Another Chance

I started writing this as a one-shot and then I realized it had lots of material to work with, so I turned it into a two-shot and maybe even a three-shot. This chapter is just the retelling of the parts of the show I took inspiration off of to create the rest of the story.

Another Chance
Part 1

Evie was anxiously waiting in the moon pool to stop Zac from attacking the dragon. He surfaced into the pool with a terrified expression when he noticed Evie. She shouldn't have been there, just like he shouldn't have been there either.

"Evie, what are you doing here?" Zac asked with panic in his voice.

"You can't do this, Zac." Evie said sternly and slightly panicked.

"You need to leave, now." Zac ordered looking back and forth between Evie and the entrance of the moon pool knowing the dragon would be there soon.

Then, they both stared at the entrance and heard a weird sound coming from the water and then some waves in the moon pool.

"What was that?" Evie asked knowing something bad was about to happen.

"The dragon." Zac responded carefully, but he was terrified.

"It's coming. Get behind me." Zac ordered Evie.

After a couple of seconds and a couple of other waves, the dragon appeared in front of them. It was gigantic and almost took the whole pool.

"Come on, hit me." Zac said waiting to use the turning the tide spell Wei Lan had showed him.

The dragon breathed out its blue fire and Zac turned he attack against the dragon easily.

"You can do better than that." He said to the creature.

It breathed out its blue fire again and Zac reversed it again without any troubles. He really got the hang of that spell.

At that point, Evie felt useless, so, as courageous and headstrong as she is, she swam beside Zac with a determined look on her face.

"Leave him alone!" She screamed as she held up her right arm and pointed her moon ring at the dragon. Her ring glowed.

"Evie!" Zac said, but it was too late. The ring lightened up and the dragon reacted immediately by breathing out its blue fire on her. She fell unconscious and under the water. Zac dove after her as soon as it happened to retrieve her from under the water. He would never let her drown even if it meant losing his tail. She no longer had her golden tail and she was back to her human form even if she was in the water. She had lost her tail, forever.

"Evie." Zac said even if the dragon was still there and staring at them. "Talk to me. Evie"

The dragon got closer and closer and Zac anticipated the worst. It seemed like the dragon was smelling Zac, like it tried to analyse and identify him. After a couple of long seconds, it left and did not attack Zac.

"Evie. Wake up. Please." Zac said.

"Evie. Talk to me, please." He repeated as she opened her eyes and looked at him.

"Zac." She exclaimed as she held his shoulders and then hugged him. "What happened? Where's the dragon?"

"It's okay. It's gone." Zac responded to his girlfriend.

Ondina and Mimmi surfaced in the moon pool afterwards with horror spread on their faces as soon as they saw Evie in the water without a tail.

"Evie." Ondina said.

Evie realized Ondina looked panicked and at where her tail used to be. She looked at her legs and it hit her.

"My tail." She said and tears started to roll on her cheeks. Even Zac was crying. She hugged Zac tighter and cried harder.

Zac and Evie were at the beach behind some rocks to make sure no one would see them to finally talk about what happened to her the night before. Zac was standing on some rocks to avoid water and Evie was walking towards the waves.

She looked at her feet as the water hit them.

"I never thought it would feel so strange; the water between my toes." Evie sadly stated.

"Evie, I'm so sorry." Zac apologized for the hundredth time to his girlfriend. "I didn't mean for this to happen. I was trying to protect you."

"I don't blame you." She reassured him as she turned around to face him. "We both lied to each other."

Evie finished her sentence and turned around to face the sea again and then she walked away. She was really hurt by all of this and Zac was too.

Evie and Zac walked out of class where something really strange happened to her.

"What just happened back there?" Zac asked completely confused.

"I have no idea." She responded.

"Evie, how do you feel?" Mimmi asked as she approached them out of the blue.

"Why do you wanna know?" Evie asked the mermaid curiously.

"Ondina and I tried a long-distance spell on you to try and get your tail back." Mimmi responded.

"Nice plan for crazy dance moves in class." Cam responded sarcastically to the brunette mermaid.

"You didn't think to ask me first?" Evie asked keeping her calm.

"There was no time." Mimmi responded.

"Come on. Let's see if it worked." Zac said with a hint of hope in his voice.

The gang all walked towards a place where they could have privacy.

"I'm so sorry, Evie. I didn't mean to embarrass you in class." Mimmi apologized to her brother's girlfriends. For a moment, Evie had the slightest bit of hope that it had worked.

"If this works, all is forgiven." Evie answered with hope and a smile.

"Ready?" Zac asked his girlfriend.

Evie nodded. "Ok."

Zac proceeded to use his water bottle to wet Evie's hand.

They all looked at each other when they realised it didn't work.

"Thank you for trying." Evie said realizing once more that her mermaid life was over.

"Evie." Wei Lan apologetically. "I'm so sorry."

Evie just smiled and hugged her.

"You know, it's strange. I feel like a weight lifted from my shoulders." Evie said to the Chinese mermaid.

Then, Evie looked at her right hand. She took the moon ring of her index finger and turned to Rita. She looked at the ring once more and then looked at Rita.

"This belongs to the pod." She said as she handed Rita the moon ring that was destined for her.

"Don't get me wrong. Being a mermaid was a dream come true and I'll miss having a tail." Evie said.

"And we'll miss having you to swim with us." Mimmi said to Evie.

"Who says I can't swim with you?" Evie asked her boyfriend's sister. "I'm a pretty good diver, you know."

"The best." Zac added.

"Is that so?" Ondina challenged.

"And she's always been fast." Zac said. "In the water."

"I bet you can't beat us to Mako." Mimmi said playfully.

"Mm. Two words: speed boat." Evie said.

They all just laughed and hugged Evie.

Evie walked on the dock wearing her pink and blue wet suit and her blue bikini. She was determined to go see her dad and asked him to go on the dive with him.

"Chosen your dive buddy, yet?" Evie asked her father.

"What's this? You got nothing else planned for tonight?" Doug asked suspiciously since he hadn't gone on a dive with Evie for about a year.

"Well, I did have few offers, but none quite as good as a night dive with the old man." Evie said to tease her father.

Doug just smiled at her.

"Permission to come aboard?" Evie asked.

"Permission granted." Doug said enthusiastically as he hugged his daughter.

"Maybe Ms. Trumble won't be as bad as we think." David said to convince everyone, including himself, as he brought juices for everyone.

David, Cam, Evie and Zac were all sitting together outside the ocean café and they were all depressed.

"Are you kidding?" Cam asked. "She'll be worse."

"How could Rita quit on us?" Zac asked, sad that the oldest mermaid gave up her job as the principal at Suncoast High.

"I don't think you should see it like that." Evie said to her boyfriend looking bitter. "And I think I know why."

"Enlighten us, please." Cam demanded.

"There's nothing harder than being caught between two worlds. Eventually, one of them has to win." Evie said reflecting not only on Rita's choice, but also on what happened to her.

Can you guess what this is going to be about? I know this chapter is not really important or eventful, but the second part should be up in the next 24 hours.