Summary: Mimmi is new to the Southern Mako pod. Many of the other young mermaids don't understand her or why her accent is different from theirs. Ondina is one of the ones who doesn't make fun of Mimmi.

Inspired by a request from PrincessxLulu. I hope you enjoy it.

Word Count: 460

"You talk funny. Why do you talk so funny?" a mermaid of about ten asked a young, shy, and self conscious Mimmi.

The five year old started back, too scared to even speak. She had been left with the older girls for just a few minutes and she already felt even more uncomfortable and unsure of herself than she normally did. "I'm- I'm- I'm a northern mermaid," she stuttered.

"What was that?" they teased her.

"I-" Mimmi started to try and speak again but was interrupted as another young mermaid about her age swam up and interrupted her.

"Leave her alone," the blond mermaid spoke.

"Why should we listen to you?" the older mermaid asked.

Though the other girls were five years older than her, the blond mermaid didn't back down. Her gaze continued to be threatening and eventually the girls backed down and left Mimmi alone.

"You must be Mimmi," the blond spoke, turning to face Mimmi.

"I am," Mimmi answered.

"I overheard Veridia talking about you joining our pod. I'm Ondina."

"You already know who I am," Mimmi spoke, unsure of what else to say.

"Yeah. So you want to go look at some of the coral right now. I don't have anything to do so we're free to do whatever as long as we don't stray too far from Mako or too close to land."

"Okay," Mimmi agreed, following Ondina. They dipped under the water and swam out to the deeper water where Ondina showed Mimmi all the beautiful coral the Gold Coast had to offer.

"It's so pretty," Mimmi remarked when they got back to Mako.

"Thanks."

"And the water's a lot warmer than it is over by Canada."

"Isn't is like always cold over there?"

"Yeah, I mean it's warm sometimes but we're a little more immune to the colder water."

Ondina nodded. For the rest of that day, the two girls spent time getting to know each other. They quickly became best friends. Wherever Mimmi went, Ondina was there beside her and wherever Ondina went, Mimmi was there with her. They two quickly became inseparable simply because Ondina hadn't been afraid to stand up for the new girl who had joined their pod.

When they went out together, Ondina was pretty good at getting them into trouble and whenever need be, Mimmi was good at getting them out of the trouble Ondina had caused them to get into.

Ondina was Mimmi's solid rock, something to lean on when she was abandoned by her mother, Nerissa. Ondina listened whenever Mimmi needed to talk and they both knew they could go to each other if they ever needed to talk about something. Sharing everything and anything made their initial connection much deeper and they were inseparable from then on.

A/N: So there's that. I hope it wasn't too short or anything. Again, I'm working through some other prompts that have been requested and going through a bunch of one-shots I already have written that I need to type up.

If you have an idea of something that you'd like to see happen, leave a review or PM me and I'll see what I can do with it. As always, let me know what you though, constructive criticism is always welcome. Thanks for reading,

-CrazyHayniac