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Moon Pool in Mako

An active Moon Pool at the heart of Mako.

A Moon Pool was quite a unique, special type of pool of powerful, magical moonwater with the rare ability to turn a regular human being into a merperson when the full moon was up. These were the source of merpeople's magical elemental abilities since ancient times, and their lives and magic were linked with a specific Moon Pool of a different pod, meaning if it was deprived of its powerful, magical moon water, mermaids and mermen linked to the specific moon pool were to perish and die along with it if the destruction of their source of magic was not resolved in time.

Human beings that underwent a certain metamorphosis were given a special relation with the Moon Pool itself that turned them, and were susceptible to all of its effects, except its partial destruction.

During full moons, fledgling members of their respective pods were tasked to protect the Moon Pool by the period it was active, while the rest of the pod attended the Full Moon Ceremony instead. The elders of their respective Mermaid Councils were known to send them off in order to fulfill this task, mostly to ward off outsiders or land people from undergoing the metamorphosis. However, a mermaid or merman could become an outcast if they failed to do so.

Story[]

Millions of years ago, an impact of the celestial object with the Earth created a part of an island located in marine area of Australia, Mako Island. The Island was taken as a home for Mako Pod. It was believed that one of the shards impacted on the Irish coast, creating another Moon Pool in a set of sea caves, and perhaps other shards that created other Moon Pools in different parts of the world.

Pre-Series[]

In early 1700's, an Irish mermaid named Eva used her abilities in a Moon Pool located in the Irish coast, known as Sea Caves of Ireland to save those around her from a comet that was later named after her. Once her work was done, she disappeared, never to be seen again.

In 1955, Louise Chatham, Gracie and Julia became mermaids in a Moon Pool located at the heart of Mako Island. Two years later, in 1957, Gracie gave up her life as a mermaid by becoming a human again when the Moon of 50 Years was over the Moon Pool. Later, when she was finally free of her tailed self and individual, special power, Gracie ended her friendship with Louise and Julia and broke up with her boyfriend Max Hamilton, and ultimately ended her mermaid life once for all.

In late 1990's, a young girl named Isabella Hartley became unintentionally a mermaid at the age of nine, by being in a Moon Pool located in the Irish coast, known as Sea Caves of Ireland, in the same place Eva created the original Tower of Light almost three centuries earlier. Later, she found a gem at the bottom of the Irish Moon Pool and handcrafted herself a crystal necklace in which she's worn ever since.

Through the Series[]

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In 2006, Emma Gilbert, Cleo Sertori, and Rikki Chadwick were in the Moon Pool just as the Full Moon was over it and they unintentionally became mermaids. Months later, they gave up temporarily their powers by being in the Moon Pool under the Lunar Eclipse.

A year later, Charlotte Watsford intentionally became a mermaid after becoming aware of her grandmother's past. However, Charlotte's life as a mermaid didn't last long and during a fight with Emma, Cleo, and Rikki, she was deprived of her tail and her powers were taken by the Moon of Fifty Years, in the same way as her grandmother Gracie fifty years earlier.

In 2009, Isabella Hartley arrives at the Gold Coast when Emma Gilbert left with her family to travel around the world. After meeting Cleo, Rikki, and Lewis, they quickly became friends. However, they had to face a Water Tentacle that was originally believed as an enemy, but later, they discover it only wanted to warn them that the Comet Eva was in its way towards Earth, and its destiny was in the mermaids' hands. Bella discovers what the comet was named after, a mermaid named Eva who created the original Tower of Light that could stop it again. However, Sophie Benjamin, Will's sister, Ryan Tate, a geologist, and Zane Bennett were trying to become wealthy by stealing the crystals from the moon pool. The Moon Pool of Mako Island is destroyed, but despite its destruction, the Mako Pod, Cleo, Emma and Rikki (with the exception of Bella, who was transformed in another Moon Pool) survives it. Cleo, Rikki, and Bella re-create the Tower of Light and repels the Comet Eva. Between 2009 and 2012, the Moon Pool in Mako Island becomes active and completely repaired, with its magic totally functional again, though how remains a mystery.

Mako: Island of Secrets[]

Zac Blakely, a Northern merman falls into the Moon Pool in Mako Island, breaking a spell that was cast by his mother when he was a hatchling. Three mermaids from the Mako Pod, Lyla, Nixie and Sirena were banished from their pod when its Mermaid Council learns about Zac's transformation into a merman and flees Mako Island. They venture onto land, and meet Rita Santos, a mermaid who was banished many years earlier. The mermaids, knowing that if the Trident is brought in the Moon Pool during the Full Moon, it can destroy it again. Cam, Zac's best-friend, became jealous of his abilities and wanting to be a merman, he steals the Trident from Zac in a Full Moon and plans to become a merman and to destroy the Moon Pool at the same time. Fortunately, he failed, and the Moon Pool was saved by Zac and his mermaid friends.

