ALRIGHT, SO I'M BACK WITH CHAPTER THREE OF THIS STORY. I'M HOPING YOU LIKE IT SO FAR AND NOW THINGS ARE GOING TO GET A BIT MORE INTERESTING…HOPEFULLY TO YOUR TASTES.
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ALEX POV
I can't believe them. I mean, why do they have be so curious. I swear they're worse than Lilith! And that's saying something. When I go for swims, I prefer to be alone. Unless you are a dolphin, shark, fish or mermaid, stay away from me while I swim.
After I left Tony and Bruce in my wake, I went to one of my other sea hideouts, an old sunken ship with air pockets in it just in case I need to breathe.
I can't believe I was stupid enough to think that they wouldn't follow me after I left Stark tower, and now they know where the Moon Pool is! And they know something's up with it! I am so screwed.
I began shifting through the objects on the sunken ship, which there were a lot of. It usually took my mind off things. As I was looking through the stuff, a box fell to the floor. I examined the box. It was medium sized, gold colored, and rather smooth and had a lock on it for a key to open. It was water tight. Whatever is in here is still dry. Then I noticed a small engraving on side the box.
It was a tail. A mermaid tail and under it, the words 'It's a true secret' were carved into the box. I quickly began looking for the key that would open the box. And after five minutes of searching, I found a golden key with the same small engraving of a tail on it, and knew it was it, the key was on a chain as well.
I decided it was time to go, but then I remembered, Tony would probably be waiting for me to come out of the water.
'What am I going to do about them?' I thought.
I put the key around my neck and picked up the golden box. I was sure no one was going to miss it, this ship had to be at least somewhere between 50 and 60 years old and has been on the bottom of the ocean for who knows how long.
I knew for one thing that no one was going to see this box though.
I swam up to the surface, the box was surprisingly very light, probably because it was full of air and not water.
I decided not to go back for my shoes and just swam to my ususal spot. I quickly dried off and dug up a pair of flip flops I always kept here. (I've lost a few shoes here before so I decided it best to keep backup here)
I walked home and luckily didn't run into anyone I knew on the way. It was time to see what's in this box.
NORMAL POV
Little did Alex know, two people were following her, and they were not Tony and Bruce. They were Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton.
The two of them had been following her ever since Stark's dinner party, they were there and they two saw her falling out of visibility. They had followed her swimming, being a lot better at hiding than Tony and Bruce, being trained agents and all. They had followed her down to the ship, but they didn't see the engraving on the box and didn't know why she took the box either.
They also hadn't reported her back to SHIELD yet. They heard how she didn't want people knowing so they were still planning on what to do exactly.
"So how do you think she got her tail?" Clint whispered to Natasha as they sat on a roof that overlooked Alex's home.
"I have no idea, she's not like anything I've ever seen before," Natasha replied, "But I suppose we have seen stranger things."
"Like Aliens?" Clint smirked.
"Like Aliens," Natasha confirmed.
Just then, they saw Alex appear in her bedroom. The agents got out they're binoculars and looked down to see what was in the box as she opened it.
Alex took the key off her neck and put it in the lock, She opened the box and lifted the lid.
The box had all kinds of pictures and old fashioned films. Alex lifted up a picture and gasped. The picture was of a girl. A girl with a tail sitting in her Moon Pool.
'I knew I couldn't have been the only one,' Alex thought.
The girl in the photo had brown hair, fair skin, and more of a copper colored tail than A golden bronze one like Alex's. The girl looked about fifteen maybe.
Alex turned over the picture and the back of it said the girl's name and the date and location. Irene Kate, May 16th 1964, New York, Mako Island's Moon Pool.
On the Mako part of this picture, Koam was scratched out and Mako was put in. Alex remembered that the Island was renamed Mako from Koam about 17 years ago.
This photo was taken fifty years ago.
Alex set the photo off to the side and picked up another photo. It was of three girls this time, and looked a bit more modern, they too were sitting in a moon pool, but this one was different than her moon pool, they all looked around sixteen or seventeen.
On the back there were their names and the other stuff.
Cleo, Emma, Rikki, April 11th 1994. Golden Coast, Australia, Mako Island Moon Pool.
20 years ago, this photo was taken.
Another picture was of three other mermaids, Gracie, Marcy and Lucy(I forgot their names but these are the girls from fifty years before h2o) and they were from fifty years before Cleo Emma and Rikki at the same island.
Another one was a girl named Bella, who was from a Moon Pool in Ireland and was only about 6 years before Cleo, Emma and Rikki.
There were a whole bunch of other photos of mermaids. Most were in groups of three, some were on two and very few were just of one mermaid. On the backs, there were always their name(s), Date the photo was taken and what island and where in the world the island was. As it turns out, there are moon pools all over the world. Sometimes island names were scratched out and replaced with a different one.
The most recent one that Alex could find was the one from 20 years ago of Cleo, Emma and Rikki.
