And I'm back! Sorry for the wait but I had a writer's block, thank you all for reviewing and now on to the next chapter! I only own my OC!

Guys and I were racing underwater, fishes swimming out of the way in process. I was in between Zac and Erik, and I looked at both of them with a small smile. Zac returned it with a smirk, so did Erik before he sped up, me doing the same immediately after. Finally, after all those years, Zac and I got to have a proper race!

We wanted to do it a long time ago, but we could do it only on land and never in water because Zac couldn't exactly breathe underwater back then. And when we were racing on land he would usually win because I was rusty compared to him when it came to walking.

At one moment, we swam to the surface to get some air. "I thought I was fast!" Zac commented. "I'm doing this longer than you, I don't know for her, but she is fast!" Erik responded. "I've been doing this ever since I was small." I stated a bit proudly with a grin. "Seriously, when we were there, you two were gone and then I was like, where did you go?" Zac responded in amusement.

"You wanna see more?" I asked playfully. "Sure!" Erik simply smiled. "You're good, both of you have real speeds!" He commented. "Why thank you!" I responded and Zac said the same before we dove underwater once again. And, we were swimming right past a coral reef when we resurfaced, but what we saw wasn't good at all.

A boat was going in our direction, and it was moving fast! "Quick, underwater!" Erik told us and we did so, hiding and waiting for the boat to pass. After it did, we were on the surface once again. "What are they doing here?" I asked in utter confusion. Boats never passed here! Well, almost never, Zac and Cam were one of the exceptions.

Zac frowned. "That's Evie's dad!" He pointed out. What?! "Are you sure?" I asked him and he nodded in confirmation. "We're too close." Erik then said. "What do we do then?" "We'd better get out of here, find Evie and talk to her about this." Zac responded to my question. And that was exactly what we did.

"Race you to the ocean!" I exclaimed excitedly once Zac and I were running towards the beach. "Last one is a rotten fish!" Zac shouted back. "That's not fair!" I exclaimed playfully, trying to be fast but that was simply impossible, especially with those legs of mine. And, Zac was already at the winning spot when I ran to him, a smirk on his face.

"One day I'll beat you!" I responded once I fell on him, both of us wrestling on sand. "And I'll be waiting for that day." Zac responded jokingly, making me roll my eyes. "I will, I know I will!" I declared before we burst into laughter, laughing on the sand next to each other. "Zac!" I could hear a female voice calling.

Both of us sat up to see a girl with brown hair and hazel eyes running to where we were. She was wearing a green shirt and blue shorts. "Oh, Evie!" Zac greeted once she hugged him and they fell on the ground. I was feeling a bit awkward, just being here while they were doing that… "Where were you? I've been looking everywhere for you!" She stated with a small smile. Zac raised an eyebrow. "I was here, but why?"

"We were supposed to be with our parents at the dinner tonight, remember?" "Oh, yes!" Zac face palmed in disbelief. "How could I forget that?!" "It doesn't matter now." The girl said before looking at me. "Who's this?" She pointed at me. I waved awkwardly, feeling completely useless and like I was at a wrong place.

"That's my friend." Zac responded simply. The girl nodded before smiling. "I'm Evie." She waved back. "I'm Alyssa." I responded with a silly grin. Evie seemed nice, but again, I was feeling like I shouldn't be here. "Anyway, Zac, your parents are looking for you, and they told me to go get you, so let's go!" She stood up and gave him a hand which he took.

He then looked at her. "Ok." He simply said before looking at me. "Lyssa…" "You go, they're looking for you, in fact, isn't that their voices I hear?" I pushed them a bit forward. "I hope to see you again." Evie told me and smiled before she and Zac went to their parents while I was sitting on sand, looking at the tonight's full moon.

When we were outside the water, we dried our tails and Zac took out his mobile phone, seeing he had got a message before. It was from Evie, and it was a warning about the tourists. Erik, Zac and I walked into the Ocean Café, seeing Evie, Sirena, Mimmi and Ondina sitting there. Zac and I sat on two free chairs and Erik was behind us.

