It was a hot and sunny day in Republic City. Asami's had invited me, Mako, and Bolin to go swimming in her pool. I had to baby-sit Tenzin's kids, but Asami said I could just bring them too. We were all eating, swimming, laughing, and just having a great time. The young ones were playing Marco-Polo, Mako and Bolin were tackling each other, and Asami and I were just hanging out by the side of the pool, feet in the water.

We were hardly wet, until Mako snuck under Asami and pulled her in without her seeing. She panicked at first, screamed at him for getting her wet, laughed about it, and now they're making out. Ew.

Bolin came to chill by me when we all heard the first burst of thunder.

"Thunder?" Mako stopped kissing Asami enough to speak. "How is there thunder?"

"The weather changes fast," Asami answered. All of us decided that we should get out of the pool. Even though it was indoors, swimming isn't fun when lightning is flashing in your eyes. Asami's butler came by with some towels and we all dried off, except for three little kids still playing in the pool.

"C'mon guys, time to get out." I mentioned. Jinora swam to the edge and dried off, but the other two were still splashing around. The thunder was roaring now. "You two, get out." I was a little angry now.

"No!" Meelo stuck his tongue out at me and dove under. Ikki laughed and followed him. Of course, they couldn't keep their heads under for that long, so they popped right back up.

"Don't make me come in there." I set down the towel I was using and was ready to dive in. Ikki looked at me in my ready stance and her eyes expanded.

"No! Don't come in! I'm coming!" Ikki paddled her way to the wall and crawled out. I handed her a towel and she dried off. We all looked at Meelo as he continued playing with the water.

"Meelo..." I said. "You're the last one. Come out, please."

"No!" He protested. Thunder boomed, then lighting filled up the sky with white.

"Woah!" Bolin exclaimed. "That was huge."

Asami looked a little worried now. "Little boy, please get out of the pool. I'll make you a sandwich!"

"N-O," he spelled.

"It's hopeless, Asami. Let's just go." I started walking to the door when I heard Meelo scream. I quickly dived into the pool and swam to him. "What, What it is? What happened?"

I heard Meelo laugh as I moved my hair out of my eyes. "Nothing! I just like screaming!" He screamed again and I flinched. Okay, now I was officially pissed. I grabbed Meelo and headed toward the others, him screaming away.

I had a major headache with all the screaming, talking, water, lightning, thunder...

When I got to the wall I accidentally loosened my grip on Meelo and he swam back to where he was.

I groaned and shouted him name. I swam to him again and prepared to grab him. But when I reached my hands out, thunder sounded. Then, the lights went out. Everyone was screaming, including me. I felt the water move in an odd way, as if someone else had snuck in.

In the dark I tried to grab Meelo, but couldn't find him. I felt an arm but it quickly shot away. I heard Meelo scream again.

"Meelo this is no time to be practicing your yelling! Where are you?" I was worried now. The lights were still off and I still couldn't find Meelo. I felt around, and finally touched something that was finger-like. Meelo's hand!

He wasn't talking, thank god, and I started dragging him to the others. Or at least what direction felt like the others were in. All of a sudden, the lights turned back on and everyone cheered. But then I looked at my friends but they looked horrified. Asami covered her mouth, Bolin almost fainted, and the little ones were crying so hard, I'd think someone just died.

Then Mako pointed to the water, and I looked down.

Red. Red water.

I turned around slowly, horrified about what I was about to see. I let go of Meelo's hand and backed away from him.

Meelo was floating on the water.

With a knife in his chest.

Okay so this is basically the test of this story. If others (you guys) review it, then I'll continue. Y'know, since this is my first horror. And trust me, there'll be a lot more horror and supernatural encounterings. So please review, share, whatever! And sorry this chapter was so short, but the others will be longer. Again, Review!