Cleo's Pov
"Agh! I still can't figure out what caused Rikki and Emma to react like that on the full moon! This is so frustrating!" I mentioned as I was looking at the blue rocks that were still scattered everywhere in the cave.
It has been over a month since Sophie destroyed everything in the cave and we still haven't cleaned up all the rocks that were laying everywhere on the floor.
"It will take time! We'll figure it out." Lewis responded as he was standing on a latter, using a hammer to take more rock samples.
"Lewis! There are plenty of rocks down here! Why don't we just use these?" I asked as I picked up a huge chunky rock which contained a small blue crystal in it.
"Cause those rocks were not part of the cave when this whole incident happened. We need fresh new rock from when the last full moon appeared." He explained as he finally broke off a piece of the rock that was on the wall.
"There! Finally I broke of a piece of rock!" He explained as he climbed down the latter to show me a small crumbly rock in his hand.
"Lewis! This is no use! The only person who can actually get rocks out of this cave is-" I started saying but I stopped before I said the name.
Rikki was the only one in the group who could actually burn off the rocks from the wall with out it crumbling on her. But trying to get her to help us wasn't going to be easy.
"Is?" Lewis asked as he still held out the crumbly rock in his hand.
"Nevermind. Just forget I mentioned that." I said trying to avoid Rikki being talked about in our discussion.
"Well I don't think this will help us at all. Rikki really did a good job of burning the rocks." Lewis mentioned as the cave was burnt black from when Rikki lit the walls on fire.
I turned around trying to avoid the "Rikki" conversation again.
"This is getting us no where! We need to find out what triggers the moon into making us go widely mad." I mentioned as I looked around the cave.
"Like how 3 years ago this place used to make you widely crazy? I bet it just has the same reaction but it just makes you mad-" Lewis tried to explain to me but I cut him off.
"Ya but Emma told me she didn't touch water nor look at the moon when she went mad. I just mentioned about Rikki and she totally went moon struck and tried to kill Rikki out by Mako." I madly explained as I bent over and picked up another chunck of rock that was left on the sandy floors.
"Did Rikki look at the moon when she got widely mad?" He asked as he looked down at me.
I sighed as I haven't spoken to Rikki in ages.
"Well, no. Me and Rikki haven't been talking lately." I sadly said as I did feel a little pressured from Emma and Bella not to talk to her.
Lewis sighed as he put his hand on my shoulder.
"Well apparently she holds the key to this puzzle cause we don't even know her part of the story and she could help us get rock samples out of the walls." Lewis mentioned referring to Rikki's power.
"I don't know. There has to be something else that is making them go mad like that. It has to be more than just the rocks or the full moon." I explained walking around a little bit in the cave but nothing seemed to be giving me an idea of what was causing this.
"What I don't understand is why it only affected Emma and Rikki but not you and Bella." Lewis mentioned as he looked above him where the opening of the of the volcano was.
"Maybe it just… it just..." I tried thinking of something but no words came out of my mouth.
"Well if I were you I would ask Rikki what caused her to react like that cause all we have is Emma's prospective. What if Rikki was the one to cause this whole mess?" Lewis asked me with curiosity.
"That's the thing. Even if she caused this why would she tell me? Last time I talked to her was like 3 weeks ago and it was because we got in a huge argument!" I recalled as I put my navy blue glasses on my face trying to get a better view of the cave.
Lewis sighed as he walked next to me.
"Well right now I have no idea what caused this. I guess we have to wait and find out til the next full moon to see why it-" He started saying but I madly cut him off.
"No Lewis! We can't wait til next time! What if we end up killing someone because of this? We need answers and need answers now!" I madly said as I was quickly pacing back and fourth across the cave.
"But how can we find out answers if we don't even know half of the problem! Why did Rikki go crazy mad like that? Why was she at Mako when Emma arrived from the moon pool? If we knew those answers it could help us a lot. But for right now, there's nothing else we can do." Lewis explained as it turned slilent for a couple of seconds.
All you could hear was the sound of trickling water that was in the moon pool and the slight breeze that was carried inside the cave.
"Fine! I'll talk to her!" I finally said after a long akward silence.
Lewis slightly smiled as I said that taking another look around in the cave.
"But it won't be easy, that's one thing for sure." I quietly mentioned to myself as I could just imagine Rikki walking away from me the minute I start talking to her.
Even if I did get the chance to talk to her, she would probably walk away from me the minute I start asking her questions about the night of the full.
I obviously didn't have any other choice. She was the only other person who could help through this whole full moon mess.
"Its going to be ok. Just find a way to convince her. You guys are still great friends and you shouldn't forget that. You guys just needed some time apart and now would be a great time to start talking to her again." Lewis encouraged me.
"Ok, ill try but I just need to find some way to approach her with out her getting all distanced away from me. I don't want her to seem that I just want information from her." I said with a bit of frustration.
"Why don't you get Bella or Emma to help?" Lewis suggested.
"No way! They would never help. They still very dislike Rikki. Like very! Im on my own for this one." I mentioned to myself.
"Ok, then. Since there isn't much I can do now, can I go back to the apartment? We've been out her for hours!" Lewis complained as he was rubbing his sore arm.
"Ok fine. Im gonna try to figure out a few things first." I responded as I bent down and looked at more rocks.
"Ok then. Good luck." Lewis finally said as he quickly left the cave.
I sighed as I looked around. This whole place was just crumbling to pieces. The walls were burnt and black, there were still rocks and crystals laying everywhere and the full moon was going crazy on us, more like mad on us.
