the human before he could  shoot. Most of the stories that Jasper relayed the rest of the night only seemed to confirm that the humans on the far side of the island were doing something to the animals. We weren't sure what to think about the ones on this side though. So far the only conflicts between us and them had been when we had gone after them. Even Patty agreed that Peter had reacted hastily. He should have waited to see what they were doing. As the sun was starting to come up we were still talking. I finally told them I was going to try to get some sleep, and I went off to sleep while they continued to talk.

So it seems that we may have not understood Jasper fully. He's been manipulated by both the humans, and his fellow animals from the other side of the island. I'll discuss him staying in the caves with everyone else after I sleep.

This is Travis the tree frog signing off.