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The Mako Moon Pool is a special, supernatural pool on Mako Island that harnesses the power of the moon.

It is one of at least two Moon Pools in the world. It has the rare ability to turn humans into merpeople when the full moon passes over, and are given a special relation with the Moon Pool itself that turned them, and are susceptible to all of its effects, except its partial destruction. They are the source of merpeople's magical elemental abilities, and their lives and magic are linked with a specific Moon Pool of a different country. Meaning if it is deprived of its powerful, magical moon water, mermaids and mermen will perish and die along with it.

During full moons, fledgling mermaids of the Mako Pod are tasked to protect the Moon Pool by the period it is active. The Mermaid Council are 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 can become an outcast if she fails to do so.

History[]

Millions of years ago, a lunar rock collided with the Earth, creating an island located in marine area of Australia, Mako Island. With the creation of Mako Island, the first Moon Pool was established at its heart. A pod of Southern merpeople that later became the Mako Pod, and possibly worldwide mermaids got their respective merpeople abilities. One of the lunar rock 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 ancient times, the very first mystical Moon Pool located at the heart of Mako Island became the magical source of hundreds of Southern mermaids and mermen who took refuge and came to live on its reef.

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.

H2O: Just Add Water[]

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 temporarily gave up 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, and as she was alone at the time of her transformation, she received all merpeople powers. 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.

Throughout Mako Mermaids[]

Season 1[]

The Moon Pool turns Zac Blakely into a merman after he falls into the Pool on a full moon, in Outcasts, which instantly breaks the spell previously cast by his mother which prevented him at all costs from revealing his true form accompanied by his tail and powers. Despite Nixie, Lyla and Sirena's attempts to remove his tail, being a merman by birth, he is completely immune to absolutely all spells or attempts to take away his powers from Zac, meaning that he could never be deprived of his tail or of his powers rendering the attempts of the mermaid trio to revert Zac to a "normal" human totally useless. The moon pool was previously almost destroyed by Cam, but Zac, accompanied by the mermaids (now his friends), managed to stop him instantly. Despite the mermaids' belief that the full moon "gave" Zac's tail, hoping the full moon itself now steals it, Zac doesn't lose his powers in any way. After this, Nixie and Lyla leave in search for a new home, since they were abandoned from the Mako Pod.

Season 2[]

Despite Zac's heroic feats, Mako's Mermaid Council still thinks him is an enemy, and not even Sirena could change the minds of the council or 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 full moons, 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 Southern 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.

Season 3[]

Zac and his girlfriend Evie were followed by the Water Dragon 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. When Rikki Chadwick shows up, she says the Moon Pool hasn't changed since she was last there, which may mean that she and her friends were responsible for the new look of the moon pool since it got destroyed in season 3 of H20 Just add water.

Special events[]

Despite being the source of every mermaid and merman's magical powers, any Moon Pool can turn any human that stays in it into a merperson, when the Full Moon passes over, granting them all mermaids powers if someone enters alone. However, all Moon Pools around the Earth generate different magnetism and effects depending on its phases and the planetary alignments. All active Moon Pools are the only known counter-spells of the Tailless Spell. The magical Moon Water comes from all Moon Pools and are a special type of water, that according to Mimmi, hold the power of the moon itself.

  • Lunar Eclipse: During a Lunar Eclipse, any human-metamorphosed-merperson would be stripped of their tailed true selves and magical powers by twelve hours if they are in the waters of any active Moon Pool during this event, temporarily restoring their old human selves once more. After this period, the Eclipse's effects on a merperson will wear off on their own and their tailed true selves and abilities will be fully restored.
  • The Moon of Fifty Years: At every fifty years another planetary alignment takes place when all the planets are lined up with the moon. During the Moon of Fifty Years, any human-metamorphosed-merperson would be stripped permanently of their tailed true selves and all of their magical powers if they are in the waters of any active Moon Pool during this event, ultimately restoring their old human selves once more. It is unknown if they can undergo metamorphosis again after their human self is restored, though it seems unlikely. The Moon of Fifty Years can be imitated with aFifty Moons Potion.
  • The Moon of Weather Magic: During a rare planetary alignment, the moon will increase the water-affiliated powers of any human-metamorphosed-merperson, granting them weather powers if they are in the waters of any active Moon Pool during the event.

Merpeople native from the sea are immune to all of these events, and they only have temporary or permanent effects on their kind that once were humans.

Trivia[]

  • These places were formed after a collision with a lunar rock. It formed Mako Island, and other of its pieces formed the Sea Caves of Ireland.
  • A potion of full moon magic amplified by fifty causes merpeople who once were humans to lose their tails and powers in the same way as the Moon of Fifty Years.
  • 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 h2o's "Something Fishy", Lewis revealed that the water and everything from the Moon Pool are normal. However, in Mako Mermaids the Moon Water was introduced. In ''Careful What You Wish For'', it is shown that if a human absorbs it outside of the Moon Pool, they get powers over water. However, over time the effects will begin to become completely volatile and unstable attracting and manipulating water wherever this human is. The moonwater could be extracted via whatever suitable conditions that were intolerant to the specific moonwater and its native habitat. For example, due to being situated in warm and cozy waters, Mako's Moon Water was intolerant towards cold and could be removed via the power of Hydro-Cryokinesis or a full-fledged Cryokinesis.
  • When a merperson is under the Moon Spell, the Moon Pool will return them to normal.
  • The Moon Pool appearance changed many times throughout the series. The first time it changed was in h2o's "Love Potion #9" until it's third season where it changes again and the other times in every season of Mako Mermaids.
  • During Mako Mermaids, Nixie, Lyla, Sirena, 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.[1]
  • In h2o's "Unfathomable", Max Hamilton says to Lewis that once under the Moon of Fifty Years in a Moon Pool, a merperson's powers and abilities are gone forever, although it is unknown what would happen if a power-stripped merperson attempted to go through metamorphosis again, as neither Charlotte Watsford nor Gracie had seemingly attempted such a feat.
  • The cold fire of the Water Dragon is the only magic able to revert a native ocean merperson permanently to a human. Likewise at the full moon of fifty years, the effect is permanent and irreversible.
  • According to Mimmi , the water in the moon pool contains the power and strength of the full moon itself.

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