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A trio of teenagers nearly passed by the booth without any sort of incident, until one of them happened to catch sight of the fish.

"Oh god, those are so badass!"

The voice came from a boy dressed up as Mario. He stopped and ran to the booth like a kid and eyed the fish like how most children would eye puppy dogs in a window. "God, Ellie, you're better at this stuff! I pay, you play?"

The girl dressed as a biker rolled her eyes. "Dude, yer jus' gonna kill it by fergettin' t'feed it."

This hispanic soccer player patted her shoulder. "Eh, humor him, or we're not going to hear the end of this, chica."

With a slight groan, she nodded her head. "Fine, fine... let's get this sh*t over with!" She walked up and signaled to the students running the booth that she'd be giving it a shot.

With the paper scoop in hand, the tomboy ducked down in front of the tank. "Seriously, what th'f*ck's in this water?" It looked disgusting, like nothing could live in it.

The blonde Mario grinned "It's probably chemicals or something to make those fish look so epic!"

"You know, I have to agree with Jared, Chica."

As the girl scooped in, she only had one thing to say. "You would, Zuniga!"

The scoop felt as if it had been a fishing lure for a moment in her hand, because it was tugged a bit by the nibbling of fish. She pulled her scoop out of the water, and found nothing (except a small section of paper chewed out).

"Awwwww...that sucks! Come on, try again, Ellie!"

Gold eyes were rolled. "I get two more tries anyways, dumbass!" Using the same scoop as before, she tried again.

"Oh god, it looks so disgusting!!" Zuniga leaned over to get a better look at the green fish, despite what he almost shouted.

"F*ck yeah!! I knew ya could do it Ellie!" Jared was grinning like crazy. "Oh dude, what should I name it?! Oh god, it has to be somethin' amazing!!"

"Dude, what sort of tank do ya want?" Ellie elbowed the blonde Mario in the side to bring him back to reality.

"Oh, right... um... the Bat tank is pretty bad a**."

Ellie was about to toss out the fish scoop when Jared seemed to retaliate.

"What?! No... you still have one more chance! I'd love to have a battle of the fish! Try again, seriously!!"

"You owe me somethin' after this. Ya seriously could be doin' this by yerself!" With a groan, she tried once more.

Tallulah had always thought goldfish scooping was a bit inhumane. They were kept in crowded little tanks all together and they wound up just eating the dead ones - clearly the only way to remedy this was to catch one and take it home and treat it properly for the rest of its short, fishy life.

"Hold this," she said, handing her spool of cotton candy to her pink eyed friend.

"Are you gonna try, Tallulah?" her friend asked, taking a bite out of the spool.

"You bet I am," replied Tallulah, stepping up to the counter. "I'd like to try, please."

Toki normally stayed away from places like this... bustling with people and making her feel rather irritable, grumpy. She was introverted most days and just... always pissed off others. Scooting through all the festivities, her eyes were captivated by one word... 'exotic'. Pink eyes drifted towards the...fish booth? Well.. Toki was a nature lover... and her apartment got lonely on the best of nights.

Eh what the hell, she could brave a crowd of teenagers for a moment while she tried... right?

Marveled at her sudden luck... she eyed her two other paddles. The paper looking just as flimsy she couldnt believe she caught that other fish... musta been one dumb fish, she would give it a appropriate name later.

Toki took yet another paddle and lowered it once again into the waters.....


Only to feel something bite her hand, and from shock she dropped the whole thing into the tank... to sink to its icky bottom, she was not fetching it. Pulling her hand out, she noticed the fresh wound on her hand. Oh yeah whomever took her finger was getting deep fried and served to the neighborhood cats.

It was plain statistical fact that almost every game in this joyous carnival was stacked for you to lose horribly, while looking like there was some amazing chance you might not. However, there were a few things that were a bit easier to manage if you weren't a total idiot, and Audrey Collins was (in her mind at least) the furthest thing than an idiot.

That, and she was fairly certain that a goldfish was the most interesting pet a busy person could have, and she wanted one.

Pulling the ever-present, if now rarely-used ribbon from the pocket of her sweater, Audrey bound her blue curls up into some sort of messy restraint at the back of her neck, pushing up sleeves and handing over her money to the attendant. If everything went the way she anticipated it would (when did it ever?), Elzo and Victoria could also have a fish!