A/N Another chapter! Told you they would be coming quicker :)! Hope you like and thank you to all my reviewers for this story though I have none for the last chapter :( I hope to get more for this one! :)

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Chapter 10: Magic

Irma's P.O.V.

I can't believe it, mermaids exist! Maybe that is what the Oracle meant when she said there were other kinds of magic! I better tell the others so we can bring the baby to Kandracar to show Oracle. When I caught up with them they were standing by the small pond waiting for me.

"Guys, you will never believe what I have to tell you," I said.

"What happened to that baby, is she all right? Zane got pretty freaked out and anxious like something was going to happen to her," Hay Lin said.

"Yeah she's fine, in fact, she's better than fine, she's a mermaid!" I exclaimed, "But now that you mention it, I do think that Zane knew more than he let on."

"We have got to report this to Kandracar tonight," Will said.

"Why not now?" Cornelia asked.

"I don't think the Oracle will be glad to have an uninvited mortal and baby in Kandracar," Taranee stated pointing to Rikki.

"Oh, come on, grandma won't mind meeting Rikki and Will's magical brother! In fact, it might be good for her to meet Rikki since she probably already knows we blabbed, she is the Oracle!" Hay Lin said.

"Your right Hay Lin," will agreed and raised the Heart of Kandracar, "Guardians unite!"

"Water" I said.

"Fire," Taranee said.

"Earth," Cornelia said.

"And air," Hay Lin said.

"The Heart," Will exclaimed and they all transformed into their guardian forms.

Will made a portal and picked up will while Hay Lin grabbed Rikki's hand and they all went through the portal to Kandracar.

"Grandma!" Hay Lin exclaimed running up to her grandma, the oracle, the moment we got there.

"Hello dear, and who do we have here?" Yan Lin said letting go of Hay Lin and turning her attention to Rikki.

"This is Rikki she-" I started to say, but suddenly broke into tears and ran to Yan Lin hugging her tightly and Yan Lin patted her on the back as if she knew this was going to happen.

"There there dear," Yan Lin said to comfort her.

"It's too hard, I just want to go home!" Rikki said, what was she talking about? How did she know Yan Lin, the Oracle.

"I know dear," Yan Lin said, "Will, give me the Heart." Will followed obediently.

Yan Lin held it close and said, "now you may go home," then she quietly said, "astral drop."

Just like that Rikki was gone!

"What happened?" I asked bluntly.

"That young ones, was an astral drop. I could tell the moment I saw her, one of the great gifts of being the oracle," Yan Lin said, "our world was too confusing for her, all the information and rules put on her were too much for her to handle."

"Why did she go to you? No offense, but do you like know eachother or something?" Cornelia asked.

"No, but she recognized me as the oracle, a person who could send her back home," she explained.

"Why didn't she come to us, we are the guardians with the Heart," Will said, "How did she even get away from her home without the Heart?"

"You didn't create her? The only way is through the Heart, someone must have summon her and she could have been told not to tell you guys anything," Yan Lin said.

"It has to have been Matt, he had the Heart earlier, he said he had a meeting with you," Will said.

"I did not have a meeting with Matt recently," Yan Lin said.

"Then why s=did he lie/ Why did he make an astral drop of Rikki? If that was an astral drop, then where is the real Rikki right now?" Will asked.

"Maybe you should ask Matt, he probably knows the answers. He is a nice guy, if you ask him he probably won't lie if its that important," Yan Lin said, "Now, if that astral drop wasn't your real reason for coming here what was?"

"Oh, um, Irma found some magic in Australia," Will said.

"A mermaid baby," I said.

"Where did this baby come from?" Yan Lin asked.

"Well, when we went to a beach to see the eclipse, this other girl that came with Matt's cousin Lewis, Cleo, sat on a picnic blanket with Lewis's baby sister, the other girls stood not too far away, Rikki and Emma. After the eclipse Matt and Lewis found three lost babies on the picnic blanket along with Laura, the other girls were nowhere to be found, apparently they had already went back to their room. We couldn't find their parents there so we took them back here but I am not sure if they filed a police report yet or not. So today we were supposed to be watching Laura, but we believe that Taranee grabbed the wrong baby and just when Irma splashed water on the baby Zane, Rikki's boyfriend, ran off with her. Irma followed and saw that the baby was a mermaid," Hay Lin explained.

"it sounds to me like this Zane fellow may know a little something about this whole mess, try asking him some questions," Yan Lin said.

"That is all you have to say? You're the Oracle, don't you know everything?" I complained.

"I do, but revealing it to you will take away the fun of figuring it out for yourself," Yan Lin said with a smile.

"Okay, so what do we have to do?" Will asked.

"Ask around, test theories, and eventually you will get your answers," Yan Lin said, "now go along kids, it is time for my meditation."

"Okay, bye Grandma!" Hay Lin said giving her grandma one last hug.

"By Oracle Yan Lin," the rest of us said waving as we walked back through the tunnel and back into the Mako jungle.

"Okay, I am going to talk to Zane, I told him I wouldn't tell anyone else. You guys can keep exploring," I said.

"Okay Irma, try to get all the information you can from him," will said, then I walked back to the beach while they walked deeper into the woods.

