Hey y'all! So new story :3 I think this one is also a bit different than normal. So I hope you like it! Thank you to RozaHathaway17 for the awesome idea for this story. I already have chapter one written, so reviews will make me post faster :) disclaimer: I don't own anything that has to do with the VA series.

Just Add Water

Prologue

Rose POV

I shoot through the water, diving over the surface in a beautiful arc. I dive back into the water and give my firey golden tail a sharp flick and chase after my best friend, Lissa. I see her iridescent yellow green tail flip back and forth through the water as she tries to find a place to hide among the colorful coral. She and I both know it's pointless. I am great at finding people, plus I am one of the fastest mermaids around. I guess it's partly due to my great lineage but my parents also just say I was gifted and that I'll make the best Queen our sea empire had ever seen.

Yes, I am a mermaid princess, in case you were wondering. I am currently only fourteen but already I am faster and more cunning than most of the mer-people in our school. I have huge brown eyes and my skin is kind of the color of the inside of almond, or at least that's what I have been told as I have never actually seen one. Most mer-people have lighter skin so I stand out a lot. I have long almost black hair that even in the water has soft waves in it, the perfect hair basically. My tail is probably the most beautiful thing about me. It's the type of tail most mer-people are jealous of. It's a gold and ruby red, with bits of silver spread through out it when the sun hits it just right. Some of the rarest colors a tail can have are gold and red. The most common are green, blue, and purple. I love my tail so much, when the sun hits it, it shines like the sun and makes jaws drop when people see it. It's also extremely strong and powerful, my favorite thing about myself, besides my hair.

Lissa, on the other hand, has a yellow and green tail. The green matches the electric green of her eyes, and the yellow is soft and shimmery, like the rays of sunlight in the water. It matches her long beautiful blond hair perfectly. Her skin is lighter than mine, but she is beautiful in every way. In fact, I sometimes feel jealous of her she's so pretty, and I know she feels the same way about me. We make an interesting pair, contrasting each other perfectly. Lissa's also been my best friend for as long as I can remember and we do everything together. We're already planning on spending a year on land once we learn how to shift and are old enough to be allowed out with humans.

Oh gosh! I can't wait until I can shift. It's when we are able to transform our fin into human legs and the gills in our neck disappear making it so we can't breathe in water anymore but making it so we can fit it with humans. We have slit scars on our necks though from where they used to be once we shift. It's a painful process, I have heard, and most mer-people don't like to do it, some never do. However, since I am royalty and will eventually be queen, I will have to go on land quit a lot.

My dad, Abe, says that after you have shifted for awhile it becomes pretty easy and almost natural. I can't wait until I can; I have spent many days just watching the humans. I want to be able to run and jump, to try on different color clothes instead of always wearing only a bikini top, and to be able to see everything the world has to offer.

Sighing to myself, I see Lissa's beautiful tail shoot behind a mound of bright seaweed that matches the color of her tail almost perfectly. It was a good place to hide but not good enough against me.

I swim around for a bit pretending to not know where she is until I finally sneak up behind her and yell at her both mentally and out loud. She shoots three feet through the water, in terror, as I flip backwards, shaking with laughter.

I look over and see her glaring at me while she swims over to lean against a large boulder. Lissa shoots me daggers with her eyes and her mind, causing me to flinch. We haven't learned yet how to guard our minds from other mer-people. All mer-people have the ability to talk with our minds. It's how we communicate with animals but it can also be dangerous. Some people can even use something called compulsion, which is where they basically control someone's mind. So when we're around the age of sixteen they teach us how to guard our minds against everyone, letting only certain people in. Technically, it's very rude to communicate through our minds when we're in public but Lissa and I tend to do it anywhere.

"Come on Lissa! I'm bored!" I say out loud to her, and then in her mind, "Lets go to the surface by the beach and watch the humans for awhile!" A wicked gleam fills my eyes at the thought of spying on the humans.

"Rose, one day you're going to get us in more trouble than either of your parents can handle," Lissa says to me like I am a naughty child but a smile lights up her face.

"You love me!" I state as I grab her hand and sneak us out of the palace, towards the shore.

It takes us awhile to get there as Lissa isn't anywhere near as fast of a swimmer as I am. We finally get to the beach, or close enough anyway that we won't be spotted, hopefully. Lissa and I swim up behind a buoy, admiring all the people lying around tanning, the kids splashing in the water, and the sexy guys playing volleyball and wrestling in the sand.

Suddenly, I feel myself take a quick breath in and my heart starts to beat wildly in my chest. My eyes come to rest on the most beautiful man I have ever seen. I feel like my body is full of electricity just by looking at him. His body is perfectly sculpted; his hair is a deep brown and falls just to his shoulders. I can tell he is tall even for a human. I feel jealousy rip through me when I see the gorgeous girl he is with. She has long black hair and the perfect body for a human.

The man unexpectedly turns around and looks right at me. I don't understand how he knew I was there but we stare into each others eyes for what feels like forever but can only have been seconds. I feel myself being drawn towards him and I am about to come out from behind our hiding spot and start swimming towards him when a yank at my hair pulls me out of my thoughts. I jerk around to see my dolphin friend, Meredith floating behind me.

"Meredith, what would you like?" I ask her trying to get her to hurry and go away.

"Will you come play with my friends and I please? You're one of the only mermaids who can keep up and we want to have some fun!" Her sweet voice echo's in my head.

"Ya, sure, I'll be there in a second." I tell her back, nodding my head at her. I then look back towards the shore but my man has moved on. Now holding hands with the girl he was walking with. I feel my chest ache a little as I turn away from the shore and swim after Meredith, pulling Lissa with me. No matter how hard I try though, I can't shake off the feeling I felt towards the man, the connection.

Maybe love at first site is real.