Question

I want to write a short story on opening line I open the door and found a fighting cobra

Answer 1

once upon i time i was going outside my home when i opened the door i saw that the cobra is fighting with mongooses it was very scary fight the cobra is trying to catch mongoose in his mouth and the mongoose is defended himself witha very bravery . and the fight continues for the long time. i felt very sad for the little mongoose then i thought to save him i call my mother and i took a big stone in my hand and threw it on the cobra the cobra died on the spot . and the little mongoose was saved and he ran from there
. title of story is a A Scary fight
hope it will help u

Answer 2

once a day i sleep amd just seen in our living room. My sister was playing outside with her friends and I heard my mom called her “Pelangi..where is sristi ?”..

Because he was asking where I was at that time, I thought what he saw was just a cat stealing our dinner. Therefore he yelled and tried to look for me just for saying “Why didn’t you close the door?”

I finished my prayer and I took off my mukena (Muslim’s praying outfit). I walked into the living room and I found my father across the door. He looked so terrified.

“Why didn’t you close the door?”

Just like what I guessed. But this time, he continued:

“There is a snake in our living room!”





I was shocked but not terrified. I already have two encounters with snakes.

One is when I walked to my college dormitory in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. A green snake slithered on my way. But I jumped over it. I didn’t know that it was such a risky option. Because that very green snake is venomous. I could have been bitten and dead. But I survived.

The other one is when I and my best friend went to the zoo. My friend was so obsessed with reptiles and she went to the phyton cage. One of the zoo attraction was a “pet” phyton which could be touched by visitors for selfie and yes, my friend went there. She played with the phyton and she asked me to join. I didn’t want to disappoint her excitement and eventually I had that large and heavy phyton on my shoulder. We took some pictures and we were proud of that.

Because of those “okay” encounters, I underestimated my husband’s fearful expression.

“Okay, so where is it now?”

“Behind the trash can,” he said

I walked into the trash can and I could see it there. In its “coiled” position. It seemed the snake was too afraid of moving.

“Okay, I’m gonna deal with this,” I said

“Are sure hunny? It’s a cobra,” he said

I stepped back. Cobra is known for its deadly venom. My mom soon called for help. Not long after that, our neighbours, all men, came with a bamboo stick. In our place, bamboo is believed to be the most “powerful weapon” against snake. I went outside the house and let them deal with the snake.

Then the snake was brutally killed by a bamboo stick. I told my mom they should not have killed it. Maybe the snake was disoriented and wrongly entered the house.But my mom told me the snake was too dangerous if we kept them alive. When it was attacked by our neighbours, it raised its spoon-like head and it spitted its venome. “Killing them is the best option,” my mom said





Naja sumatrana

Having a cobra snake cruising in your back yard or even in your living room is a common thing here. The villagers know this snake is dangerous so once they spot one they will immediately kill it.

At that time, I felt terrible with the snake. Maybe it was lost in my house and could not get back to its home. “Why do people need to kill them anyway?”

This question did not really bothered me until the second cobra found in my backyard. This time, the cobra slithered “bravely” among children who played freely in my backyard. It was my mom again who spotted the snake and yes, he screamed again. He asked the children to stay where they were and do not make any move. But my daughter, Pelangi, she was running toward the snake! My mom yelled “No, Pelangi!!! Don’t run!!”

She passed the snake which was already in its “ready-to-attack” position (just like snake in Inidian snake charmer scene). She could have been biten. I was terrified at that time. Then neighbours came with a bamboo stick and killed the snake. This time the snake had a brown skin with some pattern in its hood.

I wondered why there were many snakes in my house. We live in a house which is located inside rubber and oil palm plantation. Few years ago, my husband decided to take the job of researching estate crops and brought us to the villages inside large plantation. I had heard something about Cobra but I thought it was just farmers who needed to be alert of snakebite threats. But apparently, I was wrong.

Then my obssessive research in the internet started. I found the kind of Cobra that visited my living room was from the species Naja sumatrana, or the Equatorial Spitting Cobra. As scary as it may sound, it is one of the deadliest Cobra in the world. Its venom is classified as neurotoxin as well as cardiotoxins which means it strikes your brain and heart organs then damage it within hours from the bites. The scariest thing is, you don’t need to be bitten to get infected because it spits out its venom which is directed to the eyes of its enemy, causing permanent blindness. My jaw dropped. I was shaken. I believed, the brown cobra snake that was passed by my running child could have the same poison. My daughter could have been bitten and I could not imagine the worst scenario.