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CHAPTER TEN: DEPTHS OF THE POOL

How am I breathing underwater?! Isn't that scientifically impossible?! I look to TigerShaak and say: "TigerShaak I'm breathing underwater! How-" I cut myself off at the further realization that I'm also speaking underwater. "HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!" I say to him. He looks at me confused and says: "Is there a problem? All the latexes I know can breathe underwater." "I'm not a Latex! I'm a human remember? Humans can't breath underwater!" I exclam. "Well you're doing it now," he responds, "if you couldn't do it before, I think you should be quite excited about it! You get to explore the depths that you normally couldn't!" I stop freaking out for a second, and actually consider what he's saying. This is a pretty cool opportunity. Breathing underwater is actually a very cool thing.

Why was I freaking out in the first place? This is awesome! I give him a smile and say: "heheh, you're right! I should make the best of this!" I then swim around with him, as he guides me through the depths of this giant pool. As I swim around though, I don't see much of other Latexes, apart from some dark shadows in the distance of the water. Very quickly though, a white tentacle wraps around me and flings me ahead of TigerShaak. Something grabs me from behind and stops me from going any further. "Heya stranger!" Says a voice from behind me. It sounds like it's a girl with a country accent. "H-hi!.. who are you?" I ask, still a bit shaken from being flung. She turns me around to face her, which reveals that she's a white dog like Latex with tentacles coming out of her back. "The names Squidy! Who might you be stranger?" She asks me.

"My names Colin." I respond. TigerShaak catches up to us and says to Squidy: "Why do you always treat newcomers like this Squidy?" "Hey, can't help it if I like greeting strangers with a little excitement!" She says as she lets go of me. TigerShaak swims close to me and says: "sorry bout that. This is my sister Squidy. She's a lively one." "Sister? But you two are different Latexes." I point out. "So? We just have different species in our genes!" Squidy says. TigerShaak pulls me close and whispers to me: "She's adopted. We just haven't told her yet." He then backs off from me and says to us: "Anyways! I was just showing Colin around the place. Want to join us Squidy?"

"Of course! I got nothin else to do anyhow." She says to him. TigerShaak smiles and says: "great! Follow me friends!" He then swims downwards and we follow behind him. After a while we reach the floor of the pool, which actually looks like the floor of a real ocean! It's decorated with coral and beautiful rock formations. There's also lots of types of fish and Latexes swimming around. "Welcome to water central! This is where everyone in the pool rooms roams around mostly. You can meet a lot of cool Latexes here!" TigerShaak says to me, as he introduces me to this underwater world.

A big shadow comes over us, and I look up to see a huge orca Latex swim over us. They're so big that they look like a dark rain cloud. "Woah... that's a huge Latex." I exclaim. "Yeah," TigerShaak responds, "There's some huge Latexes around here. There's also some very small Latexes too." He then points over to a small Latex that swims by us. It's the size of my arm! "Woah, that's small." I say while still looking at the creature. Squidy comes up from behind me and puts her hand on my shoulder saying: "Yup. Those critters get even smaller than that too! Seen some the size of my finger! Be careful you don't swallow one heheh... as that has happened before..." She says as if she's having PTSD.