As soon as Melodious made it to the safety of his bedroom, he slammed the door closed, took off his formal clothes and sobbed on his bed. This was the worst day of his entire life! What was wrong with him? Why was he so different from everyone? Why was he so weird?

Something caught his eye and saw it was the necklace he found earlier. He reached over and held it in his hands to clean it off, but broke down into sobs again.

Someone knocked on his door a second later. He looked up to see his father come in.

"Melodious?"

He found his son in his dark room and sobbing on his bed. He couldn't blame him.

"Oh, son. I am so sorry," he apologized, giving him a hug.

"What's wrong with me?" Melodious asked.

"Oh no. Nothing's wrong with you," Aaron assured him.

"Dad! I'm the prince of disaster!" he cried.

Aaron wanted to hold him in his arms and tell him how he felt the exact same way at that age. He wanted to tell his son stories of his childhood as a young merman, but knew he couldn't. Instead, Aaron sighed and had "the talk".

"Being a teenager i-is hard. And uh...all kids your age feel...a-awkward and um..."

Aaron's words faded as Melodious sighed and rolled his eyes. Not this again. He's already had this talk. Melodious knew he wasn't weird or awkward because of him being a teenager because this has been happening to him his whole life. He knew it was something else. He just didn't know what.

While Aaron kept talking, Melodious began to wipe away some of the caked on sand off of the strange necklace when he saw something. It looked like something was written on it. He gasped when he wiped it clean and saw "Melodious" written in cursive.

"'Melodious'? What is this?" he asked out loud, "My name's on here."

Before Aaron knew what happened, Melodious opened the necklace and a magical bubble appeared of an undersea kingdom with merpeople swimming and music playing.

"That song! Where have I heard it?" Melodious gasped. Something about the music sounded familiar; as if from a long forgotten dream or memory. The thing that got him though was the undersea kingdom his father use to tell him stories about when he was little.

"It's Atlantica! With merpeople and everything!" Melodious marveled, but turned to Aaron in confusion, "But, Father, you said it was just an old fish tale."

When Melodious was little, Aaron use to tell him stories of a magical undersea kingdom filled with merpeople who loved to sing and have fun called Atlantica. He use to say he wanted to go there someday, but Aaron told him it was nothing but an old fish tale and didn't exist.

Aaron closed the locket and took it from his son. He hadn't seen this in 12 years ever since that awful day. He watched his mother drop it into the water. How did Melodious find it?

"Where did you get this?" Aaron gasped.

""I...I found it," Melodious said.

Aaron didn't believe him though. Why? Because that was the exact same thing Aaron use to say.

"You went over the wall, didn't you?" Aaron said.

"Actually I went under it," Melodious confessed, "I hate that stupid wall!"

"Melodious, you know you're not allowed into the sea!"

Melodious stood on his bed so he could be at eye level with his dad and asked "But why? And why does that necklace have my name on it?"

"Melodious, listen to me."

"You're hiding something from me."

Aaron was shocked for a moment. Melodious wasn't wrong. He was hiding something from him. And as much as he wanted to tell him the truth, Aaron avoided what was just said.

"Y-you deliberately disobeyed me! I never want you going out there again! Do you hear me! It's dangerous in the sea!"

"How would you know that?! You've never even been in it!"

What was the point? His father never listened to him about what he wanted!

Believing his father would never understand, Melodious swiped the locket from his hand and ran out of the room in tears just as his mother walked in. She heard almost the whole conversation and saw the locket in Melodious' hand.

"M-Melodious, I..." Aaron called and sat on his bed in defeat, "Oh no."

What did he just do?

"Aaron darling, we knew this day would come," Erica said as she sat down next to him.

"Oh Erica, you're right. It's time I trusted him with the truth," Aaron decided.

No more secrets. No more lies. Aaron was going to tell their son the truth of him being a merman. Whatever Melodious asked, whatever questions he had, Aaron would tell him everything. He wouldn't avoid them anymore.

Outside, Melodious made his way to the beach away from the castle and that dumb wall. He was so mad at his dad! Aaron was hiding something about the locket, but didn't want to tell his own son!

"Oh now, child, it's gonna be ok," Sabrina assured him when she saw him march on the beach, "You know, when I was a teenager, you couldn't get me out of my shell for nothin'. I had this high squeaky voice and these teeny little pinchers. And then one day, boom! I sound like a singer, and these whoppers pop out!"

Melodious wasn't listening. There was a small rowboat people from the village had used earlier still on the beach and began pushing it to the water.

"Young man, just where do you think you're going?" she asked.

"I've gotta figure this out," he said hopping into the boat, "I know this necklace means something. And if no one's gonna tell me, I'm gonna find out myself."

Sabrina tried to hop onto the boat to stop him or, at least, protect him, but slipped off.

"Melodious, please! You're making a mistake!" she begged.

Oh no! Aaron was going to kill her! If not him, then the sea queen! They'll offer her up to Louise to cook for dinner! What was she going to tell them?!

In the Artic, Morgan and his goons watched the whole thing unfold. This was delicious! Now was their moment to strike and get Melodious to help them.

Undertow and the two manta rays left to go get him while Morgan went to their air filled lair and get it all ready for their little human friend.