A few days has past and inside the Evanorian palace, Akauriana rests up in the warm bed that the prince has provided for her. Every now and then, Prince Dominick would go to the guest room in order to check up on her. He knows nothing of what she had to go through just to be with him. But all that matters to him is to make sure that she is nursed back to good health. Every maid in the palace will come to feed her food that she'd never tried before, provide her clothes made out of the finest silk, richly made shoes, extraordinary jewelry and everything else she could ever need. When the next day had arrived, Akauriana finally awoke from her restful slumber. She knew that she is not dreaming anymore. After everything that has happened for at least three days, she finally got what she had always wanted; her human form. Though she remember what the sea witch, Eraza has told her about the pain that comes with the transformation, she lifted up her sheets and gaze at her new legs. The little mermaid wiggled her toes and she was delighted. This just in, the door opens and there was the noble prince Dominick who came to see that she have awoken. Akauriana notices her tall strong prince and smiles at him. He too returns the same warm smile to her. Prince Dominick approaches her bed and sat next to the little mermaid's side.

"I'm glad that you're awake." says Prince Dominick. "You needn't worry about a thing. You're safe here in Evanora, my kingdom."

Akauriana's heart starts beating in the strangest rhythm once again, the minute she looks upon Dominick's face. The prince gazes back at her, looking into her deep aqua eyes. He can't seem to shake off that feeling that he saw her from somewhere but he can't quite put his finger on it. Instead, he wondered about her health.

"So how are you feeling, miss?" asked Prince Dominick.

Akauriana tries to speak but she cannot. She also remembers that she traded her voice to the sea witch. So she felt down a tad bit. Prince Dominick notices Akauriana touching her throat.

"What's wrong?" he asked her. "You can't speak?"

Akauriana shook her head in sorrow. The prince felt really bad for her.

"Oh! I didn't know. I'm so sorry." said Prince Dominick, trying not to be rude as he possibly could. "Well may I ask where do you come from?"

The little mermaid points at the sea from her window. Prince Dominick knew that she is far away from home. Little do he know that she had left the sea for him. She sacrifice everything she had just for him but he did not know it. She couldn't tell him otherwise if she wanted to but without her voice, it is nearly impossible for her. So Akauriana was lead to fret on it. But then, Prince Dominick lifted her spirits with his charming personality.

"Don't be sad, miss. You can live here for as long as you want to." said Prince Dominick, cheering her up. "Until you're in good health, you can stay here with me."

Akauriana smiled at him for his kind gesture. Suddenly, one of the maids came knocking on the door.

"Excuse my intrusion, your majesty." says the maid. "The girl's bath is ready."

"Thank you for your help taking care of my guest, ma'am." Prince Dominick thanked his maid.

"It's my pleasure, sire." said the maid, bowing in a well-mannered position.

The prince turns to Akauriana.

"Your bathwater is ready, miss." says Prince Dominick, smiling. "My maid will escort you there now."

Akauriana nods happily and she prepares to get up. But when she got out of bed, she felt a sharp pain in her feet. It really hurt her so bad and she almost collapsed onto the floor if Prince Dominick hadn't catch her in time, breaking her fall.

"Whoa! Careful easy!" says Prince Dominick as he helps Akauriana over to the maid. "Are you okay?"

The little mermaid nods with her painful expression upon her face. With his strength, the prince helps escort Akauriana to the bathroom along with his maid.

"Don't worry, I got you." said Prince Dominick, holding onto Akauriana. "You're going to be alright. I promise."

As the moments passes by, Akauriana is enjoying her bath. She looks around her in a golden tub filled with bubbles. In her curiosity, she poked one of the bubbles and they all popped one by one. Excited, she plays with her bubbly bath. This just in, a head maid name Loretta came to check on Akauriana.

"Oh you poor sweet thing." said Loretta as she splashed some warm water on Akauriana's long red hair. "You're all washed up from the shipwreck, far away from home. Oh dear! Don't worry, my child. We will help you feel better in no time."

Loretta orders her co-maids to fetch some clean silky clothes for the little mermaid to wear. While on the job, one of the maids were talking about Akauriana. They find it rather hard to believe that she is princess material.

"Did you hear about this new girl?" said one of the maids, washing the silky clothes.

"No! I didn't." said the other maid.

"I honestly don't know what the prince sees in her." said the maid with brunette hair. "I mean, really!? The girl shows up out of nowhere. She is washed ashore barely naked and she doesn't even speak! Not my ideal princess!"

Loretta overheards the maids talking about the red haired girl and she shushed their conversation.

