Merpeople were emerging on all sides now, watching Alani eagerly, pointing at her red tail and gills, talking behind their hands to each other. Alani sped around a corner, and a very strange sight met her eyes. A whole crowd of merpeople were floating in front of the houses that lined what looked like a mer-version of a village square. A choir of merpeople were singing in the middle, calling the Champions towards them, and behind them rose a crude sort of statue; a gigantic merperson hewn from a boulder. Six people were bound tightly to the tail of the stone merperson. From left to right there was Ron, Gabrielle, Cho, Hermione, Artemas and Mattheo. "Why do I have two people?" Alani thought, it was suspicious. Alani shot a ball of red light from her palm, it made that part of the lake glow, she was helping the other Champions find their way, time was running out. 