Author's Note: If you're wondering why there used to be more reviews but now there's only two, it's because I deleted this story because of… difficulties.
Anchor: Yeah, difficulties of your brain!
Aqua Aussie: Shut up.
Please review… oh look… a disclaimer…
Disclaimer: I do not own Finding Nemo or its characters. I do own Marquella, new sneakers, and other created characters that might come up later on. I also don't own the song that Anchor sings. It's on another website. Oh yeah, and Dory is going to tell everybody about Anchor's 'Problem.'
Chapter Four: Meeting Marlin
Time: 3:00. Weather: Sunny. Location: Underwater, Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Day: Monday, an important day, the day that Marlin was going to meet Marquella! Mwahahahahaha… ahem. Sorry. Bruce, Chum, Anchor, and Marquella were swimming over to Marlin's house. Meanwhile, Anchor was thinking of revenge to get on Chum. Why was he thinking of getting revenge? Let's take a look in the magical world of flashbacks to find out.
Awwwww yeah! Flashback Time!
"Poke… poke… poke…"
"Stop it!" Anchor shouted.
Chum was poking the space between Anchor's eyes.
"No." Chum said. "Poke… poke… pokedy poke poke… POKEY!
"Cut it out Chum… or else." Anchor shouted in a dangerously low, ominous voice.
"Or else what?" Chum teased. "Huh? Huh? Whatcha' gonna do? Poke. You're not 'oing anything. Poke. Poke."
Oh, you have no idea what I'm gonna do.' Anchor said to himself. 'Be prepared for the worst… the worst song ever sang! MWAHAHAHAHA… cough, hack, splutter.'
Flashback Ends.
"Heyyyyyyyy Chuuuuummmmmm." Anchor said in a sweet tone.
"Yeah?" Chum said.
"I'm BORED." Anchor said.
Chum stopped in his tracks. He knew what Anchor did when he was bored.
"No." Whispered Chum.
Marquella looked at her two friends with curiosity in her eyes. She looked at Bruce.
"What's Anchor gonna do? And why did Chum whisper no?" She murmured to Bruce.
Bruce just smiled and said, "You'll see."
"Yes." Anchor taunted, with a smile on his face.
"Please! Anything but that!" Chum pleaded.
"Maybe if you say 'orry…" Anchor began.
"I'm 'orry for poking…"
"Too late!" Anchor shouted. "I'm… going… to sing an annoying song!"
Marquella looked at Anchor. 'What's he gonna sing? Chum must really hate his 'inging…'
"Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Weeeeeeeeeeee!" Anchor sang. "Ohmygod there was this guy and he came over and he was like Weeeeeeeeeeee! And then I went over to my mom and she was like Weeeeeeeeeeee! Which was so funny because I went over to my dad and was like 'hey dad Weeeeeeeeeeee! So then this guy came up to me and he was like 'Yo I got a knife' and I was like Weeeeeeeeeeee! Then I went up to this thug gangsta' and he said 'Yo muther fucker' and I was like Weeeeeeeeeeee! So then I saw R2-D2 and he was like Weeeeeeeeeeee! bleep! And then I went to a movie theater and this guy was like 'Oh I got popcorn' and I was all like Ohmygod Weeeeeeeeeeee!"
Marquella was in stitches. (That means she was laughing really hard.) She couldn't stop laughing, and neither could Bruce. The only shark that wasn't laughing was Chum, who was covering his ears. He didn't like it when Anchor was singing, but boy, did he hate it when he sang like a hyper valley girl.
Anchor continued his song. "When you're a kid and you wanna' go Weeeeeeeeeeee, but you ain't got drugs yet! You hold out for your life… hold onto your little… gonads and strife."
Chum may have been covering his ears, but he heard the word 'gonads.' 'What does that mean?' He wondered to himself. Bruce was thinking the same thing, but Marquella knew what it meant. She just laughed even harder.
"Gonads and strife, gonads and strife, gonads and strife." Anchor sang. "Gonads and strife, gonads and strife, gonads and strife."
'Oh no!' Chum thought. 'He's harmonizing! Why lord, why?'
Just then, a bright light appeared. "Don't question me! Because I made it to be, that's why!" A deep voice said in Chum's head.
'That was scary…' Chum thought.
"GONADS IN THE LIGHTNING! IN THE LIGHTNING! IN THE RAIN! WEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Anchor half-shouted half-sang. "Ohmygod there was this squirrel and he didn't get ran over so he was like Weeeeeeeeeeee!"
Everything was quiet, except for the sound of Marquella's uncontrollable giggles. Bruce was trying to keep from laughing, but he soon found himself laughing too. He and Marquella were on the sea floor, rolling with laughter.
"Ya know it's not really that funny." Chum said, rolling his eyes in annoymentness. He then turned to Anchor. "And what are gonads?"
Chum's statement only made Anchor join in the laughter, and Marquella laugh even harder. Bruce stopped laughing. 'What are gonads?' He thought.