"Now hush, ladies!" clapped Loretta. "Do not be so harsh to that poor girl! She is simply shy!"

The maids kept quiet about it and continue to work. They brought some new fresh clothes to the guest room and there they dressed Akauriana in the finest silk. After they left the room, Akauriana turns to her mirror, admiring her jade green evening gown. It looks just like the colors of the sea. Then she turns to look out of her window, at the sea below. Akauriana thought about her friends in the secret sanctuary, wondering if they are all okay after the incident with her father. Deep down inside, she misses them too. Knowing that she can never return to them, makes her heart ached. There is nothing that the little mermaid can do about it now. What she can do is try to win the prince's heart in order to gain a human soul. While Akauriana gazes out at the sea, Loretta comes knocking on her door. She turned to notice the head maid.

"The royal prince is waiting for you in the throne room, madam." says Loretta as she gently escorts Akauriana down to the hallway. "Oh you mustn't keep him waiting, my dear."

Meanwhile, in the throne room, Prince Dominick is chatting with his noblemen. One of them brought up the day when Dominick was washed ashore from a violent storm days ago and a random girl saves him from shipwreck. They thought she was just a imaginary figure who appears to the young prince in a brink of death, then she disappears without a trace. The noblemen laughed about it but Dominick knew that it's true. The mysterious girl who saved him is real. He vows to find her wherever she might be and he will seek her hand in marriage. While the men continue their conversation, Loretta led Akauriana into the throne room. Though her feet is suffering with pain, Akauriana didn't let it stop her from walking over to Prince Dominick who is now noticing her presence. The noblemen were also mesmerized by her stunning beauty. Even the prince himself can't seem to take his eyes off of her. One of the noblemen suggested that Prince Dominick should take Akauriana on a tour of his kingdom. He agreed to the man's suggestions and then he offers Akauriana the Evanorian tour. She happily nods and not a minute soon, they both headed to the courtyard, where they've prepared a chariot for them. While Prince Dominick took Akauriana on a ride around the kingdom, the little mermaid could not believe her own eyes. The land of humanity is anything she had always dreamed of. They stopped in a nearby town, where peasants marketed their goods, others entertain the children and the musicians play away with their tunes. Since she loves music so much, Akauriana drags Prince Dominick with her over to the town square and they both dance away with the other couples. From time to time, Prince Dominick would take Akauriana to the festival. There, they went to see the acrobatics who performed their trickiest tricks yet. Akauriana is really enjoying what she is seeing so far. The prince even paid for the goods she'd requested. Then he took her out on a romantic boat ride on the stream's edge. While the boatman rowed towards the open lagoon, little do they know is that the floral mermaid, Isabella and her friends were keeping watch on the situation while they hid amongst the rocks.

"Welp! So far, so good!" said Paulina. "She might get a chance with him after all."

"I sure hope so." says Isabella.

"Are you sure that he's going to fall in love with her in a few days?" wondered Will.

"He's going to have to fall in love with her." says Paulina. "He'd better!"

"Otherwise, it's her one and only chance." remarked Isabella as she lies her head on the rock.

They continue to watch their friend from the rocks. As the boatman took a little break from the rowing, Prince Dominick gazed at the little mermaid's beauty but then, he didn't knew her name. Luckily it came to his mind and the prince sparked up the engaging conversation with her.

"You know something?" the prince asked. "I forgot to ask you about your name. Do you have one that I should know about?"

Akauriana nodded and since she could not speak, she uses a little bit of sign language to communicate. Prince Dominick tries to understand what she is trying to tell him but then has a slight difficulty piecing together the patterns. In order to help him out, Will swam up to the boat and whispers quietly to the prince without being seen by him.

"Akauriana..." Will whispered. "Her name is Akauriana..."

Then he disappears into the water. Prince Dominick did heard the white dolphin and he utters the name that had been spoken to him.

"Akauriana?" Prince Dominick uttered, unsure if he heard correctly.

The little mermaid nods in response for he has said her name. The young prince got it right, thanks to Will the white dolphin.

"Akauriana?!" Prince Dominick asked in order to be sure.

She nodded yes. That is the little mermaid's name.

"I've never heard such a beautiful name like that before." says Prince Dominick as he likes her rare name. "But hey, I like it. So your name is Akauriana then, huh? Ok, Akauriana."

