I apologize for the late update. But don't think I abandoned the fic, I'd never do that. I just have another story to plan (a Digimon fanfic) and another one to rewrite. It's 45 chapters long and badly, and I mean badly, written. No description, no anything. And the worst part is that it was written earlier this year. So yeah, I guess I'm lucky I learned to write better before I wrote something else as bad as that. And the school's bugging me with exams as there'll be two or three-week holidays starting Thursday this week. I can't wait!
But let's get back to H2O. Thanks for the nice reviews and for answering my questions! It really means a lot. So curious about what will happen? Then I'm not going to distract you from reading anymore.
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Before reading just to let you know that from now on I'm writing in third person's POV. I realized it's a lot easier that way.
Five am. Three hours ago our mermaids did their best to withstand the pressure the school's strict rules put upon them. They slowly breathed out their last breath as the last minutes of class slowly passed by. It were those last minutes that seemed to last forever and it made them feel sick - sick of school, studying and everything related to it. The chemistry teacher didn't go easy on them either - when they got rid of Mrs. Reeds when they finished middle school, they thought that chemistry hell was over once and for all. They were wrong. Mr. Clouds was a lot worse than Mrs. Reeds. He always gave Fs and to get a D you had to study hard. Too hard. No one in his class had a B; As were a mission impossible. The last period they were supposed to have a chemistry test - they had double chemistry and did a repetition for it the first period - but the whole class agreed to skip and go home.
So once it rang and the period was over, May, Melissa and Destiny - along with the whole class - ran home and as soon as they ate their lunch, they found the closest way to get to the ocean and dove under its turquoise surface that glittered in millions of sparkles under the sun's golden rays. They met in the moon pool and spent two and a half hours there just floating and lazing around.
"Wanna go check out Tropicus?" Destiny's voice broke the silence.
Melissa and May shot a curious glare at their friend. They thought about the suggestion for a few seconds, before they agreed and the threesome left the moon pool with a splash as they waved with their tails and dove underwater.
Tropicus was the new café owned by the family that recently moved to Honolulu - the Jenkins'. That family was pretty small and young, and they had only one child - a teenage boy named Chris. Mr. Jenkins was an American cook, while his wife was a Japanese café owner. Chris goes to the same class May, Melissa and Destiny go to and he's been nothing but nice to them and he's made friends with his boy classmates.
The girls were supposed to go to Tropicus a few days earlier, but since it was still new and way too crowded with people as the new places always are, they decided to put it on a hiatus until people realize there's nothing special about it.
-H2O-
When the girls arrived to Tropicus, they were greeted with a mixture of smells produced by various of fresh fruit. The café was small, but it looked pretty nice and modern, and seemed like a safe and protective place. Light blue tones of color decorated the clean walls, and there was probably the most expensive laminate put on the floor's face. The chairs and tables were made out of finest wood - they were all colored in light shades of bronze.
The counter was also bronze and big and there were a few waiters and waitresses standing behind it and making drinks. It was still quite crowded in there and most of the costumers were teens, but there were a few empty seats that had left.
Destiny picked them a table near the counter and the threesome took their seat and went to discuss about what to drink. There were many choices as they wanted to check out new juices they never drank before, but none had money for more than one juice.
"Hello girls."
A soft voice made them look up as it greeted them with its warmth. An average-height Japanese guy stood next between Melissa and May. His small, dark eyes eyed the three girls and seemed to giggle with their playful glow. He had a thick, dark chocolate hair that was a bit longer and the bangs covered almost the whole left side of his face. He was fair skinned - not tanned, but yet not pale. He wore a leather jacket and bleached blue jeans - it is unclear if the high temperature didn't bother him or he just wanted to look cool.
"Hi, Chris", Destiny returned the greeting.
He smiled. "Nice to see you guys here", he said.
He had a Japanese accent and his 'here' sounded like 'hear'. Melissa found it cute, as she giggled at the very sound of his voice, at which Destiny rolled her eyes and May sent her a supportive thumbs up.
"What would you like to order?" Chris asked
"A strawberry smoothie", May spoke; ordering her favorite type of smoothie.
"I'd like a chocolate one", Destiny said.
"All right..." Chris wrote their orders down into his small not and turned to Melissa, who was too busy staring at him to notice he had asked her a question. "What about you?"
"Melissa!" A slap on the hand by Destiny brought her back to reality.
She cleared her throat and spoke: "I'd like a... I dunno. What do you like?" She looked into Chris' eyes.
A smile spread across his face once again as he replied: "Mango."
Melissa smiled as well. "I love mango too. I actually adore it. Give me a mango, will 'ya?"
