This is the sequel to my other story, H2O: A New Generation. So, if you haven't read that yet I highly recommend you do that first before reading this one. There will be characters and storylines covered in that one that would be spoiled by this story. We'll be waiting!
Anyway, I wanted to start out with a character chart and summary of H2O: A New Generation. This will be good to get everyone up to speed on who is involved with the story and what has been going. And, it's a good refresher for my loyal readers who maybe haven't seen the first couple chapters of H2O: A New Generation in a while
CHARACTER CHART
Sara Meyer: Seventeen year old mermaid, changed in the Moon Pool on Mako with Mia and Katy. From Gibbon, Nebraska, USA. Daughter to Paul and Karen Meyer. Dating Farley Davis. Confident and Tenacious, yet can sometimes be sarcastic and snarky. Powers include hydrokinesis, telepathy between mermaids, and aerokinesis. Revealed to be a mermaid to the public at the end of Part 1.
Farley Davis: Seventeen year old Merman, changed in the Moon Pool by a moonstruck Sara. From Brisbane, Australia. Dating Sara Meyer. Passionate and full of determination. Powers include a stronger hyrdokinesis, a weaker hydro-thermo kinesis and cryokinesis, and telepathy.
Mia Hobbs: Sixteen year old mermaid, changed in the Moon Pool on Mako with Sara and Katy. From Gold Coast, Australia. Dating Blake Everton. Sarcastic and charismatic, yet fiercely loyal. Powers include hydro-thermo kinesis, telepathy, and electrokinesis.
Katy Arlington: Sixteen year old mermaid, changed in the Moon Pool on Mako with Sara and Mia. From Gold Coast, Australia. Best friends with Mia since sixth grade. Dating Mitch Stevens. Incredibly loyal and cheerful, constantly happy-go-lucky. Powers include cryokinesis, telepathy, and controlling clouds and precipitation.
Blake Everton: Sixteen year old human male. Best friends with Mia Hobbs in elementary school and begins to date her after she saved him from drowning. From Gold Coast, Australia. Workout partner and best friend of Farley. Charismatic and perfectionist yet can be a bit altruistic.
Mitch Stevens: Seventeen year old human male. Used to be an outcast and loner after running away from home. Convinced by Katy to break out of his lonely shell. Dating Katy Arlington. From Gold Coast, Australia. Pessimistic, yet hard-working and caring.
Zane Bennett: Twenty-one year old human male. Owner and manager of Rikki's Cafe. Dating Rikki Chadwick. Has known about mermaids for several years. Mentor to the new mers. Creator of Operation Endgame. From Gold Coast, Australia.
Dr. Linda Denman: Thirty one year old marine biologist. Threatened mermaids years before but lost everything. Rebuilding her career with ethics and care for mermaids. Currently doing research with Sara while working at the Marine Park. From Australia.
Elliot Gilbert: Eighteen year old human male. Sister to Emma Gilbert. Intern and assistant to Dr. Denman, who he met while living in Tampa, FL, introduced by his sister. A bit naive, but he still cares for his work and wants to impress his older sister. From Gold Coast, Australia.
Laura Collins: Twenty one year old human female. Intern and assistant to Dr. Denman who she met at the University of Miami. Formulaic and by-the-book. Pseudo-mentor to Elliot, although annoyed by his naivety at times. From Miami, Florida, USA.
Paul Meyer: Forty six year old human male. Father to Sara Meyer. Former football player in college, and is quite tall and intimidating. An ardent family man, he cares deeply for his wife and daughter. Finds out Sara is a mermaid at the end of Part 1. From Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
Karen Meyer: Forty three year old human female. Mother to Sara Meyer. Cares deeply for her daughter, even though at times she can be over-protective. This causes stress between her and Sara. Finds out Sara is a mermaid at the end of Part 1. From Gibbon, Nebraska, USA.
