Demonika: Alright here we come with Chapter 2! After finishing up the revamp of Chapter 1 I had quite the surge to get back on it and try to get this chapter done too. I'm not sure if every chapter will be as long as the first one, there was just so much to flesh out in that first one after all.

Enough babbling though, usual stuff as always: I don't own Mako Mermaids or any of the characters within the show used here however I do own my ideas and my own personal characters who will appear throughout the story. That is all. On with the show.

Chapter 2: Fishy Findings

As the sun began to rise over Mako Island, the wheels that began turning after last nights events would slowly see their dawn to glory this day. As the beams hit the shores of the island, Evie woke up startled to find herself conked out the beach covered in sand, her clothes soaked by sea water. She felt horrible, all groggy and drained of any of her energy. She sat herself up and noticed something by the side of her, only to find it was Lyla. She briefly remembered some of the events of last night, she went venturing up the Island and found that weird tunnel with the light inside of it, and Lyla was there too. The last thing she remember was saying Lyla's name and then falling. But what happened after that was all a mystery. Knowing that if Lyla was here it meant her sisters most likely were too. She didn't exactly want to be rude and leave Lyla but after last night she just wanted to get off the Island. She spotted her boat parked up in the distance and headed over to it, packing up her stuff from last nights meal and heading back home.

The sound of the motor revving up hadn't woken Lyla up, but it had alerted Nixie and Sirena who were out on the shores of the Island looking for Lyla. Both had quite the surprise when they woke up to find Lyla not in the tent our around their little camp area. Sirena had said Lyla had gone out last night by herself. Nixie was completely furious but wondered where on earth she'd gone to.

Once they saw the boat in the distance unable to make out who was on it, they eventually spotted Lyla fast asleep on the sandy shore, her clothes just like Evie's soaked with sea water.

Nixie lent down to give her a nudge to try and wake her up, eventually getting Lyla to stir. "Wakey wakey sleepy head," she cooed in a condescending tone. Lyla's eyes eventually shot oven to see her sisters towering over her. She shot upright to find herself nowhere near the campsite out on the beach somewhere. "Care to explain what happened last night that made you come sleep down on the complete opposite shore end from where we are?"

Lyla was still thoroughly confused as to what was going on but managed to get herself on her feet. Sirena could see she wasn't looking in the best shape.

"Why don't we walk back to the camp and get some breakfast?" Sirena suggested. "Maybe once you're a bit heartier you'll remember what happened to you last night."

All three of them agreed on that note and made their way back to the camp to cook up some porridge and make some hot chocolate. Lyla walked around the camp in circles trying to collect her thoughts. As she did, she spoke openly about them.

"I remember I wasn't feeling the greatest last night after you two had headed off to sleep. I thought I would go do a bit of exploring to put my mind at ease, and I woke Sirena up before leaving, telling her I would be fine. I trekked up into the forests on the Island, and soon found myself getting a bit lost. I lent against this rock wall and looked up to see the full moon. Next thing I knew, a portion of the wall vanished and there was a tunnel with natural light flooding in-"

"Okay pumps the break right there cheesecake," Nixie said interrupting her train of thought. "Are you really telling us that you lent against a bit of rock, and that it just vanished to reveal some magical tunnel?"

"It's true though Nixie, if you look at my back near my shoulders I'm sure there's some sort of bruise there from the sudden fall backwards," Lyla said in response to her comment. Her sisters called her cheesecake whenever they thought she was going a bit loopy or grandiose.

Sirena pulled away both sides of her tank top revealing she did actually have a nasty bruise forming. "Well there's no denying that is definitely a bruise," Sirena said noticing that that one was going to hurt a lot.

"See? I'm not being a total cheesecake here!" Lyla responded.

"I still say you're a cheesecake. You really believe you got that bruise from falling through a bit of rock that magically vanished? You sure you didn't just trip and take a nasty tumble?" Nixie replied to Lyla's comment.

"Almost positive!" Lyla said in turn. "And when I entered this tunnel, there was this open circular room at the end, with a weird dial and a glowing symbol on it, kinda looked like a giant fork."

