Hey, I'm back again after a long time away. Sorry about that, but my pc crashed, so it had to be fixed and it took a couple of days.
First of all I want to say thank you for all the nice reviews.
Secondly, I also want to thank lalarono221, zikkigurl207454 and lovezikki2.0clewis for some great ideas. You won't find it in these chapter because I already had some ideas for this one, but I'll try to use them in next chapters.
Thirdly, due to the many request I put back some Zikki in it.
On to the story.
It's already night when Miriam is on her way home. She could see that tomorrow would be a full moon. Looking at the moon she starts rethinking her night. She just had a date with Zane and he asked her to go to … She suddenly hears a scream. She stands still for a minute, but doesn't hear anything else. It was probably a bird. Alright, of what was she thinking again? Oh yeah Zane, he asked her to Emma's dad party. He is so great. Obviously Zane, not Emma's dad. I just wished he … She hears a noise again. But this was more of a growl. What is that? Out of nowhere a hairy beast appears, running towards her. Miriam also starts running. The beast catches up with her. He launches one of his claws, but gets struck in her dress, that consists most of pallets and buttons.
"Hey, that dress is design."
Miriam couldn't help herself and let the phrase slip out of habit. During the struggle and with some help of the dress, Miriam got away from the beast. She was away before the beast got his claws free of the pallets. The only thing she left with was a huge scratch on her arm and a ripped dress.
The next morning, Rikki is on her way to the café to meet Cleo, when Zane interrupts her thoughts.
"Hey beautiful, long time no see."
"I almost forgot you existed, thanks for ruining my perfect state of mine."
"Oh right, I remember why I like you so much again. When I need a laugh, you are the right person."
She can't help but smile, but hides it from him.
"I actually have a question for you."
"Oh and what's that. Do you need someone to strike your ego?"
"No, that's not it, but if you want …"
"Thanks, but no thanks. So what do you want to ask?"
"Oh, are you free tomorrow night."
"No sorry, got plans. Have to go to the party of Emma's dad."
"Great, that's excellent. I'll take you."
"No wait, Zane …"
"See you tomorrow at eight right here."
"But Zane …"
"Bye."
He walks of before she could object.
"Why does he always have to be just a prig."
Still thinking of avoiding the café tomorrow at eight at all times, Rikki enters it finding Cleo and Lewis in a passionate kiss. "Get a room." She sits down but the turtledoves were to busy to notice her. "Hello, planet to Lewis and Cleo." They break up. "Finally, it looked like you were devouring each other."
"Hey Rikki, didn't see you there."
"Right, how could that be?"
"Hey, now that already two of you here, I can tell you the latest news. They found a body without a heart. He was killed last night."
"Ugh, who would that?"
"I think, 'what would do that?' would be a better question."
"I don't know, I'll see what I can find. I had to leave you two anyway."
Lewis tries to get up, but is hold down by Cleo.
"Oh, no why?"
"I have to get Byron to come to the party tonight, remember that you asked me that."
"Alright then. If it's for Emma's sake." She lets go off Lewis, but not with pleasure. "I'll miss you."
"And I'll miss you to."
They start kissing again. And what should have been a short goodbye kiss, became a long departure of many 'I'll miss you's and 'I love you's.
"Thank god, he's gone, I couldn't have stand it any longer."
"Oh shut up, it's all part of the first steps of the relationship. You'll find it yourself one day."
"I've got a question. How long do this first steps last?"
They start laughing.
"Alright, we'll try to keep it down a little in the future."
"Thank you. So where is Emma, I'm up to a morning swim."
"Probably home, let's go and see her."
Outside the café they see a couple of people standing around Miriam. She is showing them a huge scratch on her arm.
"Hey Nate, what's going on with Miriam?"
"It's gruesome. A giant beast attacked her. Luckily she managed to escape, but not after a huge struggle. The only thing she left with is that scratch on her arm."
Nate walks back to Miriam.
"What do you think, that thing Lewis was talking about?"
"No, Miriam doesn't have a heart so the thing wouldn't be interested."
"Rikki!"
"Relax, she has just a scratch. There is probably just a frightened little puppy running around."
Cleo giggles.
"Come on, time for some exercise."
They arrive at Emma's, that is filled with balloons. Emma is just scowling Elliot for to much black balloons.
"Welcome to my gothic world."
"That's not funny. It's my dad's birthday so an important night."
"I can't believe you are organizing this whole thing by yourself. It's very … efficient."
Ignoring Rikki, she turns her attention to Cleo.
"Have I told you about the fish?"
"Only 25 times."
"Tell your dad, it has to be fresh and good stuff. We need to have it here by 7.45. Better right that down." Cleo starts writing on her hand, with lack of notepad.
"You seem a bit tense."
"I'm not tense."
"You're curling your teeth."
"It's called a smile Rikki. Elliot don't do just yellow and black, get some other colours."
"Alright, alright, gee."
"If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."
Emma hands them a paper and starts reciting the time schedule and her speech. After a few lines she stops, waiting for the first impressions.
