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If it wasn't for the depressed-looking duck floating around in the pond, the park would be almost perfect. Almost. Except for the fact that it had crazies running around in it. But just a few of them, luckily. It wasn't an infestation, yet.

FD sat at the pond's edge, watching the depressed duck. It just kind of floated there for a while until it almost fell asleep, and then it would waggle it's feet, and move a yard or so. Sometimes it would accidentally flip itself over, and that would cause a commotion for a few seconds, but it never lasted long. It was pretty peaceful, one might even go to say boring. But FD wasn't that one.

If you weren't paying close attention, you'd think that FD was just skipping rocks out over the water. But she was really skipping Sporks. She drew another one, and sent it sailing past the duck, making it give an angry "Quack!" before settling back down. The Spork skipped a few times, and then disappeared. Not into the water, but back to her hand.

Skel was floating above the water, looking down into it at the fish and other animals below. All of them seemed depressed like the duck. He wondered if something was wrong with the water.

FD looked up, noticing Shin and Ali first, and waved. "Heeeeeeeeey!!!" she called, grinning, and pocketing her Sporks. Hearing her yell, Skel turned. He smiled sheepishly, and began to slowly drift back towards shore. He drifted just slightely off the beach, watching the fast-approaching shapes of Ali and Shin.

FD twisted around to face Shin. "Whatcha two up to?" She asked, cocking her head to the side curiously. "Just out for a stroll?" Skel clinged back to Ali. "Hello~" He said, quite happily. Suddenly, he asked, "Do you like swimming?"

"Skel wouldn't stop bugging me until I agreed," she said, also darting her eyes to the side to look at them. FD stared at them for a moment, then shrugged. "I bet it was an evil conspiracy. They had it all planned out, and just had to get us here at the same time." She winked, and then giggled a little. "Interesting if it was..." But she just shrugged it off, simply saying, "Probably wasn't though."

Skel's eyes lit up. "Really? Me too!!" He snugged Ali, grinning again. "Maybe we should swim then, sometime...." Or now..... He thought, looking down into the clear water of the pond...Lake.....Whatever it was.

"We should go on an adventure!!!" She shouted right away, hardly hearing the last few words that Shin said. "A great, big, wild, crazy, and totally not-normal adventure! C'mon Shin, you know you want to go on an adventure! We could go to the maaaaaagic land of cupcakes, or the daaaaaaaangerous land of sharp utensils, or........" FD kept on listing other lands, and telling Shin the awesome things they could do.

Skel didn't hesitate, and plunged right in after her. The water didn't erupt around him as it might someone "solid", but it did start rippling where he'd jumped in. He bobbed up to the surface, and then backstroked a little. "It's so fuuuun to swim~!"

"I bet we can find the Great Gummy Gorilla too!" FD shouted in glee, running after Shin at top speed. "Maybe if we battle him with the Toothpick of Bananers, he'll let us have some of his gummy goodness!" She jumped high, squeeing with glee at the thought.

Skel dove under and popped up on the other side of Ali. "I think the lak-Er.....Body of water can't decide what kind of body of water it wants to be." He mused, floating on his back. "We should help it decide while we swim!"

"No, but they can't be faaaaaaaaaaaar, because I smell SUGAAAAAAR!!!" FD hollered while she crawled out from under a bush where she had been looking for the Great Gummy Gorrilla. "Maybe....Maybe it's the Chocolate Fortress! We should penetrate it's chocolaty goodness and eat the gooey treasure inside!"

Skel flailed, before wrapping one arm around Ali and putting the other out on the water. "Hmm.....It does seem kind of pond-y. But maybe it's a lake..."

"Yeah, let's go!" She grabbed Shin's arm and pulled her along after her, running........Or possibly frolicing. As she was running, FD yelled, "When we get there, we can eat the yummy chocolate marshmallow stash, and play in the white chocolate fountain, and make chocolate angels in the fluffy chocolate room!"

Skel sank underwater too. "It's probably the biggest sea of the world. The eigth, undiscovered sea! It's probably full of treasure and stuff, but to conceal itself, it's being disguised as a pond.......Lake..........Thing." He nodded, approving of his idea, before diving towards her.