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Context: Mimmi and Ondina have asked permission to travel around the world. They decide to swim to Europe first, but also look around on the land.

Other: This is written as them beign in a developing relationship, with Ondina beign very protective, and Mimmi beign childish about the trip by having to know everything. Pure fluff, but with implied adult themes. The story also has other made up mermaids and humans. Some stereotypes may occure. Also I don't know if some of the languages and their sentences are correct. This is a long one.

I do not own Mako mermaids. Only the story is mine.

Mimmi was excited. She had been looking out for this ever since the council had agreed. Mimmi had been given permission to leave Mako and travel to somewhere around the world. But she would have to bring someone with her.

"No, of course not!" Ondina exclaimed. "What do you mean no? I thought you loved adventures." Mimmi smiled. "Yes, but only if no one can get hurt." The blonde said. "What about the water dragon?" Mimmi smirked. "That was then. I didn't care what happened." Ondina said quietly. Mimmi knew that was false. "But you did. Nothing will happen. And we won't be going anywhere far from the coast." Mimmi assured. "But what if something happens? We don't know what kind of humans or mermaids there are." Ondina said. "Nothing will happen." Mimmi sighed while smiling. Ondina was thinking. She had grown as a person since Nerissa was freed. "Fine." She sighed deeply. Mimmi squealed in excitment. "But you have to promise me I won't lose you." Ondina continued. That gave both girls a mental pause. "You won't." Mimmi said and grabbed the blonde's hand.

"Where will you go?" Rita asked. "To Europe." Mimmi said instantly. "Europe? That's quite far from here." The older woman said. "I know, but I really want to visit the countries there." Mimmi continued. "Just remember that they do things differently than us. And please try to avoid the northern pods." Rita sighed happily. "I know how dangerous we can be." Mimmi scoffed. "Yes, indeed you might. Just stay away from the North, for Ondina's sake at least." Rita said and with that Mimmi left to catch up with everyone until their departure.

"So you're really doing this then?" Zac asked. Mimmi nodded eagerly. "I hope you have fun." Evie said. "I know we will, right Ondina?" Mimmi asked the blonde. Ondina snapped her head to look at everyone. "Yep." She said. Mimmi knew in that moment Ondina was regretting the trip. The others started talking about everything else. "We don't have to go." Mimmi whispered. "No, it's not that. I just don't want you to get hurt." Ondina whispered back and looked in Mimmi's eyes. "I won't and neither will you." The brunette smiled and they continued to talk with the gang.

"We will see you when we see you." Zac said while holding Mimmi's hand. "Be careful." Sirena added. "We will, you're almost worse than Ondina." Mimmi joked reseiving a jab to her arm by said blonde. "Bye guys." Mimmi said and they swam away.

It was getting dark, when Mimmi and Ondina came close to the coast of Portugal. "Where are we going to stay, Mimmi? We can't go on land and we don't know where the others are." Ondina whispered. Mimmi knew what Ondina was getting at. "We'll have to find a place to go then. In the water." Mimmi reasoned. "But where?" Ondina asked.

They had started to look for a place, when suddenly two other mermaids came to their view. "Quem é Você?" One of them asked. "What did she ask?" Ondina whispered to Mimmi. Mimmi just shook her head slightly. "Você consegue entender?" The other asked. "Do you speak English?" Mimmi spoke while shaking her head. The other one stopped. "I do. She doesn't." The mermaid said. "Great. I'm Mimmi and this is Ondina." Mimmi said proudly. "I'm Clara and this is Maria." Clara said. "You're not from here." She added. "No, we're from Australia." Mimmi spoke. "That's far away. Have you been casted out? Or did you leave?" Clara asked. "No, we have permission to come here from our council." Mimmi said calmly. "What are you planning to do now?" Clara asked, she was clearly intruiged of Mimmi and Ondina. "We just need a place for tonight. Somewhere safe." Mimmi explained. "Well, our pod is one of the safest. Do you want to come there?" Clara offered. "No, we wouldn't want to interfere with your pod." Mimmi smiled akwardly. "Well there isn't a safe place anywhere else around here. Just come to our pod for tonight." Clara said and she and Maria started to swim away. "I say we go then." Mimmi smiled and started to swim to the two other mermaids. She was stopped by Ondina. "I don't want to. I don't like them and what if something happens?" The blonde asked. "Nothing will. You're becoming annoying." Mimmi sighed. "Sorry." Ondina said. "Don't worry about it. It's cute." Mimmi said. They quickly followed the others.

