One Extraordinary Summer Afternoon

by drizzledrops

There are many worlds within the small planet Earth. Possibly the most common is the world of the humans on land, but second most known of is the world of merpeople in the seas. Few humans have been introduced to this world, but that number is about to get a little bigger. [includes DirkJake, JohnVris, PB&J, Davekat, EriFef, and maybe others as the story goes on]

1. Chapter 1

A/N: Hello there, and thanks for looking at this fanfic! I'd just like to say that this is a group fic on AO3, and I [Drizzle_drops] am one of the three authors, along with Sapphire_sky and Serval. Since I'm the only one of us who uses this site, I've decided to post it here so you guys can read it. We pretty much have a pattern when posting chapters, so this one belongs to Sapphire_sky, chapter 2 belongs to me, and chapter 3 belongs to Serval. It just continues on like that, with chap. 4 belonging to Saph, and so on. Also, this is based on ikimaru's merstuck. So anyway, enjoy the story!

Chapter 1: == Be a Clueless Little Human

You have now become Jake English, a "clueless little human." You have been recently informed that you will not be going anywhere over the summer. Instead, you will be staying at your everyday beach-house at 414 Battle Court. You really have no idea who the people that live on your street are, and you don't plan on finding out.

"Jake?"

"Yes, Jade? What is it?"

"Will you come to the beach with me? I wanna look around some before Jane gets here."

Jane is your and Jade's cousin, and she would rather spend the day baking than exploring. "Gadzooks! Dearest Janey's coming today, isn't she? Golly, I'd nearly forgotten! Onward and out then, Jade!"

Jade laughs and speeds out the door. You follow, but only after pocketing your trusty Swiss Army Knife. You'd never let it leave your sight. You catch up to your sister rather quickly, jogging at her side until you reach the sand. Jade, unlike yourself, leaps straight onto the sand, letting out a yowl of pain as the sand burns her bare feet. You laugh and slip off your sandals, handing them to her.

"Where to, Jake?" your younger sister asks, excitedly strapping your shoes to her smaller feet. You look around.

"Jade?"

"Yeah Jake?"

"Do you think Grandpa will mind if I borrow his jet ski?" You say, grinning at the tiny speck of an island in the distance.

[TIMESKIP]

The jet ski's just as fast as when you last used it. Jade holds onto you for dear life, screaming as the machine speeds at 45mph over the ocean's waves. A few times, you feel like you almost hit something, but the mysterious thing always moves out of the way just in time.

The island you head to is only a few miles off the shore, so it only takes about ten minutes to get there. You park your aquatic vehicle on some rotting old dock and quickly get off of it, pulling Jade off with you. "Woah," Jade gapes, eyes wide, "where are we?"

"An island, dear Jade. An island just waiting for us to explore its wonders!"

After mere minutes of looking around, you and Jade find a hole on the ground. It looks an awful lot like a slide to you. "Jake? Can I stay up here?"

"Of course, Jade! Just give me a holler if you need anything, alrighty?"

Jade grins and nods, sitting down while you look down the slide you mean tunnel. You sit down, waving goodbye to Jade and slide.

You laugh the entire way down, even managing to stick the landing. The cavern before you is huge. Huge enough so that you can hear the voices echoing off the walls. As quietly as you possibly can, you walk forward, looking around at the shining stalagmites. Of course, they would be prettier if you didn't have the fear of being randomly impaled. Being randomly impaled would definitely put a damper on the whole day.

You crouch behind a big rock, looking around it at a pool of glimmering water. There's a splash, and you see something blue and something pink, and then it's gone. You stand up, looking into the water. It's way deeper than you would have thought, and it probably leads into the ocean. You sit there for a while, just staring into the blue depths of the pool.

== Be Jade

You are now Jade, and you heard a twig snap (though it was probably you), so you're freaking out. You run until you see a tunnel leading into the side of a mountain. Ooh! It looks fun!

== Discover

You are now Jake English, and GADZOOKS WHAT IS THAT OVER THERE. It seems you have found a piece of paper, and waterproof paper at that. On this piece of paper is what looks to be a map of the island as well as some of the sea around it. You have some serious adventuring to do, now. You turn around, paying no attention to the small splash behind you.

== Remember Lost Map

You are now a blue-tailed creature who just remembered that you had forgotten probably the most valuable thing you have. Godammit.