"Did you get my message?" Evie asked Zac. "Yes, we saw your dad's boat." He responded. "You three were at Mako?" Ondina asked while looking at the three of us. I nodded. "Don't worry, he didn't see us." Erik told her. "We need to stop them." "But why? I mean, when you go, you can always cloak yourselves." Erik pointed out.

That was true, but I didn't want to hide on my own island! I was born there, and I was going to be who I was at that place! "It's our home, one of only places where we are ourselves." I told him. "Yes, and making ourselves invisible is not a solution." Ondina stated and looked at me for a moment. "It's your father, keep him away." She then told Evie before walking out, Erik right after her.

Zac, Evie and Mimmi left soon after that, leaving Sirena and me all alone. I frowned and rested my head on a right shoulder. "We've got to do something about this." Sirena told me with determination on her face. "I agree, but what? It's Evie's dad after all, we don't know him!" "We don't know him, but we can get to know him." She then told me and I smirked, knowing what she was thinking.

"What are we waiting for?" And we ran out of the café, jumping into water.

Meanwhile, Zac was with Evie, helping her put silverware on a table at her house. "What were you doing with Erik and that mermaid on Mako?" She asked him. "Oh, Erik, Allie and I were racing." He responded simply. Evie looked at him questioningly. "You mean Alyssa?" She asked. Zac shook his head. "No, it's Allie." He corrected her with a frown at the mention of the name she said. "It's just that, we don't know what they're doing here." She told him.

"She is with Mimmi, Ondina and Sirena." Zac pointed out in confusion. "Yet she was against them for trying to change you and me back." Evie then argued. "Sorry. She just reminds me so much of Alyssa…" Zac frowned even more at hearing that name again. "Well she moved away, it just isn't her, and that's it." He responded rather angrily for some reason while putting a fork on the table harshly.

Before Evie could say anything, her dad joined them.

Sirena and I were spying on divers underwater behind one huge rock. It looked like there was a huge machine, and it was giving them air. This wasn't good at all! They were taking pictures, and we were about to swim away when I accidentally knocked down one rock with a tail. Knwoing that they must have noticed it, Sirena gave me a look of panic before both of us swam away the most quietly we could.

We resurfaced in the moon pool where Mimmi and Ondina were. "They've got divers all over the reef!" Sirena stated. "Well they can't stay down there forever!" Ondina argued. "Oh yes they can. They have a machine which provides them breath to their tanks." I told her. "So we're prisoners in our own moon pool?" Mimmi asked in disbelief.

"Pretty much yes. Like fishes in their aquarium." I stated. "This is unacceptable." Ondina said in disbelief as well. We had to wait whole morning for divers to go away for some reason and then we finally swam to land. After taking a walk, Mimmi, Sirena and I entered Rita's place only to see Zac going out angrily.

Ondina was looking at where he exited angrily. "What happened?" I asked in confusion. "Your friend apparently thinks that I cooked the compressor thing and destroyed someone's job!" She exclaimed in frustration. "You didn't?" "Of course I didn't! Mako may be my home, but I have no idea in the world what that stupid thing even is!" She argued. And I believed her.

"We have to talk to Zac." Sirena stated with her arms folded and Mimmi nodded. "But where is he?" She then asked. "Probably at the Ocean Café?" I suggested. And we found him just there, sitting ouside by one table and looking at a menu. We quickly sat in three chairs. "Ondina didn't do it." Mimmi stated. "Of course you'd say that." Zac argued while putting the menu away.

I shook my head. "It's the truth, she really didn't do it!" I told him calmly. "The four of us were trapped inside the moon pool all morning by divers; she was with us all the time!" Sirena said. "I know Ondina can be frustrating, but she didn't damage anything!" Mimmi added, making Zac look away with a frown. "We're going to the Moon Pool." Sirena then told me before she and Mimmi made a run for it.