"It's beautiful."
"It needs some editing. Hey, up for a swim?"
"No, I've got to go shopping, I need new shoes for my new dress."
"I've got to go to the Marine Park."
"Fine, then it will be two mermaids shopping."
That strange woman is again at the Marine Park.
"I've come to warn you."
"Warn me about what?"
"Don't ever talk to sea parch, you can't trust those fish."
"Why would I talk to fish?"
"Listen carefully, it's very important. You must not look at the moon's eye."
"The moon's …"
"The full moon. It's dangerous, do not look at it or it's reflection. And when it's out do not touch water whatever you do."
"But …"
She gets interrupted by Emma's call. When she turns around again, the woman is gone.
"Did you see that? That old woman, she was standing just there."
"What old woman?"
"She knows about us. She said something about the full moon being dangerous."
"I didn't see anyone."
"Me neither."
"She told me not to talk to sea parch and reflections and beware of the full moon."
"Sounds like she had a bit to much sun."
"There is something different about her."
"But not as different as these, gorgeous aren't they?"
Emma pulls out her shoes.
"They are really nice."
Byron walks past them.
"Hey Em."
"Oh hey Byron." While throwing her hair back.
"What's all this about?" Rikki imitates Emma.
"Don't be stupid, there is nothing going on. Byron forget it."
Later on, Rikki, Cleo and Emma are on door watch.
"I can't stop thinking about what that old woman said."
"We're mermaids, not werewolves."
The Bennet's arrive.
"Doctor Bennet, it's nice from you to come."
"I don't believe you met Candy."
"Hey Candy, love your dress."
They walk on and Zane comes in with Miriam following. Rikki looks toward Miriam and tries to ignore Zane's sight. She notices a bandage on Miriam's arm, when the walk on, Rikki pulls Cleo apart, while Emma changes door watch with Lewis.
"Why is Miriam wearing a bandage on her arm. I mean, she was showing it off this morning and now when there is a huge crowd, she is wearing a bandage? Strange, don't you think?"
"Yeah, strange."
Cleo answers without really paying attention, she is too occupied looking at Lewis.
"Cleo."
"What?"
"Never mind, I'll go see myself."
When Zane is off to get Miriam some drinks, Rikki corners her.
"Hey Miriam, heard a lot about your scratch, can I take a look at it?"
"Morbid much. No that wouldn't be hygienic."
"C'mon, I couldn't get a good look this morning."
She starts to pull Miriam's arm closer, while Miriam's tries to pull it away.
"Hey what are you doing."
With a loud rip, the bandage comes off and Miriam hurries herself to the ladies room. The only glimpse Rikki could get of the arm was that it is all hairy. To hairy to be human. So supernatural after all. When Rikki turns back around to find one of the guys, she bumps into someone, not noticing it's Zane.
"Sorry, I'm … Oh it's you."
"Yeah it's me. Like it was me at the café at eight, so where were you?"
"I was here. By the way, I never agreed to the date."
Zane starts to walk forward, making Rikki walk backwards. "I don't like people making me look bad, but I can make an exception for you." Rikki hits the wall and Zane puts his arms against the wall so she can't escape. "So how do you want to repay me for that embarrassment?"
"Hello, what embarrassment, you have a date, remember Miriam, blond, not very clever."
"What, jealous again?"
Rikki realises how close their faces are, she had to swallow before she could answer.
"You wish. I would …"
Zane interrupts her by a kiss. The last time they kissed, it was more a soft kiss, barely touching lips, but now it was full on. He pulled away after a few seconds. He shows his signature smile. "I'll make you wish at the end." He walks of.
Rikki was so startled, that she forgot all about Miriam, the only thing she could think of was that she already had kissed Zane twice in the past three weeks. He is such a pain in the ass. All of a sudden she remembers the beast and starts to make her way over to Cleo. She really has to stop Zane, before it gets any worse. She spots Cleo and Lewis, both looking a bit panicked. On her way over, Rikki tried to block one question in her mind the whole time: Why did she almost kiss him back in the end?
"Rikki, finally we found you. Something happened … so terrible … and Lewis thinks that beast … oh and Emma?"
"Cleo calm down, what happened?"
"Emma was doing really strange, so I put her outside, but when I went back to check up on her, she was gone. And Lewis found a couple of beasts that matched the description, what if one of those got to Emma? Then that's my fault."
"Cleo, nothing is your fault alright, we're just going to find her, alright?" After a nod from Cleo, she continues to Lewis. "Lewis, Miriam's arm became all hairy. So try to narrow your list down. It probably has something to do with the full moon, because that old lady warned Cleo about it. Alright let's go."
But before they have time to go outside, they are interrupted by Zane's father.
"Hey girls, have you seen Candy anywhere?"
"No sorry, doctor Bennet."
"Never mind, carry on."
Once outside, they find Emma's shoes on the dock.
"Emma's shoes."
"There is something not right about this."
"That's the understatement off the year."
Lewis comes up to them.
"I've been looking everywhere for you guys, have you found Emma?"
