Okay I hope this makes up a little for the slow chapter last time. I just want people to know that I will be going back every now and then and redoing my stories. I will fix any errors I see and probably add things to them. If I do ad anything new to the stories I will post about it on my FB for fanfiction. I will be introducing the mermaids so I will be using song references links to the videos for the songs will be posted on my profile. I do not own any of these songs or videos they all belong to the rightful owners. And about any historical things I get wrong : I know not everything I use in the story is correct i never claimed it to be. I am just using things for the story. I deeply apologize if this upsets anyone. 'Bows head'
Brandy POV:
After dinner the others all went to bed, while I stayed up to take care of the laundry. I don't care if they call me 'girly' or 'little house wife' I'm used to it by now. Of course I had to show them how to set up the beds, Grell was not pleased about sleeping on the floor. I told him that I could have normal beds brought in tomorrow, but Will said to not bother with it that they all could deal with it for now. After he went back in his room I told Grell I would still order the beds, and I could get Undertaker a coffin if he wanted. They both gave me their thanks, Grell hugging me and kissing my cheek, and Undertaker simply nodding his head and giggling. I stood in the hall staring at Grells door with my hand on my cheek and blushing.
"Why did he..." I whisper to my self before heading off to do the laundry.
I finish cleaning up all the laundry by 12:00 pm, placing each persons belongings in their rooms next to the door. I head off to my own room to get whatever sleep I can. I sigh and flop down on my futon gazing around my room lazily. Just the same as always, blue-grey walls with wall scrolls hanging each with a inspirational saying, the same tatami mats on the left side of the room with wood flooring on the right, a large closet is on the right wall full of my work uniforms and other outfits. My desk is also on this side and filled with paperwork and files, all neatly organized to the way I work best. On the wall above my desk are two pictures, one is of me and my parents a year before they died, and the other is a group photo of me and my students I trained last year. I sigh taking off my glasses and sitting them next to my futon near my pillow. Getting under the purple covers I slowly let sleep take over.
( Next Morning )
"Were going to the beach, well its a lake so I guess its a shore." I say once everyone is seated for breakfast and the food has been served.
"REALLY! I need to go get my swimsuit~" Grell screams doing some kind of wiggling motion in his seat.
"Sorry miss Grell but we are going because that is where the half mermaids are." I state taking a bite of rice, I frown when I see how dejected he is. "I promise to take you when you have your next free day, is that okay with you miss Grell?"
"Wait you actually want to spend your free time with this idiot." Will asks looking at me over the top of his glasses.
"WHATS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!" Grell yells at him slamming his hand on the table.
"Whatever you interpret it as." Will states starting to eat again and ignoring the fuming reaper.
"I don't see why you pick on him so much, I find him to be a sweetheart." I say with my slight country twang slipping out, high pitched and as girly as usual. I hate my voice sometimes it makes it hard to hide ... I get snapped out of my inner ramblings when I am knocked to the floor.
"You have no idea how happy you just made me~" I look at the over excited reaper clinging to me with flushed cheeks. Undertaker starts laughing and I glare at him as best I can, but give up when he just laughs even louder. Grell still clings to me as I sit back up grabbing for my chopsticks. Grell grabs his food and moves to sit as close to me as he can.
"Miss Grell ..." I murmur after a few minutes of awkward silence, minus the still giggling Undertaker and a grumbling Ronald.
"Ye~s Brandy~" he reply's fluttering his eyelashes and smiling at me.
"To close..." I say flatly looking down at my lap trying to hide my ever growing blush.
"Eh?"
"Grell senpai your are sitting to close to him, he is going to fall over if you don't move." Ronald says calmly while pointing at me and Grell. Grell is leaning against my left side making me have to lean to the right. Every time I lean away some Grell follows me, and now I am holding onto the table for support.
"Eh oh sorry." he says rubbing the back of his head awkwardly. I sigh and move over a little so I don't hit him with my arm while I eat. Except for Undertaker and Will fighting over something breakfast went by without anymore problems. I cleaned everything up with Will helping to carry the dishes to the sink, then made a portal that would take us to the next few children. I am tying off the end of my braid while waiting for Grell to finish his makeup. Will is next to me with his arms crossed and a visible vain on his forehead.
