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- Herausgeber: WS
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Sailing the Stars
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
Kiki never knew friends existed.
Until he started to explore the universe.
And someone invited him to play tag.
Kiki is an orphan, adopted by his friend Frank, and living on the spaceship Marauder. But Kiki would like to make more friends, so he begins exploring the Solar System—playing tag on Puck, space-walking Triton to watch nitrogen geysers, and getting lost in the markets of Pluto. He realizes there is an entire universe of aliens and planets at his fingertips.
But one day the Choppies, floating orb robots, show up. They don’t understand how to play nicely. They get rough. And they crack the glass of an adventure vehicle on Mars, putting Kiki’s new friend Grawfur in danger.
Making science and planets fun, Kiki Finds Friends explores friendship, bullying and social behavior. A space adventure you can’t ignore.
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Chapter One
Kiki Meets Saturn
Kiki was an alien. He wasn’t green, and he didn’t have a big head or enormous eyes. Kiki had horns on his head and shoulders, mouse-shaped ears, and four arms with six fingers on each hand. His body was box-shaped, and he was not too loud or too quiet.
He lived on a spaceship called Marauder and traveled through space at light speed. They had just passed Jupiter, as they came from the Andromeda Galaxy next door.
Kiki didn’t know where the ship was going next, and he didn’t really care. He spent most of his time in his cabin, building huge forts with blankets and pillows. When he got bored of that, he created new worlds and creatures with building bricks.
At night, Kiki often left his cabin to gather the things he needed, like food and more blankets.
One of these nights, he walked into the solarium—a giant room with a glass dome high above his head—and gasped at the view of Saturn. Its rings swooped around the planet, and the yellow glow from all the gases reflected onto the solarium floor. It was so bright. He wondered if he could ride a bicycle on the rings or if he would float away before the wheels started turning. He held up his top left hand and closed one eye to block out Saturn. A warm glow outlined his fingers.
“Hello Kiki,” a deep and slow voice said.
Kiki turned around and saw Frank, a cleaner on the ship, stooping in one of the doorways. Frank was a giant. He was also box-shaped, but he only had one eye. And his head could turn all the way around, 360 degrees—well, 359 degrees to be exact, and then he had to twist it back around. It didn’t spin on top of his neck like a pinwheel. Frank had found Kiki’s egg six years ago on a planet in the Trappist system and brought it back to the Marauder.
“Could I ride a bicycle on the rings of Saturn?” Kiki asked.
“I don’t know. You might float away.”
“It would be fun to try,” Kiki said.
Frank stepped into the solarium and stood up tall. Kiki tilted his head back and looked up into Frank’s gentle eye. It was a brilliant blue color, and Kiki imagined it was the color of an ocean. He had never seen a real ocean. Only pictures in books. But Frank talked about them a lot because his home planet had lots of water. Frank explained anything Kiki wanted to know. He was Kiki’s best and only friend.
“I found some more building bricks. I left them outside your door. Do you have everything you need?” Frank asked. He put his large hand on Kiki’s head. It was heavy, but warm, and Kiki giggled.
“I need another big, rectangular pillow. But I’ll find something. Thanks for the bricks!”
Frank nodded and shuffled away, dragging a mop behind him.
Kiki looked at Saturn and the swirls of color in the storms. He wanted to design his own version of Saturn using his building bricks. Of course, it would be more square than round, but he knew he could create anything he wanted.
He went back to his cabin to go to sleep. He would get started in the morning.
Kiki clicked another block into place. He had already spent hours building his planet, but it was only half finished. When he went to his cabinet to grab a snack, it was empty. His stomach grumbled. The clock by the door said it was still the afternoon. Starlight sparkled on his multi-level fort system. Draped with every blanket he had found, it filled the room up to the porthole. He liked it dark, so he never turned on the lights. He used a lamp for his projects. He carefully stepped around his pirate ship, a castle, a purple octopus, to his half-built Saturn. He told the computer to turn off the lamp and stood by the door.
His stomach grumbled again.
He couldn’t wait for nighttime. He needed to eat now. But if he asked the door to open, he would see other aliens. And Frank was probably still sleeping.
His stomach whined and groaned.
“Ok, ok,” Kiki said and patted his tummy. “Door, open.”
The door slid open. Bright light made Kiki shut his eyes.
When he opened them again, flashes of color zoomed back and forth. Aliens with green skin and purple skin and yellow clothes and red clothes walked past in the hallway. He heard a loud hum and the sounds of talking and walking and shouting and running.
“Close door!” he cried. The door swished shut again. Kiki breathed in and out, quickly.
When he calmed down, his stomach pinched and rumbled.
“I’m so hungry,” he said.
He turned to his fort and lifted a few corners of colorful blankets. Under one with flowers, he found a box of namooks.
“Yes!” he said. But when he opened the box, it was empty.
He tossed the box at the trash trap in the wall. A small robot arm jumped out and grabbed the box. It sucked it down to the fires below that kept the ship warm.
Kiki tried a few more corners of the room but didn’t find anything to eat. He circled back to the door.
His stomach moaned.
“Fine. Door, open.”
With a deep breath, he walked outside.
Chapter Two
Exploring the Marauder
In the middle of the solarium, some other children played. Kiki watched a little blue sluggy thing glide after a pink robot. Kiki forgot he was hungry. When the slug’s tentacle finally touched the robot, he cried out, “Gotcha!” and the robot froze. Kiki thought the slug had hurt the robot, until the robot started laughing. Another child with a very long neck, ran up and crawled through the robot’s legs. It unfroze! Then the slug slid away. A fourth child, one with two heads, also ran away from the robot. Now the robot seemed dangerous, and the other children ran and hid until the robot froze them. Only then, could the children who were not frozen, crawl through their legs and unfreeze them. Of course, when the robot touched the slug, he didn’t have legs, so one of the children tapped the slug on both shoulders and he was free.
Kiki was up on his knees now, cheering them on as they ran here and there.
“You can play with us if you like,” a voice said.
Kiki jumped.
