A story about a boy who goes inside of the human body with an alien to discover symptoms of a disease.

1. A Strange Trip
Billy is a good kid who loves soccer. He and his friend Ted are planning to go to
a soccer camp during the weekend. He goes to his friend’s house to talk about
the camp. He gets to Ted’s house but something is wrong. Ted is in bed next to
his mother. Billy greets, “Hello Mrs. Jennings, hi Ted! What’s the matter? Why
are you in bed?” Ted with very soft voice answered, “I got the flu Billy. I don’t
feel well.” Then, Billy asks, “What do you feel Ted?” Ted is almost asleep but
he answers, “I have a headache. I feel very tired. The muscles of my whole
body hurt. I got a cough, runny nose and chills. I really feel terrible Billy!” Then
Mrs. Jennings says something that shocks Billy, “I don’t know if Ted will go to
the soccer camp.” Billy opens his mouth widely and his disappointment is
evident. But even though he wants to go with his friend to the soccer camp, he
is worried about Ted’s health and he wonders why this is happening to him.
Billy gets home and tells his mother about the disease that Ted has and the
symptoms he is having. He also tells her that Ted may not go to the soccer
camp. The boy asks his mother, “Mom why is Ted feeling bad? What’s wrong

2. with him?” and his mother answers, “Billy there is nothing wrong with him.
Ted got a virus.” Billy tries to understand what his mom just tells him. “A virus?
What is a virus?” He is very confused. He does not know what this thing is
called virus.
The kid goes to bed but he is still thinking about the situation that happened to
his friend. He lies in bed when a light shines in his window. Then, he sees a
flash of light in his bedroom. He cannot believe what he sees. It is an alien. The
figure gets closer to Billy’s bed and he is afraid. The alien says to Billy, “Don’t
be afraid. I am a friend. I’m not going to hurt you. I come to help you understand
what a virus is. I study your human body. Many of my friends investigate all of
the different processes that your human body does. It is very fascinating how
the human body works. I study your body’s diseases and how your body reacts
to them. Do you want me to explain it to you?” Billy is still afraid but he really
wants to understand how this virus made his friend feel so bad. The boy says,
“Okay you can explain it.” The alien tells him that a virus is a microorganism that
transports a disease into the human body. Then, he explains many types of
viruses, the symptoms and how the body reacts. But Billy does not understand
a thing. The alien looks at Billy’s face and asks him, “Do you understand?” and
Billy says, “Not a word.” So the alien thinks of a better way to explain it to Billy.

3. The alien tells Billy that his name is Eok. He is an alien from the planet Quartz.
They are a very technological planet. Eok has a spaceship that can take Billy
inside Ted’s body, in this way he can explain better how a virus can affect a
person’s health. Eok says to Billy, “Do you want to get inside your friend’s body
to see how the flu affects him?” Billy thought for a while then he told him, “If it is
not dangerous I”ll go with you!” Immediately, a spaceship appears in Billy’s
bedroom and they get in it. They go to Ted’s house and get in the bedroom and
Billy asked, “How are we going to get inside his body?” The alien responds,
“Don’t worry my spaceship has the ability to shrink to get into his body. Are you
ready?” Billy said with a worried face, “Ookay let’s gooooo!” And at once the
spaceship shrinks and gets into Ted’s nose.

4. Eok tells Billy, “Look there, they are the flu microorganisms. They are attacking
Ted’s body.” And Billy says, “But how did they get here Eok?” The alien
answers, “Well they are transported in the small drops of saliva and they go
from person to person. Look they are going inside Ted’s pharynx. Let’s follow
them.” Eok and the boy follow the germs and they see that they are attacking
Ted’s throat and nose. Billy whispers to the alien, “I understand why Ted has
cough and runny nose. His body is trying to protect him from the attack of these
germs.” “Yes” says the alien, “the body gives an alarm to the rest of the body
that something is wrong by producing fever, chills and tiredness.”
The alien is explaining Billy how the germs multiply and attack the body when
suddenly many of the microorganisms attack the spaceship and one can get
inside it. The germd tells Eok and Billy, “Get out of this, you are my prisoners.”
The two of them walk out of the spaceship. The germs attach and took them to
the esophagus where all germs are working to produce a sore throat. In there,
they see the leader of the germs that is giving orders of how to attack the
muscles and the head of Ted.

5. The germ says, “Who are you intruders? Are you some other virus? We got
here first! The alien say to the germ, “No, we are exploring this body.” The
leader reacts with anger, “No, you are a new medicine that is trying to destroy
us, but we are going to destroy you first.” Then, the leader tells the germs to
bring their virus syringes to contaminate them. While the germs are looking for
the syringes, Billy can untie his hands and runs into a dark canal; in there he
finds an army of white blood cells that are trying to find the germs. Billy tells
them, “I don’t want to hurt you. I’m escaping from the germs!” “Germs” said the
leader white cell, “We are looking for those germs. They hide very well. Can you
tell us where are they?” “Yes”, said Billy “Follow me.” Billy and the white blood
cells army are going to the esophagus. When they get there the white blood
cells army took by surprised the germs and they fight fiercely. The germs shoot
their contaminated syringes but the white blood cells use their shields. They
could destroy them completely. “Thank you”, said the white blood cells leader,
“We couldn’t destroy the germs without your help.” The alien and Billy says
good-bye to the white cell and he tells them, “Remember to eat plenty of fruits

6. and vegetables to be strong and healthy.”
The alien and Billy get to their spaceship and go out of Ted’s body. Billy is very
happy because he could help the white cells to destroy the flu germs. Eok
congratulates Billy and he tells him that he wants to be his friend. Billy answers,
“Yes, of course I’ll be your friend.” Then, the alien says good-bye. He gets into
his spaceship and goes into the space. Billy is very tired so he goes to sleep.
The next day, he visits Ted’s house and surprise! He is completely recovered
from his flu. He wonders if he really was in Ted’s body with the alien or if it was
a dream. Anyway, Ted is healthy again and they can go to the soccer camp
they wanted to. Ted says to Billy, “Well, let’s plan our camp. You know,
yesterday I had a dream about having somebody inside of my body. How crazy,
isn’t it?” “Yeah! How crazy!” said Billy and they go to play soccer.
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