"Sutcliff hurry up!" he yells finally snapping it seems, Ronald not reacting to it. While Undertaker finds amusement in the young raven haired mans annoyance.
"Sweetie we do need to be going now." I say knocking on the door to the bathroom. It opens a second later and Grell pummels into me, I manage to catch him before he falls backwards. The end result being me having a hand on his waist and the other grasping one of his hands. He is dipped back with his hair almost touching the floor and one hand on my chest. "You okay darlin?" I ask looking over his flushed face.
"BWAHHAHAHA!" Undertaker bellows rolling on the floor laughing somehow keeping his hat on the whole time. "Ehehe~ You can ask me anything anytime for that scene m'dear." he chuckles out as Ronald helps him stand back up.
"Miss Grell are you all right your face is all red?" I ask again as I stand him up straight, and peer down at him. He has yet to put on his heeled boots so he is a few inches shorter than usual, the top of his head now being at chest level to me. But even with them I would still be taller than the young reaper, I believe it to be a trait of shinigami from the first generation. If Undertaker where to reveal his true appearance he would be around 6'ft or so. (again I do not know the true heights of all the characters so i'm sorry if I get it wrong.) My height last I was measured was about 6'4, and with my heeled boots on I am around 6'7.
"I'm fine!" he squeaks rushing to put his boots on, his blush never fading.
"Okay darlin but do hurry, I don't want this to happen at night." I say before stepping through the portal.
Grell POV:
"Soft..." I mumble to myself looking at the hand that I had on Brandy's chest. 'Why did it feel as if there was padding over his chest?'
"What was that Grell senpai?" Ronald asks snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Brandy... it felt as if he had padding over his chest." I say tying off my boot laces and standing up.
"I was told he had suffered an injury before coming here, so it was probably bandages." Will states before stepping through the portal, scythe at the ready.
"Ehehe~ seems like our new friend has some secrets~" Undertaker murmurs following him.
"Come on senpai, if it is bothering you so much just ask him. Brandy will probably tell you if you do." Ronald pats me on the shoulder and jumps through the portal. I think about what he said and make my decision. When we are done working for today I will ask Brandy about it. I summon my chainsaw and rush through the portal, pushing my curiosity to the back of my mind.
Normal POV:
A calm breeze ruffles everyone's hair as they await Brandy's orders. Said reaper is currently in a tree scanning the area. A large lake sits in front of them with forest area to the left and a mountain range to the right. From where he is Brandy can see a small hot-spring hidden on the mountain. And around it are 3 girls and 2 boys, the girls are bathing in the spring while the boys are standing guard. All of them looking to be around 12 or so, Brandy jumps straight down landing next to Ronald, scaring the poor boy and making him fall over with a startled yelp.
"Sorry sweetie didn't mean to scare ya." Brandy helps him up before addressing the others. "Three girls and two boys up in a hidden spring on the mountain. We keep scythes hidden unless they become violent." everyone nods and puts their scythes away and blink in confusion when Brandy starts to glow in a strange light. "They are used to humans so I will not be a threat in this form."
Everyone's eyes go wide when they see Brandy's human form. He is now dressed in a long midnight blue dress with white and black snowflake patterns on it. The dress has long sleeves that billow out at the elbows and is trimmed in black ribbons and once blue hair is now a beautiful black that has a blue shade in the light. It is now styled into two large high placed pigtails, a black ribbon is tied to each one. His eyes are now a bright green with yellow flecks in them, he removes his shinigami glasses and replaces them with the old trainee glasses. He has black lipstick and blue eye-shadow with a light amount of blush on his cheeks. He is still the same height but now has the perfect female body shape, he even has a 'cough cough' rather large chest.
"WHY IS YOUR HUMAN FORM A WOMAN!" Grell shouts grabbing the man, now woman, by the shoulders and shaking him.
"Because it is a form the children will warm up to better. If you train hard enough you can change your gender for short periods of time." Brandy reply's pushing the large glasses up his nose. "The effects can only last for around 4 days at most, after that you revert back to your original form. You can change back anytime before that as well."
"You must teach me how to do this!" Grell demands giving Brandy his puppy dog eyes and fake crying.
