Welcome back to Kid Short Stories. Today's story is brought to us by one of our friends,

Alex. Hey Alex! He's and does an awesome idea for a story and you can too.

Just head over to our

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idea. Maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. Are you ready for

this one? Me too, let's go. One day Alex was playing in his backyard. It was a beautiful summer day and guess what? Yeah, he was on the

spy kid's team but he wasn't just a spy kid. He was on the Ninja Squad and on the Ninja Squad they had to learn how to do backflips and front flips and all kinds of crazy things that

Ninjas know how to do. I don't know how to do them, but Alex learned how to do all of those

things and so much more. But today was just a normal day and so he was hanging out in his

backyard eating blackberries.

Do you guys like to eat blackberries?

Oh, me too. They're so good.

And he had all kinds of blackberry bushes right in his backyard that he could eat.

And so today was a really nice day and so he thought he would go eat some blackberries. He checked his spy kids Ninja Squad beeper but

there were no bad guys out today so that's good. It'll be a nice, ah, relaxing day. Or so he thought. And so, pretty soon he ate

all the blackberries and he asked his mom if he could go explore in the forest to look for more blackberries and his mom said yes but stay close.

And so as he was walking around he heard,

boom, boom, boom, what was that?

Something big was walking in the forest.

It was a...

It's a bear!

Alex had seen bears before and was always told to stay far away from them.

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