Kali 2: Kali and The Bodril (Deleted Stories)

It was a sunny Spring day  and Kali the Border Collie was in the old ivy covered Wizard’s house, her collie nose buried in one of the late Wizard’s dusty old tomes, trying to make sense of his books of magical spells and determined to become the best canine wizard ever when in ran one of his friends who lived in the forest, Roger the Badger.

 

“Come quickly, Kali. You’ve got to help”, cried Roger, frantically, “There’s a Bodril in the forest! A Bodril!”.

 

“A Bodril?”, asked Kali, confused, “What in the world is a Bodril?”.

 

“Well..err?”, said Roger, scratching his black and white stripy head in thought, “It’s a thing”.

 

“Yes. I’m sure it’s a thing”, replied Kali, none the wiser, “But what sort of thing is it?”.

 

“Well..err..um?”, said the Badger, “It’s gibungous..err.. I mean scramdunctious… or maybe a grobulous sort of thing”.

 

Kali reached for her dictionary on the bookshelf next to her and flicked through the pages, “Gibungous? Scramdunctious? Grobulous? Are those words?”, she asked.

 

But Roger didn’t have time to talk about words and their meanings, not with a Bodril on the loose, and, grabbing Kali by the paw and dragging her out of the old wizards house, said, “It’s a come and see for yourself sort of thing”.

 

Now, hurriedly, Roger led Kali to a clearing near to the middle of the forest where he said the Bodril was and, taking cover behind the leaves of a blueberry bush, they both peered through its branches and Kali saw the Bodril; a weird blue coloured creature with an enormous head but a tiny body and it was shouting, “Ask me a question; go ahead; ask me any question and, if I can’t answer it, then I’ll grant you three wishes but, if I can answer it, then I’ll gobble you up”.

 

“He’s already eaten poor Fredwina the frog who asked how big the world was. Fredwina thought that no one knew the answer to that but Bodrils know everything. There’s no question in the world that Bodrils can’t answer”, said Roger, panicking, “It’s very scrumblyfying”

 

“Scrumblyfying?”, asked Kali, confused again but, just then, the canine Wizard’s brown eyes lit up as she had the most brilliant idea and, suddenly, appearing from behind the bushes and walking up to the Bodril, Kali said to him, “I think I know a question that you can’t answer”.

 

The Bodril roared with thunderous laughter, “Ha! Impossible. There isn’t a thing in the world that a Bodril doesn’t know the answer to”, said the creature.

 

“Alright”, said Kali, confidently and then, clearing his throat, he asked, “What’s blue with yellow spots; has three heads and eight arms and jumps up and down going ‘Rooga! Rooga!’”.

 

At first, the Bodril grinned a wide, evil grin because he thought the question sounded like an easy one to answer but then, after some moments of thought, the Bodrils grin started to vanish and, soon after, it was replaced by a look of total bewildernment.

 

“Err”, said the Bodril, “I don’t know. What’s the answer?”.

 

Kali smiled, knowing that he had defeated the Bodril, “I don’t know either”,  he said, ”It’s just something I made up”.

 

Feeling that he had been tricked, the monster got very angry and blue smoke started to pour from its ears but Kali reminded the Bodril that he owed him three wishes.

 

“You did say that if you failed to answer my question you’d grant me three wishes”, said Kali, “And you know that Bodrils always keep their word”.

 

“Err..we do?”, asked the Bodril, quite surprised.

 

“Yes you do”, said Kali, “And my three wishes are this. I wish that you would give back Fredwina the frog; go away and never come back to this forest ever again”.

 

The Bodril looked quite saddened at having been outsmarted  by Kali but then, sighing deeply,

it nodded his enormous head before saying, “Oh, alright then”.

 

Then, in a flash of blue lightning and a puff of purple smoke, the Bodril vanished completely and, instead, standing in front of the collie Wizard, was a rather bewildered looking Fredwina the Frog.

 

“Oh dear!, said Fredwina, looking and sounding quite distressed, “What an awful experience; being eaten by a Bodril. It’ll stay in my memory forever”.

 

But then Kali showed Fredwina the new magic spell he had learned from the wizards books. He made a pretty yellow and blue flower appear out of his hat and gave it to Fredwina and, smiling, she forgot all about the Bodril.

 

“I think”, said Kali, sighing contentedly, as the sun came out from behind the clouds and a little bird twittered nearby, “It’s going to be a very scramdunctious day”.