Chelsie's+Group

Beneath the summer sun, and the sounds of the ocean from Laguna Beach, California, lived a girl named Ryan. She was just your typical sixteen year old. But, her looks are the thing that made her special. With her sun-kissed blonde hair, and her bronze skin, she was enough to be on a vogue magazine cover. One of her many talents we're surfing. Day after, day she would rise up at 6 to catch that big wave. She was always complaining about how her past summers have been well, kind of a bore but this summer she wanted to be different.

It was a Saturday morning, and she followed her usual routine. Woke up, ate some breakfast & headed out to the beach. When she got there everything was normal but something didn't seem right. The swell was better then most days so she just figured it was something in the weather and blew it off. The next morning however she had the same feeling, she couldn't just blow it off. As she paddled out she thought she herd a whisper coming from the water beneath her. It didn't make sense to her, how could something be talking to her from under the water? She looked down into the clear water only to find the fish of the ocean. She thought that she had been day dreaming and thought that she should skip surfing for the day.Later that night when she arrived home she told her grandma about what happened. All of it seemed to make sense when her grandma told her a story that she couldn't believe. " When i was sixteen my girlfriends and i were laying on the beach when all of a sudden it got extremely hot, so we decided to take a dip in the ocean. Now i for one am not one to swim with fish, but that day there were all kinds, it was so beautiful i couldn't take my eyes off of them. Amber, one of my friends with me kept saying "what! what!" but no one was saying anything. We thought she was crazy but then we realized there were little voices coming from beneath us. At the time we we're so frightened and thought of nothing but running out of the water as fast as we could, but i was too fascinated. Later that night I came back alone to see if the fish were still there, and the fish were there but so were so many other different kinds of sea animals like dolphins, crabs, rays, they were all there! They spoke to me, and told me they were in great danger and that for centuries the fishermen of the port were demolishing there homes, and killing the animals. What could i have possibly done to help them? I acted as if nothing had happen and ran home. I guess they're still in danger. Go to them Ryan, you can help them!", demanded her grandmother.

Afterwards, Ryan was so confused about what to do. She has always been one to help the lives of other animals, but she never once thought about the animals actually, asking for help. She figured it would be easier if she thought of a plan, and to sleep on it overnight. The next morning, she headed out to the beach. When she finally got in she searched for the fish. As she was looking, one beautiful fish popped out of the water. It was as blue as the sky, on a warm summer day. At first it just starred at her, then she started to see its mouth move and a noise came out from under the water, she couldn't believe what was happening. She slid off her surfboard and went underneath the water, low and behold the fish was talking!. He told her, " My friends and i are in great danger, for centuries the fisherman of your ports have been polluting our environment and capturing us and selling us in local markets,i am afraid that more species will soon become extinct if this madness continues. The clown fish have no coral to live on, the rays have barely any sand to lay in and the sharks are betrayed as killers and are being captured. We need your help!". Ryan thought to her self, " its exactly like grandmothers story". She told the blue fish she would do everything in her power to try and save them. After all, her grandfather worked on one of the docks. "Grandfather! Grandfather! you have to help me", cried Ryan. Of course he already knew about what was happening, he said the only way you can help the sea animals is by catching the fishermen in the act because it was illegal to tear up sea beds and to kill an endangered species, But who would believe a young girl such as herself?.

The next day Ryan and Amber went to the dock where the fishermen come in to drop off loads, it was the perfect place to catch them because there were always police officers and people around looking to see what was being brought in, if only they knew what was really going on. While we were scanning the horizon for boats we couldn't see a thing, "where are they!" cried out amber, " I don't know" said Ryan, " but we need to act fast". As we were pacing back and forth thinking on what we can do, amber spotted a dingy all by its self, she looked at us " oh no! that is a recipe for a disaster" said Ryan. She knew her idea was to take the boat out them selves. " Ryan if you really want to help these animals your going to have to do something drastic to make the police believe you" amber demanded. Ryan knew she was right, she needed to get an officer to come on the boat with her so that the fishermen could be caught.

"HELP! HELP!" cried the girls as the ran towards a local Police man. "What seems to be the problem ladies?" the officer said in his deep, stern voice. " you need to come with us, we have something to show you" Amber said. The officer didn't really have a choice but to go, he didn't know what was going on so while riding in the dingy Ryan tried explaining it to him. At first he didn't believe them but then sea animals were surrounding the boat like kids on candy. they were everywhere. Once he heard the animals talking he immediately called for backup and out came five water patrol boats. "Yes ! Yes! " cried Ryan. She was so ecstatic that finally things were coming together and the animals would soon be saved. After a half an hour of searching, the boats were yet to be found so she started to worry. The Police officer said there was not much left they could do and started to wonder if Ryan's story was true or if it was just some teenage girls messing around. Amber and ryan started talking to each other, " what if the fishermen don't want to be found?" questioned amber, "yeah! like they're hiding, but where?" said Ryan. "Were gonna take a last look around this here island", the officer said as he talked through his radio to the other five patrol boats.

The officers circled the island one last time...nothing. The girls couldnt have been more disappointed, they begged the officers to keep looking, but they had no reason to. They had no evidence of any foul play and couldnt waste any more time looking for these "evil fishermen", so they decided to head back to the dock. Ryan had nearly given up hope, she was thinking of how she would tell her grandmother she had failed. As they were slowly heading back to the dock Ryan heard a voice in the distance, "come back, come back! I found them, come back!" Ryan turned off the engine too see if she could hear anything else.

"Young lady, what do you think you're doing?" asked the officer.

"Shutup" Ryan snapped back.

There was a thud on the hull of the dingy, followed by another, and another. Suddenly a dolphin shot out of the water over the small boat. "Follow me!" it yelled. Ryan immediately turned the engine on whipped the boat around, keeping a close eye on the dolphin, looking for the next place it breached the surface of the sun-lit water. The officer called for backup once more, except this time, he let everyone know he had a witness. when asked who this witness was, he smerked and simply said, "Flipper".

Ryan chased the dolphin for what seemed like an eternity, doing whatever she could to keep up. eventually, they pulled into a small secluded cove, Ryan had been up and down these beaches countless times but had never seen this place. The officer looked through his binoculars and saw 20 men around a huge campfire screaming out drunken slurs. "It sounds like there celebrating", Amber said.

"But what could fishermen have to celebrate?"

"those are no fishermen", said the officer. "There modern-day pirates, they travel up and down the coast raiding ships then sinking them when they've taken what they wanted. I should've known this was them, the fish probably confused them with fishermen because they travel in fishing boats so they dont draw attention to themselves."

Soon after, backup arrived, they had been looking for these men for over a year. They had done millions of dollars worth of damage to over 60 boats, and the police believed they were armed and dangerous......

Not long after, the backup men sailed over to the drunken, old pirates while Ryan was still on her way there. They had been so drunk, they we're so drunk in fact, that they actually confessed what they had done. They searched their parked boat, and founds millions of dollars worth of merchandise.

Later that week, what had happened hit the news stands, and was on every evening news channel. Thanks to Ryan and her ambitious actions, she saved the animals, and was a hero to her town. After that summer, things would be different, and she now had the summer she wanted.

Group: Chelsie, Sara, Lindsay