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jidohanbaiki.The_Ocean.tex

  1\chapauth{jidohanbaiki}
  2\chapter{The Ocean}
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  4The abrasive ocean waters lapped dangerously at his flippered feet.
  5Luke Bavarious was a marine biologist who took his job seriously.
  6He set his rusty bucket of herring into the sand with a crepitating
  7flatulence. In the distance, gray blades pierced the ocean, coming
  8closer and closer. There was a portentous whirring and clicking,
  9growing ever louder and more frantic, interrupted only sporadically
 10by the crash of waves.
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 14Bavarious took fistfulls of herring in his fists. The herring were
 15slimy and slippery, so he squeezed the herring hard to keep them in
 16his grip. The bodily fluids from the herring leaked between his
 17fingers. He proceeded towards the malicious noise of the ocean,
 18slowly but determined, holding his fists of herring up to the sky,
 19as if in defiance to God. He stopped once the ocean reached his
 20hip. The gray blades swarmed around him. Luke smiled bitterly.
 21``Come and get it,'' he intoned.
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 25Gray beaks poked out of the water, searching, wanting, smiling. But
 26those smiling mouths opened to reveal long rows of tiny, but sharp,
 27brilliant white teeth. Luke tossed the disgusting, smashed herring
 28into the waiting maws. ``Eat,'' Bavarious said, almost cursing.
 29``Eat!'' he commanded.
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 33The dolphins splashed around him, taking their fill of the herring,
 34letting the herrings' slimy bodies slide down whole into their
 35stomachs. Bavarious began to laugh, at first just a chuckle. Then
 36he threw his fists covered in herring eyes and herring guts into
 37the air and erupted with demented revelry. ``Yes! Eat! Eat!'' he
 38screamed, his voice shrill with hysteria.
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 42Luke Bavarious was a marine biologist who took his job seriously.
 43He was also a marine biologist who would leave no slight unavenged.
 44Little did the dolphins know that the herring was poisoned.
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 52Donny had no legs ever since he could remember. A long time ago
 53when he was a child, he had lost them in a car accident, or so he
 54was told. He was also told that he also lost his parents. Every day
 55after school, his aunt would drive him out to the ocean so he could
 56swim with the dolphins as therapy. ``You're thirteen now,'' she said
 57bitterly as she drove him towards the sea. ``Don't you think it's
 58time you stopped swimming with those stupid fish?''
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 62``They're not fish, and they're definitely not stupid.'' Donny said,
 63folding his arms over his stumps.
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 67Once at the dock, his aunt rolled him in his wheelchair over the
 68wooden planks and tipped him into the waters below. ``I'll be back
 69in an hour,'' she shouted down to him. ``I've got to go to a meeting
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 74Donny floated, belly up in the ocean, his horrid little stumps
 75flailing uselessly. Soon, he felt something slippery slide
 76underneath him. It was his friend, Moon Dancer the dolphin. Donny
 77petted Moon Dancer's nose as he dreamed of the freedom he would
 78have if only he could become a dolphin. Then he sensed distress
 79from Moon Dancer. Donny grabbed the dolphin's head and pressed his
 80face to it. ``Take me there,'' said Donny.
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 84He grabbed onto Moon Dancer's fin and they sped towards the
 85horizon. It was a wonderful feeling to move so fast and freely, but
 86the ride did not last. They approached a contorted figure in the
 87waters. Donny swam over to the struggling dolphin. ``Star Wave!
 88What's wrong?'' Donny asked.
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 92Green bile and rust colored blood vomited from Star Wave's blow
 93hole. Star Wave opened his mouth and vomited out the poisoned
 94herring bones. Donny screamed and then vomited himself, and soon,
 95vomit mixed with tears in the ocean water. Attracted by the blood,
 96a shark appeared and landed a killing blow on Star Wave, putting
 97him out of his horrid misery and spreading violent red blood
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102``Take me to who did this.'' Donny thought at Moon Dancer.
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110Miles away, Luke Bavarious dropped another bucket of herring onto
111the sand with a squelch. He took fistfulls of poisoned herring, and
112entered the ocean. In the distance, dolphins schooled. ``Come!''
113Bavarious commanded, his powerful fists dripping with poisoned
114herring entrails.
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118``You think you're so smart!'' he spat. ``But you won't ruin my
119scientific research any longer! I was going to prove that you only
120had fish intelligence, but you ruined my data and now I'm the
121laughing stock of marine biologists!''
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125The dolphins did not come, but lingered on the horizon tauntingly.
126He pounded the water with his herring fist, making a horrid
127squelching noise. He then went farther and farther into the ocean,
128until the water was up to his neck. The dolphins then swarmed
129around him. ``Eat!'' He said, scattering the herring.
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133He laughed and laughed. Then he burbled as bitter, salty water
134flowed into his mouth and nostrils. Moon Dancer swam up to him and
135spat a poisoned herring in his face. Bavarious grabbed the herring
136and beat Moon Dancer with it. ``Eat you stupid fish!''
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140Then a different dolphin swam by Luke's legs, then around his body.
141It came out of the water and faced Bavarious. Bavarious screamed.
142The dolphin had a human face; it was Donny. Bavarious fainted and
143drowned.
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147Years later Luke Bavarious' bones were found washed up on shore,
148but no one ever found Donny's. His aunt was thrown in jail for his
149murder. From behind bars, she would mutter about dolphins with
150human faces endlessly until one day her cellmate couldn't take it
151anymore and strangled her to death. 
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