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Ocean Shore Fiction By: Gabriella D. and Tanner A. //**Eduardo's Under Water Adventure**// One day a in the shores of New Zealand's White Island volcanoes, a pink abalone fish named Eduardo woke up. Yawing his little fishy yawn, he swam outside of his Schmitzia hiscokiana, and started to nibble on a little piece of coontail plant outside his home. Suddenly, a group of sharks raced past! Oh no! It was the Jaws!

Eduardo dove into a clump of green surf grass. S-Dog (short for Spiny Dogfish), the leader of the gang, stuck his nose into the surf grass and said, “ Come out little fishy.”

Eduardo sprang out swimming with all his might away from the pursuing shark S-Dog with ease. Eduardo swam like he had never swum before through every twist and turn, past every rock pile, and over every obstacle that stood in his way. Once he was sure he had finally lost S-Dog, he stopped and turned around to catch his breath, he noticed that S-Dog was lying on the bottom of the ocean floor. Was it a trick, thought Eduardo? After thoroughly thinking it over, Eduardo swam down to get a better look at S-Dog. All the life seemed to have drained from him.

Eduardo swam away, stunned at what he just saw, but relieved that he was alive. //It must have been a parasite//, he thought. The Jaws started to bury S-Dog, after biting him open and pulling out the parasite. Eduardo was watching from farther away, and saw that the parasite was a Euchromadora denticulate. He swam back to his home, seeing the sobbing members of the Jaws gang being cleaned off by shrimp. Eduardo the pink abalone discovered he was hungry. He remembered the coontail plant outside his house, and he swam faster to get to it quicker. //Mmm//, he thought as he ate the coontail.  It had been another day in the life of Eduardo the pink abalone fish, full of excitement and adventure.

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