Ocean Girls: Just Add Water
Chapter 4
Author's note /Disclaimer: I don't own H20: Just Add Water or Ocean Girl.
Neri swam faster than she ever had swum before...
She got to Wills' boatshed just as Bella was jumping off the pier and into the quickly pulled herself onto the pier and held the door shut so Will couldn't get out.
Bella resurfaced and saw Neri holding the door shut. She gestured for her to move.
Neri moved aside and Bella quickly hardened then crystalized the spaces between the door.
Neri then jumped back into the water. Bella grabbed her hand and then swum at top speed towards Mako Island with Neri holding onto her tightly.
As soon as they were gone the crystalized water melted and Will opened the door. He looked out towards the water and saw that Bella was no where to be found.
On Mako Island...
Neri and Bella were in the Moon Pool.
"Beautiful." Neri told Bella running her hand over the Moon Pool Caves' wall.
"Yeah," Bella replied after her legs finally dried. Bella stood up.
"Your Island very beautiful." Neri told her.
"Yeah," Bella said, "But it's not really my Island."
"But you come here often?" Neri said.
"Well yeah." Bella replied.
"This where you become fish-girl?"
"No, This is where Emma, Cleo, and Rikki became mermaids." She reminded her. "I became a mermaid in a Moon Pool in Ireland."
"Oh." Neri responded. "So this their Island."
"Not really," Bella told her, "They don't own it."
"But they become what they are here?" Neri asked "Fish-Girls?"
"Yeah." She replied.
"So it their Island."
"Yeah, Yeah, I guess so." Bella replied.
"Where your Island?" Neri asked her.
"Ireland." Bella told her. "It's a long way away from here."
"You show me your Island." Neri told her, "Then I show you mine."
"I don't know." Bella told her hesitantly.
"You not trust me?" Neri asked her.
"No," Bella began, "It's not that. It's just it's a long ways away and I don't know how long you can hold your breath for."
"Long time, Long enough." Neri informed her, "Can come up for air if need too."
"Okay," Bella told her, "Do you want me to show it to you now?"
"Yes." Neri replied.
"All right then follow me." Bella told her.
Bella jumped into the water. Neri jumped into the Moonpool after her. Neri grabbed Bella's hand and Bella began to swim towards Ireland where she was turned into a mermaid.
Charley sang out his concerns.
"Don't worry Charlie." Bella told him. "I won't let anything happen to her."
Charley sang again his approval.
"Charley says he come with us." Neri told her. "To make sure I safe."
"Okay." Bella replied. "Lets go."
Bella swam with Neri to Ireland. The whole trip took a few days. Bella showed Neri her Island in Ireland.
"I miss being here in Ireland." Bella told her new friend Neri.
"Why you leave then?" Neri asked.
"It wasn't my choice." Bella informed her. "My parents moved my family to Australia."
"Parents?" Neri asked.
"My mother and father."
"My father pass." Neri told her, "Do not know about mother."
"I'm sorry." Bella said sincerely.
"It okay." Neri said, "Happened long time ago." Neri paused for a moment before asking, "You not happy there? Where you live now?"
"Well I like it there." Bella said, "I mean if I hadn't gone, I would not have met Rikki, cleo, Emma, Ash, Lewis, Zane and Will."
"Will, that boy that try to find out you fish-girl?"
"Yeah." Bella told her. "I can't go back to Australia now."
"Why not?" Neri asked her mermaid friend.
"Who knows if Will will try to find out my secret." Bella said. "I don't know what he will do if he finds out what I am."
"You not trust Will?"
"I do," Bella told her, "But what if I'm wrong and he turns me into a scientist and they disect me?"
"What Disect?"
"It means the scientists will cut me up and tell, the whole world my secret and I'll never be able to live a normal life again." Bella informed her friend. "Well as normal a life as I can have being part fish and all."
"Then you come with me." Neri told her.
"Come with you where?" She questioned.
"To my Island." Neri said, "I show you my Island now and you stay there with me."
"I can't." Bella told her.
"My friends will worry about what happened to me." Bella said, "I've already been gone a few days. Who knows what they will think happened to me."
"But if Will find out secret you be in trouble." Neri pointed out.
"Yeah." Bella said. "You're right. Let's go."
Bella began the journey to Neri's Island with her. She couldn't help but wonder though; Was she making the right choice?
Author's note/disclaimer: So what do you think about this chapter?