1. Menacing Sharks in Atlantis
Lysander Borrero
Recently there have been problems in the underwater city of Atlantis. For almost a year sharks
have been attacking the people and destroying the city. Many years ago, before these incidents,
the people of Atlantis lived in harmony with all the sea creatures including the sharks. Every
kind of animal has a position and opinion in the government of Atlantis. For example, whales
demanded more plankton in the area, clown fish demanded more anemone to use as their homes,
and so on depending on the necessity of the animals. Sharks are a very serious and hard working
species. In the last meeting in the city of Atlantis, the representative of the sharks, Mr.
Hammerhead, was acting very strange during the meeting and he attacked one of the atlantians
when the meeting was over. This attack was all over the news and caused a great hatred toward
the sharks. It was not long before other sharks came into the city and started destroying and
attacking the people, ripping their arms and legs. This strange behavior was a shock to scientists
everywhere. No one ever thought that these animals could be so aggressive because they were
usually peaceful animals, only aggressive when they felt threaten. These attacks went on and on
for various months. Until four scientists were getting sick of the attacks, so they decided to take
action and try to find out what was the problem with the sharks. The team of scientist consisted
of two atlantians, a dolphin, and a whale. Their names where Dr. Mermaidman, Dr. Barnacle, Dr.
Bottlenose, and Dr. Humpback. The first thing to do was to capture one of the sharks examine it,
and do a bunch of tests on it to try and find what was the problem. They found the problem
quickly; the sharks were suffering from Chondrichthyes cephalagia, in other words a massive
headache. The scientists quickly knew that they needed pain relievers to battle this disease, what
they didn’t knew was how to distribute this treatment in order for the sharks to receive it without

2. knowing or without having to risk their own lives. The scientists brain stormed for moths but
didn’t come up with anything. Until Dr. Bottlenose finally discovered something. Dr. Bottlenose
proposed that they used a polymer to encapsulate the pain relieving drug, also known as
Condrichpirin, so the drug would be inside the sharks for a longer time, thus the headache was
controlled for more periods of time. Now it was time to think how to get the polymer drug inside
of the sharks. They tried giving the drug various forms and shapes. Until Dr. Humpback came up
with the solution of microspheres. Microspheres are in the form of dust and contain the polymer
drug. They sprayed all of the microspheres in the area and the drug entered through the shark’s
mouth because sharks swim with their mouths open. Eventually all of the chaos in Atlantis was
over. They scheduled spraying those microspheres yearly so the incident wouldn’t happen again.