A/N Here it is! Sorry it took so long and thank you readers for being so patient! This is the full moon chapter! Surprisingly not as long as the last chapter, but still much longer than my usual chapters! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it :D

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Chapter 11: The Full Moon

Emma's P.O.V.

"What happened to you two?" Rikki asked, looking seriously confused. She was sitting on the couch when Lewis and I entered out of breath, barely breathing between laughs, just shaking off the rush of energy and power we just exhibited to get here.

"Nothing," Lewis replied between deep breaths, waving his hand in a dismissing manner before collapsing on the couch next to Rikki. She just turned to me though with a more questioning glare as I leaned against the door, catching my breath before walking over to where they were sitting.

"We just wanted to get here before the full moon rose," I explained.

"You're cutting it pretty close," she scolded, which was unusual since usually the roles are reversed.

"Well we made it didn't we" I dismissed, just as Lewis' phone started beeping, he always set an alarm for the rise of the full moon. Then I took a seat in the remaining chair, "Where's Cleo?"

Rikki was about to answer when a shout from upstairs interrupted her, "Thank God you got here in time Emma!"

Cleo exclaimed as she descended the staircase, coming up behind the couch to give Lewis a short, welcome kiss.

"Sorry you can't stay Lewis, but I promised my dad no boys," she told Lewis.

"He specifically said "no Lewis" didn't he?" Lewis said in mock hurt. It was no secret that Mr. Sertori had become much harder on Lewis since being informed of his relationship with his daughter. Before, he could've been over all the time any time, now Don is reluctant to even let them be in the same room alone,

"Well, your name may have come up," Cleo admitted as Lewis stood, preparing to leave.

"Okay, well just remember to call if you need anything, and be careful," Lewis cautioned, causing each of us to roll our eyes in response.

"We will, goodbye Lewis," Cleo said giving him a goodbye kiss as well before coming over to where we were sitting and taking the spot Lewis previously occupied on the couch.

"Don't look up until you hear the door close," Lewis warned.

"Alright alright Lewis, just go!" Rikki teased. And finally we heard the front door open and Lewis walk out, though I knew he wasn't going far.

"So do you guys want to sleep in my room or the living room?" Cleo asked after we heard the door close behind Lewis.

We easily decided on living room, since this was meant to be a movie night and Cleo did not currently have a TV and DVD player in her room. So we all joined in helping her bring down all the pillows and blankets we could ever need, setting up camp in the living room. Then we popped in the first movie, the "romance-thriller" Cleo was sure Rikki would like. It was called "Safe Haven", I have heard about that movie before, but haven't seen it. Personally I think the only reason Rikki let her put it in first was to get it out of the way. It was only about an hour and half long.

"So what did you think?" Cleo asked triumphantly to Rikki, whose smile clearly showed she did enjoy the movie. It was a really good movie, lots of intense action and the love story was so sweet!

"It was okay" Rikki teased, not too willing to let Cleo know she was right.

"You loved it! Admit it," Cleo insisted.

"Never!" Rikki declared with a smirk, throwing a pillow at Cleo.

"You must!" Cleo returned, throwing a different pillow, but missing Rikki, hitting me instead.

"Hey!" I cried, just a bit surprised and totally ready for a full on pillow fight.

"Sorry," Cleo shrugged giggling.

"Oh, you think that's funny," I laughed reaching for ammunition when Rikki grabbed my arm, apparently intent on taking that particular pillow for herself. That wasn't surprising at all, what was surprising was when she immediately pulled her hand away, shaking it before firmly grasping it with her other hand.

"Jeez Emma, your skin feels like ice!" She stated with a smile, though it was also evident that she was seriously concerned, "Are you sure you are okay?"

I honestly didn't know how to answer that question. No, I didn't feel cold, physically I felt fine. However, despite my skin usually having a bit of a chill to it, Rikki used to never be able to feel it due to her contrasting abilities. That is also why her skin never feels that warm to me ... Except during that one full moon. I remember now, that bad feeling I had about tonight, this must be the reason. My powers are going out of control...

'Except this time it isn't because of the full moon, I haven't seen it, this must just be because of my increase in magic lately,' I thought confidently, 'so there is a chance I may be able to control it!'

