Cleo POV

The slide was a bit harder than I imagined. Well, falling onto ice from fifty meters up isn't exactly smart. And the water was cold. Really cold. I was once again reminded, that if I were human, I probably would've frozen on the spot. I let my palm return to it's original form and instead, closed my eyes and concentrated. Using my powers was a lot easier if I could see what I was doing, but since I couldn't I had to rely on my memory and imagination. Thinking of the start of the slide, I formed a rectangular block of water that stretched to each side of the slide. Then, I pulled more water from it, forming a sort of pump that would run as long as I was concentrating.

I snapped my eyes open and sighed in relief. It was going alright. Suddenly, I felt my stomach leave me and I screamed. Emma had created a deep slope right after going up, and it was terrifying. It didn't help that I was on my stomach facing down. Then I was pulled into a sharp left turn that quickly turned into a dizzying spiral. The spiral abruptly plunged back down and into another spiral to the right. The force of it this time was so hard that I nearly flew right off the slide. Half my body was hanging over the side, and I noticed that Emma was a few spirals below me. I groaned out loud. There was still so much to go.

After what seemed like forever, the spinning and screaming slowed down into a straight ending path. While I was still moving swiftly, I wasn't moving nearly as fast as before I slid into the water and let myself go limp. I closed my eyes and thought, No more movement. Please. Then I felt myself being dragged up.

"Cleo! Are you alright?"

"No." I groaned, "It's all your fault." Emma giggled at this.

"Now we just have to wait for Rikki." My eyes snapped open. Thinking about it, I never heard or saw Rikki coming down. I scanned as far up as I could see up the slide before noticing that no one else was sliding down.

"Hey Em, is it just me, or is Rikki missing?" Emma looked at me, before scanning the slide, then snapping over to the lake. The water rippled slightly and I crossed my fingers before Rikki shot out of the water. I opened my mouth to cheer, when a giant tentacle burst right out after her before wrapping around her waist. Rikki thrashed around desperately before placing her hands on the tentacle around her.

"I'm going to fry this stupid thing!" she shouted angrily. While I didn't really want an animal hurt, I couldn't see how we could get her out of the situation without attacking it in some form. Steam started rising from the tentacle, and I winced at the sound of sizzling. The tentacle quickly retracted, and Rikki fell back into the water with a splash. she bobbed her head up, looking around for an exit. Thinking fast, I molded a tube about 15 feet wide leading from the lake over to us. Turning, she saw us and I motioned for her with my free hand.

Not wanting to stay in the lake any longer, she quickly hightailed out of the lake and into our 'pool'.

"You didn't have to hurt it," I mumbled. She turned her head to glare at me.

"Oh yeah, and let myself get dragged back down to who knows where? You can barely see a thing down there, even with our fish eyes!" She snapped.

Emma snorted, "Fish eyes? First is super fish speed, now it's fish eyes?"

"Shut up."

"Guys," I cleared my throat, "don't you think we should find out who lives in this place? Then we can ask for help and find out if we're actually in England. We might even be in America, for all we know."

"Good point. Now, what do we do about this slide?" Asked Rikki. "I can't melt it, the whole thing will flood the place before it even reaches boiling point.

"Guess we'll just have to leave it here." I smiled brightly. Both blondes turned to look at me incredulously. "What? It's not like people can say that we made it, if anyone asks, we can just say it was like that when we got here. Then it'll melt in a few weeks."

"Oh that's nice, hey, there's a giant ice slide in your backyard, that won't melt for a few weeks, because it's as cold as the icebergs in Antarctica!" Was Rikki's response.

"We don't have much of a choice. If it melts slowly, it'll evaporate, if we melt it all now, the whole place will flood."

"What do you think Em?" We both turned to said person, only to find that she was dry and waiting on the grass. "I guess that means you agree with Cleo." Sighed Rikki." I used the water to shoot me over the edge of the pool before turning myself into water so I wouldn't feel the impact of the ground. I heard a faint, "Show off." Behind me as Rikki shot out from behind me, have to back down a few centimeters.

She dried us both before we headed up to the castle.

The halls were made of stone and there were torches lined against the wall. It was like stepping into the 18th century. I vaguely registered Rikki echoing my thoughts out loud in the corner of my mind, only I was too busy marveling at the huge hallway that was stretched out in front of us. I was also amazed at the thought that something as old as a castle, could still be around and thriving. Come to think of it, I'd never even heard of a castle with someone still living in it. Not an authentic one at least.

