A/N I am soooo sorry it took me so long! Its just that there has been such crazy weather lately! Either too hot to stand being in the non-air conditioned computer room or a big storm during which we can't use the computer in case the power goes out! But I'm, glad I finally got it up! :)

And to all of you reading my other story, I will try to update it either this week or next week :)

Chapter 11: Astral Drops

Rikki's P.O.V.

I can't believe it! Zane should have listened to me when I told him they had to leave Mako! They found the moon pool, Zane is just lucky tonight isn't a full moon! Wait a second, where is Rikki? I mean astral drop Rikki, she isn't on the boat! How could I have not noticed this earlier?

I crawled up to Zane at the front of the boat and tugged on his shirt pointing to the back of the boat. It took him a few seconds to realize what I was saying but he eventually got it.

"Guys, where's Rikki?"Zane asked the girls, they stopped their conversation and looked to each other wondering what to say, what did they do to her/me?

"Well, um, on the way here we passed by Lewis who came over in his boat to tell us we were wanted back at his place, he took Rikki but we decided to come back here to deliver the news and head there with you," Irma lied after a long moment of awkward silence.

"Yeah," Will agreed, "She said she wanted to . . . get there quickly to tell her friends about the pool we found."

"That doesn't sound like her at all," Zane said.

Yeah, why would I get on a boat alone with Lewis just to go to his house and tell Cleo and Emma about something we found years ago? They're definitely lying, but what could they have done to her? Did they find out she is an astral drop? Did they do something to her that they would have done to me because they told me their secret and then decided they couldn't trust me? I'm glad that wasn't really me.

Zane just kept going, probably thinking Lewis just wanted the astral drop for something. It wasn't long until we finally reached the beach of the Gold Coast. Once there the girls went off to do who-knows-what taking William with them and Zane carried me back to the house where Lewis and the others were.

"Where's Rikki?" Zane asked Lewis when they got to the living room where Emma and Cleo's astral drops were mindlessly watching some nature show and Lewis and Ash were sitting on the floor playing with/talking to the babies.

"Right here," Lewis said pointing to a baby wearing a little pink dress that snapped underneath her diaper like a onesie.

"That's not what I'm talking about but no, this is Rikki, the girl grabbed the wrong baby to take on the picnic. I'm talking about the you-know-what," Zane said remembering Matt's warning about what would happen if he said astral drop in front of one.

"Oh, she was with you too," Lewis said.

"The girls told me you picked her up in your boat while they were walking to the boat and brought her back here!" Zane said.

"What do you mean 'walking to the boat' I thought you guys had a boat picnic, as in staying in the boat," Ash said.

"Well they saw Mako Island and decided to have the picnic there," Zane said.

"And you let them?" Lewis questioned already knowing the answer, "And why were they walking back to the boat alone?"

"Well there was an accident," Zane said vaguely.

"What did you do?" Lewis said jumping to conclusions, he never really liked Zane.

"Nothing! They decided to go on a hike, I told them to stay away from the volcano and be careful so they wouldn't fall in the hole. Then that girl Irma splashed water on Rikki from a nearby pond only a few minutes into the hike. She began to cry really loudly and I made an excuse to leave but Irma followed to apologize and saw Rikki. She doesn't know it was Rikki, she just thinks she is one of the lost babies." Zane explained.

*You cried?* Emma said.

*Oh shut up, I'm a baby! What else was I supposed to do! I couldn't run for cover and Zane was too busy giving and explanation and I gave him an excuse to leave!* Rikki said a bit embarrassed.

*She saw you?* Cleo asked.

*Yeah, but she didn't know it was me and Zane convinced her not to tell anybody though I'm pretty sure she told her fairy friends,* Rikki explained.

"So what happened next?" Ash asked.

"Well then they continued the hike without me, I didn't want another accident like that occurring. Irma came back after a while to ask some questions but I just told her we found out when giving them a bath and decided not to tell anyone or report to the police to keep it a secret and she ran back to her friends. Then about a half hour later they walked back to the boat soaking wet and told me they had been to the moon pool," Zane finished.

"They told you they had been to the moon pool?" Ashe asked.

"Well not in those exact words, Cornelia said they had fallen into the hole and had to swim out, it had to be the moon pool," Zane said.

"Well if you don't know where she is, and we don't know where she is then where is she?" Ash asked.

"They must have said astral drop and she disappeared, their onto us. They probably are looking for Matt to ask him about it right now," Lewis suggested.

"Then we need to find him first, we can't let him give away the secret!" Zane said.

"He's right," Ash said, "I still don't completely trust that guy."

"That guy is my cousin, and I do trust him!" Lewis said, "And we're in luck, he was sent by his mom to go with the kids to the marine park to supervise even if it was against their wishes to not be treated like babies. He won't be back for an hour or so."

"That gives us some time, we gotta throw them off our tracks, but how?" Ash suggested.

"We just gotta keep them away from the babies and the a-s-t-r-a-l drops," Lewis said.

"Sounds easy enough now can we go get some food, I'm starving! I didn't get to eat anything at that picnic. Plus, I can't remember ever feeding the girls, it should be interesting to have to eat baby food," Zane said.

Now that he mentions it, I am really hungry, but there is no way I want to eat baby food! But after they realized what he was saying was true, they had only given us some bottles to drink but that wasn't enough, they picked us up and we went to the kitchen, leaving the astral drops behind in the TV room.

Will's P.O.V.

We couldn't find Matt anywhere! He had a lot of explaining to do! How could he lie to get the Heart away from me and use it to create an astral drop of a girl now missing?

After a while of searching around the house we ran into his mom ho said he went to watch the kids at the marine park. We thought about going there to find him but decided against it, we could wait until he got back.

We went to the TV room and found Emma and Cleo sitting on the couch watching some nature show, maybe they could help us.

"Hey, do either of you know where Rikki is?" I asked, they both wordlessly shook their heads keeping their eyes on the screen. Then I decided to take a risk, hoping it would be worth it, "astral drop!" It was, they both disappeared into thin air.

"They were astral drops too? How could we not have noticed?" Irma said.

"How could Matt lie to me? Why didn't he just tell the truth?" I said mostly to myself.

"Where are the girls anyway?" Taranee said.

"Wherever they are Matt had to have made the astral drops so they could sneak away somewhere private," Cornelia said.

"Maybe Lewis can help, he is their friend so he may be able to help us figure out where they might go to where they don't want anyone to follow," Hay Lin suggested.

We found Lewis in the kitchen with two other boys feeding the babies food they obviously didn't like. We asked him to talk to us in the room next door.

"Hey Lewis, do you know where Rikki, Cleo, and Emma would go where they wouldn't want anyone to follow them or even realize they are gone?' I asked him.

I saw in his eyes that he did know, and it took him a while to answer, "No, I don't."

We all knew he was lying but how could we get him to spill the truth?

"Sorry guys, I gotta go help the boys with the babies, their being really fussy about the food," Lewis said excusing himself out of this awkward situation. He didn't help us one bit, there was only one boy whom I knew could help us, Matt. He may have lied to me before, but there is no way he can keep from telling the truth to his girlfriend!

A/N Hope you enjoyed and please review! I will update ASAP though with school starting up it might take me even longer to update :( though I will have my own laptop so that should help :)!