The King of Sharks

Once upon a time there was a little boy by the name of Pipatu, who was known as a prince. On a small island there he lived with his father and mother. Pipatu mother fell in love with his father on this island, when she knew that her husband has powers. The people of the village once told a story of the King of Sharks that was born as a shark and turned into a man, taken a bride in the village and they both had a son.

Pipatu's father always took him and his mother to the most beautiful place on the island. A waterfall of warm spring waters. Hidden a cave behind the waterfalls of a mysterious place. Pipatu's father told him never to dare go beyond the waterfall. Pipatu remembered when he was a little boy his mother will always call him away when he swim pass a rocky sloop which leads beyond the mysterious place behind the waterfall. She will call him out to eat fish cakes and warned him not to go to close.

One day his father went fishing beyond the waterfall and he told his wife if he did not return to please cover his sons birthmark with a special cape. The birth mark resembles a Shark tooth. She didn't understand but she promise to do as she was told.

Years passed and the father didn't returned from his fishing trip. Pipatu wore the cape everywhere he goes. Pipatu gotten curious over the years till one day on his twelve birthday. He felt it was time to check this mystery place once and for all without his mother ever knowing he adventured in beyond the waterfall. He went beyond and didn't return.

His mother was frighten and she went to the chief villager and told him of his disappearance. The Chief instructed all the people of the village to look for Pipatu. A boy from the village saw Pipatu cape near the waterfall. The boy called everyone to come see. "Oh no he went beyond the waterfall. This place is cursed. No one is allowed to go beyond, says the Chief villager"!

So they all decided not to ever come back to this waterfall again and they built a wall high filled with rocks, blocking the pathway to get to the waterfall. Pipatu mother cry and scream with hurt not to block his way back but they will not listen. The Chief said he will never come back, if he did come back, he will curse us all and everyone at the village will get sick and die.

Then, Pipatu's mother remembered a story her husband told her, that he is the King of Sharks and if Pipatu go beyond not to worry. He will be with him deep in the ocean water. She took the cape that was left behind and wore it every way she goes. Until one day the King of Shark came to her at a full moon and told her to follow him into the ocean and so she did. She took the form of a mermaid and swam off with her husband and son who are now deep blue sharks. She left the cape on a rock and the Chief villager saw the cape and took it back to the village and everyone died.

Moral of the story: Never block a reason to save a life, what you cape in will cape out.