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Strangers Like Me
Feb. 8, 2008
Assignment 17
A retelling of the song Huma-Huma-Nuka-Nuka-Apuwa'a from High School Musical 2 (extended edition)
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Part One: Prince into Fish
A long time ago in a land for away lived The oceanographer queen Atla and her son Ikan. Ikan was a handsome prince with handsome features and a bad attitude toward all marine life.
“Fish are stupid,” he said to his mother one day as she was feeding some friends in the aquarium.
“Boy don’t be so negative,” she scolded, “fish or a vital part of the largest ecosystem on earth and studying them will help us make better choices about our impact on the environment. You must always remember Ikan If you do not respect the land and the sea the land and the sea cannot respect you.”
But Ikan did not heed his mother’s stern but delicate words. And his spitefulness for all aquatic life remained unscathed growing bolder and more present as he grew older.
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One day while helping his mother test the vitality of some coral reefs he saw a dolphin swimming in the water.
“Hey, come here you stupid dolphin,” Ikan called out to it mischievously. “I’m not going to hurt you.”
But the dolphin was smart and knew the impish lad’s deceptive ploy and would not come. This made Ikan very, very angry. So angry that he decided to teach the defiant dolphin a lesson. He waited for the right moment when his mother was unawhere of his actions then he snatched a harpoon from her boat and trusted it into the side of the great sea mammal.
Then something unexpected happened. The dolphin burst into millions of pieces and from those pieces fashioned a strange white bearded man with the upper body like a person and the lower body like a fish. He struck the waves with his trident and gave out a great yell.
“Atla! What is the meaning of this?” He called crossly pulling the harpoon from his side with a mighty grunt.
"Father," Ikan mother began speechlessly "I. . ."
“You teach this boy nothing,” the mystical stranger interrupted with a large boom. “It was bad enough that you left home to wed a common fishermen and live among humans taking on their behaviors but then you allow my grandson to disrespect his true heritage!”
“Oh great Poseidon It is all my fault. I admit my folly. I should have chastised my son more thoroughly. I neglected to teach him the truth about who he was and where he came from. Please, please father punish me and spare my only child!”
But Poseidon was not moved by his daughter’s emotional display. Thus he turned to the boy and began to pass judgment upon him.
“Ikan because of your insolence and complete disregard for the safety of aquatic life you will be cursed to wander the darkest, deepest depths of the sea as a fish for all eternity.
With that the waters opened eagerly awaiting to swallow the young boy whole. Without warning Poseidon wrapped his massive tail around Ikan’s waist ripping him from the grip of his mother's arms and flinging him into the belly of the ocean to be digested by the angry sea forever…
However, forever isn’t always forever. And Ikan remained bounded by the sea only until the sporadic day 2,000 years later when a very special pineapple princess made a very special wish.
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Part Two: Fish into Prince coming soon |
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