When I got there I saw Zane sitting with the baby on the picnic blanket, it almost looked like he was talking to her? Not like a baby, but like another person his age, but that can't be right, could it?

"Hey," I said walking over to them which caused him to stop talking, maybe I should have stayed quiet and listened in, I am not too good with this detective stuff,

"Hey, why aren't you with your friends?" Zane asked.

"I wanted to talk to you about the . . . you know what," I said knowing he knew what I was talking about.

"Oh, um, what about it?" He asked.

"Well it just seemed like you knew more about this than what you said. The way you hid her and ran when she got wet, it seemed like you were trying to protect her, which means you knew," I stated.

"Well, the truth is," He started then hesitated, "I did know. Earlier today, I helped give them a bath and, well, they turned. Me and the boys decided it would be best not to tell anyone, but we also couldn't report them missing to the police, if they somehow found out about you know what, these poor, innocent babies would become experiments!"

"True, but are you sure there isn't anything else you know?" I said kind of suspicious that he could be lying.

"Yeah, that's it, I was just as stunned as you were. You didn't tell anyone did you?" He asked.

"Nope, not a soul, they don't suspect a thing," I said trying to get his trust.

"Okay then, that's all there is to it," Zane said trying to end the conversation that was not very helpful in my favor.

"Okay, then I should probably get back to my friends," I said, "See you later."

"Okay, remember be careful," He said yet again, he must be seriously worried about us.

I walked into the jungle then ran ahead on the path we had made earlier and found them not too far from where I left them.

"Did you find anything out?" Hay Lin asked me.

"No, just that all three of the babies found were mermaids," I replied.

"Okay, so here's what we know," Will said as we kept walking forward, "Three babies are found apparently missing on the beach, they are all mermaids, and Rikki was an astral drop so we don't know where the real Rikki is. The only person who we know knows is Matt, but we are not even sure if he will tell us the truth since he has already lied to me."

"I say we talk to Matt, and if he doesn't tell us anything we question her friends, they probably know something. As for the mermaid thing, I say we keep an eye on the babies who are mermaids maybe we can find out more about them," Cornelia suggested which I have to admit was a pretty good idea.

"Good idea Cornelia," Will said sounding a bit surprised.

"You sound surprised?" Cornelia stated.

"Well, it is usually Taranee who gets the good ideas while you don't pay attention to the topic and instead worry about your hair, make-up, and clothes," Will said matter-of-factly. Everyone besides Cornelia laughed, Cornelia just grunted and moved ahead of us.

"Hey, there's a tunnel over here, think we should check it out?" Cornelia said looking down at a barely visible hole, good thing none of us fell in!

"What if we get stuck in?" hay Lin said, "and why do you, Cornelia Hale, want to explore a dirty hole in the ground?"

"I don't know, it just feels like the earth around in there is calling me, like its magic," Cornelia said, "I think we should check it out."

Just then I too got a weird sensation, the water calling me, but instead of coming from the nearby waterfall it came from inside the hole.

"I think there is water in there too, magical, just like Cornelia said," I said.

"Okay, but we might not all fit, we don't know how big this cave is," Will said, "Cornelia and Irma, you two check it out since you both have the feeling, then call us if it is big enough to fit all of us.

"Okay," we both said and Cornelia went down first with me following and almost crashing into her. We couldn't totally see a way out of this dark cave thing but the water was still calling me and it led me to a hole that was barely visible so I went through it with Cornelia following to find that we were actually inside of the volcano! The weird thing was that there was a pool in the middle that had a hole in it that probable lead back to the ocean.

"Wow," I said in astonishment at the beauty of it.

'Yeah," Cornelia agreed, "It's big enough for all of us," she shouted to Will, Hay Lin, and Taranee.

When they entered they too stared in awe at the surroundings.

"It's beautiful," Hay Lin said leaning down and dipping her hand in the water.

"This place is filled with magic," Will said, "I can feel its energy."

"Me too," we all agreed.

"But what does this mean?" Taranee asked.

"I don't know," replied Will, "I guess it means that this is the other source of magic that the oracle was talking about."

"What do we do?" I asked.

"For now? We get back to the beach, it is starting to get dark outside. Now we at least know the source, but we still don't know what kind of magic it is the source of," Will said, "but over the rest of our stay we will do all we need to get the answers we need to bring back to the oracle."

"Sounds good, one problem," Hay Lin said from the other part of the cave near where we got in.

"What is it Hay Lin?" I asked.

"The way we came in is too steep for us to climb back out," Hay Lin said.

"I guess we have to swim out through the hole in the pool," I said.

"Okay," Will said and she got in first then swam under as we followed. When we reached the other side we swam to the nearest part of beach and walked along the shore to where Zane was waiting for them.

"It's getting late," Zane said when he saw them, "why are you guys all wet?"

"It's kind of a long story but I'll cut it short," Cornelia said pissed off about her new clothes being soaked, "we fell in a hole and had to swim out another way. Let's go."

We all climbed into the boat and Zane drove us away. This trip just lead us to more questions with no answers, this was going to be a long trip.

A/N so what did you think? Please R&R your opinions, they are well appreciated. :D