Summary: Carly goes on vacation with her parents to Ireland. When she goes to explore the sea caves there on her own, she comes back home with a little more than she bargained for.
This is the first request one that I've written, it was requested by Twilightroxas7 so I hope everyone likes it.
Word Count: 1748
"Call me when you land," Evie spoke to Carly. She had met Carly and her parents at the airport so she could see them off. Carly and her parents took a week long vacation almost every year. This year they were flying to Ireland and Evie wanted to say goodbye one last time before they left.
"I will," Carly assured Evie. The two best friends embraced in a hug. They stayed that way for much longer than they needed to, ignoring the crowded airport around them. They weren't late for their flight so Carly's parents let it slide.
"Have fun," Evie said when they finally did separate.
"We will."
Over the intercom it was announced that the flight Carly and her parents were on was now boarding. After bidding Evie goodbye, they started off.
Evie sat around for a little while longer, waiting to hear that Carly's plane had taken off so she could watch them fly away. She heard the last boarding opportunity for the flight and soon thereafter saw the plane take off. Once it was no longer even a spec in the sky, Evie headed back home.
CHCHCH
Carly and her parents tried to rest while on the plane so they wouldn't be as jet-lagged when they landed but when they made it to their hotel they crashed, Carly only after letting Evie know that they had landed safe and sound.
The room Carly and her parents were staying in actually had two rooms that were conjoined by a door. Each room had one queen sized bed and it's own bathroom. Carly's parents had purposely gotten a room like that so Carly could have her own space, the only catch was that she had to leave the door between the rooms unlocked in case anything happened and they'd do the same. Carly viewed it as a reasonable deal and had agreed to it.
By the time Carly and her parents got up later, it was midday in Ireland. Carly's parents checked on her to see what she was feeling up to and after a few minutes they decided to go grab lunch.
The rest of their first day in Ireland, Carly and her parents wandered around the city on their own and do a little souvenir shopping. While out, Carly found a magnet of a mermaid with a teal tail. She got it figuring that Evie might get a little kick out of it, and even if Evie didn't get a kick out of it, Cam probably would.
On the second day, Carly's parents arranged for a guided tour of some of the main landmarks where they were. They went past some sea caves that were nearby but Carly wanted to get a better look at them so they were allowed a few minutes to look at them before they continued with the tour.
"We should go back to those sea caves," Carly said once the tour had finished and they had returned to their room for the day. "They looked so cool and I want to get a better look at them."
"You heard what the guide said, those caves are haunted. That little girl, Ava, disappeared from there years ago and nobody has seen her since."
"Dad, those are just wise-tales they tell to spook people. It's nothing."
"We've got other things to do the rest of the week anyway," Mrs. Morgan said.
Carly sighed, her parents had gotten the rest of their week all planned out now so if she wanted to go get a better look at the sea caves, she'd have to go alone, possibly at night. The chance to escape and explore the caves more didn't come until the end of the week on Carly's last night in Ireland. Carly had wanted to go out before the last night but never had the energy to go back out because she had been worn out by the other activities of the day. The last day she and her parents had just gone to the spa to relax so Carly was wide awake by nightfall.
Carly and her parents had gotten most everything they didn't need in the morning packed since the next morning they were heading back to Australia. Carly's parents went right to bed but she waited until they had gone to sleep to put her plan in action.
She put a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt on and set out with a flashlight in hand. The street lights gave her enough light to see by until she got to the beginning of the sea caves beside the ocean. After that, the full moon high in the sky gave off enough light to see by for the most part but Carly also used the flashlight to avoid tripping over the uneven rocks.
When Carly got closer to the ocean, she saw a small tunnel leading down. She wasn't extremely sure of what it was or what it would lead to, but being curious and feeling drawn there. she decided to go down. Once inside, she walked down a small passageway, bending over to avoid hitting her head on the overhead rock. There was a slight slope to the long and winding pathway so Carly hardly noticed the decent.