However, the image of the frozen over Juicenet counter, came as a terrible reminder that control hasn't exactly been an easy task lately, and with this memory came the same exhilarating feelings of magic and power. Though then it was a great feeling, something I was happy and excited to feel, now I just found it hard to repress, and the harder I tried the more I felt like a ticking bomb about to explode and spread ice everywhere. I could literally feel my fingertips tingling in anticipation of such an event.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom," I abruptly stated, knowing the solitude was something I really needed right now if I was ever going to get a handle on this. I walked straight to the bathroom on the first floor, closing and locking the door first thing. Surprisingly the bathroom was pretty brightly lit, and I hadn't even turned on the light. However I immediately regret looking for the source of said light as I soon found its source was the bright magnificence of the full moon pouring in through the small bathroom window, and that is the last thing I can remember before everything got dark.

Third Person P.O.V.

Rikki and Cleo sat still a bit nervously in the living room awaiting the return of their friend whose rushed retreat had caused them to worry.

"Maybe we should go after her," Cleo stated looking towards the hallway that left the bathroom but finding no trace of movement.

"Hasn't been that long I think," Rikki considered, though it had been at least fifteen minutes, and for a mermaid to stay alone for fifteen minutes on a full moon was reason for concern.

"You covered the bathroom window didn't you?" Cleo asked Rikki.

"I thought you did ..." Rikki replied and they shared a concerned look as they got up and headed towards the bathroom, unsure of what they would find.

They walked down the dark hallway only to come up to a closed, and locked door to the bathroom.

"Emma?" Cleo called out before knocking on the door, "Are you okay?"

After listening for a few minutes of silence they heard soft whimpers coming from inside.

"Emma, come out!" Rikki called, "We can help you."

The whimpering continued as they got no other response.

"What are we gonna do," Cleo asked Rikki, worried about their most likely moonstruck and obviously distressed friend who refused to come out of the bathroom.

"Do you have a bobby pin?" Rikki asked "Yeah, why?" Cleo returned, who pulled out one of the few she had holding back her pigtail braids.

"So I can pick the lock," Rikki stated taking the bobby pin and bending down to her knees before the door to be level with the door knob but immediately jumped back up.

"What's wrong?" Cleo asked.

"It's ... really cold," Rikki confused putting her hand out to touch the floor just outside the bathroom door, "It's ice ..."

"Her powers must be going out of control," Cleo stated worriedly.

Rikki quickly dried off the finger she touched the ice with on her shirt before using her power to dry up the ice creeping under the door, as well as to warm up the knob which she found was also ice cold, before she bent down and began working at picking the lock. It wasn't too long before they heard a click.

"That was quick," Cleo commented, impressed.

"I've got experience," Rikki shrugged smirking, and they both took a deep breath staring at the door as they prepared themselves for what they would find inside.

"Don't look up," Cleo reminded Rikki, recalling the open window. Rikki nodded before gently pushed open the door.

Even though they had braced themselves for something strange, they were still shocked by what they found.

Emma sat against the far wall, holding her knees close to her chest, and looking up at them with tear filled eyes that held no recognition of them. To top it all off, everything in the bathroom was coated in a layer of ice and it was snowing. You would think that since snow is just cold water, Emma would have turned into a mermaid by now, but Rikki and Cleo watched horrified as the snow that did reach her skin crystallized rather than melted before falling to the ground around her. She was that cold.

*"Chi e tui?" She gasped out, shifting her eyes between them, but they didn't understand.

"Emma, we are your friends, you need to calm down," Rikki said slowly as she began to attempt at warming the room up since the chill began to spread down the hallway.

"We can help," Cleo continued, pained when she saw confusion fill her friends features as she tensed up, curled more into herself as if trying to get as far away. Cleo slowly approached her, vaguely aware of the temperature dropping more and the crystallized snowflakes falling around her, reaching out a reassuring hand, trying to gain her trust even as she shivered from the intense cold.

"No!" Emma cried out, baring her own hand palm out, sending a magical blast of cold which knocked Cleo back out of the door, though Rikki caught her before she fell.

Shock and horror at what she'd done crossed Emma's face before she buried her head between her knees and the soft whimpering continued.