"Uh-huh, and you still wanna defend that you're not being a cheesecake?" Nixie said. She wasn't buying any of this loopy trip her sister was on.

"Yes and I will defend it as much as I can," Lyla replied. "Because- because..." Lyla slowed her words remember a bit more of the events from last night. "-Evie was there as well when we fell through the floor."

"Evie?" Sirena asked. "Evie was on the Island as well?"

"She called out my name as she entered the room after I touched the dial on the wall. I don't remember anything after that though... it's all a bit of a blur until you guys found me on the shore," Lyla explained.

Nixie took a moment to gather her thoughts. This was just insane and Lyla was crazy. But, she'd mentioned Evie. Evie was prone to coming out to Mako on dives, it wasn't entirely impossible for her to be there as well. But far too coincidental.

"Okay cheesecake," Nixie said getting her attention. "We'll go see Evie later today once we get back. If Evie remembers anything remotely like that, and you have a pair of matching stories, then I'll believe you. Until then, you're still a cheesecake to me right now. A cheesecake who is going to pack up the tent and get the boat ready for our return trip okay?"

Both Sirena and Lyla knew that when Nixie was mad that she was a bit demanding. And who could blame her for not believing Lyla's story it sounded crazy. But if it did happen, Evie was the only one who could back it up. And they had seen a boat small enough for just one leaving as they found Lyla. Lyla agreed to her terms and began to sort out the tent and get the boat ready for their return trip home.

As Sirena went to pick up the water they'd boiled earlier for the hot chocolate, she tripped on a small ditch in the ground and ended up spilling the now lukewarm water onto Lyla's legs as she fell.

"I'm sorry Lyla I just got my foot caught for a sec and tripped! I'll get a towel from my bag!" Sirena said frantically. She didn't like messing up with anything and felt super apologetic whenever something did happen on her part.

"Sirena calm down it's fine-" Lyla began to say before she left her legs stiffen up and her body toppled over to the ground. "Oww, what the hell?"

As Sirena got her towel out and turned around it fell out of her hand in shock at what she saw, Nixie too freezing on the spot just staring at Lyla eyes wide with fear.

"Lyla, what's happened to you?" Sirena said in pure fear.

Lyla was extremely confused and tried to move her legs only to find they felt extremely stiff. She propped her body upright and turned herself on her side, only to see why her sisters seemed so scared. The tank top and shorts she was wearing had been replaced by a scale covered like bra, and a golden orange fish tail. Lyla was unable to take her eyes away from her what had happened to her legs. She tried to move the tail slightly to find that yes, it was properly attached to her lower body.

"It's almost like you're-" Nixie tried to say, unable to squeeze out the last word of her sentence.

"A mermaid?!" Lyla shouted in a mix of anger and scaredness.

No one had any idea what to say any more. All they could was stand around and stare at the sight before them. Nixie tried to break the silence in the air. "Erm, well I guess for now you're not a cheesecake any more, cause this is pretty magical."

Lyla just looked up to her dumbfounded. "Is this really the time to try and be cracking a joke over this whole thing?"

"Of course it isn't but what do you expect me to say?" Nixie asked back. "Maybe if we, dry it? Sirena grab the towel." Nixie turned around and grabbed a bag out of her own towel and bent down next to Lyla who was still in complete shock of what was happening to her. Sirena eventually worked up the courage to join Nixie in drying the tail that had taken over Lyla's lower half. After a couple of minutes rubbing, Lyla's body was coaxed by a stream of bubbles, and as they faded she was returned to human in her previous clothes, her legs now dry.

She stood up straight away and rubbed her legs. She was breathing a bit heavily still and who could blame her after what she'd just seen.

"Not to try and put a dampener on the situation, but are you 100% positive that Evie was with you last night before you stopped remembering anything?" Sirena asked speaking up.

"Yeah, extremely positive that she was with me in that tunnel. She was the last person I saw before you found me," Lyla replied, wondering why Sirena would ask that until it hit her. "Are you thinking that if I'm like this, did something happen to Evie too?"

