The Crocodile and the Shark
by Farhan Syafiq
Once
upon a time, in the river estuary lived a crocodile and a shark. They were not
good with each other, and not a single day passed without them fighting for
food. Their battle was so intense, and no animals could even stop them. Both
were equally strong, and vicious. One day, both of them were too bored to
fight, because each time they fought the outcome always draw. Then the
crocodile told shark about his idea to prevent them from fighting again.
“Hey shark,
let’s make a deal. How about we divide our territory into two? Yours is the
sea, and you can only hunt on the sea. While my territory is the river, and I
can only hunt on the river.”
“Hmmm,
sounds good to me. Deal.” said the shark with smirk.
Day
by day and not a single battle occurred on the estuary, both shark and
crocodile had agreed to respect each other’s territory. Until one day, the
shark began hunting on the river surreptitiously. He did this so that the
crocodile won’t know his doings. At first his act went smoothly, but one day
the crocodile caught the shark chasing a fish. The crocodile was furious to see
the shark broke his promise. The shark who didn’t feel any guilt said,
“I
broke the deal? Look, it was not my fault that the fish that I chased a few minutes
ago suddenly enter your river. The fish was a sea fish, so it’s only right that
the fish belongs to me!”
“What?
But river is my territory, so that means that fish belongs to me!” replied the
crocodile angrily.
“No!
Everything that comes from the sea belongs to me!” said the shark did not want
to lose.
“You….you
looking for troubles aren’t you? Let’s settle this now!”
Because
not one of them wanted to lose, the battle between them happened again. But
this time, the battle was more intense than before. They tackled, and bit each
other ferociously. Suddenly the water turned red with blood from the wound of
these two powerful beasts. They continued to fight tooth and nail without a
break. In the end the crocodile launched a fatal blow near the shark’s tail,
and then the shark swam back to the sea fatally wounded. The crocodile were
satisfied to be able to defend his territory.
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