Moon Stones Gone Missing

Chapter 10

Evie, Zac and the rest of the mermaids went back to the car. Mimmi looked through Rita's potions, but she couldn't work out any that would help them find any human girls that had been transformed into mermaids...

So they decided to go to Mako Island for the rest of the day. It was coming close to night fall, and everyone decided it would be best for them to sleep in the Moon Pool that night. They also planned to stay there the night afterwards too, but if they hadn't found any mermaids three days later, they would travel back home.

"It's hopeless," Lyla sighed.

"We'll never find any human mermaids," Ondina agreed, shrugging her shoulders.

"Be positive," Sirena said. "We will find them... We just need to make sure we're looking in the right place."

"And where's that?" Ondina asked moodily.

"Don't be mean," Nixie said, pointing a warning finger at Ondina. "Indeed, this is a difficult task, but we will get it done. If not, well, we'll have to try defeat Erik ourselves.

"With two moon rings and one merman?" Evie asked. "I'm sorry, but that does seem impossible. Especially if Erik has lots of moon stones forged into one trident stone." Evie looked at her moon ring. She didn't want to lose the stone.

"Three," Nixie corrected her. "You have a ring, I have a ring, and Sirena has a ring."

Evie just rolled her eyes.

"Guys, this is no time for arguments," Zac said. "Tomorrow, well give Rita a call, and we'll see if she has any ideas. If not - I'll have to go defeat Erik alone."

"Alone?" Mimmi asked. "Zac, you can't do that!!"

A huge argument then took place. Zac insisted he had to go to the Merman Chamber alone, but Mimmi then explained that it would be too dangerous for him. Evie them joined in the argument, saying that not all the mermaids would be able to go with Zac, and then Ondina asked Nixie is she could borrow her ring, which caused an argument to break between them two. Lyla then joined saying they may as well go straight to the Merman Chamber right then.

Sirena and Mimmi got everyone to calm down, and eventually everyone in the Moon Pool managed to fall asleep, Zac and Evie managed to pull themselves up onto the rock ledge, Sirena, Mimm, and Nixie were sat on the rocks, their heads resting against the wall, and Lyla and Ondina were floating in the water.

They woke up early in the morning, due to a massive scream, coming from Evie.

Everyone woke up: Nixie hitting the back of her head against the wall, Zac falling into the Moon Pool, and Ondina jumped so much Lyla sank several inches under the water.

"What was that!?" Lyla asked when she resurfaced.

Mimmi gave a small smile, pointing at Lyla. "At least it wasn't me who sank this time."

"Could you have screamed any louder?" Nixie asked, rubbing her head.

"Evie, what's wrong?" Sirena and Zac asked.

Everyone turned to look at Evie. She was sat on the ledge, her eyes wide with shock horror, as she stared at her right right hand, looking at her Moon Ring.

Mimmi sighed. "Don't say -"

Evie turned her hand around, her eyes flicking upwards to face everyone else. Everyone looked at her ring...

And the blue moon stone wasn't there...

"Where did it go!?" Sirena asked, sitting up. "Have you checked up on the ledge?"