NOTE: Welcome to my story H2O. Please have fun reading it. You probably noticed I've deleted my story Blue Moon Rising. Why, you might ask? Because I've started this one way before that one and I have to finish it and translate it, also I have to finish many other stories as well. Here all the characters, and I mean ALL, belong to me and therefore they are my property. The island Ooha'oma is, like Mako Island, fictional so it also belongs to me. And this story is not in the world of original H2O: Just Add Water so those people do not exist here. Also the show doesn't either. Please, read and enjoy. It might be boring at the beginning, but later it will be better. This is also written like episodes so it's separate and sometimes it will be a two part epp. And there will be some language because let's face it – teenagers these days swear. A lot. I swear too, but not so much. So, this is supposed to be as realistic as possible (although it will not always be). Have fun!

MAY'S POV

I sat on the leather couch in the living room and ran my fingers through my shoulder – length dark brown hair. I took the phone and typed a number I wanted to call. "Hello, Melissa. It's me. I talked about the camping tomorrow with my parents. They said we're going off at eight."

Melissa Tanner was one of my two best friends. I've known her since fifth grade, when she moved to my city, Honolulu. Melissa is also my full opposite. I'm quite tall, while she is short. I have a few extra pounds, while Melissa is skinny. I am tanned, while her skin was milky – white and easy burned when on the sun. The only same thing we had were eyes; both of us have brownish – green colored ones.

Melissa had long light brown, wavy hair, that way almost always tied in a pony tail. She had a few spots on her face and even though she was fourteen, she looked at least two years younger, unlike me, who looked older even though I was the youngest of my group of friends.

My family's decided to go camping for the weekend on a small volcanic island called Ooha'oma. That uninhabited island was a few miles away from Honolulu and it was not really fun to go there since it was surrounded with lots of sharks and dangerous and endangered sea animals. The legends even said that many demons and evil beings live there, but those are only that – legends. I hope. I was not really sure if it was legal to go camping there, but since my dad was a cop, I presumed it was okay.

The idea of going there was actually giving me chills. I mean, why the hell do people even go camping? Lots of mosquitoes and flies and those annoying frogs and crickets that won't shut up for the whole night. But, not everyone was unhappy. Take Melissa, for example.

"Great, I can't wait!" her voice told me she was thrilled. Too thrilled if you ask me. "What will you take with you?"

"Only my swimsuit and that pink sundress I bought last week. I don't need anything else for that two days." Gee, what a question! What should I take with me? A giant bag with many coats and long T – shirts just in case it starts to snow? But, something like that wouldn't surprise me if it came from Melissa, our fashion adviser.

"Have you called Destiny?" Now she's changing the subject. She must've packed the giant bag I talked about earlier and is now ashamed to admit.

"I thought about calling her after I call you."

Destiny Bain was my second best friend. I've known her since I was four and I'm surprised how much we look alike. We're both about equally high, with her being a few centimeters taller, we both have a few extra pounds and out hairs are of the same color, except that hers is longer. Destiny's eyes are chocolate brown, and her skin is even paler than Melissa's and easily burns on the sun.

"Okay, then, call her. I gotta hang up and start packing." Melissa hung her phone up before I even had a chance to say goodbye. Really nice of her, if I might notice.

I typed Destiny's number, only to find out nobody's answering the phone. Since there was no other option, I had to send her an SMS which was, to me, a good thing. I always disliked talking over the phone. Sending SMS's was so much better and easier. I hope you'll see the text, Des.

DESTINY'S POV

"I'm sooo sleepy!" I heard May whining, as we got out of the small boat May's dad, Mr. Seward, owned. We stepped on the soft, gentle sand of a big and beautiful Ooha'oma's beach surrounded by a big, green forest. For such a small island, it contained a very pretty nature.

"Me too. I went to bed at three am", I admitted. So what? Like you've never been caught in Facebook's nets and forced to chat with your friends just a little longer, not noticing how much time's passed.

I felt someone's hand on my shoulder, only to see Melissa smiling at May and me, resting her hands on our shoulders. "Oh, come on! It will be fun!"

Yeah, to her maybe. But not to me. I had better things to do than sleep in a bag and being a food for insects. Like, I could've clean my house or be on Facebook. Many, many possibilities there were and those sure were a lot smarter and better than go camping. I don't know what idiot convinced me to go camping. Oh, yeah, it was May. Of course!

"I wouldn't be so sure. Two days without internet. I'm gonna kill myself!" May said nervously. Although it was a pretty rare occasion, I agreed with her. The longest I endured without internet was one day, and that was barely. I almost exploded that day when we had a short circuit.

