Just Add Water

Chapter 17

The next day Gray went to meet with Jellal at the docks. He had a boat, a board, a sail, and a camera already.

"Just so we're clear if the sharks eat you I won't be arrested right?" Gray asked holding up a recorder.

"Yes." Jellal sighed. "If I end up getting eaten by sharks which will not happen, you won't be held accountable."

"Okay. Then we can get down to business."

They got into the boat and rode it toward Tendrou Island. There Jellal stepped on to his board and got ready to wind surf.

"You sure you know what you're doing?" Gray asked him.

"Yes I am. Now start the camera."

"Wait a minute. Pay up." Gray said holding out his hand. "Give me the money now or no deal."

"You don't trust me?"

"Yes and with could reason to."

"Fine."

Jellal gave Gray the hundred dollars he promised him. After that Gray handed Jellal a walkie talkie, turned on the water proof video camera along with a timer and speed meter, and started filming. At first it was very slow and calm but then the wind picked up in Jellal's sail causing his board to go much faster. He steered it to glide around the island and jump it's waves at an excelling speed.

"I hate to say this." Gray said into the walkie talkie. "But if you keep going at this speed you'll probably beat your dad's record."

"Whoo-hoo!" Jellal shouted excitedly.

Gray tried to keep up with Jellal on the boat but the motor got flooded by some of the ocean water that splashed around the boat causing the motor to stop working.

"Oh great!" Gray said.

He put down the camera and started to try to restart the motor.

"Gray I can't see you anymore!" Jellal called from the walkie talkie. "What's happening?"

"I flooded the motor." Gray replied. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine."

In that moment, Jellal flet very proud of himself. He was going to do break his father's record and he could hardly wait to his father's reaction when he found out about it. Unfortunately he was so caught up in his victory that he didn't realize that he was heading straight into shark territory. He saw one of their fins and was so startled that he accidentally fell off of his board. Before he realized it, he had become surrounded by five or six sharks.

"Help! Shark!" He shouted fearfully.

Meanwhile under the water, Erza swimming toward the island because she had forgotten her back pack at the pool. On her way there she caught sight of Jellal and the sharks. Even though she didn't like Jellal, she didn't believe that he deserved to be eaten alive by sharks. She remembered one time in Sonya's class, Sonya had said that the sharks native to Tendrou Island couldn't stand hot water. She swam underneath Jellal and used her powers to heat up the water. When the water started to bubble and steam, he looked down. He couldn't see much but he did see the sharks swim away and he got a glimpse of a large red fish tail.

"Hey what's that?"

But before he could get a better look at it, the tail swam away at an incredible speed.

"Jellal are you alright?" Gray asked. He had finally manged to get the motor running again and he drove the boat over to where Jellal was.

"Sharks!" He told him. "There were sharks everywhere and they were going to eat me!"