Disclaimer: I really don't own anything. Well... I own stuff. I own a copy of the two movies I'm stealing for the moment. 8D And Books helped me plot this one too few months back.
Warnings: Gay characters, language, character death, crack, but serious crack. Fish stuff. They are fishes. It's the Finding Nemo Jurassic World cross over you all secretly wished I'd write because... come on! 8D
Pairings: Owen/Zach
Finding Gary
Chapter 1: New Parent
It was beautiful! The whole ocean seemed to stretch out in front of them. Just crystal clear, deep blue. For miles and miles, as far as they could see. The two small clownfish stared at it, hovering above their anemone home. The pink tendrils swayed below them in the water. It really was beautiful and peaceful.
"Wow!" The male fish breathed out, still looking at the view. "Wow..."
"Hmm." The female fish hummed.
"Just... wow!"
"Yes!" There was a slight edge to her voice. But she was smiling and shaking her head. "Yes, Scott. I see it. I swear, I can see it. I'm right beside you." She dropped towards the anemone and let the tendrils touch her scales. It was beautiful. Yes. The way the light from the surface filtered down and touched the coral around them. It all seemed to glow. But they'd been talking about it for well over an hour. Probably longer than that. She'd lost track by then. And she was tired. "It's pretty."
"Pretty?" Scott gasped in a playful, mock fashion. "It's not just pretty! It's stunning, striking, gorgeous, elegant, dazzling, glorious! Why it's just..."
"Scott! Please!" She let out a soft laugh.
"But Karen..." Scott ducked into the anemone beside her. "You said you wanted an ocean view. I got you an ocean view."
She smiled again and nodded. "Yes, yes."
"You didn't think you were gonna get the whole ocean, did you?"
"You did good." She said softly. "You did good."
"It wasn't so easy." Scott went on talking.
Karen rolled her eyes and shook her head again. "Because a lot of other clownfish had their eyes on this place."
"Yes!" Scott said loudly. "Yes they did. It's a good neighborhood. Safer than our last place." Karen turned away from him for a moment, swimming deeper into the anemone tendrils. Scott glanced back and quickly followed her in. "Wait, Karen! I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring it up. I just... it's safer! I promise!"
"It's okay." She said softly. "Where is Zach?"
"He said he was going to meet some of the neighbors." Scott said with a smile. "I told him not to go too far."
She nodded and breathed out. "He's getting so big." She said wistfully. "He'll be wanting his own anemone soon. Maybe his own family."
Scott moved in closer to Karen, rubbing against her lightly. "Soon, he'll have hundreds of little brothers and sisters to help take care of. He won't want his own family after this."
Karen let out a light hearted giggle and nodded her head. "Go out and find him for me, won't you?"
Scott nodded and smiled. "I'll be right back." He swam out of the anemone.
Karen waited for a moment. Then followed. But she bumped right into Scott, hovering just outside. "Scott? I'm going to check the eggs. What are you..." She stopped. Scott was frozen in fear, his gaze out into the blue. Karen turned and followed his line of sight. She let out a gasp. A large barracuda was just a few feet from them. "Not again..."
Scott turned towards her, her voice breaking through his haze of fear. "Karen, get inside the house."
Karen glanced down. Just below the anemone, in a small cave, were their eggs. Karen waited a moment longer. And then dived down.
"NO!" Scott yelled as the barracuda darted through the water towards them.
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It was suddenly so quiet! The whole reef had closed up, all the fish vanished. He hadn't even seen them, it all just happened so far. One second, he was swimming towards home, smiling and waving at as he passed his new neighbors. And the next, there was no one. The small clownfish frowned as he swam faster. It was eerily quiet. And fear gripped him. And he suddenly wanted his mom and dad.
He didn't slow as the anemone came into to view, not until he felt the brush of the tendrils on his scales. "Mom? Dad?" He called out. He didn't get an answer. "Mom?" He swam through the tendrils, weaving in and out. Then he swam out and looked around. "Dad?" But the ocean before him was empty. And starting to get dark.
He glanced down. Were they with the eggs? "Mom?" He called out as he slowly swam down. "Dad?" His voice was barely a whisper. His whole body was shaking as he stopped in front of the cave. His parents weren't in there. He gasped as he swam inside. The eggs weren't there either. They were all gone! All of them! "Mom, dad!" He darted out of the cave and back out onto the reef. "Mom! Dad!" He wailed as tears floated from his eyes. He darted down the reef, calling out for them. Then he turned, and darted the other way.
But there was no sign, no trace of them. And it was getting darker. Fear suddenly gripped him again. He turned and swam fast, back to the anemone. But just as he was about to swim inside, a speck of orange, nestled into the sand just below caught his eyes. He swam down towards it slowly. It was an egg! A tiny, little egg! He moved in closer and reached his fin out to it. It was cracked on one side.
"It's okay." He said softly, his voice cracking a bit. "Big brother's got ya." He rolled the egg onto his fin and pulled it close to his body. "I'll take care of you." He held the egg tightly against him as he swam up towards the anemone. He pushed in through the tendrils and laid down gently on the floor.
"I promise." He said softly to the egg. "I'll never let anything happen to you."
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Author's Notes: Meh. It'll be fun. I think. Really fun. XD
