Chapter 2
Hey guys, thanks for reading chapter one, and for following and favouriting my story. I will update as often as I can although this may be tricky with University. I intend to write this alternate universe story for all three seasons of the show, and continue after it left off. I hope you enjoy "Mermen of the Gold Coast Season 1".
Lewis was jolted awake by his alarm clock which was set for 9:00am, even though it was the summer holiday and Lewis didn't need to get up this early. He was a morning person, and liked to work on science experiments or his inventions. His latest objective was to design a device that could analyse weather. With this in mind, he got up and went to the bathroom to get ready. However, when he washed his hands he felt the same strange sensation that he felt in the pool when the whirlpool of bubbles had surrounded him, Zane and Ash.
About ten seconds later, Lewis' whole body seemed to be made out of water and bubbles for a few seconds. He fell over backwards having lost his balance, Lewis groaned in pain. He sat up, and what Lewis saw made him gasp in shock. For where Lewis' legs should have been, there was a magnificent blue tail. Lewis began to hyperventilate, this just couldn't be real. He closed his eyes and pinched himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming, when Lewis opened his eyes the tail was still there. Suddenly someone was knocking on the door.
"Hey Lewis, are you nearly finished in there?" Max, his youngest brother, asked impatiently.
"Not quite, just wait a few minutes", Lewis replied trying his best to sound calm, but inwardly he was freaking out. His mind was filled with questions such as, how did this happen? Would he be stuck like this forever? How was he going to turn back to normal? Lewis tried to think logically, if water had triggered this transformation. Then maybe drying himself would bring his legs back. Lewis looked around for a towel, there was one hanging on the bath on the other side of the room. Lewis tried to move himself towards the towel, but his tail was too heavy. He gave up and sat back down. "Ok, don't panic", Lewis whispered to himself. He instinctively reached for the towel, and it floated to his hands by itself. He stared at the towel in surprise, how had he managed that?
"Hurry up in there!" Max said sounding irritated.
"Just wait a minute", said Lewis he used the towel and his body became water and bubbles once more. When the transformation had ended, to Lewis' immense relief he saw that his legs had returned. He got up shakily, and opened the door to find Max glaring at him.
"You took your time", Max said irritably.
"Sorry, the bathroom's free now", said Lewis apologetically. Lewis was slightly annoyed because he hadn't been very long at all, but given that Max was only seven he didn't let it show in his tone. People often said that Max was like a mini Lewis as he had the same blonde hair and interest in science, which was probably another reason that Lewis didn't show his annoyance.
Max allowed Lewis to come out of the room, before going in himself.
Meanwhile, Zane was walking in his garden when suddenly the sprinklers turned on. Zane immediately ran back to his chair where he had been sun bathing, fortunately he was safe from the sprinklers on the seat. However, as soon as he had lay down on the chair he felt a strange sensation that was somehow familiar. His body suddenly turned into water and bubbles, and when the transformation had finished instead seeing his legs, Zane saw a tail. He yelped in surprise and fell off the chair, Zane grabbed his phone which had fallen on the ground and called Lewis.
Lewis heard his phone ring and took it out of his pocket. It was Zane, the three of them had given each other their phone numbers the previous night.
"What's up?" Lewis asked, his voice shaking due to his latest adventure.
"Dude, the weirdest thing just happened to me", said Zane sounding panicked.
"Let me guess, your legs turned into a tail when you came into contact with water?" Lewis said.
"What are you psychic or something, how did you know?" Zane questioned.
"The same thing happened to me", Lewis replied.
"No way, that is so cool. Listen I need your help, how do you change back?" Zane asked frantically.
"Use a towel to dry yourself", Lewis replied.
"It worked, thanks Lewis. How do you think this happened to us?" Inquired Zane.
"You're welcome. I think the only cause for this transformation could be the whirlpool of bubbles that surrounded us in the pool on Mako Island, and-" Lewis stopped speaking abruptly as he realised something.
"What's wrong?" Said Zane sounding worried.
"And there was someone else with us that night", Lewis replied.
"Ash", Zane and Lewis said at the same time.
"He might not have experienced the transformation yet, I'm going to call him", said Lewis.
"Ok, ring me back when you have", Zane said.
"Sure, bye", Lewis said and hung up. He rang Ash, but the call went straight to voice mail. Lewis called Zane back, "Ash isn't answering, we need to warn him", he said when Zane had answered.
"Do we have to?" Zane asked whining.