"We're gonna need some backup," Rikki whispered to Cleo who simply nodded as she got to her feet, no more than stunned from the impact.

It was clear that Emma wanted to be left alone, but still Cleo and Rikki were very reluctant to leave their friend. Cleo went off to the living room to give Lewis a call out of earshot while Rikki stayed to keep watch, though they closed the door once more in an effort to give Emma the privacy she wanted and to contain the magic.

Cleo dialed up Lewis' number as quickly as she could, which was pretty quick since she had him on speed dial. What she didn't know was that he was right outside the house waiting to see if something would go wrong, and she was surprised when he answered on the first ring.

"Lewis! We've kind of got an emergency, could you come over?" Cleo stated quickly.

"I'm on my way" Lewis promised, worriedly hanging up. He was currently stationed with Felix under a tree not 5 meters from the house. He warned Felix that there might be trouble and to tell the other men to be ready. Then he paced around for a few minutes so his sudden arrival wouldn't seem too suspicious. He would've done it longer, the normal walk from his house to Cleo's was about 15 minutes, but the longer he waited the more he thought about worse and worse scenarios that could have happened.

'Maybe it's not even Emma that is moonstruck, maybe it's Rikki ...' Lewis thought to himself doubtfully as he made his way to the front door and knocked, finding himself disappointed when Rikki opened the door.

"You're fast," she commented with a smirk, but the seriously worried look in her eyes didn't get past Lewis.

"What's the situation?" I asked walking past her and into the house.

"Emma locked herself in the bathroom, which had a window that wasn't covered," Rikki looked down guiltily as she passed ahead of Lewis to lead him down the hallway, "We opened it when we heard her crying. Her powers are out of control, the bathroom is frozen over and in the midst of a blizzard, and to top it off she seems to have lost her memory of us."

"Wow," Lewis sighed as they approached the door, finding Cleo peeking through the crack of the open door, worriedly, as Emma's whimpering was still heard down the hall.

"Well you are the plan man," Rikki said, "What should we do?"

"We need to get her out of the bathroom and into a more comfortable setting, like your bedroom, that might help to calm her down," Lewis spoke off the top of his head, "I can soothe her and get her to move up. Cleo, you can go up and prepare the bed for her, and Rikki, once I take her upstairs use your powers to warm everything up in the bathroom before the pipes freeze beyond repair. We will go from there."

"What makes you think you can get her to move?" Rikki asked suspiciously.

"My charming good looks and personality," He replied jokingly, avoiding giving her a straight response, "I've just got one of those faces you know?"

Rikki just rolled her eyes.

"It just might work, I'll bring some of the pillows and blankets upstairs and then come back down if you need any help," Cleo stated, worry evident in her voice as she gave one long look at the closed bathroom door before heading off toward the living room.

"I'm gonna need some space," Lewis said seriously to Rikki, who in turn backed a ways from the door to a point where she could still see when they come out but in the opposite direction if the stairs to the bedroom.

Lewis slowly opened the door, saying loud enough for Rikki to hear, "Emma, it's okay, it's just me, Lewis," before stepping inside the winter wonderland of a bathroom, gently closing the door behind him. It was beautiful really, but it troubled him knowing how it had happened. Though he hoped the situation was as he expected. From what Rikki had told him about her memory, he was assuming that his sister had reverted to her original persona and would hopefully remember him at least.

He wasn't disappointed when she looked up and cried "Lewis!" Rather cheerfully, though he grew ever more forlorn upon seeing the state she was in. Huddled against the wall with tear streaks on her face and sadness tinging her voice as she asked, "Dove e wui?"**

"At a friend's house," Lewis explained calmly in their native tongue, casually covering the small bathroom window to block the moon before taking a seat on the ice in front of Emma, who had kept her eyes on him as she watched his actions curiously. Still, she waited until he took a seat to speak up.

"I don't know anyone ... And who is Emma? And this magic ... I can't control it," Emma, well truly Lydia, cried in desperation in the only language she knew (To make it easier for everyone I am just going to write in English from now on and note when actual speech changes back to English). She looked up to Lewis with desperate, pleading eyes.