The boatman is done with his break and he continued rowing away. All Isabella and her friends can do is watch away from the rocks until it is time for the two royals to start heading back to the palace for a royal ball. While they returned to the castle, they must prepare for the ball. The maids dresses up Akauriana in a exotic sultry gown made out of both of the finest silk and rare arabian jewelry. The platform shoes pinched the girl's feet. The pain is getting worse but the little mermaid refuse to let the pain stop her from attending the royal ball. While in the ballroom, the musicians filled the floor with their medley and people whom were invited, danced the night away. The royal advisor announced a special treat for the prince. They brought in the exotic middle-eastern dancers to perform their dance for Prince Dominick. Akauriana notices the way that Prince Dominick is enjoying himself for he is amused for the dancers. The little mermaid observed the dancers' movements and thought to herself that the only way to win over Prince Dominick's affection as if she dances along with them. So the fiery haired Akauriana snuck her way to the middle of the ballroom and danced away with the exotic dancers. Surprised by this, Prince Dominick gets up from his throne, amazed by Akauriana's dancing. Everyone in the ballroom were all amazed by the little mermaid. The way she moves as if she was gliding across the floor, like a mermaid. It turned out that her plan is working. Prince Dominick became hypnotized by the way Akauriana swished her hips. Though her feet is bleeding out, she kept on dancing until the music has stopped. The people were all amused and they clapped for the little mermaid, even Prince Dominick who too enjoyed the wonderful display. After the hours past by, Akauriana ran out of the ball and heads down the the castle's harbor. She places her bleeding feet in the water, soothing the pain away. She didn't know that from afar, Isabella and her friends was watching her from the rocks. Before the floral mermaid could think about getting to the harbor, she paused when she saw Prince Dominick heading down the harbor to talk with Akauriana. Isabella disappeared back to the rocks. She hid herself from plain sight and watched as the prince sat by her friend's side.

"Mind if I join you out here?" asked Prince Dominick.

The little mermaid happily nods for she wants to spend more time with him. Prince Dominick gazed out at the sea while he sparks a deep conversation with Akauriana.

"When I was younger, I would always come here, in the harbor just to watch the waves crash on my stairs." says Prince Dominick as he glances at the sea. "I could come here whenever I wanted to get away from my princely duties. Sometimes I feel like I belong out there, on the high seas. I could sail the waters for days. But sadly, my father told my advisors before the day he tragically died that he wanted to have me married on my sixteenth birthday. That's not the life I've wanted though. So that's why I sailed far away from Evanora as I can. But then, things didn't go as planned when I nearly drowned in the stormy sea and I thought I was going to die. Until a girl rescued me and she sang to me. Whoever that girl is, no doubt about it, she has the most beautiful voice."

Akauriana felt blue for a bit. As much as she wanted to tell him who she really was but without her voice, she couldn't. So she kept quiet and then smiles at her prince. He turns to return the same, refusing to fret over his heartache.

"Ah! How rude of me! I shouldn't be worrying about such things as that." chuckled Prince Dominick as he faces Akauriana. "Anyways, you were pretty amazing in the ballroom. You dance so gracefully."

The little mermaid blushes away. His charms is enough to make her heart skip a beat and in the same time, he too had his heart beating in the same rhythm as he was drawn into her aquatic eyes. After he shared his story with Akauriana, Prince Dominick knew that they both should be heading back to the ball. He took Akauriana's hands, lifted her up on her healing feet and they started heading up the stairs. Isabella and her friends watches them walk away from the harbor. Then she thought about Tristan. She promised to see him again but then she felt torn by her love for the bounty hunting pirate and her little mermaid friend. Paulina and Will swam over to the flower mermaid's side, trying to cheer her up.

"Don't you worry about a thing, Isabella." says Paulina in a slight enthusiasm. "The prince will fall in love with Akauriana. That way, she won't be that mean sea witch's prisoner forever!"

"Paulina is right!" says Will agreeably. "As long as things are going according to plan, she might even get a human soul. Just have faith, Isabella."

"I know, you guys." said Isabella in a sad tone of voice, thinking about Tristan. "But it is not her I'm worried about."

Isabella dives back into the sea, leaving the Evanorian harbor. Will and Paulina followed behind her. Over on the far seaside, Tristan is resting on the edge of the docks, drinking his half-empty rum. He thought about Isabella, his beloved mermaid. The tough young pirate wonders of how she is doing for he cannot get her out of his head. Her gentle voice echoed inside his mind and her blue eyes haunted his soul for weeks end. Couldn't bare his thoughts any longer, Tristan throws his rum away, turns to grab his sacks of stolen goods and walks away from the wretched seaside town to continue his next heist. While he is at it, Tristan hopes that along the way, he will see Isabella again.