Despite Zac's heroic feats, Mako's Mermaid Council still thinks him is an enemy, and not even Sirena could change the minds of two mermaids of the Mako Pod, Ondina and Mimmi, a Northern mermaid. Lyla and Nixie leave Mako with the rest of the pod searching for a new home, as all of their efforts in trying to remove Zac's powers failed. Sirena is welcomed back into the pod, however, unbeknownst to its Mermaid Council, Ondina and Mimmi obtain legs for the first time, and the latter concoct a potion that amplifies the Full Moon to fifty, thus exactly creating the bottled effects of the Moon of Fifty Years. However, as Zac was never human, the potion doesn't work and instead of him losing his tail, it was Evie, his girlfriend, that was, unintentionally to her, transformed into a mermaid by going after him. After Erik, a merman arrives in the town, the Trident stone was still functional, and he activates the Merman Chamber after the stone takes away Zac's powers. Erik wanted to drain the magical Moon Water from the Moon Pool, thus the life of every mermaid of the Mako Pod, with the exception of Evie, since she was a human-turned mermaid and by unknown reasons completely immune. However, Erik failed to destroy them.

Zac and his girlfriend Evie were followed by the Water Dragon Nerissa to the Moon Pool in Mako Island, where the latter is deprived of her tail and abilities by the cold fire of the creature. Later, Mako's Mermaid Council creates a powerful thunderstorm using their Moon Rings in the same place in an attempt to defeat the cursed Nerissa.

Special Events[]

Despite being the source of every mermaid and merman's magical powers, any Moon Pool can turn any human being that enters its waters in its active state into a merperson, when the Full Moon is up. When two or more people enter it, the Moon Pool grants them individual powers as it chooses, presumably based on their inherent personality, history, and native area, but when only one single person enters it, they would receive all of the water-affiliated abilities, and presumably also elemental powers. It can be guessed that different Moon Pools will give different water-affiliated powers. The water in all Moon Pools appears normal to scientific experiement, but is a type of magical Moon Water, which holds the power of the moon itself. All active Moon Pools itselves are the only known counter-spells of the Tailless Spell.

All Moon Pools around the Earth generate different magnetism and effects depending on the moon's phases and the planetary alignments. The known effects are as follows:

  • Lunar Eclipse: During a Lunar Eclipse, any merperson who was born human and entered the waters of a moon pool in its active state during the event were to be reverted back into a human being and stripped of their magical powers for a period of twelve hours. After this period, the Eclipse's effects on a bewitched merperson were to wear off on their own, and their powers and true self were to be restored by then.
  • Elemental Moon: During a rare planetary alignment, which was implied to refer to the planetary conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter[1], the moon will increase the water-affiliated powers of any human-metamorphosed-merperson that entered the waters of any moon pool across the globe, granting them weather and elemental powers.
  • The Moon of Fifty Years: Once at every fifty years, when all planets of the Solar System occur in a perfect conjunction with the moon, any human-born merperson who entered the waters of a moon pool in its active state were to be reverted back into a human being, and be stripped of their powers permanently, and it was still unknown whether they could undergo metamorphosis again following their true self and powers stripped, though it seemed unlikely. A powerful potion exists to recreate this effect on a bewitched merperson at other times.
  • Comet Collision: When a comet comes within range of collision with a Moon Pool, the pool itself undergoes changes. The known effects are only proven in the Mako Island Pool, but historical data can suggest similar effects in the Irish Pool. These are as follows:
    • A rise in temperature in the air and the water of the Pool and surrounding cave.
    • A tentacle generated to warn nearby merpeople of the impending danger.
    • The ability to display a projection to merpeople of the events to come in order to warn them.
    • The power to magnify the powers of any merperson in order to help divert the course of the comet.

Merpeople native from the sea are apparently immune to all of these events, and they only seem t have temporary or permanent effects on their kind that once were humans (as sea-born merpeople do not have a human form, despite do possesses the ability to grant themselves one with a Moon Ring).

List of all known Moon Pools[]

Trivia[]

  • The underwater entrance to the Moon Pool in Mako Island is 6m deep and usually takes 20 seconds for a land person go through it.
  • In "Something Fishy", Lewis revealed that the water and everything from the Moon Pool are normal. However, in the spin-off the Moon Water was introduced. It is known if a human absorbs it by some reason, they get powers over water.
  • When a merperson is under the Moon Spell, the Moon Pool will return them to normal.
  • During Mako: Island of Secrets, Sirena, Nixie, Lyla, Ondina, and Mimmi sleep in Mako's Moon Pool. Weilan later joins them after building a friendship; having always slept on land.
  • According to Weilan, Mako Island's Moon Pool is famous among merpeople, even across the globe.[2]
  • Max Hamilton once explained to Lewis that once a merperson was bewitched by the power of fifty moons in a moon pool, a bewitched's true self and magical power are permanently removed, although it is unknown what would happen if a bewitched merperson attempted to go through metamorphosis again, as neither Charlotte Watsford nor Gracie had seemingly attempted and been willing to in the first place after making peace with their true original human self.[3]
    • There, in addition to it, existed a powerful and potent potion that amplified the power of fifty moons, and likely allowed to recreate the dangerous, metamorphosis-reverting magic of the Moon of Fifty Years on a bewitched merperson at other times.[4]
  • Bella implies that the Moon Pools call out to those suited to undergo Metamorphosis; having stated that she felt at peace and belonged at the Sea Caves of Ireland, even before gaining the Limited Transformation.

Gallery[]

Main article: Moon Pool/Gallery

References[]

  1. Lewis implied it when he referred to the planetary conjunction of Venus with the moon, along with the fact there was a real-life occurrence around this date
  2. A Visit from the East
  3. Unfathomable
  4. The Seventh Cycle
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