Isabella the Mermaid

Chapter 4

By dsguy411

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Isabella looked that the shark with much fear on her face. The predator looked down on the mermaid with a huge grin on its face. Isabella backed away several feet, but the shark advanced forward at the exact same distance. She didn't know what to do, but she knew that she didn't want to be the shark's next meal.

"L-listen," said Isabella in a terrified voice, trying to change the shark's mind about eating her, "You don't want to eat me. I don't taste very good at all. In fact, I might even make you sick."

But the shark didn't listen; he only opened up his jaw and tried to take a bite of the girl who managed to swim away at the last second. The shark started to give pursuit of her. Isabella swam into a small space between the rocks so that the shark couldn't get to her. It looked like that she was safe, but the shark refused to give up. It started to bang its head at the rocks, breaking it little by little. Scared, the girl didn't know what to do.

The shark was ready to smack the rocks one more time when a small shell struck its fin. It turned around to see a small army of dolphins, ready to defend Isabella. One of the dolphins chirped at the great white as if it was taunting it, making the man-eater angry. The shark started charging towards the pod when the dolphins swam away. Confused, the shark just stayed there when it saw a blue whale speeding towards it. The giant mammal rammed the shark with great force, knocking it away from the coral colony. Now safe, Isabella emerged from her hiding place with a relieved look on her face.

"Phew, thank you all for saving me," she said to the dolphins and blue whale, which let out a huge cheer.

Closing in on Isabella's location was none other than Jack Russells, who now has the girl within his sights.

"Perfect," he said as he swam behind a rock, "Now I shall wait for the right time to make my move."

At the beach, Candace was still watching the transformation pod when Stacy, now sunburned from tanning for hours, woke up. She looked at her reddish skin and was shocked at what she saw.

"Candace," Stacy said in a pained tone, "I think I had enough sun for today. I'm just going to head on home now. Ow."

"Okay," replied Candace.

She got up and walked away her friend, flinching in pain from every time she moved. Candace placed her had in front of her face and realizes that she was in the sun for too long, too. She looked around the pod for shade, but couldn't find any. She wanted to get a sun umbrella, but she feared that if she did, then the machine might disappear while she was getting it. Having no choice, Candace decided to suck it up and remain where she was sitting.

Meanwhile, Phineas and Ferb had finished untangling the kelp on their submarine. They started to move again when they say saw Isabella with her undersea friends.

"There she is," said Phineas excitedly, "We can stop here, Ferb."

The submarine started to slow down when Isabella noticed the vessel approaching her. When it came to a complete halt, Phineas and Ferb climbed out of the sub with their scuba suits on and swam towards Isabella. Ivan, however, decided to watch the conversation from inside the vessel.

"Phineas, Ferb," she said, glad to see her friends here, "You won't believe the fun I had. I swam with dolphins, played tag, and they even defeated a shark! I wonder what kind of fun I'll expect next."

Upon saying those words, a net ensnared the girl and started pulling her away from the boys. Phineas started to show a horrified look on his face from seeing this.

"Isabella!" he yelled, swimming towards her friend.

Phineas almost grabbed onto the net when another next was fired and him and his stepbrother and got pinned the rocky wall. Phineas opened his eyes to see the person who captured Isabella, holding her in the net.

"Phineas, help!" she screamed, trying to break out of the net. The dolphins and the whale tried to swim to rescue her, but the man took out a small cube-shaped device and pressed a red button on it. It emitted a sound wave which was painful to the mammals. Not being able to handle this, they swam as far away from the man as possible.

"Who do you think you are?" shouted Phineas, "Release my friend, NOW!"

The man just chuckled at that demand. "Do you know who you're dealing with?" he asked, "I'm Jack Russells III, poacher of mythical creatures, and this mermaid will be the most recent addition to my collection."

"But I'm not a mermaid," Isabella explained, "I'm just a little girl turned into one."

"Yeah, like I'm going to believe that," he said, not buying her story, "I wasn't born yesterday, you know."

He was about to swim away with Isabella when Phineas started to struggle violently in the net, unintentionally pushing Ferb away in the process. Jack noticed the boy's struggles and swam towards him. Phineas looked at his with anger in his soul; there was no way he's going to get away with taking his friend away.

"Let her go, now!" he demanded.

"And if I don't, who's going to stop me?" Jack asked, not being threatened by Phineas' demand. He took out his pocket knife and jammed it into the stepbrother's air tanks, losing precious oxygen. "For I don't it's going to be you guys."

He swam away with Isabella, leaving the boys to drown in their own scuba suits. As Jack swam farther and farther away, Isabella shouted out, "PHINEAS!"

"Isabella!" Phineas shouted, as his and Ferb's suit continued filling up with water.

Who's going to save Phineas and Ferb and Isabella? Find out in Chapter 5.