Chapter 19
"Whoa it feels great to finally get to use my old surfboard again!" Jake said as he was using his new ability to hold back his transformation so he could surf at lewis's secret fishing spot. Every merman and mermaid was enjoying the beach except for Emma who had resumed her training for professional swimming and Will who was at a new free diving competition holding back his transformation and acing the competition and Bella who was there to support him. "Whooo go Jake!" Rikki said as she was cheering on her boyfriend then she decided to be a bit of a prankster and when he'd finished that wave he was in the shallows she heated the water around him to the point that it was the temperature of a Jacuzzi and she moved the water so it flipped him upside down and dunked him and he came up flustered and yelled "Rikki!" and Rikki just laughed and soon everybody was laughing and Jake said "Well I guess it was kinda funny." and he started laughing with the rest of them then lifted water above Rikki's head and froze it into a bunch of little liny ice cubes and dropped them on her and said "Gotcha!" and he started laughing too so then everybody else did pretty soon everybody was using their powers to prank each other and a couple hours later Cleo said "Why don't we go for a swim?" "All right I'm in." Rikki said and soon everybody agreed and they were all rushing into the water.
"I never cease to be amazed at how beautiful the reef is." Cleo said with telepathy as table corals of greens, reds, blues, oranges, and yellows sprawl out before her like a metropolis with tiny wrasse cleaning larger fish and clownfish among other fish swim along the caverns and crevices throughout the reef. "I know. This is fantastic. I'm so glad we're getting this chance to swim together. It's been too long." Rikki said as she slid her hand along a soft sea sponge. Soon Jake spotted a pod of dolphins swimming along and Jake said "Look Dolphins!" and everybody looked where he pointed and they all swam to the dolphins and started playing. Cleo made a portion of the water jellify so that it had the same qualities as rubber and started using it as a ball for everybody to play catch with and then a dolphin grabbed it and started to swim away with it when Cleo turned it back into water and the dolphin stopped looking puzzled and started searching for it when Cleo said "Poor thing." and made another one and tossed it at the dolphin who caught it and took it to the rest of the pod and they started playing with it and the group watched them for awhile and soon joined in and when they were done they went to mako where they had a picnic prepared and spent the rest of the day having fun at mako.