The disturbed creatures
Syed Raiyan Abu Zafar
It was early in the morning, though the light outside their igloo remained the same throughout the day. Mr and Mrs Penguin put on their traditional long white and black clothes. They were going shopping for groceries.
Gentoo, lets go before the Chinstraps get to it and fish it all out, Mrs Adelie Penguin urgently said to her husband.
In a not so far away river, the Bettas were getting ready, too. In fact, the Bettas, like the other residents of the fresh water river, actually need to go out shopping for groceries as well.
Back home in Bangladesh, Rahim was wrapping a colourful piece of cotton cloth, or gamchha, around his head. His wife, in a bright striped saree, was already at the river, with her earthen pots and pans for washing and collecting water.
In Antarctica, Gentoo Penguin and the Chinstraps had already begun shopping, with their beaks. Theirs is a very unique way of shopping, where they poke the snow-covered land and get their fish. No amount of money can buy them fish otherwise.
The shopping experience of the Bettas is very unique as well. Although, like us, they do not have to shop for oxygen, they do have to dive deep down to catch worms, shrimps and other food sometimes dropped by people, who are trying to evict the likes of Bettas from their homeland. Not so far away, the Ocean is the home of the cookiecutter shark, bristlemouths, anglerfish and viperfish.
On the other hand, the Rahims do have to go to the market to buy food, like the rest of us. However, they do not always go for shopping as the Rahims like to grow their own food, and give out a large portion of that to the city for a little profit. The Rahims also depend on the Bettas, who in turn depend on the Rahims for food.
While all this cycle of life is going on, suddenly the villain plays its part. The villain comes down with the sun rays in the guise of Infra-Red Radiation (IRR). The villain likes to land on Earth, but the Earth does not like it at all. So, it sends IRR back to the atmosphere. In the air, there is Mr Carbon Dioxide, Mrs Nitrous Oxide and Mr Methane who suck the energy out of IRR. After the air is finished robbing the villain of its energy, it no longer has use for it and sends it back to Earth. This really makes the Earth heat up.
One day, suddenly, the Penguins find the floor beneath their home melt away. The viperfish find their Ocean home rising, and they land up in the hometown of the Bettas. The Bettas dont like the viperfish so much as they make their homes all salty.
Meanwhile, the Rahims, though good swimmers, find themselves having to swim with all their pots and pans in the salty water. Their cows have to swim as well and they dont like that. The Rahims feel sad leaving them behind at home, so they take them along. One thing the Rahims cannot save is their food or crops, which get destroyed with salty water from the sea.
The Rahims, the Penguins, the Bettas and the viperfish have one common enemy _ the IRR villain. However, what the others do not realise is that the Rahims are also their enemies. So are the Rahims friends, who own greenhouses where plants are reared in a special way.
