Once upon a time there was an old man who lived in an old
wooden shack on a long sandy beach next to the vast and beautiful sea. He was
happy and spent many long afternoons watching the numerous waves crashing onto shore, while he ate his warm supper and drank his nips of rum. Until one day, due to an iceberg melting off the coast of Antarctica, the sea
level rose and his house was swallowed whole. Due in part to the rising waves,
but also because erosion of the ill planned iron frame from the salty sea
breeze over the years caused rust build up and overall weaknesses to the structure, coupled with the wind worn and untreated wooden walls, meant the house buckled and went down under the weight of the first wave.
Seeing this, a huge Albatross called Albert, a local Diomedeidae resident who had watched the old man with great curiosity for some time now, swooped down and grabbed the drowning man, pulling his heaving body free from the tumescent waves. Unfortunately Albert, who had never picked up a human before, greatly misjudged the weight of the man and quickly came to realise carrying him the short distance to shore was going to be problematic.
This however proved futile in any respect as Charles, a 12ft Great White, surged out from the surf and latched onto the man, pulling both him and Albert into the water. What initially had been a grave error in judgement, with Charles mistaking the man’s limp figure (whom he had no wish to devour) as a delicious seal, he made light of the awkward situation by finding that there was also an albatross attached to the man. And albatross was certainly on his menu. In fact he had not had it in a while.
And so Charles, who was now faced with the awkward situation
of what to do with the man he had already nibbled on slightly, decided that his
father, Luminous Charlios the III, would have thought ill of Charles letting
food go to waste, and promptly hailed his friend Rudy, a Tiger shark
who had recently found chowing down on surfers quite the delicacy, and who had no problem removing the hindering situation from Charles fins.
Then Charles, the apex
predator of the sea, swam off happily and burden free into the depths of beyond,
content that he had done his good deed of the day.
The end.
