Pourquoi story - How tattoos came to tonga

It is said that long ago, the first Tongan tattoos were made from a boy within one of the old tribes. It all started when he was asked to fetch water from the river in the forest. The path was shady, the trees seemed like a doorway leading to paradise as the place was blooming with life. The plants there had bright colours and the river there seemed smooth and flowing, the birds there had unique colours. He got distracted for a moment then decided to get some water before his parents got mad. Then he heard a splash in the water, turned back and looked in the water he assumed it must have been a fish.

Suddenly a tentacle wrapped around his ankle catching him off guard and almost dragging him into the water. He gripped the tentacle and tried to rip it off, more tentacles wrapped around increasing the difficulty to get out and decreasing the time to get out. He could taste the salt water in his mouth and the sting in his eyes he started attacking the octopus and then it sprayed ink all over the water, that’s when everything went silent...he leapt out from the water coughing. He looked at himself and realized he was covered in the ink after annihilating the octopus, he ran back to the village incase more aggressive creatures to tried to attack him, getting the water was the least of his concerns. When his mother saw him she asked: “What on Earth happened to you?” “I almost drowned to a octopus” The boy gasped.

Interested in the art but disgusted he decides to wash himself, he managed to get rid of the smell but the faint imprint from the marks were still there. Which he decided to draw on big rocks he came across. Later on the tribe decided to draw marks on themselves, some of the tribes people disfigured the tattoos and that's how more tattoos are made from as generations came this is the story of how tattoos came to Tonga. The environments in those times were beautiful but now they are cut down and used in many ways, this is why those interested cannot find where he went to collect water and maybe never will, so protect the environment for it serves many purposes.

For Tongan Language week we had to write a pourquoi story(myth/legend) about how Ngatu, Kailao, Tatatau, Umu, Ta'ovala or something in Tonga, came to Tonga (hopefully that wasn't too confusing). I wrote about how Tatatau/Tattoos came to Tonga. We didn't need to write names for our characters which is why my characters have no names.