Complicated. (...sort of)

Chapter 42

Cody's POV
"I hope you can swim." Mercy stated flatly and dove head first into the water.

"Mercy!" I shouted. Instinctively I took off my boots and dove down into the dark waters, following the small silhouette that I could see.

I heard a plunge from above, but didn't pay any attention to it. The water got lighter as I swam up to the surface. When my head popped out of the water I gasped for air and looked around the shores.

"So you can swim." Mercy stated from the shore. I swam over and pulled myself out of the water and onto the sand. Right as I was in the sand, Jade popped out of the water with a loud gasp.

"You two are nuts! One day you will get yourselves killed." She sassed and pulled herself out onto the shore.

"What did I tell you though?" Mercy said and motioned to our surroundings. It almost looked like the cove, but behind where we surfaced was a large waterfall. It was about 70 feet high, from my perspective. There was a little opening for the water to drain out into the ocean. Around the water was sand that soon turned into a soft, bright green grass. I'll admit, it's a beautiful place.

"I don't have the words." Jade uttered, astonished. "There's nothing like this on Catalina."

"I found it one day when I crashed in the cove. I fell in the water and it pulled me here. I have to find another entrance though. My parents are getting suspicious that I always come home and my clothes are wet but it's sunny outside." Mercy explained.

"Ugh speaking of parents, I gotta go meet mine for a 'little chat' which is what my dad is calling it. See you guys later." Jade said and disappeared in the water.

"...so.." I hesitated. "You think you'll share this place with anyone else?"

"Eh,  let's just keep it between us for now. It'll be our little secret." She smiled slightly, I looked over to her to find her looking at the water. "Oh I can teach you how to skip rocks!" She suddenly shouted, snapping me out of my trance.

"Um..."

"Come on!" She said and grabbed both of my hands and pulled me towards the water. "Okay to start you want to find a small, flat rock." She stated and scowered the shore. "I found two!" She handed me a rock. "Hold i like this." I llooked at her hand and mirrored how she was holding the small rock. "And you throw it by just slightly flicking your wrist." She threw the stone and it skiped along the surface of the water about 3 times before plunging down.

"Wow. Like this?" I said and tossed it how she did. It skipp along the water then plunged, causiong cheers from both of us.

"Exactly like that!" She shouted, then laughed. We both laughed for a while, then sat back down on the shoreline. We heard faint roars from the other side of the huge wall. "Do you hear that?" She said and stood up slowly. I pulled  out my knife but she turned and faced me. "Put that away you know we don't kill dragons." She snapped.

"Sorry." I apologized. "It's on the other side of the wall."

"Thanks genius." She said with a sarcastic smile. The dragon roared again. "Toothless?" She muttered before running to the water and diving down. I sighed and dove in.  I swam through on the same path that we came through, and about 30 seconds later, I rose from the water into the sunny atmoshpere.

"Cody come on! Toothless is trying to tell us something!" Mercy shouted as she slipped into her boots and ran to the dragon. I trotted out of the water and ran to my boots. I slipped one foot into a boot. "Cody seriously could you go any slower."

"Well I could go slower. Is that what you want?" I replied sarcastically. She stood, glaring at me. "Okay I'll go faster."

"You better." She mumbled then turned to Toothless.