When Sharon got up the next morning, her mother explained to her that she talked to some people and that they would soon find a good home for both Bret and Daniel. Sharon was happy to hear that and thought all was right with the world. She would soon prove to be wrong.

Summer vacation had arrived, which meant that Sharon had plenty of time to spend with baby Tamatoa.

"This is gonna be the best summer ever, Tamatoa", said Sharon, pulling off her nightie and putting on a t-shirt and pair of overalls.

"Why's that?" Baby Tamatoa asked her.

"Well, since school's out for the season, that means you and I get to spend the next three months doing whatever we want", Sharon explained. "Which means I'll get to spend more time playing with you."

"Yippee!" Baby Tamatoa jumped into the air with excitement.

"That's right", said Sharon. "And I know just the thing to get us started." After she finished tying her shoes, Sharon walked over to baby Tamatoa. She took him out of his box and asked him, "How would you like to take a bike ride with me through town, Tamatoa?"

The baby blue crab put a pincer to his chin and asked Sharon, "Is it safe?"

"Of course", said Sharon. "Why? Are you afraid to go outside or something?"

"No, I want to go, but what about your mother?" Baby Tamatoa asked her. "She said I'm not suppose to leave the house."

Sharon peeked around the corner and saw her mother sitting on the couch, reading a book. She looked down at baby Tamatoa, who peeked out of her front pocket and looked up at her. He nodded his head and Sharon quietly tiptoed to the door.

"Sharon!"

Sharon froze and stopped dead in her tracks, while baby Tamatoa ducked out of sight. "Yes, Mommy?"

"Be home by five o'clock, sweetie", said Sharon's mother, not looking up from her page.

Sharon breathed a quiet sigh of relief and said, "Okay, Mommy", before rushing out the door.

Sharon ran out into the front yard and mounted her pink bicycle, pedaling out slowly at first until she was a few houses down the street.

"Okay, Tamatoa", said Sharon. "We're in the clear now."

Baby Tamatoa peeked his beady little eyes out from Sharon's pocket and gazed at everything in sight. Houses, cars, trees, people, and the big city they were heading towards. Sharon sped up her pedaling a bit, but took caution as they rode through the city of Wellington. Tall buildings, skyscrapers, museums, theaters, restaurants, city buses, art facilities. Everything about the city fascinated the baby blue crab, as he took in every sight and sound from the safely of Sharon's pocket. His human owner rode out through an open public area and came to a stop in front of the chain link fence surrounding the lagoon that led out to Wellington Harbor.

"Look at it, Tamatoa", Sharon exclaimed.

The baby blue crab climbed out of her pocket and onto her left shoulder. Once his bright blue eyes fell upon the glittering lagoon of seawater that led far out into the ocean, baby Tamatoa's mouth dropped open in amazement. "Wow!" He exclaimed.

The baby blue crab looked to his left and saw a familiar-looking boy running over to an old rundown building near the piers.

Baby Tamatoa glared at him before tapping onto Sharon's shoulder. "What's he doing over there?"

Sharon glanced over and saw the boy was none other than Daniel.

"What's Daniel going into the abandoned warehouse for?" Sharon asked herself, as they watched him running into the old building by ducking under a piece of plank wood that half-blocked a big hole in the wall.

"I don't know", said baby Tamatoa, shaking his head. He looked at Sharon and said to her, "Come on. Let's find out."

Sharon peddled over to the abandoned warehouse and parked her bicycle just a few feet away from the decrepit building. She dismounted and walked over to the hole, staring up at it for a full minute, before she looked at baby Tamatoa and explained to him in a whispered voice, "This place used to be a working-class assembly line years and years ago, but then part of the building caught fire in 1957 and they had to shut it down. People think it's haunted."

"Well, I'm not afraid", baby Tamatoa whispered. "Let's go inside."

Sharon worked up her courage and pulled onto the straps of her overalls, before she ducked and entered the warehouse. She walked over to the middle of the building, but there was no sign of Daniel anywhere.

"Where did he go?" Baby Tamatoa asked her.

"I don't know", said Sharon, looking around the room. The place was empty and dingy, and smelled strongly of musty air. Half the windows were broken and there were partial burn marks on the walls. Beams of wood that had fallen from the ceiling had left a gaping hole in the roof. A stack of blue steal barrels that were piled on one side of the room caught the baby blue crab's attention.

"What's that?" Said baby Tamatoa.

