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  • Somewhere hidden among thorny brambles

  • is a little Kingdom of Elves and Fairies

  • Everyone who lives here is very very small

  • I'm Ben Elf

  • And I'm Princess Holly

  • Come on let's play!

  • Wait for us

  • Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

  • Today's adventure starts at the great elf tree

  • The Shooting Star

  • With this telescope I can see deep into space

  • Wise Old Elf, can I look?

  • Yes, right now the telescope is pointed at the moon

  • Ooh, it looks really close

  • Can I have a go?

  • Of course!

  • If I turn the telescope this way, you can see distant stars

  • Amazing!

  • Oh, one of the stars is moving!

  • Maybe it's a shooting star?

  • Oo, I can see it too!

  • It's going to crash into the ground!

  • Wow that sounded close!

  • Let's take a look

  • This is where the shooting star landed

  • It's made a huge hole

  • Incredible

  • Look at all the smoke

  • It must be very hot

  • Let's climb down and get a closer look

  • No! We'll have to come back tomorrow when it's cooled down

  • Morning time!

  • Holly! Breakfast!

  • No time Daddy, a shooting star crashed into the meadow last night!

  • Morning time!

  • Ben! Don't you want your breakfast?

  • Later mum, I'm off to see the shooting star

  • Hi Ben!

  • Hi Holly!

  • Wow! What made that hole?

  • A shooting star, it fell out of the sky!

  • Excellent

  • So what does this shooting star thingy look like?

  • We're just about to find out your majesty

  • Lower the claw!

  • Ooh

  • It's got windows

  • Is it a spaceship?

  • It's a flying saucer

  • The top is opening!

  • Don't panic yet but this might be an alien invasion

  • Pleep-ploop

  • Ahhh! Alien invasion, alien invasion!

  • Everyone please panic!

  • Pleep-ploop-ploop-pleep

  • It's the friendly aliens we met on the moon

  • Hello aliens!

  • bleep-bleep

  • Oh look they've got a baby alien

  • I am not baby.

  • Whoops - sorry!

  • But you're so sweet and ickly

  • I am oldest one here.

  • We get smaller as we get older.

  • Oh we get bigger as we get older

  • That's crazy

  • My name is Zyros - take me to your leader

  • King Thistle is our leader

  • Ah, Thistle King - so you are leader

  • Well, the Wise Old Elf is also a leader in a way

  • Oh no your majesty you are our king and leader

  • Yes

  • We come in peace

  • Phew

  • We are here on holidays

  • Have you come far?

  • We come from planet bong

  • Oooo

  • But our spaceship is crashed

  • Oh dear

  • You, Thistle King must fix it

  • Me? Yes

  • As leader you are clever and wise

  • Yes, of course I'm clever and wise

  • Doesn't sound good

  • It is broken

  • Maybe I should take a look your majesty?

  • Good idea!

  • Elves are good at fixing flying saucers and I'm an Elf

  • Let's see does the engine use clockwork or batteries

  • Oh..

  • Oh, it's all colourful and pretty

  • It's a massive pipes, cubes and incredibly complicated

  • I don't need to know the little details, just fix it

  • What a great and clever leader

  • Yes, we're very lucky. This is going to take some time

  • Mr. Zyros whilst you're waiting, would you like a tour of the Little Kingdom?

  • We would very much like that

  • Oh goody, this way!

  • First stop, Gaston's cave.

  • Gaston, are you in?

  • This is our friend, Gaston the Ladybird

  • Ah, a ladybird. So that is the sound a ladybird makes

  • What did he say?

  • He asked is Gaston is for eating?

  • No, we don't eat our friends! Do you?

  • Ah no, hardly ever.

  • Next on the tour, the little castle, where I live.

  • Mummy.

  • Hello darling. Ahhh

  • It's ok mummy, they're just aliens from planet bong

  • Oh that's alright then.

  • No you can't eat her

  • Thistle King is this where you make your important decisions?

  • Er, yes, yes I'm always making important decisions

  • Your majesty do you want soup or sausages for lunch?

  • Hmm, I think, sausages.

  • You are very wise Thistle King

  • Oh well, you know, I do my best

  • And Elf Ben, where do you live?

  • I live in a tree.

  • Tree? What is tree?

  • Here it is, the great Elf Tree.

  • Ah, I see, so a tree is a kind of apartment block.

  • I am learning much about your planet

  • Hello Ben! Agh aliens!

  • Yes dad, do you remember the aliens we met on the moon? They're here on holiday

  • Oh yes, those aliens. Happy holiday!

  • No! He is not to be eaten either!

  • Ah, this is such a wonderful planet. Have you been to other planets on holiday?

  • Oh yes, but this is best. You see, we are quite small and on most planets everyone is

  • big.

  • I see

  • Yes

  • We go to other planets for lovely relaxing holiday and get stepped on by big people.

  • It is not nice

  • Er, there are some big people here too

  • Big people? Here?

  • Hello!

  • Agh. Big people!

  • Don't worry, it's only our friend Lucy. She's a big girl

  • Lucy, these are aliens, they're here on holiday

  • Hello aliens.

  • You are big aren't you?

  • Are there more like you?

  • There's my mum and dad, we're having a picnic over there

  • So there are three big people on this planet

  • Oh no, there's loads. Millions and millions. Most of them bigger than me

  • Hm, perhaps it is time for end of holiday

  • Ok! Let's go see if your flying saucer is mended

  • Ah, just in time. I've mended the flying saucer.

  • Well done Wise Old Elf.

  • All those tubes and things made it a bit like plumbing and elves are good at plumbing

  • Thank you I will now start the engine

  • Oh, that's not right. It sounds like the fairy car on a cold day

  • Yes it does

  • A big of magic always helps start the fairy car

  • No! You must never mix magic and plumbing

  • Sounds good!

  • Thanks to me being an excellent plumber

  • Thanks to my magic fairy dust you mean

  • Now now, let's say elf skill mended the engine and fairy magic got it started.

  • Lucy! That's my dad, I better go

  • Mum, Dad you'll never guess what I just saw!

  • Don't tell me? Elves and Fairies again

  • Yes and aliens too!

  • Haha, aliens.

  • Oh, aliens, of course Lucy

  • We must leave now, Ben, Holly would you like a little ride before we go

  • Yes please!

  • Weeeeee

  • Dear Lucy, everyone knows, aliens don't exist.

  • Hello Lucy!

  • Hi Ben and Holly

  • The aliens have to fly back to their planet, they just wanted to say hello to your parents

  • Hello big people, we have just been here on our holidays

  • Erm, Hello

  • We go now, bye bye

  • Bye bye

  • Bye

  • I think we'll have picnics somewhere else in future

  • Whee! Bye Ben and Holly. Next time you go on holiday, you must come to planet bong!

  • Ok, we will!

  • Bye.

Somewhere hidden among thorny brambles

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