Nexus: Well, people prayed for the next chapter and said they wanted it updated soon so I made a promise I would update yesterday, and I FAILED! My lack of sleep (tiredness) and Laptop overheating twice let me down! Sorry... xxx

On another note, thank you to my 3 new reviewers JuAnimeZ, StarLilly Rose and guest KatieKitten. Thank you guys! And bigger thanks to JuAnimeZ for faving this story and StarLilly Rose for following it, thanks you two :3 xxx

And to answer your question KatieKitten, there will be 1 new character this chapter but it will be a little while before another new character gets introduced as there are quite a few of them so far.

Well now, chapter 14, the indication of a new set of Claimers and Disclaimers

*everyone gulps

Gaito: Maybe you could just do 1 set per chapter. I mean, there are quite a lot of us now...

Nexus: FINE! *spin spin spin spin spin* And the winners are, you and Kaito! Feel free to argue who does which

Kaito: Nexus doesn't own any characters from Mermaid Melody or the Franchise (but wishes she did!)

Gaito: But she does own this story and any OC character involved and lots of other things in the story

Nexus: So, without further ado, here is the anticipated chapter 14 loves

Chapter 14: Sashumaruu's Soul

- Last time -

Everyone gasped in awe at the statues that were before them. Luchia and co got a little bit too curious about the statues and went to touch them and give them a look over.

When they did though, the statues and themselves faded, leaving a small black floating orb in each place where a statue once was.

"I guess we wait then," Kaito said sounding bored and actually sat down on the floor, waiting once again for things to magically happen like they always do.

Inside those three black orbs, it lead to where Luchia, Hanon and Rina were currently situated, standing in a rainbow coloured world, transformed into their simple singing outfits, the first ones.

One by one their outfits lit up and changes were made to them.

With Luchia's outfit, metal spikes were added into her hair scrunchies and it also looked like her hair was thicker than before. The frills on the straps of her dress had a smaller layer of metal plating on them. The bodice of her dress had a metal lining on it with smaller spikes sticking upward. The rest of the upper half of her dress was the same via the buttons which were now a metallic pink shade. The frills before the skirt of her dress also gained metal plating and the skirt itself, the same, a layer of thicker metal plating on it. On her gloves, the band of pearls had been replaced with thicker metallic bands with a couple of spikes pointing off of them and the frills accenting them also gained metal plating as well. Down her legs, she'd acquired a pair of metallic silver stockings. And for her shoes, the linings had gained metallic linings and the frills on those, you guessed it, also gained metal plating. The soles of her shoes had also gained a metal lining. As for weapons, Luchia now had a sword sheath attached to the left side of her dress which contained a thick sword with a pink rose handle, her pearl laying in the centre of the rose, and had a vine like pattern going down it. Although it may have looked small, when it was held, it grew to it's full size, which was about over half as tall as she was herself. As for magic, Luchia had control over Fire. (If fire can be summoned in Kingdom Hearts underwater, then it can here too!)

With Hanon's outfit, the stars in her hair had gained a smaller metal star in the centre of them, the rest of her hair still the same as ever. The bodice of her dress also had a metal lining on it but also had a set of blue metallic balls lining the top of that. Down the centre of the upper half of her dress was a thin silver plate. The three sets of layers of the skirt of her dress had obtained metal platings as well that came to about halfway down each layer and each of them had a slight dark blue tint to them. As for her gloves, they'd gone. In their place was a mechanical round device with a silver base and a rainbow coloured orb, of which the one of the left had her pearl, and from the sides of them, 7 silver daggers, much like Kunai, floated around the sides. From the back of this device, a pair of silver plated armlets appeared. Down her legs were a pair of metallic silver stockings. Her shoes too had gained metallic lining and silver plating on the frills. The base of her shoes had a metal lining too but they also had a little bit of a heel on them as well. As for weapons, Hanon's weapons were the 7 silver daggers floating around the devices on her wrists. They could be fired at will towards the enemy, restocking themselves but if they were grabbed by hand, they grew slightly bigger and could be used in 1 on 1 combat. As for magic, that's what the magical device was for. If a shot from it was fired from an ally, it would create a temporary shield to defend them for a couple of hits but it took a little time to recharge.

