Chapter 3
Emma, Cleo, Rikki, and Bella left their dorms to meet the guys at Lewis's secret fishing spot to go for a swim. when they got there they saw ash and Lewis in scuba gear with will just wearing a pair of swim trunks and Jake in cargo pants and a polo shirt. Jake said "Is everybody ready for a swim?" and everybody said yes and Jake said "Great! But there is something nice I have to tell you." "well? What is it? Rikki said then Jake responded with "Awhile back I read in that old book that merpeople are able to talk to each other and animals with their minds. The book called it telepathy and it doesn't work on humans and it only goes one way. First you think of the person you want to talk to then think of what you want to say and the person you thought of will hear you. distance doesn't matter with telepathy so you can talk to eachother no matter how far away you are. it's more convenient that a phone. Animals are also capable of this but for some species it's really hard. It's really easy for dogs, cats, and dolphins. In the past I was only able to talk to animals this way cuz I didn't know any other merpeople. Talking to animals is great but after awhile you want to talk to other merpeople when you swim." Then Emma said "I can understand that. Then out of the blue Jake said "Last one in is a rotten sea melon!" and everybody said "Sea melon?!" and Jake was already in the water and Ash was the last one in. Once everybody was in the water Ash asked what a sea melon is and Jake said "As far as I know there's only one fruit that grows in the ocean and that's a sea melon. They grow in kelp forests and taste like a mix of watermelon, pineapple, and mango. They're quite tasty and if we're lucky I'll find one during our swim." so everybody dove underwater then Bella, and Will went to the open ocean to dive for some sunken treasures while Cleo and Lewis swam through the reef together. Needless to say Emma and Rikki started a race while ash decided to join jake in searching for a sea melon. Ash signaled Jake to surface and they did and ash asked Jake "what are sea melons supposed to look like anyways?" and Jake asked him "have you ever seen a brain coral?" and Ash said "Yeah" "They look like that but they're more ovular and a little squishy. And they grow in kelp forests." Jake said so Ash replied with "Okay let's start looking." and they dove underwater and swam to the closest kelp forest and started searching. After about fifteen minutes Jake found one and pulled it off the kelp root it was rooted with and tapped ash on the shoulder and when ash turned around Jake had a huge sea melon in his hand that was the size of a big watermelon. Then Emma used telepathy to tell Jake that they were ready to go and Jake said "Okay me and Ash will be right with you." "We're meeting at the moon pool." Emma said "Where is your moon pool? You just have to think to me about how to get there and I'll know" Jake said so then Emma thought of how to get to the moon pool and Jake knew and said "Thanks Emma" so he signaled Ash that it was time to get going and they swam to the moon pool. Lewis had gone back to get his boat and a picinic basket and took it to Mako and when everybody got there he had just started setting everything up and when Jake and Ash got there he said "You guys are in for a treat! I found a sea melon!" and he held it up and they all looked at it then while he had everyone's attention he threw it up in the air and shot slicing bursts of air at it and the pieces fell to the picinic blanket and he picked up a slice and bit into it but the juices dripped down his mouth and he got his tail and said "This is really tasty but in order to eat it you have transform so ya better be sitting down." then everyone started eating and they all enjoyed the rest of their day at mako.