Hey, guys, I'm back! Once again, I do not own The Suite Life of Zack and Cody or Lilo and Stitch. Okay, on with the story.

Chapter 2: The Waters of Trouble

"What do you mean, the air vents are dripping water?" Zack asked, looking around to see the air vents turning into little waterfalls, with all the water rushing out of them. Pretty soon, the water would be up to their ankles.

"If this is one of your tricks, you are in so much trouble." Maddie shouted above the rushing water. How dare he ruin her brand new jeans! But then she saw the look on Zack's face as he stared at the air vents. In that moment she knew it couldn't be one of his jokes. His face had turned pale, his hands were clenched in balls, and, was he shaking? He wouldn't have acted that surprised if he had messed around with the air vents earlier that day.

All over the room, people were splashing out of the lobby. Zack and Maddie began to go too, but they heard someone screaming. It sounded oddly familiar.

"Oh, great, I'll bet London's in here somewhere," Maddie said, rolling her eyes, "why does she always have to pick the worst moment to need resucing? Well, it could be worse." At that moment a huge rush of water came pouring out into the lobby, and came to the two kids waists. With the way it was raising, it would be over their heads soon.

Zack looked at Maddie, with an annoyed and scared expression on his face he said, "Do me a favor, and don't ever say that again." That's when he heard the scream again, and began ploding over to where it came from.

"Okay, Maddie, I think I see London, she's underwater by now and her scarf got cought on a chair. She can't pull the scarf off, she's stuck. You go down and try to move the chair to the surface, and I'll try to get the scarf from her body. Maddie? Oh no." As Zack looked around, he relized that Maddie was gone. She must have gotten pulled underwater. She never would have deserted London and him. How was he supposed to get them? He was treading water by now and he couldn't pull two 16 year girls up and out of a room. All of a sudden, an image flashed in his mind.

Flashback

He was at the lake, only 11 years old, one year before he had moved to the Tipton. He was splashing in the water when he noticed something strange. Cody wasn't there. He couldn't have left or anything, they never left each others side at that age.

"Cody, buddy?" The words sounded like they weren't his, they sounded high pitched and squeaky. That's when he spotted something, huge and pale on the bottem of the lake. "Cody!"

He ran over to his mom, who was reading a book on a towel and manged to explain everything to her. He could hardly mange to make complete sentences and had lake water running down his face, or was that tears? Once she had heard everything, she told him to wait on the shore and dove into the lake. Zack watched for several minutes, but she didn't come up. Finally, he ran over to a lifeguard and asked for help. The lifeguard ran into the lake and came up with his mom and Cody. He had explained to Zack that most people dove down to the bottem of the lake, not noticing the huge rock that they usually hit their heads on. It was what had knocked them out.

Zack had to go to the hospital with mom and Cody, and make sure that they were okay. They turned out to be fine, but had to stay for 2 days to be checked-up on yet. He never left their side, he spent all day with them and at night slept on the couch in Cody's room. He had never been more terrified in his life. He had almost lost his family, and decided to make sure that he would never let it happen again.

End of Flashback

Zack was awoken from his dream-like trance by rushing water. He looked down and saw London struggling to raise to the surface, in her eyes there was a caged look. He took a deep breath and dove under.

Come on, Zack, he thought to himself, getting closer and closer to London. If you leave her, no one else will save her. He finally reached her, and began to untwist her tangled scarf from the chair. He sliently cheered as the scarf became loose and fell in his hands. He gestured London to follow him to the surface, but her attention was diverted. He saw her looking at something in the distance. Then she took off, swimming frantically.

He followed her, wondering what she cared about more than air at this moment. His own lungs felt like they were going to burst. That's when he saw London going up, breaking the surface of the water, with something in her arms.

Again, he trailed after her, getting closer and closer to the surface, until he finally came up, breathing in mouthfuls of air, and bonking his head on the ceiling. The ceiling? Uh-oh. He looked around and saw that the water was just a couple of inches from the ceiling. In other words, he was in big trouble.

"Zack, help me!" He looked over and saw that London was tugging at one of the air vents' covers. He came closer and saw what she had been so eager to get at a few moments before. It was Maddie.

It still looked like Maddie, even though she was messed up from whatever had happened to her underwater. Her ponytail had come undone, sweeping the hair over her head, one of her shoes was halfway off her foot, and her jeans were torn in the knees. She was breathing heavily, but it didn't look like she was concensis.

Zack looked at London, who was still tugging at the cover of the air vent, and it finally popped open. She pushed the unconscientious Maddie inside, then grabbed Zack and yanked him into the air vent. She finally pulled herself in too. "Come on!" She shouted, and began to crawl down the air vent, pulling Maddie along with her. Zack followed, but then noticed something odd.

"Why isn't this air vent full of water? Just a couple of minuties ago, it was helping making the lobby into a lake." Zack pushed his watery bangs out of his eyes.

"I don't know. That is kind of weird. It's like the air vents dumped water into the lobby and then left. I don't get it."

"London, you never get anything."

"Excuse me!"

At that moment Maddie woke up, breaking up the heated conversation between Zack and London. She was coughing and spluttering, and gasing for breath. She looked around sliver walls of the air vents and looked at London and Zack, both dripping with water.

"So, what I'd miss?"

Well, I hoped you liked it, and I think I'm going to try Maddie's fear next, but then again I might not. By the way, I want to post a Hannah Montana story somewhere, and I don't know where to go, in your reviews, do you think you could tell me? REVIEW! Don't be afraid to speak your mind!