"Okay but not now sweetie, oh need to fix my voice too." Brandy taps his throat and it starts to glow pink. "Ahhhhh~" Brandy hums out testing the voice, it getting higher and even more feminine as he does. "That should do it now lets go." he says picking up the skirt of the dress and jumping into the trees, his voice now softer and motherly.
"Can he be any more of a mystery?" Grell mumbles to himself as he follows after Brandy.
"It takes years to master a full gender transformation." Undertaker says as he joins Grell and the others in the trees. "Just how powerful is our little Brandy~" he says with a evil chuckle making the others visibly flinch away.
Brandy POV:
I hate having to reveal this side of me but with the ages of the children it will help. I jump up to the higher branches pausing when I get about a mile away from the kids, my left hand placed on the bark of the tree. I can see them all clearly from here, all the girls have their tails revealed. One of the girls has dark brown hair that is tied into a bun, she is sitting on the edge of the spring washing off her green scales. A blond haired girl is floating in the middle of the spring on her back,she has a bright orange tail with a beaded belt around her waist. The last girl is resting her head on the side of the spring, she appears to be the youngest with light brown hair floating around her and a pink tail. The boys are still standing guard and appear to be twins. Both have short black hair and are wearing large collared shirts and black shorts, tan newsboy hats are placed on their heads.
"Should we change into humans as well?" Ronald asks landing next to me on my right, Will next to him. I feel a tug on my skirt and look down, Undertaker waves up at me while Grell is trying to not look up my skirt. Undertaker still has the hem of my dress clutched in his hand.
"Undertaker please let go of my dress sweetie." he snickers at me but lets go letting his hand hang loosely at his side again. "And only if you wish to change Ronald, if you can at least change your eyes it would help. Undertaker I ask you to not scare the poor kids, we don't need them to run or attack us."
"Ehehe ~ I wouldn't worry about me but miss Grell."
"What about me you crazy old man!" said man huffs glaring at the grey mortician and baring his razor like teeth. I sigh and jump down to the branch they are standing on, landing between the two my dress billowing around me.
"Sweetie he means your teeth, most mermaids would love to see something like that but not kids. They weren't brought up in the sea like most mermaids."
"I have to become my bumbling human self don't I." he says hanging his head sadly.
"How about this if you change forms for today I will take you to see my dispatch center." I say placing a hand on his shoulder and smiling at him.
"And pray tell why I would want to go there?" he reply's boredly and crossing his arms over his chest.
"My dispatch center is mostly women."
"And?" he says raising an eyebrow and frowning up at me.
"Meaning we where placed around a lot of shops women like. The whole area around our building is filled with cafe's, dress shops, salons and the like."
"Really!" he asks jumping up and down with excitement and causing the tree to shake violently.
"Yep and I'll take you there whenever you want."
"Deal" he shouts starting his own transformation becoming enveloped in a bright light. When the light fades he is in a butlers uniform, his hair is now a dark brown and tied back with a red ribbon. He has traded his red glasses for a pair like I have on now, and when he smiles his teeth are normal like a humans. "I still want to just see where you work normally when we go too."
"Of course, is everyone else ready to go?" I ask turning to see what forms the others have taken. Will just changed his eyes into a dull brown color, and Ronald now has solid green eyes and his hair is completely blond. " A warning if any of them start to sing and their eyes are red cover your ears."
"Why?" Ronald asks as we start walking towards the spring, having jump down to the ground again.
"Mermaids have the ability to stun their enemies with their voices." Will states sounding as cold and emotionless as ever. "When used this ability makes their eyes glow red, and older mermaids will change into their true forms."
"Correct amundo" I say jumping over a log and smiling at the man. "We are close to them now, so just stay quiet for now okay darlin's" they all nod and follow behind me closely, Grell walking right behind me as if he were my real butler. The others acting as my human friends or guardians. When we get about 20 ft away from the spring one of the boys jumps out from a line of bushes. Grell and Ronald scream and cling to me and I just giggle. The boy glares at us with large golden eyes, trying his best to seem intimidating. After glaring at us for a minute he seems to buy our disguises.
"False alarm guys!" he yells behind him cupping his hands around his mouth as he does.
