"What are you thinking about, Ruri?" I asked. Ruri had her chin in her hand and her head bowed.
"Two things," she said. "One, how we were able to sing Umi no Umnmei at the dance, and two, that new girl at school."
"You mean Rai Kairumi?" Lanai asked.
Start flashback
"Class, we have a new student!" the teacher said as she walked into the room. "Let me introduce you to Rai Kairumi." Rai had mid-back-leangth brown hair and brown eyes. She looked almost exactly like Rai Taidu
End flashback
"She did seem kind of strange, didn't she?" Kaede asked.
"It's not just that. She looks exactly like Rai Taidu, only with shorter hair." Ruri said.
"Maybe they're the same person." Lanai said.
"That's probably it." I said.
"We need to confront her at school. Kaede said forcefully.
"But what if they're not the same person? We could end up giving away our selves." I said.
"Fine." Ruri said. "We'll ask Rai Taidu as soon as we can." All of a sudden, Lanai tripped and fell on someone.
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Lanai said.
"It's okay." the girl said. She was about 16 and had short brown hair in pigtails, bangs, and brown eyes. "I'm Kohana Pachiiki. I'm throwing a big party on my family's boat tonight. Do you guys want to come?"
"Sure! We'd love to!" Lanai said.
"Okay, it starts at 5 tonight, so don't be late." Kohana said.
"Okay, bye!" Lanai said. Kohana turned around and ran for the boat docks. As soon as she was out of hearing range, Kaede erupted.
"Are you CRAZY? A party on a boat? What if we get wet?"
"We'll be fine." Lanai said. "It's not like it's a raft names the 'S.S. Gentlemanly Box Hobo With four women'."
"But what about work?" Ruri asked. All of a sudden, Miku Hatsune's "Melt" started playing. Lanai, Ruri and I jumped about three feet in the air from fright, and Kaede pulled something out of her pocket.
"Kaede, since when did you have a cell phone?" I asked.
"Kaira bought four for the four of us. She just gave me mine first because I'm th most responsible of the four of us." Kaede said calmly, bringing the phone up to her ear.
"Hey, I'm responsible!" Lanai said. Ruri and I started to laugh, but Kaede shushed us. She talked on the phone for a while, and then hung up.
"Kaira said that we have the night off to celebrate Lanai's birthday." She said. (A/N: Lanai's birthday is September 9).
"So I guess we're going to a party on a boat. Great just great." Ruri said. I laughed.
At the party
"Wow." I said. "This is different than I expected." Instead of the fast-paced, upbeat music that they had at the school dance, this music was slower, with a sound I had only heard once.
"This music sounds like some of the stuff that the Orchestra of the South Pacific would play. Lanai said.
"That's exactly what I was thinking." I said. Kaede and Ruri nodded.
"Look, there's Kohana." Kaede said. "Let's ask her about this music." We walked up to Kohana.
"Hey, Kohana. Nice party!" Ruri said.
"Thanks." Kohana said."I'm glad that you guys could make it. I know that we just met, but..."
"We understand. " I said. "I like this music. Where did you find it?"
"To be honest, I came up with it myself. I can't play an instrument, but I wrote down the melody and had my dad, who's amazing at playing the piano, arrange it and play it." Kohana said.
"Your dad?" Kaede asked, giving me and Ruri strange looks. Lanai was too lost in the music to notice.
"Yah. You might have heard of him. Daichi Pachiiki?"
"I've heard of him." Ruri said. Kohana smiled. All of a sudden, the boat started to rock.
"Whoa," Kohana said. She started falling towards the side of the boat, and as she fell in, I could catch a glimpse of black.
" Kion." I said under my breath. "Everyone, we need to transform." We all ran behind the side of the boat.
"Indigo Pearl Voice!"
"Pink Pearl Voice!"
"Purple Pearl Voice!"
"Green Pearl Voice!"
"Diamond Moon Voice!" We all spun around. "Rai?" we all asked at the same time.
"Yeah, but there's no time for that. If we don't defeat Kion soon, Kohana's gonna be in big trouble" Rai said.
"She's right." Kaede said.
"Pichi Pichi Voice, Live Start!"
I am on my way
To the sea of destiny
I know I don't need a map
Will You Come With Me?
Before that moment,
I was all alone
I thought the storm would never end
But then when I met you,
The bells of hope started to ring
And now I won't be lonely anymore
We were made for each other,
Two parts of a whole
Now we can let the whole world know!
Come With Me!
I am on my way
To the sea of destiny
I believe that our love
Can lead the way
Together we can get through all of life's challenges
As long as you stay by my side
I know we don't need a map
Will You Come With Me?
"Love Shower Pitch, How 'bout an encore?"
"She didn't put up much of a fight, did she?" Kaede asked.
"Whatever." Ruri said. "Let's just go back and de-transform so we can help Kohana." We ran behind a table and de-transformed. At some point between defeating Kion and de-transforming, Rai had vanished.
"Where'd she go?" I asked.
"Right now, Kohana's more important." Ruri said. I nodded.
"This is the moment of truth." Kaede said. Although we hadn't said anything out loud, we all suspected Kohana of being the Princess of the South Pacific. But as we pulled Kohana out of the water, she still had brown hair and eyes, and legs.
"Guess it's not her." Ruri said. Lanai looked down, looking disappointed. I knew that she had hoped from the bottom of her heart that Kohana was a mermaid princess. I put my hand on her shoulder.
At School
"Uh, that math test was so hard." I said as we took out our lunch boxes. As Lanai nodded, I saw something under her lunch box.
"What's that, Kaede said, noticing the thing, too.
"Oh, these?" Lanai said, pulling out photographs of the ocean. "I bought a camera and took them."
"So that's why you were working extra hours at the Pearl Fin." Ruri said. "To buy that."
"Excuse me," Someone said. We turned around. Rai Kairumi was standing behind us." I need you help."
"With what?" I asked.
"Helping me get my sister to agree to something." Rai said.
"You have a sister?" Lanai asked. Rai nodded. "We're twins." She said.
"Agree to what?" Kaede asked.
"Agree to leaving Gracilicaud and join us." she said. We all looked at her with shock.
Okay, You probably weren't expecting that. Rai's twin, who's name is Jidu, by the way, was teamed up with Gracilicaud. You also probably thought Kohana was the yellow princess. I told you that I wasn't gonna add another princess for a while. But then again, Jidu is a princess, isn't she?
I have by now noticed that my "link" in my previous chapter for my passion site didn't work. I have now set it as my homepage, so go there to get to it, okay?
Disclaimer: I'll let you know how storming in to who ever owns pichi is and threatening them with my dad's hunting rifle goes... but for now, I don't own Mermaid Melody.
By the way, When I was at camp, I was in a track that had six people. Five girls and a boy. On one of the days, we had to build a rafy, and one of the girls and the bow quit right away, saying it was impossible with the supplies we had. The other four of us, me, another girl my age, and two girls a year older than me (coincidentally, we are all obsessed with anime and manga), all got to work. We started talking, and by the time we were done, our conversation had led to whether or not hobos in England are gentalmanly. We got on the raft and it worked. We named it the " S.S. Gentalmanly Box Hobo With Four Women" and sang random songs on it for the next 20 minutes. ;p