The Unforgiving Ocean
The sun's rays reflected on the water as Stitch sat on the dock. Stitch fixed his eyes upon the horizon, but failed to take notice of his surroundings. The hours ticked by and suddenly clouds began to darken the sky. Lilo, who had been attempting to reach the coconut at the top of the palm tree, sat next to Stitch. She said calmly to Stitch: "We should go."
However her words made no difference to Stitch. Stitch continued to sit motionless, his eyes still burrowing through the depth of the water. Suddenly a piercing shriek broke Stitch from his trance. Lilo was pulled into the water. Lilo's screams were deafening and Stitch was the only one left on the dock able to hear them. Rain began to pound as Stitch watched his only friend struggle against the creature from beneath the water's surface. Stitch could do nothing; he knew jumping in the water would be an act of suicide; therefore, all he did was watch as Lilo was pulled out of sight.
Stitch turned around and ran, not from cowardice, but as an act of fury. The tears running down his face mixed with the rain pounding his blue cheeks. "This is all my fault! How could have I been so stupid?" exclaimed Stitch out of rage.
Before being adopted by Lilo, he had went to intergalactic space school and worked for Doctor Drakken. This was where Stitch made the biggest mistake of his life.
On a rainy afternoon, Stitch entered the lab to find Doctor Drakken busy, studying a strange looking octopus in one of the tanks. Stitch had brought the octopus to Doctor Drakken earlier that month when he flew his spaceship to Hawaii upon Drakken's request. Drakken took a strange liking to the octopus and decided to experiment on it.
"Today's the day, Stitch," said Drakken. "What do you mean, Drakken?" Stitch replied. "You see, Stitch, after you brought me this octopus earlier this month, I began working on something special," Drakken answered with a sinister grin.
Drakken went into his laboratory's secret room and returned to Stitch with a vile of a thick black liquid. "This," said Drakken to Stitch, "is going to make us the universe's most revered scientists. You see Stitch; I have discovered a way to increase this octopus's life expectancy by three times its normal life span. By injecting this ooze into the octopus, we will be keeping him from death for another hundred years." Stitch was awestruck. "I need you to do something for me, Stitch." "What do you need, Drakken?" asked Stitch. "I need you to inject the liquid into the octopus, Stitch," replied Drakken.
Stitch followed Drakken's orders, but things did not go according to Drakken's plans. The octopus's color changed from a light purple (this color was a main reason that Drakken was intrigued by the octopus) to a fiery crimson. Its size had quadrupled and the octopus had broken 4 tanks. "What do we do now, Drakken?" asked Stitch. "Get rid of it, Stitch. I cannot have this octopus destroy my laboratory," replied Drakken.
Stitch did not have the heart to kill the octopus, so he loaded the octopus into a larger tank, put the octopus in his spaceship, and brought the octopus back to Hawaii where he had found it. Stitch brought the octopus to the Hawaiian beach and said one sentence before releasing the octopus: "Goodbye, cousin. You are my ohana. Hope to see you soon."
Stitch's words haunted him everyday until the day he died.