Nexus: Well, thanks to the guy called "Guest" who said he wanted more! Here it is! And a lovely shout out to all of the followers and favers thus far!

And we all know that I don't own Mako Mermaids...

Chapter 3: The Talk

It had been a whole hour of swimming out in the open Ocean and Zac was still on the run from Joe and David. Their boat didn't seem to want to be running out of fuel any time soon.

After a while, David had got suspicious of something. "Joe? You said before that there were two objects in the water right?"

"Yeah," he replied, wondering where David was going with this.

"And you said you saw- Zac... with a tail," David choked out.

"Yeah," Joe replied once again.

"Work it out! If the two figures were the same shape, then there was someone else down there besides Zac, most likely the one you first gave chase to," David explained to his dimwitted brother.

"So you're trying to tell me you think that the first thing I chased was something like Zac?" Joe asked, slowly realising that David might be right.

"When you consider the facts and what we know, it seems highly likely," David replied.

After a few more minutes, it was becoming clear where Zac was leading the two boys, he was leading them to Mako Island, an area where he could hide himself.

"Why would he lead us out to Mako of all places?" Joe asked himself. Suddenly his fish finder showed him that Zac had stopped moving and was surfacing in front of them.

"David, he's coming up!" Joe called to his distracted brother. David was sort of looking forward to this. Was his brother really telling the truth the entire time? Did all the strange facts really add up?

Zac surfaced in front of their boat, staying far enough back so that David and Joe could see him. All the two could do was stare at him in amazement. The Zac that they knew had always been human and never suddenly grew a fish tail when in water.

"So, how long do you two plan on carrying chasing me?" Zac asked them.

"We'll stop chasing you when you talk to us about this," Joe demanded. "Why don't you just come up and talk to us Zac?"

"How do I know I can trust you?" He asked with an evil glare. "You work for a fishing company, what's to say you won't rat me out huh?"

"Zac, listen to me. We just, want to talk. Nothing else," David told him with a soft a voice as he could. They needed to earn Zac's trust so that he would tell them everything that was going on.

"Why should I talk?" Zac asked, diving back under the water, flashing the end of his tail to David and Joe. Now David believed it all.

"Okay, so he really does have a tail," David told himself, still unable to believe it.

"We should still chase him," Joe said, putting his boat back into gear and began following Zac again.

Under the waves, Zac was trying to find a place to hide. He could think of only one place, he remembered spotting a hole in the rocks around the back of the island, but he never investigated it. Now was a good time to, it might have lead to somewhere.

"Why is he trying to take us around the back of Mako?" David asked himself.

"Probably to try and hide or get us into some sort of danger," Joe replied for him. "Well, we're only gonna find out one way."

Joe's boat followed Zac around the back of Mako until Zac's image began disappearing off of the radar. And the boat couldn't go forward any more since it was facing the back end of the Volcano. "Great, can't go forward and the Fish Finder's lost him!" Joe whined.

"It's not over. If you want me to scope, I'll scope," David offered.

"You, scope it?" Joe asked with a 'really?' look on his face.

David then stood up and got on the edge of the boat. "You may be the slightly better looking brother but I'm the brother who's better at swimming in the open Ocean." And with that said, David dived into the Ocean waters to see if he could work out where Zac was.

Joe just stared at him in amazement for standing up to him. "Maybe he's not as bad a brother as I first thought."

Down in the water below, the Cave that Zac had swum into happened to be the Moon Pool. "I recognise this place," Zac said slowly to himself. He had a flash back of the night he found that cave. He could see himself falling through the cave's upper floor and into this very pool of water in the heart of the inactive Volcano. "This is where I was transformed."

He pulled himself out with great effort and dried off, returning to a human form. Not long after he'd done so, did a head pop out of the Moon Pool.

David had eventually found an opening in the rocks that almost looked like it would lead to a cave. When he surfaced, he took a big gulp of air. He knew he should have surfaced once before swimming through the entrance. He looked up to see Zac standing on the floor of this cave like area.

The two looked at each other in silence for a long time before Zac finally spoke up. "Are you going to stay in the water forever?"

"Are you going to pull me out? Doesn't the fish tail appear if you get wet?" David retaliated.

"Maybe," Zac replied turning his back to David. This was one of the one times that he really didn't want to talk to anyone, especially about the recent incidents and the effects that followed it.

"Zac, why don't you just talk to me?" David asked. "It's not like there's anything to hide any more. I know, Joe knows. But I promise you, I won't tell anyone about this."

Zac actually turned around and looked at David. It didn't seems like he was trying to trick anyone, he seemed really sincere about all of this.

"You know, if most people found out their friend turned into a fish when they touched water, they would probably flee or try to find some way to exploit it. But you don't seem to be inclined to do either of the two do you?" Zac questioned.

David just smiled at him. "As I said, I just want to talk. And instead of me coming out, how about you come in?"

Zac didn't see any reason to hide his full self from David. "You probably wanna move to the side though."

As soon as David did, Zac dived into the water and surfaced quickly. The second he did, his clothing melted away and his tail took its rightful place. He swam over to the side of the pool, where David had situated himself and rested his arms on the small ledge.

David didn't even know what to say. "How?" Was all he could he ask.

