Hi, I'm Ammy the axolotl, and this is the story of how I made my best friends Bean and Clover! So c’mon, let's dive right in!
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“Ammy come downstairs, it's time for breakfast!” My mom yelled, “You're going exploring in the coral reef today, no? You have to have a balanced breakfast to do that!”
“I’m coming mom!” I said slowly realizing how stiff my fins were, it felt like I'd been sleeping on a rock! Suddenly I took one sniff and noticed that my mom was making kelp pancakes! My Favorite! I zipped downstairs to get a taste of the delicious specimens. I sat down to dig in and saw a pink blur woosh by me.
“Kody, calm down, no running in the house!” shouted my dad, barely looking up from his newspaper. Kody gave my dad a sideways glance but sat down and started devouring his own pancakes.
When I finished my pancakes I sat up and got all the stuff I would need for my excursion and started heading out when my Mom asked, “Ammy, do you have snacks?” Which I shook my head to and she tossed me some nori wrapped mussels and I left,my heart racing.
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So first I went to the most colorful part of the coral reef and found many very pretty pieces of coral that had broken off. Then I went to the place where all the colorful fish live and found a nice quiet spot to enjoy the snack my mom had given me. Finally I went to the part of the reef that was mostly dead, except for the occasional piece of sea grass. Very few creatures even bothered to go to this part of the reef because there are tons of strange creatures that live there. I started to look around when I had the feeling I was being watched, and I turned around to see a flash of yellow swim away. I gave chase to whoever was watching me and I caught up to them and tackled them into some dead coral.
“Who are you and why were you spying on me,” I asked, I looked him dead in the eye with a serious look.
“Woah there,too many questions!” said the mysterious yellow axolotl, “my name is Bean and the reason I was following you is because you're brave enough to come here so I followed you to what for when to ask you to be my friend.”
“Why didn’t you just come up and ask me like a normal axolotl?” I asked, puzzled, “of course I’ll be your friend! C’mon, explore the rest of the reef with me.” Bean nodded and swam with me through the coral.
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After a while, we found a deep ravine and we couldn’t see the bottom! I tried to convince Bean to come down with me but he refused.
“Don’t die!” Bean said sarcastically but he still wore a worried expression on his face.
“I won’t!” I called back swimming away. I continued to swim downward for a while but it then got really dark. I then heard someone yell “help” but it barely sounded like a whisper.
“Whose there!?” I yelled swimming towards where the noise had come from.
“Help, please!” They responded. Then I saw it, a small cyan axolotl, about my age, trapped underneath a huge rock. I swam towards it as fast as lightning and tried to lift it but I couldn't move it by myself, I needed help.
“ I’ll be right back i’m going to get help,” I told her but just as I was about to swim away I remembered something, “ Hey um whats your name?”
“ My name is Clover,” she said weakly. I swam away to go get Bean to help me.
“ Bean!” I exclaimed, “there’s an axolotl down there who needs our help, c’mon we have to act fast!”
“Ammy, wait up!” He said, “isn’t it scary down there?” He looked concerned and scared of going down there.
“Bean, if we don’t help, who knows what will happen?!” I shouted at him. I finally convinced him to come save Clover with me. “What are we waiting for? C’mon!”
It took a while to get back to where Clover was stuck but then we found her, those cyan feelers stick out like a sore thumb!
“Okay,” I said, “On three me and Bean will push and Clover you try your best to swim out. Ready? One…two…three!”
On three we all pushed as hard as we could and Clover was able to wriggle out safely after that we brought clover to my house to make sure she wasn’t too injured. My mom made us all some food and from then one we were best friends.
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