Mermaids of Ying and Yang

Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch

Chapter 10 The Curse Of Healing

By: ArcticWhisper

"Izuna!" Aphrodisa screamed as her older sister tumbled into her shaking arms. She was cold… her face paler than it had ever been… and she was struggling to breath as she clenched her throbbing chest.

Aphrodisa's vision became blurry with her tears. She then forced her eyes shut and let the ice-cold liquid ooze down her burning cheeks.

The orb that had surrounded them slowly turned to water and caved in, slowly disappearing as some of its watery fragments decorated the two sister's skin and hair with small pearl-like droplets.

"Princess!" Saphiro wailed as he stumbled over towards them. He fell to his knees and placed a hand on Izuna's forehead, lifting her silver-violet bangs as he did. Suddenly, he gasped. Her head was burning… and yet the rest of her body was ice cold.

Aphrodisa looked at him with fearful eyes and struggled to voice her words,

"What's wrong with my sister?"

Her words were broken up—she willed to scream her depression. She did not understand what was going on… she did not know that her sister lay in the gateway between the living and the after life… that for a long time she had been sinking into death… but something was holding her back—making her endure the pain that she wished to cast aside and plunge into Darkness… death was not a threat to her… not to Izuna.

Saphiro shook his head and held his hand out before him, close to his chest. He hummed a few ancient words… and as he did, his pearl-locket opened and a silver rod formed above his hand. As it took shape in the sapphire aura that his pearl emitted, Saphiro grabbed hold of it, clutching it in his palm.

Then he opened his twilight-blue eyes, and the rod pulsed, the aura sprung from the rod and vanished… reviling its true form…

A silver flute.

"Do not be frightened, young princess. I am merely going to sooth your sister's mind…" he whispered.

He then lifted the flute to his lips and began fingering the holes and blowing through it.

It's sharp, yet soothing notes drifted throughout the room gently. As the short melody ended, Izuna's face relaxed and she began to sleep peacefully. She had taken a step back from the growing Darkness.

As Saphiro lifted the flute from his lips, it pulsed with a sapphire light and disengaged between his fingers. He sighed and whipped some sweat from his forehead.

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Izuna had been put back into bed, and now everyone is at a loss about what had happed.

"Saphiro… What is happening to my sister?" Aphrodisa asked, almost in tears again when she said 'sister'.

Saphiro sighed and looked around. He could tell that everyone else was going to ask the same question.

"Princess Izuna was born as the next Aqua Regina—her mother… but she was blessed with too much of that power way too soon… The Princess has always had a weak spirit because of how much of her energy is given to the seas… and when she sings or uses her abilities it takes time away from her life… if she keeps this up then she will die when she turns eighteen…" He sadly stated.

"Then why?! Why does she still sing, still use her powers!" Aphrodisa wailed. Saphiro tried to keep her voice down… so that she would not wake Izuna.

"Because the only way that Izuna can truly feel alive is when she uses her talents… even though that someday it will kill her…" he answered.

"So we loose both ways…" Luchia mumbled.

"Sadly..." Saphiro answered.

"Wait… Aqua Regina's dead… how could she have had a child?" Hanon asked, utterly confused.

"Well… After you all beat Mikeru several years ago… Aqua Regina was given the power to make a wish… and she chose to create more pearl voices… for she felt that more Dark forces would soon come one day." Saphiro answered.

"And of those new voices… you are one? So are you also Aqua-Regina's son?" Lina asked.

"Actually no… I was given my pearl several years after Izuna and Aphrodisa were… making me simply a pearl voice like you… I was just told all of this by the elders of the Kingdom." Saphiro answered once again, telling people this made his skin craw… for he had wished to forget all of it… many times.

Hanon leaned back in her chair and hung her arm on her face.

"I'm so confused…" she whined.

"I really don't know much more…" Saphiro added.

"This is too frustrating… Not only do we not know why you two have come here… but we don't even know exactly who we are fighting…" Luchia mumbled, joining Hanon in the mind-realm of puzzlement.

"Actually… there is more… in a dream that I had before we came here… When Aqua-Regina told us to find you… she also said to tell the three mermaids- Pink, Aqua-Marine and Green mermaid that these upcoming battles will be like nothing they have every experienced before… and that they will need new abilities… not just their voices. That's when she gave me this flute." Saphiro said as he held out his hand once more. The flute that he had summoned before emerged in his hand.

He held it out for the mermaids and Nicola to see.

It was pure silver and had sapphire shimmers lining it. Twirling around it were several silver wires that all held a pair of wings to the base, but the wings seemed to be frozen for only when he plays do they come to life and flutter.

"She also said that all of you would be given weapons when you hearts reach the level needed." He said. He then laughed, "It all sounded a little far-fetched… the way she said it."

"Were all gonna get weapons?" the three mermaids yelled in disbelief.

"Maybe I'll get a rifle!" Lina whispered. Hanon and Luchia looked over with blue faces.

"Uh…" they mumbled, almost on the verge of laughing.

"Awwww! I wonder what kinda weapon I'm going to get! I hope that it's pretty!" Hanon squealed with excitement.

"Wait…" Nicola muttered. Everyone shook themselves from their fantasies and turned their attention towards Nicola.

"Does that mean that you won't be singing?" she then asked.

Saphiro thought for a moment.

"Well, no… I didn't say that… I just think that we will be using not only our voices but our other abilities… To tell the truth, I have absolutely no idea what kind of battles we will be going through…" He answered honestly.

Suddenly, a loud knocking echoed through the café.

"Come on! This damn door better open!!" yelled a girl from the other side of the back door. A louder stomping followed her yells—she was kicking the door with all of her might and yet she still could not make it budge… she was becoming frustrated.

Saphiro in the others looked over towards the door in bewilderment.

"Now, now… let's not be rude…" whispered a kinder voice. Her voice had the tender concern of a healthy person speaking to a sick.

"Move aside! Let me have a go!" yelled a more confident girl. Then, with one loud bang, the door swung open with the girl's leg.

"I knew that martial arts training would pay off!" the girl announced happily, flicking a thick lock of short blonde hair from her shoulder. She brought her leg back down and folded her arms beneath her breast. The morning sun hallowed her slim, fit silhouette.

The two girls standing behind her gazed inside. Once wore her purple hair in pigtails and the other had long, dark blue hair. This one smiled gently as the other pouted from not being able to open the door.

"Long time no see!" the blonde one yelled. The three original mermaids looked almost out of breath to see them standing at the door.

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ArcticWhisper—ouuuuhhh!! I wasn't going to have these three come in until later, but this story is going by really slowly so I have to speed it up a tad! Well, can you guess who these three ladies are? I'll give you a hint—their not my own characters!! . . Well, check out the next chapter when it comes!!! I'm really starting to like this story!!