H2O : Time For College
Chapter 1
Jake's pov
My family has always been rich and don't get me wrong I like having a big bank account but money isn't everything. Sorry I guess I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Jake and I'm a merman. Yes I know it sounds impossible but it's true. I'm from California in San Francisco and when I was about 16 I went camping with my dad in the woods on the coast. We would always go camping there every year but that year we went camping in a new spot on the coast just a few miles away from our usual spot and I told my dad I was going for a walk. as I was walking along I saw a pool of water and I felt drawn to it like a magnet. Little did I know something magic was about to happen and just as I was making my way down the hill to the pool I tripped and fell downhill and made a huge splash into the pool! Just as I surfaced the full moon came out of the clouds and the water around me began to glow. I looked around totally astonished and when the water stopped glowing I got out of the pool and made my way back to the camp. The next day I went into our family's massive pool because I went swimming every day and I loved to be underwater but when I jumped in I had a giant fish tail! It was blue with a few spots of green and when I got out I freaked! I scrambled for a towel and dried myself off and next thing I knew I had my legs back. Soon after my fishy freak out I googled merpeople and found a lot of history and a whole lot of stuff that didn't seem to match anything I was experiencing until soon I stumbled across a website dedicated to an old book about merpeople that had all kindsa info and there was a free downloadable copy of it so I downloaded it to a flash drive and read it and found the answers I had been looking for and a few answers I didn't expect. The book said merpeople have special powers and mermaids control their abilities with hand positions while mermen can control their abilities by using their mind or hand positions or even a combination of both. This got me fired up so I went outside to try to find out my power and tried each power listed in the book and found I had three powers, pyrokinesis, aerokinesis, and electrokinesis, fire, lightning, and air. After practicing awhile I gained full control of my abilities and learned how to heat things up too. After I learned my powers I went back to the book and it said mermaids fall under a trance if they see the full moon but mermen don't. I thought that was weird but since I'm a merman I ignored the rest and kept reading and found that mermaids and mermen can swim extremely fast but mermen have super strength both underwater and on land. I thought that was cool so I kept reading and saw that mermen unlike mermaids can not only swim super fast but also run super fast.
So now you're caught up on how I became a merman so now on to the present. It's been a couple years since I became a merman but I've really come to enjoy it. I have gone swimming practically every day and love to go to the reef. It's been my little secret for awhile and there's been a few times I've nearly gotten caught but overall it's been a really fun ride. Now I'm off to college in the gold coast in Australia to learn computer sciences and business economics. Needless to say I've got my own mansion waiting for me and I have it and a nice car all to myself and the best part is that my mansion is on my very own private beach! I'm happy about that but what use is all this if you don't have friends to share it with? I guess it's finally time to go for a swim.
Third person pov
Emma, Cleo Rikki and Bella had just packed their stuff and met up at Cleo's house before moving into the school dorms.
"So Rikki, only a week away from starting college. How do you feel?" Cleo inquired. "A little nervous but excited. I can't wait until I can reopen my café without Zane." and then Emma said "ugh I know you liked Zane but to tell you the truth I just couldn't stand him. He was such a jerk!" "I know but he was pretty good for awhile. so how are things with you and ash? Is he gonna go to college?" Rikki asked. "I'll just have you know that Ash has become a very famous professional jockey and yet he still takes the time to give riding lessons." Emma retorted "well Cleo, how are things with you and Lewis?" Bella inquired to stop the fight she could tell was about to start. "Great! He's gonna be going to all the same classes I am so I'll be spending some much needed time with him! I really missed him when he was in America." "I'm really happy for you Cleo. Will has decided he wants to be a zoologist so he'll be studying for that." Bella said. "hmm interesting career choice. By the way how are things with you and will?" Emma asked. "Things are going great. To tell you the truth things couldn't be going better." Bella replied while showing a smile. "Can we stop talking about boys for a little while? I wanna go for a swim! Are you girls up for it?" Rikki asked "Sure. I guess we can manage a swim before we start moving to our dorms." Emma said and the rest agreed.
The four mermaids ran to the beach and dove into the water then sped off to the reef but little did they know a certain merman was also headed to the reef.
Jake was swimming away from his private beach to go looking for a nice reef to explore when all of a sudden he saw four things swim up to the reef as he was gliding along. he hid behind a coral and poked his head out and saw four mermaids. Rikki saw him poking his head out and he pulled his head back behind the coral. Then Rikki signaled for the mermaids to surface. "I thought I saw something down there." Rikki said "like what? Cleo asked "well I thought I saw-" just as Rikki was about to finish Jake popped his head out and said "Hi I'm Jake!" and all four girls screamed with surprise!