Are there mermaids in New Zealand?

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Avadia woke up as the dawn light shone through her dorm room. She usually wasn't up this eary, not in Autumn, but the stupid light woke her up. She decided to go for a walk, and think about some things. Avadia threw on her wetsuit, and looked for some clothes to go over top. She put on a white 'I love NZ' shirt, and some denim jeans. Even though wearing jandels with jeans wasn't a brillient idea, Avadia did it anyway. That was her way, jandels with pants, sneakers with shorts. Rather odd really, but lots of things about Avadia were odd.

She yanked a brush through her hair, and put on a yellow headband, yellow clashing with her paper-white skin. Avadia clambered through the portrait hole, and wandered off to the castle grounds. The lake seemed like a good place to go, so she started to walk outside, grabbing a few pieces of sushi as she passed the Great Hall.

The pinkish sky had silver clouds drifting, and basicaly being clouds. It reminded her of an oil drawing, how the colours mixed together. Her sketchpad was in a brown messenger bag she carried around her shoulder, she could draw the lake if she wished.

Avadia felt a pang of regret as she looked into the black waters of the lake. Her friend Evelyn, a mermaid in Scotland would have loved it here; lots of people to talk to. She wondered if there were mermaids in this lake, or any as friendly as Evelyn. She sat down, and took off her bag, and dumped it beside her.

Avadia took out her sketchpad, and flipped through it, trying to find an empty page. She flicked through portraits of people; her family, her friends, various landscapes, until she found a clean page. She began to sketch the lake, but not as it was. How she saw it, not black and dull, but bright. She was only using a gray pencil, but somehow her drawing looked colourful.
 
Sern was walking along the lakeside trying to find a good place for a swim when he saw a girl. but as he thought,Lots of girls like the lake ..... He stared into the depths knowing what lie beneath. If only half of them knew its true beauty. once he found a suitable spot he made sure he was actually wearing his swimmers and not his robes and then dived into the depths with skilled practice. Swam further out abit before diving down agian. once hed reached a fair way down he sped up and broke through the surface of the water leaping into the air a few feet then diving back down.

He surfaced as normal and saw the girl had a sketchpad and instantly became more interested, wading over, he took a closer look at her.
 
Storm had been swmming around in his cave, going over his personal treasures when he heard someone dive into the water. Must be a human He thought excitedly as he swam out of his cave and went to get a closer look, Sure enough there was a human boy swimming around, obviously a hogwarts student. Storm went up to get a closer look and saw a girl sitting by the lake, drawing. Alot of students had been down to draw before, some had even drawn his Merfriends.
Storm swam up to the surface so the girl could see him, wondering how she would take seeing a merman. Some students were shocked and nearly frightened to death of them, Apparently they were called 'muggle-borns'. Storm smiled cheerfully at the girl, If only she came under water, Then she would be able to hear his voice.
 
Avadia saw some ripples under the water, and stared curiously. It looked like there was someone there! She wondered if it was a mermaid, or something else. She saw a boy surface, and walk over to her. She looked at him, her expression one of a dreamer, as she forgot about reality. She blinked, her eyes zooming back into focus. Avadia looked past the boy, and saw another.... person? She didn't think so. It looked like a mermaid, it had gills like Evelyn. She pulled off her clothes, and kicked off her jandels, her yellow and black wetsuit looking slightly out of place, even by a lake. She out down her sketchpad, and stood up. Avadia gracefully dived into the black waters, and swam towards the mermaid.

Oddly, she wasn't the slightest bit afraid, she had been with mermaids before, and was used to them. She hoped all mermaids were nice, Evelyn had been wonderful and almost... human. She went under, and glided over to where the merman was, and stopped a few metres away, looking at it, excitement and curiousity clear in her eyes.
 
Storm watched the girl change into her wetsuit and dive into the water and down towards him. He looked at her, She was now only a few metres away from him and he could tell she was excited.
Hello." He said, glad she was underwater and could hear him. She was pretty for a human.
 
Avadia beamed at the merman, she had always found it strange how they could talk underwater. She wondered if the merman could hear her... "Hi." she said, waving. She went up to the surface, tooka breath, then went down again. "Avadia." she said, her voice sounding odd underwater. Yet she had lots of practice trying to talk underwater, so she didn't sound too strange.
 
Avadia..So that was the human girls name. "Hello Avadia, I'm Storm. Wow, And I only thought Mermaids were pretty, Guess I was wrong." Storm replied with a smile.
 
