Not Quite a Mermaid: Mermaid Fire by Linda Chapman

Author:Linda Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141927435
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

admit to them how frightened she had just been. She really liked her friends thinking she was brave.

‘So, what was it like down there?’ Hakim went on.

‘Did you see any sea monsters?’ Nerissa asked.

‘No,’ Electra replied. ‘But… but I saw the caves where they lived,’ she invented quickly as she saw Nerissa and Hakim start to look disappointed. ‘And there were loads of other things. Sea dragons and really scary things, but I wasn't frightened at all.’

‘Wow!’ Sasha, Nerissa and Hakim breathed.

‘Electra,’ Sam said slowly, ‘if you went all the way to the seabed, why haven't you got any fire with you?’

Electra felt her face go red. ‘I… I forgot. I was so busy looking at everything down there.’ Then she added, ‘But I could have got loads of fire if I'd wanted.’

To her relief, just at that moment, Solon clapped his hands. ‘Right, Class Four!’ he called. ‘Come over here!’

Avoiding Sam's eyes, Electra swam over to Solon's side.

‘You've all been doing very well at collecting fire,’ Solon said, looking pleased. ‘So, I think we'll have a competition. I want you to get into teams of five and I'm going to give you one hour to collect mermaid fire. The team with the most fire at the end of an hour wins.’

‘Will there be prizes?’ Nerissa asked eagerly.

Solon nodded. ‘Yes. There will be prizes.’

Sam, Sasha, Nerissa, Hakim and Electra immediately formed a team. ‘This is brilliant!’ Hakim said excitedly. ‘We're bound to win with Electra in our team!’

‘Yeah!’ Nerissa put in. ‘You can dive down really deep again, Electra, and get loads of fire.’

‘Yeah,’ Electra faltered. Dive down really deep! She definitely didn't want to do that.

‘Let's get started,’ Sasha said.

They all plunged downwards into

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