Week 2 Story: Elephant and the Angry Ocean

 

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The elephant, although commonly portrayed in stories as being the wise soul, was my main character who turned out to be timid and foolish. The elephant traveled to a new environment and was scared to enter this new domain. 

One day, after days of traveling, an elephant found itself on new territory that he had never seen before- the beach. The elephant was used to dry, desert-like environments so he was very unsure of this new place. He was tired from all of the travelings he had done over the past few days, so he wandered up to the sand and although he was unsure, began to lay down for the night. The sky was dark at this point, so the elephant had no trouble closing his eyes to sleep.

As he was laying down he started to think about a story he had heard from a friend back home that there was a huge body of water in some places that had sand, that sometimes got angry and would start viciously flooding the towns. Although scared by the thought that might happen, the elephant was almost asleep until he heard huge crashing noises, one after another. He squinted his eyes to look, and just as he was able to make out what seemed like a body of water, a large wave crashed down onto him. He then heard a loud rumble from the sky and ran the opposite way as fast as he could.

As he passed other humans and animals he began to scream “The town is about to flood! Beware!”

The elephant kept running with fear in his eyes as another dog asked, “why are you running in a panic?”

The elephant stated, “I have no time to tell, the water is about to flood this whole town!”

The dog began to run next to him barking about the flood.

The loud rumbling noise was heard again right as the cheetah approached the elephant and the dog.

“What’s wrong, why are you guys so scared?” said the cheetah. 

“The flood is coming! The flood is coming!” cried the dog.

Soon, animal after animal began to join the group of scared running animals and caused the whole town to be sent into a panic. The residences in the town knew how dangerous flooding from the ocean could be, so they began to pack their stuff in preparation to evacuate.

Just then, the herd of animals ran into a flock of pelicans. 

“What is going on here?” asked the pelicans.

“The major flood is about to happen! I was sleeping on the sand when suddenly a large amount of water began to rise up and fell and crashed on me! I began to run and that made it angrier, so the whole thing began to make a loud rumbling noise!”

The wise pelicans began to howl with laughter and said “Silly elephant! That rumbling noise was just a thunderstorm about to happen! The ocean waves get larger whenever a storm occurs, you didn’t make anything angry.”

The elephant signed with relief and followed the pelicans, the wise animals of ocean-land, into a home so he would not be caught in the storm. One by one, the other animals returned home, relieved that no flood would be occurring that night.

Author's Note: I was inspired by the Anthology, "The Foolish, Timid Rabbitt". I loved the storyline, so used a similar plot, just with different characters and in a different setting. I used uncommon characters to make the plot less expected. 

Bibliography. "The Foolish, Timid Rabbitt" from Jakatas Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt. Web Source.

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