Summary: So this is just part 2, the final part, of the previous thing.

So the summary goes; Evie and her dad take in a girl from the states intending to just foster her for a few months after the death of her mother. The girl who has never met her father, quickly connects with Evie over their similar pasts with the loss of their mothers.

Takes place around the start of the school year following season 2 (3 on netflix), meaning that Evie and the gang are about 17ish.

Continued request from Twilightroxas7

Word Count: 3055

Over the next few weeks, Pearl fell into her new rhythm. She'd get up, eat breakfast with Evie, get ready– sometimes those were reversed if they'd get breakfast from the cafe– then they'd head to school.

At lunch, Pearl would either sit with Evie and the rest of the gang, or the few friends she'd made in her classes. She was getting used to this new life and she was enjoying it a lot more than she'd expected she would. The first full weekend she was there, David and Sirena had performed at the cafe so she had been able to meet Sirena, Ondina, and Mimmi. She'd liked them all but still felt that they were keeping something from her. She put it to the back of her mind and decided to just enjoy the time she had with them instead.

Pearl had become a lot more comfortable in her new environment than she ever expected she would, due in part mostly to Evie and how she had included Pearl in her group of friends. Having Evie as a temporary older sister had been extremely helpful in the transition.

"I don't think dad's going to be back home until late tonight," Evie informed Pearl one Friday night as they got home from school. "You want to have a girls night in with Carly?"

"Sure, sounds good."

"Cool, I'll call Carly and let her know," Evie said. They still had to take care of their backpacks and each went to their own room. While Evie was in her's, she called Carly who would be over soon since she had the day off work.

That night, they ended up painting their nails, ordering pizza, watching a movie, and eating popcorn while watching it. "I'm going to go get glass of water, can you pause the movie?" Pearl asked.

"Sure thing," Evie replied, grabbing the remote and hitting the pause button.

Pearl headed over to the kitchen and turned the tap on so the water could get cold while she grabbed a glass. When she got back to the sink and was about to fill her glass, the water in the sink suddenly spurted all over the place, dousing her in water. Pearl gasped and turned the water off while simultaneously setting the glass down.

"Are you okay?" Evie asked from the other room.

"Yeah, fine," Pearl replied, grabbing a towel to try and dry herself off before she ran out of time. It was futile.

There was a loud thud that echoed through the house from the kitchen. "What was that?" Evie asked.

"Uh, nothing," Pearl called, trying to reach the towel again. "Don't come in here, I'll be okay." Pearl looked back and saw both Carly and Evie standing in the doorway; she hadn't told them not to come in soon enough.

"You're a mermaid?" Carly spoke as a question in her shock.

"You can't tell anyone. I didn't want anyone to know."

"Pearl, it's okay."

"No, it's not," she cried in distress. "Nobody was ever supposed to know about this," Pearl continued in an exasperated tone.

"You don't understand," Carly started. "Evie's a–"

"Please don't tell anyone," Pearl cut Carly off.

"Pearl, calm down and take a deep breath," Evie spoke, her voice cool and calm.

Pearl heeded Evie's request and took a slow breath in.

"You don't have anything to worry about," Evie said. "Now this might sting a little." Evie held her hand out over Pearl's tail and steam began to roll off it.

"How are you doing that?" Pearl asked.

"I'm a mermaid too. I changed about a year ago now. I know a lot of other mermaids and a merman."

"Wow," Pearl said as her legs reappeared.

"I think we should take her to meet some of the others tomorrow," Carly suggested. "Maybe in the grotto?"

"Good idea. I'll go call them. Be back in a minute."

Carly and Pearl went back to sit on the couch while Evie called the people she needed to. After they finished the movie, there was a knock on the door. "Who's that?" Pearl asked.

"You'll see," Evie replied, going to answer the door

"Zac," Pearl said in surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"Evie called me and told me how you're a mermaid like her and asked me to come over."

"You told him?"

