Violet Santoyo woke up one morning to some unfamiliar surroundings, but it was at that moment when she realized she was on a plane to Australia, the start of her new life. She got off the plane to see her mom. Her little brother, Vance holding a hotwheels car. Mrs Santoyo started to drive her children to the new house. Vance was playing with his toy car on the car windows, scratching his, only to annoy his sister. "Stop scratching the window, you're making my life so miserable!" argued Violet as Vance began intimidating the sound of the toy car. After an hour of dealing with Vance's squeaky toy car, the family of three finally arrived at their new house. Some of the neighbors had already been waiting at their doorstep for hours for their arrival. One of them was a girl about Violet's age, she had dark skin, dark hair, and wore a black jacket and a burgundy dress with brown flats. Another one of those neighbors was another girl who had glasses, light brown hair, and wore a graphic marvel tee and jeans. Violet gave the two girls a smile when she thought they could have the start of an incredible endless friendship. "My name is Amaya," the girl in glasses introduced. "And this is Nellie." "We're also wondering if you wanna go for a ride on Amaya's boat?" Nellie asked Violet, "Just so we can get to know each other a little better." "Sure, my mom thinks I should make some new friends, so I guess maybe tomorrow sounds good." Violet answered.
The next day, Amaya was preparing the boat, making sure it had a full tank of gas in it. Out of nowhere, Violet performed an epic jump into Amaya's boat, causing her to let out a scream at the top of her lungs. "Sorry Amaya, I'm just so excited for this." Violet laughed. Nellie walked out onto Amaya's dock. "Amaya, you're not wearing your glasses today," Nellie wondered. "Is everything okay girl?" "Nells I'm fine, I brought some scuba gear for us just in case of an emergency." Amaya explains. Violet and her new friends were driving the boat out to sea. Violet was taking some pictures using her waterproof camera of the ocean. Suddenly, Amaya releases the anchor and tries to start the boat, but fails to start it with an empty tank. "I thought you said the boat had a full tank of gas." Violet exclaims. "Well, I did but I didn't expect it to already be empty." Amaya stormed back at Violet. Nellie breaks up their minor argument. "Guys, I think there's an island not too far from here, we should stay there for shelter." "That's Mako island, legend says that weird stuff happens in the right place and the right time," Violet explains. "Cool, I guess we can take shelter there," Nellie agrees. "But I highly doubt that weird stuff is going to happen." "This island has been isolated for years Nellie." Amaya says. The girls start paddling toward the island. As they walk on the beach of Mako, Nellie and Amaya ask Violet many questions about life in the USA. "Is this place filled with bugs?" Nellie asks. "Obviously, this is an abandoned island, I've never seen anyone drive a boat anywhere near here." Amaya replies. Cutting down vines with a hatchet, Violet slips down a little hole, not knowing if she was falling to her death. "Oh my god, Violet, are you okay?" Nellie asks looking concerned. "I think so, I'm gonna try to climb up." Violet says. Violet starts climbing up, but fails and goes back down the hole. Not long after, Amaya slips and falls into the hole bumping into Violet. "Sorry," Amaya apologized. "Are you okay." "I'm fine, but the way we got in here is NOT our way out." Violet replies. Suddenly, screaming in the distance, Nellie comes down. "Ouch, I feel like I got bruises on me." Nellie announces in pain. "Nells, not to make you feel nervous, but we're stuck down here, the way in isn't the way out." Amaya says helping Nellie off of the ground. Looking surprised, Violet finds a pool, shortly after realizing that the girls were in a cave. "I think I found our ticket outta here, girls!" Violet exclaimed. "This pool may lead to the ocean, I'll go check." Amaya says, diving into the pool like she was meant to be a professional swimmer. Nellie and Violet wait for Amaya to come up from the water. "I feel a little bit sore from all these bruises." Nellie explains as she shows Violet four bruises from about where her arm and leg joints are. "Nells, you're gonna be okay, like Amaya said, if this is a pool that links to the ocean, then you can hold on to me while we swim our way out." Violet comforts Nellie just as Amaya comes up from the water. "Great news guys, the pool is connected to the ocean!" She exclaimed as she took a deep breath like she was about to suffocate. The two other girls dove in holding on to each other when the full moon goes over the pool and causes it to bubble. "C'mon guys lets get outta here." Nellie says as all three girls inhale deeply and dove under the water.
"What happened?" Violet asked looking a bit confused. "I'm glad you're okay sis." Her brother, Vance sighs in relief. "Vance, did you think I was dead?" Violet asked her little brother. "Of course not Vi," Vance laughs nervously "Mom gave you a list of things to do while she's at work and I'm going to the movies with your friend Nellie's sister, Nora and her mom and dad." Violet read the list.
1. Take a shower or bath
2. Get dressed
3. Just follow numbers 1 2
Violet walked upstairs to her bathroom and she had some bath water running, and she grabbed a towel and her clothes. Violet puts out two scented candles and lights them. She takes a step into the bathtub and she sees a beautiful orange tail replacing her legs and started to scream. "What just happened to me," Violet yelped in fear. "Is this normal for the people of Australia?"
Nellie had just woke up to hear her phone ring. She sees a text from Violet telling her to come over immediately. A few minutes later, she knocked on Violet's door. "It's always open!" Violet shouts. Nellie opens the door and heads up the stairs and into Violet's bedroom. "Violet, where are you?" Nellie asks. "Are you home?" "First of all, you wouldn't be in my house if I didn't say 'it's always open!'" Violet replies. "Second of all, I'm in the bathroom and in need of your assistance." Nellie walks into the bathroom seeing her best friend, with a tail. "How is this even possible Vi?" Nellie asks. "So I guess that means this is not normal to anyone in Australia." Violet asks. "Ew! It's all wet and slimy." Nellie says as she touched the scales on Violet's tail. All of a sudden, Nellie feels her legs tingling as she too has formed an identical tail to replace her legs, and starts to scream her lungs out. "This is so freaky." Nellie said. "Um, how do we get rid of these things?" Violet asks. "I think I've done research on this before, and before you ask, yes I do research random stuff." Nellie explains. "A mermaid tail can vanish if you have heating powers or you could just dry off with a towel." "Nellie your brilliant!" Violet compliments as she grabs her towel to dry her and Nellie off. Nellie's research was correct, As soon as they dried off, their tails vanished and their legs returned to normal. "It worked!" Nellie exclaimed. "We gotta tell Amaya!" "We should only tell her, if our families or anyone find out, we could be fish bait in an aquarium or get taken away and experimented on." Violet states with concern. "This is our little secret."
Part two will be out soon