Summary: After a problem during a school trip, Amity is in trouble and Luz is the only one that can help, but it isn't without a cost. Luz has to reveal her deepest secret.
It was supposed to be a simple trip to an island, nothing was supposed to go wrong. When Eda dropped Luz off this morning, she couldn't help but notice how nervous the girl was about getting on a boat, she just figured it was because of the boiling sea.
"Hey, don't worry about it, Kid, I've done this before, they give everyone a twelve-hour protection spell." Eda said, "Plus it keeps you from drowning... don't ask why I know that."
"It's true Miss Noceda." Principal Bump said, "As long as I am here, my spell will keep everyone safe."
'That's not what I'm worried about.' Luz thought, looking at the water, 'What If I fall in? What if everyone learns the truth.'
"Alright, Kid, have fun, I'll see you after your little trip." Eda said, getting on her staff and flying away.
"Alright, everyone let's get going." Bump said.
Partying, talking with her friends, everything about being on the boat seemed to go well... until a surprise storm popped up. The next thing Luz knew, was her and the rest of the students on the boat were on an island, while the Boat was clearly broken and beached. Luz woke up by the light waves hitting her side. Luz quickly realized where she was and scrambled to get out of the water. She looked at her body and realized she was completely dry.
"The spell must prevent me from getting wet." Luz said, before going over to Principal Bump's unconscious body, "Principal Bump?"
Luz lightly shook him, and he groaned before waking up. Luz helped him up.
"Thank you, Miss Noceda." Bump said, brushing himself off, "That storm came out of nowhere, we need to make sure everyone is safe and then start on repairing the boat."
They went over the list of students that were there and found that only one was missing.
"It seems... Miss Blight isn't here." Bump said, "She must've fallen off when the storm hit. We'll need to find her before the spell wears off."
"So, she could be at the bottom of the ocean?" Luz asked, very afraid for her girlfriend.
"I'm afraid so." Bump said, "But don't worry, as soon as we get the boat fixed-"
"That might be too long!" Luz said, "We need to find her soon!"
"Listen, Luz, I'm sorry, but there's nothing else we can do for now." Bump said.
Luz looked at the ground.
"Remove the spell on me."
"What?"
"I said, remove the spell on me." Luz said.
Bump didn't know what to do, he has never seen a fire in Luz's eyes like this, and knowing that this kid was all but Eda's blood child, he knew she had a plan. He sighed and removed the spell, and Luz sprinted towards the water. The rest of the students watched as she ran, seemingly not affected by the boiling water. The second the water was deep enough; she dove into it.
"That human is suicidal." Boscha said.
Under the water, Luz was swimming as fast as her tail would allow her... okay, so she might be lying about one certain thing... she's a mermaid. Her mom would tell her old stories about mermaids, about how they were hunted to near extinction, and apparently the books here described that in extreme detail. Naturally, Luz was afraid of telling people that she was half fish. Her tail was covered in dark purple scales that covered a majority of her stomach and chest. Her hands were webbed and her nails became claws. The most important part, minus the tail, were the gills on her neck.
"I can't believe I'm some kind of delicacy here." Luz said as she checks around a rock for Amity, "No, she's not there."
Luz swam to another part of the seabed, looking for Amity. She heard water moving behind her and looked behind her.
"H-h-hello?" She asked, "Any... anyone there?"
Luz was getting nervous.
"D-d-despite what everyone thinks, I don't taste that good." Luz said.
She started to swim away when she ran into another girl with a tail. She rubbed her head and looked at the pink scaled girl.
"A-A-Amity?"
"L-L-Luz?" Amity said, "You have a tail!"
"So do you!" Luz said, "Why didn't you tell me you were a mermaid!?"
"Because I was afraid you would kill and cook me!" Amity said, "Why didn't you tell me that YOU were a mermaid!?"
"Because... the same!" Luz said.
The two fish people looked at each other before laughing. The whole situation was ridiculous.
"I hope you know where everyone else is." Amity said, "I hit my head on something when I fell off, it messed with my homing ability, so I'm swimming blindly."
Mermaids have incredible knowledge of the ocean, due to an ability to automatically sense their location. Luz compares it to pigeons and their ability to know their way home.
"Don't worry, I'll get you back there and we can find someone to check on your head." Luz said, swimming ahead, "So, now that we both know about each other's secret, we can have underwater dates! By the way, how did the spell drop?"
Amity chuckled.
"When I woke up, I noticed I was underwater, figured I would do better without the spell, so I removed it." Amity said, "I'm glad you found me though, I thought I would end up stuck in a fishing net after a few hours."
"Not on my watch." Luz said.
Just as Luz said that, the two got stuck in a net.
"Me and my big mouth." She said.
The two were lifted out of the water and moved onto the boat.
"Well, we can't eat these fish... we know them." Eda said to King.
"Eda!?" Luz said, "What are you doing here!?"
"King and I always go fishing this day." Eda said, removing the net, "The real question is, why do you have a tail?"
"And weren't you supposed to be on a trip?" King asked.
"It's... a long story." Luz said.
"Well, we have a lot of time." Eda said, throwing the net back into the water, "So spill, Kid."
"Well... it started when you dropped me off this morning."
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