I was in no way an expert on castles or history, but I could tell that this castle was old, like, old old.

"Wow, this place is really old," Emma's voice drifted down towards me. I stopped and pivoted. I realized that I had wandered off on my own and Rikki and Emma were still 70 or so meters behind me. I started walking back towards them, when something big and white swooped over my head, heading straight toward Rikki and Emma who were looking the other way. I looked up and almost screamed. It was what looked like a little ghost-man with mischievous or wicked (I wasn't sure which one) eyes.

"Guys!" I yelled, running towards them. They turned and waved at me.

"There you are! We thought you got left behind!" Rikki yelled. The ghost was faster than me and was halfway there.

"Look up!" I yelled, but I was running out of breath, and my voice came out a lot softer than I intended. I was never a good runner. Swimming never seemed to tire me out, which probably had something to do with the fact that I was half fish, but running on land was a nightmare.

In one swift motion, the ghost swooped down and snatched Rikki's locket off her neck. Cackling madly, the creature whooped in glee. "New people! Strangers! Look like muggles! I's got her pretty necklace!"

"Hey! Rikki cried furiously, "Give that back!" Taking a swipe at the ghost, he cackled madly. "Who are you anyway?" Rikki growled in frustration, seeming to not notice that the thing was flying, white and obviously not human. Emma on the other hand, had gone completely white in the face. Nice to know that at least one of her friends was still sane enough to know when something was a human or not.

"I's Peeves!" It boasted, "Peeves the Poltergeist." It boasted, as if that was the most amazing thing. By now I had arrived and was panting with my hands on my knees next to Emma. Emma and I were snapped out of our shocked states when Rikki grew frustrated and finally grabbed on to Peeves' arm, only to have it hit something solid, before passing through the half translucent limb. Cackling madly, he cried out, "You can't catch me!" He turned to Emma and I and zeroed in on Emma's necklace. He cackled and swooped for her. Emma dodged his hand, when his other hand grabbed at her necklace. Then Rikki's arm, which had burst into flame, came out of nowhere, shocking Peeves and making him fling both necklaces into the far side of the wall. All three heads turned simultaneously towards the sliver things flying through the air. Emma and Rikki made eye contact for a split second before sprinting in the direction of the necklaces.

Unfortunately Peeves got there a split second before them. Picking the treasured items up, Peeves was about to take off again, when he seemed unable to lift himself higher than Emma. He tugged a few times before looking down and eyeballing his arm in confusion. Emma had turned her hand and forearm into ice and had grabbed a hold of Peeves' arm, creating a layer of smoking ice around part of his forearm. His expression turned into one of terror when he saw Emma's arm and it didn't help that Rikki had grabbed his wrist with the hand-she-had-turned-into-fire which he seemed to be unable to escape from as well.

"I'll take those." Rikki snatched the two lockets out of his trapped hand before releasing him. "But," She grabbed his wrist again, abruptly turning back, "If you ever come within a hundred meters of me again, I'll-"

"Rikki, stop it!" Emma admonished. "I'll admit I lost a bit of control when he took my locket, but you don't have to scare him so much!" Emma lectured, having let go of Peeves' arm already, she had turned to face Rikki who had followed suit. Peeves hovered there for a second still frozen in shock, before letting out a scream.

"PLEASE DON'T HURT PEEVESY! I PROMISES I WON'T BOTHER YOU AGAIN!" He screamed, flying down the way he had come. "FIRE GIRL! ICE GIRL! SCARY! DON'T! I'S PROMISE!"

"See? The poor guy has probably gone insane by now." Emma pointed her finger down the hall where he had disappeared.

"Yeah, well I wasn't the one that froze him first, you were!"

"Yeah, well at least I didn't start threatening him like some mafia boss!" By now, Rikki's hair had started to flicker and her lashes were smoking. Emma at least had a bit more control. She had kept her cool and was calmly walking down the hall. Rikki rushed to keep up with her, her fingertips lit with fire.

"Rikki, be careful, we don't want to burn this place down." I tried to warn her,only to be ignored by her.

"Yes, you shouldn't have such a short temper Rikki, if you didn't we-"

"Me? Oh, so someone takes a necklace with an undiscovered gem inside and I just leave it? Oh! I forgot to mention that it was my property!" By now, they were both speed walking and seemed to be competing. I sighed. With Rikki's stubbornness and short temper combined with Emma's competitiveness, they would probably make this place look like Antarctica had blown up by the time we got out of here. As we got further and further down the hall, the torches were flaring up and leaving scorch marks on the wall on one side, whereas the other side had completely dropped in temperature and the torches had gone out.

