Clueless Clownfish and the CRAZY Opposite Day
Clueless Clownfish, the class pet, woke up in his little fishbowl feeling REALLY excited.
“I CAN TALK!! I CAN TALK!! I CAN TALK!!!” he squealed.
“But why?!” he wondered. ”I’ve never been able to talk before!”
He was clueless. Just then, the distant chatter of students grew louder and louder. “Hi Marti! Hi Mary! Hi Grace!” he shouted.
“Naem uoy od tahw,” they said.
“Hmmm…” This is very odd,” thought Clueless Clownfish. “Aha!” Clueless Clownfish exclaimed, “It’s ‘opposite’ day!” he said.
“know ot teg ot emit s’tI” the professor said. “Hmm… what does that mean??” Clueless Clownfish thought. “It’s time to get to work!!”
“tset a si ereht, keew txen,” the professor said.
“Next… Next week there is a test!!” exclaimed Clownfish.
“?siht ekil gnikaeps ew era yhw,” Clueless Clownfish asked.
“??klat uoy nac woh,” the professor asked.
“!!yad etisoppo s’tI,” Clownfish said.
He noticed a dark shade coming through the window. Was it night or was it morning? Clueless Clownfish was puzzled. Now this WASN’T an April Fools’ joke. It was serious. He had a crazy good idea. When the students went off to lunch break, Clownfish jumped out of the bowl. He could breathe air! He crept silently out of the room.
“Clueless Clownfish is NOT clueless!” he declared. He sprinted off at top speed to the village near the school. “Maybe they know something I don’t!!” thought Clueless Clownfish.
As he arrived in the village, he skidded to a stop. Clownfish gasped. All the people here were perfectly ordinary!!
“Excuse me, do you know why that school is all dark? Everyone is speaking backward! Animals like me can talk! Everything has gone weird!!” Clownfish asked an old man.
“Oh! I don’t know! Maybe I can take you to the Shamen. He will know what has happened to your school,” the man said. “He shall also tell you what you can do.”
“That’s GREAT!! Can you show me the way?” Clownfish asked.
“I will walk with you, for this is a very urgent problem,” the man answered. Together, they rushed to the shaman’s humble little cottage on the top of a rolling hill.
“Ring Ring Ring” sounded the doorbell. CRREEEAAKK!! The door opened. A very humble-looking man with wispy white hair peeked out.
“Are you the shaman?” asked Clownfish. “I really need your help!! In that high school over there, things have gone wild. Pets like me are talking. People are talking backwards. This is serious!!”
“It’s because you have the cloud of opposites on top of your school. See that big grey cloud that has lightning and thunder? That’s the cloud. It’ll go away today. Go back to your school and relax!! Enjoy being on land!” the shaman said.
The door closed with a giant CREAK!! “Thanks for taking me. I’ll go back now!!” Clown fish said. “Bye!”
He sped back to the campus and splashed into the bowl just as lunch break was over. He could finally relax.