Time to be Creative: Five-Word Fiction #03 | As you sow so you reap

Brother @damithudaya has announced another great contest. Honestly saying I am waiting for this contest after the last one. Thank you for creating this brilliant contest, Time to be Creative: Five-Word Fiction #03. Let me start my story.

Since morning my old Dad was repeatedly forbidding me to go to work. But I can't give up our family business. Although my father has always hated us for doing this, it doesn't matter to me. I enjoy my job very much.

I left home early in the morning. The purpose is to stay for a while at our cottage on the edge of the forest and see the situation in the forest. Today there is great job potential. My friends have already left too.

Sitting in the cottage I could hear the sweet sound of the river. Because of this river, our work becomes much easier. My friends have come. Some distance away from our cottage is a barren forest. The place is perfect for elephant hunting.

Yes, I am a hunter. My profession is to hunt elephants and sell their tusks. I do this with great pleasure. Elephant hunting is like an addiction to me. I am not bothered about my work whether it is good or bad, I'm not upset about it. Nothing compares to the joy I get while hunting.

My friend Jack said today it would be better to go a little deeper into the forest and climb a tree and wait. He has been following a big elephant for the past few days. Today we will hunt that elephant. The elephant comes to the river in groups to drink water in the afternoon. That's the perfect time to hunt.

As the evening came, we took our respective positions and waited silently for our prey. And there it came suddenly, the magnificent beast. It was beautiful. But more importantly, its tusks were white as snow. We took aim and then BOOM!!! The mighty beast fell. We waited in case the herd was nearby. But instead of a few more beasts what came for her was a little elephant baby.

It was her child. Most of my friends didn't care about the little elephant. But deep down, I knew I was guilty for taking a mother from her child. The child who now will find itself lost in this seemingly endless and deadly wilderness no idea if it will survive to see the light of another day.

After a while, the little elephant left hearing our noises. After all of my friends had come down, I started to get down. I was feeling guilty but the joy of the hunt was still in me. I tried to get down fast while trying so, I slipped and suddenly I fell nearly 20 feet from the tree. At first, I thought I died. But after I realized I was alive, pain shot up throughout my entire body. I saw that I was bleeding and my right leg was twisted the other way around. Suddenly, the world turned black…..

I woke up, I don’t know when, but all I saw was white. Then after my eyes came to focus, I saw my mom and dad sitting next to me my mom sobbing silently while my dad had a blank face and emptiness in his eyes. My mom asked me how I was feeling. I told her I feel better.

My dad came up to me and said that my backbone received enormous damage and had to be operated on critically. And my leg was damaged beyond repair. Thus, they removed it from my body entirely. And I was to spend the rest of my life crippled in a wheelchair knowing that it was the price I had to pay to snatch away the life of an innocent mother and might as well the life of her innocent son.