Warning: This is an unbelievably long chapter. Reading it may require a lot of time and patience.

Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or Mermaid Melody.

Chapter 10: Falling Enemies

It was three o'clock in the morning when Lucia finally fell asleep. Everything was set for tomorrow. She wrote out her enemies deaths as specifically as she could and made sure the deaths wouldn't lead back to her. Ryuk could barely hold back his laughter, and he used all of his willpower to stay away from the death note. After all, the deaths would be amusing if they were a surprise.

The next day, Sunday, Lucia awakened to a welcoming sunrise. She looked down and realized that she was still wearing the clothes she had on yesterday. So Lucia quickly threw on her pajamas and rushed downstairs to the lobby. Today was an important day. Not just because it was her only day of the week off, or because she made plans with Hanon and Lina the other day, but because their enemies were about to die.

In the lobby, Hanon and Lina were having cereal for breakfast.

"Hey Hanon, Lina," Lucia greeted.

"Hello Lucia," Lina replied. Then Hanon scurried over to Lucia and nudged her.

"So," she asked, "how'd things go with Kaito?"

"Fine."

"Does he remember you yet?"

"More or less."

"Oh, too bad," Hanon sighed.

"Yeah," agreed Lucia.

"Heh heh heh hee," Ryuk chuckled, "if they only knew."

"So, are we still going to that new karaoke joint," Lina asked to break the tension.

"You bet," Hanon replied, "come on, let's get ready."

Once she was done getting dressed, Lucia grabbed a bagel for the road then walked out of the Pearl Piari with her two best friends. Hanon and Lina were excited to sing for fun for once, while Lucia was excited to see the death note in action.

About ten minutes later, the girls reached downtown. The city was packed with all sorts of people walking, talking, shopping, and occasionally kissing.

"Hey Hanon," Lina asked, "do you know what the spirit wanted with Hippo?"

"I think it wanted that moldy caramel apple Hippo kept under his bed," Hanon answered. Lina raised an eyebrow, "What kind of spirit is obsessed with apples?"

"Well they are juicy fruits," said Lucia. Then the girls broke out in laughter.

"So what'd you do with that caramel apple," Lina asked coming back to her senses.

"We burned it for the spirit to eat," Hanon replied.

"Pheh," Ryuk snarled above Lucia, "that's just some b.s. you merfolk probably made up, none of it really works."

Meanwhile, back in a dark ally, an evil force was lurking. It was a vampire like creature with black hair in a ponytail. The creature wore a white shirt that revealed some of its chest. The very gender of the creature was still unclear. However one thing was clear, it had a radar with three blinking dots.

"Perfect," the creature said, "the radar locked onto the pearls energy signature. Now I know where the mermaid princess' are. Better catch 'em quick!"

So the strange creature shuffled out of the alley. It walked on the opposite side of the street from Lucia and her friends. At the next crossway, it would cross the street and a make a jump on the girls. After countless failures it was desperate to capture the mermaid princess', no matter the cost.

As the vampire walked past a nearby bank, a masked man ran out and put the creature in a headlock. Two police officers followed the man and pointed guns at him. But the man pointed his own gun at the creature's head.

"Back off or it's light's out for this wimp," shouted the man. The officers just stood there, frozen in confusion. How were they going to arrest this man and save an innocent life? The scene caught the attention of many civilians, including Lucia and her friends.

"Isn't that Lady Bat," Lina asked surprised.

"It is," Hanon exclaimed, "how'd she err he err umm it, get taken hostage?" Lady Bat was furious.

"Look punk," it shouted, "I didn't come all the way down to this dump just to keep you out of jail, so let me go!"

"Shut up," screamed the man.

"No!"

The creature desperately struggled to free itself. But the man kept his grip. The police wondered if they should try to shoot the man, but were too worried about hurting Lady Bat. In all the commotion, the man accidently fired his rifle. Blood gushed out of Lady Bat's head.

Lucia smirked.

"Perfect," she thought. It all went the way Lucia wrote it out. "Lady Bat goes into the city searching for the mermaid princess', gets taken hostage by a robber, then gets shot and killed trying to escape." Then Ryuk ducked down to Lucia's ear.

"ohhh, you're good," he said. The man dropped the body and ran away. By glancing at the body, the police knew that the hostage was dead. So they just ran after the man.

After all this chaos, Lucia had to think of something to avoid suspicion. Luckily she did.

"Ahhh," she screamed, "the spirit of death is still following us!"