As for Rina's outfit, the bodice of her dress had gained a thick metal plating and so had the neck of her dress. The lower half of her dress had been ripped in three places so all 4 strips of ripped material had also gained metal platings as well. As for her gloves, the band of pears had been replaced with thick metallic bands and the frills had gained sets of metal plating too. Down the sides of her gloves, long jutted metal platings had been added as well. As for her shoes, metal plating had been put on the straps and a much thicker metal lining for the soles were added as well. The heel had also grown by about 1 inch and had a metal plating all around it. For weaponry, Rina had 2 sword sheaths attacked to the sides of her dress that contained 2 Rapiers. The handles on them were shaped like atoms, just like the one on the Verenasus Clan's symbol. And although they may have looked small, when they were grabbed, they grew in size to full length which was just over half of Rina's height.

When all these changes had taken place, the world around them faded and they found themselves back in the room with everyone else, reverted back to mermaid form.

"So, what happened exactly?" Kaito asked standing up. Before any of the girls could answer, Shami spoke up.

"The fighting forms are accessed in the same way as the singing forms and that form is still accessible if they wish for it to be. So, they just have to transform like normal. Care to give it a try for us?"

"Sure," they all replied, transforming into their new forms.

Everyone was amazed at their new forms, even the girls were still excited.

"Woah, is that metal platings on them?" Yukairi asked, swimming over to touch some of them.

"I guess it's for protection," Rina added. "But what do we do now? What do these forms even do?"

"We can help there," Nagisa called. "Don't forget, we're our clan member's selves now, we have all their knowledge, and for that, there's a guy we can see."

"Who?" Luchia asked excited.

"A guy called Sashumaaru, he's from my Clan and he's a top trainer, you can use our clan's training grounds, might be funny going back to the Clan's house and seeing Nagura alive again," Nagisa explained.

"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Kaito asked, returning to normal at long last. "Let's go!"

And with that said, all three girls returned to normal as well, and all headed out for the Octavious Clan's home, following Nagisa and Masahiro since they knew where it was.

When they exited the room, the floor sealed over and the royal fountain slid back into place, like nothing had ever happened.

They also briefly stopped to explain to Nikora and Gaito where they were going. When Nikora wasn't looking though, Gaito snuck off and joined the gang. Seeing these girls fight is something he wanted to see.

- Back on the surface -

"Morning class," the teacher called entering the room.

"Morning Miss," everyone replied.

*Here we go again, just another boring day in school. I wonder how Luchia and Kaito are doing right now?* Shaga's mind wondered.

"Well, I'm off on a business meeting in half an hour so for today, you'll have a substitute teacher," she explained. "Please, come in," she motioned towards the door.

When the substitute walked in, all the blood from Shaga's face just disappeared. *What the hell is he doing here!?*

The man who walked in had long silver hair and was wearing rather nice clothes for a teacher. He had a brown jacket on with a purple tie and a grey buttoned top, brown trousers, dark shoes and also a pair of classes.

"Well, good morning class, my name is-" the teacher began to say.

"-Hayate," Shaga spoke up, finishing the sentence for him, gaining attention from all of the class.

"You know this guy Shaga?" One student asked.

Shaga blushed for a second, realising all eyes were on him before lying. "Not really, I've just heard of him is all."

"Well, I'm not considered famous, um," Hayate staggered, purposely forgetting Shaga's name before looking at the register, "Ameru Shaga?"

"Just Shaga sir," Shaga confirmed.

"Of course, Shaga. Now class, last names and calling people sir are a bit of a waste, so just feel free to call me Hayate and lets forget the formalities, shall we?"

Everyone seemed to agree with this and the day went by rather quickly for most people. For Shaga, it was hell! The man he'd only just gotten away from to return to a normal life had found him and was acting as his substitute for the day. For a man of the seas, he didn't make a half bad teacher, even Shaga had to admit it.

The end of the day came and Shaga and his friend were two of the last to pack away.

"Oh Shaga, I think you and me need to talk for a minute," Hayate asked.

"Sure," Shaga growled.

"Don't be too long alright?" His friend asked before leaving the room and heading outside to wait for him.

"So, what on earth brings you up here dad?" Shaga asked rather rudely.

"Hey, calm down kid, I only came here for a talk," Hayate said nicely walking over to him and putting a hand on his shoulder, "a nice father to son talk."

Before Shaga could respond though, Hayate gave him a quick blow to the stomach, knocking the wind right out of, him, causing him to pass out. "But, we'll continue our talk back home." He picked Shaga up and snuck out of the building, using another exit so that his friend wouldn't realise he was even gone.

