As Zela ran through the forest from his girlfriend, Octavia, since they and their friends were playing tag.
Zela looked behind him to see if he was safe, and then tripped over a branch. He landed face first in the river. He quickly tried to swim back up, out of fear of the chemical plant close by possibly infecting the water. Octavia jumped in behing him, because she liked swimming.
Zela tried to stop her, but to no avail.
As Zela's slightly younger brother Cocoa showed up, he said, "I wanna swim too!" He then jumped in, and Slithar did too.
"NO!" Zela yelled. "Everyone OUT!" Everybody got out of the river.
Then they began changing...