Thanks to all my reviewers and a special thanks to zikkigurl207454, the demon of this chapter was her idea.

Do you guys als find it sucks that season 3 is done? Yf anyone knows something about the fourth season, can you please inform me.

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This place is cool."

Elliot is talking about Lewis' brother's shop, packed with palm trees. Rikki and Emma took him along when they had to bring some stuff for Lewis. But he is pretty hard to find.

"Lewis, where are you?"

All of a sudden Emma feels a hand on her shoulder and was already ready to protect herself. But it was only Lewis' brother. Fighting demons all the time is good for your reflexes, but dangerous when someone tries to surprise you.

"You must be Lewis' friend, Emma, right? This way."

"This way, Rikki."

**

"Guys you're here and you brought the stuff."

"Yes so I was hoping you would pay us for all of this, Lewis."

"Only with my firm friendship."

"Is this going to work, Lewis?" Lewis' brother really hadn't time for childish behaviour, he had a shop to keep open.

"Sure it is Lenny, of course."

"This is Lenny?"

"Oh you haven't met. Lenny, the guys, guys Lenny, my brother, the fourth oldest."

"How many brothers do you got?"

"Seven, but only one who would own a plant nursery."

"And only one who would hire Lewis to fix the watering system."

"Hey, you're doing a good deal here Lenny…"

But the girls weren't listening anymore as the looked around and saw water pipes all over the place.

"Um okay, it looks like the two of you got a lot to talk about, so we'll be heading off."

**

While Emma was saying goodbye, Rikki started the search for her little brother.

"Elliot, where are you?"

"You could hide in here forever."

"Maybe you should."

"C'mon Elliot, we've got to get you to the surfing practice."

Before they left, Rikki took Emma aside.

"Wait a minute, did you say surfing?"

"Yeah, Byron is teaching him and he is doing it very well."

"That's great, but euhm, aren't you forgetting something?"

"Relax I'm not going near the water and neither is he. The first few lessons are on the sand, no chance of getting wet."

**

The girls sit down on the beach, when Byron arrives holding plastic junk.

"Revolting, hey Emma, the cleaning-up-the-beach-rally is starting. Are you gonna come?"

"I forgot, wait a sec." (To Rikki.) "Can you do me a really big favour? Watch Elliot for me."

"No way, it's not going to happen."

"Please."

"Sorry, I don't do kids. Just take him with you."

Byron interferes. "He needs to practice."

"Maybe you wanna come to the cleaning-up-the-beach-rally?"

"No thanks."

"Great, that's settled. Thanks, I appreciate it."

"Emma, I'm not taking any responsibility for what may or may not happen to him."

"I trust you."

And with that Emma and Byron walk off.

"Do you know I'm gonna be a pro surfer?"

"No one said I had to talk to you."

Elliot sees his chance of finally going in to the water. "Watch, I'll show you."

"Elliot, quit showing off." She gets up. "Elliot, come back here. I mean it Elliot. I'll leave you here." All of a sudden Rikki sees something moving in the water. "Elliot get back now." She sees it getting closer to Elliot. "I'm not joking. Get back here this instant." But it is to late, Elliot falls of his board and the thing starts drowning him. After a quick look she dives into the water and to save Elliot. She uses her powers to slay the water thing, but before she can do any harm, it fleets. Remembering Elliot, she goes back to him. She takes his board and goes up to him. Elliot climbs on board.

"How did you do that?"

"Get on and shut up. Keep your eyes closed."

She pushes him off right before the beach and sees him healthy and well on shore. When Elliot turns around, Rikki is nowhere to be found.

**

That evening, Elliot does his story for his parents.

"It's like the wave came out of nowhere. I thought I would end up in New-Zealand or something. And then she was there. She saved me."

"Wait a second. You saw Rikki in the water?" Emma begins to panic.

"Yeah, it was unbelievable."

"Really, why?"

"Because she is the fastest swimmer I've ever seen. She could beat anything, even a dolphin."

"A dolphin, Elliot what exactly did you see out there?"

Their father didn't give Elliot the time to answer Emma. "What I want to know is what were you doing in the water in the first place?"

"Well I …" The door rings. "I'll get it." Saved by the bell.

**

"Rikki. Where did you go? You saved me and then disappeared. How did you do that?"

"Good at holding my breath."

"Good, you were awesome. No wait you were great, no wait you were incredible."

"Do me a favour."

"Anything."

"Let me in."

"You got it." He took her by the hand and led her to the dining room. "Rikki is here."

"C'mon in hero."

"I believe we owe you our thanks of gratitude."

"I was just telling them how you saved me."

"I wouldn't call it saving."

"Modest as well as brave."

"She is the fastest swimmer in the world."

"He's exaggerating."

"Nonsense, what you did was nothing shorter than a brave thing."

Emma had enough of all the praising. "Rikki can I talk to you, in private."

**

"Thank God, they were suffocating me. What?"

"You take a swim and ask me not."

"You let me to babysit, I did the job. Next time let someone else clean the world, while you look out for your brother."

