Percy the Peacock

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P is for Peacock as we all know. C is for color, well at least for most of the peacocks with the exception of one. His name was Percy and this is his story. Percy was a peacock who was unlike any other. No it wasn’t just his gray and black feathers. Oh no it was that he spent all his time in a cave. Yes like a bear in a cave; for Percy knew if any of the other peacocks in the forest saw him he would be made fun of or worse.

Percy spent his time gathering food and talking to his only friend the rain cloud. He thought the rain cloud could never find him ugly for he too was gray and black as the night. Often the rain cloud asked Percy why he spent all his time in the cave and not in the forest with the other peacocks. But Percy would always just say he didn’t like the warmth from the sun in the forest.

Percy knew this was safe because the rain cloud never went to the forest; only the sun and moon were allowed there. Then one day everything changed.

The sun grew tired of shinning upon the plants in the forest and just watching them grow so slowly. So the sun decided to get a little help, he discussed it with the moon; she said they should discuss it with the rain cloud. The rain cloud said he would be happy to help by giving water to the thirsty plants and animals of the forest. He was so excited to be asked he rushed to see Percy. The rain cloud couldn’t wait to tell he could now visit the forest for the sun would no longer shine there. The cloud arrived at Percy’s cave; but he was nowhere to be found. Percy had seen the sun leaving the forest and knew the cloud would be coming to have him travel with him to the forest. He knew he just couldn’t until he looked like the others. He made up his mind to become ...

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...er, then he started to cry. I can’t go home he thought. Maybe I can sneak into the forest and hide out there until the sun returns.

He waited until the rain cloud stopped to form his rainbow. Then he ran into the forest; he was to busy running to notice that he was going to bump into another peacock. Oof said Percy as he bumped into a peacock who introduced himself as Perry. Percy waited for him to laugh but the laughter never came. He just asked him why he never saw him in the forest before and if he wanted to be friends.

It was at that moment that Percy realized he had never even given the other peacocks a chance. After all was he really that different from them? The moment that he realized it was ok to be himself the sun came out from behind the clouds and shown upon him. The sun revealed to everyone that he really was the most beautiful of all.

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