"Yes we do, he's our friend and what if Ash goes to the beach or touches water, he doesn't know the danger he would be in if he does", said Lewis.
"Oh, all right", said Zane.
"I'll go to his house and see if Ash is there", said Lewis.
"I'll go to the Juice Net Café, he often hangs out there", said Zane.
"Ok, I'll meet you there if he isn't at his house", said Lewis. He hung up after they had finished their conversation, and set off for Ash's house. During the journey, he tried ringing Ash again but he still didn't answer. It didn't take long for Lewis to reach Ash's house, as he lived close to Lewis which allowed them to hang out more often. When Lewis arrived at his destination, he rang the doorbell. Ash's older sister Ally answered the door.
"Hey Ally, is Ash here?" Lewis asked.
"No he went out to the beach?" Ally answered.
Lewis gaped at her, "The beach?" He spluttered.
"Yeah, he wanted to get over his fear of water, and is having swimming lessons with Andy there", said Ally.
"Thanks, I'm going to go and find him", Lewis said.
"See you later", Ally said.
"See you", said Lewis. As soon as Ally closed the door, Lewis turned around and took out his phone to call Zane.
"Hey Lewis, Ash isn't at the café", said Zane.
"I know, Ally said he's gone to the beach for swimming lessons, we have to stop Ash from going into the water", said Lewis hoping Ash hadn't already done so.
"I'm near the beach so, I'll try to stop him", said Zane.
"Ok, I'm on my way to the beach", said Lewis.
"See you there", Zane said and hung up. As soon as Zane put his phone back in his pocket, he bolted out of the café not caring that he had ran into Nate and some of his friends on the way out. Zane didn't know how it happened, but he was beginning to care about Lewis and Ash. All that mattered to Zane at that moment, was stopping Ash from going into the sea. He ran to the beach, and frantically scanned the crowds of people for Ash and ignored Miriam who was trying to get him to come over to her. Zane finally spotted Ash with an older boy, who was gesturing towards the sea. Zane ran towards them as fast as he could, just as Ash was about to go in the sea Zane grabbed his waist and swung him around to stop him from stepping in the water. Zane let go of Ash when he was no longer near the water.
"What are you doing?" Ash yelled at him.
"Saving your life, you can't go in the water", said Zane.
"What's going on here?" The older boy inquired standing protectively in front of Ash, having assumed that Zane attacked him.
"It's all right Andy, he's a friend", Ash said.
The boy glanced back at Ash uncertainly, but stepped aside. Suddenly Lewis was running towards them and skidded to a halt.
"You can't go in the water", Lewis said to Ash.
"It's all right, he knows", Zane said reassuringly to Lewis who sighed in relief.
"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" Ash asked exasperatedly.
"We can explain at my house, my dad is away on a business trip", Zane replied.
Lewis and Ash agreed, and after thanking his brother for the lesson, the trio left the beach and headed to Zane's house. When they arrived, about twenty minutes later, Lewis and Ash gaped at Zane's home. Although Zane described it as a house, it looked more like a mansion. The place was huge, and Lewis and Ash saw that there was even a pool in the garden.
Zane had pushed the gate open, and was half way to the door when he realised that Ash and Lewis were no longer behind him. Zane turned around, "Are you guys coming, or what?" He asked.
Lewis snapped out of his thoughts, he and Ash followed Zane to the door. They went to the living room and Lewis sat down on a sofa, while Zane and Ash remained standing. The room was very big, with a huge flat screen TV directly opposite where Lewis was sitting. There was an expensive looking coffee table, in the middle of the room, and there were two other large sofas to the side almost forming a circle around the table.
Ash turned to Lewis, "So are you going to tell me why I can't touch water?" He inquired.
Before Lewis could answer, Zane grabbed a glass of water he had left on the coffee table and threw it at Ash.
"Zane", Lewis scolded.
"What?" Zane asked innocently, Ash glared at him.
"Ash, you may want to sit down on the floor", said Lewis.
"Why would I-", Ash began but was cut off when his body turned into bubbles and water. Lewis caught Ash before he could fall to the floor, Lewis lowered him down gently and stood next to Zane.
Ash gaped at his tail, which looked a lot like Lewis'. "How is this possible?" Ash asked.
After Ash had transformed back, by drying himself with a towel that Zane had lent him, Lewis explained his theory about the bubble whirlpool that had surrounded them on Mako. "There's something else you guys should know, I can move things with my mind", said Lewis. Zane and Ash stared at him.
