Partly Cloudy Alternate Ending Analysis

Partly Cloudy
An Alternate Ending by: Alexis Gauthier and Claudia Wilkinson

As I presented the shark to Stork, he kept looking towards Cumulus Cloud and the little ducklings he was making and his joyous Stork, he finally decided that he was going to fly off. He left me all alone. I felt as deflated as a balloon and as if everything in the world that could go wrong just went wrong.

I knew that if I ever wanted to get my Stork back I would have to create a puppy or kitty, and if that wasn’t possible then I would create something close to or like it.

My first attempt failed. It was of the puppy. Apparently a downer will stay a downer because instead of the puppy I created a bear. It was big and brown with a mix of black in it’s fur with the
“I hope the kitten is better.”

Nope. I, Nimbus the Cloud, was wrong again. The kitten turned out to be a tiger. This animal was also large, orange, and had black stripes all over it. The eyes were yellow and followed you wherever you went. It was scary.

The bear was still here since there was no Stork to bring him down to earth, so the bear and the tiger began to fight.

“Wow now, hold on here! You were supposed to be good little creatures that weren’t made to hurt or scare! You were meant to be a puppy or a kitten. Why, oh why, can’t I just create something good for once? Why does everything turn out like you two? A bear and a tiger!”

Since there was nothing to do with the two creatures meant for destruction I discarded them, just as if they were yesterday’s waste.

I tossed them down to earth where they could be free to roam in the wild.

I sigh after I realized what I have done, and out of pure sadness I created something beautiful and graceful. The first
The swan later left me and I was alone with my thoughts of sadness. But, sadness always leads to my greatest creations, I guess, because I then created a Stork. It was nice and strong, probably could handle anything. So, I began to create the usual animals, dangerous as they were, they were beautiful in my eyes and would be for many others. My creations just keep a cycle going and without them who knows what the world would be like.

In almost no time at all many of the Storks want to come help me out, but I turn them all down. If they couldn't see the beauty of my animals before they never really will.

And, although my original Stork never comes back, whisked away by the adorable little animals, I always will remember him. He was brave and simply adorable. No one could ever best him and now we are both in a better place, him with Cumulus and me with my beloved animals. Nothing could ever be better than that.

I may still be a dark lonely cloud creating only the most dangerous of animals that seem harmful, but when you open up your heart to them you’ll never know what could happen, maybe a bear could really be a puppy on the inside. Something I’ve also learned is that you can’t judge a cloud by it’s color. I may seem like a dark and stormy cloud but I’m a white cloud surrounded by rainbows on the