Champi Coloso =link= — Coloso

The lead raccoon added, "You are not too glow-y. You are a beacon."

He reached the riverbank just as the flood was at its worst. He didn't think. He just did . coloso champi coloso

He held that dam for three hours, until the storm passed and the flood began to sink back into the earth. The lead raccoon added, "You are not too glow-y

Plomp. Plomp. PLUMP. He waddled faster than he had ever waddled in his life. He just did

Coloso plunged his root-legs deep into the mud at the narrowest part of the gorge. He braced his thick stem against the current. Then he tilted his enormous cap forward, forming a perfect, glowing shield.

Another day, he tried to play hide-and-seek with the raccoons. He waddled behind a giant boulder, but his glowing gills gave him away instantly. The raccoons didn't even bother to look. "We see you, Coloso!" they giggled. "Too glow-y!"

The other animals called him “Coloso” for short, but they whispered it with a mix of awe and a little bit of giggling. You see, Coloso Champi Coloso was a giant mushroom. Not a mushroom in the way that a toadstool is a mushroom—small and easily kicked over. No, Coloso was a magnificent, ten-foot-tall, creamy-golden fungus with a cap as wide as a cartwheel and a stem thick as an ancient oak.