Moon Stones Gone Missing

Chapter 8

"Cleo!!" Kim yelled angrily at her big sister, banging on the bathroom door as loud as she could. "How long does it take to have a bath!?"

Cleo opened her eyes and pulled one of her earphones out of her ear. "Wait your turn, Kim!" She yelled back.

"I'll tell Dad!!" Kim shouted.

Cleo rolled her eyes. "Well just give me a minute!!" Cleo sighed. She pulled the other earphone, and looked at her massive mermaid tail, the fin hanging out of the bath tub.

Cleo was a mermaid. She and her best friends Emma, Rikki and Bella were all mermaids. But they weren't always.

A long while ago Cleo, Emma and Rikki were stranded on Mako Island. Trying to find a way back, they all fell into a cave, and stumbled across the Moon Pool. They entered the Moon Pool, hoping to swim out back to sea.

However, it was a full moon, and the power of the moon had transformed them into mermaids. They meet Bella about a year or so later, learning that she was transformed into a mermaid when she was nine years old.

At first none of the girls (except Rikki) were too pleased about becoming with mermaids, as their tails would appear whenever they came in contact with water. But all the girls learnt to accept their mermaid tails, and the powers that were included.

Cleo had the power to control water, Emma had the power to freeze water, Rikki could boil water and Bella could change waters texture, to a jelly-like substance, and also a into a glass-like substance.

Cleo's boyfriend Lewis, Bella's boyfriend Will, and Riki's ex boyfriend Zane, learnt about the girls secret too, and promised not to tell anyone, knowing that it could put the girls in danger. All the girls have shared many adventures together.

Cleo managed to clamber out of the bath tub and fall onto the tiled floor, and dry her her orange tail with the hairdryer. She then moved on to drying her dark hair, and then she got a towel and dried her dark skin. When her tail had gone and her legs had appeared. She threw on a dressing gown, grabbed her iPod and opened the door.

"Happy!?" Cleo asked Kim.

Kim rolled her eyes. "When you leave home, yes I will be." Kim stalked past Cleo into the bath room and slammed the door.

Cleo pulled a face and went downstairs to find something to eat.

***

Emma had been up and dressed for almost an hour. She had been reading and studying for ages. She pinned her light blonde hair back as she read all her facts on the properties of plant cells. Just then she got a phone call. She picked up her phone and checked the name, to find it was Rikki.

Emma answered the call. "Hi Rikki," Emma said.

"Morning," Rikki said grumpily.

"You sound happy," Emma commented.

"My dad just woke me up," Rikki sighed. "Are you coming down to the café later?"

"Of course I am, I work there!!" Emma laughed.

The main hang out for the friends used to be the Juice Net Café, before it unfortunately closed down. Zane had got the money from his dad to reopen the place, and he named it Rikki's. Zane and Rikki had managed the café together, and hired a few members of staff, including Emma (when she returned home from sailing around the with with her family), and they even had a band, with Bella as the lead singer! They hired Will's sister, Sophie, who had kissed Zane, and Rikki was watching...

Rikki and Zane broke up because of this, but they still owned the café together, which did create awkwardness most of the time.

"Cool, Bella and Cleo is coming," Rikki said sleepily.