Some scientists came in and Dylan hid under his bed. They began scanning the shark. The shark still swam around the snow globe. They looked at the scanner and shook their heads.

"You idiots do you really think you can scan through my armor with that old device?" She rolled her eyes, "Don't even bother. I'll die soon enough. Then you can do whatever you please with my corpse."

"Why?" Char stood up and stumbled towards her,

"Why, what?" The shark stopped circling for a bit and stared at her.

"Why are you so desperate to die?"

"Because EVERYTHING was taken from me because of YOU! Everything I had loved, that I cherished was lost. All because you SELFISH GREEDY INKLINGS WON'T SHARE ANY OF YOUR ELECTRICITY! When King Octavio finally got some so we could live comfortably again, you came along and destroyed it. Wanna know how many people died this year because of you? ONLY A SPLATTING COUPLE OF TEN THOUSAND OCTARIANS! Including King Octavio, and my mother. Under the new tyrant, I could barely feed my sister. She probably dead now! So I'm done. Kill me! Just stew me, stab me, burn me, - I DON'T CARE! I just don't care anymore."

She changed back into her Octoling form holding her head. She sank to the bottom and hugged her knees.

"Octavio is dead?" Callie covered her mouth

"What the ink happened to you guys?" Marie looked at Callie

Meanwhile somewhere in Octopia, Maggie and Mary were pacing back and forth, as a small octopus sat in a chair with its tentacles dangling off the edge of the seat. She had a small clam hat covering the majority of her small body.

"It's been too long…" Maggie muttered to herself,

"I told you, she wasn't fit to go out like that," Mary whispered to her, "She was starving and just in horrible condition."

"It can't be helped, Mary! The king had enough with our searching. If we don't get find a way to get power and fast, we'll be next up to the cutting block! That ancient creature was the only thing we had… I don't know where else to look."

"Umm, excuse me? But when Chompie coming back?" The small octopus asked

"Uhh, umm," The two stuttered as they tried to think of an answer, "Say you must be hungry, right?"

"Yeah, but Chompie promised to treat me to a big dinner. She said she was gonna make my favorite dish and we were gonna eat it together."

"Oh, but you can have some snacks while you wait. Here, let us go get you some!" Mary grabbed Maggie and pulled her into the kitchen.

"What are we going to do?!" Maggie bit her finger, "How are we going to explain this to that poor child?!"

A soft growl greeted the two as a black tiger with stripes that looked like cracks in lava. It pushed Maggie down as it pounced on her, and lovingly rubbed it's head on her.

"Cauldern! Not now! Can't you see we are dealing with a crisis?!" Maggie whined as she tried to push the giant beast off.

"Cauldern, look!" Mary pointed a laser pointer at the wall.

Cauldern's eyes dilated as she ran to the wall making a hole in the wall.

"MY KITCHEN!" Maggie pulled her tentacles

"Opps," Mary covered her mouth.

The small octopus waddled into the kitchen holding a flowerpot with a sprout in it. She looked at the gaping hole in the wall.

"Umm is everything okay?" She asked

The two looked at each other and smiled.

"Yeah, we were just playing with our cat… Oh, what do you got there?"

"The plant bit my tentacle when I tried to touch its leaves. Is it hungry?"

"Oh, uh. That's not possible… Plants can't bite. It must be your imagination." Maggie nervously laughed, "Here, I got these blueberries for you!"

She pulled out a small box of blueberries and pushed it into her arms.

"Why don't you relax over there? And don't worry about the plant. There's no way it could move."

The small octopus walked back to the table. She put the plant on the table and climbed up onto her seat. She opened the box and she ate one of the berries. She started to stare off into the distance. Long vines from the pot slithered and pulled the box of berries closer to it. She looked at the box and the vines quickly retreated into the pot.

"I saw that… Are you hungry?" She took a berry and held it in front of the pot.

A turtle's head popped up from the ground. It happily bit into the berry and devoured it. The small Octopus smiled and gave it another and another. The turtle got up from the dirt and crawled out. It was a small tortoise with plants growing off of its back. It grumbled and rubbed its head on her tentacle.

"Hello, my name's Connie. What's yours?" The small octopus asked

Vines grew out of its shell and grabbed a pen. It wrote "Botanical Garden".

"Oh, that is an interesting name…"

"What is wrong, Connie?" Maggie finally returned with Mary, "Garden! You were not supposed to come out!"

Garden only looked at her. It walked to the box of berries and started eating the berries.

"He doesn't scare you? He doesn't seem like a monster?"

"No, not really. He was just hungry."

"You mean you are okay with him?" Maggie raised her eyebrows.

"Yeah, he hasn't done anything bad." Connie took a berry and ate it.

"Oh okay… Um, say how would you like to play with my cat?" Mary smiled.

"Wait WHAT?!" Maggie shouted, but Mary covered her mouth

"Yup, my cat is pretty big and quite scary looking, but she is a sweet kitten if you feed her. She like paper balls and everything that will burn."

She whistled and Cauldern poked her head through the door. She walked over and sat down next to Mary. Mary handed Connie a pad of paper.

"Cauldern, why don't you take care of Connie?" Mary patted her back, "Look she'll feed you too!"

Cauldern looked at her then at Connie. She walked closer to Connie and smelled her. Connie held out her tentacle to pet her. Cauldern happily purred as she rubbed her head against Connie's tentacle.

"Aww, it seems she likes you. Well, we need to do something so please take care of her okay?"

"Um, okay sure. See you later then!" Connie waved as they walked out the door.

Connie jumped off the chair as soon as they left.

"Sorry fellas, I can't stay here." Connie gave Cauldern the whole pad of paper, "I can't sit by not knowing what happened to my sister. I'm sorry I've got to go."

Cauldern took the pad and tossed it into her mouth. It burned to a crisp. She just curled up and yawned. Garden grumbled at her. Her ears flickered and she growled back. He climbed down from the table and nipped her tail. She jumped and snarled at him. Garden loudly growled back. She folded her ears back and look at Connie. She let out a sigh, picked up Connie by her tentacle, and tossed her onto her back.

"Whoa! Are you going to help me?" Connie asked and Cauldern nodded, "Thank you"

She hugged the giant tiger. The tiger just huffed and walked towards the door. Garden opened the door for them and waved good-bye to them.

"Thanks Garden! I'll come back I promised!"

Cauldern growled and dashed toward the street of Octopia. The buildings were in ruin and it was dark since the artificial sky broke down. She jumped up ledge to ledge until she reached the roof of a tall building. The city was nearly abandoned and purple ink painted a majority of the city.

"It's so sad how Octopia became like this… I remember it wasn't like this 3 years ago…" Connie muttered, "Never mind that, let's just go find Chompie. She should have my scent, so you can sniff her out right?"

Cauldern gave a soft growl and leaped back into the ground. The two traveled to the cave's opening. And started their journey to Inkopolis.

-Author's Notes-

This chapter was an idea to give insight to the Octarians' point of view in their city. It was dillxox123's idea so thanks buddy. I feel I could continue with another chapter for this week. We'll have to see about that. So what do you think? Should I fix anything? And lastly thanks for reading!