After all their hard work at the Spring Ballet Recital, Will decided to treat the kids to a weekend trip at her beach house. She had to use it three times a year or else the mortgage is foreclosed. Rayne sat next to Alexa, who was playing video games on her phone while they waited. "Alexa," asked Rayne, "have you ever been to this beach house of yours?"

"I have," explained Alexa as she paused the game. "Mom and I have been have been going there for the last 3 years. We usually go during the spring break, the Fourth of July, and when the Mermaid Festival comes to town."

"Mermaid Festival?" asked Peggy behind them. "What's that?"

"Every year," Alexa explained, "the good citizens of Caped Cod pay tribute to the half-fish creature. This was also a good time to let the mermaids be themselves. Mom and I also let magical creatures stay with us so they can have a place to stay."

"A magical creature haven," Mahi said. "That's beautiful."

As Mahi sat back down, she acidentally took Peggy's hand again. Peggy and Mahi started to blush. "You know, Addy" whispered Isadora to Addison, "Peggy and Mahi still look cute together. Maybe on this trip they can finally admit they love each other."

"In your dreams," Addison replied. "They have to get to know each other first. The Supremes once said, 'You can't hurry love'."

"The've been doing that for at least eight months," Isadora replied. "That's also the same amount of time that we got to know them too. We already know the rest of the members of the ballet club since first grade, except Kieran, who moved to Hartfeld during the third grade, Brynn in the seventh grade when she moved in with her uncle due to her parents having financial troubles, and of course, Rayne after we came back from Australia."

"Oh, please," Rochelle replied. "Those two are not going to last. I mean a troublemaking hobo and an Irishgirl."

The girls decided to ignore Rochelle's insult.

XxoxX

As they got to the beach house, Arielle and Jayla were carrying a fractured Kieran off the bus. Mahi remembered that it was her fault that she acidentally caused his broken leg, so she decided to go up to him. "Kieran," asked Mahi, "how's your leg doing?"

"It's getting better," Kieran answered as he held his crutches while Arielle brushed some lint off of his '50s greaser apparel. "The doctor said that I'll recover by the time school gets out."

"That's a relief," Alim said, "because I need you to help work at the summer dance program at school."

"I'm your Broadway dancing dude," Kieran replied.

Alim had her hair in a ponytail, was Pakistani, wore modest clothes, and she carried piano sheets, because she heard that the beach house has a piano. She was right. On the piano, she started playing "I'm Still Standing" from Elton John. Then Jayla started to hear a song from the famous gay pianist. She was biracial Indian, she had her shoulder-length black hair in a ponytail, and was a bit muscular. She wore rainbow-colored rockstar clothing, representing that she was a lesbian. Hearing the song, she decided to join Alim on the action with her guitar.

"We're?" Jayla asked. "I'm Still Standing."

"That's right," Alim answered. "I've mastered all of Elton John's songs since I was 3."

Xiang had short black hair, wore nerdy clothes, and had a bunch of books with him. He was hoping to catch up on "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."

"Take your reading to the backyard, Xiang," suggested Will.

"Okay, Ms. Vandom," Xiang replied as he walked for some peace and quiet.

Abram had curly brown hair and eyes, was Caucasian, wore gothic apparel, and is the tallest of the ballet clubs. He was observing the paintings when Arielle came up to him. Arielle adjusted her hippie apparel. "Being a senior," she said, "you're going to miss out on next year's opportunities."

"You know," Abram replied, "I'm going to major in dancing and hoping to get in a scary show."

"Like 'The Phantom of the Opera'?" asked Arielle. "That's, like, totally your favorite."

"That's right," replied Abram. "Or perhaps 'Dracula'."

"Scarier, man," Arielle replied as she got out her sketchpad and drew him.

Chandra had wavy black hair in braids, was a bit pudgy, wore nerdy apparel, had glasses, and was carrying her gadets around. "I'm going to find the TV so we can have karaoke," she said. "Nothing says beach house party like a Beach Boys karaoke."

"Take it easy," snapped Kayleigh. "We're all, like, totally here to relax, and I am so looking foward to a little karaoke, too."