"Ohh spiiiriit," Hanon chanted waving her hands in the air.

"Not that again," Lina protested while pulling Hanon's arms down.

"Fine," Hanon pouted.

"Hey, isn't that the karaoke place over there," Lucia pointed to the corner.

"Oh yeah," Hanon exclaimed, "come on guys let's go!"

So the three girls hurried over to the karaoke studio. The studio looked like an ancient Japanese temple. There was a sign near the top of the temple that read "Lang Fan." Lucia and the others stared at the temple in awe. They couldn't wait to get in.

Once inside, the girls went to the front desk to a room. The lady gave the girls a key to room 5A and a map to help them find their way.

"Hey Lucia, we're gonna get some snacks. Could you get our room ready," Hanon asked.

"Sure," answered Lucia. And with the key and an extra map Lucia got from the counter, the girls split up.

While Lucia followed the map down the hall, Ryuk looked around to make sure no one was nearby.

"Hey Lucia," he asked.

"What," Lucia replied.

"Was the person you killed just now a man or a woman? I couldn't tell."

"Heck if I know."

"Really? Oh well, it was still fun to watch it die."

"Lady Bat is dead, and that's all that matters."

"Whatever."

Lucia later found her room. She unlocked the door and entered. Everything was already plugged in where it needed to be. This was a relief for Lucia, for she was a bit technically challenged. So she just relaxed on a nearby sofa, and waited for her friends.

Moments later, Hanon and Lina came into the room. They brought some sodas and potato chips.

"About time you guys showed up," Lucia complained.

"Sorry," said Lina, "but the service here sucks."

"Well, now that we're all here let's start singing," Hanon declared. Hanon and Lina put the food on the coffee table in front of the couch. Then all three girls got up on the stage. Meanwhile Ryuk laid back on the couch to watch the show. On the stage, Hanon made a suggestion, "Hey, let's try sing in our idol forms."

"Yeah," agreed Lucia, "It'll be great practice for battle."

So the three girls transformed into their idol forms.

"Pink pearl voice," said Lucia.

"Aquamarine pearl voice," said Hanon.

"Green pearl voice," said Lina.

"Wow," Ryuk thought out loud, "mermaids can take on human form and instantly dress up like pop divas, how interesting." Then they sang Piece of Love:

"Itsuka, konn hi ga kur to yokan shita..? Koi ni tomadou kokoro yurete yurete itai hodo… Subete miseta nara kokoro ubawareru…? Keredo nugisutete yukeru sore wa… Unmei no piece of love meguriaeta piece of heart, love shower pitch."

Little did the young mermaids know that a security camera was watching them. Up in the maintenance, a woman was spying on them. The woman was dressed in formal Japanese clothing, and had purple hair. She also had butterfly wings sticking out of her back. Her name was Lanhua. And see saw the three girls on the monitor.

"Finally," Lanhua said, "I've got the mermaid princess' right where I want them. Now to capture them."

However, when Lanhua was about to do it, she noticed that the lights were flickering.

"Crap," she exclaimed, "their singing's making the controls malfunction!" But she couldn't give up. Not when she had her enemies right under her nose. So Lanhua pushed the big red button. Instead of capturing the mermaid princess' like it was supposed to, the button electrocuted Lanhua and then the controls exploded, causing the entire studio to catch on fire. With her last breath Lanhua muttered, "Mikeru, I have failed you." And then she died.

Alarms went off throughout the entire studio. Lucia practically jumped in shock.

"What's happening," cried Hanon.

"There's a fire. Lucia, Hanon let's get out of here quick," suggested Lina. Still in their idol forms, the girls rushed out of the building. Everyone else inside was in a massive panic. The fire was getting bigger and bigger by the second.

Luckily, everyone made it out okay. The fire department arrived moments later to get the situation under control. While outside, Lucia saw a studio brochure with Lanhua's picture on the front laying on the ground.

"Guys," she said revealing the brochure to the others, "I think the spirit's struck again."

"No way," shouted Lina, "twice in one day, there's just no way!"

"Way," replied Lucia. In the back of Lucia's mind, she remembered what she wrote last night. "Lanhua gets electrocuted and dies."

"How amusing," Ryuk said, "Light didn't kill too many people through these methods."

"Maybe we should go home," suggested Lina.

"Yeah," replied both Lucia and Hanon. So the girls headed back to the Pearl Piari, maintaining their idol forms.

