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Picked up a rock from the the ground and threw it at the shark. It bounced off his nose and he angrily swam straight for me. I picked up a second rock and aimed at his nose again. It hit him and he stopped. He was looking at me, as if he was wondering whether or not it was worth the fight. I picked up another bigger rock and hit him in the face with it. It bounced off his nose and he swam away. //That was way too easy,// I thought. But I started swimming around anyway. After the shark had been gone for a while, the fish started coming back. Bright yellow and blue fish swam around me. Then one especially colorful fish, yellow with orange stripes and dots and a purple nose, swam right up to me. He looked at me with big black eyes and I got the crazy idea that he wanted me to follow him. So I did. He took me far away from the other fish to where the black rocks were sharp on my bare feet and there were none of the waving plants that had been in the reef. I walked carefully along, and the fish led me to a dark underwater canyon, where he started swimming //down//. The crazy fish wanted me to jump into the crevice. I took a deep breath (of water) and jumped into the canyon. I slowly floated down, down into the darkness. When I hit the bottom, I saw a tiny bit of light above me, and, looking into the distance, I saw what looked like a glowing window of a house. I swam up to it and the front door swung open wide...

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