The pathway eventually opened up to a small pool of water. Carly hadn't realized how far she'd gone until she saw that the ocean was right outside an opening by the small pool. She turned the flashlight off and set it down, the full moon nearly right overhead now gave off enough light to clearly see by.
The water looked inviting but Carly knew it'd be best to stay out. She did however get down next to the pool to see how the water felt. She'd expected it to be cool but it was comfortably warm. As she got up, Carly somehow lost her balance and tumbled head first into the pool. "Really!" Carly exclaimed, looking up in the sky where the full moon was suddenly right overhead. "Wow," Carly breathed. The water began to bubble and she looked around in wonder. She was too entranced to get out of the water. The spell Carly was under was only broken when the full moon passed.
"That was weird," Carly spoke to herself, climbing out of the pool. She took her sweatshirt off and rung it out as best as she could, she put it back on, hoping to keep some of chill of the night away. She soon found it didn't help but kept it on so as not to have to carry both it and the flashlight.
Upon arrival back to her hotel room, Carly changed into a pair of sweatpants and tank-top. She took her wet clothes down to the 24 hour guest laundry room and dried them so she wouldn't arouse the suspicions of her parents the next day. She stayed up late waiting for them to be dried and didn't even bother to turn the lights off when she returned to her room.
The next morning, the sound of Carly's mum's voice woke her. She got up and took a quick shower before she and her parents went down for breakfast. Once they were finished, they returned to their rooms and finished the last few things they needed to get done to set off for home. When they got back to Australia it was late at night so they returned home and went to sleep in hopes of restoring their sleeping schedule back to normal.
The first full day back in Australia was Monday so naturally Carly headed over to the cafe for work. She, David, and Evie were all there early to get things set up for the day. Zac had come along with Evie that day as he had been while Carly was away on vacation.
"Carly!" Evie greeted her best friend when she saw her, the two embraced. "How was Ireland?"
"Great," Carly started. Zac and David made their way over to Carly and Evie were to also hear about how the trip had gone. "We went on this tour the second day we were there and saw the sea caves but I wanted a better look at them so last night I went on my own to check them out.
"The full moon gave off plenty of light until I got to this tunnel. When it opened up there was this really neat little pool."
"A pool?" Evie asked.
"Yeah, it was just this little pool of water in the cave and it was cool but also weird."
"How so?" Zac asked.
Zac didn't get an immediate answer to his question as Mimmi and Ondina entered the cafe. "Are we too early? I wanted to grab something on my way to work," Mimmi started. "Oh hey Carly, how was your trip?"
"Good. I was just telling them about this weird cave I found."
"What was so weird about it?" Ondina asked.
"Well when the full moon passed over it the water started to bubble and it sort of glowed."
"What!" Mimmi and Ondina exclaimed at the same time.
"The water just-"
"You didn't go in the water, did you?" Ondina cut her off.
"I didn't mean to but I fell in somehow."
"Right as it was bubbling with the full moon overhead?" Mimmi asked.
"Yeah." Everyone but Carly and David's eyes went wide. "What, is that a bad thing?"
"You haven't got a tail at all, have you?" Evie asked.
"No, I took a shower before we left. What's up with you guys?"
"With what we've learned recently, it seems that if you go into a moon pool while the moon's overhead, you get a tail. At least that's what happened with Evie," Mimmi explained.
"But how do we know I was in a moon pool?"
"There's one way to test it," Ondina said.
Zac went over to the counter and got a glass of water. He handed it to Carly. She gave him a suspicious look but poured the water onto her hand. "See, nothing," Carly said, setting the water down on the counter. However, a few seconds later, she toppled over onto the ground with a large, orange, scaly tail. Her eyes grew to the size of saucers.
David got a towel for Carly so she could dry off. Once Carly was dry and her legs had returned, Evie gave her a hand up.
"Welcome to our world," Mimmi smiled.
A/N: So I really never would have thought of doing this if Twilightroxas7 hadn't suggested it so thanks for the suggestion. As always, please review and let me know what you think. PM me or leave a review if you have an idea for something you'd like to see happen in a future story.
-CrazyHayniac
