This is the last chance for ideas for a crossover. Since I haven't got any ideas from you yet, I start to think that you don't want me to make a crossover. If that is so, please tell me now, so I know I don't have to waste my time on making something that no one will read.
As to the many requests, I put both a Zikki and a Clewis moment in the story.
Double surprise
Cleo gets down for breakfast. Her whole family is already down.
"Is that the sun coming up for the second time? No it's my darling daughter."
"What's going on?"
"What, a father can't admire his daughter?"
"You're not planning anything for tomorrow, are you?"
"Planning? Me? Off course not."
"You better not be."
"Planning, pff. What would we be planning?"
-h2o-
Zane is getting his zodiac ready, when Nate arrives. He is carrying something.
"Here man."
"What's this?"
"That's the thing you wanted, the sonar thingy."
"You said you could get side scan sonar. This is a fish detector."
"What's the difference?"
"It's the difference between night and day, Nate. The difference between success and failure."
He pushes the sonar back to Nate, hard.
"Hey watch it. I borrowed this from my dad. if anything happens to it…"
"It's not what I want."
"Well, you should be more specific."
"I was, I don't think you are cut out for this Nate."
"Oh yeah, says who, you? What are you doing anyway?"
"I'm on a hunt. And if I find what I'm looking for, I'll rewrite the history books."
"I think you might be losing it man."
With that Nate takes off.
-h2o-
Emma is sitting in the juice net café, when Lewis enters.
"Hey Lewis."
"Emma, hey. Wilfred, just the man I wanted to see."
"Well, this is the place to find me."
"I got a two-part proposition."
"Try one to start."
"Wilfred, how many time have you actually spend on the waves, since having this business?"
"Try none. But what can you do, business is business."
"Well that's all about to change, because you're about to hire me. And spend the rest of the day at the beach."
"Lewis, that's not a bad idea."
"Yes, get to it."
Lewis hurries himself behind the bar, while Emma can't believe it.
"Wait a minute, do you call that a job interview?"
"Yeah, it works for me, Wilfred?"
"Got all the information I need."
"No you got to do it properly, you got ask him some questions."
"Like?"
"Lewis, why do you want to work at the juice net café?"
"I'm committed to provide fresh juices and friendly service to the masses and I need money quickly. Wilfred, I am prepared to work for as little as thirty dollars."
"A day?"
"An hour."
"That's unrealistic Lewis."
"Really? Well, part two of my proposal will have to wait till I get some money. I'll be back to you."
He leaves, leaving Emma and Wilfred behind.
"You know Lewis did have a point. So Emma are you maybe interested in a job at the juice net café?"
-h2o-
Zane is walking towards the entrance of the juice net, when Lewis comes out. They bump into each other.
"I'm so sorry."
"Lewis, buddy, just the guy I was looking for. See I got a problem."
"Well, let me guess. You're self-centred, you're vain, you're disgustingly rich, did you just call me buddy?"
"Lewis, look. In the past we haven't exactly seen things eye to eye."
"No we haven't. I tend to see the glass half full, you tend to see the glass as something to hit people with."
"You are trying to be funny, right?"
"I know, it's wasted."
"Lewis look, how would you like a job?"
"A job?"
"I need a scientific geek type to try and help me find a… something."
"Something? Could you be a little more specific?"
"A sea monster. Lewis there is something out there in the ocean. And what I need is someone who knows how to use these."
He hands Lewis a little paper. Lewis reads the paper, that's full of scientific instruments.
"You are really serious?"
"Yeah, so do you want the job?"
"When you say job, is there any money involved?"
"Name your price."
-h2o-
Cleo arrives at the juice net café right when Emma gets out of the café. They see Lewis leaving with Zane.
"What do you think that is?"
"Nothing good."
"So, last day as a fifteen year old, let's celebrate."
"Emma, it's really not…"
"Wilfred, juices all around please."
"Coming right up."
"And you know what the best part is. I can come to your party this year."