"Yes you do," Lewis stated reassuringly putting an arm on her shoulder, "You just have to calm down, take deep breaths."

Emma did as directed and slowly but surely the snow came to a stop. She closed her eyes, focusing, taking control. When she finally opened them she was smiling.

"Thank you Lew!" Emma cried lunging at Lewis, wrapping him in a hug while consequently pushing him over.

Lewis laughed but he could feel tears coming to his eyes, as he returned the hug, he never realize just how much he missed his sister. Then he sat upright, pulling her with him.

"Now it's time we get you out of here," Lewis stated loosening the hug and getting to his feet before grabbing Emma's hands to encourage her to do the same, glad to find her body temperature was getting warmer.

Emma followed suit with Lewis' help but couldn't stand alone for long before falling forward into Lewis' arms. The outburst of power and emotion had left her pretty weak.

"I'm tired," she giggled at her own exhaustion before yawning.

"I'll help you, you can sleep when we get there," Lewis stated pulling her into his arms, his new increased strength making the action super easy. She in turn nuzzled her head against his chest, closing her eyes sleepily.

Cautiously Lewis carried Emma out of the bathroom, turning to find Rikki standing right by the door. She had been listening in, curiously and now suspiciously, but he had no idea how much she had heard, though obviously she wouldn't have been able to understand, and currently Emma was his first priority.

"I covered the window, should be safe," Lewis reported, swiftly changing to English, to Rikki's confused stare, but waited until she nodded in response before heading off down the hallway, up the stairs, and into the bedroom where Cleo had the bed made up for her.

"Do you think she is going to be okay," Cleo whispered after Lewis had set down Emma and it was clear she was already sleeping.

"I think she is going to be just fine," Lewis replied with a small smile as he pulled the covers over his sister, "Her temperature is already rising, I think she just needs some sleep for now."

Lewis then slowly ushered Cleo out of the room, closing the door behind them to ensure Emma got some peace and quiet to rest.

"How did you get her to do that?" Cleo asked in amazement.

"Yeah Lewis, how?" Rikki accused, meeting them at the bottom of the stairs.

Rikki wasn't ignorant, she had known something was up between Lewis and Emma since she saw them share that knowing look last night, the way he watched almost worriedly as Emma talked with Ash this afternoon, how quickly he offered to make sure Emma would get to Cleo's safely, and then when they ran to Cleo's house together arriving in fits of laughter. It also wasn't hard to figure out after observing Lewis' actions with the moonstruck mermaid as well as her affectionate reactions. The full moon may make mermaids act weird, but each of them knew that for the most part the moon brought out their true subconscious thoughts and feelings. Rikki was putting two and two together and not liking it one bit.

Lewis didn't notice however, and simply shrugged nonchalantly in response, "I just got her to calm down, all the use of power had made her exhausted so I offered to carry her to the bed."

"Aww thank you Lewis, you're the best!" Cleo responded, giving Lewis an affectionate hug that he graciously returned, making Rikki scoff.

"Do you mind if I stick around to keep an eye on her? She's out now but I don't know how long that will last and if either of you go in there and she wakes up she might just wind up getting everybody moonstruck," Lewis covered, wary of leaving his sister alone in this state.

"Sure, I guess that is fine, as long as you leave the minute the moon is down, because I don't know how early my family will be getting back," Cleo replied as they all headed towards the living room.

"That's fine," Lewis replied taking a seat on the couch next to Cleo, "So what movies do you guys got?"

They popped in a horror film, much to Cleo's discontent. However, Lewis was evermore willing to hold her close and allow her to bury her head into his chest when the actually scary parts came up. Meanwhile Rikki lay on the other sofa, watching the movie as much as she watched her friends actions as she attempted to gage the situation and happenings around her.

By the time the movie ended and the credits were rolling Cleo was asleep on the couch with her head in Lewis' lap, and Lewis and Rikki had equally been dozing off. Lewis however, realized that this would be an opportune moment to make sure Emma was still sleeping.

"I'm just going to check on Emma," He whispered to Rikki, who was so tired she only nodded in his direction to acknowledge him, as he delicately and cautiously picked Cleo's head off of his lap so he could get up, replacing it with a pillow for comfort.

