The Very Hungry Hippo

The Very Hungry Hippo

John Doe, a famous news announcer, ran and ran.
He had been running for hours on end from the herd of angry hippopotamuses.
If you have read the first in this series,
you would know that there was a virus that turned humans into hippos.
But right now, he needed to hide.

John finally came across and old abandoned house.
“Whew!” “I think that I’ll spend the night here,” he exclaimed, out of breath.
Shortly after falling asleep,
he was woken up by small grunting noises coming from the hallway.
He groaned and slowly got out of bed.
Walking over to where he had heard the noise he saw a sight that chilled his bones.
It was a baby hippo!
He screamed in fright as he looked for a weapon to kill this foul beast.
But then, he looked more carefully at the hippo and noticed that it only had three legs.
John was suddenly overcome with sadness for the hippo and reached down to pet it.
He suddenly realized that he had just caught the hippo virus.
All he could do before he was transformed into a hippo was scream.

Now, John is just a happy hippo, jumping in piles of mud and ponds
and infecting other humans with his new pal, the three legged hippo. - Patrick