"Well there is not going to be a…"
"You know, I always had swimming competitions, the last years, but this year I'm ready to party."
"Great, can we change the subject now?"
"I always remembered your parties. Jumping castles, clowns, ponies,… of course we were just kids. I wished my dad would throw me a likewise birthday."
"Look, there isn't going to be a party this year, so can we please just drop it? Rikki!"
Rikki sits down.
"Hey guys, I have some bad news. A couple of girls went missing this week."
"What do you think it is?"
"I don't know, I already looked some stuff up and apparently girls have gone missing every year, always the same week of the year, but always at a different place."
"So what do we do?"
"I don't know."
"Cleo maybe you can do some research on the web, then Rikki and I could go and talk to some people that knew the girls? Alright, we'll meet up at my place, later."
And off they go.
-h2o-
Cleo enters the juice net café and sits behind one of the computers. A very cute guy is sitting at a table. He comes over towards Cleo.
"Excuse me. Is there a chance we know each other?"
Cleo looks around and looks to the attractive guy.
"I don't think so."
"Too bad, you know you look exactly like someone I know. I'm Stefan, by the way."
"Cleo. I've never seen you around before."
"That's understandable, as I am not from here."
"So what brings you here then?"
"Work, I'm a photographer."
"Wait, are you Stefan, the famous photographer? I've seen some of your work, it's really good."
A girl comes to stand next to the guy.
"Well, I don't know about that, but I'll always take a compliment from a gorgeous lady."
"Well, I'm sure your girlfriend must appreciate that."
He bends over and whispers to Cleo.
"She's not my girlfriend."
"Than why are you whispering?"
The girl leaves.
"Excuse me."
"Oh. Oh, ok. Well, it was really nice meeting you."
Cleo turns to work further but he stops her.
"You, too. Listen, I'm in town for a couple of days doing a Porsche shoot." He takes out a pen and writes his info on the napkin. "If you're interested, stop by. I would love to photograph you. You do
model, don't you?"
"In my dreams, yeah."
"Well, if you want to live your dreams, step by. I got to go, I hope I see you later."
-h2o-
Lewis is sitting in Zane's zodiac, looking at the stuff.
"Are you kidding, these are expansive gear."
"I told you, I don't care about money Lewis, I'm serious. Now, do you know how to use all of this stuff?"
"Off course. I just want to know, what's this about a sea monster?"
"Well, did Rikki tell you what happened a couple of weeks ago, when I almost drowned?" Lewis nods. "I saw this."
Zane gives Lewis a paper, where he has drown a tail on it.
"Looks interesting."
"Keep it, it's a photocopy, the original will be worth something someday."
"What is it? is it some kind of dolphin?"
"No way, you're not going to find that in any book Lewis. And whatever it is, we're going to catch it."
"Hey, whoa stop. No actually second thoughts, I'm out."
He gets out of the zodiac.
"What?"
"I'm out."
"Lewis?"
-h2o-
Lewis goes directly to Emma's, where he finds Rikki as well. He gives her the paper.
"Oh no, my tail."
"See that's why I hang around with you guys. All the other girls in school are like, oh no my makeup."
"Well this is a valuable lesson. Next time Zane is drowning, don't help."
"Zane is tracking down a sea monster. And he is offering me a job to help him."
Rikki gives Lewis the paper back.
"That you should take."
"That's interesting logic… that could work."
"Hang on, two steps back here."
"Well, Zane is trying to track me down and Lewis knows how not to find me."
"Yeah and Lewis could steer Zane away from any no go zones, like Mako Island. This is good. Keep your friend close, keep your enemies out in the middle of the ocean. So when is he going?"
"Tomorrow."
"You'll miss Cleo's birthday."
"Good. Cleo hates her birthday parties. She is embarrassed by them."
"What? Why?"
"Em, how long has it been since you been to one?"
"A few years ago."
"Well I've been to them all, and she has good reason."
