"Iiiisis! Ohhh Isis! Where are yooou?"
The little Fenling called, sitting down on the sand outside the trees. She had seen the footprints of her friend leading into the trees, but through all of her haste she didn't want to wander about in the trees. She wanted to find a Palmie, but the truth was... they kinda scared her. She didn't know why, they were just so tall, so big, they could see everything, and to her it was more than a little creepy. Acro felt stupid with this fact, so she had decided she would just pretend she had been sensible and waited outside simply because she didn't want to get lost. It was a stupid idea, of course, I mean her, getting lost? It just didn't happen, but of course Isis didn't know that, so for now she would just wait here and call.
"Isis! I'm out here with a bucket, Isis! A bucket!"
She shouted proudly, and looked down to see where the bucket was. She had put it down so that her mouth was free to call him, and now... it was gone! She jumped up with a yelp, looking to see what could have taken it. She turned around with an angry snarl, then suddenly felt something wet on her back paws. Acro jumped in the air in suprise and fear, turning around as she did so to see that the waves were almost upon her. But that was impossible! The waves had been so far away before, so far... and now, the waves had stolen her bucket. She growled, and was pleased to see that the wave that had got her was retreating. Acro smiled to herself, but to her dismay another one was approaching, bigger than the first. She crouched low and growled, and watched as that one slowly got smaller. It's afraid of me! I can make it smaller! She thought with glee. As if reached her, it was tiny! And then, it ran back to the rest of the waves, where another one was preparing to take her on. With a growl, Acro ran at the sea, thinking that she could make the whole sea smaller, then make it retreat.
Acro ran into the first wave, but it merely came up to her ankled, then retreated. She watched as it overtook her back to the see, then gulped as she saw there was a huge wave, almost as big as her preparing. Acro stopped, and growled, confidently thinking it would shrink back. The hitch was that it didn't. It dashed against her, pulling her backwards and under as it raced to the shore. Poor Acro turned a full backwards flip in the water, moving back towards the shore, struggling all the way. She ended up face in the sand, then the wave around her started to pull her back to the sea. Acro yelped in panic, but was swept back to the sea, where another wave was ready to blast her back.
Meanwhile, Isis was running through the trees, dodging the plants that grew inbetween the great trunks, making towards where he had heard Acro. The problem was, she had stopped calling to him. She thinks I'm not here. He thought with annoyance, making towards where he thought he had heard her. He soon burst out of the greenery, and ended up splashing in water that was up to his ankles. But the tide was far out... the tide! It must be getting to high tide! Where's Acro? He thought in panic, then ran forward. The current wasn't strong, and it barely came up to his knees, at most. But Acro was smaller than he was, he thought in panic, and ran forward.
Suddenly, something caught his front leg. He must have stepped in something, and tried to slow down. But with one leg stuck and the waves running beneith him, it was kinda hard, and he ended up tumbling over, the thing he had stepped on still on his leg. Then, Isis collided with something furry and wet. He yelped and fell on it, as a particularly big wave crashed behind him and pushed him, the furry thing and the thing stuck on his leg, right back to shore.
Acro and Isis lay in a wet heap, the lost bucket on Isis's leg. He panted, then stood up with trouble, and at last shook it off.
"Hey, you found my bucket! I thought the waves had stolen it. They came right up close because they saw my bucket, I'm sure!"
Acro claimed, jumping up and nudging the bucket gleefully with her nose. She would have hated to have lost it, after going all that way to find it.
"No it didn't. The tide's coming in."
Isis said simply, sitting up and shaking himself. This time Acro didn't mind, as she was already too wet to care.
"Oh. I went looking for it. How did you get it?"
She asked, pulling it to her and almost sitting on it protectively.
"I kinda stepped on it. In it. Oh, well done for getting something to carry the water with anyway."
"Carry the... oh yeah. Palmie's, right?"
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