Heiji looked back at the octopus-shark battle, but before he could answer Hershel's question, the shark gobbled the octopus up whole. It patrolled angrily around the tank then, as if irritated that its latest meal had been so argumentative.

"No one could survive that," Heiji said, unknowingly stumbling on like the biggest movie cliche ever. One day...

He took one of the bread crumbs from Hershel. "Hey, that's a pond up there, ain't it? Maybe there's some more fish! I sure don't see any ducks."