I noticed May's parents, a middle – aged, chubby people, dressed in the same while shirts and blue shorts, holding our tents and taking them out of the boat. I sighed. Maybe I should help them. I always like to help people. But then May would say I'm too boring. She always says that.

Melissa sat on the sand and put her pink rucksack down. She took off her blue dress, revealing a pink bikini that, I must admit, looked pretty good on her. She took off her blue flip – flops and ran towards the ocean. "I'm going swimming! Wanna come with me?"

May nodded. "Sure! Just to take my clothes off."

Melissa dove under the crystal blue ocean, swimming further and further away from the shore. I can't believe it's the same girl that almost drowned in the pool when we were on a field trip in sixth grade and grabbed the history teacher's leg. People around me change too much. I heard May parents' voices telling her to be careful. At least someone was smart enough to think about being careful.

I noticed May putting her olive – green rucksack on the sand and taking off her pink dress and flip – flops. Under it, she wore a white swimsuit with pretty, colorful parrots. "Des, wanna come with me?" she asked me.

I shook my head. "You go on. I might come later." She nodded and went after Melissa.

There was no way I was going swimming. My make up wouldn't survive. I mean, you try wearing a white face powder, red lipstick, black mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow and look good under the water. Impossible, isn't it? Also, I'm not a very good swimmer. Especially after I almost drowned at the age of six when my dad was trying to teach me how to swim. Guess what; he didn't teach me. He made me fear the water. Thanks, dad!

I sat on the sand and put my hands around my knees. I wanted to approach the ocean and at least feel the water on my feet. But I couldn't find the courage to do so. Something made me back off. That ocean, that shone brightly under the morning sun, wouldn't let me come closer. It scared me. In my mind I saw the flashback of that day I almost drowned. It felt like I was reviving it.

"Destiny, are you okay?" Someone's voice shook me out of my thoughts. I saw Mrs. Seward standing beside me with a worried look on her face. I looked into her eyes, identical to those of May's. May looked a lot like her mother; same hair, same eyes and same tone of voice.

"I – I'm okay", I replied. It's not like I could admit I was afraid to come close to the water. "I'm just a bit tired."

Mrs. Seward smiled at me and took the cigarette out of her pocket, lighting it and heading back to her husband, who was trying to make fire old – fashioned way. It didn't work. At all.

I pointed my look back at the ocean. I wish I could swim. Then I'd be able to be with them there now.

MELISSA'S POV

Mrs. Seward said goodnight to us before she and her husband went to bed. It was 11 pm already and my bedtime was supposed to be two hours ago. So what? I like to go to bed early so I can get up early and enjoy the day like normal people, not like Destiny and May, who spend half the day sleeping. I saw May heading toward our tent. She wasn't going to bed, was she? I mean, she usually goes to bed around one, sometimes five if it's the summer break. There must've been a catch.

"What are you doing?" I had to ask to be sure. As she turned to me, I saw a devious look on her face. She was definitely up to something.

"Leaving my cell phone in the tent. I turned it off so my battery is alive enough for these two days", she said, putting her cell phone in her rucksack. Destiny did the same. What are they? Sisters? Twins? Always doing the same things, even though they don't always agree on said things.

"That's why I left mine at home", I said proudly. I was not much of a cell phone addict, like these two.

May laughed. "You're such a nerd!"

"What? I'm not an addict like you two!" I said, chuckling. "I'm also not the internet addict." Now that hit the spot.

"You said it on purpose!" Destiny yelled. She was quite funny when she was mad. I knew she missed Facebook. I mean, I did too, but I had a level of self control, not like her. She was a real control freak sometimes, but the only thing she could never control was herself. I found it pretty funny.

"Enough, enough, enough! No one will mention internet in these two days or I'll be accused of murder. And trust me, I know how to hide the body and leave no evidence behind." That was May, a famous CSI lover. More a CSI addict. It was a guilty pleasure of hers, and also her big obsession. If she missed an episode, she would go crazy. Really crazy. I remember once she almost broke her arm on PE when our school lasted a bit longer, so she would be allowed to go home and watch CSI. Crazy person, I know.

Destiny and I laughed. I looked at the sky bathed in billions of shiny stars. I noticed the full moon shining bright yellow light almost above the top of the old volcano. "It's the full moon tonight, meaning, May'll go crazy."

Destiny laughed even more, while May slightly slapped me on the back of my head. "Very funny."

Both of us let out a laugh, before Destiny had to ruin all the fun with being serious. "No, really. What should we do?"

"I say we go exploring the island. That's what I was going to do. You can join me", May said. It actually sounded a bit fun, but of course that Destiny had to complain.