Avadia blinked at Storm, rolling her eyes. She found it slightly irritating that the merman had said she was pretty. Well she was, with her midnight hair, and paper-white skin, but she found it annyoing when people said she was pretty. She thought of Evelyn, she had been pretty, even for a mermaid. Avadia smiled softly, as she remembered Evelyn's blonde hair, and sharp features.
 
Storm circled the girl for a moment, It wasn't often he saw humans. "You should get some more air soon." He said, fumbling with his necklace. The human seemed irritated with him.
 
Avadia nodded, and went up to take another breath. She came back down, and looked at the merman's necklace. She sqinted at it, and swam a little closer, to see what it was. "Wow." she mouthed, not bothering to say it out loud.
 
Storm smiled and held up the golden necklace, It looked ancient and had a picture of a water creature on it. "I've had it since I was a Merbaby." He said with a grin, running his fingers through his hair with his other hand.
 
Avadia smiled, and looked closer at it. "Do all merpeople have necklaces like those?" she asked politely, hoping her question wasn't intruding on anything. There were so much about mermaids she didn't know! How she wished she knew occlemency, or something, so she could understand better!
 
"Not all of them, Only some. Merfolk usually find these types of things when we go adventuring, They enjoy human things but this is ancient andhas been passed down through the family for ages." Storm replied, letting the necklace rest back on his chest.
 
Avadia swam up to the surface and took a breath before repling to Storm. "Oh." she said, she remembered how Evelyn had loved human things too. Silly mermaid. she thought, thinking of the many necklaces Avadia had given her friend. "Are there many mermaids?" she asked curiously.
 
"Yes, There's a few here. But it depends on whereabouts you are. Some islands are known only to merfolk and alot of them stay there, But most like to go on adventures." Storm replied. "There's also a Shark here and a Giant Squid, I also think theres a few Grindylow's." He continued, still smiling at the girl to see her reaction of knowing there was a shark in the water.
 
Avadia took another breath, and nodded as Storm answered. "The Giant Squid is real?" she said, amazed. She had thought that was a myth. "A shark!" she exclaimed, a look of shock on her face. "In the lake..." she said. She had thought sharks only lived in the sea, hence her fear of beaches. And crabs. Avadia hatedcrabs.
 
"Oh yes, The Giant Squid is real, Don't tell anyone." Storm said, then hearing her next comment he nearly burst out laughing. "He's friendly so don't worry, You'll be fine." He said with a chuckle.
 
(IGNORE!!! wrong account :p )
 
Avadia laughed, bubbles rising from her mouth. She really needed to bring her snorkle next time! "A friendly shark? Now I've heard everything." she said, amused.
 
Abbey was walking along the lake front anxiously when she could have sworn she spotted someone she knew from HS. Abbey raised her eye brow slightly and walked towards her anxiously. Abbey looked over them, to see a merman and Avadia. Abbey was more surprised to see Avadia then the merman really. Abbey picked up a pebble up and dropped in the water hoping it would catch the girls attention.
 
Avadia heard something land in the ater behind her. Her eyes followed the pebble, and she frowned. She looked at Storm apologeticly, then went backto the surface. She saw someone standing on the shore, but with her bad eyesight, she couldn't see who it was. She began to swim towards the shore, and then she looked at Abbey, eyes wide. "Hi Abbey..." she said, amazed she was here.
 
Abbey smiled at Avadia and asked curiously, "What are you doing here Ava?" Abbey looked down at her oversized sweater a smiled, glad that she had tons of sweaters from Liam and Anthony still, it was quite useful to hide her arms, back and neck. Abbey looked back over to Ava with silent shock.
 
Avadia shivered, and stood up. God, its freezing! she thought, wishing she had a jacket. "Uhm.... my sisters wanted me back in New Zealand, they didn't like going all the way to Scotland to see me." she explained. "Why are you here?" she asked, still in a state of shock.
 
"It's complicated," Abbey mumbled then took her wand out and said, "You want a sweater, you look cold." Abbey gave Ava a weak grin, her fear clearly showing in her face, but it was obvious that she wasn't afraid of anyone here, or everyone, it was a confusing situation for the small girl.
 
"Nah, I'm fine." Ava said, and smiled. "Hm, everything seems complicated these day..." she murmered. The triplets had told her to expect a letter in the owlary sometime soon, and they never told her to 'look out for their letters'. It must be something huge. Avadia shuddered involentarily. It sounded bad. Very bad. 'Somebody dying' bad.
 
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