(Yup ^_^ )

Zoey leads them to her caves beneath the cliffs, the entrance well hidden below the water among the crashing waves above them. She looks back to see if the giant algae creature follows them, or if it went on it's own way.

Only Amanda, and the little Algae man popped up.

The cave was lit up by the glowing algae that grew there.  She sat on the edge with her feet in the water.

"Okay little guy.  We need to figure what is going on, and what we need to do.  Can you talk? How can we understand you better?"

The little figure pulses different colors.

He looks all around the cave and looks at the glowing moss. "Oooooh."

"Maybe we need to use water speech ?"

"I never really think of that most of the time, you know. I need to spend more time in Oceana or Atlantis," Zoey replied a little sadly.

She smiled at the little guy though watching his reactions to the cave. Using water speech she spoke to him, "You like it here? Its one of my favorite places to be alone. Can you understand me now?"

He walked over and looked up at Zoey and bobbed his head.

Amanda smiled, "He is smart !"

She nodded. "Can you speak?  We need to know who hurt our friend, and why. Oh, Im Zoey and this is my sister Amanda."

He points at Amanda and makes that "AHHHHHHHH !" sound again then laughs bending over and slapping his knee.

Then his head changes and he looks like he has a cowboy hat and holds his little hands out. "Bang Bang."

Zoey laughed with the little algae man, "Im sorry, Amanda. That was just too cute though. Well, we know he was there when you woke from your nightmare now."

When he changed she looked surprised and impressed at the same time, "We're looking for someone wearing a cowboy hat?  Okay, that's a new one.  Do you know why he shot Allura?"

Amanda shook her head.

The little Algae man said "No." and shook his head. He then lowered his head sadly.

"Thank you." She held out her hand to him and smiled, "That helps us a lot. Do you know where he is now? You can help us find him."

"He hurt girl." Says the little man as he hops up on Zoey.

"Thats why we need to find him. To stop him from hurting anybody else."

"Thought he was friend."

Zoey looked at him confused, "Why did you think that?"

"He laugh, I laugh, we laughed and so I thought he was friend."

"He liked when I go AHHHHHHHH."

She nodded, "I see. Did he say anything, where he might be going next?"

The little algae man shakes his head. "No. I was sad, so didn't follow him."

"Its okay little guy. Thank you, really.  We at least know who to look for now, and you could point him out to us if we see him."

Zoey looked to Amanda, "Ready? We should head back into town and start looking for the cowboy and let the others know too."

"Why would a cowboy shoot her, that doesn't make any sense." Amanda looks to the little Algae man, "I know everyone got mad but I am glad I gave you emotions."

The Algae man hops up on Amanda's shoulders.

Sea speech "Shotgun."

Zoey looked guilty, "Im sorry I got mad before. I was more concerned about what might happen, that research was banned for a reason. We'll figure it all out though, dont worry."

She smiled at the algae guy, "Lets call you Al."

Al nods and give Zoey a thumbs up.

Amanda says, "Hold tight." She dives into the water to swim to shore.

Zoey dives in after Amanda.

End Scene