Chapter 7: Family Drama
We were almost out of the pipes. I could somehow feel it. Destiny had guided us through most of it and now I was getting worried. I knew what was coming, but I could seriously get hurt here. There were some unpredictable plots here. Like the worker who asked me to fix the pipes. So I had to be prepared. I was also wondering what would happen after this. I may not be able to come back...and Dory, Nemo, Marlin, they became my friends...and I left them before...
"Watch the turn." Dory warned, snapping my back to reality.
"What turn?" Marlin asked I heard a thump. Meaning he hit his head on the pipe. "Ow." He muttered.
"That turn." I said giggling. I heard him sigh.
"Okay I think we're close." Dory said and I felt us falling. It was like a waterside!
"Wheee! Dory exclaimed and we landed right into a tank of yellow fish.
"Hi!" They greeted. I waved. "Heya."
"Is this quarantine?" Nemo asked looking at the surroundings. Dory spotted the area she met Hank and recognized it.
"Yes! This is it! We're in quarantine! My parents are here!" Dory cheered. Then we felt a push and saw that a worker was moving the cart.
"Where are we going? Hey, what...No, why are we going towards the door?" Marlin asked.
"We're all better!" A yellow fish exclaimed happily and everyone else cheered.
"I feel fantastic!" Another exclaimed and sneezed loudly, causing the rest to move to the other side of the tank in fear.
"Dude." A fish said. I rolled my eyes. "Bless you." I said patting him. He sniffed.
"Thank you." He said and I noticed Dory saw the tank full of blue tangs.
"My family!" She exclaimed and looked around and started swimming through the big fish. "Come on, let's go! Excuse me." She said and I followed her to the edge of the tank.
"Dory, Angela, wait a minute!" Marlin called, but we jumped into another tank that was rolling away and dove into the first tank in a row.
"I'm coming, Mommy! I'm coming, Daddy!" Dory cheered as we kept going down the row. I laughed, this was way better than swim practice, but good exercise.
"Whoo-hoo! Almost home. Almost home. I'm almost home." Dory started chanting.
"I think I'm getting the hang of this!" Marlin said. Then I remembered an important detail, but before I could react, the tank in front of us and we ran right smack into it.
"Oh!" Marlin wheezed as we fell into the mop bucket.
"Eww, out of all the places to land." I gagged.
"I hear footsteps." Marlin whispered and we looked up. A shadowy figure was above and three tentacles reached in and grabbed us.
"Hank!" Dory exclaimed happily. "Quite." Hank hushed, hiding behind a box. He placed the fish in a beaker, but kept me in a tentacle. I was too big to fit in it.
"Hank, we need to get in that tank. That rhymed." Dory said pointing the the tank.
"Why?" Hank asked. "Her parents are there!" Nemo and I explained. Hank sighed, and brought us over to the tank.
"Look, you've got three minutes to get everyone in this cup with you...And then I'm on that truck to Cleveland, got it?" He asked sternly.
"Got it." Dory said and Hank started to our them in. "Oh boy." Dory muttered and we were dropped in. Dory immediately started swimming around.
"Mom? Dad? Mom? Dad? Hey, everybody. It's me, Dory!" She said happily and kept looking.
"Dory? Dory? Dory? Jenny and Charlie's Dory? Dory?" A few tangs muttered to themselves.
"Mom? Dad? Mom? Dad? Mom? Dad?" Dory kept repeating.
"She should just pick 2 and let's go." Marlin joked.
"Dad." Nemo said. "What? I'm kidding. It's a reunion." Marlin said giving his son a playful nudge. I smiled softly.
"Mom? Dad? Where are my parents?" Dory asked and a male blue tang swam up, a surprise look on his face.
"Dory? Are you really Jenny and Charlie's girl?" He asked, shocked.
"Yes, I am! That's me! Where are they?" She asked excited looking around them.
"Well, Dory, right after you disappeared, they thought you...Well, they thought you must have ended up here, in quarantine." Another blue tang explained.
"Uh-huh?" Dory said, her smiling never leaving her face.
"Come on, come on, come on." Hank muttered from outside the tank, but I seemed to be the only one to here him.
"And so they came here to look for you." He kept explaining trying to find the right words.
"They're here! Where are they?" Dory asked and looked at the other tanks on the shelf. The blue tangs looked at each other, uncertain how to explain it. I took a breath trying not to yell I knew they were alive. I couldn't disrupt the plot...I couldn't.
"Dory, that was years ago." A female tang explained.
"Huh?" Dory asked turning to them.
"They never came back." Another said sadly.
"Oh no." Marlin muttered.
"You see, Dory, when fish don't come back from quarantine...It means they're not..." She struggled in finding the right words.
"What?" Dory asked looking a little more concerned and her smile dipping.
"Dory, they're gone." Marlin said softly.
"They're dead?" She gasped, eyes widened.
"They wanted to find you..." A female tang said soothingly. I went over to Dory and did my best to hug her.
"Wait. Are you sure they're gone?" Nemo asked a tiny bit of hope in his voice.
"Dory, listen, it's going to be okay." Marlin said. "He's right we're right here." I assured.
"Dory, they loved you so much." Another tang said. Hank started banging on the glass.
"Anyone not looking to go to Cleveland, final warning!" Hank said.
"Dory, are you all right?" Nemo asked worriedly. "Are you okay?" Marlin asked. I saw that Dory was breathing heavily and slightly shaking. Not that anyone blamed her.
"I was too late." She muttered.
"Dory, no. No. Now listen." Marlin started. "It's not your fault." I said.
"I don't have a family." She said, not seeming to here our comforting words.
"No, Dory. That's not true." Nemo said. I felt a bump and our tank was being lifted up.
"Time to go!" Hank cried and Dory was scooped up as she uttered the words. "I'm all alone."
"Dory!" Nemo cried as Hank went out of sight and we were placed on a shelf in a truck. A lid was put over the tank as well.
"No one saw where Dory went?" Marlin asked frantically.
"No. Sorry. I didn't see anything." The tangs chorused.
"Seriously? That's a lot of eyeballs doing nothing." Marlin said glaring. Nemo panicked and saw the big fish in a tank that was coming up.
"Oh! Oh, excuse me. Can you help us? We're looking..." Nemo started. Before getting cut off.
"Me help you?" He asked before sneezing, leaving his snot on the glass. He was lifted up and Nemo gasped.
"Dad, Angela, look! It's Dory." He said excitedly. "What, where?" I asked, but stopped. I knew it was false hope.
"Oh, thank goodness. See, Nemo, I knew she'd find a way... what?" Marlin realized that Hank was using a tentacle to resemble a blue tang. "Hey, where's Dory? Is she with you?" He asked and Hank gasped before looking down sadly.
"I'm sorry. I tried to hold on, but I couldn't and I lost her." The septapus apologized.
"What?" Marlin asked, eyes widened
"All right. Let's get going." A female worker said shutting the doors.
"No!" Nemo cried desperately, but the doors shut and the engine started.
"Oh no..." I muttered and I felt the truck moving out of Quarantine.
This is was not going the way I hopped.
Author's Note:
Phew, I'm glad I managed to finish it. It's been crazy. I still cannot believe it's 2018. Anyway, hope you liked this chap. I have about maybe 2 more to go, I'm thankful for the viewers who have been with my on this incredible journey!
