Smut was a young red ant. He was an explorer and his task to search foods. There were many division of labor in ant kingdom: the guards, the workers, the burrow makers, and the baby feeders. One day, after he successfully got foods, Smut walked aimlessly. "Up! What is a long and has much legs?" Smut cried when there was a long creature with a lot of leg.
Suddenly, there was a voice directed at him, "Apparently, you have not much experience. He is a centipede. There is a longer and bigger but no legs, called snake!"
Smut seek thoroughly and said, "Who are you?"
"My name is Walang. I am the eat leaves grasshoppers," said the creature on the tree branch. "Young ant, come here. Come up to my back! I will take you to fly. At the tree top we can see around. " Walang persuaded him. After being persuaded many times, finally Smut got at the back of Walang. Then Walang flew to a very high branch. "Look at around! Our nature is very beautiful, isn't it?"
Smut was happy. "Right! From the top, my eye is not obstructed by rocks, bushes, grass, or anything else. I can see afar!" said Smut.
Walang also invited him to fly to elsewhere. "Please, tomorrow you come here again! I will take you to the new place!" Since then, Smut and Walang became friends. Smut was very lucky. When on the back of Walang, he could see some foods. He became the best among the ant explorers. But Smut kept his friendship with Walang secretly. There was no day that they passed to explore from one place to another.
Long dry season arrived. Soil becames dry and cracked, tree and bushes dry. The dry season depleted the food supply of the red ant kingdom. There was no more food again for them. Then the queen held a contest in search of food. "I will give The Ant Warrior Stick to the champion!" In hope to get the stick from the queen, the explorer ants worked more hardly to look for food. But the long dry season made their task more dangerous. Some of the explorer ants did not come back to the kingdom, they dead.
Smut though of Walang. He went to meet his friend, but he had a bad aim. "If I kill Walang so I can get the stick," said Smut to himself. "I'll invite Walang to fly to my kingdom. When he landing, I will call my friends to attack him."
Walang did not know the content of Smut's heart. He welcomed Smut friendly. "Please, come up to my back. I will take you to fly again."
"But do not fly to high, I am afraid," said Smut. In fact, during this, he was never afraid of heights. The real intention, when he bit Walang and fell so he was not injured seriously.
"Ok," said Walang and carried Smut to fly low. On one occasion, Smut bit Walang's neck. "Why did you bite my neck?" asked Walang.
"I just hold on. I almost fell," said Smut, lied.
Walang said, "Never mind!" Smut hesitated and did not continue to bite. Then he took Walang to fly toward his burrow. Walang obliged Smut's ask without suspicion. But, when Smut saw his kingdom and his friends, he changed his mind. Smut told Walang to fly to another place. "Why ask me to turn direction? What's happen?" asked Walang.
"Nothing," replied Smut. After falling from Walang's back, Smut became depressed.
"Why are you be sad?" asked Walang.
Smut answered, "The dry season made the ant in trouble."
"We all go trought it. That's natural. The grasshopper has left eggs for the next season," said Walang. He was not nimble anymore. "Now, I am not strong enough to fly. Consider this as our last flight! My body have become weak because no fresh leaves can be eaten. There is only dry leaves and not nutritious."
"My queen held a contest to find food," said Smut. "The champion will be given The Ant Warrior Stick."
Walang said, "Your queen is very smart. By that way you will work harder. If you want to get the stick, please, come here three days after!"
Show romanization The dry season was very fierce. Days Smut explored to find food but he never found it. The next three days, Smut remembered Walang's words. Smut immediately went to met Walang. He looked at to the branch where Walang always perched. He did not find his best friend. "What is that?" Smut cried when he saw hundreds of grasshoppers laid and dead. Smot worried about his friend. He looked for Walang, but Walang also dead. "Walang!" Smut cried loudly.
His scream invited the other red ants. The flock of red ants went to his sound direction. They found Smut in the middle of dead grasshoppers. The red ants cheered, "Smut is hero! Smot is patriot! He safe the red ants!" Show romanization
An old red ant said, "The age of grasshoppers just one season. But it is first time for me to see the grasshoppers died together in a place. I think that there is a grasshopper who invited his friends to die together in this place."
Smut be the champion and entitled of the stick. But at the day of delivery of the stick, Smut was not in place. Where was he? Smut was crying at the branch where Walang always perched. "Walang my brother, forgive me. I almost betrayed our brotherhood. I almost traded you with the stick that was useless. There is no more beautiful trophy than a brotherhood, " Smut sobbed. (*)