"Only because I'm a merman and I've known about Evie being a mermaid as long as she's known about herself," Zac explained.

"Yo– you," Pearl stuttered. "You're the merman Evie said she knew?"

"Yeah," Zac replied, he smiled as he watched her amazement.

"Wow," she breathed. "This whole time I felt like you were keeping something from me and I knew I was keeping something from you; who would have thought it was the same thing we were keeping from each other," Pearl laughed.

Zac laughed again. "We'll introduce you to some others tomorrow. You want me to meet you here before heading over there?" Zac asked, turning towards Carly and Evie.

"No, just meet us there," Evie said. "About nine over there?"

"Sounds good. I might end up being there before that but I'll see you there." Zac went over to kiss Evie's cheek before heading out.

"Why are you being so discreet about it all?" Pearl asked after Zac had gone.

"We'll let you find everything out in the morning," Evie gave a small smile.

Pearl couldn't help but be slightly suspicious about what Evie, Zac, and Carly had up their sleeves, but she trusted them. The girls ended up watching another movie and ultimately fell asleep on the couch. When Mr. McLaren got home late that night, he let the girls be after making sure they were all covered by the blankets surrounding them.

CHCHCH

The following morning, Pearl woke drowsily at eight. "Evie," she said, nudging the sleeping girl's shoulder. "It's eight, aren't we supposed to be wherever at nine?"

Evie stirred slowly. "Yeah," she replied when Pearl's question registered in her mind. She turned to Carly and got her awake so the girls could get ready and have breakfast. They were heading out the door a few minutes before nine. "I'll text Zac and let him know we'll be a few minutes late," Evie said as they began to walk down the road.

The trio soon came to a large staircase, the began their ascent up the stairs and then up a hill, eventually arriving at a gate leading to a large house with several towering stories. Neither Evie nor Carly hesitated to go right in when they got to the gate. "Are you sure we can just go in?" Pearl asked.

"Yeah," Evie replied. She knocked on the door before they entered. Zac was the one who answered it, something that threw Pearl off a bit.

"Everyone but Rita's down in the grotto," Zac said.

'Rita' where had Pearl heard that name before, she wondered to herself as they entered the house.

"Ah, there you are," a voice came from the top of the stairs. The person appeared.

"Principal Santos!" Pearl exclaimed.

"You may call me Rita outside of school," Rita said, laughing lightly as the group came to join her at the top of the stairs.

"Evie, why are we here? Did you tell our principal?"

"Rita's known about Zac and I for a while," Evie explained.

"Why'd you tell Princ– Rita?"

"Rita actually knew about me before I knew about her, long before actually. And we had to tell her when Evie got a tail. I think the others did actually before we ever got the chance to."

"Wait," Pearl spoke when Zac was done. She replayed what he had said in her mind. "Are you one of us too?" she asked Rita.

"Yes," Rita answered. "But we should head down to the grotto, everyone else is waiting down there for us." Rita lead the way down a hallway to a couple bookcases, she reached out to a book Pearl noticed had a little mermaid figure on it, and pulled it out. The bookcase to the left of them opened to reveal a set of stone steps. Zac and Evie went first, followed by Pearl and Carly, with Rita at the end.

As they went down, Pearl saw a light coming from somewhere off to the left while more stairs continued in front of them. Zac and Evie went to the left. What Pearl saw made her gasp in amazement. She didn't even notice the five other people in the lower section, her eyes were instead drawn to the treasures that filled the room.

"Wow," she spoke under her breath. The room was amazing and she was lost in it until Carly gave her a slight nudge to continue on behind Zac and Evie. It was then that Pearl noticed the others. "Cam, David, Sirena, Ondina, Mimmi? What are you all doing here?"

"They all know," Carly quickly explained.

"All of you know about Zac, Evie, Principal Santos, and I?"

"Yeah," Ondina answered in a straightforward manner.