There were a lot of pictures and Alex had them spread out on her bed. All the mermaid's tails were a color ranging from gold, to bronze, to orange, to copper to copper with just a tinge of red and colors in between those.
There were also the films, which Alex couldn't watch at the moment, but she intended to watch them as soon as she could.
At the bottom of all the pictures and films, Alex found a note with a small pouch attached. She picked it up and read it.
Dear reader,
If you have found this box, we assume you are a mermaid for no scuba gear could ever get to this box otherwise. This box contains pictures of past Moon Pool made mermaids. If you are reading this, you have probably been in a Moon Pool under the light of the first full moon and someday you will have your picture in here as well.
Most mermaids are born mermaids, but these girls and you were created mermaids. Born mermaids do not come out of the water, and when we do it's very rare. Do not try and look for us for you will probably not find us. Do not let normal land people see this, ever. Being a mermaid, you understand the need for secrecy, but most Land people do not.
In the pouch attached to this note is something called a moon stone. It's very powerful, and should the need arise, you may use it. The magic contained within this stone can do a vast amount of things once you learn how to use it, and a mermaid, and a mermaid alone can only operate a moon ring. Use it if you must, but use it wisely. If the ring loses power, it can be recharged under the full moon's light.
Keep the secret of the tail and do not allow people to ruin a moon pool. The crystals within the walls of the moon pool are what makes the magic happen under the light of the full moon. In 1997, the moon pool of Mako island, Australia, was destroyed, and because of it, the three mermaids there had to use their own raw power to prevent Eve's comet from colliding with earth and that moon pool is now dead forever, and when a moon pool dies, the magic it once held can end up anywhere and become something dangerous in the wrong hands, not to mention how sacred the moon pools are to Mermaid kind.
Anyway, sometimes the natural Moon Pool mermaid powers come in in strange ways. If two or more mermaids are in the pool at one time when the transformation occurs, the powers are divided among them, if only one is in the pool the powers usually come in yearly, but occasionally, they come in at rapid speeds, and very, very occasionally, they only gain one power.
Good luck with being a mermaid, and maybe sometime you meet another mermaid, and maybe you'll even meet one of us natural mermaids. This letter has a spell to change with the events that happen over time, so future mermaids who find this box know the new and the old dangers.
One of the dangers you must be warned of if you haven't encountered one already is the full moon. On the night of the full moon, a newer mermaid can become moonstruck is she looks at the moon or it's reflection, and they're powers often go out of control, and they often are pulled to their moon pool, and sometime act out, becoming careless with their secret at times while being moon struck, and then often remember nothing the next day when the moon sets.
And another danger to be warned of is Mermen. Do not allow a male into a moon pool. Do not let them become a merman. Natural mermen are long gone, but can still be formed in the moon pools. No matter what, a merman will always go power hungry, they will try to bring the trident out and they will destroy moon pools and mermaids. The trident is a weapon that is deadly to a mermaid, even if she touches it in her mermaid form.
That's all we can tell you for now, be careful, don't get exposed, don't abuse the power and enjoy being a mermaid for as long as you can. If you ever realize you cannot bear the weight of being a mermaid, there are two ways to rid you of your powers. When the planets line up being in the moon pool once every 50 years on the night of the full moon will take away your powers forever, where just a lunar eclipse will take them for 12 hours, or you can find a born mermaid, they can take them away as well. Be warned that if you have your powers taken away fully, they can never come back to you even if you go back into a moon pool under the full moon.
Sincerely,
The born mermaids of the sea.
I read the note. Wow that was just… wow. I mean, born mermaids, moon stones, mermen, eclipses and stuff? Wow
I pulled the moon stone and as soon as I did, a few more lines appeared on the note at the bottom.
P.; Alex Stark, you may hold onto this box for the next few years and the moon stone as well, it's fully charged at the moment. You'll need it.
P.P.S; You have two SHIELD agents outside your window, freeze your window over.
ALEX POV
I was confused for a moment, then I looked out my window, and sure enough, saw two people I recognized from the news. The woman and the archer dude were right there. I saw them, they saw me, so I quickly raised my hand up and the window got a thick layer of frost over it so they could no longer see in.
I bit my lip, and now four people know about my secret, and all of them were Avengers and involved with SHEILD. Yea me. I turned my attention back to the moon stone, I would talk to them later.
The moon stone was the same crystal blue color as the Moon Pool. (let's just say it looks like Bella's necklace from season 3 of H2O but not on a necklace yet)
I decided that I guess the magical note was right, I think I will keep this with me for the next few years.
I looked around my room and made the stone into a necklace (So now it looks just like Bella's necklace) and put it around my neck. I put everything back in the box(except for the moon stone) and hid the box under my bed.
I sighed, now what. Suddenly, someone knocked on my window. There were four figures that I could make out through the frost over it; two in black uniforms, one red and yellow clad person and the fourth in normal clothes as far as I could tell.
I rolled my eyes. Now all four of them were here, if Thor and Captain America were here then the whole Avenger's team would be right outside my window.
