A.N: Okay, here's the next chapter! I really hope that you enjoyed the last one! Again, thanks to the people who reviewed! Please tell me if there's anything I need to improve on :D

Chapter 3:

Melanie looked around. They appeared to be in some kind of wasteland.

She swam around for a few minutes. "At least it's calmer and more quiet down here" she said. Squash nodded his head in agreement. The rough, noisy waves were more than enough to drive anyone crazy.

The wasteland was very quiet and there didn't seem to be anyone around. "Hello..." called Melanie, hoping that someone would answer. "Is anyone here?"

There was no answer, so Melanie and Squash decided that they would try to learn how to survive, now that they were in the ocean.

"Okay," said Melanie, "First, we'll need to find some food". They looked around and Squash found some kelp, which he happily started nibbling.

"If only I could find some fish" said Melanie. In the aquarium, Simone had hand-fed her pieces of fish, but now she would have to find it for herself.

"Come on Squash" she said. "Let's go this way and see if we can find anything else."

After swimming for what seemed like ages, Melanie and Squash came to a big pile of rocks. Melanie looked over the rocks and smiled. "Bingo."

Just beyond the rocks, there was a huge reef, full of fish and many other sea creatures. Melanie knew that she would have to hunt one down, kill it and then eat it. She didn't like the idea of having to kill an innocent fish, but what choice did she have? If she didn't catch a fish, she would go hungry and die within the next week.

Slowly, she swam past the rocks and towards the reef, leaving Squash behind the rocks to eat some kelp.

Melanie looked around the reef. There were so many fish here. She had never seen anything like it in her whole life. She focused on one fish in particular. A fat, pink/purple fish who was rather old and flabby. Melanie watched as the fat fish yelled at a bunch of little fish, telling them that it was past their bedtime.

'Hmm… she looks fat so she would give me plenty of food for weeks…' thought Melanie 'Also, all that flabby fat would slow her down, making her much easier to catch…'

"Okay, here we go..." said Melanie, getting ready to swim to the reef and catch the flabby pink fish. Melanie had never tried to attack a fish and she barely knew how to, but she knew that she would have to, if she wanted to survive.

Taking a deep breath, Melanie swam towards the reef at full speed, eyes focused on the fat fish. The effect was immediate. A huge wave of panic rippled through the whole reef. Fish swam around frantically, screaming; "SHARK! SHARK!" or "SWIM FOR YOUR LIVES!"

In all the commotion, Melanie had lost sight of the fat pink fish that she had been intending to catch, so instead, she tried to get any other fish around her. She snapped at a fish that was close by, but missed. All these fish were way too fast for her to catch and she wasn't that fast after living in an aquarium for her whole life. Her tank was much too small to move around in, and she wouldn't even need to swim this fast in the first place, because her food was just hand-fed to her.

Melanie tried, again and again to catch a fish, but could never seem to get one. After about twenty minutes, all her energy had gone and she eventually gave up, after crashing into a huge billboard which read: 'Welcome to Southside Reef'.

Feeling worn-out and humiliated, Melanie swam slowly back to the rocks, where Squash was stuffing his face with kelp.

Melanie felt hungrier than ever, now that she had wasted so much energy, trying to catch a fish. She looked around desperately. Maybe there was a tiny crab, maybe even a shrimp… The only edible thing she could see was Squash's kelp. Squash saw her looking and generously held out some kelp for her.

Melanie sighed. "Sharks aren't supposed to eat kelp" she said. But she was so hungry that she could eat just about anything right now. "Well, I guess just a little bit of kelp won't hurt…thank-you Squash". She took the bit of kelp which Squash had been holding out and chewed on it. "This tastes…good…" she said. Melanie hadn't expected kelp to taste so nice, she thought that fish was the only food that sharks could, and should eat. She tugged on the kelp and greedily stuffed her mouth full.

Just then, Melanie saw a boat in the distance. The boat was dragging a huge net behind it, meaning that it was probably a fishing boat. It was coming towards them fast. "Swim Squash!" said Melanie, "It'll run us over if we don't hurry!" They swam as fast as their fins could carry them, but Melanie was getting tired every second. The boat came closer and closer.

Melanie felt pain flow through her, as the bottom part of the boat collided with her head. In a daze, she tumbled backwards… and straight into the huge fishing net.

She struggled so hard that the whole bottom part of the net was ripped off and the boat went on its way with only the top half of the fishing net.

Melanie was struggling desperately in the net. "Squash, help me!" she called to her only friend. Squash rushed over and tried nibbling at the net, but it was no use. The ropes were way too tough for a little fish to bite through.

Melanie knew that her own teeth could definitely tear the ropes, but she was in an awkward position and her jaws couldn't reach the net, which was tangled around her body, so she couldn't even move her pectoral fins.

'I have to get out of here now!' thought Melanie. She twisted and wriggled about for what seemed like hours and hours and finally gave up, as night-time came closer.

She would never be able to free herself from the fishing net. If she didn't die from starvation first, she would drown hopelessly, stuck in this horrible net.

Despite Squash's efforts to comfort her, she closed her eyes and cried herself to sleep.

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