A/N: - Hey!!!!!!!!!!!! It's me again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For anybody who is interested, I am recommending for you to read 'Of fish and men' by TheCartoonKid!!!! Thanks again, Jenny, for all your reviews and I hope you're gonna keep reading!!
"Dory, it's me………….Marlin! Don't you remember?"
"Nope."
"Oh, come on, Dory! You have to remember!"
"No, I don't! I have never met you in my life and I don't wanna talk to you any more!"
"What?" Marlin grabbed her as she tried to swim away.
"Let go of me! HELP!!!!!! HHHHHHEEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Sssssshhhhh!!!!!" Marlin hastily clamped his fins over her mouth and hoped no-one had heard.
"Hey, aren't you that Marlin that was looking for his son, Meeko?"
"It's Nemo and, yes, I am that Marlin."
"Wow!!! That's really cool!"
"Dory! Come to your senses! You helped me, remember?!"
"No…ummm……wait a minute…nope! Now, if you don't mind, I'm leaving." Dory stated bluntly. She turned and swam. Marlin tried to follow but she was too fast and was gone. Marlin groaned in exasperation and made his way home.
"Nemo?"
"I'm here, Dad. Have you got Dory with you?"
"No."
"No?!"
"She didn't remember me so she swam for it!"
"Didn't you go after her?"
"She was too fast. Anyway, can you stay with the Tank Gang tonight and I'll take Gill with me to find her."
"Ok, Dad."
That evening, Marlin and Gill set off to look for Dory.
"How did you meet her?" Gill asked, breaking the eerie silence that had settled over them.
"It was just after Nemo had been taken. I was trying to get someone to help and we swam straight into each other………literally! Just think, Gill. If I hadn't met her I would never have found Nemo."
"Yeah," Gill chuckled, "she's a good fish…even if she is a little crazy!"
"She wouldn't be Dory if she wasn't!" Marlin laughed. His face went solemn and he sighed deeply, "I sure hope we find her."
*
"Hello?" Dory called into the deserted reef. ' I wonder why nobody's here,' she thought, ' it's a nice enough place.'
She travelled through the reef, keeping an eye out for any signs of life. She rounded a corner and saw a light moving into a dark, gloomy cave. She was put in a trance and followed it. She found it at the back of the cave. Reaching out to touch it, she froze.
"Why do I recognise this?" she wondered aloud.
A barrage of memories came flooding back to her. Jellies, Sharks, Anglerfish, P. Sherman, Barracuda, army , 42, Wallaby Way, Chico, Clownfish, EAC, Bruce, Elmo, Marty, Anchor, Sydney, Chum, Crush, Squirt, Fabio, Moonfish, Whale, Nigel, Tank Gang, Gill, Nemo, Marlin…………MARLIN!!!!!!!
She shook herself out of the trance and tried to get out of the cave but the anglerfish blocked her. There were bloody sockets where its eyes should've been. It was blind. Dory knew that, as long as she didn't move, she would be ok if she was careful. She also had to remain silent. She was doing quite well until a loud bang caused her to scream.
The cave entrance was shut, blocked by a boulder. She had been locked in to meet her doom………………
*
"DORY?"
"DORY?"
"She's not here," sighed Gill. They had just reached the deserted reef and were moving through it.
"Hang on – LOOK!" Marlin's gaze had focused on a clownfish who was looking terribly pleased with itself. They couldn't identify it from a distance so they moved closer. It was outside a cave which was blocked with a boulder. Marlin and Gill his in a sponger bed and peered out at the fish. Gill was bemused. He didn't understand what Marlin knew that he didn't. Why was this clownfish so significant?
Marlin could only think of trying to glimpse the fish's face. Suddenly, he bit his tongue to stifle a shout before whispering venomously,
"Linus!"
A/N: - There you go! The army disappears and Linus comes back! Dory's trapped in a cave with a mental Anglerfish and Marlin and Gill don't know where she is! Find out what happens in the next chapter of: - *drum-roll* 'Don't Destroy Us!'