Have you heard about the tortoise and elephant race?

Anyway, story story..?

Once upon a time?

There was a day that the lion, who was the king of the animal kingdom declared his throne vacant and contestable. Only to be won through competition- by the winner of a running competition and the whole animals were divided themselves into two groups- each under the two animals with the highest bragging rights- the elephant and the tortoise..

The tortoise talked far more than elephant and declared to boldly and publicly to the elephant before all the other animals, that he would win him in the race and beat him to the throne without breaking a sweat..

Yes, he did boast all he could even the cheetah that was the fastest land animal, and the birds were all there, though they could not gain the opportunity to contend because the elephant and the tortoise had the highest bragging rights to. So, every other animal fell under these two as though they were political groups.

Almost, if not all the animals were in support of the elephant except the monkey who was the tortoise's dearest friend..

On noticing that, the tortoise smartly and trickily moved for a motion that the race should be ran in the dark, at night time without any light on, claiming that he worked best in the dark and even though the elephant showed an initial protest, he accepted to because the tortoise taunted him that he was only looking for a reason to fearfully back out from the race competition.

But the tortoise had a plan with his dearest friend- the monkey, to whom he revealed it he travelled and called out all his fellow tortoises from the surrounding animal kingdom settlements and sneaked them into his own kingdom after telling them his plans and how it would gain global respect for the all tortoise from other bigger and stronger and more gifted animals especially the elephants.

He hid them all until the night of the race since they accepted his motion for a night race.

And so..the race started..the strategy was simple: put off all the lights and have the monkey, his friend, position each of the numerous imported tortoises at strategic points, especially at the major turns on the race tracks, such that no matter how the elephant ran, he would still see a tortoise ahead of him with the main tortoise standing in a hidden position close to the finish line. He was to stand there with a little container of water to use for organizing sweats- a supposed indication of his running.

The game was on, and began in earnest with all the lights off as planned and the race began. The elephant saw a tortoise by his side and regarded him as the original tortoise and started running, and of course, he passed him and he felt elated and not long ago, by the corner as he turned, was another tortoise running. And he felt it was the tortoise he had previously passed and he was shocked and worried..

The events continued in this manner- the elephant running passed a tortoise only to discover another ahead of him.

He began to panic and despair and to his greatest dismay, as he was turning the corner to the finish line, the original tortoise- whose mouth could brag for the whole solar system was just running to the finish line thereby winning the race.

With lots of supposed sweats on his face- courtesy of his container of water..he bent, panting and accepting the cheers of some of the most shocked animals and was busy asking for handkerchiefs to clean off his false sweats.

My fellow country people, na so the guy arrange himself as king o. Shame and confusion wan massacre the elephant. The thing do am like Indian film..

That is the end of my story..