Prologue

It was a night. Around eleven o'clock by the beach. The sea was pitch black and just a slight movement of it could be captured if you looked with attention. Near the water, a couple carrying a baby whispered to each other.

"Now that time has come, I don't want to let you go." He said.

The woman gave her baby a smooching kiss before giving it up to him.

"I will come back. Don't say it like it's a farewell" She said.

"Sigh. You are right. I will wait for you! No matter how much the time passes."

The tears rolled down her face one last time, their last kiss before the separation. There was nothing more they could do. The woman turned her back from her husband and child and disappeared into the depths of the ocean.

Chapter One

Lucia Nanami and the others mermaid princesses had no longer enemies, they could finally live like humans do. And the most important thing is that they could love like the humans too. Coco, Noel, and Karen went back to their kingdoms. Seira, Rina, and Hanon stayed with Lucia at the Hotel Pearl. It was a normal day for them, Hanon went out with Nagisa, Masahiro took Rina for a ride and Seira was in the park with Hippo. Kaito and Lucia were enjoying their time alone at the beach. Today he wasn't surfing as usual despite the weather. The two of them were walking and talking about their next date. But to ruin it all, the sky suddenly changed. Their sunny day was drastically twisted by a terrible storm that took place in seconds. The sand was blown by the strong wind, almost getting into their eyes.

"What is happening?" Lucia screamed, covering her face with her arms.

"Careful, Lucia!"

Kaito covered Lucia with his shirt and brought her close to him. This wasn't a normal storm, a tornado was forming into the sea and coming over. They were terrified, looking at that thing trying to reach the beach. The only thing they could do was run to the hotel.

"STOP!" Kaito pulled Lucia, that was a bit ahead of him, in the right moment before a great wave could strike her.

The sea was angry. Lucia would be dragged by it if wasn't for Kaito. He held her hand and they ran until Lucia suddenly stopped, holding Kaito back.

"Wait!" She had to scream to be heard with all the noise.

"What is it? We gotta go!"

"There is a child there!"

She pointed to a small body she saw, laid on the sand near the water. They ran to it. The child was a little girl, soaking wet. The girl has short dark blond hair and was wearing a white simple dress, no shoes. She was unconscious. Kaito took her in his arms and approached his face from hers.

"She is breathing." He said.

"Thank God! Let's take her to the hotel!"

As they approached the hotel, the storm seems that were slowing a bit already. They passed through the door in a hurry. Madame Taki was sitting on the dining table looking at her crystal ball, Hippo besides her and Seira was sitting there too. Rina was walking in circles talking on the phone.

"There they are!" Rina said to Hanon in the phone, soon the couple passed by the door.

Nikora came flying to the entrance and hugged Lucia tightly.

"Thank God! Are you two okay?" She said.

"We are alright, but we found this child by the beach in the middle of the storm, she might be hurt."

Seira, Hippo, and Rina came to them, curious.

"Let's put her on the bed. Hippo, prepare hot towels, she must be freezing."

Lucia lead them to her room, Kaito put the little girl on Lucia's bed. Nikora made a sign for the boy to leave, they needed to change the girl's wet clothes. Lucia looked at the girl and noticed that she was holding something in her right hand. She must dear this object very much, for not letting go. She lends the shirt of her pajamas for the girl. Hippo came into the room with the towels. They dried her properly and Nikora put one hot towel on the girl's forehead.

"We need to contact her parents soon she woke up, she might need to go to a hospital."

"We didn't saw anyone. All the people at the beach ran, and this girl..."

"You noticed too, Lucia? This girl was covered in salt water, she drowned."

"Poor one."

"For now, let her rest. We will solve this when she wakes up."

They went to the dining room. Kaito had a towel around his neck, Rina lend one to Lucia.

"Where is Hanon?"

"I talked to her by phone, she and Nagisa are stuck in a groceries store until the storm is over. She was furious, poor Nagisa."