Lewis gets out of the house.
-h2o-
That afternoon, Rikki goes over to Zane's zodiac, where he is still busy, looking at the equipment. He steps out of the zodiac as soon as he sees Rikki.
"Isn't that a wonderful surprise."
He gives her a kiss on the mouth. Rikki tries to pull away, but he pulls her closer. She can't help herself from answering his kiss. They finally pull apart.
"I don't know how you do it, but your kisses always make me defenceless."
"Glad to hear, that means I can do it more often then?"
And as to prove his words, he kisses her again. This time he deepens his kiss more. He opens his mouth and licks her lips, asking for entrance. Rikki is happy to oblige. Lucky for her, he is holding her tight, because her knees are getting weaker by the second. There even escapes a moan from her lips. Suddenly they are broken apart by a cough. They turn around and see an old lady passing, while mumbling something about the young and having no more respect.
"You know that you have the same effect on me, especially if you moan like that, I love that."
"I do not moan."
"You know how cute you look when you blush. Well, maybe I should kiss you again, to prove that you do moan."
He leans closer in on her, but the same cough as before sounds. He pulls back
"Well that's not why I'm here. Lewis have told me something. What's this of you going after creatures."
"A sea monster, actually. Why are you afraid of me getting hurt?"
"What, no off course not. How do you even know that there is something out there?"
"When I was drowning, I saw something."
"Well did you maybe consider that you were hallucinating. I mean, you went long without oxygen."
"No, this thing is real. Why don't you tag along? We could rewrite the history books together."
"No Zane, I don't want any part in this. Just leave it alone, there is nothing out there."
-h2o-
The next morning, Cleo gets waken by her phone.
"Hello."
Emma and Rikki answer at the same time.
"Happy birthday Cleo."
Emma continues.
"Happy sweet sixteen sleepy head."
"Thanks for reminding me."
"So what did you get?"
"Nothing. But thanks for the thought. Now go away please."
But Cleo doesn't get the chance to go back to bed, because there is a knock on her door. Her mom comes in, carrying a tray.
"Breakfast on bed for the birthday girl."
"I'm asleep."
"It's your favourite. Pancakes with peanut butter, banana and honey."
"Can I stay in bed?"
"As long as you like."
"Thanks mom."
-h2o-
Zane is getting his zodiac ready, when Lewis walks up to him.
"Zane."
"Glad you reconsidered."
"Well, I do love a good mystery if you have the hundred bucks."
Zane hands it over.
"Here, is that enough?"
After checking it is valid, Lewis gets in.
-h2o-
They are soon out in the open sea.
"Stop, stop. This is perfect."
"Here? But this is nowhere near Mako, this is nowhere near… anything."
"That's the point. A solitary creature, it doesn't want to be found. Don't think Loch Ness monster, this is isolated."
"Right."
"I'm telling you this monster is here."
"I don't know, I was way over to Mako."
"Hey, who is the geek here?"
"You are."
"You bet I am. And when it comes to monsters, the paranormal or anything technological, who are you going to trust." Zane nodded. "Go and drop the anchor." Lewis can't help but smile, while Zane gets the anchor.
-h2o-
Emma and Rikki arrive at Cleo's party and get why she is ashamed of it.
"This is just how I remembered it from when we were kids."
"Settling isn't it?"
"I rode my first pony on Cleo's sixth birthday party."
"Are we sure this isn't Cleo's sixth birthday?"
A kid hits Rikki with his balloon. She snatches the balloon out of his hand, but Emma gives it back.
"Rikki, this is supposed to be a party. Here you go."
"So I'm starting to see why Cleo didn't make such a great deal about this."
"Yep, the only thing missing is Cleo's dad in a cowboy suit putting a party hat on our heads."
Suddenly they feel party hats on their heads and see Cleo's dad in a cowboy suit.
"Girls, glad you could make it. My little girl is going to love this, or what?"
"Or you sure that balloon animals and a pony are appropriate?"