"Watch this", Lewis said. He raised his hand, so that it was directly in front of a cushion on the sofa that Lewis had previously sat on. He concentrated on the pillow and willed it to move towards him, which it did. "See, isn't this so cool?" Lewis said.
"Yeah", said Zane.
When Lewis had put the cushion back down on the sofa, Zane and Ash tried to move a pillow with their minds but found that they couldn't.
"Maybe we each have different powers that will show themselves", Lewis suggested comfortingly.
"Maybe", said Ash sounding disappointed.
"Come on, let's do some research", Lewis said in an attempt to lighten the mood.
"On what?" Zane asked.
Lewis looked at Zane incredulously, "On mermen, duh".
"Oh right, yeah let's do that", Zane said sheepishly.
They spent the rest of the day hanging out in Zane's mansion, and researching mermen.
The next morning, Lewis found himself walking to the Juicenet Café with Cleo. They were talking about plans for the rest of the holiday.
"I'm just staying at home, because we went on holiday last year", Cleo said.
Before Lewis could respond, he heard a loud noise behind them. Lewis and Cleo managed to avoid being run over by a motorcycle, by just a few seconds. Lewis had pulled Cleo with him to the right and dodged the motorcycle.
"Are you ok?" Lewis asked Cleo as they went back on to the path.
"Yeah, I think so", Cleo replied shakily.
The figure turned the motorbike around to face Cleo and Lewis, and took off his helmet.
"Nate! What did you do that for?" Lewis asked angrily.
"I don't take to kindly to being humiliated!" Nate shouted back.
"It was your own fault", Lewis countered. There was a hose next to them on the grass, and it was shaking violently but Zane and Cleo hadn't noticed. Lewis looked at the hose and he used his mind to turn it to face Nate.
"You know, Zane can't be there to protect you 24/7 Lewis. One of these days something bad will happen to you-", Nate said but was cut off when water shot out of the hose, and hit him with so much force that Nate was thrown of the bike. Lewis and Cleo gaped at the sight.
Lewis had somehow controlled the water, he panicked and ran back to his house leaving Cleo staring at Nate in shock. As soon as Lewis arrived at his house, he asked Zane and Ash to come round to his house. Fortunately, his parents and brothers were out so apart from Lewis the house was empty. Ash and Zane arrived at the house ten minutes later, and sat down in the living room, so that Lewis could explain what happened with Nate.
"I can't believe Nate, he could have gotten you and Cleo killed", said Ash furiously.
"Don't be so hard on Nate", Zane said trying to defend his friend.
"Don't be so hard on- did you not here me when I said that he could have killed Lewis and Cleo?" Ash said angrily.
"Guys! It's okay", said Lewis effectively ending the argument.
"So you actually controlled water?" Ash asked still glaring at Zane.
"Yeah I think my powers are growing, watch this", Lewis responded. He raised his hand in front of his glass of water that was on the coffee table, and moved his hand in a certain way which caused the water to form a spiral that rose high up. Lewis managed to hold the water there for a few minutes, but lost control and it was about to fall on Ash. But he raised his right arm to protect himself, and the water turned into ice.
Ash lowered his arm and looked at the ice spiral, "Did I do that?" Ash inquired.
Zane turned to Lewis raising his eyebrows.
"Not guilty", said Lewis raising his hands in a surrendering stance.
"It wasn't me, so it must have been you", said Zane to Ash. Zane raised his hand and tried to do something to the spiral, but nothing happened. He tried three more times, but was unsuccessful. Zane slumped his shoulders feeling disappointed, "That's not fair, why do you guys get cool superpowers and I don't?"
"Our powers took a while to develop, maybe yours will show themselves over time", Lewis replied trying to reassure Zane.
"I hope you're right", said Zane gloomily.
"Listen, no one can know about this", said Ash.
"But I tell my dad everything", said Lewis.
"Not this time", said Zane.
Ash turned to Lewis, "If we are discovered we will be turned into science experiments, and I don't know about you guys but I don't want that to happen".
Lewis sighed, "You're right".
"This is our secret, we have to stick together", said Ash.
"That doesn't mean we have to get married does it?" Zane asked causing Ash and Lewis to burst into laughter.
"Now that was funny", said Ash grinning at Zane who smiled widely back.
"You know what guys? I think this is the start of a wonderful friendship", said Lewis as he put his arms around Zane and Ash.