It was completely night at The Endless Forest, all the animals were in a DEEEEP sleep. A stag named Hermes was sleeping in a circle of mushrooms until he heard a screaming noise. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" it echoed. It woke nearly everyone in the forest. Hermes realised his friend Echo was screaming in fear, he went to the Oak tree to take a look. Echo was straight up in her grass-bed. "Echo, did I hear you screaming lately?" asked Hermes.
"Well, yes", answered Echo. She watched the other animals who were following Hermes to her house staring at her in fear.

"OK, Hermes...I don't think we need other animals in my tree", she remarked.
"But we heard you scream", squealed a bat.
"Please tell me it was just a bad dream!" wept a squrriel.
Echo shoked her head fast. "Oh no, no, no! That wasn't a dream, it was real-real I tell you. It was like a-a ghostly moan..." The animals gasped in horror.
"But what if it WAS a ghost?" cried a dove. Hermes calmed the animals down and they went back to bed.

But suddenly, at the peaceful night, Hermes once again heard a AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!. He went back to Echo's house. Echo laid awake on her grass-bed. "I heard you screaming again", Hermes yawned, sounding really tired.
"OK, OK. The noise came from here as I realised", Echo breathed. She pointed at a hole in the ground.
"Well, let's get in!" Hermes shrugged. The stag and doe went in the hole and looked around. Suddenly, a noise was heard saying: "MURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!" Echo screamed, "That's the sound!" Hermes bravely investagated while afriad Echo walked behind him.
"Um, about that monster, I'm starting to think it's not a ghost!" gulped Echo, looking ahead of Hermes.
"What ya mean?" asked Hermes.

Echo flipped Hermes around and a huge scaled creature was ahead of them.
"Yeah, you're right it's a CROCODILE!" screamed Hermes, backing away himself and Echo. They tried to get out of the hole but they were trapped! The crocodile started to murrrrrr again. Hermes bravely pushed his big antlers at it. Just then, Echo realised they had to jump out of the hole.

"Hermes, we have to jump out of hole!" she yelled.
"What?!" Hermes bellowed.
"Just jump!" Echo bellowed back. She jumped out of the hole followed by Hermes. The croc was too big to get out of the hole. Just then, some animals put huge logs on the hole. Hermes grinned. Echo then thanked Hermes for saving her dreams from the sound. Then they all went back to bed.

THE END