Ranma slept that night, he slept in a bunk bed he was on the bottom bunk while melody slept on the top bunk. mouse had snuck in to finally get rid of Ranma and be with his beloved shampoo. He then pulled chains out of his sleeve and chained Ranma up and lifted him up and snuck out the window (Ranma can sleep through anything) he then gagged Ranma and dragged him a couple of miles before nearing a cliff's edge "goodbye Ranma, have a nice swim" mouse muttered before throwing him off the edge and laughing evilly, as soon as Ranma sank and bubbles rose mouse left Ranma for dead.

Meanwhile beneath the waves…

Ranma had awoken to see he was underwater, chained up and his tale had reappeared only this time to be aquatic blue. "Huh that's weird, blue tale and why…hasn't my curse activated" Ranma said to himself before simply breaking the chains with little effort. Ranma then swam out to sea, something was dragging him and it wasn't the current, he swam at bullet speed. Until bang, he hit something…or rather someone.

"Hey what's the big idea?" snapped a blonde mermaid, with a green tale, she had blue eyes.

"Hey sorry it was an accident" Ranma apologized. "I'm sort a new here".

"So you go at full speed when you don't know where you're going so who are you and where are you from if you do that?" the mermaid asked.

"I'm Ranma and I'm from the surface" Ranma explained.

"The surface but how?" she asked.

"I'm only half mermaid" Ranma explained.

"Half mermaid, it's rare to see your kind, so what brings you here?" she then asked as she circled ranma.

"I woke up underwater and I felt something pulling me out to sea" Ranma explained.

"Oh that would be your mermaid side trying to return home you were heading to Atlantica, I heard the instinct to return is stronger in the sea" she replied.

"Oh by the way you never told me what's your name?" Ranma asked.

"oh right sorry" she giggled "my name is Rosetta but you can call me Rose, follow me I'll take you to Atlantica I think there's someone you'd like to meet there if your who I think you are".

Ranma and rose then swam at a normal pace towards Atlantica, Ranma couldn't help but steal glances of her, little did he know she was doing the same, they neared the Atlantica gates, however, were stopped by sword fish.

"Halt who goes there?" one yelled at them.

"I am Rosetta visiting princess visiting from the sister kingdom of Atlantia (I know not a very original name) and Ranma" Rosetta answered.

"the princess may enter but not the male we are under strict orders to not let strangers in who haven't called ahead due to recent sea witch attacks" one of the sword fish declared, Rosetta then gave Ranma an apologetic look, but Ranma only smirked.

"I think you could make an exception as I am Ranma grandson to king triton, son of princess Ariel and heir to two thrones" Ranma declared causing everyone to gasp, Ariel had told him all about her father the day they were reunited.

"Come on in" the sword fish said as he moved aside.

"So you are his grandson I thought you were" Rosetta said.

"Why?" Ranma then asked.

"As far as I know princess Ariel was the only mermaid turned human so you know..." Rosetta explained as they swam up to the palace.

Inside the palace…

The sea horse came through the door "your royal highness you have visitors…" before he could continue he was interrupted by the king.

"Can't it wait" the king asked "who is it anyway?"

"Your grandson Ranma and princess Rosetta of Atlantia" the sea horse announced.

"What! They found him well send them in" the king declared and soon after the mermaid and merman swam in.

"Your highness" Rosetta said with a bow, she even pulled Ranma into a bow.

"yes hello, Ranma where have you been all this time?" the king asked, Ranma then told the king all about the hell he'd been through, leaving the cat fist, engagements, seppuku pledge and his jusenkyo curse out, remembering how Ariel had said her father had a bit of a temper. "well it sounds like you really have seen hell, their must be something I can do to help my own grandson" said king triton as he thought, he didn't want to take him away from Ariel so making him a merman permanently was out of the question his thoughts were then interrupted by Rosetta.

"You may not be able to help Ranma, but could you do something for me?" Rosetta asked as she swam closer to the king.

"Ok what is it?"

"I want you to give me what you gave Ariel the ability to become human" Rosetta pleaded.

"Fine but on one condition you help Ranma when he needs it, he's been through enough" the king said.

Rosetta blushed slightly before saying "no problem", Ranma then thought of being with Rosetta on land on a day to day basis and blushed slightly also and neither went unnoticed by the king.

"well we better go, I've got a feeling I know who tried to drown me" Ranma said Ranma then hugged his grandfather before leaving after all, there was no telling when the next time he'll see him. The triton then began to glow before shooting light at Rosetta.

"You can now become human at will" the king said, the two then left and swam back in the direction of nerima. Upon arrival Ranma dragged himself out of the water and onto the sand before drying his tale off and splitting the tale into legs, Rosetta's tale then began to glow until it split into two legs, Ranma then took off his red Chinese attire and put it on Rosetta to help cover her up, she had only being wearing shells, he then took Rosetta back to his place to get her some proper clothes.

Home…

"hey I'm home" Ranma called as he entered with Rosetta.

"hi Ranma where have you been…oh who's this" melody asked when she saw Rosetta.

"this is Rosetta, she's a mermaid, she took me to see grandfather and he gave her the ability to become human" Ranma answered "could you get her some clothes" Ranma asked keeping his eyes averted melody then smiled and nodded a she shook Rosetta's hand before dragging her off to get her some proper clothes.