"And the three of us are also mermaids," Mimmi added on when her best friend didn't explain.

Pearl's eyes widened in amazement. "There's so many of you. How did you become mermaids?" Pearl paused. "And mermen," she added, looking over to Zac as they found seats on the ledge.

"Ondina, Mimmi, Rita, and I, and Zac technically too, were born with tails," Sirena explained.

"I thought you had said that Zac was transformed into a merman," Pearl said, furrowing her brow as she turned to Evie.

"It's a long story."

"We've got time," Pearl insisted.

Evie laughed. "Mimmi, you want to take this one?" Mimmi smiled and nodded.

"Why–" Pearl was cut off as Evie motioned for her to be quiet.

After everyone was quiet, Mimmi went on to tell her story and consequently Zac's, even though Pearl was unaware of this. She described how when she was little, she had lived with her mother, Nerissa, with the Canada pod and how her mother had eventually left her with the Mako pod before disappearing. She talked about what it was like for her growing up with the Mako pod with Ondina as her best friend.

"When Zac became a merman, the pod had to flee because we fear mermen. Sirena and two other mermaids, Lyla and Nixie, stayed behind to try and take his tail away. We didn't know how literally impossible that would be then."

"Nerissa had used a powerful spell to keep him from getting his tail," Ondina explained. "We'd need her to take it away again."

"And even then it might not be possible anymore," Mimmi continued.

"Isn't Nerissa your mother, Mimmi?" Pearl asked.

"Yes."

"So why would she have anything to do with Zac?" Nobody explained anything, leaving Pearl in the dark to see if she could figure it out herself. She looked back and forth between Zac and Mimmi for a minute and it became clear. "Nerissa's Zac's mother too. You're brother and sister."

"We are," Zac spoke.

"How–" Pearl didn't even know what she wanted to ask. This was a lot to take in in just one day.

Zac continued with the story from there. How Nerissa had left him on land without his tail on the beach where his parents had found him and taken him in as their own. How he grew up on land knowing nothing of his past and thinking his parents were his birth parents and then how he eventually fell into the moon pool to regain his tail on a camping trip at Mako. "When Mimmi came on land, the two of us started sharing these visions, when either of us has really strong negative emotions, the other can see what we're seeing. It's how we found out we're siblings."

"How'd you change then, Evie?"

Evie gave a laugh before recalling the night they had met Mimmi and Ondina and how the two of them had tried to take Zac's powers away at the moon pool during the full moon. How she'd gone there to try and stop them and ended up getting her own tail instead when the moon passed over. "So what about you, how'd you get your tail?" Evie asked.

"Well," Pearl started. "So," she tried again. "I haven't told anyone before so I'm not sure how to go about telling it. This whole thing with people knowing about me and understanding it is new to me and kinda weird," she paused, trying to compose her thoughts. "When things with my mom were going downhill, I'd go and explore to try and get my mind off her. I ended up going to this offshore island where nobody goes or is supposed to want to go in the first place. I got lost inland on it and ended up in this pool where I got my tail. I was in there as the full moon passed over and the next day I found that I had a tail when I touched water."

"That's kind of like what happened to Evie," Mimmi said. "Other than the part about getting lost. You were both in moon pools as the full moon passed over."

The group continued talking for a few minutes after that. Pearl just listened and eventually her eyes found the ring Evie's wore. She hadn't paid much attention to it before, but it was exactly like one she had. For the heck of it, she looked to see what rings the others wore. Mimmi, Ondina, and Sirena all wore the same ring as Evie did.

"Pearl. Pearl, are you okay?" Evie asked.

Pearl shook her head as she came out of her thoughts. "What?" she asked.

"You zoned out there."

"Sorry, I was just thinking."

"About what?" Evie inquired.

At first, Pearl wasn't going to say anything because she thought it sounded silly, but Evie encouraged her to share her thoughts, so she did. "It's just that your ring matches one that I have. It's the only thing I have from my dad. My mom had always said that he was only around until after I was born, then he had to leave."

