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A HUMOROUS STORY ON THE LIFE OF AN ORDINARY OCTOPUS AND THE MANY THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN IN AN AVERAGE OCTOPUS'S LIFETIME!

__THE LIFE OF OCTI THE OCTOPUS__

//**Starring:**//

Octi, the Octopus Death, the Shark Stevo, the Dolphin Tiny, the brine shrimp Stephanie, the Octopus-eater And thirty thousand of Octi's Siblings!

OCTI, THE OCTOPUS

STEVO, THE DOLPHIN

DEATH, THE SHARK

TINY, THE BRINE SHRIMP

OCTI'S STORY:

Octi the East Pacific Red Octopus was drifting along, looking for the crabs which roamed across the ocean floor. They were his favorite food to eat, and they hid amongst the grasses which covered the bottom of the sea. Squeezing his soft body through openings in the coral, he came to his favorite hunting spot. Octi changed the color of his skin to blend in with the coral around him. He did not have to wait long before a crab scrabbled over some sea sponges in his direction. When it got close enough, he leaped from his hiding spot, and with a small squirt of ink he put his prey into panic. The crab's senses were dulled by the poignant ink, and soon Octi was upon him, gobbling him up, shell and all, through his beak-like mouth. When he was finished eating he spat the parts he couldn't digest back out through the pipe in his head, which he also blasted water out of to swim quicker. He then continued on his merry way, slowly drifting past seaweed and kelp, lazily grasping at any small shellfish that scuttled by. In another part of the ocean a much more sinister creature swam through the underwater realms of his world. In his eyes the entire ocean was his kingdom and everything could be quickly and easily disposed of. That was the life of Death the Shark. At that moment Death had a special craving for octopus. He loved the way the soft body squirmed between his teeth...though octopus had always been rather hard to catch. Nonetheless, he breathed deeply in through his nose. He picked up the smell of the one and only Octi the octopus, and followed the smell in the direction Octi had been swimming. Meanwhile, back at the coral reef, Octi had met up with his brother Ti Mothy. Ti Mothy had such a strange name because there were so many octopus's in his family, and when it came time for his name to be chosen three of his brothers were already named the same (Tim, Timmy, and Timothy). So his parents had decided on the next best thing, though it wasn't really very good anyways. Thus he was stuck with the most ridiculous name in the pod. Octi, on the other hand, was lucky enough to be the seventeenth picked, and got a very original name. It was probably the best in the family. Anyway, they were chatting about their sister Victoria. She was in rehab after a particularly blind jellyfish had run her over and shocked her in twenty-seven different places. That was when Stevo the dolphin found them. Stevo was very hungry and he, too, had a craving for octopus that day. He lunged at Ti Mothy, and bit his teeth into his leg. Ti Mothy screamed, and Octi did too. He was not exactly brave, and swam hurriedly in the other direction. He then squeezed into a small hole in the coral, emerging on the other side. He sighed heavily and spun about. He then found himself face to face with Death, king of the sea. Octi nearly passed out then and there, and Death opened his jaws wide. Octi stared inside the huge mouth. The teeth were so filthy, he could almost see excessive amounts of bacteria inside. "Probably some //bacterioplankton//, cleaning his teeth for him and eating the rotting flesh he missed" he said to himself, "or maybe some cheeky little //Vibrio vulnificus."// Though Octi knew the names of the bacteria, he wasn't quite sure he was correct. But that was the last thing on his mind as the jaws approached his head. It was Death, the shark, with his evil remora ray Gordy that fed upon any of Death's excess food! Octi turned and dodged, quickly squeezing himself through a school of fish surrounding an exquisite coral reef. He dodged around the countless clumps of seaweed in his way. Octi turned around to see if Death was still after him. "Hooray!" Octi shouted. "The shark's gone!" After the good exercise, Octi was becoming hungry for another meal. He swam by a small, nearly microscopic clump of Phoma marina, a fungus. He decided that today's lunch would include a delicious tidbit of king crab he had left over from last month. It had been delicious last month, only now, not so much. Octi was very hungry now, and his second favorite food was shrimp. The only problem: he only knew of one shrimp in his neighborhood. It was his friend, Tiny! Octi knew he couldn't eat Tiny, so he decided not to. The shrimp was probably contaminated with those evil bacterioplankton! As he arrived at his home, an object jetted out of his house. It was a lamprey. When Octi entered the fissure in the coral he called home, he found a dead fish, already starting to decay from the undersea decomposers. As he moved it out of his coral, Octi felt bad for this rainbow fish that had fell victim to parasitism. Almost as soon as the corpse hit the ocean floor, It was picked apart by other fish, including a clown fish. It took some food back to feed its home, a sea anemone. In return for food that it could not get itself, the anemone would protect the clown fish. The next day, Octi was swimming and squirting along when, suddenly, he was tangled in a fishing net and slowly and painfully hauled to the surface. He later found himself on Stephanie's plate as calamari, and, eventually, in her stomach being digested by important stomach bacteria and enzymes getting their own food, while also supplying Stephanie with nutrients.

This is the end of the story of Octi the octopus.

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