Everybody in the forest was very happy. They are having the winter festival this year. So everybody is excited about the winter festival. And there will be a contest at the winter festival. Whoever is participating in the winter festival contest has to have a team of at least two members. There will be two competitions. The first part will be finding the ticket in the forest. The second part will be skating on the ice. Whoever finds the ticket will be moved to the second contest.
So the first part of the contest started. In the forest, there were tickets which were hiding somewhere. Whoever participating in the winter festival had to search and find at least one ticket to get a prize. Each team cannot have more than one prize.
An owl named Snowy and a Fox named Roxy were participating in the Winter Festival, together as a team. Roxy wanted a prize but Roxy didn’t want to share it with anyone. Roxy only entered with Snowy so that Roxy could have a chance to get the prize.
Presently it was night time and it was the day before the Winter Festival. Roxy knew that tomorrow it would be easy to find the ticket if she would find it early. Roxy searched and searched and searched. Until she finally found it. It was not the real prize but, whoever had it would get the prize. Roxy knew the forest like she knew the back of her paw. But, this time, Roxy didn’t know the way back. She only went into the forest during the day, not at night.
There Roxy stood, scared, alone, with nobody in sight. All she could see was pitch blackness all around. Suddenly Roxy didn’t care about the prize, Roxy cared about getting back home. Roxy wished it was all just a nightmare. She pinched her paw, feeling abrupt pain. No no no no no no no no no no no no nooo! She thought, panicked. Roxy now realized that she is cheating on her friend Snowy by finding the prize ticket all by herself. She lost her way back home, and the ticket. She decided to stay here for the night. She fell asleep. Snowy saw Roxy sleeping in the forest.
Snowy guided Roxy’s parents to Roxy. They found Roxy sleeping on a small pile of leaves. Roxy’s parents woke Roxy up and walked home with her. Roxy was still thinking it was a dream as she was walking with her parents.
The next day when she woke up, she saw that she was back in her house, with her family, her friends, and her best friend, Snowy. Roxy was crying. She apologized to Snowy for going out without her. Snowy said it is okay. Now you realized that it was a big mistake I forgive you. She looked at the time, it was 10 am, the Winter Festival Search and Find was still going on. Roxy asked Snowy if she wanted to be on the team with her. Snowy nodded.
“Come on, we can still win, together,” said Roxy happily.
Snowy said, “Ok! Let’s Go!”
Roxy didn’t remember where she left the prize ticket, but she didn’t care, because soon Snowy and Roxy searched together everywhere and they finally found it. They gave the ticket to the Judge who later gave them a big box of delicious cookies that they shared with everyone.
Roxy learned her lesson that friends are more important than winning a prize. And if you share happiness with your friends it will be increased. Roxy and Snowy found the ticket now they are entered in the second part of the contest. If they win they will get a grand prize. The second part of the contest starts in five days.
Roxy was ice skating while waiting for her friend to arrive. She was dancing as if she were on fire, her movements quick and graceful on the ice. Snowy didn't know how to skate as well as Roxy. Snowy didn’t want to ruin her friend’s dance by slipping and falling on the ice.
She had an idea. She would pretend to be sick so that she does not have to ice skate. Snowy went to Roxy saying that she had a stomach ache. Roxy was very worried. She helped Snowy to her home and told Snowy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Owl, that Snowy had a stomach ache. They quickly put away the things they were doing and started making a delicious soup with Roxy.
“I wonder what Roxy is doing,” said Snowy, “I should probably go and see.”
Roxy came through the door with a tray of delicious soup with noodles, Snowy’s favorite. Roxy propped up Snowy’s pillows and put a small table on her lap. Then Roxy served a big bowl of soup and a cup of orange juice to Snowy. Roxy helped Snowy with whatever Snowy needed until it was time for Roxy to go home. The next day Roxy arrived very early and was there waiting for Snowy to wake up.
“Rise and shine, Snowy,” Roxy said,” the vegetable soup will not be hot for long. I’ll help you out of bed.”
“Umm, Roxy,” said Snowy,” I want to tell you something.”
Roxy added, “Oh that’s good because I have to tell you something too. We can talk after breakfast.”
“OK.” replied Snowy.
The two friends finished the delicious soup and settled themselves by the warm fireplace that Mr. Owl was tending to.
“So what do you want to say?” asked Roxy.
“I wanted you to go first with the news,” answered Snowy.
“OK. Well, here goes nothing.” said Roxy,” I am not going to participate in the ice skating competition.”
“WHAT!?” said Mr. Owl and Snowy in unison.
“You can’t do that.” said Snowy,” You had always wanted to enter an ice skating competition townwide.”
Roxy blushed, she was very good at ice skating and has won many school competitions.
“Well, I have to help take care of you because you matter more to me than just a silly competition.” Roxy replied.
Mr. Owl walked out of the room to eat breakfast.
There were a few moments of silence before Snowy admitted,”I’m not actually sick. I was just pretending to be sick so I won’t have to ice skate.”
“But why did you do that?” asked Roxy.
“I didn’t want to ruin your awesome ice skating dance.” replied Snowy.
“You could have just said so, because I can teach you. We can also do an easy performance.” said Roxy.
Snowy was ashamed of herself, and apologized to Roxy for pretending to be sick.
“OK, but let's not mention it to my parents, they’ll be very mad.” Snowy added.
Roxy chuckled,” Agreed.”
Over four days Snowy learned to Ice skate and she even learned how to do a few tricks too. Roxy and Snowy worked together to create and learn an amazing but easy dance.

Today was the day, the day of the winter festival. Snowy and Roxy practiced and practiced until it was time to get ready for the competition.
“Ladies and gentlemen, today is the day that you have been waiting for. Today is the Winter Festival and I am your judge and host. You can stay and see the contestants compete in this year’s winter sport, ice skating. But before that we are going to let you enjoy the festival. Have a happy holiday.” announced Mr. Rabbit.
Roxy and Snowy had so much fun that they almost forgot all about the competition. They were commenting on a pair of ice skates when they remembered that the competition was starting in 5 minutes. They quickly changed into their swan costumes so happy.
As they were getting their matching ice skates on, the judge asked,” Is everyone ready to see the two team competitors dance?”
“YES!!!” screamed the crowd.
“OK. Our two teams of contestants are Snowy Owl and Roxy Fox against Ray Deer and Lea Beaver! First up is Ray and Lea.”
Lea and Ray were wearing matching frog outfits and constantly leaped gracefully. But we did not worry because we practiced hard too. The crowd burst in applause.
Finally, it was our turn to skate. We slowly skated around our dance steps matching to the beat until the music got faster and faster until we ended posing just as the music stopped. The crowd cheered for us as we walked to our seats on the stage.
“The winner is,” the judge said as someone played a drumroll,” Roxy and Snowy!”
Roxy and Snowy each got a golden medal and the other team got silver medals. They also won the grand prize, which was the most beautiful ice skates they’ve ever seen. They celebrated by having Roxy’s