101 Ways to Ruin a Mermaids Life

Story 30: Cleo, Emma, Rikki, Bella (Song(s) none)

Power Jump (3rd Person)

The full moon shone high in the night sky. The mermaids, all asleep in their own beds, in their own homes. Nothing had happened to them recently, so there was no worry to go around. The night seemed peaceful, uneventful, like an ordinary night should be. So no one was to expect what came next.

The café wasn't that crowded that morning. Sophie was up at work, and Bella was to be meeting Will. Zane was finding time to get things done himself out on the floor. It was a nice morning for everyone, but things were about to change.

"You could at least try to get things right," Sophie yelled at one of the workers. "Think, a little."

Bella was getting annoyed with Sophie's constraint complaints and bursts. She was ready to teach Sophie a lesion. She watched as Sophie started the blender for making a drink. When the blender stopped Bella went to make the drink into jelly. But when she pulled her hand up, a strange wind same, knocking down many things and Sophie in the posses. Bella pulled away quick and confused. She'd never done that before. She looked to where Zane was staring at her, and where Will had just walked in to see the mess.

"I don't know what happened," Bella whispered to the boys.

"So you couldn't make wind before?" Zane asked.

"No that's it's another first," Bella said remembering the sneezing and making jelly.

"And it's a bit out of control," Will pointed out.

Emma was in her home working fondly on getting her breakfast ready. Since she had just come from a cold area, the new heat was odd, so she was feeling like getting something cold. An Orange Juice Ice Pop would work. Emma took out the pitcher of juice and pored it into a glass. She looked around the kitchen, to make sure her family wasn't close, then she went to freeze the glass. But instead of ice, the juice became jelly like. Emma was astonished and confused by this happening.

Rikki was at home, making coffee for her father and herself, as she did every morning. Their coffee maker wasn't always working right, and it did not surprise Rikki that it was acting up again. She checked to make sure her father was still outside with his motorcycle, before crunching her hand over the two cups, hoping they would get hot. They froze. Shocked, Rikki slowly touched the ice, as if to test what had just happened. It was ice.

Just then her father came in and saw the ice. "Wow, I knew our coffee maker was acting up, didn't know it could do that."

"Neither did I," Rikki said, in a confused tone.

Kim came running down the stars with a silver tin. Cleo looked up from making her toast to see what her little sister was up to. She watched as Kim took a pitcher from the fridge that was full of lemonade, then took both that and the tin outside. Cleo followed her to where she and her friend, Lucy, had set up a table between the two yards. Cleo sighed as the two of them sat there and talked, waiting for people. A few cups sat there fill about half way. Cleo thought how funny it would be if one just magically tipped. She took her hand and tried to do just that, but instead of controlling the water, lighting came from nowhere and almost hit one of the girls. They screamed, Cleo looked at her hand, confused.

All four girls sat scattered outside of Will's boat shed. Zane and Will sat close together, looking at all four of them.

"I'm telling you, it was Rikki power," Cleo repeated. "I mean, who else can create lighting like that."

"So what you have my power and I have Emma's?" Rikki asked. "How did I get from fire to ice in one night?"

"Well, I'm guessing I have Bella's power," Emma said looking to the girl she had only recently met. "I turned juice to jelly. Sound like you?"

"Yep, that mine," Bella said happily. Then changed to worried as she said, "Ok, so if you guys know where your powers came from, what about the wind I created in the café?"

Rikki and Emma both looked at each other, then said in unison, "Cleo."

Both boys looked shocked and in unison asked, "Cleo can create wind?"

Rikki nodded as Emma said, "Yeah, used it to cheat in volleyball. Hasn't used it since." Rikki and Emma laughed, Cleo looked embarrassed and Bella confused.

Finally to bring them back on track, Will said, "So you each traded powers, with no idea how, and you are completely out of control."

"Yep, that's about it," Rikki said with a smiled.

"Now how do we fix it?" Cleo asked in a very serious tone.

No one spoke. They each looked at each other and finally Emma said, "Well we need to get to the bottom of this problem to solve it, and that is for you two." She looked to the boys, who didn't look happy at their knew task. "As for us, I guess we have to learn to control the new powers."

The boys quickly agreed to finding out all they could about the night before, after hearing what happened to Lewis the last time he helped the girls with controlling their powers. The girls made their way out to Mako, to play with their new powers, which no one was really happy with.

"Let's started with simple stuff," Emma said. "Who wants to go first?"

There was a silence. Everyone looked at someone else. When no one spoke up, Rikki stepped forward and said, "I'll start." But she didn't do anything.

"Anytime now," Emma said.

"If you're going to rush me, why don't you go first," Rikki shot back.

"I thought you offered," Emma reminded her.

"I'll go," Bella shot in. "If it will get you two to stop fighting."

"It won't," Cleo told her.

Bella stepped closer to the pool and slowly stuck out her hand. Then she slowly moved it back and forth as she had seen Cleo do many times before. The water slowly started to rise as when Cleo did it. Then she lost control. The water fell back towards the pool, missed and splashed Cleo. Cleo quickly jumped into the pool.

"Finally," Rikki said, laughing.

"That's very nice, Rikki," Emma said, looking at Bella, who was upset, and Cleo, who was mad.

"I've been splashed enough times by Cleo to say, that I've been waiting for something like this forever," Rikki said still laughing.

"I'm done," Bella said quickly backing up into Will, who had just appeared in the entrance.

"Ok, so this is what we have," Zane said handing Emma, Rikki and Bella a sheet with an email on it. "You know that last night was a blue moon."

"Yeah, we do," Emma said looking down at the page she was given. "This is an email from Lewis."

"Yep, and everything else we have is explained in that email," Zane explained.

"So in a fancy way you are saying, you got nothing?" Rikki asked. "Yep, that helps a lot." Then she handed the page right back to Zane and started to leave.

"Wait, Rikki," Emma called, grabbing Rikki by the hand to pull her back, but when the two girls touched, they stopped as if in a trance.

"Are you two ok?" Will asked pulling Rikki from Emma.

Both girls nodded, but they didn't speak. They looked at each other and shrugged. Finally Zane asked, "What happened?"

"Try your power," Bella said quickly, thinking she understood what was going on.

Emma nodded and turned to the pool, which Cleo had already gotten out of and dried off. She took a deep breath and stuck her hand out. It froze.

"We switched," Emma said happily, "I have my own power back."

Bella smiled and took Rikki's hand. Same thing happened, and when Bella tried her power, it was right. Then Rikki grabbed Cleo's hand. They blanked out, then pulled away. Rikki tried her power… it was right. Then Cleo tried hers. It was right.

"So what we don't even get to know how this happened?" Zane asked.

"That's right," Rikki said jumping into the pool with the other three girls following her.