The New assistant , A story

 

Once lived a lion, who was king of the jungle. His assistant, the fox had moved to another jungle so he was searching for a new assistant. He had called all of his subjects in the jungle to tell them about an idea he had to appoint his new assistant. He wanted to host a challenge between a few animals for the place of the assistant. Everyone was welcome even the tiniest ant or the largest elephant. Four animals had appeared for the challenge. They were the cheetah, the rabbit, the tiger and the lizard. Everyone was shocked seeing that the lizard, which was so small had come to compete but the lizard was determined to win. Before the challenge had begun, the lion had announced that there would be four rounds. They were about agility, strength, smartness and bravery. First round was about agility. They had to run around the whole jungle and back, the first animal that crossed the finish line would win this round. The cheetah came first as everyone expected so he won the first round. The second round was about strength. They had to carry logs on their backs and drop it at the end of the finish line. Each animal had its own set of logs and the first animal that could finish carrying all of their logs would win. The challenge had begun. The tiger took the lead while the rabbit, cheetah and lizard struggled. Eventually the tiger won. Next round was about smartness. There was a lake nearby where the only way to get across was to step on stones on the lake which were very slippery, so they had to be very careful. The challenge had begun. The tiger went first he was very overconfident and tried to jump to the other side but he failed. The rabbit and cheetah thought that they could jump over the lake because they were also overconfident. They both had failed but the lizard had made a plan, he carefully jumped from stone to stone and reached the other side to win this round. Everyone was so shocked because he was so small. The competition continued. The next round was about bravery. The challenge this time was that there was another lake on the other side of the jungle which was filled with many vicious fish called piranhas.  Their challenge this time was to get across without getting bitten. The lion had sent one of his subjects to go check if they would actually do it without cheating. The tiger chickened out from his experience with the last challenge. He went back to the king and lied to him saying that he went across. The rabbit and cheetah did the same but the lizard had a plan. There was a tree right near the lake which had a branch right above the lake so the lizard climbed onto the tree branch and carefully jumped to the other side and went and told the lion that he had done it. Just then the monkey who was sent to watch the animals came and told the king that the tiger, rabbit and cheetah had lied and only the lizard had spoken the truth. The lion had announced the lizard as his assistant because he knew that he would be truthful and trustworthy . Everyone cheered for the lizard while the lion banished the rabbit, tiger and   the cheetah. The lizard was proud of himself as he knew that his hard work had paid off.

Moral: Hard work is always the key to success.

The End