He wrote it down and went towards the counter to make the girls the smoothies they ordered. As he was leaving, he shot a quick glare at Melissa and winked at her. She winked back, but was unable to say anything.
"You're an idiot!"
"What was that?"
May and Destiny instantly shoot Melissa with questions and statements. She simply rolled her eyes at their words and took a mirror out of her pocket to make sure her hair looked perfect. The other two were about to say something, but she beat them to it.
"Yes, I do like him."
They opened their mouth to make another statement, but she said it before they managed to speak.
"No, I won't ask him out. I just met him a few days ago."
"So? He seems nice", May said.
Melissa was about to give her a reply, when Chris reappeared before them and put their smoothies onto their tables. They thanked him and when he was about to leave, May invited him to sit with them to get to know him a bit more. Smiling, he accepted her offer and told the other waiters that he's taking a break.
The small group chatted for almost an hours; they discovered many things about Chris: that he moved here from Tokyo and that everything's new to him, that he sucks in chemistry, math and English, but is pretty good in physics, that his favorite color is black and lots of funny little facts. He turned out to be a pretty nice person, and a cute and funny guy.
He's learned about the girls too; especially about Melissa, which was brought to him mostly by May and Destiny. Melissa just blushed the whole time and observed his pretty eyes as they sparkled with joy every time her name or something about her was mentioned; he probably liked her too, but she didn't want to check out if her suspicions were true.
As it's gotten pretty late, he had to go back to work, but Destiny asked him to stay for a bit more. He was a bit unsure at first, but decided to stay just to please her.
"Did you know about this?" His question made the girls feel a bit curious, as he took a small newspaper article out of his jeans pocket and struck it out for them to take it and look at it.
Destiny took it out of his hand and read out loud the text: "The reward of 20000$ awaits for the founder of the necklace lost in a wild storm two days ago. That terrible night the boat owned by Mr. Sheffield, an important European businessman, sank and Mr. Sheffield's necklace got lost somewhere on the bottom of the ocean. Twenty-thousand dollar reward goes to whoever finds it."
"Wow", was the only thing Melissa managed to say.
Destiny nodded. "Here's the picture of the necklace."
She put the article in the air to show the other two girls the necklace. It was golden and covered in lots of tiny diamonds, with a big diamond locket hanging from it. It was pretty shiny and looked expensive.
"I'd love to find it", May commented.
Chris nodded in agreement. "Me too. Too bad it's too deep. But maybe I'll try. Maybe..."
"I'll try too", May whispered to Melissa's ear, but the whisper was loud enough for Chris to hear it.
"Aren't you hydrophobic?"
She nervously cleared her throat. "Yes, I am... But my dad isn't. He's a good swimmer and he might want to give it a try."
"If that's the case, you have my best wishes."
"Thanks, Chris."
-H2O-
"Found anything?"
"No, nothing yet."
The moon hung high on the sky and watched over the city covered in darkness. The ocean was calm and peaceful, and the night smelled like a mixture of honey and mint. A small motorboat floated on the ocean's surface; in it stood a fourteen-year old boy that talked to the three female figures whose heads were struck out of the ocean.
"Maybe we should go home and leave this for tomorrow. It's eleven o'clock already and we have school in the morning."
"No, Dyson!"
"But May!"
"May's right, Dyson. We can't leave now."
"Not you too Melissa."
With a devilish smile, three female figures dove back under the cool water. They waved and flipped their tail in order to reach the bottom, where they swam around a big sank boat. The boot that laid on the bottom looked demolished and it was slowly falling apart - it seemed more like it sunk twenty years ago, instead of two days ago.
May and Destiny found the door and swam inside, while Melissa circled around the boat, searching for the expensive necklace. She carefully went through all the algae and underwater plants, and slowly ran her fingers through the soft sand with the hope of finding it.
-H2O-
While the girls were busy underwater, Dyson held a computer magazine and read about new programs and softwares. The sight of bright light made him look up; a small orange boat approached him, and in it was no one but a familiar Asian boy.
"Chris?" was the only thing that slipped down Dyson's lips.
Chris smiled. "Hi, Dyson."
He observed Dyson for a few seconds, before he spoke: "What're you doing here at this hour?"
Dyson swallowed and faked a smile. "Well... You see... I was just... Fishing."
"Isn't it a bit late to be fishing?"
"I'm more of a night person." Dyson chuckled. "How about you?"
"I came here to look for the necklace", Chris replied. "Tomorrow this will be full of divers and I decided to search for it before anyone else does."
"Good for you."
Dyson gulped. Chris was there, getting ready to jump into the ocean's depths. He could not allow him to do it. If he did, the girls' secret would get exposed. Chris was a nice young man, but he was still a new boy in the city and who knew how he'd react to something as big as the girls' mermaid secret?
