A Fishy Tale, The Sequel - Fanfiction for H2O Just Add Water

Chapter 78

Chapter 78

Shaking her head, Rikki lifted Fi out of the pool, sitting her on the sand. She noticed that Fi looked rather put out. Rikki smirked as she hoisted herself up and out. She then dried herself and her daughter off. Rikki honestly did not know what to think. Gills. Was she born with them? Or is she developing into something else? Rikki could not help but think of that dream she had had during the problematic time of giving birth. Pushing that to the back of her mind, she crossed her legs and got Fi to face towards the water. Rikki stretched out her arm. Fi giggled as the pool erupted in large bubbles. The girl sighed in disappointment when Rikki stopped her powers. Rikki lifted Fi’s arm gently.

“Okay, baby, I want you to try and do what I did,”

When Rikki released her arm, it dropped back down again. She repeated the action.

“Hold your arm there, Fi,”

Rikki proceeded to squeeze her hand into a fist, thus starting the boiling of the water once more. As Rikki had expected, Fi began to imitate what she was doing.

Suddenly, the surface of the water caught on fire. Rikki stopped Fi’s powers in shock, opening her fist. How much power did this girl have? She now understood Emma and Cleo’s worry about her powers getting out of control. Fi clapped her hands together. Rikki hoped she wasn’t going to become a pyromaniac. Eventually the flames subsided. None of the other kids had done that in their first few tries; usually they would start off weak and their power and its control would slowly build, with the exception of a few mishaps.

Rikki pushed Fi’s hand into a ball and fortunately, the little girl seemed to get the right idea. Fi started to boil the water. After a pause, Rikki began to un-bunch the girl’s hand, holding it flat. Fi made a dissatisfied noise. The water was still boiling, but it was very weak. Fi tried to fist her hand again. Rikki released her hand. The girl was a fast learner. She began to open and close her hand, testing her powers. The pool bubbled and then it subsided. Rikki grinned. Her tactics worked.

After a few minutes of this, of Fi becoming more aware of how to control her powers, Rikki grabbed the handful of leaves she had brought in and put them at the far side of the cave.

“Fi, I want to try and set those leaves on fire,” she said. The purpose was to try and get her to control the flames once they had broken out. With experienced skill, Rikki stretched her hand out and set the said leaves on fire, almost as soon as this happened, she pulled the flames away, stopping the fire.

“Can you try that Fi?”

Imitating her mother, the baby lifted her arm. Instead of starting a flame, a lightning bolt came from the sky, igniting the pile. Rikki went over and kicked the smouldering leaves into the moon pool. That lightning bolt had given her one heck of a fright.

“Okay, maybe that’s all we should do for today,”