Hi there! This fan fiction takes place in the Mako pod a little while after Lyla, Sirena, and Nixie were cast out. It follows the adventures of a mermaid named Mizorca. Will she let yet another land boy into the moon pool? With the help of her friends, hopefully not. She can't afford risking Mako's safety another time, but it seems she keeps running into threats along her way. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 1

Mizorca swam happily through the shallow, colorful reef. The sun was beautiful and bright that day, and its rays shone through to the ocean floor. With a small smile, thinking of her fun plans in the moon pool for later, Mizorca surfaced. She was about to climb onto a boulder near Mako Island's beach, but Mizorca turned around to unexpectedly see a boat. Mizorca let out a gasp and frantically dove behind the boulder instead.

"Land people!" she breathed. Mizorca was panic-stricken. Fear of these unknown monsters absorbed her all at once.

There the boat came, closer and closer. Mizorca squeezed her eyes shut tighter and tighter in anticipation.

"Don't find me, don't find me, don't find me," prayed Mizorca.

But when she heard a large splash they flashed right back open. A land boy had apparently fallen off of the boat! He was struggling to stay afloat and swim towards Mizorca's hiding spot. She circled to the other side of the rock in shock and pressed her body as close to it as possible. A few seconds later, she heard the land boy clamber on top of the boulder. He was panting for breath and dripping wet.

Minutes went by and Mizorca was still motionless behind the rock. As far as she could tell, the human was still there, but she didn't dare look. Finally the mermaid silently slipped away.

(In the moon pool, an hour later:)

"What? What was there?" urged Mizorca's friends. They all wanted to know what had switched Mizorca's mood so much.

"Umm..." Mizorca started to say.

The mermaid council suddenly emerged in the moon pool. They looked serious.

"There you are, Mizorca!" One of the mermaids swam forward from the group. "We were so worried when we couldn't find you anywhere."

"Back away, Neptunia," said another council member.

All of Mizorca's friends looked so confused and scared.

"Why are you here?" Mizorca asked. Had they found out how close she was to a human? They would never understand that it was an accident. She had heard about 3 mermaids who had let a merman named Zac into the moon pool a few full moons ago, and they were banned from the pod! That could not happen to her.

"We are here with a warning. We saw land people on a ship today, but one of them disappeared. These people look dangerous, and since we don't know where one of them is, we have to protect Mako especially attentively with everything we have."

"He could be anywhere," fretted Neptunia to Mizorca.

Mizorca, however, was sighing a breath of relief. They never knew about how she had already seen the human in person.

"Yes," she said, playing along. "I'll stay in the moon pool," suggested Mizorca.

"You will," said the oldest mermaid in the group. "Nothing better happen though."

She gave her a look that clearly said how important not letting another human in the moon pool was, and also that she knew the consequence if she did. She would end up like the others, Nixie, Lyla, and Sirena, sad souls outcasted on land.

The mermaid council went away.

"I really hope l don't meet that human," Mizorca's friend, Loress said.

"Yeah, uh... guys? I need to tell you something," said Mizorca.

"What is it?"

"I really hope I don't see him, too, but the thing is, I saw him already."

Her friends gasped.

"When he went into the water he got really close to me, and- and-"

Mizorca started to cry.

"You just broke the law!" exclaimed her friend Marine accusingly.

"I d-d-didn't mean to! I-I was too sc-scared to do anything. I d-don't think the land boy saw- saw me. Please don't tell anyone," Mizorca sobbed "Please."

"I can't believe you," Marine said, shaking her head disapprovingly. Then she turned around and swam out of the moon pool.

"Its okay, we won't tell anyone," comforted Loress.

"I couldn't bear to leave you guys if the council found out and banned me," Mizorca said sadly.

"Don't worry. We won't let that happen," said Jessica, Mizorca's last friend there.

"We promise."