With a deep breath, Dyson turned to Chris. "Why don't you and I stay here for a while and chat. I heard it's good to relax before you go scuba diving. At least I always relax before I do."
Chris shook his head. "No, I'm good."
"But I insist."
"Thanks, Dyson, but I just want to get this over with. I'm already here and it's late, which means I won't feel so good in the morning, so please let me go."
With a defeated look, Dyson pouted his lips and raised his hands in the air in a defensive way. "You may go, Chris. No one's holding you back."
With a final smile, Chris took a deep breath and jumped into the ocean. Dyson looked after him; his heart beating faster than ever. I hope the girls'll be okay.
-H2O-
Melissa circled around the boat for a few minutes, when she saw some light not so far away from her. This light looked like it came from a flashlight and Melissa instantly hid behind one of the boat's ripped door.
As the light came closer to her, she could see a hand holding it; with a hand came the bare torso and a face with brown hair. Chris. Startled by her crush's appearance, she swam to the other side of the boat, only to see him swimming that way and directly toward her.
Her heart began pounding faster and her arms started to shake.
He can't be.
Chris proudly swam forward, while Melissa hid behind a rock; it was quite a big rock, but not big enough for her to be hidden for long. Seeing Chris almost near her, she closed her eyes and began praying inside.
Please don't let him find me. Please don't let him see me like this. Please!
A minute must have passed, but Chris was nowhere to be seen. Melissa looked around, but there was no sight of the young man. Relieved, she peaked from the left side of the rock and as soon as she saw a scene in front of her, panic overwhelmed her in an instant.
A few meters away from her Chris stood on the sandy surface; three hungry sharks circling around him. Melissa felt tears coming to her eyes, but being in the water made it impossible for the tears to fall. Her face went red and she had a feeling as if thousands of ant ran through her entire body.
I've got to help him.
She slowly rose her hand and straightened her palm. If nothing, she could at least use her power to help Chris - her power could be used for good cause for once in a while.
Cold. Cold. Cool. Coldness. Cool it. Their blood. Body. Environment. Cool it. Cool everything.
As her thoughts commanded her power, the water around the sharks began to cool down. Their whole body went cold and they hurried away from their possible victim. Chris crossed his arms on his chest; he was cold too. He was probably much more cold than those sharks.
A satisfied smile spread across Melissa's face as she saw the sharks leaving. She put her hand down and the water slowly returned to its own cold temperature, which was much warmer than the one Melissa made.
Scared and cold, Chris resurfaced, while Melissa went to find her friends. She was just about to enter the boat, when May and Destiny swam out of it. They pointed their index finger towards the surface, signaling that they've seen Chris. They smiled at Melissa, who smiled back.
Melissa looked around and one shiny object in the sand caught her eye. She slowly put her hand down and cleaned the sand from the object, which turned out to be a wonderful necklace. She took it in her hands and smiled at its beauty.
May and Destiny swam to her and gave her thumbs up.
-H2O-
"Oh, my God! Chris, why happened to you?"
As Chris surfaced, Dyson noticed a scared look on his face and became worried; what if he's seen the girls and got frightened?
After taking a few deep breaths to calm down, Chris replied: "Three sharks circled around me. They looked like they were gonna eat me, when the water suddenly became cold and they left. After they left, the water became normal again."
Dyson nodded. "Good. But don't worry, what happened to you is normal here."
Chris looked shocked. "It is?"
"Yup. Every once in a while the water in this ocean and at this exact place spontaneously cools down and then warms up. No one knows what's causing it, but people here are used to it."
"That's great for them", Chris said and took a deep breath. "But I'll go down once more to see if it's safe."
Dyson reached for him, but before he was able to stop him, Chris was gone to the ocean's depths.
-H2O-
Destiny and May said hello to Melissa and raced towards a beach at May's. Melissa decided to stay and wait for Chris to leave, so she can give Dyson the necklace so they can all go and claim to be founders tomorrow.
She heard a blurry splash and noticed Chris diving back under. Quickly she swam in the direction of Ooha'oma; she wanted to go inside a boat, but she figured Chris might find her there.
Swimming in full speed, she smiled at the thought how close she was to exposing and at how easily she avoided Chris to see her.
But what she did not realize was that Chris saw her tail. He was still in the same position he was when he dove in, but this time something was different; he saw a golden tail. And he was going to uncover the secret behind it.
Do you like it more in third person or the characters' POVs? I'd like to know.
I just have to tell you that chapters MAYBE won't come out as soon as they did before because as I said, I have other projects. Hope you understand. But do not worry, I'll finish this story. Six more episodes and the first season is over.
I almost forgot... Next time find out what happens when you complain about a bad teacher.