"You have a ring like this from your father?" Mimmi asked, her voice slow.

"Yeah."

"Where is it?"

"Back at the house. Why?"

"Because it's a moon ring," Rita spoke before Mimmi got the chance to. "Did you wear it before you became a mermaid?"

"Yeah. I used to wear it all the time, but after I lost my mom, it was hard to."

Zac cleared his throat and spoke what was on everyone's mind. "Your dad, he was a merman."

"What?"

"Only merpeople would have a moon ring. I guess maybe you come from a line of merpeople," Zac spoke.

"Land-girls without mermaid powers wouldn't be able to wear a moon ring without there being negative side effects," Ondina said.

"So I should have been a mermaid my whole life. Why wasn't I?"

"I guess your dad was powerful enough to take it away from you like mine and Mimmi's mum did for me."

There were a few minutes of silence as Pearl tried to take everything in. She had just found out that she was a real mermaid, not just a normal girl with mermaid powers after being transformed. It was a lot to wrap her mind around.

"What powers do you have?" Sirena asked.

"Um, there's a few that I've found so far. I can control water, freeze it, or heat it up to the point where it boils. Those are the only ones I've found so far, but I think I have more that I just haven't been able to figure out."

"Try this." Zac stood up, put one hand close to his body then made it into a fist, taking it even closer to his chest. In a flash, he had become invisible.

"Wow!" Pearl exclaimed in surprise.

Zac smiled when he appeared. He instructed her on what to do and she was able to become invisible on her own. "You have the powers of a natural merperson," he spoke.

"It seems that you do come from a line of them," Rita spoke.

"I wish I'd known my dad to talk to him about it, but now that I have all of you, both mers and non-mers that I can trust with my secret, it'll be a lot easier to keep it a secret. Especially when my 'sister' knows and is a mermaid too." Pearl smiled over at Evie who couldn't help but smile back at her.

CHCHCH

When Evie and Pearl got home later, Pearl showed Evie her moon ring and she decided to begin wearing it all the time again. She wasn't over losing her mom, but she was getting to the point where the pain of the loss was manageable. Understanding what the ring was and why her dad had left it for her now gave her comfort instead of the pain it had before.

Later in the week, Zac and Evie went out with Pearl for her to meet the Mako pod she'd heard a little about since everyone found out about each other. She'd never even dreamed that there could be so many other mermaids.

Over the following months that Pearl was with Evie and her dad, the girls grew so close that Doug couldn't justify letting her be adopted into another family. Being sixteen, it was also getting to the point where it was less likely that she would be adopted by another family.

He decided to take on the responsibility himself; he and Evie were well off and could easily add Pearl into their family, besides, Evie wasn't the only one who was fond of Pearl.

The adoption was made official a few days before Evie graduated from high school so on that day, they took their first official family picture.

Pearl may not have ended up with her biological family anymore, but Evie and Mr. McLaren, dad she now called him, were the best new family she could have ever dreamed of. And that didn't even include her friends (those she and Evie shared) that were basically all her older siblings too.

It was better than any life she could have dreamed of for herself.

A/N: So maybe I made the ending a little cheesy, but I liked it. I would really like to know what you thought of it to so feel free to leave a review to let me know if you did, or why you didn't like it, if you feel inclined to do so. And I'm going to note quickly that Pearl's look was based off Dove Cameron aka Liv and Maddie on the show with that name and Mal in the movie Descendants.

I really had meant to get this done before but now that I'm on break, I've been spending more time with my family and stuff. I do have that proposal thing that I'll put up on Christmas because it's Christmas themes, it's just a short little thing.

Anyway, let me know what you thought of this little thing, what you liked about the whole of it or didn't like about it as a whole so I can get better. As always, I'm open to requests and will do what I can with it. Thanks for reading, reviewing, favoriting, and following. 'Til next time,

-CrazyHayniac