Quietly he made his way through the house, hoping that if Emma was asleep that the noise of the floorboards creaking wouldn't wake her and if she was awake, that it wouldn't freak her out. Surprisingly though when he entered the dark room the temperature seemed to drop considerably though she appeared to be sleeping peacefully. As he got closer though he realized that was not exactly the case. He found that her hands were tense holding the covers around her tight, her body was curled up in a ball and shaking, her eyebrows were furrowed as though in concentration though her eyes remained shut, and the closer he came the more he could hear her shaky breaths and quiet whimpers. She seemed to be having a nightmare of some sort.

Lewis gazed on in concern as he looked upon her, not seeing Emma his best friend or even Lydia his twin, but seeing Lydia, the 3 year old child who was abducted from her home. He couldn't stop it then, but he could comfort her now.

He kneeled beside the bed, never taking his gaze off her face as her reached out his hand, delicately caressing her head as he concentrated on spreading the warmth. After a few minutes he was happy to see her shivering slow, her grip on the covers loosen, and her breath come less ragged, though the soft whimpering continued every minute or so. Relieved he relaxed a bit, taking his other hand and rubbing her back, cautiously trying to coax her to relax and assure her she wasn't alone.

"Sweet dreams Lydia, sweet dreams," He whispered soothingly.

It took a while, but eventually her legs loosened out of their tense positioning and stretched, her brow unfurrowed, the room became warmer, and the whimpering seemed to stop, replaced only with regular even breaths. Afraid that moving or changing what he was doing would disturb her in some way, Lewis continued the rubbing and caress, though he did not need to concentrate on warming her anymore, still he was just content watching her peaceful face. He could've stayed that way for the rest of the night, in fact he couldn't think of a better way to end this night, but unfortunately fate had other plans in mind.

It was not long after everything seemed to be fine that Lewis watched as Emma's eyes shot wide open and the moon was clearly reflected in them. She got up excitedly and ran over to the window before Lewis could recover from the shock of such rapid events. She quickly tore off the cardboard staring straight up the moon with a wide grin, jumping up and down.

"It's beautiful isn't it Lew!" She asked in their native tongue.

"Yes but it is late, you need more sleep," Lewis tried and failed to coax her back to the bed.

"It is telling me how to get home! We can go home," Emma stated excitedly, ignoring his words, fumbling with the window as she eventually pulled it up, her eyes never leaving the moon. Lewis grew increasingly concerned as she did this and even attempted to grab her by the waist and physically pull her back to the bed, but she wouldn't budge.

"Lydia we can go home tomorrow it's late," he said settling on putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder to keep her from stepping outside the window, hoping she would at least turn to face him.

"No," she said turning her face to him for just a mere second, "I have to go now."

And then she jumped out the window.

"No!" Lewis shouted in desperation watching after her as she agily landed on her feet and sprinted to the nearby water, evading every nearby guard that attempted to restrain her. She dived in with not one look back, and the only thing Lewis could do was wish her good luck on the long sea journey to Sirenthia as he gazed longingly and worriedly out the window and the consistent waves that covered where she had once been.

"What happened?" Rikki asked as she rushed into the room, having apparently heard Lewis' scream.

"Rikki don't look!" Lewis shouted, turning toward the door where Rikki stood, still alert and well aware that the full moon's light beamed brightly through the now open window and a second moonstruck mermaid wasn't going to help anything.

It didn't matter though, because he was too late.

*Who are you?

**Where are we?

Question: What would you guys think of Rikki traveling to Sirenthia with Emma? (Much of the next chapter will take place there ;). Originally I was going to keep it just Emma, but now I'm thinking it could work with Rikki, might even be more interesting, what do you guys think?

Just to clarify all the conversations between Lewis and Emma, who was technically Lydia throughout the time she was moonstruck, are technically being spoken in Sirenthian, but I kept them in English the same reason I used Emma instead of Lydia, to reduce confusion and make things clearer. So now, Rikki thinks Emma and Lewis are developing feelings for each other, romantically. However, all the affection displayed by the two is strictly familial, sibling love just to clarify, as I tried to make evident Lewis' romantic feelings displayed towards Cleo.