"I'm not 100% sure myself. About a week ago when me and Cam camped here on the night of the full moon. I saw a strange cave further up the Island. I remember seeing this symbol on the wall.. and the second I touched it, I found myself fall through the floor and into this pool in the Volcano below. Next thing I knew, I was waking up on the beach and after coming back, that's when I found out that I was now a merman," Zac explained.

"And when you were in the water, there was another figure just like you," David hinted.

"No point in hiding it, it was a mermaid," Zac replied. He thought it was best not to say that the mermaid was Nixie, it was bad enough that David and Joe had found about him. Cam wasn't too much of a worry right now.

David just looked dumbfounded. "It's not just you? There are others out there?"

"And god knows how many as well," Zac added.

The two sat there in silence for another minute before Zac could sense someone coming up from the entrance as well.

"Joe," David said slightly surprised. He hadn't of thought that his brother would have eventually tried to find him. Joe's face was struck with amazement, unable to take his eye off of Zac's tail. So Zac lifted it up slightly, splashing it down and sent a wall of water flying right at Joe. David just laughed whilst his brother sputtered out the water.

"Ha ha, very funny!" He joked swimming over to the side where his brother was, still unable to take his eyes off of Zac. Zac used his powers to lift a small ball of water out of the pool and flung it at Joe's face, David just laughing again.

"Can you stop doing that?" Joe asked nicely but was very annoyed at the same time.

"When you can stop staring sure," Zac replied, giving him a quick smile.

Joe eventually managed to calm his inner self down. "Zac, what exactly are you?"

Didn't take Zac long to reply to that. "A merman. A myth."

"How? Joe asked in the same way David did. Oh yeah, they may not seem it at first but they are definitely brothers.

Zac went on to explain the same thing he told David only but a few minutes ago. Including the fact that Joe had been following a mermaid this entire time.

Zac swam around to the exit/ entrance of the cave, making sure that David and Joe couldn't leave until they agreed to his laws. "Before you even get to leave this place, I need you both to promise me that you will never ever tell a single soul about me!"

David and Joe both nodded their heads. "Is there anyone else besides us who knows?" Joe asked out of pure questioning.

"Cam, since he was with me the night it all happened. It seemed only fair that I told him," Zac replied. "We should be going now, don't want people to think we've been gone for too long now do we?" Zac asked, diving and swimming out of the cave. He just couldn't resist slapping his fin on the way down and soaked David and Joe again.

"I thought he said he wouldn't do that again?!" Joe shouted in anger. David just shook his head and dived into the water, swimming back out to his boat, Joe following a moment later.

"Zac, are you coming up or will you swim?" David asked.

Zac pulled himself a few rungs up the ladder that was on the side of the boat, until his tail was out of the water. He used one hand to hang on and another hand to dry himself off using his powers. Once he was dry, he climbed up the rest of the ladder and took a seat at the back of the boat. He even used his powers to briefly dry off David and Joe and their clothes without setting them on fire. When he'd first practised that power, he'd accidentally set a t-shirt on fire. He was more careful from then on.

As they drove back to the mainland, David and Joe asked a lot of questions about what it was like and were even more surprised when they found out that when he transformed. it re-writ his bodies functions, allowing him to breathe underwater.

After a good 15 minutes, they were back on land. David and Joe docked off Zac at his house in the Canal and drove off. Man, that had been one long experience. All the time, Zac wondered if Nixie would ever tell Lyla and Sirena about herself. And also, if she would ever tell them about himself. Of course, we all know that they all know what Zac is. He walked inside his home and immediately flopped on his bed, falling asleep not long after.

- At a science lab somewhere -

"Hey Joanna! The scanner you put in the reef got a shot of something rather odd," a lab assistant called.

The woman named Joanna walked over to the monitor and she herself was shocked by what she saw. Dr. Joanna Fischer was a Marine Biologist who liked to study fish around the reef. She'd recently ventured out towards Mako and put in 4 scanners around the area. One of them was placed near the entrance to the moon pool. These scanners would regularly scope out the area and file an image to the monitors back at the lab when every now and then. They showed clear back outlines, like much more advanced versions of Joe's Fish Finder, they needed the shots to be clearer for research purposes.

What the scanner had got was a decent shot of Zac swimming out of the cave. In fact in had two. One when he had his arms out in front, and one when his hands were out, clearly showing arms and hands. Word's couldn't even describe how excited Joanna was.

"Do you have any idea what this is Harry?" Joanna asked, unable to take her eyes off the images that she'd gotten.

"I think I do," Harry replied.

"We've found ourselves a mermaid," Joanna said to herself happily. As a Marine Biologist, find any proof of the myth of mermaids was sure to draw shed loads of attention. And if they could even capture the mermaid, they could make a fortune.

"Harry! Get the diving team to get ready to set out a trap. Find the area around Mako that the scanner got these images from and place some nets there. Set a device that tracks when really large objects are around the area, just so I can see when the mermaid comes under the nets and grab it," Joanna explained to her assistant.

Harry then rushed off to get all of the orders she had just layed down done.

"This is going to be fun," Joanna laughed.

Nexus: It's all gonna kick off next chapter! It'll take me a little while to get the chapter done since there is quite a bit to go into this compared to this relatively short chapter

Zac: We hope everyone enjoyed this chapter though, and we'll see you all next time