Pearl's Ocean Magic by Catherine Hapka

Author:Catherine Hapka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2016-08-23T04:00:00+00:00

The sea horse slowed down. Then he stopped—and turned to swim in the opposite direction!

“Excellent!” Bay exclaimed. “Your mother taught you well.”

“Let me try,” Flip said. “I bet I can do that, too.”

“All right, give it a try,” Bay told him.

Flip swam over to the sea horse. He closed his eyes and started sending out bursts of magical energy. This time, the sea horse didn’t turn around. After a few minutes Flip gave up.

“I probably didn’t have enough air left,” he said, darting up to the surface and then returning. “Besides, this stuff is boring. When will we learn how to make one of those light displays?”

“We’ll get to that on another day,” Bay said. “Now, would anyone else like to see if they can guide the sea horse?”

Pearl wiggled her fin uncertainly. “I don’t know how to use real magical guiding yet,” she said. “But I can try asking the sea horse to turn by sending him a mental message.”

“Oh?” Bay looked impressed. “You have experience with sending messages to other species?”

Pearl nodded. “My family helps baby turtles find their way out to sea,” she explained. “I practice sending the turtles messages sometimes.”

“Wonderful.” Bay waved a fin at the sea horse. “Go ahead and give it a try.”

Pearl swam closer to the sea horse. He was floating in one spot now, watching her.

Closing her eyes, Pearl formed a picture in her mind of the sea horse swimming away. She gathered her magical energy and sent the image out toward the creature.

Then she opened her eyes. Had it worked?

Yes! The sea horse was swimming away, just as Pearl had pictured!

“Great job, Pearl!” Echo cheered. Splash did a happy flip to celebrate.

Bay seemed impressed, too. “Helping sea turtles is important work,” she told Pearl. “I’d be interested in hearing more about your pod later.”

“Sure,” Pearl said shyly.

“All right, class,” Bay said. “The rest of us will learn to send messages to other species later. We’ll also learn more about guiding on another day. Now, let’s focus on messaging other dolphins. As you know, that’s how we can communicate with one another at long distances …”

She went on to explain how to focus their energy to send messages. Once again, Echo went first when it was time to try. This time Pearl helped by swimming to the other side of the kelp forest. A moment later, she received Echo’s message: Swim back here now.

Echo turned out to be the best at messaging, though Pearl did fine, too, thanks to all her practice with Squeak. Splash wasn’t very good at it, though. He couldn’t get his message out at all until Pearl touched his fin to join her magical energy with his. Suddenly, Splash’s message (which was I love jumping!) beamed out to the whole class!

“Very nice,” Bay told Splash and Pearl with a smile. “Our magic is always strongest when we work together.”

Almost before Pearl knew it, class was over. “We’ll continue working on messaging tomorrow, along with some basic guiding,” Bay said.

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