Hi guys, I'm sorry it's been a while since I last updated, I have had a busy summer, I will try to update more often. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 5

The rest of the summer holiday passed very quickly, with quite a few close calls, but by the end the trio were starting to get the hang of their water problem. They also practiced their powers, they had become better at controlling them but still found it difficult. Zane's second power had yet to show itself, and he hoped it would.

Lewis was in the middle of getting ready to go to school, it was his first day back. He was excited because he really liked school (something that Zane teased him about a lot), but he was also worried because it would be easier to get splashed. The trio had planned for this, they decided to make sure to wear long sleeved tops or jackets and trousers, but this still didn't ease Lewis' worry. When Lewis had finished getting ready he went downstairs to the kitchen and had breakfast, after which he left for school with his younger brothers. Lewis met Ash part way to their school and walked behind Lewis' brothers, so that they could talk about ways of avoiding water.

When Ash and Lewis had arrived at their lockers, they saw that Zane was already there waiting for them.

"Hey guys, you ready for today?" Zane asked.

"Yeah", Lewis replied as Ash nodded.

"We need to be really careful", Zane said.

Before Lewis and Ash could reply Nate appeared out of no-where.

"Hey Zane, me and some people are going to play volleyball at the beach after school. Want to join us?" Nate asked grinning.

"Yeah, that would be great, is it okay if Ash and Lewis come too?" Zane said excitedly grinning back.

"What was that about being careful?" Ash pointed out.

"Yeah Zane, we can't remember?" Lewis said in a meaningful tone.

"Come on guys, we won't play to near the edge right Nate?" Zane asked.

"Yeah I guess, why?" Nate said reluctantly.

"Ash is scared of water", Zane explained.

"Zane!" Ash said indignantly as Lewis glared at Zane.

"What?" Zane asked sounding genuinely confused.

"It's okay, we won't play near the edge", Nate said.

"Thanks, but I don't like being anywhere near water", Ash said.

"That's okay, Lewis?"

"Sorry, I'm not too fond of water either", Lewis replied.

"No worries, see you later then Zane", Nate said and walked off to join his friends that were waiting for him.

"What?" Zane asked when he noticed that Ash and Lewis were glaring at him.

"Did you have to tell Nate that I'm scared of water?" Ash asked in annoyance.

"Yeah, and you can't go to the beach it's too dangerous", Lewis reasoned.

"We can't let water control our lives, and I'll make sure that we don't play too close to the water", Zane argued.

"Lewis is right, it's too dangerous, it's our lives your risking here too not just yours remember", Ash said.

"Yeah, please don't do this", Lewis said.

Zane sighed, "Fine I won't".

The trio was about to head off to registration, when someone lost their grip on their water bottle, and the water went all over Ash. Ash froze in shock and fear for a second, then sprang into action and ran with Lewis and Zane running after him, to the nearest room which was the caretaker's storeroom. Ash almost didn't make it in time, having bumped into someone as he was about to go in, but he just did and fell in. As he hit the floor on his stomach he changed into a merman. Ash quickly turned around on to his back terrified that someone had seen him transform, but fortunately Zane was in the room and had closed the door. Zane had discovered that he could change them back into human form with his power, and did this for Ash. When Ash had turned back into his human form, Zane helped him up.

"Are you okay?" Zane asked in concern.

"Yeah thanks, and thanks for helping me", Ash replied shakily, his heart still pounding from the ordeal.

"No problem", Zane said grinning and patted Ash's back, "Let's get out of here".

"Are you alright Ash?" Lewis asked as soon as they had gotten out of the room.

"Yeah and thanks for keeping lookout", Ash replied.

"You're welcome", Lewis said smiling at Ash.

"This is going to be a lot harder than I thought, it's only been twenty minutes, and I have already nearly been exposed", Ash said gloomily.

"It'll be okay, we have most of our classes together, so we can look out for each other", Lewis said comfortingly.

"Yeah, and my power will help and when you have gotten better at slowing down time that will also help", Zane added.

"Yeah, I guess you guys are right", Ash said feeling a bit more light hearted.

"Come on lets go to registration, here's your stuff guys", Lewis said.