"We've find these." Cleo shows him the shoes. "And there …" The full moon comes out and the girls start staring at it.
"Are they Emma's?... Cleo, are they Emma's?" He snaps his fingers in front of her face. "Rikki?" The same reaction. Right when he tries to hit Rikki, clouds come before the moon. She stops him before he has the chance of hitting her. "That would be a big mistake."
"I'm sorry, but you guys did extremely weird when that moon came out."
"That's what the old woman meant, she was trying to warn us."
"What old woman?"
"That first night at the moon pool, was a full moon as well. But other things first. Have you found anything Lewis."
"I had more luck then you, that's for sure. Alright, I managed to narrow it down to two, the werewolf and a wendigo. But the werewolf only transports his beastiness trough biting, so it must be the wendigo. I recite: The Wendigo is a non-dead creature that roams the earth destroying the good-hearted and those in love. His fate is to wander the Earth feasting on human hearts. The first Wendigo was a mortal who was betrayed by her sweetheart. In revenge for the treachery, she slew his love and ate his heart. Rather than savour the warmth of revenge, her heart was in turn, turned to ice. During daylight hours and the phases of the moon, the Wendigo looks as you or I. Beware the Wendigo on the three days of the full moon when his strength and appetite are greatest. Beware being attacked and injured. He duplicates himself by slashing, but not killing his prey."
"Great, so how do we kill it?"
"That, I don't know."
"Lewis … "
Emma comes to the surface interrupting Rikki.
"You guys have got to come in. Mako Island is amazing at night, you've never seen anything like it."
"Lewis, pull her out, now."
"Me, why does it have to be me?"
"Well it's obvious, we can't get wet. We would fall under the same moon spell, and you had to pull us all out."
After a few nonsense talk of Emma, Lewis finally gets her out and they put her into the Jacuzzi.
But a few minutes later, when they come back out, Emma is kissing with Byron.
"Alright, that's it."
They stop "This party is great." and Byron makes his way inside.
"We don't have time for this, we've got to get her to her bedroom and lock her in."
"We can't exactly take her past everyone on a sun launch."
Lewis comes around the corner with a wheelchair.
"We could use this."
They got without problems to the stairs, but then Emma's mum notices them.
"Emma, Emma, it's time for your speech."
Cleo interferes. "Emma asked me to do it. She is a bit nervous."
"Really, that's not like Em."
"She begged me."
"Well I suppose."
While Cleo is busy with the speech, Lewis and Rikki got Emma successfully in her bedroom.
Back downstairs, Cleo is struggling with her speech when suddenly a big beast appears. Everyone starts screaming and running away.
Rikki and Lewis hear the noise and hurry downstairs to find an empty room with only the beast and Cleo being pushed away. Lewis immediately runs over to her, while Rikki tries to distract to beast from Cleo, by throwing things at it.
"Cleo. Are you alright? Answer me. Rikki, she is not answering."
"She isn't …?"
"No, I think she is just unconscious."
"I guess it's up to us then. So, how do we kill it?"
Rikki is able to yell, while trying to avoid the claws.
"I don't kn… Oh wait, his heart is of ice, so what if we melt it?"
"That could actually work. Get some water."
Lewis runs to the kitchen. When he comes back he is holding a bucket of ice, used for champagne.
"Lewis, behind you."
Lewis ducks right in time to miss the claws of a second beast.
"This can't be right, wendigo's don't travel in groups."
"Then I guess that one of them is Miriam."
"The question is which one."
"We can't kill Miriam, can we?"
"No."
"Alright, I think it's the right one."
"Are you sure?"
"Lewis, if we wait any longer, we're all toast."
Lewis throws the bucket at the right one and Rikki starts the steam dry. After a couple of seconds, the beast turns into flames, but not before they get some glimpse of the mortal side of the beast, it was Candy. The other beast turns into Miriam. She falls down unconscious.
"Great, now we have two unconscious girls and one moonstruck mermaid."
"On the upside, we probably saved doctor Bennet too."
"If that's the upside …"
Cleo wakes up and Lewis runs over to her. "I guess, we have one problem less to worry about." He says smiling. "Alright, let's get Miriam on the bench and Emma to the café."
The next morning, Rikki and Cleo are the first to wake up.
"Did you get much sleep?"
"No."
"Me neither."
"What if she is stuck like this forever, what if her tail never goes away?"
"There is always the circus."
Lewis responds, showing that he is also awake. Suddenly Emma also wakes, with no tail.
"I had the best sleep. … What am I doing here guys? … What happened?"
"It's a long story."
A couple of hours later, when they changed back to not-party clothes, they are drinking a juice.
"I never want to go trough another night like that."
"Neither do we, believe me."
"Hey, at least you got a time out from the slaying."
"And the worst thing is not knowing exactly what I did."
"It's probably best you don't know."
Byron walks up to her.
"Hey Emma, thanks for last night, just wanna say you have the world's best lips. See ya."
"Lips, my lips, what is he talking about? Guys, guys?"