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=__**A Day in the Life of Delvin the Frog**__=

Welcome to Cattail bay! a place where all different animals can party all night long. Delvin was a party animal. One night Delvin was rockin' out as the lead singer of the "freaky frogs". that night, after his preformance he went home to his lilly pad and found it brockin in 2 and his mom [mom] was gone. there was a note on the floor and it read: if you ever want to see mom again you will have to fight me for her. Delvin knew who this was. it was scar the pike who lived in the deepest darkest part of the lake. scar was the biggest baddest bully around and was a preditor to almost all of the little defensless lake creatures. He knew that he had to rescue his mom before she was eaten by scar and he also knew he had a long journey ahead of him and he needed to pack right away. Delvin needed help, he couldnt defeat Scar all by himself so he asked his two best friends sleeky the salamander and zack the turtle to help on the journey. Sleeky was very brave and full of energy, but zack was very shy and was afraid of everything.They left late that very night which was even more dangerous because not even the biggest of frogs would lurk the lake at night. Who knows what kind of frog eating animals there were out there. The crickets were chirping louder than ever but Zach, Delvin and Sleeky were not hungry. It would be a three day journey to where scar lived and this would be a very dangerous and heroic journey. They would have to pass through the "fungi forest", and "the sea of amoeba." Zach was very nervous about the whole adventure. But Delvin and Sleeky were very determined to rescue mom. They set out swimming along the shore very carefully. Meanwhile, scar was swimming triumphently around his seaweed castle while his loyal assistant Mr. Whiskers the cat fish told him how great he was. "you'll never get away with this scar" mom yelled. "Oh be quite mom, Delvin isn't coming for you he doesn't even care, I bet he is still back at cattail bay" scar hissed at her. "Your wrong my son cares very much about me and he will be and when he does he will kill you and that ugly fat so called sidekick of yours" mom cryed. "Thats where you are wrong, when your little son gets here i will eat you right in front of his face and then eat him later when he is almost dead of starvation (i like my fish better when i know they are suffering) ", he exclaimed. "I hope Delvin comes soon" mom sighed. back near home delvin and his friends were faced with a delema. THey were faced with a fungi forest filled with many different type of fungi and bacteria such as bubblegum (type of fungi). the bacteria live on and around the fungi and are given a home. the fungi are not effected (commensilism)."we have to cross this forest to get to mom" sleeky said. "lets just go home" complained zach. the three companions trudged on and finally came across. "we made it!" they all exlaimed. back at scar's seaweed castle mom was teasing scar. "how did you get that awful scar on your face?" mom asked. "a dirty leech grasped ahold of my face while i was eating a little frog like you." (parasititsm) scowled scar a little bit embarassed. sleeky zach and delvin stopped to sleep because it was getting late. the next day they woke up early and headed tothe sea of ameoba. ameoba didn't hurt frogs but zach was scared so the three pond critters swam as fast as they could through the ameoba and made it to the other side as fast as lightning. they kept on swimming down...down...down.... to the bottom of the lake and soon nightfall came and they stopped to sleep. When they woke up they kept on swimming until they found something interesting. It was a crayfish, and because this is a fiction story the three friends could see microscopic things, the three freinds saw Branchiobdellids on the the cray fish. little organisms that eat unwanted matter off the cray fish's gills. this cleans the gills of the cray fish and also gives food to the branchiobdellids. they stopped for a while to observe but then swam on. when they came to scar's castle even sleeky, the brave was affraid. "you two go, i have to face scar alone" delvin said heroicly. just then scar's sidekick Mr.Whiskers the catfish swam out of the castle. "You'll never save mom" he meowed. then a brightly colored lure droped down from the surface right in front of Mr.Whiskers. He licked his chopps and took a bite and was reeled to the top. the three critters watched him leave and then delvin bid his friends adu. sleeky and zach were soooo scared that they swam to their home as fast as they could. Delvin crept inside the castle and saw where mom was. scar wasnt around so he found the key and let her out. just then scar came in. "well look who we have here," he growled "its all over scar" yelled delvin. "We'll just see about that" scar yelled. scar was four feet long and weighed 42 lbs, the frogs were about four inches long. "We'll have to fight him together" mom said. Delvin nodded and they both charged at scar who was even bigger up close.... unfortunatly frogs don't stand any chance at all against northern pike so scar ate both of them up in a matter of seconds and sleeky the salamander and zach the turtle still live to tell the story of delvin the frog!!!!!!!!!