The Adventures of Puff the Magic Penguin Ch. 1

This is a bit of spore fan-fiction I made with one of my better creations, Puff.

Planet Pionot was a peaceful world, the various creatures all coexisting in perfect harmony: the big ate the small, the small ate the smaller, the smaller ate the smallest, and the smallest...well, tough luck. Among these creatures were a small race of penguin-like fishers, the Lookay. They lived peacefully along the coast of Pionot, feasting on the tropical rainbow fish not too far from their nest. Puff was an ordinary Lookay, barely into adulthood. But while fishing too far from his nest one day, an awful tempest threw the poor penguin far from his nest, many, many miles away. He awoke the next day to a world completely different from his own: geysers spout vicious red gas into the air, frosted mountains loom miles above, and strange creatures moved here and there: a green lizard with the end of his tail hanging down in front of him, a large mouse-like creature with huge ears, and a tiny bird scurrying behind a massive ape-like creature.
This was all very peculiar to Puff, of course, and his tiny brain struggled to comprehend this bizarre turn of events. his waddled over to a small aardvark-like creature, squeaking a question: "What IS this place?".
The aardvark looked at him quizzedly. "it's my nest.." and scurried along.
How strange. Puff ran after him. "I mean, where am I?" the aardvark paid no attention, busy sniffing the ground with its large nose. Puff tried one last time "hvae you seen any Lookay around these parts?'
With that the aardvark looked up. "well..."
"well, what?"
"we did have some of your kind here..until the hevrogrin came along..."
"hecrogrin?" puff asked, unsure what a 'hecogrin' was.
The aardvark looked surprised at what he had just said, then ran away muttering "shouldn't have said that, shouldn't have said that.."
More confused then ever, puff decided to ask that lizard over the in courner what the 'hecrogrind' was. But his stomach demanded more attention, and puff ran off to search-in vain- for anything that could suffice for food.

Happy New Year from New Orleans

It's the year 2009! And I'm sending you my greetings from New Orleans, where my dad has a conference. While everyone else is studying and doing homework, we're watching tigers at the zoo! Our hotel faces the Mississippi river. Yesterday, while we were checking out our glorious hotel room, boats were going by outside! We're going to stay here until Thursday, and we're returning to school on Friday :( but that's okay. My first night was not off to a good start, because we got caught in a thunderstorm and got soaked and then my dad snored so loud I could not sleep. But the week can only improve from here, right?
P.S. Our hotel has 2 heated pools!