The Beach

Leads: Zoey
Features: Amanda

A massive fist came down slamming between the sisters before lifting back up into the sky. As a huge algae creature loomed over them. It pulsed an angry red.

Zoey screamed as the fist landed between them, and her eyes grew wide looking up at the monster.  "What the hell did you give that thing? Run Amanda! Hide!"

Zoey quickly grabbed Amanda's hand and began running away from the algae monster towards the cover of the rocks.

Amanda shook her head, "I didn't give it miracle grow ! I don't know how it got so big."

A roar from the thing echoed across the water.

Amanda hid among the rocks and she called water to them both to make a shield. Another fist slammed down but the water kept it back.

"I dont think this day could suck any more than it already does."

She took a deep breath and gathered herself, "We need to get it away from the beach before someone sees it and us, and gets hurt.  When I say, make a run towards the water and swim as fast as you can.  Im going to distract it long enough for you to get into the water, then I'll be right behind you. Dont move until I give you have the chance to run."

With a nod Zoey jumped out from behind the rocks and started running towards the creature, an spear forming in her hands as she ran.  "Hey big guy! Pick on somebody your own size, you overgrown slime ball."

Amanda nodded and hot footed it toward the ocean.

As Zoey ran she felt her ankle get caught on something.

She quickly looked down at her ankle to see what she had been caught in, keeping as much attention as she could on the algae monster in front of her.

Zoey sees a little Algae man holding her ankle and shaking his head.

"What the..? Where did you come from? Oh..."  She looked back up at the giant algae monster and started to back away from it.  Speaking to the algae on her ankle, "I dont suppose you know how to call him off do you?"

The little Algae man hopped up on to Zoey's shoulder and held his little hands up. He was glowing a light yellow and he made a sound.

The huge Algae monster stopped and looked down at Zoey. The little Algae man pointed at Amanda and glowed pink.

Amanda turned back, "Huh ?"

Zoey looked at Amanda and the little algae man, "We dont want to hurt you. We're just looking for some answers about our friend in the hospital."

The little man holds his arms out and makes gunfire noises.

Glancing between the giant and the little guy, Zoey nodded. "Yeah, we know she was shot. But why, and by who?"

She looked back at the giant algae creature. "He's not going to hurt us is he?  We should get out of sight though."

The little Algae man lept off Zoey's shoulder and looked like he was talking to the much bigger one. Slowly it moved off back to sea.

He then walked over and hugged Amanda and made an "AHHHHHH !" sound that sounded like Amanda did when she woke from her nightmare.

"Um.."

She looked at her sister and laughed. "I think he likes you. Lets get out of sight, I know a place we can go."  Zoey starts to walk towards the water, her spear evaporating as she moves closer.

The little algae man followed along.

(Popping up in the sea caves ?)

(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