A.N: Okay everyone! Here's the next chapter! It's a bit more exiting than the first one (I hope) Thanks to the people who reviewed my first chapter! Your reviews are really important to me! :D
Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Melanie woke up, feeling restless. She looked out the window again. It was still dark.
Although it wasn't even morning yet, there was lots of noise, the lights were on, and humans were walking around everywhere, carrying all kinds of weird stuff like diving suits and huge cameras.
Squash was swimming around the tank like a miniature out-of-control submarine.
"Hey, what's the matter?" asked Melanie. "What's going on here?"
Just then, Simone came up to Melanie's tank. She smiled at Melanie sadly. "Goodbye Melanie", she said.
Melanie knew that Simone was upset about something, but what? She couldn't understand people-talk at all. She tried to ask Simone what was the matter, but she knew that Simone probably couldn't understand fish-talk either.
"What's happening?" Melanie asked again.
At that moment, a man wearing a wetsuit came up to her tank and stood next to Simone. He was holding something that looked like a gun but had a sharp pointed dart mounted on the end of it. He climbed up to the top of the tank, which had been opened for some strange reason.
Melanie didn't like the look of this guy, ever since she saw him holding the gun. She quickly swam behind a huge rock.
"Get down Squash!" she said to her tiny fish-friend who had just collided with one of the tank walls.
Simone held out some fish for Melanie to eat. Melanie didn't know if she should go up and get the tiny bit of fish. She knew that she could trust Simone, but that man was still up there with the gun.
Melanie swam to the top of the tank slowly, feeling wary. She opened her huge mouth and grabbed the fish that Simone was holding out to her. As she chewed it up, she felt more relaxed. Maybe she was just overreacting after all.
Melanie saw Simone say something to the man with the gun, as he moved closer, slowly.
Then, everything happened at once.
The man suddenly lunged forward and pulled the trigger of the strange-looking gun. Simone turned away and covered her eyes with her hands as the razor-sharp dart pierced Melanie's side, just in front of her dorsal fin.
An overwhelming numbness flowed through Melanie's entire body as the dart embedded itself in her flesh. The aquarium around her began to fade slowly, as she blacked out.
When Melanie woke up, she felt awful. The pain was gone but she was still feeling very stiff and sluggish. She swam idly around the empty tank…'Wait a minute… empty tank?'
That's when she realised that she was no longer in the aquarium. She was in a small glass tank with rather thin walls. All around her, there were huge wooden crates and boxes.
Only yesterday, she had been swimming around in the aquarium, laughing at Squash. 'Squash!' Melanie had not seen her little friend ever since she had been hit with the dart. Thankfully, Squash had been hiding right behind her dorsal fin, his usual hiding place.
She realised that she was on a ship. Melanie had never been on a ship before. The only time she had ever seen one was when she saw a picture of the Titanic, in the aquarium.
Melanie knew that the Titanic was a huge ship which had sunk a long time ago, drowning many humans. She had often wondered where the wreck of the Titanic would be and if anyone would ever find it.
"I don't like this", she said to Squash. "I want to go back to the aquarium".
Melanie and Squash could both see the ocean. The waves were so much bigger and rougher when they were closer up.
Suddenly the humans stopped the ship. Melanie watched as a group of them lifted a huge, heavy anchor and hurl it over the edge of the ship.
As it fell into the water with an enormous splash, Melanie hated to think what would happen to any poor fish who would be unfortunate enough to swim under it at that very moment. An anchor like that would probably be able to kill a whale.
Another huge bunch of people walked up to Melanie's tank and hooked it up to a weird machine. All of a sudden, Melanie and Squash felt the tank being lifted higher into the air.
"Squash, what's happening?" asked Melanie. Suddenly, the tank stopped moving and Melanie could see the ocean below, through the glass bottom of her tank.
The tank was now slowly being lowered into the sea. Before she could say anything, the tank was submerged in the sea and Melanie could hardly see the people above her on the ship.
A diver jumped into the water and slid back the lid of the tank. The diver was Simone. As the lid was pulled back, Melanie felt a rush of seawater enter her tank. Real seawater, not the aquarium water she had been born and raised in for her whole life.
Simone smiled at Melanie and motioned her to come outside of the tank, into the sea.
Melanie looked nervously at Squash. "Should I go?" she asked.
Simone held out a piece of fish for Melanie again. Melanie looked at it hungrily. "Well, I guess its okay, just for a little while". She swam out of the tank, right up to Simone, and took the fish which she finished in two seconds.
Then, something odd happened. The tank was lifted back up onto the ship. "How will I get back on board?" wondered Melanie.
Simone swam close to Melanie, she was smiling, but she looked very sad. She gently stroked Melanie's head and then swam away, towards the ship.
"Hey! What about me?" said Melanie, who was now starting to panic. Why did Simone leave her?
She quickly swam up to the surface of the ocean to get a view of the ship. To Melanie's horror, the ship had started moving away, leaving her behind!
Melanie swam after the ship in vain. "Wait! Don't leave me here!" she shouted, "STOP!". The waves roared and towered above her. No one would hear her now.
The ship was no longer in sight. Melanie looked around desperately but all she saw was miles and miles of endless sea, with huge waves crashing down on her. They both swam under the water.
Squash looked at her sorrowfully.
"It's no use Squash" said Melanie. "We're stuck here forever".
(A.N: I hope you all enjoyed that chapter. Please read and review!)