The Forest
The Sun god put the Pandavas and their wives in the forest. The god decreed that whatever food they gathered they had to set apart a portion of it for him. This angered the Pandavas and their wives. They worked so hard gathering their food. Most of the fruits in the forest were high up in the forest and plus there are hungry wild animals roaming all over the forest. The Pandavas and their wives hated their lives in the forest. They did not have a stable home, the rain was horrible, and they were not free to do anything. Their every move was watched by the Sung god.
After twelve long years of living the forest, they decided to formulate a plan to escape the forest. They had enough of the forest and the Sun god. Now, the forest was bordered with walls. The walls were impossible to climb over; they were so high. Therefore they decided to build a tunnel. They worked on the tunnel during the night because the sun god was not there. He only came out during the day.
When finally their tunnel was complete. They gathered all the food they had saved up and packed their belongings during the day for at night they were going go into the tunnel and escape the forest. When it was finally night time, they went to the tunnel only find that it was flooded with water from the rain from the day before. They had to reschedule their escape to another day when the flood went down.
Finally the day came when the tunnel was acceptable to crawl through. While the Pandavas were walking toward the tunnel, the Sun god was following close behind. The Pandavas and their wives did not know this but the Sun god uses the creatures of the forest as spies. One of the creatures informed him of their plan of escape.
One of them finally noticed that they were being followed by the Sun god and informed the group. The leader of the group offered himself as a sacrifice. He would run off and distract the Sun god so that the others could escape. The group had no other choice but follow through with this plan. The leader ran towards the Sun god and the rest of the group escaped.
Author's Note:
This story was based on the story of Life in the Forest. I kept the whole concept that the forest is a horrible place to live in because of the wild animals and bad weather. I wanted the story to be a little more adventurous so I made it a story about an escape, sacrifice, and courage.
"Life in the Forest" by Indian Myth and Legend (1913). Web Source: Public Domain Edition.
Sarah, I enjoyed reading your story. I liked how you decided to really amp up the concept that the forest was a really awful place to live; not much food to go around but many other creatures in the forest also fighting for that food, not having a stable home, constant rain, and little freedom. It really makes the forest sound like a place I wouldn’t want to be.
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