"I wouldn't put it past the realm of possibility at this point," Nixie said. "We are quite far out of cheesecake land at this point."

All three of them just stood around again for a minute unsure of what to say. Lyla came up with a small plan that she hoped sounded okay. "How about this then? We pack up our stuff, unload it at home, get a fresh change of clothes, and go see Evie and I'll try to talk to her to see if she remembers anything about last night and if anything has happened to her either. If something has, surely she'd say it if we indicated we were in this same messed up magical boat."

"That doesn't sound like a bad idea, it's about all we can do at the moment really too," Nixie replied grabbing the towels and stuffing them back into a separate bag nearby. "Come on then, let's finish up packing and get off this creepy island."

And with that, they packed up their chairs, tent and cooking equipment, and carted it back on the boat, sailing for home. As they began revving up though, Lyla soon found one issue. There was a lot of water coming up and over from the sides of the boat, and seconds later Lyla found her legs stiffening up again and the tail coming back.

"So what, even droplets of water will do the job?" She asked openly annoyed.

"Apparently so," Nixie replied, letting out a sigh at the end. "If any single little drop of water is going to do that to you, then you're gonna have a bit of a hard time."

"Oh you think?" Lyla replied sarcastically. She propped herself up on her hands and overlooked the side of boat. "Lift me up a sec to the edge of the boat would ya?"

Sirena and Nixie unsure as to why though, they still did it and watched as Lyla thrusted her body over the side of the boat, her tailing slinking off. She quickly surfaced and explained herself. "If I can't stay on the boat without getting wet, then I'll just swim back. If I'm going to be saddled with this I might as well try to get used to it right?"

"I guess?" Nixie replied unsure of what to say to that really. "It's not something I think I'd want to get used to though, seeing as how you seem far too calm now about suddenly becoming a freakin' mermaid of all things."

"As I said if I'm going to be stuck like this, might as well try right? Just drive on ahead and I'll follow you," Lyla replied, taking a deep breath and ducking her body under the water.

She was in complete aww of the feeling she had. The ocean was as clear as day like this, surrounded by crystal blue water. It actually felt amazing to her. She worked up the courage to try and use her tail and with a slight flick powered herself forward catching up to the sight of the speedboat on the water above. She eventually figured out how to control it and got used to the swimming. It was like nothing she could ever describe. As her body relaxed itself to the feeling of doing it, she didn't even notice subconsciously something else she was doing, naturally breathing. It wasn't until she felt a small itch on her nose that she suddenly realised that she'd been doing it. "This is amazing," she told herself out loud, hearing her voice loud and clear through the water. And suddenly, a huge grin overcame her face. Feeling a surge of happiness at the sensations in the water, she flicked her tail hard and sped forward past her sisters, taking a leap out of the water, laughing a bit and then splashing back down, the way forward to the canal system in sight.

Her sisters just looked at her in awe as she came out of the water. It was a crazy mystical sight to behold.

"This has got to be the most insane thing I've seen in ages," Nixie said openly.

"Same here, but at least Lyla seems happy despite it all right?" Sirena replied.

"As long as she's happy with it sure, but we gotta make sure no one else finds out about this. Think about what could happens if someone did yeah?" Nixie replied back a little sternly.

"I'm sure Lyla will understand that too."

About 10 minutes later, Nixie and Sirena docked up the boat in the canal and hopped off onto the dock to find Lyla sitting outside in the garden. She waved to them and came on down to help get the supplies off the boat.

"Took you long enough," she joked.

"Well I don't exactly think a speedboat is gonna outspeed a mermaid now is it?" Sirena replied with a smile on her face.

They chuckle over it but then Lyla threw open the serious point the sisters had said on the boat. "What exactly am I even gonna do about daily life if I can't touch a single bit of water without that tail appearing? There's no way any one can find out about what happened, I'd become some horrific science experiment or something."