Like Mimmi had said, nothing happened. The pod was suprisingly welcoming and a lot knew how to speak English. The pod was also quite small, and had under 60 mermaids. Mermaids like Clara told them about their pod's ways. Like where every night two mermaids go out, the other one is older and becomes a personal teacher to the younger one. They teach in those times about where they can go and where they never should. A very happy and quite young mermaid named Diana told how almost any mermaid would go over to Spain and join one of their pods. That was why their pod was so little.

When the morning came Mimmi and Ondina told how they were going to walk around. "Walk? Like walk just like land-people?" Diana had asked. "Yes. We call land-people humans. The things they walk with are called legs." Mimmi had teached the young mermaid. "That sounds cool, but really boring." Diana had replied.

When Mimmi and Ondina were escorted towards the coast, they said goodbye to Carla, Maria and Diana. They turned into humans. "You know what, this place is actually really beautiful." Ondina smiled, when they started to walk. There weren't many people walking around, since the sun was only just rising. "Where even are we?" The blonde continued. "In Porto. This is the second largest city in Portugal." Mimmi told her. "That means there are a lot of humans, right?" Ondina asked. "Yes, why do you ask? Are you going to look for someone else?" Mimmi smirked. "What? Of course not, I would never!" Ondina was seemingly horrified. "Shh, I was only joking. Calm down." Mimmi said happily and kissed Ondina's cheek. "You're so stressful." Ondina grumbled. "Well, you win some you lose some." Mimmi smiled.

They continued to walk and watch the Sun rise behind the ocean. "That's beautiful." Mimmi sighed. "Indeed you are." Ondina said. "You're so cheesy!" Mimmi swatted her arm towards the blonde. As they walked and looked around, the sun had risen and everything was just basking in the light.

"Let's go, I want ice cream!" Mimmi squealed in delight. They walked down and fortunatly the cashier understood English. They then ate while talking about where to go next. Ondina was almost ready with Portugal, when Mimmi asked if they could go look down at the river from the bridge, that the locals called Ponte da Arrábida. "Why there? I really don't want to climb just so you can see the top of the river." Ondina whined. "But I want to." Mimmi said and dragged Ondina with her.

They got to the top. They didn't go to the middle of the bridge, but went kind far, but if Mimmi liked it and was ok with it, Ondina didn't mind. "Where do you want to go next?" Mimmi asked the blonde. "What?" Ondina's voice was full of confusion. "You get to choose. What country next?" Mimmi asked calmly. Ondina thought. "Let's go to Spain." She offered. "Ok, do you want to go right away?" Mimmi agreed. "Yep, I don't want to stay in Europe for too long." Ondina sighed. "Is someone homesick?" Mimmi teased. "Shut up." Ondina said and to mock her more, Mimmi dramaticly gasped. Ondina heard it, but didn't look back. She was already walking down the bridge. "Ondina wait!" Mimmi yelled and ran after her.

They found a perfect place for transformation. They jumped in and swam away as fast as they could. Mimmi was the first to break the water's surface. Ondina followed her. "Where are we now?" Ondina asked. "Close to Santander." Mimmi said, whilst looking around. "How can you tell?" Ondina asked. "When Evie teached me how to use a laptop, I started to plan where I would like to go. So that's how." Mimmi nodded matter of factly. "That was like what, 3, 4 years ago!" Ondina hissed. "Yeah, so what? Now come on, someone could see us." Mimmi ushered and swam while diving into the ocean. It was already daytime, so they couldn't just hop on the land.

They had sropped close to an artgallery, since landpeople were driving their boats around. "This isn't safe, Mimmi." Ondina whispered. "I know, just coat yourself and turn into a human. But be quick." Mimmi said and coated herself. Ondina sighed and coated herself too and pushed herself on top of some random stairs and started to dry herself. That had taken them lots of practise. And while Ondina was still drying herself she saw Mimmi already standing on her legs with clothes on. That was another thing they had learned to do. Ondina was quickly standing with Mimmi as they hurried away from the ocean.

"Where do you want to go? Santander isn't a big place." Mimmi smiled. "Do you want to eat something?" Ondina asked, her stomach growled. "I guess so, at least you need some food." Mimmi chuckled and took Ondina's hand. "Do you know anywhere we can get food?" The blonde asked. "Of course I do." Mimmi smirked and they started walking.

~End of part 1~