Original Story: Short Stories: The Tortoise and the Hare by Aesop (eastoftheweb.com)
Story Concept: The original story is a hare that boasts it is the fastest animal and can beat anyone in a race. The tortoise overhears this and challenges the hare to a race. The hare accepts the challenge and the two animals race off. The hare outruns the tortoise and then stops to take a nap. The tortoise gets ahead of the resting hare and the hare sees the tortoise close to the finish line and knew it’s too late to catch up. The tortoise wins the race against the hare and says, “Slow and steady wins the race”. My version of this story would be that the hare and the tortoise are humans and instead of racing, they are having a fighting match. The hare being a street fighter who fights recklessly, while the tortoise is a martial artist using strategy and skills to beat the hare.
Characters: The hare and tortoise are the only characters in this story. In my version they are both pre-teens who are brothers. Hare is a 14 year old street-fighter while Tortoise is a 13 year old martial artist.
Story: One day while watching a fighting match between two people on TV in a small apartment complex, Hare starts a debate on who would win in a fighting match between a street fighter and a martial artist. Tortoise claims a martial artist would win and Hare argues a street fighter would mop the floor on MA. Hare challenges Tortoise to a bout in their backyard. Hare makes the first move and throws hysterical punches at Tortoise which aren’t connecting. Tortoise is analyzing his brother’s movements and waiting for an opening to strike Hare. Hare continuously throws reckless punches at Tortoise and Tortoise finally spots an opening on Hare and one-shots him with a karate chop to the neck. Hare collapses and is knocked-out. Tortoise whispers to the knocked-out Hare, “Always battle strategically.”
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