Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Death Note or Mermaid Melody.
Chapter 3: The Strange Notebook
"Come on guys," Lina said, "let's go home."
"Yeah I'm starving," Hanon agreed.
"You guys go on ahead," said Lucia, "I'm going to swim for a little longer."
"Okay," Hanon replied, "just meet us back at the Pearl Piari when you're done."
"Alright," Lucia said as she waved good-bye to her friends.
Hanon and Lina leaped out of the water and took on their human forms, then walked home to the Pearl Piari hotel.
Lucia swam onward. The cool waves passed gently from her body. And the setting sun made the underwater world look sleepy and peaceful. When Lucia surfaced only her head was out of the water. She saw two humans strolling along the sidewalk up above. One was a tall, young man with orange-brown hair, spiky and short. The other was a frail teenage girl with brown hair down to her neck. Their names were Kaito and Mikaru.
"Oh Kaito," Mikaru smiled, "I'm so glad to have spent the day with you."
"I'm glad to hear it," Kaito replied, "as long as you're happy, I'm happy."
Then the young couple continued to walk, happily laughing along the way.
"Kaito," Lucia sighed mournfully, "you'll remember me one day won't you?"
Just then, something touched Lucia's back. It was a black notebook floating in the water. Lucia picked it up. She read the words "Death Note" on the cover.
"Weird name," Lucia thought to herself.
She opened the notebook and let the pages fly. They were all dry and blank.
"Well, I guess I could always use it for school," she thought, "speaking of which, I'd better head home." And so the young mermaid swam to shore and took on human form. Her hair shrunk to her neck, turned dirty blonde, got tied in red ribbons, and her eyes turned brown. Once Lucia successfully transformed, she quickly rushed home to the Pearl Piari.
As Lucia entered the hotel lobby she saw her friends sitting on a table nearby eating ramen.
"Hi Lucia," Hanon said with a smile.
"Hey Hanon, hey Lina," Lucia replied.
"There's more ramen in the kitchen," Lina said with noodles in her mouth.
"Ehh, I'm not hungry," Lucia yawned, "I think I'll go straight to bed."
"Suit yourself."
So Lucia went up to her room and locked the door. And then it hit her.
"Oh yeah," she thought, "I still have this notebook."
Lucia set the death note on her desk, and then sat down for a better look.
"Who wrote death note on the cover," Lucia wondered.
She opened the notebook and saw instructions that read:
How to use it:
The human whose name is written in this notebook shall die.
The notebook will not take effect unless the victim's face is in mind while writing their name, therefore people with the same name won't be affected.
After writing the victim's name, the cause of death must be written within the next 40 seconds, after the cause of death is written, details of the death must be written within the next 6 minutes and 40 seconds, if the cause of death isn't written or if the details aren't properly specified, the victim will simply die of a heart attack in 40 seconds.
"So if I write someone's name in here…they'll die," Lucia asked herself.
"That's hard to believe, isn't it," said a raspberry voice from behind her.
"Huh," Lucia said in shock.
She quickly stood up and turned around to see none other than Ryuk, and then she screamed.
"Who or what are you," Lucia shouted.
"I am Ryuk, a shinigami from another world, and the one who dropped that notebook," he replied.
"Lucia, Lucia," Nikora yelled while banging the door.
"Go on, answer it," said Ryuk.
Lucia opened her door to see Nikora, Hanon, and Lina.
"Lucia, what happened," Hanon asked, "you scared us half to death."
"I, I saw something scary," Lucia said frightened, "and it's still here!"
"Where," Nikora asked as she pushed Lucia aside rushing into the room.
Nikora cluelessly looked around and Ryuk just laughed.
"There's no one here but us," Nikora concluded.
"But, but, but," Lucia said pointing at Ryuk who tried to contain his laughter. Nikora touched Lucia's shoulder and said, "Look, maybe you're just tired; get some sleep. You'll feel better in the morning."
"Hmmm, okay."
"Good, now we can all relax."
"Good night guys," Lucia said waving.
"Good night Lucia," said Hanon.
"And don't let the monsters get ya," Lina said shutting the door.
"Hey," Lucia shouted.
Lucia turned around to look at Ryuk. And when she finally conjured up some courage she asked, "Am I the only one who can see you?"
"For now yes," Ryuk answered.
"Is this your notebook?"
"It was until you picked it up."
"Do you, want it back?"
"I already have another one, but if you don't want it then you can give it to one of your friends and I'll erase all your memories of it."
"Can this really kill someone?"
"Oh yes!"
"Why did you give this to me!?"
"I didn't give it to you, I just dropped it in hopes that a mermaid like you would pick it up."
"So you know I'm a mermaid?"
"Yup."
"Well then," Lucia sighed in relief, "I guess I don't have to worry about turning into bubbles."
"Mermaids can turn into bubbles," asked Ryuk, "how interesting."
"Only if we reveal our identities but that's not important; why did you drop this thing in the first place?"
"Meh, I was bored."
"Pff, why am I not surprised," Lucia asked while changing into her pajamas.
"I guess guys are just predictable that way."
"No kidding," Lucia said.
She then stared out into the ocean.
"You'll me remember me, won't you Kaito," Lucia sighed with tears in her eyes.
Just then, the blue case on Lucia's desk opened and the orange pearl glowed and showed a little mermaid with long orange hair, and an orange tail.
"Seira," Lucia shouted as the mermaid disappeared.
"Who the heck was that," Ryuk asked in shock.
"I just remembered that I've got to get Seira's heart back," Lucia exclaimed.
"Whatever," Ryuk said shrugging.
"Well," Lucia yawned, "I'll worry about all this tomorrow, good night Ryuk."
"Good night," Ryuk replied with a smile.
And then Lucia went to bed and eventually fell asleep.