SUMMARY OF H2O: The Next Generation
Sara Meyer moves to the Gold Coast with her parents Paul and Karen from her hometown of Gibbon, Nebraska. She at first hates moving across the world to Australia. But, after meeting new friends Mia Hobbs and Katy Arlington, Sara begins to warm up to her new home. The three girls take a boat trip to Mako Island a few days after Sara arrives, mostly for Mia to spite her cousin, Zane, for always telling her to avoid the island. They get turned into mermaids after being in the Moon Pool under a full moon. After an initial shock and a rocky start, the three girls get used to having tails.
Farley Davis moves to Gold Coast from Brisbane, his new house directly across the street from Sara. They hit it off somewhat well, despite Farley being slightly awkward, with and he develops crush on Sara. Mia and Katy discover they have powers over water, but Sara can't figure hers out, sending her into a saddened state.
On a swim alone to the Moon Pool to clear her head, Sara finds she can move water with her mind and is delighted by her newfound powers. But, she's seen by Farley as a mermaid after he gets dared by Mitch Stevens to go to Mako Island. He makes a deal with Blake Everton to work with him to be more attractive and self-confident to get a chance to date Sara, as he believes he doesn't have a chance in his current state.
Katy gets recruited by Marian to spy on Mitch, her boyfriend, because she doesn't know anything about him outside of school. Katy does this and finds out Mitch lives in a run-down boat house all by himself. He catches her though, but they hit it off. They become friends after Mitch explains his situation to her, including how he started living in the boat house
The first full moon comes around and all three girls are unaware how it will affect them. They all get moonstruck quickly. Farley and Zane find them all moonstruck and try to get everything under control, eventually following the three girls to Mako. Farley leaves so the girls don't find out he knows about what they are. Zane informs Rikki Chadwick about the new mermaids and confronts Mia, Katy, and Sara the next morning. He tells them he'll keep their secret and leaves. Farley finally feels he has enough courage and asks Sara out that day.
Sara, Mia, Katy all have their first dates with Farley, Blake, and Mitch respectively. Farley surprises Sara by kissing her spontaneously, a move she thought Farley would never make. Mia forgives Blake for ending their childhood friendship and they start to talk again, and Katy and Mitch realize a mutual attraction, despite Mitch still dating Marian.
While discussing the dates in the Moon Pool, The girls are interrupted by Cleo Sertori, Rikki, and Bella Hartley. After an initial animosity at first, all six mermaids eventually find common ground and come to an understanding. Farley and Sara start dating officially.
Katy sees Mitch behind the girls' backs, giving suspicion to Mia, who while without Katy becomes a third wheel to Sara and Farley. Bella and Will see Katy and Mitch together at the boat house and report it to Sara and Mia who confront Katy about it. After an argument, Katy agrees to stay loyal to the girls instead of Mitch. Sara and Farley get into an argument after Farley pushes too hard trying to get Sara to talk about her secret.
Blake plays up his altruism, leading him to be captured by some criminals near some abandoned docks. They attempt to sink their boat to get rid of Blake and make it look like an accident. Blake almost drowns but is rescued by Mia, who reveals her mermaid abilities to him. He accepts her for what she is and they start dating officially.
The next full moon comes and all six mermaids are together. Mia gets moonstruck accidentally and texts Blake. He realizes that Farley has known about the mermaids for a while. They go to where the girls are, and Farley reveals to the group he's known about their tails for two months, prompting a big argument with Sara. In the chaos, Mia escapes to the sea. Katy gets moonstruck and escapes as well. Everyone goes after the two except for Sara who realizes how much Farley actually cares for her. The next morning, Farley and Sara talk about everything and come to an understanding. They continue dating.
Mitch questions Katy why they haven't been talking for awhile. Katy explains how she thinks Mitch is using her. Afraid to lose Katy, Mitch breaks up with Marian publicly. Katy goes to him and they rekindle their relationship, choosing to date officially now. Sara and Mia begrudgingly accept this as they see that Mitch might actually be genuine.
Sara, Mia, and Katy go to Sara's house to see that Sara's old friend Jenny is visiting from America. After an awkward dinner, Sara and Jenny hang out and relive old times. They realize how much they have drifted apart and how much Sara loves living in Australia. This is when Sara decides to fully accept her new life in Australia.