Sharon's eyes wondered over to the far end of the room where the barrels were. She walked over to them and saw a red-orange sign on one of them, with a symbol of a black skull with crossbones. She placed her hand on the barrel and squinted her eyes, as she tried to pronounce the writing on the label, "...Caution...bio-hazard...chemicals."

"What does that mean?" Baby Tamatoa asked her.

Sharon gave him a nervous look, as she grabbed the baby blue crab off her shoulder and stuck him back into her front pocket. "I think it means we should get out of here", said Sharon, as she started to back away.

Just as she was about to turn around, Sharon felt herself bump into somebody behind her, as they grabbed her by her arms, making her scream.

"He told you, didn't he?" Said a boy's voice. It was Daniel.

Sharon struggled to break free and begged him, "Let me go!"

"I told Bret not to tell anyone. And now thanks to you, they're gonna separated us and put us into different homes!"

"Your Daddy was doing bad things to you", Sharon tried to explain. "I thought you and Bret were going to die, so I felt I had to do something. Please let me go!"

Daniel released one of Sharon's arm and reached into her pocket, grabbing baby Tamatoa before throwing Sharon onto the ground. He raised an eyebrow at the baby blue crab, who tried to break free from his tight grip, but to no success. He was trapped!

"I don't know what everybody sees in you", said Daniel to baby Tamatoa. "To me, you're just a stupid, ugly, little drab crab."

With that said, Daniel walked over to the barrels and stepped onto a wooden box.

"What are you doing?!" Sharon asked him, worriedly.

Daniel pulled open the lid to one of the barrels and raised his hand holding baby Tamatoa over it. "You took my family away from me", he said. "Now I'm gonna take away yours!"

Before he knew it, baby Tamatoa felt himself free from the human boy's hand, only to find that he was now falling into a batch of chemicals!

"NO!" Sharon screamed.

Baby Tamatoa could not even begin to describe what was happening to him. All he knew was that the cloudy green liquid he had fallen into felt like it was burning his entire body. He couldn't breathe and his eyes stung terribly. He tried swimming up to the surface, but his tiny pincers were useless and each movement he made caused a sheering pain that rippled right through his delicate self. Baby Tamatoa could see a bright light above him, as well as the shadowy face of Daniel. Unable to hold onto his strength any longer, the baby blue crab almost decided to give up and allow himself to drown, until a dark figure replaced the face of Daniel above him and reached a pale hand into the batch, grabbing him and pulling him out. Baby Tamatoa gasped for breath and coughed up a mouthful of toxic sludge, as he felt a hand gently stroke his back and heard the voice of Sharon speak to him.

"Are you okay, Tamatoa!?"

The baby blue crab coughed again and said in a weak voice, "I...I think so."

"Let's get out of here!" Said Sharon. What the half-conscious baby Tamatoa didn't know was that Sharon had knocked Daniel onto the floor. Just as she was about ready to make for the exist, Sharon heard Daniel screaming and soon found herself being tackled by him, as she fell face down onto the floor. Unfortunately, this meant that she accidentally let go baby Tamatoa, who rolled across the floor and fell out of an open window!

"TAMATOA!"

Sharon hit Daniel in the face with her elbow and managed to roll him off of her, before she rushed outside quickly.

Baby Tamatoa would have fallen to his death had his seashell not protected him. Unfortunately, the poor baby blue crab felt himself pop out of his shell once his body hit the wooden surface of the pier and he fell unconscious into the ocean water below.

Sharon rushed on down to the pier and began searching frantically for her baby blue crab. "Tamatoa! Tamatoa, where are you?" She looked up and down, desperately hoping to find him still alive, but all Sharon could find of baby Tamatoa was his seashell.

Sharon dropped to her knees and felt her eyes fill with tears, as she carefully picked up the precious shell in her hands and looked at it, not believing that he was gone.

"No...NO! Tamatoa..."

Holding the seashell close to her chest, Sharon collapsed onto the pier and began to cry, weeping over the loss of her pet coconut crab, her beloved baby Tamatoa.

Daniel peaked out of the warehouse with a cut on his lip and looked down at Sharon down on the pier. He heard sirens and looked over, only to see a police car heading towards his direction. He knew child protective services were still looking for him and started to running away again.

Poor Sharon laid there on the pier for hours, sobbing. By the time her mother found her, it was nearly sunset.

"Sharon!" Her mother ran onto the pier and picked up her daughter into her arms, asking her, "Sharon, what happened?"

"Tamatoa's gone, Mommy! He's really gone!"

Sharon buried her face into her mother's chest, crying her eyes out over the loss of her best friend.