"I think as annoying as it will be, we'll all just have to try our best to make sure that doesn't happen. It'll be hard, but hopefully we can keep it up until we figure out what on earth happened on Mako that did this," Nixie offered. Both sisters were honestly surprised to see Nixie so grown up about this. They packed up their stuff from the trip and checked in on their mother to make sure she was alright. Once that was all cared for, Lyla said she would go by herself to see Evie. It was a weekend so she'd probably be somewhere at the Ocean Cafe chatting to Carly whilst she was working. If anything, she'd head out some time just after lunch.

Meanwhile over at her house for Evie, she'd gotten back a while ago but was still really worried from what had happened. Unable to remember the full events of the previous night, and waking up on the shore next to Lyla. Just what on earth had happened. She had questioned if she should try and make contact with Lyla to see if she remembers anything, but was quite scared to do so. What if it was just all in her head, after all she had no proof of what had happened. She decided the best way to clear her mind was to go and take a long hot shower.

She stripped her clothes off and took a towel into the wet room with her. Placing it to once side, she began to run the water for the shower, feeling immediately relieved when the water hit her skin. After a few seconds though, something didn't feel right. Her legs began to feel stiff and before she knew it she found herself falling straight to the floor.

"Jeez that hurt!" Evie screamed as her skin rubbed against the texture of the rough tiles on the wet room floor. She tried to get her body to stand up but her legs just weren't doing anything. She flipped her body around to find an unnatural sight before her. In place of her legs, was some kind of golden orange fish tail. Her eyes widened in shock, was she just hallucinating for her moment. She told her brain to move her legs, and when she did, the tail moved up a bit and then slapped straight back down onto the floor. Upon seeing that happen, Evie rolled over and let out a huge scream in fear of what was happening to her.

She eventually cupped her hands over her mouth, telling herself she had to calm down. She wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes and sat upright just to touch the tail. It felt just like a dolphin to her, it was smooth to touch despite the scaly design. "What the hell am I doing?! What on earth even in this?!" She looked up to the shower and saw she was going to have to turn it off. She dragged herself across the floor painfully to grab a nearby stool and propped herself up on that, eventually able to reach the showers handle and stop the water from running. Thanks to it being a wet room, she knew the floor would dry itself eventually. That just left herself. Besides the one towel she bought in, her dad had left a couple from last time on the nearby radiator. She grabbed all of them and began furiously rubbing at the tail, hoping that something would happen is she stopped being wet from the water.

After a few minutes of effort, she eventually felt something odd to happen to her body, and peeling back the towels she found herself back to being naked as she was when she entered the room in the first place. She rushed to the towel cupboard to grab another dry towel to wrap round herself. Deep inside, she was scared out of her mind. She'd just gotten herself soaked with water and then found herself floundering on the floor of the wet room with a tail. "I just turned into a fish," Evie said to herself, unable to still grasp that that is what had happened.

A million thoughts began crossing her mind. What would she even do about showers? Could she even just drink water okay? What if it rained? What if anyone found out about it? How was she supposed to go diving if touching water did that to her? What would she do about her diving shop business? And more importantly, if she hadn't imagined everything last night, and she really was with Lyla on Mako when they fell through that floor, is what happened afterward was caused this? And if so, had anything happened to Lyla.

Her mind once previously against the idea of talking to her was now completely cleared. She had to go out and speak to Lyla one to one about this. Following her train of thought, her first stop would be the Ocean Cafe. If anything had happened to Lyla, she might be looking to speak to her too, and the cafe was the place she most frequented on weekends if she wasn't out diving. She decided to take Jason's camera with her on the off chance that he was hanging around there, he was quite the frequent visitor to the place himself too.

- At the Ocean Cafe -

Lyla had arrived there surprised to find Jason sitting down inside having a cold juice drink. She rushed over to him and said her hello's.

"Back from your trip out yesterday I see? How'd it go?" Jason asked, curious to get an answer on where she'd gone to.

"Oh it went fine," Lyla said lying to herself. It so didn't go fine, she still didn't have a clue what really happened to her. "And a promise is a promise, we went camping on Mako Island for one night."