Chum said to Anchor, "I'll never poke you like that again. 'Specially since I know you'll sing that."
"Next time, I bet you'll know better than to poke me like that." Anchor replied with a smile.
"Ahem. Well, I guess we better get going. We told him we'd visit 'round 3:00 or so." Bruce said.
"Right." Chum agreed. "We should be going."
So, the four friends went to visit their friend 'Arlin.'
"Daddy! Daddy!" Nemo called out. He had just gotten home from school and wanted to get his dad to tell him something.
Marlin emerged (that's my new word, emerged. It shows that I can use big words. I'm a big kid now!) from the anemone. "Yeah?" He answered.
"Bruce, Chum, and Anchor are coming, and they've got a new friend!" Nemo said.
"Oh. So they're here." Marlin said with a smile. "That's their new friend Marquella." 'So this must be Anchor's 'problem.' He thought.
"Oooh! Can I meet her dad? Can I, can I, huh?" Nemo asked in excitement, bouncing up and down.
Marlin couldn't help but give a small laugh at his son's excitement. "Sure, why not." He answered.
"Yeah! Thanks dad!" Nemo said, dashing off.
Marlin chuckled. 'It's so nice to see him all excited like that.' He thought. Then his protective dad senses kicked in. 'Wait! If they say that Marquella is a new member… Then she might not be vegetarian!' He was in a state of half-panicking now. 'Please Nemo, please be safe.'
Meanwhile, the F.E.A. was already in sight from the anemone.
"You're gonna like our friend 'Arlin mate." Anchor was telling Marquella. "He's really nice and forgiving, and we know he is 'cause he came back even after…"
"Hi guys!"
The four friends looked down and saw Nemo.
"That's 'Arlin?" Marquella said in disbelief. "He's just a guppy!"
Bruce laughed. "That's not 'Arlin! It's his son Nemo."
Nemo heard his name and knew that they were talking about him, so he said, "That's me!"
Marquella looked at Nemo and smiled, careful not to show her teeth. 'Cute kid.' She thought.
"Are you Marquella?" Nemo asked.
Marquella was surprised. 'E's not even showin' a hint of being scared!' She thought. "Yes I am." Marquella finally replied.
"I'm Nemo. I'm a clownfish." Nemo said. "You're pretty."
Marquella laughed. "Well thanks."
Nemo looked at Anchor, looked back at Marquella and slyly added, "And I bet I'm not the only one who thinks so."
Marquella looked confused, Bruce and Chum had expressions that said 'So he knows about Anchor too,' and Anchor was thinking, 'Darn right he's not the only one who thinks so. But what's he mean by that?'
"Ummm…" Bruce started, "Is your dad 'ome?"
"Yeah. C'mon!" Nemo said, darting to the anemone.
The four friends were at Marlin's house… Erm… anemone… yeah, it's an anemone because he's a clownfish and he lives underwater… yeah. Anyway, Marlin was outside his anemone.
"'Ello 'Arlin!" Bruce greeted.
"Hi Bruce. So, you're Marquella, huh?" Marlin asked with a smile.
"Yep! That's me. Nobody special though…" Marquella began.
"Well of course you're special. You're our friend." Anchor told Marquella.
Marquella smiled. "If you say so."
Marlin noticed what was going on. 'No wonder Anchor likes her, she's pretty and she's not the stuck-up-thinking-she's-a-gift-to-all-fishamity type.'
"Can you play shark volleyball too?" Nemo asked.
"Shark volleyball?" Marquella asked. "What's that?"
"We'll have to show you sometime." Anchor whispered to her.
"So how'd you guys meet?" Marlin asked.
"Well, I guess Marquella will have to tell that story." Chum said. "She knows more of it."
"Will you tell the story?" Nemo asked.
"Well… I don't know… I'm not really good at telling stories…" Marquella began.
"Pleassssssssssse?" Nemo asked.
'He's so cute and innocent.' Marquella thought. "Okay."
"Yay!" Nemo cheered. "So what happened?"
"Well, I was swimmin' around looking for a place to live. I saw this ship… well, sensed a ship… in a middle of an 'inefield. So I checked it and no one was there so I decided to live there-"
'Pscht!' Anchor scoffed in his mind. 'Not a good storyteller my tailfin. She's great!'
Marlin noticed that she was a good storyteller too. 'Hmm, nice story. She sure does have a way with story telling.' He thought. 'Though I don't think Anchor's looking at her like that 'cause he likes her stories...'
"-Then I met Bruce, Chum and Anchor. I actually met Anchor first because he called me… the wrong name…"
Anchor blushed at the memory. 'At least she doesn't know what I meant by that… and if she did then she must not have noticed.' He thought
Marlin, however, noticed Anchor's blushing and looked confused. "Out of name?" He mouthed.
"He called her Hawt by accident." Chum mouthed back.
