Montana
By Jessie Callison
Chapter One:
Montana is 0-years-old. He lives in North Wyoming on the McGraw free-range ranch in North Wyoming. Montana originally came from Pete Mountain. Then he transformed in the Deep Space Nine at the base of Pete Mountain. Sam and Lucas, ranchers from McGraw checked on their buffalo at the base of Pete Mountain. Sam and Lucas went to check on the calf separated from the herd. They found the calf in Deep Space Nine. The calf was standing next to a large 3-foot egg. Then it cracked open on the floor of the cave. A green and brown puddle spread out onto the cave floor. It made a squeak sound. The calf started sniffing and licked at Montana’s head. Montana saw Sam and Lucas and started saying his first word. It was “daddy”. Sam and Lucas turned and looked at each other and asked the question “what do we do?” Lucas suggested they might take him home with them. Sam agreed to take him home. They wrapped him up in a blanket and put him in a saddle carriage and took him back to the rancher. When they got back to the rancher they started work on the medium size home for Montana. Then they moved into the new homestead. Sam and Lucas gave Montana his first bath. Montana shook all over the bathroom and water went everywhere. Sam and Lucas had to use a whole bunch of towels to cleanup the water. After the bath Lucas made some dinner. Sam cooked an oatmeal concoction for baby Montana. Lucas made dinner for Sam and their two children named Elijah and Maika. Then next morning Elijah and Maika got up early to do their chores before school. The family sat down for breakfast and Sam put Montana in the highchair to feed him some oatmeal. After breakfast Elijah and Maika went off to school. It is called Penn Brook College Preparatory Academy. It is for high genius students. They have all the academic classes like language and writing class. Lucas went to the engineer’s firm. It is in town and his partner is Tony Shark. Lucas and Tony were working on the Deep Space Nine aircraft carrier. Sam and Montana took care of the rancher while Lucas and the boys were off at school and work. Sam put Montana in the baby carrier on his back while he worked on the rancher. Montana tried to get out of the baby carry to dig a hole in the grass. He chewed through the side of the carrier. He dropped to the ground and dug an underground tunnel to the barn to see Corbet. Sam discovered the hole in the baby carrier and the hole in the ground. Sam followed the hole that Montana dug. When he got to the barn Montana was in the stall with Corbet. Sam picked up Montana and explained that he should not run away from him. Sam took Montana inside the house to wait until Lucas got home from work. Sam explained to Lucas what happened today. While Montana was waiting in his room, they went into Montana’s room to tell him about not running away from mom. Elijah and Maika came from school and did their homework and chores before dinner. They put him to bed for the night. Then next morning they got up and went to Montana’s room to get him up for the morning. Then the boys went to do their chores before breakfast. Sam started breakfast for everybody before they went off to work and school. When everyone left the house, he spent the morning fixing the carrier for Montana. While Sam fixed the carrier, Montana played in the house. Montana followed Sam while he was doing chores on the rancher. Lucas watched Montana while Sam went to the general store. Montana went to play outside and find buffalo. He found the buffalo and tried to play with them but they did not understand Montana, and they kicked him in the leg. Lucas ran out to the field and Montana was lying down in the field. Then he had call Sam from the general store. So Sam had to rush home with the doctor so he could look at Montana’s leg. The doctor put a cast on his leg. Sam and Lucas had to keep Montana in the house for four weeks. The boys came home from school to help their parents out with Montana. Then, next morning Montana ran into the counter and broke the coffee pot. Sam and Lucas ran into the kitchen to see what happened to the coffee pot. They came in the kitchen and got upset with Montana. Then he ran all over the kitchen with his cast on his foot. Sam and Lucas cleaned up the coffee and glass before starting breakfast. Montana got yelled at for running around in the kitchen. Lucas went off to work and the boys went off to school for the day. Sam and Montana started to do some chores on the rancher. Montana liked to go see Corbet and visit with him out in his pen so they played while Sam did chores. Lucas came home for lunch. Lucas fixed lunch for Sam and Montana. They ate their lunch and he had go back to work for the rest of the day.
To Be Continued...
Two hands hold up a colorful watercolor illustration of an animal that resembles a cross between a large cat and a tropical bird, with a green birdlike head on the left and a tan, catlike head on the right. The creature's body has bright red, pink and blue feathers, as well as blue wings, and two green legs with a brown tail beside them.