They knocked again.
I rolled my eyes and went to open the window. Tony oh so gracefully fell into my room face first, I smirked.
"You know most people would just knock on the door," I said as Tony stood up.
"Well we're not most people," the woman with red hair said, crawling in through my window from the fire escape, followed by the others.
"Alex, this is Clint Barton and Natasha Romanoff," Tony said.
"You said you weren't going to tell anyone else," I said crossing my arms.
"We didn't tell them," Bruce stated.
"We were at the party," Clint said.
"Of course you were," I muttered.
"Alex, who are you talking to?" Lilith asked from the other side of my door, I heard her try to open the door but it was locked.
"Go away, Lilith," I replied.
"No, who's in there," she persisted.
I rolled my eyes and pointed to the window. They didn't question me and went back out onto the fire escape.
"No one, now go away," I said.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because you're annoying."
"Hey!"
"Look," I said and opened the door, revealing my empty room, "No one's here, now leave me alone." I flicked my sister's forehead, she smacked my hand.
"Were you talking to yourself?" Lilith smirked.
"Um…Yep," I replied then pushed her out of my room and closed the door and locked it again.
"Whatever," I heard Lilith sigh then she left.
The second she was gone, Natasha and the others crawled back into my room from the fire escape.
"So what do you want?" I asked them, quieter than i was talking before.
"To talk," Natasha replied.
"Great," I muttered sarcastically.
"How did you get your powers?" Clint asked.
"Vacation at some island when I was 10, tail showed up the next day," I replied.
"Is that all to it?" Natasha question.
"Nope," I replied.
"Wait so you do remember more about that day you got your tail?" Tony asked.
"Yep," I replied.
"Will you tell us," Bruce asked.
"Nope," I replied.
"What? Why?" Tony asked surprised.
"Because if I tell you, you won't leave the place alone," I muttered.
"Just tell us something, I mean, something gave you those powers and it seems pretty rare, we just want to know more about it," Natasha stated.
"Right place, right time, and that's about it," I leaned against my bed, "Besides, it's not like I'm the only mermaid in the world," I muttered.
"You've seen others?" Bruce asked.
"Not in person," I replied.
"Then how do you know there are others?" Tony asked.
I smiled, "Because I do."
"Pictures maybe?" Clint suggested.
"You would know, you were the one's looking through my window," I muttered.
"What did that note say? We couldn't read it," Natasha asked.
"Not to trust Land people," I replied smirked.
They were all taken back by me calling them Land People, but quickly got over it.
"Why would you even listen to it?" Bruce asked.
"I dunno, but I think I'm going to trust the other mermaids on this," I shrugged.
"And what about that?" Clint pointed to the moon stone.
"It's a necklace," I rolled my eyes, "Anyway, I think it's time for you to go."
"But we're not done yet," Natasha stated.
"Yea, you kinda are," I replied.
"We just want to help you Alex," Tony said.
"Why do you assume I need help? I'm fine, I don't need anyone to save me." I said coldly.
No one spoke after that. I turned away from them and walked to my door, but Clint grabbed my wrist.
"Wait," he said.
"Let go, your hand's all wet!" I realized, I pulled away from him, and sure enough, there was water on my wrist now, "Great," I muttered.
I sat down on the floor, no feeling like falling over.
'three… two… one," I counted down mentally.
My tail appeared and everyone was just staring at me with slight confusion.
"You-you were water there for a second," Bruce stated.
"Yea, I know," I rolled my eyes.
I grabbed the edge of my blanket on my bed and dried my wrist off. A few seconds later, my legs came back and I stood up.
"Now it really is time for you to leave," I said and I gave them a cold stare.
They left finally. I closed my window behind them. Natasha looked back at me, but I re-froze my window, blocking my view of her and her view of me.
It was just after three o'clock now. I was going to go back out for a swim, but I didn't want to go out there where they could follow me around.
NATASHA POV
We tried to get her to open up to us, but we couldn't. The kid didn't trust anyone, and I doubt she ever will. Hopefully we could get her to trust us.
From where we were, Clint and I couldn't read the note or the backs of the photos, but we made out that the girls in all those photos were in fact mermaids.
"Should we tell Fury now?" Clint asked.
"No, not quite yet, I think we should give her more time," I replied.
I know what it's like to not want the whole world to know who or what you are, so if we get her to open up to us, well work something with Fury out… hopefully.
OKAY SO THERE IS CHAPTER 3 DONE AND COMPLELETED. I ONLY BROUGHT SHIELD A LITTLE BIT, BUT CLINT AND NATASHA ARE AVENGERS SO YEA…. I DON'T KNOW HOW OR IF I SHOULD BRING IN CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THOR SO REVIEW AND TELL ME A BIT OF WHAT TO DO.
AND I ALSO ADDED THE IMPORATNT OTHER MERMAID THING IN. THAT NEEDED TO BE THERE AND OF COURSE THE MERMAID SIGNATURE NECKLACE AS WELL.