I stayed in my chair though, and that was when Zac looked at me. "Do you believe in this?" He asked me. I nodded with a frown. "Ondina doesn't even know what the compressor is, none of the mermaids do!" I pointed out and he simply nodded with a finger on his chin. "And what do you think about this?" "Me?" I was taken aback a bit by his question. "Yes, you." "Well, I don't really want divers to swim around the place where I grew up; it's my home, but at the same time, if it's destroying the business of Evie's father…." "I get it, it's a place where you're safe, where you can be yourself." I nodded now.

"What is your place?" I then blurted out. "What?" He looked up at me with a raised eyebrow. "A place where you can be yourself." I quickly explained nervously for some reason. "Well, sea is where I feel most comfortable." "Sea?" "Yes. When this first happened to me, Cam only knew about me being a merman, and until Sirena and two more mermaids met me, I liked it, but at the same time, I was the only one like that."

I frowned. "Different, like standing out?" I asked, knowing that feeling very well. "Now it's better, with more of people knowing about this but keeping it a secret." He nodded. I was about to say something else, opening my mouth when Evie's voice could be heard. "Zac!" She walked to behind him. "Hey Evie." Zac kissed her on a cheek and she smiled, making me want to run away from the scene. I was feeling like a third wheel once again, and for some reason I didn't like what I was seeing…

"I'll just go then…." I trailed off while standing up with a huge grin. I must have looked like an idiot. They then looked at me and Zac opened his mouth to say something only for me to be quicker. "See you!" And I walked away the most calmly I could, but I tripped on something along the way, making it obvious that I was a total nutcase.

I was at Rita's place, playing with water in one glass. Rita came in with some books but she dropped one accidentally, making Poseidon mew loudly in fright, and I twisted my hand in shock to see what happened. "Sorry." Rita apologized, picking up the book which looked interesting. "Can I see it?" I asked and she nodded, giving it to me.

When I returned to sit down and start reading the book, I looked at the glass in astonishment. Water in it was no longer liquid, it was like, like it was some sort of a jelly or solid thingy! I frowned a bit before touching it, and it was really like that kind of stuff. How did that happen? That was when Zac entered the room.

"It's Erik; he was the one who cooked the compressor!" He told me. I remembered our talk at the Café this morning. "It does make sense." I stated. "I caught him a while ago trying to do it." Zac then told me. Ondina then came inside, and we quickly told her how it was Erik. She frowned at hearing that, her arms folded.

The next morning, I was at docks, watching tourists going to Mr. McLaren's boat. "It worked!" Mimmi came beside me and grinned. "What worked?" I asked her in confusion. "Tourists are now going to see humpback whales, not Mako!" She explained. "You did it?" I asked in surprise, knowing that she knew how to speak their language. She nodded with a smile. "News and gossips travel fast in their world!"

And when we were at Rita's place, Sirena, Ondina, Zac and Evie were there. "I can't believe you pulled it off!" Evie declared. "News travel fast!" Mimmi said. "Mimmi knows how to speak humpback whale fluently." Sirena explained. "No way!" Zac stated with a smile in disbelief. And that was when Mimmi said something that should have sounded weird to me, but it didn't. 'I'm hungry, does anyone have food?' The others, on the other hand, were looking at her in confusion. "What did she say?" Zac asked.

Mimmi then translated, and I chuckled along with the others. Zac then walked to Ondina who was a bit aside. "How do you say I'm sorry?" Mimmi then told Zac, her words making perfect sense to me, even though I didn't know why. Since when did I understand that? I knew how to speak dolphin, but this was confusing.

And Zac then tried to copy her words, but it came out totally differently, making Ondina look at him with a bit of amusement before laughing at seeing him. 'Ondina, you have cute feet!' I burst in laughter along with the others but he was confused. Mimmi then translated again and he tried to say it again only for Ondina to stop him. "Alright, apology accepted!" But Zac wanted to try more, so I quickly threw one pillow at him in amusement, only to receive one back right in my face.

And soon, all of us were throwing pillows at each other. Ondina managed to get to me throughout this fight. "Sorry and thank you for believing me." She told me and I smiled, throwing another pillow at her before being hit by another one yet again.