"Good! At least they are okay." Lucia sighed.

"How was the girl?"

"She will be fine. But when we find her parents I will give them a punch for leaving a child alone in the middle of a storm." Nikora said, raising her fist.

In the room, the little girl's fist loosened and the bright tiny thing that was inside fell and she woke up. Soon she opened her big blue eyes the storm stopped. Everyone looked surprised at the sky that once was dark and now was clear and sunny again, fast as the storm came. The girl sat and looked around, don't recognize the room or the clothes she was wearing. She suddenly remembered it all, her parents! She started looking for her treasure desperately. She found it laid on the ground and picked it up, holding against her chest. There must be a way! She needed to go. The girl went out the room and walked down the stairs. She saw a group of unknown people gathering around tables. She looked to the left and there was the entrance hall. She thought about leaving, but wouldn't be right do it wearing other's person clothes, besides, she was very hungry. Her stomach made a sound and they heard.

"Oh! You are awake! How are you, sweetie?" Lucia came in her direction.

The girl supposed she had been rescued, but how? She didn't remember quite well. She put a hand on her head, trying to join the pieces of her last memories.

Lucia crouched to be at the same level as the little one.

"Can you tell me your name?"

The girl lifted her head and looked at her in the eyes.

"Lu...ka. As flow... And song." She tried to write in the air with her finger.

"Luka? That is a beautiful name! Do you like songs?"

She didn't respond and Lucia was a bit embarrassed. Could it be that she was being too pushover?

"Well... My name is Lucia Nanami and this is my sister Nikora. She and Madam Taki over there own this hotel. And these are my friends Rina, Seira, Hippo, and Kaito, he brought you here."

"Kaito?"

The boy introduced himself.

"I am Kaito Domoto, nice to meet you."

Luka's eyes widened by that.

"We find you at the beach in the middle of a storm. Where are your parents?"

Luka wasn't listening anymore, she was confused, holding tightly her precious item near her chest. The air became difficult for her to breath. Her legs weakened and she collapsed on the ground. Lucia and Kaito held her.

"What happened? Are you okay?"

"She must be confused. Let's slow down." Rina said.

The girl's stomach made that sound again. Lucia gave her a sweet smile.

"I'm sorry. Of course! You are hungry. Come eat with us."

They helped her to get up and sit on the table. Nikora served her a soup, tamagoyaki and green tee.

"Go it easy. The soup first, or you might feel sick."

Luka heard that, but she was so hungry that she turned all the soup in her mouth, drinking it all in just one swallow. She forgot the spoon and picked up the tamagoyaki with her hands and pulled it all into her mouth.

"Oh my! You were starving, my dear."

"Thwenfyou fo the foo! (Thank you for the food!)" She said with her mouth full.

That provoked laughs by the group. She finished eating and Rina sat next to her.

"Luka. We need to call your parents. Do you know your phone number?"

"I can take care of myself, I just need my clothes back."

"We can't let you. You just survived a tornado. It would be irresponsible of us. Your mom and dad must be worried." Nikora said.

She didn't respond. Lucia noticed that Luka was feeling down.

"We can help you. You can trust us, Luka-chan."

Luka was lost in her thoughts. Nikora pulled Lucia away to talk, far from Luka.

"She is worried. We must show that she can trust us. It's time to take her to the police, let them contact her family."

"Yes, you are right. I will pick her clothes from the drawer."

The girl was constantly looking at Kaito, that made him feel uncomfortable. He decided to talk to her, to break the ice.

"You are holding this for quite a while, what is it? Your treasure?"

Instead of answering she made another question.

"Kaito-san, how old are you?"

He was a bit surprised by her question.

"I'm 15 years old. And you, Luka?"

"I'm 6. No... 7 now. Yesterday was my birthday."

"Oh! Congratulations."