I sat down on the cold sand as I looked up above me. If this was going to be hard to figure out there was also another thing that would be hard to figure out. Trying to convince Rikki to tell us information about this place. All of the information, before it gets any worse.
Later that Day
I had a sanwhich in my hand as I was finally getting down to the napkin that it was in. I quickly threw the napkin away as I was walking to Emma's house. I couldn't figure out why the full moon was affecting us like that. I didn't even get a hint of why it was doing that to us.
I sighed as I kept walking along the side walk and passed the closed café. I stopped and stared at the café as it gave me so many memories. I remembered all the times when me and my friends would just sit and talk at those tables for hours. Everything seemed great and even if we had problems, we always worked it out and everything just seemed fine.
When I stopped looking at the boarded up café, I turned around to see Rikki walking towards my direction. Soon this horrible gut feeling was in my stomach as I knew I had to talk to her but how?
I slowly went up to her as I got a closer look of her. Her clothes were wrinkled and messed up as her hair didn't looked brushed out at all. It looked like she just crawled out of bed or that she was sleep walking.
She was looking up at the sky as it looked like she was thinking of a million things at once. I slowly approached her but it didn't seem like she noticed me. She was still spacing off as she had that tensed nervous look on her face.
I was about 10 feet away from her but she still didn't seem to have a clue that I was standing right there. Immediately I waved my hand in front of her face making her jump in shock.
She rubbed her eyes as she took a closer look at me.
"Cleo?" She said sounding more like a question than a comment.
I awkwardly stood there just looking at her messy hair but I looked back at her face as I tried to find the words I was going to say.
She just stood there in frustration and confusion as I began to speak.
"Hey Rikki… um… Where you going?" I finally asked as I had no clue what to say to her.
Rikki just looked at me like "why-would-you-care?" kind of look but she finally relaxed a little bit as she started to talk.
"I'm just going home…" She finally said sounding like she was going to add more to her sentence but she didn't.
"Oh, from where were you coming from?" I asked more openly as I hoped this would some how lead to a conversation.
"And why would you care?" She finally snapped at me as she looked stressed out.
"Oh sorry. I was just wondering. I didn't mean to get into your business or anything but… I don't know. I was just wondering." I nervously said as I didn't want her to get mad at me.
She just sighed as she continued to walk past me to the direction of her house but I walked along her.
It was akward for a few seconds trying to figure out what I wanted to say so I just decided to go with compliments.
"Um… I like your shirt. Its really cute? Where did you get it?" I finally asked but instead of just answering my question she just madly turned around and put her hand on her hip.
"Ok! What do you want?" She snapped at me as she looked really angry and upset.
I tried to calm myself down as I was looking for the right words to say to her.
"Look… Rikki. I know things have been kind of… weird for us lately but, I just wanted to say hi. See how things were going." I finally said but she just stood there expecting me to say more.
I sighed as I continued.
"Ok the truth is that…. I miss talking to you. You know? Hanging out. Its been kind of weird with out you in the group. I kinda miss you as a friend." I partly lied but part of what I was saying was true.
"You know how Emma is sometimes. She still upset with the whole replacing her thing and ive been under a lot pressure and I know what I did was wrong and I feel kind of bad for what I did." I continued as I felt pretty good of what I just told her.
I prayed that she wasn't just gonna walk off and leave me standing there like an idiot but instead of arguing with me, she snapped out of her trance and immediately said:
"I need you to do me a favor!"
Confused from what she just asked, I processed the sentence in my head and kept talking to her.
"Um, ok? What is it?" I asked a bit confused from her immediate response.
"If my dad calls you or if any one asks, can you just tell them I slept over at your house?" She asked a little nervously.
I shook my head almost saying no but I had to think about it. If i told her no, she would never help me out by Mako. I had to act like a friend and help her with whatever situation she was in.
"Um, sure? I guess." I said awkwardly not knowing exactly why she asked me that weird favor.
"Really? Ok good. If they ask just say I slept in one of your sleeping bags and that we just ate popcorn and watched a movie." She clarified as she looked a little more relieved.
"Um, ok but if you weren't home then where were you?" I asked a little suspicious of why she wasn't at her house.
Maybe that's why it explained her wrinkled clothes and messy hair.
I looked at her for an answer but her face went pale as she looked like she was gonna have a heart attack but she finally got her thoughts through as she responded my question.
"Oh well, I was visiting Mako island last night and I kinda feel asleep so I never returned home." She finally said.
I frowned as I recalled me and Lewis being at Mako island since 9 in the morning but I guess she swam out of there before we arrived.
"Oh. Ok. Sure then I guess ill just say you slept over." I mentioned hoping this was a good to start a friendship with her.
She slightly smiled as she didn't look so stressed out any more.
"Ok, um, thanks. Well, I kinda got to go…" She said pointing to the direction of the trailer park but I smiled as I nodded my head.
"Oh, ok then. Don't want your dad thinking you ran off. Well, ill talk to you later." I finally said as she walked off.
I finally breathed in relief until it struck me. I forgot to ask her about the full moon and Mako! How was I so stupid.
Well I could always ask her later but we needed answers so I would probably ask her tomorrow. There was just one problem.
What would Emma or Bella think of me if I told them I let Rikki sleep over at my house?
A/N: Do you think Rikki and Cleo will become friends again or not? Will Rikki be able to hide the truth from everyone and Will Lewis and Cleo find out the mysteries about the full moon? Thanks again! Please review :D