Jason's face dropped a little when he heard the name actually. "God if I'd have known you were going I would have asked you to get my mum's camera and not Evie."

"Hang on you've been to Mako to before?" Lyla asked, actually extremely interested in that.

"Yeah me and my mum often frequent the place to see if we can find out anything about it. Ever since she quit teaching she's been obsessed with marine culture and specifically the mystery that is Mako Island. We went earlier this week to collect some samples from the reef and some more images of parts of the Island. However, after the dive I foolishly left the camera out on the beach, and thus had to sheepishly ask Evie to collect it for me, meaning I'm really gonna have to pay her this time," Jason explained.

"Does this imply you've had to ask for more stuff from her before without paying her for her services?" Lyla asked curiously.

"That doesn't matter right now does it?" Jason asked trying to dodge the question, Lyla deciding that it was best to drop it. If he began avoiding something it took far too much effort to get him back on track with the subject if he didn't want to talk about it. "Anyway, about the dinner date, is tonight still good?"

It had completely slipped Lyla's mind that that was still going ahead. She thought on it for a brief moment. Nothing should go wrong whilst she was there, the chances of her being hit by water was pretty slim, it didn't seem like it would be dangerous. "Yeah, tonight's still good for me."

Jason seemed over the moon when she said that. He said he would head outside just to make a quick call to his cousin to doubly confirm it all now. Whilst he was out taking the call, he didn't notice Evie slip past him into the cafe and spotted Lyla sitting around. As Lyla glanced over to the door to see how Jason was doing, she was quite surprised to see Evie just standing there staring at her. Lyla hand motioned for Evie to come over to her and the two sat down.

"So, are we in the same boat we think we're in?" Lyla asked openly.

"If by the same boat you refer to last night on Mako, then yes, I think we are heavily in the same boat, and that that boat is more like a sinking ship," Evie replied. "How about we go off to a private area of the beach together and have a chat?"

"Sounds like it would be the best place to talk," Lyla said in agreement.

Before they left, Evie left Jason's camera on the table he was at and a short note about owing her one for this big time now. On the way out, Jason just got off the phone with Tim and spotted Lyla heading out with Evie in tow. "Hey, you going off somewhere?" Jason asked getting Lyla to stop for a minute.

"Just going to have a chat with Evie about something in town, girl related things," Lyla said lying to him again, Evie nodding her head to confirm that.

"I'll call you a bit later to talk about the dinner date then? If nothing else Tim said he could keep a table for two open come 8pm," Jason briefly explained.

"Come pick me up outside my house at around 7:15 then, should give us plenty of time to get over there then," Lyla replied, giving him a quick hug and a kiss before heading off down to the beaches more secluded spots with Evie.

The pair maid sure absolutely no one was around in the vicinity and sat themselves down on the sand over looking the ocean.

"So, where do we even start with all this?" Lyla asked.

"I'll try my best," Evie said going over the thoughts in her head. "Both of us were camping on Mako Island last night, and both of us decided to go exploring. I just remember the further I went hearing someone talking, and then I found that strange tunnel with the light glowing, and when I got in there you were in there, but that's as much as I remember."

"You remember just as much as I do then. I remember resting for a minute against the rock wall only for some of it to disappear leading open to that tunnel we were in. I touched that dial on the wall and then-"

"The floor opened up beneath us and past that, neither of us remember what on earth happened, except waking up on the beach on the south shore."

Lyla looked over to Evie, she'd been in the same spot she was?

"When I first woke up you were next to me but I was so scared and shocked from the brief memories that I just wanted to get home and got on my boat as fast as I could."

"Can't say I blame you there," Lyla replied, realising she had to bring up that topic. It was the only way they were going to get anywhere. "Besides all of that, confirming that we didn't just dream up what happened last night, it's what happened that we don't remember that I wanted to talk the most about."

Evie gulped hard for a second. She knew what had happened to herself, had something similar happened to Lyla as well.

