This is my first fan fic; I've rated it "T" due to some adult language and some adult concepts and themes. Please read, review and enjoy.
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Disclaimer: I do NOT own H2O: Just Add Water. Never have and fairly certain that I never will.
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H2O: Just Add Water
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A Week of Tails
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Chapter 1: The Picnic
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"Rikki, you might want to move."
"Why?" She lay on the beach unmoving.
"The tide is coming in and it is almost up to your feet."
"And your point is…"
"In another minute or so your feet will get wet."
"I know what happens when I get wet Lewis, after all I am a mermaid and have been for over a year."
"That wasn't what I was getting at."
"Lewis, were on Mako, the only people around are you, me, Cleo, Emma, and Ash. Zane is out in his Zodiac keeping a look out and he's got a radio to call me on if anybody comes near as unlikely as that is, but he wanted to go fishing. He knows I'm a mermaid, you know, Emma and Cleo know, and Ash knows also. So tell me Lewis who is going to see me with a tail that hasn't already seen it?" She threw her hands up in exasperation.
"Ash."
"Attention, earth to idiot," She propped herself and turned to face Lewis. "Ash knows about us."
"No, what you asked was who had not already seen you with a tail. Ash may know about it but he actually hasn't seen you as a mermaid yet and what I was trying to get at is you're trying to get a tan right?"
"Wow Lewis did you figure that out all by yourself?"
"Do you remember my water proofing formula? Or how about Emma's red hair?"
"What's your point Lewis?" She took her sunglasses off and looked Lewis right in the eye; she was growing extremely annoyed with Lewis.
"My spray turned you skin red and when you got I the water and turned into mermaids your skin went back to normal. And Emma had her hair died as a mermaid but when she dried off ad returned to human her hair went back to blond."
"Lewis I don't see what you're getting at and I really don't care. Now get lost before I get so annoyed that I fry you and Cleo has to look for a new boyfriend." She put her glasses back on and laid back down returning to her tanning.
Lewis backed up a few steps and watched as a wave washed up on shore covering Rikki's feet. He stood watching as Rikki's tail appeared and then walked back over to her.
"You get wet and you get a different skin; your mermaid skin if you will. That is what will get tanned, not your normal human skin. While you will get a tan now it will disappear when your tail does. Just like your clothes and glasses; they're gone now but will return when you dry off."
"Gee thanks for telling me that, now get lost."
"You're not listening to me are you?"
"Nope, but maybe if you said something worth listening to I would."
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It was a perfect bright warm sunny day, Emma, Ash and Cleo all had the day off from work and to top it off it was the weekend so no school; the whole day was wide open. With such a perfect day they decided that a picnic was in order and so they could be alone they decided to hold it out at Mako Island. Everything had been packed up between Lewis' boat and Zane's Zodiac they got everything loaded up. With all the supplies there wasn't room for all 6 people in the boats so the girls swam out together, they had been looking for an excuse to get away and spend some time together in private away from the guys to make some additional plans, and this had given them their chance.
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While Rikki and Lewis were busy arguing Cleo had been wondering about looking for Lewis. When he finally spotted him the fight was over and Rikki just lay on the beach silently ignoring everything that Lewis was saying. Cleo only saw Lewis though and ran over to him greeting him with a kiss on the cheek.
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"Hey where've you been? I've been looking allover for you, Emma and Ash challenged us to a two on two game of Volley Ball; us against them."
Cleo looked down to see Rikki lying on the beach with her tail; eyes shut to block out the sun she appeared to be asleep.
"Lewis, why didn't you wake her and so she could move back away from the water, can't you she's trying to get a tan."
"Well for starters I'm awake, and so what if I've got my tail, you know I'm a mermaid, Lewis, Emma, Ash, Zane, they all know it and there is nobody else around, so who cares." Rikki let her temper flair. "Now I recommend you get your boyfriend out of here before I roast him and you end up having to find a new one."
"But…"
"C'mon Cleo lets go teach Emma and Ash a lesson." Lewis didn't give Cleo a chance to finish her thought.
"But…" She tried again.
"Just c'mon, I'll explain on the way."
The gang had found a small level clearing in the woods and set up everything there including volleyball net where Emma and Ash waited. Finally when Cleo and Lewis returned and they got the ball out and got ready to play.
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"Ok Cleo, no using your powers."
"What? Excuse me? Emma, did you actually just tell me that I'm not allowed to use my powers? You actually think I would?"
Cleo couldn't believe what she had just heard; it was shocking to her, especially coming from Emma.
"Well let's not forget about the last time we played Volley Ball."
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Lewis and Ash took a seat on the sidelines while the girls began to get into it.
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"Ok, the first time I was angry and wanted a little revenge on them since they were being such bitches towards us and mocking us like they were. The Second time I wanted to humiliate them a little and the third time wasn't even me; it was Charlotte. On top of that if I hadn't used my powers to score those points then we would have lost the game and been out of that tournament and failed Phys Ed."