Walking to the Ocean though, Hayate didn't realise he'd got a follower. Daisuke had saw him and was rather worried about seeing his substitute teacher carrying Shaga who looked unconscious towards the Ocean.

*Just how many more weird things are going to happen!?* Daisuke thought whilst silently following them.

When they reached the Ocean and he saw Hayate just walked under, Daisuke had had it! He knew he should had just dived off the cliff last night and try to follow Nagisa and Masahiro. So he took the moment, and took a deep breath and went under. He was quite a good breath holder, it would be 3 minutes before he would have to surface.

He managed to follow Hayate for a good minute before Hayate noticed something wasn't right.

"What's this? A follower?" Hayate asked turning around, shocking Daisuke to high heavens, who lost some of his air. "Right, a human no less. Can't just have you go back safely now you've seen this."

*I don't know what's going on but this seems really bad!* Daisuke thought as he clung on for air.

Hayate too a lung at Daisuke and managed to punch him in the stomach, like he did to Shaga. Naturally, Daisuke lost all his air and sunk down to the deep sea bed.

"Now that that's taken care of, time to get you back home again," Hayate said to himself, carrying on his swim back to his home.

- Now at the entrance to the Octavious Clan's home -

"I forgot how impressive this place was," Masahiro remarked.

The Octavious Clan's home was nothing shy of the size of a mansion, the walls of it covered with precious metals and ores, glinting brightly even this far down in the Ocean.

Nagisa knocked on the door, a scanner appearing since this was always the case with their Clan's entrance. Though, this one was a little different, it just required the scanning of the Clan's necklace, followed by an password screen.

He scanned his necklace, the password screen appearing. He entered it and the wide double doors slowly opened themselves, gaining an audience from everyone inside.

"Hey guys, guess who's back?" Nagisa called out, as Nagura had taken control briefly.

Everyone in the room whipped their heads straight to the man they thought was dead. "No way, is that, Nagura?" A woman asked.

"By Aqua Regina herself, he's alive! A man shouted with joy, the word spreading through the rest of the Clan house pretty quickly. In a mere matter of minutes, everyone had gathered in the foyer with Nagisa, Masahiro, Kaito, Luchia, Hanon and Rina in the middle, explaining their long story to everyone so they understood what was going on.

"There's just one last thing I need to clear up, where's Sashumaaru?" Nagisa asked.

"Since you've been gone for a while, you should know he was killed. But, he was like you two, being one of the nine, his soul was passed on to a human, who still most likely has the soul inside of him," a man spoke up.

"Right, now that's a big issue and a half," Kaito said, "we can't go ashore, we're confined to the seas for a year, we don't have the ability to just go out and search for something like this. It would take too long." He sighed. "Well, we just need to come up with a new plan of action then!"

"Yeah, we all need to go back to Luchia's and re-group again for ideas. We'd stay here but with a wedding being planned, we can't. Tamura, hold the fort strong as usual mate," Nagisa ordered.

"Of course sir," he replied. (AN: He'll be introduced properly later :P)

- Back on the way to Luchia's Palace -

"Typical, of course in the time I was gone Sashumaruu died!" Nagisa told himself in grief.

"It's not too big of a deal," Hanon said, trying to comfort him. "We can just learn for ourselves what these new forms do."

"She right," Rina added.

They were only about 30 minutes away from Luchia's Palace and something had caught Nagisa's eye.

"Hey guys," he called out, halting everyone. "Do you see that?" He pointed into the distance at some faint object. "What is that?"

"Go find out if you're so intrigued. We'll see you back at the Palace," Rina said tiredly. She'd had just about enough swimming around and new stuff for one day.

"I'll go with you," Hanon said, taking his hand.

The rest of the gang, went back to the Palace whilst Hanon and Nagisa went to investigate what they'd seen.

The closer they got, the more obvious it became what they'd seen was. It took on the form of what appeared to be a human. After speeding up, Hanon and Nagisa were both shocked to see what they saw.

"Daisuke!" They shouted in worry seeing him here.

"How on earth did he end up here!?" Nagisa shouted franticly.

"I don't know, but it looks like he's been down here a while," Hanon replied, checking his body.

In a quick twist of events, Daisuke's eyes shot open, shining with a white iris. He turned his head to Nagisa and spoke.

"Na-" His voice was rather broken and faded off at the end and the world felt like it was repeated twice.

"Na-Nagura, it's-me... Sa-Sashumaruu." Then his eyes closed and he went back to his fainted form.