"If I was to say to you right now, 'let's just run into the ocean,' what would you say to that?" Lyla asked seriously.

Evie immediately knew an answer that would spark Lyla off if it was true. "Yes and no."

Lyla stood up dragging Evie up with her and took her hand. "Well then, we'll do it." Evie grasped her hand back firmly to say it was fine. In their heads, that was there symbol for something did happen to us. Together they ran into the ocean and dove in once deep enough, quickly surfacing. For a couple of seconds, it was nothing. And then it happened, the same stream of bubbles that had covered them both before returned, disappearing again quickly leaving them floating on the water both looking down at each other to see the same similar tail taking up each of their lower half.

"I was right to trust you when you said yes and no then," Lyla said happily.

"It was my way of saying to you it's fine if you also think the same thing. You'd like to but it would result in something not so great maybe," Evie replied explaining herself. "But erm, even so, this is completely crazy!"

"It may be crazy but it's cool and kind of nice crazy. I've never felt more free before than as a mermaid like this. It's an incredible sensation. You had much of a chance to swim out?" Lyla asked.

"I came straight out after taking a shower and just flopping to the floor like this so no, truth I'm kinda scared of the idea..." Evie paused as she felt Lyla take her hand again and dragged her out a bit, then dragging her under the water with her, Evie closing her eyes a second before opening them to find her vision was near perfect in the water.

"Come on, you're the diving expert any good reefs we can go visit?" Lyla asked scaring Evie senseless to hear and see her talk.

"How are you doing that?!" Evie blurted out without realising it. She put her hands to her mouth to take them away again moments later. "Are we seriously doing what I think we're doing?"

"We are," Lyla said with a big grin on her face. She pulled Evie down a little bit and got her to get used to the motions of swimming, Evie getting the hang of it pretty quickly, it felt just like free diving only so much more easier.

"This is just... is there even a word that describes this?" Evie pondered as they floated through the clear blue ocean.

"There's only one I can think of that fits it, magical," Lyla replied. "But I was thinking, the two of us eventually should head back to Mako one day next week and see if we can figure anything out about what happened. It has to be something to do with it right?"

Evie thought over it for a moment, agreeing with Lyla. "It has to be. Whatever happened between us going into that tunnel and waking up on the shore, we need to uncover what happened by any cost." As they floated around, Evie remembered what Lyla had just said before she freaked out. "If you have enough time to spare before your dinner date, there's a reef somewhere off to the east we could go visit?"

"That sounds like a brilliant plan," Lyla replied feeling all excited about seeing one so close up like this. "Lead the way!"

- Out on Mako Island -

By the time Zac had woken up, Cam and David were still completely passed out. He took the opportunity to slip out of the moon pool and check the situation with the girls he'd left on the beach. Not even realising what time of day it was, when he surfaced around the area he left them, he wasn't majorly surprised to see footprints heading off in various directions. The boat that David had seen to the south was definitely gone. He headed around to the north of the island where Cam had said three other girls were. If there was ever a boat there, it was long gone, the foot prints from the area pretty faded by now. Regardless, he dragged himself out onto the shore and dried himself up heading into the direction the footprints had headed. It didn't take him long before he'd hit a small clearing where there seemed like plenty of space to set up a camping job. The only trace he had of them was the pile of wood in the middle of the area that had long since burned out. But it was enough to confirm it for himself.

"Great, so I now I have two humans turned potential mermaids on my hands and I don't even know who one of them is. David and Cam would freak if they found out," Zac said to himself as he wandered around in a state of mental panic. If he didn't figure out who this other girl was or ever find her, the council would easily kill the lot of them. That was their order after all, to protect the Island from any more humans potentially turning into them. If any singular human got through the process of the 4th cycle, they were completely done for. "What on earth am I supposed to do? Am I just going to have to come clean to them about it?"

Zac decided the only thing he could do for now was clear his head, there was a reef not too far away that had some of the most vibrant coral and relaxing scenery around Mako. It was his favourite place to go and relax by his lonesome.