"Are you out of your mind? What if some wild animal attacks us? Like some kind of a wild pig for example? Or a violent bird? Or some other kind of a wild animal?"

"A pig on Ooha'oma? A violent bird? And what kind of other wild animal exactly? Beware the almighty mosquitoes?" May said in a fake scared tone. I agree with her, that sounded stupid. Really stupid. Destiny always had the "best" ideas. If there was a reward of making the most not logical horror movie in history, I'm sure she'd win the first place.

"Okay, that – that is unlikely", Destiny admitted, slightly blushing. "But... What about the light, huh? We could get lost!"

"We have moonlight!" May said. Thank you for stating the obvious for those who don't get it. But, just in case, I went to my rucksack and took a yellow flashlight my mom packed for me.

"This might help too."

May smiled and gave me one of the tightest hugs possible. I knew she liked it when I agreed with her. "Let's go then!"

The two of us turned to the green forest that rose in front of us. A big volcano towered us from above. I just had to go explore that beauty of the nature.

"You two are out of your minds! There's no way I'm going!" Destiny yelled, crossing her hands against her chest. She sticked to her opinion, but I knew her enough to know that she changed her mind pretty often, she just needed good arguments.

"Then don't! Stay here and when my mom wakes up later this night, you can enjoy hearing stories about domesticated animals. I'm sure you'll have a nice time!" May said sarcastically, as she and I headed toward the forest. I glanced at Destiny, who just rolled her eyes.

"Hey, wait for me! Don't go without me!" she yelled, running to catch up with us. I knew she'll change her mind. Good girl.

- H2O -

The three of us somehow managed to get through all those trees and high grass, getting to the rocks. There was a fast river that spread through the whole island and its spring was somewhere around those rocks. May jumped on the rocks first, followed by me and Destiny. The rocks were pretty slippery and she was not really careful.

"Be careful. You don't want to break a leg or something." Even though I knew she wouldn't listen to me, I had to warn her. She was my friend after all and it wouldn't be so cool if she gets hurt.

"Everything'll be fine", I heard her answer. She was still not careful and walked pretty fast. What could I do? She's the youngest of three of us so her ''youth'' may justify her immaturity. But the worst part is that I picked after her, like a copycat or something.

"I can't believe you taught me into this." Yes, you're right! Ms. Responsibility – the oldest one of the group – complained again. Someone just needed to teach her how to have fun. Complaining all the time was not fun, it was annoying.

Although it was pretty dark and the only light was moonlight and my weak flashlight, I managed to see May roll her eyes. "Oh, shu -" Her scream made me scream too. And in a second, the dark swallowed her and she was nowhere to be seen. Oh, no! May!

MAY'S POV

It was so much fun exploring the island at night. All the dark around and it was quiet – well, except for those annoying crickets and frogs – and peaceful. Look at the full moon above me made me feel safe and protected. I always liked the moon – it had something that attracted me. Something... Magical.

I found it pretty annoying that Destiny complained all the time. I mean, no one forced her to go with us. She could've been at the beach, sleeping, or listening to my mom's ''educational'' talks about domesticated animals. But no – she just had to come and then complain all the way. I was just about to tell her to shut up, when I tripped over a small rock and fell into some kind of a cave. I got to the bottom of it gliding down the rocky – but smooth - surface, like I'm on some kind of a toboggan. The cave was pretty deep and I couldn't even see the shadows of my friends.

"May!" I heard the girls calling for me.

"I'm okay!" I replied. I tried climbing up, but the rock was too slippery. It must be because of the rain that fell two days ago. Although I like the rain, it made my life a hell at that moment. Or that's what I thought.

I heard the sound of something gliding down and looked up to see what it is. It was pretty light down there for some reason, but I haven't seen anything... Yet. A brown - haired figure in a short blue dress landed on me, knocking me on the ground. I let out a scream of pain as I hit the hard, rocky ground.

"Sorry." It was Melissa. I noticed how she carefully observed me, before asking: "Are you okay?"

"I will be after you get off of me", I said. She was not pretty heavy, but you try having someone sitting on your lungs and still feel fine.

Melissa got up and looked around. "Look at this." I looked behind myself and saw the most beautiful scene in my life – a sea pool, with crystal clear – blue – water in it stood under the top of the high volcano. There was a big hole on the top and you could see billions of stars shining through it. I gasped. Why haven't we learned anything about this place at school? It looks amazing.

"It's beautiful..."

"I know..." Melissa said.

A sound of something hitting the ground next to us made us both turn around, only to see a girl clad in knee - length dark jeans and a red T – shirt lying on the hard ground – Destiny. She got up and gave us both a sharp look.

