It's story about a beautiful penguin living in her own house. She hate to go outside, because she afraid if everybody bad mouthed her. So she live in her white and grey house.
One day a little bunny walking around her house. She get a peek of the penguin that lurking in the house. She thought, "Wow, what a beautiful creature she is." Then she knocked the door of that house. The penguin got surprised, she never expected that someone would end up in front of her door. The penguin asked The Rabbit, what business The rabbit has with her. The rabbit asked her, why she never saw her outside. The penguin answered, "I'm too ugly to go outside." The rabbit shocked, to hear her answer, so she make her way in, and hold the penguin hands. "No you're the most magnificent creature I ever see, it's such a waste for you to stay inside the house." The rabbit then take her to go outside.
They are running around the forrest, the swamp, and the lake. Then they're met the dog, the dog look amazed by the beauty of penguin, and he asked them, "Who is she rabbit?".
The rabbit answer him proudly, "It's my new friend, she is a penguin."
"Wow, how could I never knew someone as beautiful as you?"
"You know, she is quite a shy person, and always let herself holed up in her house."
"What a waste, you should be more proud of who you are." The dog tried giving the penguin an opinion. The penguin nodded bashful.
"We are going to the coast, are you in?" Asked the rabbit to the dog.
"Sure, why not." The dog agreed.
Along the journey, the three of them starting to talked to each other. Even though the penguin not actively start the conversation, but the others tried to keep her on. Until they met a bear along the journey. The bear seem so gloom, he sit there upon a broken trees, look up to the skies. The dog reaching him, and asked, "What are you doing bear?"
The bear surprised, "Nothing really, it's just my painting doesn't progress well." As he look around, he looked at someone strange. The penguin uncomfortable by the gaze of the bear, she hide herself behind the rabbit. The bear moving closer, he pat her head and said, "What a cute little creature you are, may I know what is your name?"
Hesitating to answer, the penguin tried to be brave, "I.. I'm penguin..".
Knowing that he make her uncomfortable, the bear going back to where he sat before. Taking up his canvas and start sighing. Suddenly a wind blowing a little harder. Some of his paintings got blown up and ended up scattered all over the place. A painting ended up fall in front of the penguin. She look at it carefully, and she mesmerized by the colour of the rainbow in the picture. "What a wonderful colour." She said it unknowing that the bear was standing in front of her.
"You think it's beautiful?" The bear asked her.
"Yes, It's wonderful, can I got one?" The penguin asked him.
"I am sorry, but I think I am going to quit painting." The bear start collecting all the painting again.
"You know, I never know what colour really is, but after seeing your painting made me realise I want to see more of it. You shouldn't give up, I want to see your painting again." A little voice of the penguin shake the heart of the bear. He wondering, how can such a little creature could shake his world. "If I could asked, where did you saw that?" The penguin pointing out to the picture of rainbow.
"I saw it by the coast." The bear answered.
"That's great, we are all going to the coast, you should come with us, and start painting again." The penguin suggest him to come.
"I am done with painting, I am not going." Then the penguin catch his paw and start dragging him. The bear surprised, there's no way she could drag him along. So the bear stood up and said, "You sure remind me of my old self, do you really want to see my painting again?" The penguin nodded, so the four of them continuing their journey to the coast.
The wind suddenly growing stronger and become more violence, when suddenly a pigeon coming from the skies. "Hey you guys, you better find some cover, there's storm coming this way. Follow me.." the pigeon giving them a direction toward a cave. Not long, the storm coming, and a heavy one at that. Thankfully they're reach the cave unharmed.
"What a bunch of lovely group you are." The sound coming from inside the cave.
"Don't worry everyone, it's my friend the goose." The pigeon start introducing her friend.
"Who are you both?" The penguin curious by the two strangers that appears before them.
"Well, I am a pigeon, I may a bird just like you, but I can't swim, just like you who can fly." Said the pigeon.
"And, I am a goose, I am a bird just like you and pigeon, even though I could fly and swim but I couldn't do it better than both of you. You could just say that I am jack of all the trade. Hahaha.." the goose introducing herself proudly.
"I wonder how you know about me?" The penguin asked.
"Of course we know, we are bird, often going on a long way journey, so we often met your family along the way." The pigeon giving her explanation.
"As the matters, it's our first time to see you around here, where have you been?" The goose asked her.
"She is just a shy type, she never talked to much to everyone." The rabbit answer it.
Then she start told a story how it's all begin. From the moment she saw her in her house up to when they met them.
"You are such a worrywart penguin, everyone has a good and bad point, just like you and me. I won't able to swim, no I think everyone in here couldn't able to swim better than you, so there's no point for everyone to make fun of you. You should be more proud of yourself and what you can do, rather focusing on what you can't." The pigeon giving her a lecture.
As the time goes by, the storm getting heavier, when the penguin start to wonder if it's alright for them to continue, because she think everyone just following her wish. "Maybe we should just give up, going to the coast."
That word shocked up all of her friends. "Said someone who want to see my painting." The bear spoke up. "You know penguin, the moment you said you wanted to see my painting once again, give me some hope that someone eventually would understand my painting and it give me courageous to start again."
"But.. but, it seem because of me, we are trapped in this storm, when you're just following my wish." Said the penguin as she start to cried.
"You wrong, it's not your fault, we are trapped in this situation, we starting this journey together, and we finish it together." Said the rabbit.
"I am enjoying this journey together, because it was fun to do something together, to crying together, so don't said it was your fault, we are in this together, so we would never be alone." Said the dog.
"You know, the more you close to someone, the more painful your word to them, but it's also painful to let them go, so be careful of what you wanted to said to your dearest one, if you unintentionally hurt them, you guys can always forgive one each other." The goose wisely giving them a prep talk. They start hugging each other and fall into a deep sleep.
The morning come, the sun start peeking out in their cave. The rabbit know it, and start waking up everyone. As the sun goes high, the coast look so close by. They're starting run off the hill, and within a minute they reach the coast. The dog start facing his face toward the sea and let the wind calmly brush his fur, the rabbit imitating him and stand beside him. The pigeon and the goose flying toward the blue skies and catching up each other. That leave the bear looking up so hopefully, "Look penguin, that what rainbow is." The bear pointed out to the rainbow in that clear blue skies.
The penguin come closer, she stood beside him, and start look up to the skies, "It so beautiful, that 7 colored skies, remind me of the green grass, the water, the sand, the skies, and colour of everyone, so everyone does have different colours, I wonder what colour I am.."
By: Rainerus Alva
Adapted from: Irozuku the world of Color