Hanon's eyes shot wide open realising something. "I don't believe it! Out of all the possible people for Sashumaruu's soul to return to, it returned to Daisuke and we never knew."

"It obviously just took a little bit of time for the call of the Ocean to get to him and awaken the soul slightly. We ought to take him back to the Palace," Nagisa explained, scooping him up in his arms and went swimming at blinding speed back to the palace.

"Ugh! Just how many more people we know are going to end up being our allies or someone from this world," Hanon said tiredly.

After a long 40 minute swim back to the Palace, Nagisa burst open the doors and jumped into Clan Mode, just so he could run fast to Luchia's recovery room. There was always at least 1 room in the castle that was treated like a mini-hospital room.

"Nagisa?" Kaito called trying to get his attention. He noticed as he went by that Nagisa was carrying what appeared to be a human. But something was bothering him, he knew the pair of shoes on the human anywhere, they were Daisuke's as they had his name written on them in Gold in Japanese.

The recovery room was a little more special as well, it was a room without water, a magical barrier over the door made it so no water could get through. When Nagisa walked in, Daisuke became much more heavy and he returned to wearing his normal clothes consisting of a blue jacket, stripy blue and white top, dark grey shorts and a pair of trainers.

Kaito had followed them in, intrigued by the room when he saw Nagisa return to normal and Daisuke drop in his arms, he went through into the doorway as well and returned to human form as well, wearing a white top, a thin red jacket, black jeans and a pair of dark converse.

"So, it really is him huh?" Kaito asked in shock.

"Yeah, but something weird, when we found him, his eyes lit up, he turned to me and called me Nagura, said he was Sashumaruu," Nagisa explained.

"So all this time, Sashumaruu's Soul was inside Daisuke and we never noticed anything before we left!?" Kaito checked.

"Yeah, we have no idea how he ended up down here, but one things for sure, he didn't just jump, look," Nagisa pointed to a red mark on his chest, a fist shaped one.

"Someone knocked the wind out of him and he drowned, but who?" Kaito asked.

"Well, we'll probably never know. The only thing we can do is wait for him to wake up and to explain to him where the hell he is, and boy will he have a lot of questions," Nagisa replied worriedly.

"Why?"

"Well, you know last night, we went up on that cliff to get our souls back?"

"Yeah."

"We... we weren't alone. Daisuke was there and saw everything, including us diving into the water and never surfacing," Nagisa confessed.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THIS!?" Kaito shouted annoyed.

"Because! Because me and Masahiro were afraid to tell you," he admitted.

Kaito just signed and took a seat by the edge of the bed that Daisuke now lay upon. "It doesn't matter now, we just need to wait for him to wake up. You realise we're going to have to explain everything?"

"Yes," Nagisa said flatly. He really wished right now that he would have just, left him there, or, taken him to the shore, or something! But not this, this was the last thing he needed to deal with. But on the other hand, Sashumaruu's Soul was now within grasp, and if unlocked, training could begin and they wouldn't have to explain anything to Daisuke

- A few hours later -

Daisuke was slowly waking up.

"Hey man-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Daisuke shouted. "Wait, I'm alive!? The last thing I remember was- was..." he began to say until he realised who was in the room with him.

"Kaito? Nagisa?"

"Hey Daisuke, good to see you again," Nagisa replied trying not to sound worried.

"Where am I? I thought I was drowning, I was punched by our substitute teacher after I followed him taking Shaga into the Ocean and-"

"Serebu Hayate!?" Kaito and Nagisa said together. There was only one person who wanted Shaga back, his father, Serebu Hayate.

"Well, we weren't told his last name so- WAIT! You know him too? And for one where the hell am I?" Daisuke asked franticly.

"Um, you could call Hayate our enemy. He tried to take back Shaga again after loosing him and-" Nagisa began to say until Daisuke interrupted him.

"Want him back? Why would he do that? And you still haven't said where the hell I am," Daisuke countered.

Kaito sighed. "Okay, we're gonna tell you where you are, but you've got to not freak out okay?"

"Okay," Daisuke replied really unsure of the answer.

"You- you're underwater."

Nexus: And... chapter over! Sorry it took so long to get it out but there was a lot on my plate recently in something called the real world. Also, sorry for this chapter being short but it's building up suspense for the next chapter as a lot will happen so also bear with me as I write it over time.

Once again, thanks to the new follower and faver and the usual reviewers.

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