Kayana wandered the corridor for what seemed hours, with her eight friends. The other princesses and the prince. Hanon, Luchia, Sara, Lina, Noelle, Caren, Coco and Kaito. And of course how did she forget, Mynyasi, her favorite guardian? (A/N: Well... only guardian... whatever.)
"Ya sure dis is da place?" Mynyasi asked worriedly, his hands behind his back.
Kayana nodded. "Yeah, pretty sure. I wonder what she has for us..." she wondered, recalling the woman's words.
Lina shrugged, swimming on. "We'll need our legs to go on... of course, Mynyasi already has some. Too bad Hippo couldn't come."
Luchia nodded, turning into her human form with the others. "Kayana, why do you look so... different in your human form? You don't look at all like your real mermaid form."
Kayana shrugged. "I dunno. Kaito, you've been quiet lately."
"I'm just worried and excited to see him... my heir. Who takes over when I die," he looked around, his armour glistening in the moonlight. "You understand."
"I do," Kayana murmered. A swirl of blue mist appeared in front of them, revealing a woman with long blond hair. "Ah! A-Aqua Regina!" she quickly bowed. "Is this Mizurio?" she asked, pointing to a small child in Aqua Regina's arms.
Aqua Regina nodded, handing the baby to Kayana. "Take care of him. Kaito, your time has come."
Luchia pouted.
Kaito walked up to Regina, his life slowly transferring to Mizurio. On Mizurio's head appeared the symbol Kaito's forehead once bore.
"Sheshe!"
"And Mimi!"
"No!" shouted the eight in unison, spinning around.
That was the horrible day Mizurio was lost. Lost to the mercyless Black Beauty Sisters.
Fourteen years to the day, a man by the name of James washed up on the shores of Kanto.
...
Shuddering, the boy got up, and sank back to all fours panting and coughing because of the water in his throat. The chill of the autumn air and the water soaking his body froze him to the bone. His green eyes shut as his eyelashes threatened to cloak in frost.
"Are you okay?" asked an unfarmiliar, feminine voice.
James looked up into the eyes of a woman. Her hair made her look a bit... odd at the least. Odd, but pretty all the same. "Um... I think so."
"You sure?" she asked. "My lord, look at you! When was the last time you ate?"
As if on que, James stomach growled a bit. "I can't recall..."
The woman merely nodded. "You can come with me, long as you're alright with being in a mansion. I'm Jessibelle, by the way."
"What's your name?"
"James," he smiled. "I have another name too but I have no idea what it was."
Jessibelle blinked in confusion. "Well, that's not proper at all."
James returned the gesture and gave a very Lt. Surge-sounding "wut".
"Uh..." Jessibelle sweatdropped. "Noooottthhhiiinnngggg..."
...
Jessie remembered the day of Mizurio's captue like it was yesterday. His lovely blue hair... his sparking eyes...
James' hair looked a little like Mizurio's in the right light. But he'd dyed it... she was sure of it. Then again, look how Luchia and Kaito turned out.
"No..." she whispered to no-one in partucular. "He can't be M-"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NO NO STOPIT AUUUGGGHHH JESSIBEELLLEEE..."
Jessie sat up. She's know that voice anywhere!
"James?" she asked, looking around the corner of a large building to see her friend being beaten up by her lookalike. She sweatdropped. It was like looking in a distored funhouse mirror, mallet and all.
"Yeah?" asked the whimpering figure, turning his head and wincing at the pain in neck. "Hey... you're the woman in my dream..."
"Dream?"
"Yeah... listen, I need to know. What dort of guy was I? And who are you? And- GACK." Jessibelle grabbed his collar, choking him nearly to death and dragged him away inch by inch, slowly but surely.
"Don't talk to her!" she hissed. "You don't need your memory!"
Now that I've seen her I do. I do more than you imagine, James glanced at the woman again. I am never marrying this phycopath.
...
Kayana swam over to her kingdom, letting out a sob every now and then. "He's gone... Mizurio is gone, captured..."
She was intruppted by a bloodcurlding shriek. "HELP!!"
Kayana gasped and spun around. Vines wrapped around her scaly tail and Nialan, another friend of hers. "Auugghh!" she screamed. "It's Sister Bat's doing, I swear!"
As if on que, a small version of Lady Bat (Bat wings, blood red hair...) floated down in front of them. "Yup," she smiled in a twisted manner. A ball of dark energy appeared in her hand as the kindom of the Rainbow Memraid Kayana crumbled to ruins.
...
Her past was more painful than any other. A ruined kingdom, no survivors, a lost prince. It couldn't get any worse.
But then she fell in love with a human.
Now he was hurt.
Everything she loved, Mizurio, her Kingdom, it's people... all hurt. Gone. The last thing she needed was James was to die. All she did was hurt him... because she didn't want him to be in pain. She didn't want him to say no because it was certain that if she turned around he'd be on the floor, a bloodstoned mess on the carpet.
Bottled up emotions hold no prize. Her mallet was a disguise, as someone in her kingdom had said:
"Anger is sadness disguised,
"As seen through my yellow eyes."