As he headed out towards it and got closer to its location, he was completely surprised that he could hear two people talking. They sounded female too. He threw on his invisibility and got closer, eventually finding cover behind a rock formation looking at their backs. He was right on his suspicion, it was a pair of mermaids. The more he listened and looked, the more he realised one of them, was Evie.

Zac was doing his best to calm himself down, but his fear for the worst last night was right. Humans who bask under the light of a full moon in a moon pull go through the process of becoming a mermaid. If by the 4th full moon since their transformation they aren't returned to the same moon pool, the damage is permanent, they'd be no different from natural borns at that point.

He sat around for a bit flicking in and out of his invisibility trying to get a better listen in on their conversation. From what he could understand, the pair had no idea what happened to them after they fell through the roof of the volcano somehow. And now he knew they were sure about going back to the Island at some point to try and get any idea of what went down. He let out a deep sigh. *If they come near the Island there's always the chance David or Cam might spot them. Who knows what would happen if they did. Do I just have to break the ice and tell them the truth?*

Lyla whipped her head around having caught the sound of the sigh Zac made.

"Is everything alright Lyla?" Evie asked, seeing how she suddenly seemed on guard about something.

Lyla relaxed her body and told her it was nothing, probably just a fish making some noise.

"If it's alright with you then, I'm gonna head on back home for the day," Evie said as she floated up off of the rock her and Lyla had been sat on and headed off in the direction they'd come from, hoping to find her way back to that secluded shore area. As Evie left, Lyla turned around to the rock where she'd heard the strange noise from to notice something that looked like a mop of hair. She was extremely on guard seeing it, but even more when she suddenly heard something in that direction say, "what am I going to do about this?"

It was a male voice, it completely terrified her to hear it, but nonetheless she worked up the courage to slowly float over to where what she thought was a mop of hair still was. She settled herself against the rock and peaking around the side, spotted a sight that made her gasp quite loudly, resulting in her hiding back around the other side of the rock clasping her hands over her mouth in fear. *Oh god that was so loud no way that thing didn't not hear it!*

Zac was pretty sure what had just happened. The other human turned mermaid who was with Evie was on the other side of that rock from him. He quickly threw his invisibility on with what strength he had left in him having just used it for song long.

Even though Lyla was scared out of her mind on what she saw, she worked up the courage to peak around the other side again, of course not seeing anything, letting out a sigh of relief. She decided she had to focus on going back home and getting ready for the dinner date. She also needed to strike and deal with Sirena and Nixie over something, just to be 100% safe over something she had in the back of her mind thinking about the restaurant. Taking one last peak around the rock again and seeing nothing again, she just assumed whatever was there had left, and swam off the way she'd seen Evie go a little while ago.

After he saw that she was a long enough distance away, he released his invisibility letting out an even deeper sigh and moving over to sit up on the coral rock. He was far too close there, had that girl even seen him? But he was thankful for one thing, he now had a good idea what the other human turned mermaid looked like. In a couple of days, he would tell Cam and David the truth, and head to shore to try and figure out how to begin fixing the problem that had been created.

As Lyla swam back, whilst she only got a glimpse of who or what was on the other side, she was positive of one thing. "A blue tail and the upper body of a human male. If it was the male counterpart to a mermaid, did I just see a merman?" She pushed the thought quickly out of her mind though, one part of her wanted to believe that she just imagined it for a minute, but another part of her knew all too well that she was probably right about what she'd seen just then. Eitherway, none of it should matter right now, she should only have been worried about focusing on the dinner date she was going to, and her grand master persuasion plan, was to have Sirena and Nixie stationed outside near the bathroom if anything did happen.

Demonika: Well I think I'm gonna wrap chapter 2 up here. Truth as I'm writing this, the whole reef scene was not in my original plan at all, but I figured it made a bit of sense. I'm still going to work in what I planned for the boys but not here, next chapter. Then things can get in motion just a little bit more. I feel like the 6K word mark or so will be a good length for these chapters. Some might be longer in the future of course, we'll just see as we go!