Felicity the Fish, season 1

© 2023

© Text: Abel Studios, 2023

© Cover art: Abel Studios, 2023

ISBN 978-90-834501-5-5 | NUR 281

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Table of Contents

1. The Sweet Surprise

2. The Shellfish Band

3. The School Rules

4. The Nervous Turtle

5. The Plankton Prankton

6. The Big Shock

1. The Sweet Surprise

It was a beautiful day in the crystal-clear waters of Coral Cove. Sunbeams shone through the blue ocean and all the way down to the seabed, lighting up the town’s bright coral reef. Here there was every colour that you could think of. There was coral that was green and spiky, pink coral shaped like broccoli and even yellow coral that looked like a giant brain! The beautiful reef was usually peaceful, but today, a stream of bubbles was rushing upwards from a group of floating coral fingers. The bubbles were coming from an excited parrotfish called Felicity. She darted through the purple fingers, making them wave all around in the water.

Felicity: ‘You can’t catch me! I’m the fastest fish there is!’

A few seconds later, her sister Debby came chasing after, making even more bubbles. The two parrotfish were just as multicoloured as the amazing coral maze.

Suddenly, Felicity’s fins stopped flapping.

Debby: ‘Got you!’

Felicity: ‘We’re not playing ‘Catch of the Day’ anymore. Look over there!’

In the centre of the floating fingers was an old, wooden chest. As Felicity swam closer, she could see that it was covered in crusty barnacles. A few of them flew off as Felicity bumped the trunk with her beak. The lid opened with a loud creak! Immediately, the little fish was bathed in a golden glow and her mouth dropped open in surprise.

Felicity: ‘It’s full of golden coins!’

Debby flapped beside Felicity, to see the incredible treasure for herself.

Debby: ‘That’s amazing! How did it get here? Do you think it fell all the way from a pirate ship?’

Felicity: ‘Wherever it came from, it belongs to us now. Don’t you remember the famous fish saying?’

Debby: ‘Sometimes you have to sink or swim?’

Felicity: ‘Not that one, the one about the things that fall from ships. ‘Finders keepers, sailors weepers’. We found the treasure, so that means it’s ours to keep!’

Debby: ‘There’s only one problem. No way can we carry this heavy chest by ourselves. We’d need another four friends to help us, at least.’

Felicity frowned for a moment, then grinned from gill to gill.

Felicity: ‘Or we need just one friend. A friend with eight arms!’

On the other side of Coral Cove was the SS Seaworthy. Many years ago, the cruise liner had sprung a leak and sank on its maiden voyage. Now, the old boat had been on the sea bed for so long, it had turned completely red with rust. The sunken cabins were some of the nicest places to live in Coral Cove, and were home to many different creatures, including Felicity’s family.

Debby: ‘Why are we going home?’

Felicity: ‘We’re not, we’re going to the cabin next door.’

She swam past the window of her family’s cabin and into the next porthole. As Debby followed Felicity through the circular window, the two sisters heard a beautiful tinkling. It was music! Someone was playing a piano. In fact, it sounded far too complicated to be just one creature playing the piano. This sounded almost like four creatures playing all at once. When Felicity and Debby flapped into the room, the little pink octopus looked up in surprise. Immediately, he turned bright red and took his eight tentacles off the keyboard.

Felicity: ‘Don’t stop, Ronnie! You’re the only creature I know who plays the piano that well.’

Ronnie: ‘I’m the only creature you know who even has a piano.’

Felicity: ‘You’re right. But what I said is still true!’

Ronnie didn’t start playing again. He was much more interested to hear what his next-door neighbours had been doing. He couldn’t believe they’d discovered a sunken trunk full of gold coins!

Ronnie: ‘You’re pulling one of my legs.’

Debby: ‘Come and see the treasure for yourself!’

With that, the three creatures hurried back to the coral reef as fast as they could swim. Ronnie didn’t know even if he’d be able to lift it, but Felicity was right all along. Using all eight arms at once, Ronnie proved just how strong an octopus can be, and with a mighty heave, the three of them soon had the chest all the way to Seaweed street, the centre of Coral Cove. They paused for breath outside the local supermarket, ALGAE.

Ronnie: ‘There’s a lot of treasure in here. What could we spend it on?’

Felicity, Debby and Ronnie: ‘SWEETS!’