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The Brave Monkey

By Putra Siregar and Fajar Fathurrahman

Once upon a time, there was a rain forest. There were many animals lived in there. The trees were green and big. The lake was full of water and the animals live peacefully. They always share with each other animals.

But one day, there was a very long dry season. The lake was starting to dry. The animals were afraid if the lake didn’t contain water at all, they will suffer. They were also afraid if the trees and the other plants would die. Then, their worried became true. The lake was fully dry and didn’t contain water anymore. The animals were very worried if they wouldn’t survive from this dry season.

When all of the animals had give up, the monkey had an idea.

“I have an idea. There is a dam outside of our forest, near the human village. We can make a ditch that connects from the dam to our lake. Then, we destroy the dam and BOOM, water will fill our lake.” said the monkey.

“Nice idea. But who is brave enough to get out from the jungle?”

“I will go and destroy the lake. I just need some animals to dig the ditch. Come on all. This is for our forest. Who want to help me raise your hand.” said the monkey.

With the words that full of spirit from the monkey, many animals raised their hand and join the monkey. Then the next day, they start they plan. Many animals dig the ditch and the monkey went to the dam. He planted 100 of dynamites. After war enough from the dam, he pushed the destruction button and BOOM, the dam exploded and the water start to flow to their lake. All of animals were very happy. They were so proud to with the monkey braveness.

A few days after that, some rhinos came to their forest to have a water to drink because their lake was out of water. The animals gave them permission to drink of course. But the rhinos weren’t satisfied. They had a plan to take the lake as their territory. The next day, they didn’t let any animals to drink from the lake.

“This is our lake now. None of you may drink from our lake” said one rhino, as their leader.

The animals were very angry. But, they also afraid of the rhinos because the rhinos were big and very strong. So, the monkey once again had an idea. The monkey recruited some animals to be his crew. They made a hole surrounded the rhinos to trap them when they were asleep. In the morning, the rhinos woke up and wanted to go for a drink. When they started to walk, they were fall to the trap.

“Help us, help us.” shouted all the rhinos.

“We will help you to get out from there if you get out from our jungle and leave peacefully.” said the monkey.

“Ok. We will go peacefully from your forest and get back to our forest.”

Then, all the animals help each other to pull the rhinos one by one. After that, all the rhinos were survived to get out from the hole. As their promise, they left the forest peacefully and went back to their own forest.

After that case, the animals in the forest lived peacefully whether it was dry or wet season. After the lion, the king of the jungle had died; the animals chose the monkey to replace the lion's place as a king. With the monkey’s braveness and intelligent, he became a wise king and all the animals lived happily in the forest forever.