The rest of the day went quite well, there were only two more close calls, all that practice over the summer had paid off, and Zane had reluctantly told Nate that he couldn't play volleyball with him which Nate hadn't been happy about and was constantly trying to change his mind. To Zane's annoyance Nate had managed to catch him before he left school.

"Come on, please come", Nate said.

"I'm sorry I can't", Zane said sadly.

"But we haven't hung out together for ages, you're always with Lewis and Ash. Why do you even hang out with them anyway? I thought you hated them".

"We bonded when we got stuck on Mako, but you're right I miss hanging out with you I'll come".

"Great, let's go", Nate said excitedly.

Zane looked around to make sure Lewis and Ash weren't there, as he knew they would try to stop him, he was relieved to see that they weren't and headed off with Zane to the beach.

Lewis was on his way home, when noticed his phone ringing, it was Ash.

"Hey Lewis, I'm worried about Zane".

"He said that he wouldn't go to the beach, I'm sure he's fine", Lewis reasoned.

"Yeah, but this is Zane we're talking about".

"That's a good point".

They agreed to meet at the beach to see if Zane was there, ten minutes later Lewis met Ash. Ash tried calling Zane, but he didn't answer his phone so they started searching for him. After five minutes they found him playing volleyball with Nate and some of their friends from class, when they started walking to them they saw that they had stopped playing to take a break. Zane was about to take a sip of water from his water bottle, but lowered it when he saw Ash and Lewis. He sighed knowing they wouldn't be happy with him.

"Zane, you said you wouldn't go", Ash said irritably when he and Lewis had reached Zane.

"I know but I wanted to do this, and like I said we are playing very far from the sea", Zane argued.

"But it's too dangerous Zane", Ash argued back.

"Look, I'm not going to let water control my life", Zane said angrily, in his anger he forgot that he was holding a water bottle without a lid on and swung it to his left, causing most of the water to land on Lewis. Zane looked at Lewis in horror, feeling terrible for what he had done.

Lewis ran as fast as he could to the sea, on the way he tripped over someone's beach towel and fell over. Panicking he got up quickly and sprinted to the sea only just getting there in time. He swam super-fast to his secret fishing spot. He waited for Ash and Zane to get there as he didn't have a towel on him. They arrived a few minutes later, after checking that no-one was around, Lewis came out of the water and made his way to the shore. When, Lewis arrived at the shore, Zane used his powers to turn Lewis back to his human form.

"Lewis, I'm so sorry," Zane said.

"It's okay Zane", Lewis said reassuringly.

"No, it's not okay! Zane you nearly got Lewis exposed, all because you wanted to play volleyball", Ash said angrily.

"I know, I should have been more careful, but as I have said before, we can't let water control our lives", Zane argued.

"Zane, Lewis only just got to the sea in time, if you were just a bit further from the sea, he wouldn't have made it", Ash retorted.

"Ash, Zane is right", Lewis said.

"How are you not mad at him?" Ash asked incredulously.

"Because if we are constantly afraid of every drop of water, then we can't live our lives properly", Lewis reasoned.

Ash sighed, "I guess, but we need to be more careful, and I'm sorry I got mad at you Zane".

"It's okay, I probably deserved it", Zane said.

"I don't know about you guys, but I could use a smoothie, shall we go to the Juice Net café?" Lewis asked.

Ash and Zane agreed, and they spent the rest of the afternoon in the café.

The next day, school was going quite well until lunch time. Lewis, Zane and Ash were about to go to lunch, when Nate appeared out of no-where and sprayed them with water, using his water gun and laughed hysterically at them, as did some of the other students who saw what happened. They froze for a second in shock, and then ran as fast as they could, bumping into some people on the way to the nearest classroom, which was Mr Anderson's room. Said teacher had just come out of the classroom, to presumably go to lunch. The trio accidentally ran into him, before going into the classroom. They got to the classroom with a few seconds to spare, and transformed into mermen almost as soon as they got there and landed on their fronts.

"That was a close one", Lewis said.

Zane and Ash nodded in agreement, having not got their breath back yet. Zane was about to turn Ash back into his human form, but before he could the door burst open.