I hope the hints i been giving you in the story so far have helped!

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after lunch coral sadly sat at her desk not wanting to even speak to any one after loosing her best friend to whale tales. When mizu and the others came two their never notice that sango and sandy weren't with them. All the ended up happening was they walked to the near by gas station calling their parents to came and get them. aunt nikora picked coral up to find her crying sitting on the sidewalk of the gas station. Her parents weren't picking up their cell phone in Europe that made coral more unset and sad.

Nate was in the back of car mad as hell at the site he of saw his princess in a human form helping coral into the car. they drove off as coral told them every thing that took place just hours ago. Nate stayed the night at the pearl bath not wanting to leave coral's side since she was still down about the fight. the next morning scott was told by mizu about what happen and from that day on he wasn't him self.

"you alright?"scott walked in.

"i lost sango ."she whined.

"is wasn't your fault."he meant it.

"your not mad?"she was wiping her tears.

"she was never the fighting type unless you pushed her far enough."he smiled a little.

"i miss her."she sniffed a little.

"same here."nate walked in with big brown bag.

nate took his sit by coral placing the bag in her table and letting her pick what food item to pick from as scott went next. he would always do this for two of his friends when things weren't going to good for them. The local market places around the school knew him well since his mother was always found passed out in front of one.

"thanks nate."scott took a sit.

"well my mother was drunk this morning giving me a 100 for lunch. "he smiled.

"she ever sober around you?"coral stuffed her face with fried shrimp.

"before or after a date?"he asked her back.

"oh ...yeah."coral started thinking.

"so when is your birthday?"scott wanted to know.

"same as my mom's !"she sighed.

Since she was turning 13 years old of age she would return to her mother's kingdom for her birthday celebration. She never knew she was the youngest one in the group since the others already turned months ago. She was worried about not spending the day with nate and the rest of her human friends .so she took it upon her self to explain to them that she'll be spending her 13th birthday with her family under the sea.

"that most be fun."scott was imaging sango in dressed up as a mermaid princess..

"you should have seen the way she looked when we entered the undersea palace."coral teased him.

"come on you know aqua marine is my all time favorite color." he really missed sango.

"men cool it!"nate placed a ice pack between his leg.

"NATE!"he yelled at his when his 'member' was cold a ice cube.

"sango would have done the same thing ."nate hands coral her drink.

"hmmmmmm...strawberry canned tea how you find this one?"she popped open the lip .

"i went store to the mini cooler in my locker ."he tossed scott milk tea.

Scott caught it with one hand while the other hand removes the ice pack from where nate had placed between his legs by force. That was something that never really bothered coral and sango since those two were always keeping each other in check. They been this way since they 1st entered middle school. Coral didn't know anything about their friendship until scott made the swim team in their beginning years of high school.

"where the ice come from?"scott had to know.

"mini cooler and i am glad i had it with me ."nate sounded serous.

"no offense scott you 'react' very weird done 'below' ."coral eyes were covered.

"you guys should be happy sango will be only one who does that ."he was bright red.

They both laughed at what he said and how red he turned at the thought of sango in her mermaid form. His chair tipped over since he was leaning back in it with no support behind him what so ever. His nose started to bleed from when remembered sango's mermaid top fell apart from a bath's splash fight she had with coral weeks ago.

"your as red as a strawberry."nate looked to scott on the floor.

"help me up !"scott laid there .

"your thinking of sango."coral was sad again.

when scott got to his feet he gets out of the way of nate's punch making his way to the sad coral knowing her being sad now was his fault.

"we both miss her."he whispered in her ear.

"...oh scott..."coral glomp him.

"NO FEELING HER UP!"nate yelled at him.

"hey...nate!"scott weakly smiled.

"GET AWAY FROM MY GIRL FRIEND!"nate wasn't backing down.

"let him feel me up he doesn't have sango to feel up ."coral tried acting all innocent.

"I DON'T WANT A ANOTHER GUY OTHER THEN ME TO TOUCH YOU!"nate shouts.

