I had just crabwalked along the underwater pipeline to my little conch in Sporks, WA when I saw Crabward perched just behind the shiny yellow pebble by my Crab-mailbox. He seemed a bit redder than usual.
“Come crabwalk with me for a minute.” He said in a nonchalant smacking of his front… mandibles? I eagerly followed him nonetheless, scuttling my way beside him into the seaweed that surrounds our reef. We stopped under an opening in the soft green algae.
“We gotta leave Sporks.” He finally said after coming to a halt, moving his legs one at a time, and rotating so he fully faced me. I clawed at the empty water for absolutely no reason. “Why?” I asked.
“The manta rays just moved in a little upstream and it’s there breeding season so the residual silt has been clogging up my gills, I’m finding it hard to breathe.” He coughed. I didn’t know crabs could cough. “Okay,” I started. “I’m gonna need to think of somewhere to move my things. We glanced back at the conch, which is literally my only possession.
Carbward moved his eyes from looking straight at me to gazing in two different directions. “…W-When you say We…” I started. “I mean my eight legs and myself.” I was so stunned I relieved myself in the water we were standing in and I felt a little better because it made it all murky so I couldn’t see him.
“Crabward… W-what happened with that hermit crab, it was nothing—“ “You’re right, it was nothing. The acid levels in the water around here can’t sustain hermit crabs anymore so they can’t hurt you anymore.” We glanced around at the corpses of the dozen or so hermit crabs lying in our midst and being swept away by the current of the seafloor.
“Crabward there’s no other crabs around here, Deadliest Catch killed them all off. Who am I gonna Crab-dance with.” “Crabolla, I don’t want to Crab-dance with you, your pincers always draw blood.” Crabolla looked down at her claws to see them stained in blue-green fluid. She licked it before continuing.
“Please… don’t.” She began snipping her claws at the water in a last-ditch effort to dance. “Crabolla,” Crabward started. “You’re not good enough… for the Deadliest Catch.” “I’m not a good enough catch…” Crab-ward paused and fixed his mandibles for a second. “No, you weigh like five pounds, that couldn’t feed two people considering they only eat the legs.”
Crabolla took a leaf of seaweed and started nibbling on it. It made the water very murky. “Can you just promise me something?” Crabolla just continued to eat the seaweed. She didn’t actually swallow any, just chewed on it and polluted the water. “Don’t go walking through the seabed a little north from here. It’s the only non-polluted spot around here with even a little PH value left.”
Crabolla had just finished her meal and began crabwalking away and she completely forgot who he was because crabs can’t remember anything. Crabward was caught and featured on the latest episode of Deadliest Catch but was tossed back in the water for not meeting standard weight limitations on crab size.
EDIT: The series is Twilight. The scene is where Edward leaves Bella here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FRBhS577o