We speed through the waves. The mermaid, (whose name was Amatheia) Amanda, Luna, and I. We headed back to the boat where we would tell Jasmine what happened.

We were almost there when we heard a cry. A sharp little cry. I looked back and saw that Amatheia was the one who had cried.

"What?" I asked.

She looked at me, blushed, then waved a hand to tell me she was fine.

I was confused. I looked at her like she was crazy, but she just swam on.

We finally made it back to the boat after a while of swimming. And when we did get there, Jasmine we could see, was even paler than her usaweld Vampire self. She was running around the deck yelling our names.

"Avanda!" She called. "Vella? Luna!"

"Were over here!" Luna called.

We saw Jasmine spine around and race across the deck to see us.

"Why did you take so long!" Jasmine yelled into the water. "And vere in the heck did you get that scuba diving stuff?"

"We'll tell you everything in a second." I yelled up to her. "Just put down the plank so we can get up."

"Okay." She said and kicked the plank down. We all scrambled up the plank and went to the small bedroom to talk. That is, everyone but Amatheia, who said she would wait in the water.

We filled Jasmine in on everything that happened. She was very impressed. Nothing I said was very impressive to me, except maybe the part about the mermaid. She was the prettiest thing I had ever seen.

"So now what are ve going to do?" Jasmine asked in her Vampire voice. "I already have the note."

We all heard a shrill voice pierce the evening sky saying:

"Really!" It was the mermaid, Amatheia.

"Oh ya!" Luna shreaked. "Remember what it said?"

"Right." I said. "Amanda can you go get it?"

Amanda nodded and went to the dresser. She picked up a ragged piece of paper (It honestly matched her zombie aperense), and came walking back to us.

She handed me the paper. I read it out loud again:

Throughout the land you see the sea,

Going out with me,

With water I splash the bank,

And roll with the white lake,

You shriek and scream when I am near,

And sometimes make you have a tear,

Find the answer sometime soon,

But don't run into the baboon!

There was a moment of silence. Everyone was probably thinking what this meant but Amanda was clasping her hands together and opening them again and again. She looked like she was trying to tell us something. It was like we were in a game of charades.

"Tiger?" Luna asked.

Amanda shook her head.

"Elephant?" I asked.

Amanda shook her head again.

"Elephant?" I asked.

Amanda shook her head again.

"Graph!" Jasmine yelled over us all.

Amanda slouched down, rolled over, and shook her head.

We all kept trying until she just glard at us all and left the room. I got up and left the room too. I had enough playing charades. At least that's what it seems like we were doing. I needed to find out what it was though! I kept saying the note in my head trying to figure it out

Throughout the land you see the sea, going out with me, maybe it's something in the water I thought

With water I splash the bank, and roll with the white lake- I stopped the white lake! Of course! It's a crocodile! The thing Amanda was trying to say was a crocodile! Why hadn't Amanda simply wrote 'Crocodile' on a piece of paper?

"A Crocodile!" I yelled. The excitement was pouring onto me like a shower of ice, skitting down the back of my spine making me shiver. A crocodile, a sharp, nasty, biting, scary crocodile.' That was the least thing I wanted to meet. And yet, I had to.

Great. I thought. Just great.

"Amatheia!" I called.

"What!" she yelled from over the side of the boat.

I rushed over to her. We had the note and we needed to find a crocodile.

"Do you know were we can find a crocodile?" I asked.

"Da." she reapplied and with a wave of her hand she moved the whole boat towards a small looking Island.

"How-" I tried to say.

"Please don't." Amatheia said annoyed. "Just... Just go with the flow."

Are small boat was pushed all the way to the island and we hads a small crash landing. We all were blown off the boat and each fell in trees because of the forest.

"Thanks for that" Jasmine said annoyed.

We all tumbled out of the trees and Amatheia said,

"Hurry up."

I watched surprised at how easily Amatheia jumped from meky pool to pool. We had arrived at a swamp with baggie trees, weeping willows, dark green grass, mud and muck everywhere, and little swap pools full of murky water.

I had to admit, this was probably the must likely spot to find a crocodile.

We all hurried around searching every log to see if it was really a crocodile. After two hours of nothing found, the sun started to go down.

"We can't search in the dark." Luna's raspy voice pierced the darkening sky.

"Really?" Amatheia said. "I thought you were better than that."

"Hey don't get your hopes up!" Jasmine said standing up for Luna. "You never really told us vhat ve vere doing."

"Take a chill pile!" Amatheia yelled at her. "No-body asked you anyways."

Jasmine was absolutely feres. But we had to find a crocodile before Amanda was... A dog! She literally had dog ears now all the way. And instead of skin it felt like slike.

I turned around and saw something we all didn't want to see, a wolf.

He looked at me and growled, "A talking wolf is the least of your concerns."

"How do you know that? I-I didn't know wolf-fs c-can talk." I asked and stated, glaring at him and moving around the dark rock he stood upon.

"I know everything." He answered following my every movement with his eyes.

"N-no," Luna's ghostly voice pierced through the silence. "You don't."

He laughed.

"And why," the wolf grimpsed. "Do you think I don't?"

"Because you're a wolf who hasn't moved ever since you started talking about it." Jasmine's Vampire vose piped in. "Look at you!"

"My name is White Claw," he said and then asked, smiling at Amanda. "And let me guess, your name is dead?"

Amanda's eyes darkened, she was angry no dowt.

The talking wolf ponsed, right down on another rock facing the opposite side of us. He had leaped through the air right above us.

"Fine you clumsy things." he mused. "You'll never know anything."

He took a huge leap, and bit me on my arm. I howled in pain. Amatheia disappeared into the deep dark water. Amanda, Jasmine, and Luna ran forward to attack, but just as they came near him, he jumped away into the misty swamp with a single leap, and was gone.