AT THE BEACH-

Three heads resurfaced from the water keeping themselves and especially their tails hidden.

"Why do they put that white cream on their skin, it looks disgusting" Misty asked with a disgusted face on her face watching a women put the substance on a child

"It's called sunscreen, they put it on themselves to protect themselves from the sun apparently" May replied

"And you know this how?" Leaf asked septically

"Weeellll… you know how I told you I watch the humans a lot, well I mean a lot" May said and Misty and Leaf gave her disapproving looks.

"HELP…H-HELP!" a voice called out, all three mermaids snapped their heads to the direction of the shout. In the distance they saw a little girl flailing her arms around and screaming, no one saw since she was so far away.

"Girls, we have to help her, she's drowning!" May shouted

"May you know we can't, it's against the law for a mermaid to come in any compact with a human" Misty said with a distressed look on her face. She wanted to help but she knew she couldn't.

"B-But!"

"I'm so sorry May, b-but we can't" Leaf said with the same look on her face as Misty's.

The girl was now sinking.

May looked towards her friends.

"I'm sorry" she whispered and dove into the water ignoring the shouts of her best friends.

May looked at the little girl sinking and quickly swam to her as fast as she could, once she reached her she grabbed her around the waist and swam to the surface as fast as she could. 'I can't go to shore, they'll see me' May thought, she found a suitable place behind some rocks and quickly swam there the girl still in her arms. She placed her on the sand, which was a bit difficult due to her tail being out of water and adding a huge amount of weight. The girl still wasn't waking up, May lifted up her right arm towards the girl tilting it slightly, all of a sudden some water floated out from her mouth in a long thin starnd being controlled by May.

Mermaids had the power to manipulate water, May was getting the water the girl swallowed from the ocean out of her system.

A second later the girl started coughing, May took this as a chance to escape knowing the girl would be alright. Luckily the girl didn't see her tail but she did catch a glimpse of her saviour. Once May was in the water completely she smiled slightly at herself.

"MAY!" Said girl turned around to see her two best friends coming towards her and attacking her with a hug making a huge splash.

"May, don't ever do that again, we were so scared" Misty said finally letting go

"It's ok you guys, she never saw me" May replied smiling a reassuring smile towards them.

"Maybelle Melanie Maple you are never coming here without us ever again" Leaf said addressing May by her full name.

May giggled and nodded yes. They all swam back to Mirage Island, going back to their other mermaid friends and …little did they know what was going to happen next.

May, Misty and Leaf were nearing Mirage island, but were stopped by two mermaids each with blonde hair and a beautiful face. The girls knew them as Raina and Melanie, to the everyone mermaid in Mirage island they were highly respected as it is their job to protect them, they were the mermaid council in other words.

"Raina, Melanie, what are you doing here?" Leaf questioned

"We are here to do our job" Raina said, the girls looked at them confused. Melanie sighed before continuing.

"Maybelle, we know that you have just recently been to the land people's area, and we also know about you helping a human girl, you know very well that, that is against the law"

"I-I know, but she didn't see me and I was only trying to help" May stuttered a worried look on her face as well as her friends.

"And by doing this you have put our kind at risk…you have been casted out, your friends may not follow" Raina said, looking passive as she said she last few words.

May, Misty and Leaf all gasped, to be casted out meant, you had to leave the pod and never come back.