Isabella Hartley

Isabella “Bella” Hartley is one of the main protagonists in H2O: Just Add Water, starting by the third season by substituting Emma Gilbert meanwhile she is in on vacation.
She is a girl who has obtained the same power to become a mermaid as the three protagonists of the series since she was 9 years old in a cave in Ireland similar to that of Mako Island. Her power is to transform water into gelatin-like substance. She has never had a real home and real friends, since her father works traveling the world and always takes her with him, but then going to the same city in Australia where Rikki Chadwick and Cleo Sertori live known as "New girl in town", she becomes their great friend and moves there permanently, also to save the earth from the legendary meteorite that almost destroyed it billions of years ago.
During the series she also falls in love and becomes engaged to a boy called Will Benjamin.
Bella is portrayed by Indiana Evans.
==Biography==
===Becoming a Mermaid===
Bella only stayed with her parents because they traveled all over the world because of her father on his job in five star hotels. One day since her parents really didn't have time for her, Bella decided to explore the Irish coast alone and discovered a cave with a moon pool inside like the one on Mako Island in Australia and decided to take a bath and when the full moon came she underwent her transformation into a mermaid. It is not known how she managed to keep her secret from her parents for all that time.
===Present===
Bella is the “New girl in town,” the only season she appears in after Emma leaves temporarily. After seeing Rikki get caught by a giant water tentacle, Bella dives into the water to help her. At the same time, Cleo also throws herself into the water and while saving Rikki, the two girls discover that the other is a mermaid. The next morning, the girls and Lewis find Bella and she who now knows that they know her secret shows them her power: transforming water into gelatin-like substance. Cleo and Rikki ask Bella if she wants to join them, which she gladly accepts and even brings to the group something they've never had before.
Bella also started working in Rikki's bar to earn money. However, after an accident caused by an ugly girl, Sophie, Bella is unable to keep her job, but remains working at Rikki's bar as a singer.
===After the Events of Season 3=== 
In the spin off series, Mako: Island of Secrets, Bella not appars and isn’t even mentioned by Rikki, who appears in the show and reveals that her two friends, Emma Gilbert and Cleo Sertori, moved from the Gold Coast after graduating, so it is unknown what happened to Bella.
==Personality==
Bella is a very energetic girl who likes to move quickly, although she speaks calmly socially. She is also quite a pacifist, as she loves walking in nature, as when she was little, she would wander around the parks in Ireland alone while her parents were busy. She has a lot of fun being very funny and sometimes sarcastic herself. When she makes mistakes, she gets paranoid and takes it out on herself too much, but she does everything she can to make up for it. She is also naive to trust everyone without thinking twice. Ultimately, Bella is a good, loyal girl.
==Appearance==
Bella is very charming with loose honey blonde hair that reaches her shoulders.
==Mermaid Powers==
Bella can transform into a mermaid ten seconds after touching water. She turns human again minutes after drying off. As a mermaid, she swims at super superhuman speed, she can hold her breath for more than fifteen minutes and dive to depths that no human can reach.
Unlike Cleo, Emma and Rikki, Bella did not transform in the Moon Pool on Mako Island, but in another moon pool known as the Sea Caves of Ireland, where her transformation into a mermaid occurred at just nine years old, with the powers of Gelidkinesis and substancekinesis.
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*Bella remains currently as the only known human-turned-mermaid to have been alone at the time of her metamorphosis, thus receiving all the merpeople powers from a specific Moon Pool, being the second known after Charlotte but the first ever known to go through such a process. She is also the only human-turned-mermaid known to have never fall under the effects of any special Full Moon, including a temporary twelve-hours Lunar Eclipse, the elemental-empowering Elemental Moon, or the dangerous, power-stripping Moon of Fifty Years.
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