Suddenly they stopped and turned facing each other, voices rising in volume, I quickly tried to calm them down, only they were ignoring me.

"WHAT!" cried an exasperated Rikki, "You did it two!"

"I was trying to stop you!" replied Emma.

"No you weren't!"

"Yes I was!"

"GUYS!" I cried desperately. The two were ignoring me.

"Well I was trying to get my locket back!"

"That's beside the point!"

"Then what is your point?"

"STOP!" I cried out in exasperation. Rikki's hair was quickly going out of control and I could see and feel the cold radiating off Emma. "No! Rikki, Stop! You're going to burn everything! No-Emma! Don't start to! Ugh! You guys are impossible!" Oblivious two me, the two continued arguing. Getting frustrated, I tried separating them. Summoning a gust of wind, I directed it at the fighting girls. Nothing happened apart from the Rikki's flames going out. I vaguely registered a bang in the back of my mind but put it aside for the two who were going to loose it any minute. "I said, Break. It. Up!" Rikki's hair was now made entirely out of flames. "Cool it Rikki!" I cried, once again summoning wind and bringing my arm down in a swinging motion. Wind howled around us for a second before I let it go, relieved that Rikki's hair had gone back to normal. Unfortunately, this didn't last long. Emma just had to add fuel to the fire (almost literally) and say,

"See, this is what I'm talking about." Rikki's eyes flashed, before she went up in flames.

"RIKKI!" I howled.

"Oh, so that's how you want to play it huh?" Emma growled, before she froze, and before I could even bat my eye, she was ice. She had turned so fast, some of her ice seemed to have cracked and vapor was surrounding her. "Game on." She growled before pouncing on Rikki.

The two tackled, Emma having the upper hand before Rikki rolled over and stumbled to her feet, attacking Emma who was still on the ground. Fire and ice clashed, each protecting itself from the other. The temperature of Rikki's fire was so hot, I could feel it from where I was standing. Emma wasn't helping either. I was starting to feel hot and cold. In order to protect themselves from the other, the girls had to continuously decrease or increase their temperature.

The floor around Emma was covered in a layer of frost or at this point, even thin ice. Rikki was leaving scorch marks every were she stepped, melting Emma's 'ice prints' as she went. Looking for an opening, I tried to find a way to intercept the two without injuring my self or doing something that was easy to ignore. Seeing an opening where both girls had shoved each other a ways away from each other, I phased into my water form and tackled Rikki who had just got up. I swirled the water that made up my body so that I kept my shape, but it looked like I was a specially shaped whirl pool. Doing this allowed me to put out Rikki's flames a bit and not harm me or frce me to turn back into my original form.

She glared at me from underneath me and I shouted at her, "Until you return back to normal, I'm not getting off, and I'll leave you stuck in all your fishy glory and keep you like that until you and Emma stop fighting!" Funnily enough, even when they were in their elemental forms, they would still turn into mermaids if the water didn't evaporate or freeze when it touched the for over ten seconds. I was the perfect job for that.

1, they knew that if I was to loose me form, they would be responsible for hurting me, and two, their elements didn't seem to affect my water as much as they would normal water. It was like we each had a bit of immunity to each others elements.

"5...4...3...2..." I counted slowly.

"Alright!" She cried, returning to normal just as I sprang off her.

"Emma," I warned, "Don't say anything, just-"

"Alright, alright." She grumbled.

"Good," I sighed happily, then I looked around. There were small chunks of ice and melted ice every where. "Clean this up." I directed at the two of them. They grumbled a bit before complying. Once they were done, I surveyed the area a bit before noticing that we were in front of a room. A really big room.

Slowly, I looked up and to my horror, saw what looked like a thousand students staring at us with mixed expressions, ranging from horror to wariness to amusement. Rikki was the first to snap out of her shocked state and say something.

"Hi!" She smiled, waving, before all hell broke loose.

AN Sorry about the long wait! school...

well, i hope you liked it

and for those of you who were asking about Bella, she's in the next chapter. I had to have an excuse on why they would go up to a castle apart from asking for directions. also, it helps a bit with the story line later on, very minor though. sorry to all you guys who were wondering! I promise she's in the next chap. ^^

thanks!