Chapter 15: Raye's Scale

Sam's POV

We got to my house and went straight to the counter. We made space for our examination. "So now what?" Aly asked.

Oh yea…we didn't plan this well. Oh wait I've got an idea! "How about we dry it and see if it does anything."

Aly nodded agreeing with what I said. "That's a good idea. Let's use your tail."

"Wait. Wha-" Before I realized what was going to happen I felt water being poured down my head. I looked at Aly. "Thanks." I said. "A lot." And then I fell to the ground

Aly got a chair and pulled me up onto it. "OK now let's look for a lose scale. Here's one." She found a pair of tweezers and plucked a scale off of my tail. I winced as she did. She put my scale near Raye's. "Now they have to be dried."

"But I don't want to waaaiiiit!" I whined resting my head on my palm, as I leaned against the counter. Aly looked at me. "What?" I asked confused with why she's staring at me.

"If you don't know then you are hopeless."

"Oh!" Aly smiled at me thinking I figured. "We use a fan!" I said with a smile happy we don't have to wait anymore. Aly palmed her forehead and shook her head. "What?"

"You do realize that you have another power right?" She replied. And that's when it came to mind.

"Oh I can dry them!" I said, now happy that we don't really have to wait at all.

"NO DUH!" Aly exclaimed. "Now dry them so we can see what happens." I nod and put a hand over each scale. I dried them until I saw sparkles coming from my scale like when I change into a Mermaid or back into a human. I looked at it and it was skin. I looked at Raye's and nothing happened. My heart started to race. "How come Raye's Scale didn't do anything?" Alyson asks me. I shake my head.

"I don't know but I have a feeling she's not a Mermaid…"

"But it looks like a real scale."

"She could have done something, like maybe…She skinned a fish or something so she can find out if mermaids were real."

Aly looked at me disgusted by my guess. I shrugged. I no others guess to what 'Raye' could have done.

"I also noticed something else about Raye's tail. I think I saw legs through it." Aly told me.

"We better warn the others."