A/N: Here are the answers to your random questions...

AlyssaHolloway: I'm actually glad you brought that up. I was thinking of creating another chapter after this one of when she is twenty, and becoming queen. Probably not a sequel, but if you guys want, another chapter like that. I actually want to write another H2O fanfic that will have a sequel, maybe another after that...? (If it gets popular, of course.) But for this, only one if you guys want a chapter after this.

Marril96: Another good question I'm happy someone brought up. That will be revealed in this chapter (she asked who shot Aysel's mom.)

Sorry this chapter may be a bit short, it's because it is the end, and it's tying up loose strings.

Leaving Again

Stuffing things in your pockets was hard.

I was filling my pockets with all the belongings I had took to the island, plus some other things from here, like money (I was running out of that!) and things that would remind me of home.

"Hey," I heard a soft voice from behind me. I spun around to see Dafina standing casually in the doorframe. "You forgot something."

I wore an expression of confusion when Dafina walked up to me. That cleared as she handed me a picture of us as little kids.

"What's this?" I asked with a smile.

"Something to remember me by."

I rolled my eyes. "I'll only be gone for, what, three years?"

"Three years too many," she said softly.

I sighed. "Dafina, are you sure you're okay with me leaving for a few years?"

"Yeah," she said with a smile. Then it disappeared slowly. "No. I mean, what am I supposed to do? Tell you to stay? If this is what you want, then I am not going to stand in your way."

"Oh, Daf," I said. I hugged her, and then pulled back. "If you ever need to tell me anything, ever, then you just tell me, okay?"

"Okay," she said, and hugged me again.

OoOoO"Ready?" asked Cleo. We were all standing on the sandy beach, ready to swim a long way home. A small crowd of people who lived on the island had gathered on the beach to watch us go. It felt pretty good not having to hide our tails.

Mom was sitting in a wheelchair, waiting, and watching. We already said our teary good-byes in private, and now I was pretty sure I was ready.

"Yeah, but first—" I started to say, but was cut off by a cry in the distance.

"Oh My God!" was a cry from the crowd, and I spun around quickly. Everything seemed pretty normal, until I spotted someone at the edge of the crowd. He was wearing all black, as if trying to shield himself from whatever would see him. I saw in his hand was a gun, and it was pointed directly at me!

The person who had shouted was a person from the crowd. That cry alerted everyone else in the crowd's heads to snap up (including mine.) The crowd shouted at him to stop, but he only did when Feglio tackled him to the ground. I momentarily forgot that this man was practically threatening me with a gun as I muffled my laughs against my sleeve.

Just as Feglio was about to take the man away, I stepped forward and said that I wanted to say something to the man. I tried to block out the crowd's eyes burning a hole on the back of my head as I calmly stepped forward to the man.

"Were you the one who shot my mother? And almost killed her?" I said firmly, not letting the man scare me in any way; besides, Feglio was holding his arms back, and he seemed more scared of me than vice versa.

The man smiled and said in a thick Spanish accent, "Ah, the princess gets smart! Allow me to introduce myself, I am Hernán Rovers."

I narrowed my eyes at his full-of-himself attitude. "And what's your story?" I said, meaning why on earth she'd shot my mother.

"It was pretty easy, señorita," he said. "I felt that I would be a better ruler that your Madre over there, so I did what I had to do. What I didn't expect was you to come running all the way home. So I figured this was the perfect time to knock you down off the line too."

I gritted my teeth and clenched my hands. "Because of you, my mother is going to be in a wheelchair, and she was risking death. Because of you."

"If you want, I can boil him to death," a whispered voice came from behind me. I spun around quickly to see Rikki standing by me.

I smiled slowly. "No, Rikki." I turned back to Feglio and Hernán. "As for you, Hernán, I think you would be better suited in jail, off the island. And while you're there, you might as well stay there, considering you are banned from the island."

I watched as some new muscled men took away Hernán. When he looked at me, I smiled and waved at him sweetly. In my mind, I was laughing.

"Wow," Cleo said, walking up to me. "You handled that well."

I smiled. I knew I had some queen in me; I just had to dig it up. "Well, yeah." I blushed.

"Ready to go now?" asked Emma, obviously impatient to return to Australia and see Ash.

"One more second," I said. I walked up to Dafina, and told her, "So you remember everything?"

"Yeah," she said, smiling.

"What do you do on full moons?"

"Duct tape the windows and hide."

"What do you do if you get water on yourself, say, in a public place besides here that everyone actually doesn't know that you're a mermaid."

"Run to a bathroom, or if the ocean is close, into that."

"Okay. And there is one more thing," I said lastly.

"What? What is it?" It was fun seeing Dafina panic a bit.

"Remember that I love you," I said, and pulled her into a hug. The crowd let out a, "Aw!"

I slowly pulled away from Dafina and went over to Feglio and my mom. Feglio had his hand rested on the back of her wheelchair.

"Mom?" I said.

She was crying a bit now, but I hoped she knew that I would come back no matter what. "Yes?"

"I'll be back in three years," I said, wetness starting to blur my vision a bit, but I could still see enough to pull her into a hug and whisper, "I love you."

Once I exchanged good-byes with Feglio, I started once more for the ocean. I saw Cleo, Emma and Rikki standing just by the shoreline, waiting anxiously for me. I stopped midway to the ocean, then turned back around and headed back for them.

"Guys," I said once I approached Feglio and my mom again. "There is one more thing I need for you two to do."

"Anything," Feglio said.

"Before I leave, I really need to see you guys kiss," I said, smiling.

My mom and Feglio (to my suspicion) were okay with it, and they kissed! The crowd erupted into applause, and I headed back down the sandy shore towards the ocean.

"All set?" Rikki said.

"I'm set." I smiled and looked at Emma, Cleo and Rikki. "Let's go home."

OoOoO

When we were finally back home, we all met up with our boyfriends at The JuiceNet Café, where we all celebrated with smoothies. Shane surprised me with a bracelet, which I put on and marveled at its beauty.

"Okay, so let me get this straight," Lewis said, leaning back against one of the JuiceNet tables. "You are a princess?"

"Soon to be a queen," I said smiling, sipping my mango juice happily.

"And so you are finishing high school here, and then going to take a about a year of college?" Zane asked.

"Yeah," I said, stirring my drink casually.

"Well, you know what? Over the course of a few weeks, so much has happened," Cleo said. "Ayse—I mean, Avery told us her secret, took us to the island, where Dafina turned into a mermaid."

"A lot has changed," I agreed. Then I groaned. "I am so sick of jumping back and forth between the island and Australia."

Everyone laughed at my comment.

"But you know what?" I said. I sat down my juice, and hung an arm around everyone—Shane, Emma, Rikki, Cleo, Lewis, Zane and Ash.

"What?" asked Emma.

"I think I'm happy to be just right here for now," I said, and we all giggled.

At least what I had said was true. I was ready to stay here for a while, and then go back to the island. My island. Nothing would change that.

A/N: It felt so weird writing everyone back at the JuiceNet in Australia because I was just so used to writing them at Moonlight Island, you know? So, I hope you enjoyed my story, and I am hoping to start another one, maybe not real soon, but soon enough. So here is the major question: Do you want me to write another short chapter after this of her going back to the island, twenty years old and ready to become queen? It's up to you guys. Just in case you don't want another chapter, I want to HUGELY THANK THESE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE WHO REVIEWED:

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