The Fruit Salad Olympics – Day Fifteen

fruit salad olympics – day fifteen

 

Image Description:
A cheerful illustrated poster for the Fruit Salad Olympics. Set against a bright blue sky with fluffy clouds, the image shows four anthropomorphic fruits — a smiling strawberry, a happy pineapple, a cheerful blueberry, and a lively banana — all leaping joyfully with their arms raised. Above them, large cream-colored text clearly reads “FRUIT SALAD OLYMPICS” in bold block letters. Below the title are the five Olympic-style rings in blue, black, red, yellow, and green. The entire scene is flat and cartoonish in style, using clean lines, vivid colours, and a playful tone

 

The Fruit Salad Olympics – Day Fifteen – Redemption in the Rain

 

No one knew what the final event would be.

The scoreboard simply said:
“Unity Relay – All Teams Welcome.”

Rain still misted gently across the Fruit Bowl Stadium. The sky was purple with dusk. But the stands were full, the crowd hushed, and the torch still burned.

The Unity Relay
Eight teams. One lap each. No competition — just cooperation. One baton, passed from fruit to fruit, across teams, across differences, across the last day of the Games.

Each team chose one runner:

* Banana B.A. Peel (Tropical)

* Bluebell Blueberry (Berry Blast)

* Granny Smith (Orchard)

* Olive (Medley)

* Clementine Chloe (Citrus Surge)

* Gooseberry Gus (Wildcard)

* Pineapple Pete (Tropical, second lap)

* Final leg… left open.

The race began slowly. B.A. ran steady. Bluebell skipped. Granny marched. Olive glided. Pete charged through the puddles like a pineapple on a mission.

But on the seventh pass — the final handoff — the track was empty.

Then, a hush.

And then… he stepped onto the course.

Rogue Raspberry.

No announcement. No entrance music. Just a fruit who had once fallen, standing tall again.

He wore no team colours. Only a simple leaf tied around his shoulder. The crowd stood.

Clementine Chloe offered him the baton with a nod.

“You came back.”
“I never really left,” he said. “I just had to grow into myself.”

He ran the final leg — not fast, not showy, but steady. At the finish line, all eight runners stood together.

There were no medals. No standings.
Only the scoreboard lighting up with one final message:

“Juicy and Proud — Together.”

After the race:

* Granny Smith walked over, handed Rogue Raspberry a towel and said, “Took your time, but you made it.”

* Figaro the Fig performed a reprise of “Raspberry Requiem”, now retitled “Return of the Seed.”

* Olive gave him a seat at Team Medley’s dinner table. “We’ve always got room for one more.”

Rogue Raspberry’s message, later shared with the Coconut Courier:

“Being part of something means more than being the best.
I thought I had to win to be worth anything.
Turns out, I just had to show up and care.”

Tomorrow:
The Closing Ceremony.

But tonight, under soft drizzle and stadium lights, every fruit went home a little sweeter.