A/N:

Hello my readers, thanks for reviewing on the last chapter even though it was a total fail. So I have brought you another chapter to show I will be updating again like I said...okay well enjoy Chapter 18...

~Chapter 18: That Was Close~

I stop laughing moments later and sit down on my bed, waiting for them to turn back to normal. Madeline is the first to dry off, since she ends up just evaporating the moisture until she has her legs back. She dries the others off soon after and then Sage and Jessica are glaring at us, with their arms crossed over their chests.

"So you two get powers and we don't?" Sage said annoyed.

I shrug madeline smiles. "Well it could've been the full moon last night. Did ya'll even look at it?"

"No," they say.

"Well there's your answer." I say and walk over to the window. "I'm going for a swim, see ya'll later."

And without waiting for a reply from the others I open the window and jump out and into the yard. I then run out of the yard, down to the shore and splash straight into the water. Like the other times, ten seconds later my legs disappeared to be replaced by a tail and my clothes disappear as well and are replaced by a scaley bikini top.

Don't go to mako island, or else secret is in danger. The voices breathes in my ear.

I for once ignore it and dive under, the water was just perfect. It was clear and fish swam around me as I swam slowly by, it was clear they liked me but the fish had no clue I was also a human which loves to eat fish. Odd, I'm swimming slowly, so I stopped and swam to the surface to see if I made any distance between mysef and home.

The shore was maby twenty, thrity yards away and Madeline and the others were now down at the beach looking at me. "Where are you going?" madeline calls.

"I told you, swimming." I shouted back.

I go under and take off at full speed, sending bubbles in my path behind me. Everything just blurrs as I swim, I don't actually pay attention to anything around me until I hit something hard and underwater. i look and see it's just a rock, that is breaking the surface of the water. So my first thought is to swim up and lay down in the sun and dry off.

And guess what? That was exactly what I did, I swam to the surface, struggled a minute out of the water onto the rock which, as I guessed was directly in the sun. The rock was warm which made me just lay my head on my arms and close my eyes. It felt nice to just relax for once in my life.

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I don't know how long it's been, but when i wake up. My legs have returned and I hear a boat approaching; I sit up quickly and see that it's David and his dad or at least who I think is his dad. David sees me and waves, while looking confused at to why I was here. he looked around, probably looking for a boat that i could've used and when he looked at me there was an even bigger question mark on his face.

"Sh." I hissed as if he could hear me.

It's a good thing I put my finger to my lip when I said that, because he nodded and pretended to zip up his mouth and throw away the key. I smiled, waved a quick goodbye, and jumped into the water once under i counted down quickly until my tail appeared. And once it did I swamp quickly over to David's boat and broke the surface.

"Why are you swimming here?" David whispered.

"Because I love swimming with sharks." i snapped.

David glared at me and reached out his hand to pull me into the boat. "It's not safe, and how'd you get here anyway?"

"One, I don't care. Two, what's it to you?" I said annoyed and sank under.

I swam off quickly making sure he wouldn't notice anything, especially my tail. Though the swim back home was short, I couldn't get on dry land just yet because once i reach the surface my adopted familey is on the beach. Everyone except Madeline who probably stayed at the house, remembering the secret.

"Oh Ocean, you're already swimming." Mom calls. "Would you like some lunch? You must be hungry."

"N-No, I just wanna swim a bit longer." I called back.

"Okay, well swim closer so you won't drown again." Mom answers.

Though I didn't want to I swam closer to the shore, but not too close to where my tail could be seen through the water's surface. I frowned and waved at them, bored already at having to swim in such shallow waters.

"I'm gonna swim." Tommy anounces and runs toward the water.

My instinct made me swim backwards slightly and off to the side as he jumped in and came up seconds later to wipe water from his eyes. "The water's freezing." he complained.

"it is?" I replied. "No it's not."

A/N:

Did you like it? I hope you did, because coming up may or may not be a surprise to you. *shrugs* I guess we'll see...please reveiw and I'll update.