麻豆社

By Eleanor W

Not so long ago there was a little crab, his name was Colin. Colin lived on the sea bed, in vibrant tropical warm waters surrounded by the most colourful fish and marine life you could imagine.

Colin looked like any other normal crab, he was bright orange, had two small beady black eyes, six walking legs, two swimming legs and two enormous claws that could crush a krill. Colin was a gentle crab and although he tried not to hurt any of his friends or family he was sometimes clumsy and nipped them by mistake.

One day he sighed sadly and thought to himself "I wish I wasn't so clumsy all the time'.

He decided to go to deepest, darkest part of the ocean so that he would be alone and not accidently hurt anyone anymore.

It was pitch black, freezing and a bit lonely because not many sea creatures ventured down to the deepest depths where Colin was.

One day a small, delicate Lantern fish swam over to Colin, it was so dark he hadn't noticed him lying so still on the sea bed. Colin was in a deep sleep and when the Lantern fish (his name was Larry, by the way) lit up it gave Colin a shock and he accidentally nipped Larry!

'Ow, Ow!' yelled the Larry. 'What did you do that for?'

"I'm so sorry, I'm so clumsy. I did not mean to hurt you.' cried Colin, just as much in shock as Larry.

'That's ok' replied Larry 'It didn't really hurt that much.' He lied, trying to spare Colin's' feelings because he could see he was quite upset. 'I'm ok.'

'Why are you down here?' asked Colin.

'I live down here but I am alone because I keep on shining my light into other creatures' faces' replied Larry. 'When I do they shout at me and tell me to go away so I thought if I stay here I won't disturb anyone'.

'That's why I'm down here too! I keep nipping everyone by accident with my enormous claws even though I'm a nice crab and I don't want to hurt anybody.' said Colin, getting a little tearful, again.

The two little creatures hit it off straight away and became firm friends. They played with one another every day and soon learnt that the Lantern fish's little light was actually extremely useful when they needed to search for food or find their way around or even when looking out for any dangers. They realised that Colin's' claws were also very handy for catching food and, most importantly, making dens to play in. Colin's' claws were also excellent at fighting off other creatures who thought either of them would make a tasty dinner!

The two little friends very soon realised that the traits they thought were negative and annoyed their friends and family were actually very useful, positive and helpful. They just needed to use them at the right time, in the place for the right reason.