Opening her eyes, Sharon saw a bright light glistening above her, as if she were looking up from the bottom of the ocean. She blinked and groaned when she tried sitting up, and felt something slimy covering her body. She looked at her arm and saw that it was covered in some sort of bioluminescent green paint.

"Ugh! What the..."

Sharon looked down at herself and found she was lying in what could only be described as a patch of glowing algae. She looked up again and realized she must have been in an underwater grotto of some kind, but it didn't make any sense to her. She had just fallen into the sea and should have drown, yet it felt like she was in a cave full of dry air. Was she dead?

Sharon started to get scared and wondered exactly where she was. A quick glance to the right and the frightened young woman caught sight of something shiny out of the corner of her eye. She stood up on her feet and tried wiping some of the algae off her arms, before she raised her head and gave herself a wide-eyed look. Sharon slowly looked over to her right and gasped in amazement when she saw a humongous pile of gold sitting in the middle of the grotto. Blinking a few times before slowly approaching the massive heap of wealth, Sharon saw not only was there gold, but also trinkets, goblets, jewels, and all other kinds of treasure she had only dreamed off. She reached out a hand to touch some of it, but then pulled herself away in hesitation. Sharon looked over her left shoulder to see if anybody was watching, before proceeding to climb on top of the mountain of gold.

Once she stood at the top of the pile, Sharon dropped to her knees and cupped her hands into the sea of treasure, picking up a handful of golden spiral seashells and diamonds, eyeing the precious valuables with curiosity and wonderment. Sharon let the items slip through her fingers as she looked to her right and reached over for a silver tiara. Holding it in her hands, Sharon could see her reflection of perplexity in the little pink diamonds.

"What is this place?" Sharon asked herself.

Suddenly, and without warning, Sharon soon found herself being lifted into the air by the back of her tank top. She dropped the crown and let out a yell of surprise, as she looked up and saw a huge claw was swinging her around the mountain of treasure, which seemed to be rising up from the ocean floor. Sharon heard a sinister laugh fill the lair and looked right in front of her, only to see a gigantic pair of pink and purple antennas rising up from underneath the treasure, followed by a pair of huge eyeballs that appeared onto the face of what looked like a giant crab!

Sharon's mouth hung open in horror and her eyes nearly popped out of her skull. Never before had she ever seen anything so ugly, so hideous, and so fearsome in her entire life.

"Well, well, well", said the monstrous crab with a smile, showing half of his teeth covered in barnacles. "What do we have here?"

Sharon let out a blood-curdling scream and threw her arms across her face, shielding her eyes away from the sight of the beastly sea creature.

"Ooh, hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo", the crab laughed menacingly. "Let's see. It's a shiny, glittery- Wait a minute. This is just a human covered in bioluminescent algae! What are you doing down here in the Realm of Monsters?"

Sharon lowered her arms and forced herself to look upon his face. She did not want to look at his monstrous form, but out of fear that the giant crab might possibly kill her, Sharon gazed into his murderous eyes and tried opening her mouth to speak. "I...I-I...I-I-I-I..." Before she knew it, Sharon's eyes rolled into the back of her skull and her body fell limp.

The gargantuan crab gave her a calculating look and brought his right claw to lift her chin up to get a better look at her face. Whether she was dead or just plain unconscious, he couldn't tell. Probably couldn't handle how fabulous I am, the giant crustacean thought to himself. Not everyone could be born as beautiful and talented as he was.

"You're a funny-looking thing, aren't you?" He said out loud. Pulling his claw away, he let the human girl's head hang low and caught a glimpse of something shiny hanging from around her neck. The gargantuan crab gave a surprised gasp when he saw it was a tiny white seashell covered in pearls and golden swirly designs.

All of a sudden, his vision turned dark and hazy, as the gargantuan crab flashed back to a little baby blue crab wearing a shell that looked just like the one the human was wearing. The baby blue crab turned around and jumped into the hands of a young girl with short yellow hair that shined like gold. She gave the baby crab a kiss and said to him, "'I love you, Tamatoa'." The flashback ended and the gargantuan crab saw the human hanging from his claw was still unresponsive.

The giant crab brought his claw back to lift her head up again and carefully examined the young lady's face. Flawless skin? Short golden-yellow hair? Black-rimmed glasses? She looked almost identical to the little girl he had been seeing in his dreams! Was it possible that she was the one?

"You can't be", said the giant crab, shaking his head in disbelief. Suddenly, the monstrous crab came up with a very dark and very cruel idea. He gave the unconscious Sharon a menacing look and spoke to her in a dark tone, "But if you are..."

Storming out of his lair, the gargantuan crab emerged from the entrance of his home and headed towards a field of geysers, the other monsters cowering in fear before him. Raising his claw holding Sharon above the bubbling geyser below, the giant crab released her and stepped back right away, as a massive stream of bubbles soon burst out of the geyser and sent Sharon back out into the sea.

"Let's see how long you can last in the ocean alone before dying, human", said the monster crab, without so much as a hint of remorse for his actions.