Narrative Task
Sunday, November 20, 2011 @ 10:56:00 AM
The First Mosquito
Long time ago, there was a poor farmer with his beautiful wife. The farmer always worked very hard but his wife never even cared about their household. They lived in a small house like any other farmer's house. His beautiful wife didn't feel satisfied with their poor condition. She thought, his husband supposed to work harder so she could take care of her beauty. To grant her wish, the farmer work even harder. But, no matter how hard he has worked, he still couldn't grant his wife's wish. Besides asking for beauty medicine to keep her beauty, she also asked for expensive clothes.
"How can I look beautiful if I wear ugly clothes?" she said.
Because she had too much attention and thoughts about her beauty, she forgot to take care of her health. She felt ill. The illness got worse and worse each day, and she died. Her husband was really sad. Everyday he cried because of his wife's body that lied in front of him with no power, with no life. Because he didn't want to lose his wife, he didn't burry her body. He still wanted to revive her soul. He wanted to make her come back to the world. To make her alive.
The next day, the poor husband sold everything he had to buy a canoe. With a canoe, he brought his wife's body accross the lake to a place where Gods live. Gods will revive my wife, they will bring back my wife, he thought. Although he didn't know where exactly the place where the Gods lived, he had to keep paddling the canoe. One day, there was a thick fog and it blocked his view until his boat stucked. After the fog evaporated, he saw a really tall mountain that had it top crashed the cloud. Here's the place where the Gods live, he thought. Then he climbed the mountain while bringing his wife's body. And he met an old man
"You must be the God," the farmer was so sure. Then he told the old man why he came there. The old man smiled to him, and he said
"Really, you're a good husband. But what's the point of bringing back your wife?"
"She means everything to me. She's the one who makes me excited for my life. So please, bring her back" the farmer begged him once again. The old man nodded.
"Okay then, I'll grant your wish. To reward your kindness and your hardwork, I'll let you know how to bring back your wife. Prick your finger tip, splash three drops of your blood to her mouth, and she'll back to her life. If she do anything bad, remind her that she lives from 3 splashes of your blood". The farmer did what the old man said and he was right, she came back. She was alive, again. Without thinking any longer, the happy husband brought his wife back. But then the wife realized. With that canoe they used, her husband had nothing. So how could she take care of her beauty?
One day, they arrived in a crowded harbour. The farmer went to the market to find food for their journey, and left his wife for a while. There was a big great ship owned by wealthy merchants. Amazed by the beauty of the farmer's wife, the wealthy merchants asked her to go with him.
"If you go with me, I'll give you anything you ask," he said to her. She was really seduced. So she went with him.
Back from the market, the farmer was so shocked that his wife was gone. He went everywhere to find her but it was nothing. She was nowhere.
A year later, he met her wife. But she refused to live with him again. The farmer suddenly remembered of what the God had told him,
"Really, you never know how to thank me. Just you you know, you came back to this world because you drank 3 splashes of my blood" he said to his wife.
His wife laughed and mocked him.
"So now I need to give your 3 splashes blood back, don't I? Okay then...."
She pricked one of her finger trip by meaning to give it back to her husband. But, after the third splashes of her blood, her face suddenly became pale, her body was so weak and weaker and then she felt to the ground. Died.
After died, she transfigured to a mosquito. Then, for the rest of her night, the mosquito who used to be a beautiful woman, tried so hard everywhere, sucking people's blood just to be back to her original form. To become a beautiful woman.
xoxo,
Gita♥