Deep down in a trench, a lone feral dolphin swims along and explores with only the air in her lungs and cheeks, already having been underwater for 20 minutes. Except, unknown to her, she's not alone; a huge octopus lives here, and it's not happy the dolphin is in its territory. It follows after the dolphin, and just as she happens to see it, it grabs her with one of its tentacles! She's pulled close to its eye as it glares at her, then the octopus starts swimming into its home cave, dragging the dolphin with it.
While she tries her best to remember the cave's twists and turns, the octopus is going so fast it's hopeless. Eventually, the dolphin finds herself being thrown, and she painfully smacks into a wall. Just after that, a gate is closed and locked in front of her, making it clear she's in a prison cell! The octopus leaves before long, the dolphin now actually alone. She tries to think of a way to get out, knowing her breath holding ability is powerful but limited... Surprisingly, the bars of the cage don't appear to have been made with something as small as her in mind, and with some effort she manages to slip out between them! With that done, the dolphin starts wandering the cave, constantly in fear of the octopus finding her again...
A full hour passes, and the dolphin doesn't feel like she's any closer to getting outside. Her cheeks have gradually been getting bigger as her strain slowly grows, and they're now just a bit smaller than her entire head! As she continues swimming, her fear is realized; the octopus is coming into the tunnel she's in! Quickly, she hides behind a rock column, squeezing her cheeks in case they might poke out from her hiding spot if she doesn't. The octopus is so big the dolphin can actually hear it swimming, and the sound slowly fades as it thankfully leaves. The dolphin almost sighs in relief that she wasn't caught, but now her need to breathe has gotten so dire she briefly needs to cover her mouth with her flippers. Knowing she doesn't have a whole lot of time now, she resumes searching for an exit, bubbles occasionally trickling from her blowhole.
Another half hour later, and the bubbling is constant. With her face blue, the dolphin keeps her flippers pressed to her mouth, unable to reach her blowhole and stop its bubbling. Before all that much longer, she can finally see light... She's found the way out! Her swim to it is interrupted though, by her lungs giving her an ultimatum; they were GOING to inhale, and there was nothing she could do about it. Shivering intensely as she passes her breath holding limit and her cheeks start visibly expanding, she finally blows out all her air in a cloud of bubbles accompanied by a yelp of fear, and she clutches at what little neck she has as she can't hold back a deep gasp!
The dolphin immediately goes into a coughing fit, hacking up the seawater only to suck more into her lungs. For almost 10 seconds, she stays in place and chokes, before somehow managing to find the willpower to put a stop to that. With a deep gasp, she floods her lungs to the brim and forces herself to hold her breath, even puffing up her cheeks again! Even with nothing but water in her airways, she swims up for the distant surface, occasional gurgles or hiccups trying to disrupt her. Half a minute later, she surfaces, still carrying water in her lungs as she tries to inhale, but she has nowhere in her for the air to go. It occurs to the dolphin to exhale first, and she does, twin torrents of water shooting from her mouth and blowhole before she ACTUALLY inhales. Coughing and hacking for multiple minutes, she does eventually recover, though her lungs are extremely sore from being forced to put up with being filled with water. As much as she wants to rest, the octopus' message has gotten across to her, and she leaves the area before it can find her again.
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