1. ABDUCTION

Beep! Beep! Beep! Steve's shell phone called. It was Trudy, his girlfriend.

' Hi, Trudy! What's up?' teenage eel spoke.

' Hey, Steve! I know it's a little late now, but I gotta talk to someone.'

' Is there something wrong?'

' Not really. Have you read the latest newspapers?'

' It depends which article do you mean.'

'Did you forget the thing I'm spying on since almost two weeks?'

' Oh... You mean these mystery disappearings on the Southside Reef?'

' Of course I do. I've checked the points on my map and I'm very disturbed of where are they going to.'

' Is it me or your party-mania left its place for detective-mania?' Steve giggled, joking.

' Don't tell me you don't believe in supernaturals!' Trudy sounded a little annoyed.' It's been more than three weeks since we were witnessed of a show of

supernatural powers of that human girl, Marlon-says-he-knows-her.'

' Her name was Francine. I guess so.'

' Whatever. She's gone and I don't think she's gonna turn up. Maybe she is the one who is responsible for all these disappearings.'

' Are you blaming Francine for that? Don't forget as TV NEWS said everything about what she'd

done for us all that night.'

' You mean these crocs and their monster that was originally a dogfish? Come on, Steve! You're so naive as a little kid. That was nothing but artifice by her side!'

' Trudy!'

' Knock it off! She's insidious, bad and cruel, just like the other 's what I said!'

Steve was getting more and more upset, though he's not a type of fish that likes arguing, especially if it's with his girlfriend.'

Steve heard something strange in his phone. That was coming from the other side.

' Trudy? What's that sound?'

' Steve...' teenage shrimp's voice quavered. Her eel friend could hear sounds of knocking and scratching on the other side of line.

' Trudy!'

' Someone's here with me! Someone's in my house!'

Something humed. Quietly, at first. Then – much louder.

' Who... who are... you...' Steve could barely get any words from that noise.

' Let... me... go... HEEEEEEELP MEEEEE! ! !'

' Trudy! ! ! Can you hear me! TRUDY!'

' Signal stopped. Shocked and extremely terrified Steve was sitting and looking on his shell phone, breathing hardly. In less than one minute, phone called again.

PRIVATE NUMBER.

Steve answered. 'Hello?'

' If you want your girl back, call HER and tell HER about it!' said an terrifying voice.

' Who? Who am I supposed to call !'

He didn't get an answer on his question. Their talk was cut off by the stranger.

There was no doubt – he have just heard his sweet little Trudy becoming the next victim of this series of mystery abductions...