"Don't worry, I will. Did he see anything?"

"Other then when I flashed him? Lighten up, he doesn't expect a thing."

"Look, Elliot couldn't handle it if he discovered we're mermaids, we never had secrets for each other."

"Funny, people who grow up in perfect families, seem to have that problem. They can't handle anything. There is something else we have to worry about."

"What?"

"I think we better call Cleo for this."

**

"Why did I had to come? Lewis and I watching Titanic."

"Elliot almost drowned."

"Is he alright?"

"Yeah, but something in the water pulled Elliot down, something unnatural."

"Oh please, you probably just making an excuse for diving in. You probably just saw a dolphin or a wave that had a strange form."

"It wasn't like that."

"Then why didn't you use your powers, if it was made out of water, you could have boiled it."

"I tried, but he got away before I could finish it. I say, we go out and hunt this thing down, before it hurts somebody else."

"And I say, we should stay here."

"But Emma, if Rikki says that there is …"

"Cleo, you shouldn't believe everything. She just saw an animal and scared it off when she used her power. Nothing more, nothing less."

"Fine, if that's the way it's going to be." And with that, Rikki took off, almost running over Elliot who stood by the door holding a pink card and a box of chocolate. "Get out of my way."

"Stop Rikki, this are for you."

"Thanks."

"Where are you going? Can't you come and play my new game?"

"Sorry I have to go."

Oh please, don't let him have a crush on me, was the last thought Rikki had when she took of the beach.

**

Rikki was walking down the beach when Elliot caught up with her.

"Hey Rikki."

"Elliot, what a surprise."

"I bought you something."

"Look Elliot, no more presents, alright?"

"Okay. Hey, I was thinking that you and I could maybe catch a movie?"

"No thanks."

"We can see anything you like." He continues and takes her hand. Rikki pulls herself lose immediately, she had enough of this puppy love.

"I know you have a crush on me, but I'm not interested."

"Did you know I'm going to be a professional surfer?"

"Elliot, the fact is I'm not a girlfriend type of girl. I'm an loner, that's how I like it."

"What if I became a loner to, then we could both be a loner, together."

"Look, even if you were four years older, two feet taller and a whole lot less squeaky clean, I still wouldn't be interested. In the real world no means no, so back off."

She walks off, but in the distance she sees him throwing something in the sea and that creature just popped back up. She needed to do some thinking on how to destroy this thing.

**

The next morning Emma and Cleo are looking for Elliot, who is missing. They are meeting back at the café, when Rikki shows up, wanting to let the guys know she figured out how to kill the water demon.

"Hey guys, guess what?"

"We can't find Elliot."

"He is probably around, just relax. About that water …"

"He is not Rikki, we looked all over and he isn't anywhere. It's not like him to just disappear."

"Have you told your parents?"

"No way. It's like he ran away. You know he was acting all weird last night. Not his usual happy self. What?" Rikki is trying to avoid Emma's look.

"Oh no, it's probably just nothing."

"Rikki!"

"Okay, I told him that I wasn't interested, but I think I was gentle." Emma and Cleo look unbelieving at her. "Okay I told him that even if he was older, taller and I think the words were less squeaky clean, I still wouldn't be interested and that he just had to back off."

"Rikki."

"He is just a kid."

"He kept on bugging me."

"You keep on acting like he committed a crime for having a crush on you. We have to find him before my parents find out, but if anything happens to him, it will be your fault."

They leave. Rikki takes a moment to sit down. Now she didn't only had to worry about the water demon but also about Elliot. Lewis walks in sits down next to her.

"Hey, why the long face?"

"There is a water demon out there, drowning people."

"Well where are the troops?"

"Elliot."

"Oh let me guess. You tried to let him down easily and now he is morally crushed."

"He is gone missing Lewis. This is serious. Have you seen him anywhere."

"No, not since Lenny's. Maybe you should try to think like a little kid."

"Easier said than done. Where would you hide, when you were a little kid?"

"Somewhere, you would never find me."

Rikki thinks back to the plant shop of Lenny '"You could hide in here forever." "Maybe you should."'. "That's it, Lewis you're a genius." She kisses him on the cheek and heads off the plant nursery.

"You're welcome."

**

"Elliot, Elliot. I know you're in here. Please come out. I'm sorry. It's nearly closing time." Then she discovers him. "I remember you saying you could hide in here forever." She sits down next to him. "Elliot are you okay?"

"I'm fine. Just leave me alone."

"Listen Elliot, I'm sorry about all that stuff I said yesterday. It's just that… Ever since I was little… I'm used to people not liking me. But when people like me, it's not so easy. It makes me feel like… I don't even think I could explain it… It makes me feel like I'm fenced in and I don't handle it very well. I'm sorry Elliot. Maybe you could try to understand?"

"Can we still hang out sometimes?"

Rikki smiles and stands up, reaching her hand out so she Elliot could get up. They make their way to the exit, when Rikki hears the water in the pipes.

**

Lewis is on his way to fish when he gets a call. It's Rikki.

