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A Day at the Lake “I’m so hungry!” moaned Pepe, the Betta Fish. “I need food.” Out of nowhere, a spot of green algae appeared. Pepe swims over and starts to eat, his face covered in the food

A little white spot flashes on the side of him. Whirling around, Philipo, the virus, swims full speed into Pepe’s mouth. Pepe turns around and starts to swim away, not noticing the fugitive in his mouth. He swims until he gets caught in a tangle of weeds. “HELP!!!” Pepe screamed, knowing that dangerous turtles lurked these parts. “HELP! Someone, help me!!” he continued to call.

Philipo, meanwhile, is in Pepe’s mouth, eating away at his insides. Pepe finally escapes from the weeds and goes to his home. Pepe goes to bed, but he wakes up feeling terrible. Looking down at his stomach, he notices the skin around his stomach is thinner. Thinking he just needs exercise, he goes for a swim around the edge of the lake. He stops as his stomach starts to swell, and is about to head home when his stomach blows up.

Bobo the snapping turtle was on his midnight hunting spree. He heard the whimpers of barely alive Pepe and swims towards the noise. Seeing Pepe is unable to move, he races up, screaming, “I’m gonna eat you!” With a snap of his jaws, Pepe is dead and gone.

On the other side of the lake Rufus, the duck, is also looking for food. He finds Chico, the duckweed. “Can I have some food, Chico?” asked Rufus.

“Can I have a ride?” returned Chico.

“Yes,” Rufus responded.

“Then there’s your answer,” said Chico. Rufus ate a little bit of Chico, and then dropped him off at the other side of the lake. Rufus went to his nest, and scared away the predator that was trying to eat the eggs in the nest. Then nudging them around until he’s satisfied, he sees that the eggs are fine in the nest.

Bobo, all this time, was watching Rufus to find out where his eggs were. He planned to eat them for a snack.

Rufus heard the screams of Chico as he was drowning in the middle of the lake. Rufus flies away to save Chico, unaware of the predator on the edge of the lake.

Bobo saw his chance, and climbed onto the bay. He searched for the eggs. Bobo found the five eggs and eats three of the eggs, but got full. So he cracked the last two and drowned them in the lake.

Rufus comes back from saving Chico, who he dropped off at the end of the bay. Rufus feels good, until he that all his eggs were gone. Rufus knew that Bobo must have eaten his eggs, because a few years back he had also eaten his wife. Rufus is so mad that, abandoning all logic he goes to fight Bobo.

When it was dark and Bobo was outside Rufus went to get revenge. Bobo’s head was up, and Rufus dove quickly down to pop it off with his sharp beak. Right when Rufus reaches his destination, Bobo turned and snapped at Rufus, skimming his beak and taking a chunk out of it. Rufus quacked furiously and made another dive at Bobo. This time Bobo nicked his wing, hurting Rufus severely. Rufus retreats back to the bay.

Rufus’ cut was deep and painful, but when he woke up he was determined to get Bobo back.

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