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"Lewis, don't you think we ought to be getting in there and breaking this up or doing something."
"Na, trust me Ash, right now it is better to stay out of it; wait till it turns from friendly competitive bickering to actual anger before getting between those two. They're both a little too strong headed to listen to reason when they're absolutely convinced that they're right about something."
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"And you're one to talk about using powers to cheat, let's look at your track record shall we; not long after our powers increased you froze the soccer field causing Nate's brother to slip and miss a shot just so Elliot could take a shot instead. Then there was the incident with you freezing the tip of Zane's pool cue."
"I only did that after Rikki used her's to make Ash sweat so bad that it got in his eyes and made him miss the game winning shot."
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"You know I think I remember what she's talking about, that match was a result of me trying to kick Zane out of the Juicenet for being so obnoxious."
"Zane, obnoxious; never." Lewis laid on the sarcasm so thick that Ash couldn't stop laughing.
"Well the whole thing started when Zane knocked a tray of juices on to Emma…" Ash stopped laughing as his voice trailed off as he came to a realization. "Huh, guess that would explain why she ran off to the cool room so quick and kept telling me not to come in."
"Ah, their anniversary." Lewis said reminiscently.
Ash gave Lewis an inquisitive look.
"It was the girls' one year anniversary of becoming mermaids, and it almost was ruined for them when that whole situation got blown out of proportion."
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Emma and I had been dating for a while now and I'd had a fair deal of time and I had plenty of time to get used to her being a mermaid and learn a lot about it but every so often I still learned something new, such as if they start acting strange -like fighting over a simple volleyball game; be suspicious; something is going to or has happened that equals trouble.
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Ash and Lewis carried on their conversation while Emma and Cleo continue their fight until Cleo let out a shriek, "Oh that's it Emma, you're going down."
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Lewis and Ash looked at each other, "Sounds like they're ready to play."
"You sure it's safe to play, Cleo sound like she ready to kill someone."
"It's safer to play."
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The game got underway and after a few points it was Lewis' serve; as the ball headed for the net Cleo subtly dropped her hand down to her side and created a gust of wind to carry the ball well past Emma and Ash.
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Why did she do that? She just got done fighting with Emma about using powers and she goes and does just that; and she didn't even use them to our benefit. That ball is way out, that's their point.
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Ash went to retrieve the ball and while he was gone Cleo focused her attention on the drink coolers behind Emma. They had brought two different coolers for drinks, one for the girls with just drinks in them, no ice or anything to keep them drinks cool -after all they couldn't reach in to a cooler filled with melting ice. But the second cooler, the one for the guys was where Cleo had focused her attention specifically. That one did have ice in it to keep the drinks cool, and of course the ice was melting just like Cleo wanted. She again began to use her powers, she raise a tower of water over top an unsuspecting Emma.
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Get ready to catch her Ash.
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Lewis hadn't been paying attention and Ash was off getting the game ball so Cleo was the only one who knew of the tower of water over Emma's head as she let it drop. Emma screamed and Lewis and Ash both turned to look at a furious Emma soaking wet Emma.
"I'm going to get you for this." Emma threatened.
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Did she just…
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Oh crap, quick catch her.
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Ash doped the ball and ran to catch his girlfriend getting to her just in time as her tail appeared and fell right back into his arms. He set her down gently and went to get a dry towel.
Cleo just laughed and started to head back out to the beach, "Kida hard to get even when you can't move."
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"I'll show you can't move." Emma raised her hand and suddenly Cleo found her feet literally frozen solid.
"Here you go Em," Ash handed Emma a towel and went over to Lewis, "You know Lewis maybe we had better head out and just leave these two alone to work things out." He whispered in secret.
"Actually this is the point that we enter, I have never seen them this mad at each other so I'm going to get Cleo out of here before Emma freezes anymore of her. This can be fixed with a little help from Rikki, but I don't want to risk Emma doing anymore than she already has. You distract Emma while I get Cleo out of here."
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They did just that; Lewis carried Cleo for a short distance till they were a fair distance away from Emma. He set Cleo down to go find Rikki. He found her still lying on the beach in the same spot and form that he had last seen her.
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"Sorry to bother you Rikki, but Cleo needs your help."
"What?" She took off her sunglasses and propped herself up to look at Lewis.
"Yeah, you see Emma kinda Froze Cleo's legs."
"She froze Cleo's legs? Why would she do that, and how am I supposed to help?"
"Long story you can ask her when you see her, and don't you remember when Emma accidently froze Mirriam."
"Oh yeah, I remember that now. Ok pull me up the beach a bit the tide is coming in pretty good now."
Lewis pulled her up the beach far from the edge of the water. She steam-dried her tail away and got up and followed Lewis to Cleo.