Maylu was a bit frantic. Model L was a bit frantic too. Roll was surprisingly calm. Great-grandpa finally picked up the phone, and smiled at her.
"Hello, Maylu. Is something wrong?" he asked, tilting his head just a bit. Maylu eyes flickered everywhere but her grandpa.
"Hi, Great-grandpa. I, I just have a small problem. I was at the beach, with Model L." she said. Model L floated into view, 'waving.' Great-grandpa didn't seem too worried.
"I'm not seeing a problem." he said. Maylu fidgeted.
"Well, I was about to go swimming, when there were some people panicking. A couple of kids had gone out in a raft, and it overturned." she said. Great-grandpa's face wavered a bit.
"I admit, that does sound a little more like a need to worry." he said. Maylu blushed.
"I, kinda panicked too, and Megamerged. I tried not to let the kids see me, but they're convinced that something was there!" she said. Great-grandpa shrugged.
"Kids make up stories." he said. Model L sighed.
'Maylu-chan's just trying to figure out if she's going to talk to the kids again.' she said. Great-grandpa blinked.
"That's all? Well, there's no way they'll recognize you, especially if they didn't get a good look at you. Go on! Find out the story from them." he said. Maylu blanched slightly.
"Really? Okay then. Bye, Great-grandpa." she said. Great-grandpa smiled, and the call ended. Maylu went back to the beach, Model L hiding in her pocket. The two kids were arguing with each other, and a baffled lifeguard was just scratching his head. The first kid rose his hand.
"No, I'm right!" he said. The second kid leaned forward.
"No way! My eyes don't lie!" he said. Maylu chuckled humorlessly.
"What are they arguing about?" she mumbled, and stepped up. The kids spun around, immediately intrested.
"Guess what! A sea monster tried to eat us!" the first said. The other pushed him back.
"No! A mermaid saved us!" he said. Maylu stepped back.
"What?" she asked. The first kid shoved back the second and crossed his arms.
"It was like this. We were out in the water. It was bright and sunny, people were on the beach, everything was a bright and clear day. But something loomed underneath the waves." He got comically serious. "The creature was waiting for somebody to get too close. It made a wave rise up, and knocked us right off the raft! Then, its maw rose high above us! Just as it went for the pounce, we got back on our raft, and hightailed it out of there!" he said.
'Huh!? How dare that little boy call us a sea monster?' Model L said. Maylu had to place her hand in her pocket to keep her from flying out.
"What about the mermaid?" she asked. The other boy smiled, a little bit smugly.
"My story starts out like his, except, instead of a water monster swimming around, it's the most graceful and mysterious creature of the ocean. The mermaid! A rogue wave suddenly came up and overturned our raft! I was stuck underneath, air gone, and drowning. Then, the mermaid appeared. She magically lifted me and this guy back onto our raft, and used her powers to send us back to shore, without the use of the oars!" He crossed his arms triumphantly. "My eyes never lie!" The first kid glared at him.
"Oh yeah? Says who?"
"Says my optomerwhatever. I have twenty-twenty vision!"
"More like nothing-nothing!"
"Whaddya say?!"
"You heard what I said!" Maylu wisely distanced herself from the boys. Model L floated out again.
'At the rate those two are arguing, nobody will ever think it ever happened.' she said. Maylu nodded.
"Definitely." she said. Roll glanced up.
"That's not how it went at all! You dove in to help them. Once you got close enough you used dragon-chan to flip the boat up, and throw the boys on top. Then you found the oars, and threw them back in. Honestly! I don't know how they were able to make up such wild stories!" Roll said. Maylu and Model L nodded sagely in agreement.
"Me neither.'