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Fisherella

Once upon a time in the Pacific Ocean, there was a happy family. The members of the family were Bob, the dad, Mary, the mom and Fisherella, an only child. Her parents called her Fishy because she was such a little fish.

One day Fishy`s mom got eaten up by a great big tiger shark. Her dad remarried about a year later. Her step mom, Swimmy and her two daughters, Addyson and Janae, were really, really mean to Fishy. Fisherella's dad wasn't home very much because he worked far away cleaning the coral reef at the other end of the ocean. When Bob was home, his wife and her daughters pretended to be nice to Fishy. When he left again, they were horrible to her.

Some of Fisherella's responsibilities included cleaning the kelp from around the house, raking their sand gardens, finding food for the family, collecting shells for her sisters jewelry, sewing clothes for her step sisters and making their beds in oyster shells every morning.

"Mom, doesn't Fishy need to clean our scales?" asked Janae. Fishy's step mom said, "Yes, she does." Then the doorbell rang. It was King of all Mermaids, King Triton. He brought with him an invitation to a fishy ball. "When is it, when is it?" asked Addyson. "It is on September 25, 2010," said King Triton. "My birthday!" shouted Janae. "Mother, did you hear that the ball is on my birthday? Can you believe it? What skirt should I wear?" asked Janae.

Quietly Fishy asked, "Can I come too?" "NOT UNLESS YOU MAKE ME A PRETTY DRESS!" screamed her step mom. "I'll finish it as fast as I can," said Fishy. Fishy asked her step mom, Swimmy, about what she wanted her dress to look like. Swimmy replied, "It needs to be hot pink, with turquoise thread and have big Hawaiian flower on the left shoulder. There also needs to be a zipper in the back."

Fishy got right to work on the dress. She had the perfect material that she had found in a treasure chest from a wrecked ship. For a needle, she used a catfish whisker that she had found near her house when she was raking the sand garden. For the big flower, she swam to the top of the ocean in search of just the right flower.

After she finished making the dress, Fishy took it to her step mom. When Swimmy saw it, her jaw dropped because it was so beautiful.

It was finally time for Fishy to get ready too. Fishy's dress was one that her dad had given her from one of his trips to China. It was a bright emerald green with white flowers down the front and on the sleeves.

Her step mom and step sisters had left without her, so she swam to the ball on her own. When she arrived there, King Tritan's son, the prince, was stunned by how beautiful Fishy was. They danced and swam all night long. The other people at the ball no idea who the beautiful fish was. When the ball was almost over, Fisherella had to hurry home before her family figured out that it was her.

On her way home, she got caught in a bunch of seaweed and lost her shiniest scale. "OH NO I CAN`T BELIEVE IT!" yelled Fishy. She couldn't take time to find her scale because the prince was on her tail. Fishy made it home before her family, but the prince followed her. When her step mom and sisters got home, she had already packed her bags and was ready to leave with the prince. She never found her scale. But her and the prince lived happily ever after.

THE END