Chapter six. Enjoy!
The next day, the girls had arranged to take Rusty to the ocean.
"Ever been to the beach?" Jenna asked.
"No, but I've seen pictures of them on postcards in the city," Rusty replied. "They're the sandy places near all that water, where humans lay around all day on towels, right?"
"That's right," Ruby answered. "It's just like that, only with snow instead of sand."
"Can we build a snowman?" Rusty asked.
"Or a snow castle!" Jenna added.
"Or, a big snow castle, with little snow citizens," Ruby suggested. When the reached the beach, Rusty was amazed. It looked just like the postcards, only with snow, and much colder. The icy blue ocean stretched out before them.
"That's so cool!" he exclaimed. They played on the beach until the noon sun got hot on their feathers.
"Let's go for a swim," Ruby suggested. The three plunged into the water, and swam around, catching fishes as they went for lunch.
"It's getting late," Ruby pointed out after several hours. She pointed towards the setting sun.
"Just a few more minutes," Rusty said, treading water.
"Alright, just a few more minutes," Ruby agreed.
"AAAAHHHH!" Jenna screamed. Rusty and Ruby looked over to see she was trapped on a floating ice burg.
"Don't worry, Jenna!" Ruby called. "Swim to us!"
"There are seals!" Jenna cried, keeping away from the edge, as she drifted further away. Ruby gasped, grabbed Rusty's arm, and quickly swam back to the beach.
"Stay on the beach; I'll get help!" she instructed.
"But Jenna needs help now!" Rusty protested.
"Stay on the beach!" Ruby ran off towards the village. Rusty felt helpless. Jenna was at least eight yards away, and he could easily swim to her. But what about the seals? They were leaping onto the ice, and slipping off, trying to tip Jenna into the water. Ruby seemed to be taking forever, so Rusty decided to take matters into his own hands.
"What would Dad or Skipper do?" he muttered to himself. "Maybe I have…" he tried to regurgitate, "some rope…" tried again, "or something…" and again, "like a jetpack!" He tried once more, but did not succeed in any way. "Drat, I'll have to swim." He jumped into the water, and started swimming as quietly, and as fast as he could.
The seals were too distracted by Jenna at this point to notice him, but one younger one, who didn't seem interested, notice him, and swam towards him. As Rusty surfaced for breath, and he found he was face-to-face with a young seal.
"AHH!" he yelled.
"Don't worry!" the seal said quickly. "I am a strict fishatarion. I do not eat penguin; especially after one saved me."
"A penguin saved you?" Rusty asked, still unconvinced.
"Yeah. His name was Private."
"Wait a minute!" Rusty exclaimed. "A little taller than me, slightly chubby, British accent?"
"That's him," the seal confirmed.
"He's Gracie's father! Adopted father, that is. I live at the same zoo!"
"Is that Gracie on the ice?"
"No, that's Jenna, a friend of mine," Rusty said. "Can you help her?"
"Sure I can," the seal nodded. "I'm Hunter, by the way."
"I'm Rusty."
"Stay here, Rusty, and I'll distract the seals so you can get Jenna out of there." She swam away, and stopped at the group. "HEY! There's a whole group of penguins over there!" She pointed in a random direction. "And they're all fat, and juicy!" The other seals swam as fast as they could in that direction and Hunter nodded to Rusty. Rusty jumped onto the ice, and grabbed Jenna's flipper.
"Come on!" he said, and they jumped into the water, swimming as fast as they could.
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