Marlin just nodded his head in understandment.
"-And then they asked me to stay with them. I said yes so… here I am!" Marquella concluded.
"Well that's a nice way of meeting someone." Marlin said.
"Well, I guess we better go now." Bruce said. "We've really got nothing to say."
"Okay." Marlin said.
"See you later!" Nemo shouted from the anemone.
"Your little friend was so cute!" Marquella commented.
"What? You mean 'Arlin?" Chum questioned. "I don't think it'll work out, Marquella. You're way bigger than him, and…"
"No! Not Marlin, your little friend Nemo!" Marquella said.
"Oh." Chum said. "You kind of had me scared for a moment there mate…"
Marquella sighed. "So what're we gonna do now?" She asked.
"Well, how 'bout we take a nap?" Chum suggested.
"But I'm not tired!" Anchor and Marquella whined at the same time, as if planned.
"You two are really something else." Bruce chuckled. "Besides," He added, "We wanna show you guys something… and it happens at night."
"Cool!" Marquella said. "So where're we going?"
Chum laughed. "That's a surprise."
Marquella wondered where they were going, but before she could go into annoying kid mode and beg and whine to him to tell him where they were going, Bruce said,
"Well mates, we're taking a nap. You guys can do what you want to do, as long as I'm sleepin.'"
Bruce swam towards the ship, and while Chum was passing by Anchor he whispered in his ear,
"Go get 'er tiger."
"What was that?" Anchor asked. 'Did he just tell me "Go get 'er tiger?'
"I said 'Be a fighter.'" Chum lied. When Anchor looked at him like he was thinking WTF, he added, "You fight the sleepiness mate."
"Oh." Anchor said, unsure of what Chum said. He couldn't ask him again, because by the time he turned around, Chum was gone.
'See, he said "Be a fighter." It was only my imagination… right?' Anchor thought.
"Anchor? Anchor? Hey, you okay?"
Anchor suddenly noticed that Marquella was talking to him.
"Huh?" Anchor said. "Uhh, yeah. I'm fine."
"You sure? You seemed to be thinkin' of somethin.'" Marquella questioned.
"It's nothing important." Anchor lied.
"Oh." Marquella said. "Well, if there is anything you want to tell me… just tell me. I'd probably understand."
'But it's not that easy.' Anchor thought. 'If only you knew.' "Okay." Anchor said.
"So… do we go back 'ome?" Marquella asked.
Anchor laughed. "I wouldn't do that; we might wake up Bruce. And I've seen Bruce after he was woken up before, you haven't." He said. "Trust me, it's a bad idea."
Marquella laughed too. "So what do we do?" She asked.
Anchor thought for a moment. "Oh, I know!" He said suddenly. "C'mon!" He took Marquella by the fin, and tugged on it.
"Where're we going?" She asked.
"To meet some more friends." Anchor answered.
And with that, the two friends swam off. But, instead of napping, two pairs of eyes were watching behind a rock.
"Hey!" Bruce protested. "I'm not that grumpy when someone wakes me up!"
"Yes you are." Chum said. "But forget about that, at least part one of the plan's complete, right?"
Bruce smiled. "I've got the radio on time set."
"Great, now let's go, I'm pretty sure that they're not only going to see more friends." Chum said.
Bruce and Chum swam after Anchor and Marquella from a safe distance, while Bruce asked, "Chum? You don't really think I'm that grumpy, do you?"
Meanwhile…
The tank gang was chatting happily together. They found their way back to the where Nemo lived after Nigel opened their bags and Crush gave them a ride.
"Hey… d'you guys hear that?" Bloat asked.
Gurgle listened carefully. "Yes, I do… IT'S THE SOUND OF GERMS!" He began swimming around in circles. "AHHHHHHHH!"
"No." Bloat said. "Listen carefully."
The gang perked up their… ears… and heard the faint sound of singing.
"Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming."
"Ohhh." Gurgle said. "It's the sound of SINGING GERMS! AHHHHH…"
"Will you shut up?" Bloat yelled, getting annoyed. "It's not singing germs, it's Dory!"
The gang all looked left, and sure enough, Dory was swimming towards them. "Hi guys!" She called out.
"Hey there Dory." Gill said. "So what's happening?"
"Oh nothing." Dory said. "Except that Anchor's got a girlfriend."
"Awwwww." The gang chorused.
"That's so sweet." Deb said. "So what's her name?"
"I forgot." Dory said. "But I'm going to visit someone, but I forgot who it was, and there was also something I wasn't supposed to tell, but I forgot that too!"
Bubbles looked at her. "Did it include bubbles?" He asked.
"Nope!" Dory said. "Oh well, I guess I'll just go to see Marlin now. Bye!"
"Bye Dory!" The tank gang chorused.
So all was peaceful, except that Dory told a secret….
So? What do you think? Was it good? R&R please. And no flamers. Flamers shall die. And there's a song in the next chapter….