Lightning brings the new hero to life. He’s short, wears a yellow cat suit and is a feather, but curiously, this doesn’t hinder him, much.
At 8:14pm on Halloween a feather is struck by lightning. 20:14 hours or “twenty fourteen hours” was an exact anagram of the sacred Halloween chant of the ancients, “Notnefurt-Ou-thyweers,” which roughly translates into English today as, “Without effort you will yowl when thighs grow under your ears.” And Dave the Feather, now imbued with a life of his own, did, just before splash landing in an exceptionally muddy pen belonging to Tariq, an insomniac tortoise and an inventor, of sorts.
After an awkward introduction Dave leaves Tariq and goes off to fulfil his destiny, helping those of the world he now finds himself in.
Up the road from Tariq’s hutch Dave comes across two young girls having problems with a Movitall – an undergraduate poltergeist, not that he knows this ghoul is the source of their problems, just as they don’t.
Using some un-X-ray glasses (or Ray-Bans as they’re also known), thrown at him earlier by Tariq, Dave discovers what’s behind the girls’ problem with their missing school books and attempts to fix it.
Brave Dave - The Makings of a Hero, follows Dave in his self set task of helping those in trouble, through no fault of their own.