A/N: Hello, minna-san! Sorry for the long wait, but my school has kept me busy. You know that yourself too, ne? :)
Many of you have been asking how the TV and drinking water works in the sea. Don't worry, I have answers for that, but they will be in the next chapters. : D

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Maka looked at the vial in her hands. The purple liquid inside it disgusted her a little. It seemed somehow... evil? It would be probably the best not to think about it; the more she thought, the more she became to think bad things that could happen even more. She put the vial carefully to her bag she carried on her bare shoulder. Maybe she could even make it to Soul tonight! It was almost the time she usually left. But it wouldn't hurt anyone to leave a bit earlier, right? And so the young mermaid took off to the surface she always wanted to visit so much.

After some minutes, she saw the light in front of her to come closer and closer, and then she felt herself to be able to breath the fresh night-air.

'The air up here refreshes me no matter how many times I come back here.'

The familiar shore was just in front of Maka. She swam slowly closer, after taking a look at the moon upon her. It was just so beautiful; she missed it back home. The mermaid felt her tail to hit the rocks beneath her body, and started to pull herself to the shore. She needed to try few times, until she made it.

The sand felt wet and soft under her pale skin. It felt good. Maka let herself to lie on it for a moment, only hearing the sound of her own breathing and waves. The minute turned to another.

Another.

And another.

Suddenly, she heard some rustling in the bushes near.

''Soul?'' Maka called out her friend's name.

Some more rustling, and a bit of snow-white hair.

''Yo.''

A grin full of shark sharp teeth, and lazy crimson eyes.

''You made it to here before me again, huh? I guess I'm getting more and more slower, or you're just getting faster'', he chuckled and walked closer, hands in his pockets.

''It's definitely the first one'', Maka laughed jokingly, pulling herself to sit.

''Whatever'', he snorted, and sat next to her.

''Maka, it's rude to ask this right away, but I know you understand. Have you got any new information about transformations?'' He asked carefully.

''Don't worry about it'', she said, and smiled knowingly.

The mermaid took her bag, and searched for the vial briefly, before the cold glass hit her hand. She pulled it out, for Soul to see.

''I got something better'', she grinned.

He looked at her in awe, and pointed at the vial.

''Will that potion make me... like you?''

''Correct'', Maka answered, and patted one of his broad shoulders.

''Before you ask, I got it without any price. I sat in a bar – yes, I got in -, and a male person came talking to me'', she started to explain quickly, before he could ask any questions.

When she said a male, in a bar, Soul felt a sense of protectiveness to fill him. He tried to shake it away, without a success, thought.

''He asked what a girl like me was doing in a bar, and after some chatting, he said he said he knows a person who would be the right one to talk about the transformations. He took me to a cave - yes, I was careful -, and there was a woman who gave me this. Somehow she even know my name, thought I lied it to that man. Anyway, what's the best I got it without a price'', she ended.

''Maka, that's... Thank you'', he said, and suddenly pulled her into a hug.

Both of them stayed close, and after a moment Maka relaxed, and leaned against his chest, her arms around his waist. Her heart was beating so fast, and she was afraid that Soul would hear it too.

Ta-thump. Ta-thump. Ta-thump.

''Thank you'', Soul murmured once more to her brown hair.


Soul held the bottle of liquid in his hands. He didn't regret anything. He could be selfish and start a new life, he could meet Maka whenever he wanted, he could meet her friends, he could be a part of her world and it's miracles... He had left a note to his family. Something short and simple.


'To mother, father, granny and brother,

I have left the mansion, and won't come back. I want to decide my own life, I'm sick of someone else deciding it. Do not look for me, from now on I'll be part of something that you may never be. Also I will have something I have always wanted, and it is freedom.

I am not sorry.

- Soul'

Something was dropped, and it broke to thousand different shards across the cold marble floor.


