Te kiwi tuatahi

Once there was a tree called Aroha for it brought heaps of love. The tree produced kiwi fruits was the only source of food in the area other than the lake. How ever there was not only one tribe in the area, and the tree was on one of the tribe Kuatikia’s land so the other tribe Towhiatihuia had to go without. But Towhiatahuia was planning to attack and take the other tribe kuatikia’s land. The Kuatiki tribe was also very selfish and would not share anything that was on their land so was disliked by many other tribes, and had many enemies. As night fell the Towhiatihuia tribe made thier way towards the land of Kuatikia.But through the trees they saw the flickering of light and realised that another tribe from the area was about to attack as well. So the Towhiathuia tribe decided to go around and attack from the opposite side. As they drew closer they blew out their torch and snuck around the bushes getting ready to attack. They ran into the marae and started to fight both tribes at the same time. An hour passed and it looked like the Towhiathuia tribe had won. Then a person shouted titiro, everyone looked towards the kiwi fruit tree to see a person from the Kuatikia tribe yelling something into the night sky.Standing by the tree he said, maka ahau he kanga ki runga ki tenei rakau . Kia tetahi hua kiwi mataati tahuri ki te manu . Then he turned towards the tribe and yelled Ki te kore e taea e tatou e to te reira kahore he tangata e taea. Before getting stabbed in the chest by a spear. Falling to the ground his blood trickled onto the tree and with a bright flash six ripe kiwi fruits turned into small brown flightless birds with long beaks. Disappointed the Towhiatuhuia tribe named the bird a kiwi after the tree.