"Balloon animals are ageless, she'll love it. You have to see her coming downstairs, she'll be ecstatic."
-h2o-
Cleo is getting ready in her room when she hears party noises. She looks out of her window and as soon she sees her dad did throw her a party, she storms downstairs.
"Happy birthday."
She goes over to her friends.
"You knew?"
Her dad tries to comfort her, but she pulls herself free.
"You said you wouldn't. How could you?"
And with that she hurries off. The girls and Don hurry after her.
"Cleo, Cleo?"
"Where is she gone?"
"I think she left something at my house yesterday. Probably. She'll be back."
"She better be."
-h2o-
Cleo is swimming fast, thinking about how much her father still treated her as a child. When she suddenly remembers the guy from the café that treated her as a grownup. So she changes her path and goes towards his address.
-h2o-
Zane and Lewis are still in the middle of the sea.
"Do you think about life Lewis. I mean do you find destiny or does destiny find you?"
"What?"
"Like things happening for a reason."
"Being around the girls have taught me that everything happens for a reason. Why?"
"Something weird happened to me and when I find out what it was… Well, maybe right now. Yeah maybe I'm on the brink of destiny."
"I don't think we are going to find anything today. I say we head back."
"But…"
"Hello, do I have to remind you who is the geek?"
-h2o-
Emma and Rikki are still at the party, but there is still no sign of Cleo. Don comes over to them.
"Girls, ride to the pony?"
"No, thanks."
"I don't understand what is keeping Cleo at your place."
"Well you know how my mum likes to talk."
"But she knows this is all here. I mean who can resist a pony?"
"Euh, can I make a small point, Mr Sertori? Cleo is kind off grown up lately, she is not the same girl as say Kim."
"Yep, true. But all girls love ponies."
"Do I look like the kind of girls that would be caught dead on a pony?"
"Not really."
"Figure it out."
-h2o-
"Well as long as we are here, we could do something useful."
"Like what?"
"Catch the bad guy, what else?"
"Yeah you're probably right. Let's see if Cleo found something interesting."
The girls head up to Cleo's room.
-h2o-
Cleo finally finds the place and knocks on the door. After a minute, Stefan opens it.
"Oh Cleo, you made it."
"Well yeah, I didn't had anything else to do, so."
"Great, come in."
She walks in and suddenly feels a knock on her head. She fall down unconscious.
-h2o-
The girls are going through Cleo's papers, when Emma draws Rikki's attention.
"There is one name that keeps on returning."
"Which one."
"A certain Javna. Listen: Javna feeds one week out of every year, stealing the life force from the young by invoking the black magic power of The Evil Eye to gain eternal Youth. So we are fighting a certain Javna."
"Well that is not a lot to go on. How do we stop him?"
"With the Hand of Fatima."
"How do we get that?"
"The prophet Mohammed has created a spell that calls for the hand. Look this is the hand."
Emma picks up a paper to show it to Rikki, but something falls to the ground, a napkin of the juice net café.
"You dropped something, wait there is an address on it, the address of a certain Stefan, a photographer. What is Cleo doing with this?"
"Hey, remember that one girl we interviewed, the one that got away. She said she was going to this photo shoot with a Stefan, but she got knocked out and she woke up alone with a creature. She never heard another thing of this Stefan."
"And now he shows up right now, right when all the attacks are. That can't be a coincidence."
"Oh no, maybe Cleo went there."
"Let's go."
The girls go downstairs, where they bump into Lewis.
"Hey, guys, where is Cleo?"
"In danger."
"Come on, we'll explain on the way."
-h2o-
Cleo is tied to a table.
"Please... Stefan... let me go."
Stefan steps into the light and she sees how old and wrinkly he is.
"It's Javna."
Cleo screams.
-h2o-
The girls and Lewis get to the address.
"Do you see anything?"
"No. Emma..."
"Look Lewis, we'll find her."
"Maybe we should call the police."
