Author's Note: Hey readers! I love Dolphin Tale and Dolphin Tale 2, so I decided to make a fanfiction about it! I am a beginning author, please bear with me, if anything is terrible. (: I would love to hear reviews, and anything I should add or change! Now read on!
Disclaimer: I do not own Dolphin Tale or Dolphin Tale 2.
Chapter 1: Sawyer's back
Sawyer thanks the taxi driver, and grabs his things. Finally home, he thinks. Sawyer walks up to his house, and sees his mom right out on the doorstep, smiling and almost crying at the same time. Sawyer runs up to her, and hugs her tightly. "I missed you so much, Sawyer! I was really worried you'd get eaten by a shark!" Okay, Sawyer loved his mom, but she was being a little unrealistic. "Don't worry, Mom." Sawyer mumbled calmly. "But what are we waiting for? Let's head to the aquarium!" Sawyer says loudly, the excitement growing in his voice. His mom smiles and tells him, "Okay then, let's go!" Sawyer's mom runs after him into the car, and seeing him already buckled up, and bouncing up and down, she smiled even more.
The car slowed down to the parking lot of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Sawyer quickly unbuckled his seatbelt, and stormed out of the car, not bothering to wait for his mother. Sawyer kept smiling, and went through the employee's back door. Oh Hazel, you never lock this door, he thinks to himself. Sawyer got the door to open, and pushed them inward. Blue appears everywhere, and he smiles. Everything looks the same, except for this tiny expansion in construction, by the back. Sawyer saw everything, the tide pool, the turtles, shark, and- the dolphins! A dolphin had swam by, and Sawyer could barely keep his excitement. Sawyer then ran up the stairs, seeing Winter and Hope's tank nearby. He hadn't seen or Hazel yet, which he felt a little disappointed. But he did see Kat, Phoebe, and many of the volunteers he had seen before. Everyone had started to spot him, and began saying, "Welcome back!" or, "We missed you Sawyer!" Sawyer threw his backpack to the side, and walks up to the dolphin tank. Phoebe walks up next to him and smiles, "Winter!" Winter immediately swims to the surface, and tweets the tweety Bird. Phoebe continues to talk to Winter by saying, "Look who's back, Winter!" Phoebe points to Sawyer, and Winter squeaks. Winter then tweets loudly, very, very, and very loudly. Sawyer smiles, and pets her around her dorsal fin. "You've never changed haven't you?" he tells Winter. Sawyer accidently pets her dorsal fin, and Winter drags him into the water. Splash! Sawyer meant to sound annoyed but he wasn't and said, "I didn't even change yet Winter!" Winter only replies by splashing him in the face. Sawyer splashes back at Winter. They continue to have a water war, and then relax on Winter's favorite blue mat. Kat opens the gate from the smaller tank, and Hope swims out to play. Hope hadn't realized Sawyer was there, so Hope tossed the mat around. "Hey!" Sawyer yells. Sawyer had thought that was Winter at first, but Winter had thought it was Sawyer. Sawyer had seen Hope swim up to them and mumbles, "It was you, huh?" Hope squeaks, and so does Winter. Just like the old times, he thought.
Sawyer keeps swimming with the two dolphins, even if it was already 30 minutes. He heard two pairs of feet which were running toward the tank. Sawyer thought it was Hazel, and he looked out of the tank. He was half-right, it was Hazel and , which is better because he can update him about the aquarium. "Sawyer!" they yell in unison. Sawyer waves at them frantically as if to say, I'm right over here! Hazel beats her father, and runs to the edge of the tank. Sawyer swims closer to the edge. Hazel says excitedly, "I can't believe your back, Sawyer! But how come I wasn't invited to swim with Hope and Winter?" At the end of the sentence Hazel tries to sound hurt, but she keeps smiling. Sawyer laughs a little himself and tells Hazel," I missed you Hazel! Practically everybody." Hazel has a chance to laugh this time. walks up to them and says, "Glad your back, Sawyer!" Sawyer smiles to and nods. "Maybe you can Winter more active, she's been a little lazier." Winter swims up to them, but splashes . starts saying, "That's what you get for calling a dolphin lazy." Hazel bursts into laughter, and Winter sinks her head underwater, and splashes him again. now keeps a straight face. Sawyer laughs too, but has seen Hope swimming up to them to see what is going on. Winter and Hope exchange tweets. Hazel looks at Hope, Winter and Sawyer. Sawyer is smiling his really, really, really, really (You get the point...), cute smile. Sawyer out of nowhere grabs Hazel and drags her into the tank. Winter shrieks of joy. Her father chuckling tells them, "I'll be at the office." Hazel nodded, and quickly splashed Sawyer in revenge. Hope then splashed Sawyer, thinking she must do the same thing, and Winter now copies Hope and Hazel, and splashes Sawyer. "Hey I can't see!" Sawyer yells over the splashing water. Hazel thinks, best day ever.
Sawyer and Hazel change out of there wet clothes. They both had a lot of fun, and even played around with them for two hours. Hazel walks toward her father's office, and Sawyer quietly trails behind her. "Hey-"he starts, but Hazel immediately jumps. "Sawyer, you scared me!" Sawyer laughs and says," I want to talk to too!" Hazel nods her head and says, "Okay, okay."
Ding! Hazel entered her father's office and see him typing up onto a document. "Hey Dad," Hazel starts, and turns around. "Do you mind if Sawyer and I talk to you for a minute or so?" nods his head and says, "Sure." Then he motions them both to take a seat. They both sit down on his couch keeping at least an inch away from each other. "So…what's been happening around here?" Sawyer says.
"Quite a couple of things has happened when you left and-" starts but Sawyer anxiously interrupts him by saying, "Like what kind of things?"
"I'll tell you-"
"What is it?" Sawyer interrupts again.
"Can I talk first?" says. "Sorry." Sawyer quietly mumbles. "Anyway, the week after you left, we got a call for a rescue of a turtle. Hazel named him Jack, and he instantly got better in a couple of weeks. After his test, the day after, he got released. Then there was a tiny expansion downstairs, for a jellyfish tank. Rebecca got a permit to learn how to take care of jellyfish and a couple of workers, are going to help her too." Sawyer takes in all of the information and only says, "Cool." goes on by showing Sawyer pictures of Jack, and Sawyer got interested in Jack, and Hazel smiled. She always liked seeing Sawyer interested in things, she always thought that was- oh, her dad is looking at her. He must be looking at me, looking at Sawyer, she thought to herself. Hazel tried to hide her embarrassment, but she didn't hide it very well.
Hope you guys enjoy the first chapter! :) Leave me reviews and feel free to say what you want to change or add to the fanfiction! Also, feel free to PM me about any ideas I should do! Remember this is when Sawyer got back from his SEA semester!
-DolphinTale123