Author's Note: Hey! I am new to this site and thought I'd make a story of my own. More chapters soon...

"Hello! Welcome back to Octoling news," said Maria as she gave an enthusiastic jump.

"Hurray..." replied Paella, crossing her hands. She was bored out of her mind. It had been so lame around Octo Valley. That stupid agent stole back all the zapfish.

"Today we have some special news!" Maria practically screamed.

"Yeah, that frickin' agent stealing our zapfish is very special…" Paella practically predicted what Maria was going to say.

"Silly Paella, that's not what I was going to say," Maria replied, "What I was going to say was that-"

"Gah," Quin said, not caring at all, "This is so dumb." Quin addressed to no one in particular. Quin thought it was only fair that the Inklings got their zapfish back. His whole species was kind of bad. They stole for their own selfish needs.

Quin was walking home from another boring day at school. As he was walking, a street lamp went out. This was common, as the zapfish were lost, more power was.

Oh great, more power loss… Quin thought. He didn't really mind the darkness. In Octo Valley, there was no sky, at least where he lived, that is.

Quin arrived home. "Ma, I'm back from school." "Ok, honey." replied Quin's mother. He went straight to his room and sat on his bed. He sighed. It was hard for his Mom and him. Ever since his Dad went missing, they had been bleeding money and could barely pay bills. Quin tried to help out by mowing lawns, doing people's laundry, anything to get money for his Mom.

He sat up and looked deep into his mirror, as he did every day. Same blue eyes, same curly tentacles, same everything that a 14 year old Octoling should be. He heard his mom call him down for dinner and left his room.