Mizuno swam in the fish tank with her sisters. She was a magical goldfish, daughter of the human wizard Soichiro Tomoe and the sea goddess Granmamare.

Mizuno was orange with shining scales, and very human intelligent blue eyes.

She swam out of the tank and followed her father Tomoe as he examined the sea bed in his four-flippered submarine.

"See that Mizuno? That is pollution. It's grime and filth inflicted on the beautiful sea by the humans." Tomoe said. "Your mother cries when she sees such a crime."

Mizuno shook her head. Wasn't he a human? How could he look down on them so.

As he became distracted by clean up duty, Mizuno whispered to her sisters, and they swam all around him so she could escape.

Mizuno relished in the wide-open sea and her freedom. It was good to be free of her crusty old dad.

She passed by a fishing boat and it scooped her up, and suddenly she was caught in a jar.

Ugh. She hated it when her father was right. Pollution.

She nudged the bottle into the current and was washed up on the shore of a tower.

A teenager was running on the beach and stopped when he saw her, and picked her up.

"A goldfish?" He looked in her very human eyes. "I'll call you Kasumi. I'm Robin. I've never had a pet before, hope Beast Boy doesn't go nuts. Ow!"

Robin had cut himself on the bottle's edge.

Kasumi leaped up and licked it.

"Huh. It's healed..."