Cleo POV
As we were walking out from breakfast, a bucket of freezing cold water was dumped on us. We (Bella, Emma, and Rikki) all started running to the big house. (It was the closest house and we didn't want to go into any of the cabins.) Just as we got to the porch, our legs grew into tails and we fell. The people that were left eating rushed down and helped us into the Big House.
We sat in the chairs and started to explain. Annabeth, Piper, Hazel, Frank, Jason, Percy, and Leo already knew we were mermaids, but the three others, Katie, Travis, and Connor, didn't. They just kept staring at us like we were from another planet.
"Please you can't tell anyone! Well besides Chiron, since Annabeth just went to get him," Emma said.
"Or what," said Connor.
"If you tell anyone, you will not only face the wrath of the mermaids, but my wrath as well," threatened Rikki.
"We won't tell!" They all promised simultaneously, with wide eyes.
Chiron came into the room with Annabeth following.
"Girls, will you please tell us how you became mermaids?" Chiron asked.
Rikki and Emma looked at me and I said,
"Okay so I was helping Emma at swim practice, then she stayed and I started walking home. It was really nice out so I went through the harbor and as I was walking, this one kid from our class, Zane, asked me if I could help him fix his boat since someone stole his spark plug.
I told him that I wasn't good with boats and he said that all I needed to do was pass him the tools.
The tool box was on the boat so I stepped on and asked if the boat worked without a spark plug. He said no and while I wasn't looking untied the boat and pushed it off," I was cut off when some people (Katie) gasped.
"So anyway then Rikki jumped off the dock and onto the boat. Turns out she stole the spark plug and got the boat started. Before I go on let me say we weren't really friends with Rikki at the time. Anyway, we started driving around and picked up Em as she was walking home. Rikki was driving and decided to take it out to sea.
We were driving around a little when the boat ran out of gas in the middle of the ocean. Rikki and Emma started arguing and then Rikki finally convinced Emma and I to paddle to mako island. Once we got on the beach I started complaining about how we were going to get home and Emma and Rikki started arguing again. Finally Emma pulled out her phone, I told Rikki that Em was alway prepared, Rikki said a sarcastic comment and Emma told us that she couldn't get any signal and we needed to get to higher ground.
We started climbing up through a jungle, when I almost touched a snake and asked Emma if she had any idea where we were going. She said up and that she still wasn't getting a signal, I asked what happens if we don't get a signal, and Rikki said," I paused and Rikki smiled and said very dramatically, "Then we'll have to draw straws and decide which one of us the others will eat," I smiled and started again. "Rikki and I started arguing and Emma made us keep climbing. We came across a little river that was under a steep cliff and Emma jumped across, then Rikki, then it was too slippery and so I started to try and find another way and slipped and fell into a cave.
I couldn't climb up, so Emma came down to get me and then Rikki came down and Emma and Rikki started arguing again and then we found some kind of staircase thing and climbed it. We found the moon pool and then Em swam out to see where it went. She came back and told us that it straight through and that it was about 20 seconds to the reef outside.
I kept protesting and I finally told them I could swim, which was true, and when they finally convinced me to go through the tunnel, the full moon was overhead, a bunch of bubbles floated up and then we left." I finished and everyone stared at me.
"How did you find out you were mermaids?" asked Annabeth.
"I was in the bathtub and suddenly I had a tail," I said and she looked at Emma.
"I went to the ocean the next day and was swimming and then I had a tail,"
"I was walking in the park, a sprinkler turned on. Ten seconds later was a mermaid."
"You never said anything about Bella. How did she become a mermaid?" Katie said.