Meanwhile, down at a department store, a strange girl walked out with her hands full of bags filled with clothes. The girl wore a tinker bell like dress, had short green hair, light pink eyes, and fairy wings. She was known by the mermaid princess' as Alala.

"Ooo," Alala shrieked, "I can't wait to try these on!" Inside the store, people were lying on the ground groaning in pain from Alala's song. Leaving everything inside up for grabs.

Just then, Alala saw the three mermaids right across the street.

"Ah ha," she exclaimed, "I've got you now mermaid princess'!" Then the crazed fairy ran into the road.

"Oh no," cried Hanon.

"Get ready," said Lina. The singers were ready to battle, when suddenly a loud horn went off. It came from a large semi-truck, beeping Alala to get out of the way. Alala screamed, frozen in shock. The driver tried to stop, but it was too late. Alala was hit, and blood splattered all over the road. It was safe to assume that the crazed fairy was dead. All but Lucia were in total shock.

"What do want from us you damn spirit," screamed Hanon to the heavens.

"Let's get out of here," suggested Lucia in a pretend panic. So the girls ran off after quickly changing back into their human forms. The driver leaped out of his truck, saw the blood, looked around for witness', and then drove off in panic. As the girls ran, Lucia had an evil smirk on her face.

"Too easy," she thought. For Alala was hit by a speeding truck just as Lucia wrote in her death note.

The girls kept running. They could see their beloved home in the horizon. All except Lucia hoped to just wait out the rest of the day at the Pearl Piari. While Lucia awaited the deaths of her last remaining enemies. These enemies were known to the mermaids as the Black Beauty Sisters.

The eldest sister was named Sheshe, and the youngest was Mimi. Sheshe had red hair and blue eyes, while Mimi had blue hair and red eyes. Little did the mermaids know that the sisters were tailing them with the device Lady Bat used before. However, it was also unknown to the sisters that a shinigami was flying above the mermaids. And out of feeling followed, Ryuk glanced behind him to see Sheshe and Mimi stalking him and the girls.

Thinking it would add to his amusement, Ryuk decided to warn Lucia.

"Hey Lucia," he asked, "aren't those some more of your enemies behind us?" Lucia, still running, looked back to see that the shinigami was right.

"Hanon, Lina," Lucia said gasping for breath, "I think someone's following us!" The mermaids stopped to catch their breath, and looked down the road to see the Black Beauty Sisters in human-like forms.

"It's them," exclaimed Lucia, "we have to fight back!"

"But what about the spirit," Hanon asked still a little out of breath.

"Then there'll be two less demons to worry about," Lina replied.

"Sister Sheshe," Mimi cried, "they're on to us!"

"Then we'd better catch 'em fast," Sheshe replied. So the sisters pulled out metal nets from their back pockets, and pushed a button to extend them out. Meanwhile, Lucia, Hanon, and Lina transformed into their idol forms.

"Pink pearl voice," said Lucia.

"Aquamarine pearl voice," said Hanon.

"Green pearl voice," said Lina. Before the Black Beauty Sisters could catch them, the mermaid princess' began to sing Mother's Symphony:

"Ryuusei ga ima kagayaki o masu subete no inochi yo kokoro no RUUTSU o mezase! Arasoi no wa o tachikiru tame ni kizutsuki yabureta negai o hikitsuide Midori no kaze to aoi mizu no oto itsumademo mamoritai kara! Love shower pitch! How about an encore?" Throughout the song, the sisters were covering their ears while screaming in pain. After the finale, Sheshe and Mimi fell to the ground and didn't move. The girls then ran to their enemies and felt their necks.

"No pulse," exclaimed Lina.

"Oh my God they're dead," cried Hanon.

"Hanon, Lina, let's go home and ask Taki how to get rid of the spirit," suggested Lucia.

"Good idea," agreed Lina.

So the girls turned back and scurried home.

"Sheshe and Mimi died from strokes after losing to us," Lucia thought, "just as I wrote."

"You're getting pretty good at this," Ryuk said, "and the best part is that these idiots don't even have a clue that you did it, ha ha!" Lucia couldn't help but smile on the way inside the Pearl Piari. For Ryuk was right, she ingeniously killed all of her enemies in one day, and everyone was too paranoid to even suspect her. By the time the girls settled in, Lucia realized that she had grown into a magnificent kira.

Wammyman: If thought reading this tediously long chapter was a pain, imagine it was like writing it. I thank all of my loyal readers for staying with my story thus far. MMPPP song lyrics were provided by: .