He put the mouth of the vial on his lips, his heartbeat growing more faster. This would be it. Maka sat in front of him, looking at him in excitement and a bit of... fear? Soul tilted the vial, and let the strange purple liquid inside fall to his mouth. He filled his mouth with it, and after a moment gulped it. He felt normal, and stared at the glass vial in his hands. He felt the mermaid take one of his hands to her own.

''Soul, are you alright? How do you feel?'' She asked with a worried tone.

His vision was blurring a bit. He opened his mouth and closed it.

''I... I'm feeling fine. My eyes are just blurring a bit, nothing to worry about'', he answered, and tried to stood up on his feet.

But his legs gave him away, and Maka got him somehow, before he could land on his butt back to the sand. He touched one of them. His eyes widened; he couldn't feel them anymore.

''I can't feel my legs'', Soul whispered, some panic in his voice.

''What?'' She asked in surprise, and touched his leg.

''You can't feel this?'' The brown-haired one confirmed.

He shook his head. The young man didn't feel good.

''I'm going to lie down for a while'', he said, and was about to move away himself from her lap with his hands, but Maka stopped him.

''Wait, let me help, it's my fault after all you feel sick'', she said, and helped him to lay down, and placed his head on her lap.

Soul didn't answer, he felt like he would vomit right away if he would open his mouth. He closed his eyes.

Maka looked at his very pale face, and caressed his snow-white hair carefully. This was surely because of the potion. It should transform him to a merman, right? Was this some kind of side effect. Probably it was. Only thing they could do now was to wait.


Soul felt... strange. It was a lame, but the right word to describe the feeling. He felt like he was flowing in the sea, but he couldn't move. Something was pulsating in his veins, he felt it with every heartbeat, those echoed in the place he was. His legs were feeling cold, like they weren't there. Soul tried to open his eyes but he couldn't. He wondered why. A panic struck him suddenly. Was he dead? Had he left Maka alone, to bear the burden all by herself? His mind was filled of their moments together. When he saw her in the sea for the first time... When he saw her panicked face and eyes... When he saw her tail... When he laughed with her... When they looked at the full moon together... When he sang to her... When she kissed him on the cheek... When he drank the potion... He couldn't leave her. He needed to get back. He wanted to call her name, but the words didn't come from his mouth. He shouted her name in his mind.

Maka.

Maka!

Maka!

MAKA!


Maka blinked her olive-green eyes. Soul was calling her name... and his legs were... glowing in red light?

''Soul?''

A flash of red surrounded them, and Maka had to cover her eyes with her hands. What was this light? So bright that she couldn't see in front of her. She put her another hand down, and confirmed that Soul was still laying on her lap. Suddenly the light disappeared as fast it had came.

She had to rub her eyes; the light had been the brightest she had ever seen. She felt Soul moving slightly, and turned her head quickly.

''Soul? Soul, are you alright? Are you hurt?'' She asked and helped him to sit.

Then she saw it. His lower body. A tail, like her people. It was dark red, with some lighter shades; it was beautiful. Otherwise he looked the same. The merman opened his own eyes as well.

''Yeah, I'm alright. I don't feel bad at all. You?'' He asked, and blinked his eyes few times.

''I'm fine, but look at yourself!''

''Huh-''

He saw the same as her some moments ago. First he looked shocked, but then his face melted into a familiar grin she loved so much. Wait, lov-

''I have a tail, like you'', he breathed out.

Then he started to laugh.

The mermaid looked at him in surprise at first, but then she started to laugh as well. Soon both of them were holding their stomachs, and were laughing so hard that it almost hurt.

''Maka, I'm going to say it once again'', Soul said, trying to steady his breathing and heartbeat.

''What is it?''

''Thank you. Honestly, thank you.''

''You said it twice.''


A/N: Wow, now Soul is a merman. : D

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Btw, came across a serie called ''Kuroshitsuji'', it's awesome-cakes. Also, two of my favorite bands sing the openings, SID the first season, and The GazettE the second one. There is even a live-musical, I haven't watched it fully thought (yet). : D

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