"I asked if you're okay... About ten times!" she yelled and took a step closer to us. "So for the eleventh time, ARE YOU OKAY?"

"YES!" Melissa replied. I curved my lips into a fake smile. Someone's been moody today.

"What is that?" Destiny pointed towards the sea pool. I was just about to explain, but was cut off by her. "You know what? I don't even care. Let's just get out of here."

"We can't, I tried", I said. Now this is when one of those times when Destiny goes crazy.

"We can't? But how are we supposed to get out? I knew this was a bad idea! I just knew it! And something and will happen now. I don't know what, but it will!"

I rolled my eyes. Couldn't she just calm down for a minute? Think about everything maybe? But luckily, I had a plan. A pretty good plan. "We can go through this pool. There must be a hole underwater that leads to the open ocean. If the hole is big enough, we can get out."

I sat on the edge of the pool, ready to jump in, but Destiny – of course – had to complain. "You know I don't go into water."

Okay, I know she was afraid of the water, but there were three of us and two of us knew how to swim properly and was ready to help the third one. "Melissa and I will help you."

"Right." Melissa sat next to me. Destiny shook her head.

"I am not doing it."

"Fine. Then stay here and wait for help till Monday morning. It's Sunday tomorrow, you know that, right?" And with that, I jumped into the pool, followed by Melissa.

Destiny, having no other choice, slowly got into the pool with us. I dove under the water, just to make sure we could get out. I noticed a big underwater hole and smiled, diving out. "We can go."

I took Destiny's hand, ready to dive under the water again, when suddenly I noticed the moon covering the top of the volcano. It's bright, golden light bathed Melissa, Destiny and me and that's when something strange happened. The water started to bubble and golden sparks rose from it, flying towards the sky. I felt something strange inside of me, like I'm changing in some way. The three couldn't get our eyes off of the moon, until it disappeared. Weird.

"So weird", Destiny said.

"So cool", I said at the same time. Melisa smiled.

Destiny rolled her eyes. "Can we go now? I wanna go sleep."

I nodded. Melissa dove under water first, followed by me and Destiny, with me holding Destiny's hand tightly. It was hard for me to swim with only one hand and the other one busy holding my friend's. But the two of us managed to survive. As we dove out, all three of us took a deep breath.

"Are you okay?" I asked Destiny. I had to be sure she was okay since she looked kinda scared, even though she would never admit it.

Destiny nodded, tightening her grip on my hand. "Please, get me out of here."

"We're going, but… Which way?" Great, now we got lost. I mean, I knew we were still on the same side of the island, but I wasn't exactly sure on which spot. I should be more careful in the future.

Melissa pointed her hand to the right side. "I think it's that way."

MELISSA'S POV

As I slowly opened my eyes to greet the sunlight, I stepped out the tent and yawned, opening my mouth as wide as I could. I had my look on Mr. and Mrs. Seward a few feet away opening the white portable fridge and taking out some bread and margarine.

"Good morning, Melissa", the two of them greeted as they noticed me approaching them. They were actually pretty nice people. Made me wonder who May took after.

Anyway, I returned the greeting and sat next to them. They asked me to have breakfast with them, which I refused since I wasn't feeling right at the moment. It must be because my lack of sleep. I know that it was noon already, but I was usually up long ago so this was a whole new experience to me. May, hanging out with May for the night makes you change your traditions. And hanging out with Destiny… Well, it makes you become paranoid, which I was not. Thank God.

"What is this?" Speaking of the devil. Destiny and May got out the tent and sat next to me. They both looked sleepy and exhausted. Well, she did propose the midnight explore, so she should be aware of the consequences. Not that I didn't like it, I'm just saying.

"Why don't you two eat something?" asked Mrs. Seward.

I noticed May shaking her head, trying to avoid the sunlight by putting her hand over her eyes. "No way, you know I never eat in the morning."

"But it's noon!" I said.

May rolled her eyes. "I just woke up and for me it is morning."

"Same here", Destiny stated.

As I got bored of sitting on the sunlight - and also afraid of burning my skin - I got up and headed to the ocean. I told everyone I'm going swimming and even asked them to join me, but no one wanted. It's okay, I'm a big girl. I could take care of myself. As I got into the water, I quickly dove under, swimming as fast as possible. Since last night, I felt something attracting me to the water, but didn't know what it was. I even went swimming in my swimsuit since my dress was wet and I haven't brought my PJ's. I'm going to thank that to May and Destiny, who always complain about how much clothes and cosmetics I'm taking with me everywhere I go. I mean, it's the truth about the clothes, but the cosmetics girl here was Destiny, not me. She's the one looking all Marilyn Mansonish after all.