"What do you mean false alarm?" another voice asks jumping down from a tree and landing next to him. "Is your brain malfunctioning, even if they are human they are bad." the other boy turns to us with the same golden eyes as the first. "Go away! We don't want to go back to the village got that!"
"Deary what are you talking about?" I ask prying Ronald off of me and giving up on Grell when he gives me the hurt puppy look. "Me and my friends where just traveling across the mountain, a camping trip if you must know."
"Max I don't think they want to harm us, if they were going to they would have by now." the first boy says pulling on Max's sleeve and glancing at us. "And if they did try anything the girls would just use their powers."
"Fine! but if anything bad happens from this I'm blaming you." Max reply's pointing his finger at his twin and disappearing into the bushes again.
"Sorry about him he just doesn't want anyone to get hurt."
"It's okay I think I understand whats going on." I reply holding my hand out to him "I am Brandy Thorn, now who are you?"
"Oh sorry! I'm Kail, and that" he points to where his brother disappeared at " was my brother Max. As you can tell we're twins, but have different personalities he is all secretive and untrusting while I like to trust people and share everything."
"Hehe~ Well then lets catch up with your brother okay?" I say heading towards where Max went through, Grell still clinging to my arm with wide scared eyes. Kail nods and starts leading us through to the spring. I open up a telepathic link to the others explaining what is going to happen.
( Okay I am going to try to get them to at least listen to me about our job. If it comes down to it we will reveal our true selves to get them to believe us. But Grell I hate to say it even if it comes to that please stay in human form.)
He looks up at me with a frown and I pat his head in an apologetic way. I look up when I hear Kail yell over at us, he is holding a large branch back for us to pass through. I pick up the skirt of my dress and walk through, holding a hand up to my face when I am blinded by sunlight. Once my eyes have adjusted to the light I look around me carefully. The girls are still in the same positions they where in earlier, but now are all staring at us worriedly. Max is perched on a large rock just behind them. Kail walks over to the spring and sits down next to the girl with the green tail.
"Kail who are they?" she asks the boy calmly while staring at us with her bright blue eyes.
"Aww lighten up Chrissie, if they where going to attack us they would of done it by now." the blond girl says splashing the older girl with some water.
"Well sorry that I like to be cautious Mallory!" Chrissie huffs using her tail to flip the other girl over in the water.
"HEY! What was that for?" Mallory shouts puffing her cheeks out at the girl.
"If you two are going to fight I'm getting out." the youngest one murmurs pulling herself out of the spring. As soon as her whole tail is out of the water it changes into a pair of legs. Her outfit turns from a seashell top into a simple light pink dress with a white trim, she has on black doll shoes and a large black ribbon in her hair. "I can tell you are hiding from us so just be yourselves. If you can stand there without freaking out over our tails, we can do the same for all of you. I am Sara by the way." the little girl reply's in her small tinkling voice and smiling over at us.
"You have the gift of sight I'm guessing." I say letting my eyes return to their normal shinigami shades. "We are not here to harm you or force you to return to the village. We are here to ask if you would like to be taken to be trained by more like you."
"You mean more mermaids?" Mallory asks getting out of the spring, her outfit becoming like Sara's but in orange. Chrissie is the same but in green and instead of a bow she has a black headband.
"Yes, we will take you to them and if you wish to stay with them you can. Or if you wish they can make you fully human again." I look behind me to see that Will and Ronald have change back to their true forms. Grell seems to have listened to me and stayed in his butler form, but is still clinging to my arm for some reason. "Grell you all right sweetie?"
"O- Of course!" he stutters out releasing his hold on my arm finally. He stays close to me and I can't tell if it is him being protective of me or if he believe me his protector. We all turn our heads when a high pitched giggle is heard from one of the girls. Sara bounds over to me and Grell with a large smile and giggling as she does.
"You two are funny~" she says between giggles.
"And why are we funny darlin?" I ask tilting my head to the side and returning her smile with my own.
"You talk different than other ladies." Sara reply's looking up at me softly with her large brown eyes.
"Well I was raised in america so I talk like an american." I say patting her on the head.
"W-Why am I funny?" Grell asks the child doing his best not to snap at her. In his head he is furious that the girl had laughed at him for no reason.
