The Chief of Te urewera: Tama's Revenge

The Chief of Te urewera: Tama’s Revenge  

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Stomp, Stomp! Every step was as loud as the step of an enormous elephant. In the bright island of Te urewera lived a chief named Manaaki. The island had the softest sand and the most crystallized water. He was extremely loving and never gave up on anything. His eyes were as deep as the ocean blue. The only person that disliked him was Tama. Who knows what Manaaki had done to make Tama hate him.

One day Chief Manaaki questioned Tama “what do you want from me?” his reply was, “ Nothing! I don’t want anything from you, you mean big head!.” Tama was full of hatred boiling like a hot cauldron inside. Manaaki asked him “Is my head really that big?” while feeling his head. “OMG! just leave!” Tama shouted.

Three days later Tama was absolutely fed up, so he decided to kill Chief Manaaki. Later in the night Manaaki fell asleep. That was when Tama got thirsty for revenge. He got his patu and snuck out where Manaaki was sleeping. Clang! Tama stopped and realised that he had knocked something over, the feeling of fear spread across his face whilst looking over at Manaaki’s face. What he didn’t know was when Manaaki hears something loud he knows when someone is around and starts pretending to sleep. Tama had his patu over his head, suddenly Manaaki woke up and ran to get his patu. Tama and Manaaki started battling throughout the night.

Tama and Manaaki fought, pillow shreds floating everywhere as the patu’s flew all over the place shredding and smashing Manaaki’s belongings until they exhausted themselves. Manaaki popped the question to Tama “Why are you so mad at me? What have I done to make you so upset?” Tama began to explain, “Well, remember centuries ago we had competed in many activities, and in all those activities you won? I thought we were friends, you didn’t know how much I wanted those trophies!”

“Oh so this is what its all about!” Sighed the chief relieved to finally understand, “I still want to be friends with you. I’m really sorry Tama and to make it up to you I want to give you one of my trophies” Manaaki replied while handing the trophy over to Tama. Tama cried with excitement “Thank you so much and it’s alright and I would love to be your friend as well!” tears falling down his face as he grinned from one ear to the next.

A few months later, Tama and Manaaki were the best of friends and they worked on everything together. A Few days later they had just won their first  battle against other people from another island. From there, Tama and Manaaki promised each other they would stick together no matter what.