As I dove out, I took a deep breath, ready to dive back under, but that's when I felt something strange happening to me. I felt my legs merging together and started to wave my hands, hitting the water with them. I looked down and almost screamed at the sight of a big fish's tail, covered with bronzy – golden scales. I noticed a matching top covering my small breasts, as if it's some kind of a bra. What the hell was going on? How did that happen?

MAY'S POV

Just as Melissa went for a swim, I was about to go after her, but I remembered I wanted to go and snap some pictures of this beautiful nature. I went to the tent to get my cell phone and informed my parents of where I was going before leaving. I was warned not to go deep into the forest, which I found a pretty nice advice after the last night's events. What if there were other rock or underground caves? I could fall into one of those and never get out, end up alone and starve to death. Okay, I started dramatizing again and it had to stop. I was not turning into Destiny, even though I was actually the one that first dramatized over everything. Poor Destiny just picked up, while I became more self confident.

My "photo session" ended with a nice beach walk back to my tent. I slowly walked near the peaceful and quiet ocean, noticing it's smallest waves hitting the sandy surface. I felt it's coldness on my feet as a new set of tiny waves hit the shore and slightly jumped. I woke up only about an hour ago, it's not as I was fully awake yet. For me to be fully awake, it needed to pass at least three hours or something.

All of a sudden, I got a strange feeling in my legs and found myself falling on the sand. I carefully observed my surroundings, still confused and sleepy. I took a look on my torso. I noticed that the cell phone around my neck and all my clothes were gone, replaced by a scaly top that covered my big breasts.

As I turned my head to look at my legs, my eyes went wide open. A big, fish's tail replaced my legs, making me gasp. What the hell happened? I mean, one minute I'm walking on the beach, and the next one I'm laying on the sand with a giant tail at the place of my legs. Something must've happened and whatever it was, it was pretty cool. It was like I was a… Mermaid.

DESTINY'S POV

Watching Melissa and May leaving their ways, I went to the tent and took my cell phone and a bottle of water out. I leaned against the back of a tent, enjoying the coolness that the tree shadows gave. I noticed a three missed calls, all from my parents, so I sent them an SMS that I was fine. I was not really in the mood to talk to them. I was never in the mood for that, but that day was one of my most moody ones. If I heard their voice, I'd probably yell my lungs out and suffocate because of lack of air.

I opened the bottle of water and started drinking, when suddenly I spilt almost half the bottle on my. Yeah, I was a clumsy person. Moody and clumsy, what a nice combination!

"Damn it!" I muttered to myself, ready to go back to the tent to dry myself off, when I got this strange feeling that my legs are merging, and I fell to the soft, gentle, sandy surface. At first I had no idea what the hell was going on, but I soon realized after I saw a fish's tail and a top covering my breasts. I shook my head and blinked a couple of times, trying to convince myself that what happened wasn't real, but it was a mission impossible because, well… It was real. And the girls had to know about it.

- H2O -

"… And in about ten seconds I got this giant golden tail", May explained as she, Melissa and I hid in our tent an hour later. Apparently the same thing happened to the two of them too, which was a good thing… I guess.

"Yeah, and I had to get completely dry to get my legs back", Melissa added.

May nodded. "It's same with me."

"Me too", I said. The way they talked about it made it seem like they were happy that what happened, happened, but it was everything but a great thing. I mean, if what I thought was true, we could never get wet in public again or go to field trips or swim at PE in school. How is that great?

"You know, girls… This kinda makes us…" May said, giggling. "Mermaids."

"Totally!" Melissa smiled.

Now that was enough for me. "Mermaids do not exist! You're too old to believe in that kind of things!" I yelled. As far as I knew, mermaids did not exist. Well, at least not until then or someone would've said or heard something.

"Yes, they do. We are mermaids." Man, that May really knew how to make someone mad.

"No, we're not! We're humans!" It was obvious that we were mermaids, but I just refused to admit it. Why, you might ask? It's because my pride wouldn't let me. I was the oldest of three of us and the most responsible one so I was the one who was supposed to be serious. So I tried to be serious, it resulting in denying an already existing fact.

"Mer-maids", Melissa repeated. "We're mer-maids."

"I shouldn't have listened to you last night and go exploring. This must be a side-effect of what happened in that weird cave pool. And it's all your fault", I said, now sounding angry. I was not trying to sound angry, I was just scared of what I've become. But it's true what old people say, that everyone reacts at fear differently.

"It's so cool, isn't it?" Melissa asked me, putting her hand on my shoulder.

I swallowed. "Cool? I'm a fish, for God's sake!"

- H2O -

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