Mia Bluefin

Mia "MiMi" Bluefin was born in Cascadia, India. Her parents are Blue Bluefin and Summer Bluefin, and she also has a sister, they are all manta rays. They lived together in the Cascadia Strait. Mimi was the youngest, and when she hatched, she was shown to be a very happy baby, but she forgot things easily. Cascadia has many eels, and it wasn't long before five eels found the Bluefins living happily with their new baby in Bluefin Cave. Mimi was 2 months when the eels attacked. Her parents took their weapons and fought the giant zapping eels, and her older sister Flower grabbed Mia and swam as far as she could while Blue and Summer distracted the eels. Luckily, Mimi's parents were not injured and they killed 3 eels, but 2 were still alive. They retreated but saw Flower carrying baby Mia. Flower swam into Cascadia's thick tangle of islands and reefs hoping to lose the eels, but they caught up to her. Just in time Flower threw Mia into the current, and she cried as she was dragged away toward the castle on the other end. Flower was caught by the eels, but Blue and Summer came and killed them. Blue, Summer, and Flower looked sadly that they had lost their baby, but at least she was still alive.

Mia was still racing at top speed, streaming tears and shouting "Mama" "Papa" but she knew she was far away. She looked in front as corals and fish zoomed past. Then she saw a huge looming gray house, she thought it was a house, but it was actually a fortress of the Eel-Hunters, the Guardians of Cascadia who hunted eels and killed them to protect the islands of Cascadia. Mimi did not like the look of it and tried to get out of the current, but she could not. Finally she reached the calm dock of the fortress, but could not swim in the foot-deep water, she was only 1 inch big. She also could not swim yet. An eel-hunter lookout thought she was a small eel, but she was too small, and did not appear to know what she was doing,

and had also forgotten how she had come to be there. So he called to the dock worker, who peered inside and saw the baby manta ray. Mia shrunk, frightened, when she saw the dock worker, but the friendly sheep picked her up. She began to hurt, so she cried. The dock-worker realized she must not be able to come on land, so he grabbed a bottle of potion labeled "Apatitio: For Sea Animals" but Mia did not know what it was (it was a potion that lets water animals breathe on land) because she could not read. He put a drop of potion (= to a gulp for Mia) and then lifted her out, she did not cry this time.

Mimi was brought to the Eel-Hunter chief. She again had forgotten how she had come to be here, but she remembered being carried away by Flower and said to the chief "Mama! Papa! Flowy!" the chief realized it must have gotten lost. Mia repeated it, but then she was carried away by the sheep that had found her and placed in a crib deep inside the fortress and away from the people. She had not slept since nap time, which was one hour ago, and she felt sleepy. Mia went to sleep for 10 hours, she was very tired. When she woke up at 7 the next day, baby Mimi was scared, she had forgotten where she was, but she remembered what happened the day before, and she realized it must be morning, sunlight streamed through the windows. She tried to reach the top of the crib, and jumped repeatedly but could not make it.

The sheep, Zorell, had been watching all night to ensure no harm reached Mia. When he saw her jumping to reach the top, he went and picked her up. He took her to the hall again, and she began to paddle with her fins on the floor thinking she was in the water. She was still very frightened of Chief ChaoChao II, but he was very nice. "She will stay with Zorell Te. Zorell?" The kind curly-horned ram, who looked to be about 10, said yes and picked up Mimi and brought her to his home. He had a crib ready and their were pillows and Mia loved it, it was almost as good as her crib back home. She looked at the necklace with the photo of Mama, Papa, Flower, and Mia all together, and wished they were there, but went to sleep.

In one week it was time for Mia to learn her way around. Zorell carried her and she loved to be bounced up and down in Zorell's paws. The Eel-Hunters had a big town, with docks, and there was a wall surrounding the dock and a market inside the wall so that eels could not get in, next to the market was houses like Zorell's, and behind that with many walls as layers was the castle where Chief ChaoChao II, the knights, and Prince ChaoChao III and BaoBao lived. All the people had big maces attached to their headbands. Mia did not like the look of them, luckily the other babies did not have them. Zorell carried her all around the town, and soon arrived at the Baby Playground. Babies were given 2 years to learn the basics of English, Elvish, Math, Science, and Social Studies at the EduSchool on Market Street, which was the biggest street. Then when they were 2, they would start their apprenticeships as Eel-Hunters, everyone learned to hunt eels, and also did other jobs, like blacksmithing, healing, guarding, chiefing, fighting, hunting, storeowning, farming, potion making, wizarding, etc. Mia did not know to play with others, because she grew up on a coral & seaweed farm and had not played with others except Flower. She went to see if they had any coral toys of Mighty Ray, but they asked her what corals and Mighty Ray were and Mimi became sad. They taught her to play on the playground.

Mimi went to school the next day. She did not know much, but in 1 month she became quite smart, but was behind her classmates because she forgot things easily, they teased poor Mimi. One day, she was learning to walk because she did not have legs. She saw the chief leading his two babies, young alligators Mimi's age, named ChaoChao III and BaoBao. Mimi peeked around Zorell's fruit tent, and edged along, tripping. She wanted to see what was going to happen. She saw ChaoChao III and BaoBao go into the blacksmith shop. She tried to go even closer, and peeked in through the window. The blacksmith was making ChaoChao III a tiny mace on a headband, and he slid it onto him proudly. Everyone clapped, and then BaoBao got one too. Mia did not want a mace, and thought that she would get one. She hopped away back to the tent, but on the way a mean lion cub named Jair saw Mia. Jair was very smart, and the smartest baby in the EduSchool. Mia did not like Jair because Jair teased Mimi about her forgetfulness. Mia tried to slip past Jair without him knowing, but Mia tripped and fell on the sidewalk. Jair saw her and recognized her. He laughed and kicked Mia, and she whimpered, because she was the youngest and smallest of her classmates. "Stop it, Jair," she said in a squeaky voice. "Yous are so mean! You's should not kick me." Jair laughed. "It's you not you's," he said and shoved her away into a puddle. Mia's Apatitio came off and Jair picked her up and threw her onto the road. "Hahaha," he said. Mia was hurting and crying because she could not breathe. "Aaah! Ahahah! Help!" The baby alligators. who saw Mia on the road with no Apatitio, recognized her from EduSchool. They ran to pick her up and put her back in the puddle and she gasped for breath. Then the older one, ChaoChao III, had seen Jair laughing and glared at him. "No your majesties, I did not know her Apatitio would come off, you must forgive me, please!" but ChaoChao and BaoBao had seen everything and they held their new maces to Jair, who did not have his mace yet. "Begone vile scim," said BaoBao and Jair ran away. They helped Mia up. They were Mia's first friends.

Mimi played with ChaoChao and BaoBao when she was 5 months, and was learning better with help from them. One day, Zorell was taking her for another walk, when she saw a big building with a red plus. "Plus," she said to Zorell. "Hothpital." "Yes," said Zorell. "Red Plus means Hospital! Do you want to see inside? Dr. Teri is very nice!" Mia liked the name Teri and said "I wann's to go to the plus." Zorell took Mimi-baby inside. Mimi saw Dr. Teri. She loved the hospital and decided she wanted to do it. "I wanns to be at the hothpital," said Mia. "Plez can I play at the hothpital, Thorell?" Zorell considered it and thought that healing might be a good career for Mia.

Mia went to the hospital (or hothpital) every day after that. She watched Dr. Teri heal people.