A month had passed since the girls had transformed into mermaids and they were starting to get the hang of things. They were learning to hide their secret better and to avoid water touching them in public better. The three of them were always together either attending school, swimming in the sea around Tendrou Island, or having a smoothie at the juice bar.

Like today for instance. The girls were hanging out at the juice bar with Gray watching the other customers at the bar sing karaoke. It was karaoke day, every few weeks the owner of the juice bar would allow his customers to sing in front of everyone. The one who was singing at the moment was Minerva but she had no musical talent whatsoever. But because she was pretty, popular, and somewhat scary everyone applauded her. Everyone except Gray and the girls.

"Where's earplugs when you need them?" Erza asked. "Minerva is terrible."

"No kidding." Gray said. "I hate karaoke. It's just a bunch of wannabes looking for their fifteen minutes of fame and half of them can't even sing. I think it's pretty deluded."

"I think it's fun." Lucy said. "I'd do it if I could sing."

"You can't be as bad Minerva." Erza said.

"She's not that bad." Juvia said.

"Are you kidding? She's horrible and she would be booed off the stage if so many people weren't afraid of her destroying their social life." Erza said.

"Besides Juvia you're a much better singer than her." Lucy said. "Why don't you go up there and sing something. Let everybody hear from someone who can actually sing for once."

"No thanks." Juvia said starting to feel shy. "I mean I'm not really all that good you know and it's been so long."

"What do you mean? You used to sing all the time when we were kids."

"Well I haven't had much time to do singing since I starting becoming a teenager."

"There's nothing to be worried about. You sound wonderful."

"I'm sure you could out sing Minerva any day." Erza said.

"Is that right?" Minerva had overheard her conversation. She didn't like when people said that anyone was better than her especially when it was someone who she considered to be a loser. Now she knew that Juvia was a better singer than her but she knew something else about Juvia. Something that she could use to humiliate her. "If you're so much better than me then why don't you sing?"

"I don't think-"

But Minerva just Juvia by the arm pulled her on to the stage.

"Oh no. This isn't going to end well." Gray said.

"What do you mean?" Lucy asked.

"You'll see."

The music was turned on and all eyes were on Juvia. But she just became as stiff as board while clutching the microphone as tightly as possible. She couldn't move, talk, and she especially could not sing. When everyone save for her friends started laughing at her, she dropped the microphone and ran out of the juice bar.

"What a freak." Minerva snickered.

"Shut up Minerva!" Erza snapped.

"What did I do?" She asked feigning innocence.

"You know what you did!" Gray said.

"Do you really need to make others feel bad just so you can feel good about yourself?" Erza said. "You're really pathetic!"

Then Lucy, Erza, and Gray ran out of the juice bar to look for Juvia.

"What just happened?" Lucy asked. "Why did Juvia freeze up like that?"

"Lucy when was the last time you heard Juvia sing exactly?" Gray asked.

"I don't know. When we were eight, nine maybe."

"That's what I thought. Remember when we were in tenth grade and you had to miss a week of school due to getting chicken pox?"

"Yes. It was the worst week of my life."

"Well while you were gone Juvia signed up for the school talent show but when she went on stage and saw how many people were watching her she got scared and froze up. Ever since then she's had stage fright and Minerva knew it."

"I can't believe she would stoop so low."

"I can." Erza said. "That woman is evil incarnate I tell you."

"What does she have against Juvia?" Lucy asked. "She's never done anything to

"Because she's petty and jealous." Gray said.

"That chick is pretty and popular." Erza said. "Why would she be jealous?"

"Let's see Juvia is kind, sweet, genuinely liked, talented, beautiful." Gray listed on his fingers. "In other words everything she's not."

Lucy and Erza grinned at Gray.

"What?" He asked. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"So you think Juvia is beautiful?" Erza said teasingly.

"Uh..." He blushed. "She's beautifully...Smart! And funny! Yeah beautifully smart and funny! Heh, heh. I mean she's not bad looking, she's okay and um...Um...Um...Stop looking at me!"

The blonde and red head giggled.

"Let's just try to find Juvia." Erza said trying so hard not to laugh at his nervousness.