Mitch and Katy take their relationship to school for the first time, but they Marian's wrath. Nothing bad happens, so they think they're in the clear. Unfortunately, an accident at Katy's house leads to Mitch finding out Katy is a mermaid. He accepts her, although he's still somewhat skeptical. Too scared to think, Katy decides not to tell Mia and Sara about what happened.
After being in Australia for some time, Cleo, Rikki, and Bella return to the US for University. They give Sara, Mia, and Katy each a crystal necklace for good luck, as well as their blessing for protecting Mako. All seems well.
The girls wake up from the next full moon, and they don't remember anything at all. Blake and Farley aren't answering their phones. Katy reveals that Mitch knows about her, and they might try to ask him. Sara and Mia chastise her but decide it's their best shot. Mitch has found out they're all mermaids, and after being somewhat dismissive for being lied to, he tells them to get to Mako Island where they find out all three of them attacked Blake and Farley with newfound storm powers the night before. Scared of their new powers, the girls vow to not use them. In that midst, they find out they can also use telepathy to talk to each other when in mermaid form.
Dr. Denman, Elliot, and Laura are working in the Galapagos Islands. Denman finds a silhouette of a picture of a mermaid posted on the internet by Marian and her new boy, Aaron. She takes their group to Gold Coast to find out more, without telling Elliot and Laura the true nature of their journey.
Sara's birthday arrives and she turns seventeen. She gets into a fight with her parents about them being too overprotective, and her father even threatens Farley to make sure he treats Sara with respect. In her anger, she goes for a swim to cool down. She accidentally gets captured by Dr. Denman. Denman reveals that she doesn't want to hurt Sara and reveals she was in contact with mermaids before and ruined everything. She wants to do right by Sara and lets her go to make her own decision.
Confused and scared, Sara goes to Blake who agrees to be her confidant. They both go back to Denman and agree to do research on her mermaid abilities. Over the next few weeks of research, Farley and Mia become more suspicious of Sara and Blake being distant, so they confront the two of them. After an argument, Farley decides to go on a break from Sara, who is disheartened but ultimately agrees.
On the next full moon, the three mermaids stay apart. Unfortunately, Sara accidentally gets moonstruck again and goes to Farley's house. She keeps saying she wants to give him a gift in recompense for the way she's been acting, prompting Farley to follow her to Mako. Sara tricks Farley into the Moon Pool under the full moon.
The next morning, Farley realizes he's become a merman. In a panic, he goes to Zane for advice and eventually distances himself from Team Mako. After being reclusive for over a week, he decides to talk to Sara again, who's angry at his sudden and unexpected disappearance. In the argument, Sara throws water on Farley who just barely gets to a hiding place in time, but he is found out by Sara being a Merman. Sara touches Farley's fin, causing her to remember what she did to turn him into a merman, so she runs away thinking she ruined Farley's life. While she jumps into the sea, she's spotted by Marian who sees her with a tail.
Farley pulls Team Mako together and reveals he was turned into a merman. After a bit of animosity, mostly from Mia, the six of them go to Mako to search for Sara. Farley finds her using telepathy, and they make up. He forgives her for turning him into a merman. The both of them continue their relationship again.
All seems well, until the last day of school. At the Cafe before the end of year party, Marian tricks Sara and dumps water on her. Sara ends up getting revealed as a mermaid in front of the entire Cafe. Sara barely escapes the chaos by fleeing to Zane's office who reveals he has a plan for when a mermaid gets revealed. Sara quickly heads to Mako Island.
The rest of Team Mako, including Sara's parents, Denman, Elliot, and Laura meet up and all is revealed about everything going on. Despite the confusion, they all meet Sara at Mako Island. Zane arrives and tells them all to be ready for anything. Sara is rattled, but she pulls through. Sara looks at the people gathered there for her and decides she's ready to do what it takes.
And thus ends Part 1
Now get ready for part 2, A New Generation: Overexposure coming out soon!