She wasn't happy at all. She didn't show the slightest smile by that. Kaito was suspecting that something must have happened to her. Lucia came to pick her up to change clothes. Since she didn't have shoes Nikora went out to buy a pair of plain white sandals for her. After a bath and ready to go they noticed that Luka didn't talk much. Once outside, Luka's eyes widened by surprise. She knew the place they were, but it all seemed... Different somehow. They bumped into Hanon and Nagisa on their way. Hanon begins to shout and complain about the weather and the news. She cast aside the newspaper she was carrying. It fell on the ground and Luka could take a glimpse of the news. She looked at the date on the first page and a she felt like screaming inside. That couldn't be right! How?

"How can they not predict something like that!" Hanon shouted, completely soaked.

Nagisa and the others were trying to calm Hanon. Luka took this chance that they were distracted and run into her house direction with all her might.

"LUKA! Where are you going?" Lucia shouted.

They followed her, but Kaito was faster and went ahead to not lose her sight. Luka ran until she recognized her house. She looked through the blue windows. Some things were missing in the living room, like her toys and drawings, all her mess was gone like she never lived in that place. This was terrible! Like she predicted, but this couldn't be! It's impossible! Kaito saw her running away from the house. He stopped and looked at it. That was his house! What was she looking at? She seemed desperate, maybe she thought she knew the way but didn't. Lucia reached him.

"Where is she going?" She asked him.

"She is heading to the beach." He said.

"You two go after her, I will go the police station." After said that Nikora went to another way.

They found Luka near the water, she was ready to go into the sea.

"LUKA!" The girls screamed.

They couldn't go after her into the water or they would turn into mermaids. Kaito was the only one who could go after her and bring her back. The water was already reaching her belt line. She was desperately determined to sink. He reached her, held her arms and pulled back.

"NO!" She refused to go back.

"What? Do you want to drown? Stop this nonsense!"

She was trying to get away with punching him.

"LET ME GO! Papa needs me! I will save him!" She was crying and stretching her free arm to the ocean. It looked like she was trying to reach the sunset.

He wasn't understanding anything. He assumed that she remembered something.

"Please... Let me go..." She became tired.

Kaito took her off the water and lifted her in his arms. She rested her head on his shoulder, staining his shirt with her tears.

"I want my papa..." She mumbled before falling asleep.

Back to the Hotel Pearl, they let the girl sleep, she was on the couch covered with a blanket. Nikora came from the police station and they were now in a difficult situation.

"The police weren't notified of a missing kid. If her parents were looking for her that would be the first place they would go." Nikora said.

"She knew how to go to the beach, that means that she is from this area, someone should recognize her," Hanon said.

"She said that she knew how to get home, we can just take her there," Rina said.

"That will not work." Kaito said.

Everybody looked at him, surprised by his statement.

"What do you mean, Kaito?" Lucia asked, clearly concerned.

"She stopped by my house on her away. I don't know if she was confused or whatever, but if she was, even the slighted, doubting of were her family is she wouldn't have gone straight to the ocean. I think she remembered what happened to her."

"You should have seen it Nikora! She went in a tantrum in the water, screaming and punching Kaito." Seira said.

Lucia approached Kaito, he had a serious expression.

"Kaito, what she said to you?"

Everybody became silent to hear him.

"She said that her father needs her help. She misses him." He felt a bit of pain saying that.

"So... That's how it is." Nikora seemed to understand. Rina too, she crossed her arms.

"What? What are you talking about?" Seira asked.

"It's reasonable why is she so scared. My suspicious is that storm got her and her family in the sea."

"What?" Hanon said.

Nikora turned the TV on and put on the news, many boats were crushed by the tornado, they couldn't find all the bodies. Lucia looked at Kaito, he too had lost his parents by a ship accident. Luka must be feeling the same pain right now. In the corridor outside the girl was awake, hearing all they were saying, her back against the wall and her heart beating fast. The last tear dropped from her eye. Her family wasn't around anymore.