"You are trying to act all shy and scared but that isn't your true personality." Sara reply's reaching her arms up to me in manner saying 'pick me up please'. I do so placing her on my right hip, making her be eye level with Grell. She reaches over and gently pulls out the red ribbon that held his hair back causing it to turn red again. "I hate to see people having to hide them selves like we do."
"Sara you are one of the strangest people I know." Chrissie says to the girl while rubbing the sides of her forehead.
"Yep only little Sara would trust some stranger enough to hold her." Mallory says walking up to us. She sees Undertaker and smiles like a madman. "You are one creepy dude you know that?"
"Mallory... Don't ..You..Dare." Chrissie warns the blond girl and starts walking towards her. Mallory smiles mischievously and snaps her fingers. She is engulfed in a cloud of grey smoke, and causing everyone to start to cough.
"But its just so much fun~" Mallory responds just as the smoke starts to clear. We all gasp when we look back to where the girl was standing before. In her place is an exact copy of the Undertaker. From his silver hair and top hat down to his buckled boots, charm belt and piercings.
"Mallory has the power to change her appearance to anyone she wants." Sara states while giggling at the older girl as she takes the hat off and twirls it in her hands.
"Yep and like I said it is just so much fun~" Mallory snickers as she dodges a very angry Chrissie.
"I told you not to do that you know what happens as a side effect."
"Yeah and I don't care if it stays that way." Mallory retorts towering over the other girl, making use of the Undertakers height. One problem is that her voice is still the same, making it a very comical thing to witness. Undertaker fighting with a young girl, and yelling in a high pitched female child's voice.
"Ehehee~ I would never expect someone to copy me~" He chuckles to himself as we watch the two girls argue.
"Sara what is the side effect of her using her powers?" I ask looking down at the girl in my arms.
"We all have side effects of using our powers, for me I just get really tired and sleep for a few days straight." she yawns before continuing rubbing her eye with a small fist. "For Mallory her hair and eyes stay the color of the person she copies."
"So she is going to have silver hair and shinigami eyes?" Ronald asks scratching his chin in thought.
"Well his eyes are covered so they will probably stay her normal blue." Sara yawns again and lays her head on my chest falling asleep within seconds.
"WILL YOU TWO KNOCK IT OFF!" Max yells from his place on the rock, glaring down at the arguing girls with a red face and cliched fists. He jumps down and pushes the girls apart. "Mallory change back now we have no time for this."
"Awww You guys are no fun." Mallory pouts still in her Undertaker form. Crossing her arms and stomping her foot creating a small crater when she does. "Okay I had no idea I could do that!" she says raising her hands in a defensive way, and pointing to the hole with a long black nail. "Creepy dude has some serious power apparently."
"Mallory also gets some of the powers or talents of whoever she copies." Kail murmurs popping up next to us and scaring the heck out of me and Grell. "I want to come...I don't like not being able to control my powers."
"I'm going to!" Mallory shouts before another cloud of smoke covers her body. When it dissipates she is back to her original form but her once blond hair is now silver. It is just as long as the Undertakers and is styled just the same. "How do you see like this?" she mumbles pulling the bangs away from her eyes.
"Well I can't leave you and Sara alone so I will go as well." Chrissie states walking up to our group. "Max are you coming? If they can take us to people who can train our powers we will be safe." Max stares at all of us with his golden eyes showing fear, a fear that is understandable, a fear of being hurt because of what they are.
"Fine." he joins us standing next to his twin who smiles at him."Stay still Mallory." he says moving into a sort of battle pose and closing his eyes, he opens them again and they are a bright orange color and his hands are glowing the same shade. With speed that even has me having to blink in surprise he has darted over to Mallory and cut off her bangs.
"Thanks Max!" she yells spinning around in a circle while giggling happily.
"Alright then darlin's lets get you to your new home." I say switching the still sleeping Sara to my other hip. Grell picks up Crissie placing her on his back with her arms around his neck and him holding her up by her legs. Mallory literally lunges at the Undertaker making the mortician giggle, he holds her like I am holding Sara the smile never leaving his face. Will and Ronald pick up the twins, Ronald carrying Kail and Will taking Max. I smile at the scene before me noticing how each of the older men seem to get along with the kids. "Okay lets go." I say starting to run through the tree tops leading the way to the drop off point. Not expecting what was to come.