"No. If Javna has her, we're the only ones who can stop him."
"But we need Cleo to do it. The incantation only works with the three of us."
They hear Cleo scream and head for the building.
-h2o-
Javna's eyes glow red. Light beams from Javna's eyes shoot out and hit Cleo in her eyes. The door opens. Emma, Rikki and Lewis step inside the building. Javna stops shooting beams at Cleo, turns and looks at Emma. While he is focused on Emma, Lewis jumps on Javna's back.
"Quick, get her off the table."
Rikki hurries to the table to free Cleo. Javna gets Lewis of his back and throws him across the room. He turns and aims his eyes back at Emma. They glow and beams shoot out again and connect with Emma's eyes. He makes his way to her and she glides over the floor towards him. In the meanwhile, Rikki has freed Cleo.
"We need you. We don't have a lot of time, ok?"
Cleo scrambles off the table. Meanwhile, Emma is being pulled towards Javna.
"Emma, grab the mirror!"
Emma reaches out and grabs the mirror off the table. She uses its reflection to deflect Javna's eye beams. It shoots back at him and he screams in pain. He falls back against the table. He shoots the eye beams at Emma again, this time she's ready for him. It deflects off the mirror back at him, temporarily blinding him. Rikki and Cleo flank Emma who takes the spell out.
"All right, now."
They start chanting together.
"Evil eyes, look unto thee, may they soon extinguished be. Bend thy will to mermaids three, eye of earth, evil and accursed."
Emma hands the mirror to Rikki to hold.
"You can't stop me. I will live forever! No!"
Emma holds out her hand and it glows into the Hand of Fatima. A thick, white beam of light shines out from the centre of her palm and hits Javna square in his chest.
"Evil eyes, look unto thee, may they soon extinguished be. Bend thy will to mermaids three, eye of earth, evil and accursed."
"No! No!"
He screams and falls back onto the table. He stops struggling and his body ages. It explodes leaving a skeleton behind. The beam continues to shine out from Emma's hand. It washes over the skeleton till it turns to dust. The beam of light stops. The wind blows the dust away. The girls watch. Soon there is nothing left. Emma slowly puts her hand down.
"Very cool."
"Lewis!"
Cleo runs over to him. He is still laying on the ground, holding his arm.
"I'm ok, I'm alright."
"Thank god."
She hugs him tightly.
"Aw."
"Did I hurt you?"
"Just a little bit."
-h2o-
Cleo is walking towards the café where Lewis is waiting for her. His arm is in a plaster bandage.
"Ow, that looks serious."
"It's nothing." He takes her hand. "You are ready?"
"For what?"
He tries to go inside, but she doesn't follow. He goes back over to her and takes her head between her hands. He kisses her softly.
"Why do you want me to come with you?"
"Because I have a surprise."
"No more surprises please."
"Do you trust me?"
"With all my heart."
They kiss once again softly.
"Then come with me"
She finally follows. She walks in to the juice net café, where all of her friends are waiting.
"Surprise."
She is surprised and gets over to her friends.
"Happy birthday."
"Happy birthday, Cleo."
"You did all this?"
They shake their head and look at Lewis.
"Why do you think I needed the money for?" He hands her a bag. "Happy birthday Cleo." She looks into the bag and finds a balloon animal. "I couldn't resist."
"Thank you Lewis."
She comes towards him and gives him a quick kiss on the mouth, before turning to her guests.
-h2o-
Later, she arrives home and sees her dad, all alone, sitting in the garden. She goes over to him.
"I'm sorry, dad. I had to get away." She sits down. "You know why."
"Lewis called me. How was your party?"
"It was really good. You didn't come."
"No. you aren't my little girl anymore. You are growing up. Leaving me behind."
"Off course I'm your girl. I always will be."
"Really?"
"Off course."
She stands up and takes his hand. They head to the house, but Don stops and looks around.
"One last time?"
"Race you."
And they jump together in the ball bath.