"Right. So where do you think Juvia went?" Lucy asked.

"My best guess would be the park." Gray said. "Come on."

Indeed, Juvia had run off to the park where she alone on a bench feeling so very embarrassed. She always knew Minerva was mean but she never thought she was this mean. She wished that she wouldn't let people like Minerva bully and humiliate her but she had trouble gaining confidence.

"Hello there."

She looked to see that mysterious blonde woman sit next to her on the bench.

"Oh it's you." Juvia said.

"I saw what happened. I'm so very sorry my dear. Teenagers can be so cruel...No offense."

"None taken."

"I had an old friend who was in a similar situation."

"Really? How did she handle it?"

"Her first idea was to change her name and flee the country. But she eventually came to the conclusion that what happened wasn't the end of the world. But I haven't come to tell you about my old friends. Tell me do you know what day it is?"

"Wednesday?"

"There's going to be a full moon tonight."

"Uh-oh."

"You and your friends better be prepared. Remember do not look at it and do not touch water when it is out."

"What's going to happen to us? Are we going to turn into some sort of fish monsters?"

"For warned is for armed but only sometimes."

"Juvia there you are!" Lucy called.

She looked to see that her friends had found her. But when she turned back to the blonde woman she saw that she was gone.

"I really wish she would stop doing that." Juvia said.

"Are you alright Juvia?" Gray asked her.

"I'm fine really. Besides we have a bigger problem. I ran into that woman again and according to her there's supposed to be a full moon tonight."

"Oh no not again." Erza said. "What are we supposed to do? We can't have another night like that."

"I've got an idea." Gray said. "Lucy, Erza why don't you stay over at our place tonight? That way I can make sure that none of you are effected by the moon."

"That's not a bad idea." Juvia said.

"But what about Ur and Porlyuscia?" Lucy asked.

"Ur will be in a meeting with social workers tonight and Porlyuscia has a date."

"That old woman has a date?" Erza asked.

"Don't try to visualize it, you won't sleep again for a week." Gray said. "Trust me."

"Alright that keeps the adults from being suspicious." Erza said. "But what about the nosey kids?"

"Just give Romeo a video game and he'll be distracted for a month."

"As for Chelia they're showing a marathon of her favorite show tonight so she should be distracted." Juvia said.

"Okay so we're set."

"Wait a minute it's a school night." Lucy said. "What if our parents don't let us?"

"My mom won't mind." Erza said.

"My dad will."

"Lucy I don't think you have much of a choice in this. Unless of course you want to turn back into that thing again."

"Thing?" Lucy said. "What thing? I thought all I did last time was eat fish and kiss Natsu. Now you're telling me that I turned into something. What did I turn into?"

"You don't want to know." Juvia said.

"Tell me. Was I scary? Gross? Ugly?"

"Yes, yes, and yes." Erza said.

"Erza!" Juvia scolded.

"What? She wanted to know. Who are we to lie?"

"Did Natsu see me like that?" Lucy asked.

"No."

"Thank God. Alright change of plans, I have to find some way to convince my father to let me stay over and he doesn't then I'll just sneak out."

"Wow you're really going to sneak out?" Erza said.

"If I have to. Because there is no way on earth I am going to let myself turn into...Whatever it is I turned into last time."

"So we're all in agreement."

"Let's meet up at six." Juvia said.

With that agreement made the four of them went home to get things ready for tonight. Erza asked her mother if she could stay over at Juvia's place to which she agreed, Lucy's asked her father and it took some extreme begging but she was able to convince him to allow her to stay over, as for Gray and Juvia they bought Romeo a new video game for him to play and made sure that Chelia was distracted with watching her marathon.

"Is everything ready?" She asked Gray.

"Yep." He told her. "Ur and Porlyuscia are gone and Romeo and Chelia are both distracted for the night."

"Good." She sighed in relief. "Now all we have to do is make sure that nobody looks at the full moon or touches water."

"Not a problem. How difficult can it be to do that?"

"It's not that easy. Remember it happened to Lucy and it almost happened to me and Erza."

"Yeah but that's because we didn't know how wacky the moon's effects was on you three. Now that we know we'll be much more prepared."

"I hope so."