Wild bees honey
Danny was shaking. He was scared to death. Is this the end of his short life of a wild donkey? Two big fat snakes were hissing and moving towards him. He must have disturbed them while he was trying to find his way through the bushes. Is it too late to run? He was paralyzed by fear. Why me? He was too young to die. He enjoyed life so much. He loved his friends, the blue sky of Paphos and the mountains, which stretched forever into mysterious world of nature. He is going to be bitten by one of the crawling monsters and he will not survive. His friend Tommy died last year, when he was suddenly attacked by a snake in the mountains. He missed Tommy terribly. He missed his parents, whom he suddenly imagined vividly. His dad was trying to tell him something urgent, but then he disappeared and he was alone again. He realized that he was just imagining everything and probably it was time to pray for help. The awful hissing sound became even more terrible. The snakes were about to attack him! He closed his eyes! When he opened his eyes, he saw two men, who were smiling and looking at him with great curiosity. One of them was holding a stick in his hand.
- I told you Tim! It’s a small horse, Old Bulat told us about such horses! They are called donkeys.
- Wow, I thought that he was just kidding! Old Bulat is really great. They look like Bashkir horses, but the color of their skin is different.
- Yes, let’s try to speak to him! Hi, donkey! We are your friends. We have chased the snakes away! They really wanted to have fun with you! – and the man started laughing.
- Thank you, guys for saving my live. My name is Danny, a wild donkey of Paphos.
- Oh, we can understand you perfectly, Danny. Old Bulat was right about magic qualities of the wild bee honey, - said Tim. Danny, you will never believe this! You are now talking to two male horses of Bashkortostan! Let me introduce my friend Salavat to you!
It all started in the Ural mountains. Timur and Salavat were working in a resort in the mountains. They used to take tourists into the gorgeous Ural mountains on their backs and have great fun! The tourists enjoyed companionship of very obedient and friendly Bashkir male horses, who allowed tourists to feed and take care of them. Sometimes the guys were pretty awkward and didn’t know how to communicate properly with horses, but little by little Timur, Salavat and other horses of Arsky Kamen resort taught them their horses’ language and were able to make friends with them. It was pretty easy. These city guys just needed to have a kind heart and be eager to listen to horses! Life was full of joy. Salavat and Tim learned a lot about humans and sometimes felt that they would really be happy to become people themselves! It was their dream that suddenly became reality!
Old Bulat didn’t want even talk with Salavat and Timur at first! Old Bulat was the oldest and smartest horse in their team and knew everything and everyone. They came up to him again and begged to listen to them!
- What do you want guys? – I am not a magician! I can’t transform horses into people!
- But, there should be some way to become humans, Old Bulat! Just give us a hint!
-Well, if you really want to take risk!
- We are extremally brave horses, Old Bulat!
- Okay, I know one cave deep in the woods, where honey of wild bees is kept by some bee-keepers. If you could borrow some of the honey from them and eat it , while dreaming of your great desire, your dream might come true! But no guarantees!
Salavat and Timur found the honey and ate it while dreaming of becoming handsome young men and their dream came true! They became handsome young men! Old Bulat told them about horses who lived in a remote island, called Cyprus. When Timur and Salavat became people, they wanted to see the world, they wanted to make sure that Old Bulat’s storis about horses, called donkeys, were true and they booked a flight to Cyprus. They fell in love with Cyprus. The mountains, they saw in Paphos, were fantastic and they sky was mysteriously blue!
And Danny was the first wild donkey the saw! They were travelling in a rented car and were driving in the mountains when they suddenly saw two snakes willing to attack a small horse with a strange skin. This was the beginning of a great friendship. Danny showed the guys a cave, where he lived with his mates - wild donkeys and Salavat came up with an interesting idea! He suggested organizing a small Donkey Farm! Wild donkeys will ride tourists in the mountains of Paphos and Salavat and Timur will take care of finances and organization of the business. The only problem was pretty serious: they lacked experience! But then Salavat remembered about magic qualities of honey of wild bees and the guys soon ate it, while dreaming of becoming great managers of Donkeys’ Farm.
Their dream came true again! They were entertaining tourists in the mountains of Cyprus and in no time their farm was making a healthy profit! They treated their new donkey- friends with kindness and fed them well but one day Salavat noticed that a donkey called Carl had very sad eyes. Salavat came up to Carl and asked him what was wrong.
- Oh, Salavat. I love working here at your farm, the only problem is my dream! Every night I dream of flying in the sky! I dream of flying above the waves of the sea!
- If it’s a great dream and it should come true! Eat the honey and think of becoming a seagull!
Carl ate the honey and soon he was flying in the sky and was the happiest donkey on earth! Actually, he was not a donkey anymore! he was a seagull!