"Hello… The water system starts at five. Why?… What?... You what?... Oh I'm calling Emma and Cleo and I'll be on my way."

**

"Elliot run."

"Why are we running?"

"This way. Right, so this is section 2."

"What's wrong? Why are we running?"

"What did Lewis say. What was the time between watering every section?"

"You're asking me? I don't know."

"I think it was a minute, sorry Elliot run." The second section starts to water. "I think it was this way."

**

Cleo and Emma arrive at the plantation, but only find the door locked.

"Oh no?"

"Lenny are you there?"

**

"I don't get it, what's the big deal? Is something chasing us?"

They find the exit, but still locked.

"It's locked. Lewis installed this yesterday, unbreakable."

"I guess we're stuck here for a while."

"We only got twenty seconds left before the sprinkles start."

"So we get wet, what's the big deal?"

"Cleo." Pointing to a bucket of water. She turns around to distract Elliot. "Is that a lizard?" In the meanwhile Cleo makes the lock wet and Emma freezes it until it breaks open. "Elliot." Right when the sprinklers turn on, Rikki and Elliot escape.

"Don't you ever run away again and…" Emma starts her speech, but she is interrupted when her phone rings.

"… Lewis, where are you? Your lock almost… What? We're on our way. Elliot get home now, no buts, or I'll tell our parents you ran off." When Elliot is out of sight she turns her attention at Rikki. "You were right about this water demon. Lewis says someone is pulled under."

"Let's go."

**

When they reach the private beach, Lewis is already wet.

"Finally, your guys are here. A surfer is taking under, when I tried to save him, the waves hit me and pushed me back on the beach."

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine, but this guy isn't. That thing already started drowning him."

"C'mon, girls. We can beat this, I have a plan. Cleo, you hold the waves still so Emma and I can go in. When we are there, Emma you freeze him and I will get the guy out of there and push him on his board towards the beach. Lewis you will get him out the water. While Emma is still freezing him I will boil him up from the inside."

"But Rikki, we've never tried to combine our powers, who knows if it's going to work?"

"We'll just have to trust our mermaid powers."

Cleo tries to control the waves, but she gives up after a few seconds. "I can't do this, he's to powerful."

"Cleo, you have the most important role. If you don't hold the waves still, we will be pushed out like Lewis, so keep focusing."

Lewis goes to stand behind her and puts his arms around her. "Alright Cleo, you can do this. Remember, trust your power, don't fight it."

She gives Lewis a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Right. Well maybe if I'll make new waves against his, the waves will become less strong and I could control them."

"See that's the Cleo I know."

He kisses her neck.

"Get a room."

"Alright, guys, can you maybe save that for later. We have someone to save."

Cleo begins to make waves and she was right because the water demon's waves became much weaker. Now she could control them enough to give Emma and Rikki the time to save this guy.

**

Once in the water, it wasn't very hard to find the demon as he smelled awful. When Rikki and Emma arrive, Emma sees the guy is Byron. When she would usually hesitate a little before going to action, she now immediately freezes the demon. Rikki takes Byron out of the demon hands. She wanted to ask Emma if she could handle it alone, but Emma's face of determination was enough as answer. A minute later Rikki is back. Now the hard part started. Rikki concentrated and started to boil the demon from the inside. After a couple of stressful seconds the ice brakes and the demon is gone. When Rikki turned around to see how Emma is doing, Emma is already off to see how Byron is doing, swimming faster then ever.

**

The minute she hits the shore, she crawls to Byron's side. "How is he?"

"I don't know. He got a lot of water in."

"He is not breathing." Emma gets worried when she doesn't sees him moving. In the meanwhile Rikki also hit the shore and started to dry herself, Emma and Byron off.

"Alright, I know first aid. Rikki dry me off."

"Emma, I am. If I do it any quicker you will get burns."

"It doesn't matter, Byron needs me, I mean he needs first aid."

Rikki start concentrating harder on Emma, until she doesn't has a tail anymore. Emma immediately starts CPR. After another couple of stressful seconds Byron coughs up water, Emma quickly gets out of the way to make sure she doesn't get any on her.

"Emma?"

"Yes Byron, it's me."

"What happened?"

"You almost drowned, but it's okay, we saved you. You'll be just great."

**

In Mako, the guys are discussing their latest demon.

"There is one thing I don't get. Rikki said that Emma would get burned, but she doesn't even has a sunburn."

"I guess, you guys are immune to each others powers. Oh and guess what, the book is done."

"What book?"

"The book about all the evil you came across."

He shows it to them.

"Yep they are all in here: Arnon, the hellhounds, Teeth, past lives, Gammil, Finn and now also the water demon. Wow Lewis, you really did a good job here.""

"Are it already that many. It only seems yesterday we got out powers."

"I know what you mean. Alright we know you two are in love but you don't have to prove it all the time. How are we going to call the book?"

"What do you guys think of book of water shadows?"

"Great, hey, where are you going?"

"There is something I have to find."

**

Rikki swims off and quickly finds the dolphin Elliot bought for her. She smiles, thinking it's not that bad to get presents.