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Chapter 2 - Crashing waves part 2

Pearl is In shock that she has a tail

Pearl: so that wasn't a dream, I really am a Mermaid, but how do I Change back?

Marina's car enters the drive way

Pearl: oh no! I can't let mom see me like this

Pearl tries to get inside the house but can't because she doesn't have legs

Pearl: I hate this thing

She climbs a tree with only her hands and get's through her Bedroom window

Marina: honey I'm home

Pearl: gets in bed to cover up her tail

Marina opens Pearl's door

Marina: honey, you're already In bed?

Pearl: (nervously) yup!

Marina: it's only 16:00

Pearl: (nervous chuckle) you know what they say "sleeping early is good for you're health"

Marina: All right, I just came to tell you that I'll be working late tonight and be back tomorrow

Pearl: okay, bye mom

Marina: bye

Marina leaves Pearl's bedroom and goes to work

Pearl: phew! That was close! I gotta tell Lilly about this

Pearl changes Back

Pearl: hey look I'm back to normal

Pearl calls Lilly

Pearl: Lilly you gotta come over I need to show you something

Lilly: Girl, it's still raining

Pearl: you gotta come over, i have the coolest thing to show you

Lilly: fine

Lilly rides her bike to pearl's house and knocks on the door

Lilly: Pearl this better be good

Pearl: it is, I'm a mermaids

Lilly: (shakes her head) Pearl, you seriously had me ride my bike through the rain for this?

Pearl: no it's true watch

Pearl strains her body trying to turn into a mermaid but doesn't

Lilly: right, I'm gonna go now

Pearl: no, wait

Lilly walks out the door while Pearl tries to catch up to her then her necklace glows and turns into a mermaid

Lilly: what the heck?

Pearl: see I told you

Lilly pinches herself

Lilly: ouch! No, not a dream, Pearl how did this happen?

Pearl: not sure exactly, one minute I'm riding my bike, the next a giant hand grabs me and pulls me In the ocean

Lilly: you're not making any sense

Pearl: yeah I think we should ask my aunt

Lilly: your aunt

Pearl: yeah, apparently I have an aunt Crystal who's also a mermaid

Lilly: okay how do we find her?

Pearl: at the beach

Lilly: great let's go

Pearl: but I don't got any legs

Lilly thinks until she sees a wagon

Lilly: I got an idea

Lilly ties the wagon to bike and puts Pearl In it

Lilly: all right let's go

Lilly rides her bike to the beach

Lilly: okay we're here now what?

Pearl: (shouts) Aunt Crystal! Aunt Crystal! Aunt Crystal!

Crystal arrives

Crystal: I see that you're siren song needs work

Pearl: okay aunty, I have questions and I want answers

Crystal: okay ask away

Pearl: who are you?

Crystal: I'm your Aunt Crystal, your mom's little sister

Pearl: my mom has a sister? Does that make her a mermaid too?

Crystal: yes

Pearl: why didn't she tell me?

Crystal: to protect you from her previous life

Pearl: what does that mean?

Crystal: your father was a merman and lost his life In a battle so your mom thought it'd be best for you to grow up away from the mermaid life and live amongst the humans

Pearl: Why did you pull me In the ocean and give me this necklace then?

Crystal: because me and all the other merpeople need your help to defeat the Vortex queen

Pearl: Vortex queen? Who's that?

Crystal: a powerful sorceress who wants All the creatures of the sea to obey her

Pearl: why do you want my help?

Crystal: because that necklace belonged to your mother and only she and you can use it

Pearl: what does it do?

Crystal: it has unlimited power over the sea

Pearl: so you want me to fight an ocean evil sorceress

Crystal: yes

Pearl: let me think, no thank you

Crystal: but the merpeople need you

Pearl: sorry, but I don't wanna die like my father

Crystal: what if I told you that it was the Vortex queen who killed your father

Pearl: what?

Crystal: it was a hard-fought battle and your father was stabbed but not before sealing the Vortex queen away but now she's broken free and will stop at nothing to get that necklace

Pearl: I'll just keep it, it's not like she's gonna show up to my house and steal

Crystal: actually she can, she has a crystal ball that sees everything and it's most likely she's watching us right now

Pearl: yeah, I'll take my chances, all right Lilly let's go

Lilly is typing on her phone

Pearl: Lilly!

Lilly: what?

Pearl: let's go

Lilly: finally, I've been typing on my phone for the past 10 minutes

Lilly rides her bike with Lilly at the back of the wagon

Crystal: Pearl, don't tell your mother about this!

Meanwhile at the Vortex queen's lair while she's watching her crystal ball

Vortex queen: well, well, well it seems that the necklace is In possession of My dear old niece