The Aquarium

It was another calm day at the aquarium when we got a new arrival. I only briefly saw the cage as it passed my tank. Inside was a crab. I didn’t pay much attention to it as I needed to breathe. So I gently floated up to the surface, blew out some water took a breath and went back down.

That night I heard a clicking sound. I assumed it was the crab but the sound got louder and louder until the crab was right outside my tank. WHAT IN THE NAME OF NEPTUNE WAS IT DOING IN THE CORRIDOR AT THIS TIME OF THE NIGHT!!!! I thought. Its meant to be in its cage-tank thingimigic. Great absolutely fantastic. Now I’ve got to put up with this annoying clicking all night long.

5 hours later, I felt like I was going to explode. The crab was sooooooooooooo exasperating. You know what I wanted to say to the crab right then? Yes we all get it clickety click click click. At around 7 o’clock the crab sidled back to where it belonged. I didn’t get it at first. Why did the crab suddenly disappear? Then when the manager came round I got it. The crab spent the whole night in front of my tank but went away when the manager came round in the morning . The sly sneaky beast. He deprived me of my beauty sleep!

That day I tried to rest as much as I could because of what I knew was coming in the night. I felt sad and lonely because I could hear other whales in the distance. The crab came that night like I knew it would. This time I asked him what he was doing out here in the corridor. Suddenly he broke into tears. I comforted him and he told me his story. He had just been trying to get a bunch of fresh seaweed for his fiancee when he had been kidnapped by the manager of the aquarium. I decided I must get him back to the ocean as his wedding was tomorrow. Suddenly I had a plan!

My tank was by the ocean and there was a little beach in my tank. I told the crab to wait there. Quickly I swam up. Yes I was right there WAS a little door that people came through to feed me. I took another breath and went back down. We didn’t have much time. It was 5 o’clock and he needed to be out of there by six. Somehow after a few minutes the crab who I by now knew was called Bubbles was on the beach of my tank.
“ How did you do that” I asked him but he just said
“Uh uh a good crab tells no crab secrets”
”Right.” I said. “You see that door it leads to the reception once your in there you have to get out the revolving doors and onto the beach. Then you’ll be safe”
“ What about you” Bubbles said
“I’ll be fine here.”
“Ok, but won’t you be lonely?” he said
“ No I’ll be fine. Now go” I told him but I knew he didn’t quite believe me. I was very happy when he got through the door.

The next evening I felt happy and content because it was Bubbles wedding day and he had got home in time for the wedding. What happened next surprised me completely. I was just getting ready to sleep when I heard a click like the ones Bubbles made but a thousand times louder and that was because Bubbles and his crew had come to rescue me.

What happened then was my tank wall that was on the ocean fell down. Water surged out into the ocean carrying me with it. Finally I was out of that cramped tank. Finally I could be with the other whales. Finally I was free.