"AWWWWWWWWW!"she tackled him to the floor.

Scott looked the other way when nate was straddle under the slender coral with a harden lump forming between his legs. When umi and mizu walked in the room with a box of rice balls they made in cooking class. so Nate was sitting at his desk legs crossed tightly as coral sat near him with scott as they talked .

"i need to learn to control me self better."nate wasn't looking at coral.

"nate its just a normal human male reaction."coral was re-suring him.

"yeah man i got them all the time when sango was in a mermaid form."scott tied to help.

"what are you guys talking about?" mizu walks to them.

"i gave nate a boner."coral cheers.

"his 1st one too."scott added.

"guys!"nate felt back stabbed.

"oh...!" mizu lays the her box of rice balls down.

"for pete's sake!"umi takes a sit.

Nate hated the fact he caved into the one thing he vowed he would never do when in front of his long time girlfriend. Who at the moment was suffering form loosing her best friend sango when they went to reuse the others. He didn't want to burden to her through this time of suffering for her with the other four princesses by her side. For support when she needs them as he was fading form her life slowly.

"nate?!"she placed her hand on his .

"...come scott i want to be early for PE since swimming starts to day..."he pulled his hand away from hers.

"alright man!"scott

"i am coming with you."coral stormed after them.

they left in a hurry before umi or mizu could get a word in between them as they made they way out the door. they were on the stair well with coral right behind nate with scott in the back of them.

"coral go away please!"he yells.

"you only did that to to show you love me and only me ."she yells back.

"dude its true !"scott agreed with her.

"what do you mean by that coral?"he stopped facing her.

"that i maybe the only female who can turn you on ."he smiled.

"dude its the first time you ever did it."scott went on.

Nate blushed the deepest red while reaching his shaking hand for coral's hand knowing she was right on that one. Then she blushed at the site of him in his speedo like swim uniform since they were heading to the pool. when scott looked them over only to find coral and nate both the same shade of red. Scott then got upset and sad at the fact he and sango weren't hand in hand like nate and coral were right now. She would pull him to the elevator pressing the 3rd floor button and take endless with him on all kinds of subjects.

He remembered the 1st time she caught him the nude

"scott i vow to get to sango back for you."coral faced him.

"uh...!"scott stood there trying to think.

"love you coral."nate kissed her cheek.

"love you more."she kissed him on the lips in return.

"get a room."scott passed them.

Nate then lets coral go back to the umi & mizu in the class room where the other girls were heading also. She ran up the stairs as nate ran down the stairs to catch the fleeing sad scott who was wanting his sango right now.

"hey guys."she popped in to the room.

"right on time."shelly checked the wall clock.

"what are those rice ball made of ?"shinju sniffs them.

"sushi of course."umi smiled.

"we made this in cooking class."mizu hands her one.

All the girl were handed one by mizu as coral started they meeting off about how they were to reuse the others.

"we can't turn my pearl into sea flute again."mizu took a sit.

"how about getting some kind under sea machine to start a sea quake?"shinju thought that was smart idea.

"for pete's sake."umi faced her.

"what?"shinju looked at her.

"dumb idea."coral answered.

"any one else?"shelly looked around the room.

"no!"mizu spins in her sit.

Then all five of their pearl glowed at the some time when coral started to sing to her self when she looked out side the window. They all saw the light of their 5 pearl created a blurry image of aqua regina.

"you all will find a way."she smiled upon them.

"how?"coral faced her.

"my gift to you."she reached her staff over there heads.

Before they could say another word they pearls glowed in tone with the large orb on her staff turning them in the pearl idol forms. This time their were powered up with new new powerful microphones.

"thanks aqua regina."coral wanted to cry.

"this rocks."mizu looks at her self.

"i feel like super star."shinju holds her microphone up to her lips.

"lets kick some whale tale rear!"umi posed.

"we are grateful for gifts you have given up aqua regina."shelly bows to her.

"good luck my mermaid princesses." aqua regina fades away.

the girls turn back to the human forms as the bell ending lunch.