The Hunter and the Turtle by Kevin Samey

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In a small island off the coast of indonesia, there was a hunter. This Hunter loved to capture, enslave and kill animals for sport. Once, when The Hunter was on his usual kills and captures, he came across a small turtle which had been abandoned by its family. “Please, help me and put me in the water.” The Turtle moaned.

The Hunter saw the gash on The Turtle's chest and said, “I’ll patch you up.” He said with a toothy grin. He picked The Turtle up and brought it to his shed. After patching it up, The Hunter put it in a small terrarium of water and sand.

The Turtle floated up and said, “what’s for dinner?”

The Hunter looked up and said, “turtle soup.” The Turtle was too shocked to try to swim away, when The Turtle regained mobility, but it was to late.

A few weeks later, The Hunter saw tons of beached animals. He took them all in and healed them. Knowing the fate of the Turtle, when The Hunter slept, the animals would find red chuchu berries. Chuchu berries had the power to make you sleepy and feeble. They put chuchu in his Rice Porridge, in his yams, and they would squeeze it on his corn. The day that he planned to kill them, he was so tired that he fell straight on the floor. He almost hit his head and died but they don’t want him to die. They did not want to be like the Hunter.They took him and chained him to a rock 2 feet from shore and put a ring of sharp scrap metal around him to stop him from escaping and brought many tons of red chuchu berries to pile around him.

“How many animals have you have killed?” The Rabbit announced. The Frogs started to croak and the Hedgehogs started to hit the drums with their quills. Beautifully colored parrots and other birds started to squawk. Animals kept making sounds until it was a very loud ceremony.

“I’ve killed 78 different animals, but I've only killed to live!” The music got louder.

“Well,” The Rabbit chuckled. “It’s Ironic. The Hunter is being hunted.” At once all 78 animals roared, shrieked, trumpeted, croaked, and gnashed their teeth, including Sharks, Dolphins, and Whales.

“I hope you learned something.” The Rabbit said to The Hunter.

“Don't mess with us or we might use you to live!” They all said at once, like a combined force. The Hunter screamed and broke free, rushing into his village to tell his friends what had happened. Then the animals fell on the berries, crushing them into the sand of the beach, staining it red as blood. From that day on the Hunter's people called that shore the Red Shore.

The End