Kayleigh had olive skin, had long wavy blonde hair, wore valley girl clothing, and was a bit naive. She really wanted to post some pics on her blog, so she took a photo of Chandra hoooking up her laptop for karaoke.

Brynn started to look around her Sugar Rush Candlehead tote bag for her sunscreen. She had really long black hair, she was the shortest of the bunch at 4'11, and wore 70s-styled clothing.

"Brynn," asked Will, "did you forget something again? You're always forgetting things."

"I know," Brynn replied. "I guess I was too busy catching up on my manga that I forgot sunscreen."

"That's okay," Peggy replied. "You can borrow my minty-scent sunscreen."

"I love mint," replied Brynn. "Thank you, Peg."

Rochelle started to get jealous of Peggy, wondering why she got more attention than her. "It's because she's like nicer than you, Rochelle," Kayleigh replied.

Peggy, Rayne, Isadora, Mahi, and Addison decided to head for the beach. They took off their socks and shoes and headed on over.

After they left, Will announced, "Okay, everyone, listen up. This weekend is Rayne's birthday, and she's going to be 16."

"Speaking of rain," Chandra replied, "the weather is gonna rain tomorrow in the afternoon."

"Exactly," replied Will. "So we're having an indoor beach party to celebrate. is going to deliver us our party supplies, and we'll be decorating tomorrow while Rayne is out."

"Can I help too, Mom?" Alexa asked.

"Sure," Will replied. "You can help Rayne collect shells."

"And perhaps find some mermaids and sea monkeys while I'm at it," whispered Alexa.

"That, too," whispered Will.

XxoxX

On the beach, Isadora brought out a book with a bison on it. "I brought this with me," Isadora explained. "This was us before you, Rayne, and Mahi showed up. Since we're on the beach and we've been friends since October, I thought I could give you girls a behind-the-scene footage of our lives before you showed up."

Hartfeld Middle School: 2028-2029

Isadora opened the book to show a bunch of pictures of how they looked when they were in middle school. Back in those days, Isadora had frizzy hair before she decided to make it straight, and Addison had a bob cut before she grew it out.

"You were both cute," Peggy said as she looked further into the book, seeing a familiar figure. "Is that Rochelle?"

Rochelle's middle-school picture had her with glasses, braces, and poorly done hair. "I didn't know that Rochelle was ugly on the outside back then," Mahi replied.

"She was very ugly back in middle school," Addison replied.

"During the summer after middle school," Isadora replied, "Rochelle got tired of being picked on for being ugly. So she gave herself an expenseive makeover at the Glittering Beetle Day Spa, the most expensive spa in Hartfeld. She became an Amazon goddess after that, but the students couldn't take her constant horrible behavior."

Peggy suddenly sensed magic, under the sea. Rayne decided to check it out herself since she could breath underwater, "Be careful," replied Addison. "Your birthday is tomorrow, and this is not 'Dead Like Me'."

XxoxX

Underwater, Rayne found a mermaid feeling weepy. The mermaid had a yellow tail, curly lavender hair, and had a jeweled headband and pearl necklace. "Excuse me, girl," she called. "Are you lost?"

"No," called back the mermaid. "I'm having difficult responsibilities."

"What is your name?" Rayne asked.

"Diondra," answered the mermaid, "and I'm running away from home."

"Don't do that, girl," Rayne replied. "Running away makes things worse. I had a foster sister who ran away from home when I was 11, but after 8 months of living with us, she learned that home is where people cared about her, so she left for Plymouth."

"I navigate through the stars," Diondra explained. "I heard rumors of the woman known as Will Vandom. She told me that she helped me hide from my home."

"Maybe for now you should stay here," Rayne replied, "and you better hide down here so some of our friends won't see you."

"Good idea," Diondra replied, "because my parents warned me that humans won't understand us much."

Upon the shore, Rayne explained everything to them. The minute that Diondra came up from the waters, a net came out. Bipon and his crew kidnapped her. "Fericious as you can see!" shouted Bipon shouted.

"Dangerous as tigers!" shouted Khataranaak.

"And wild as wildcats!" all five shouted.

"Not them again," Peggy replied. "You guys are merciless."

"We take that as a compliment, trash," replied Jangalee.

PRIMA couldn't let a mermaid be held prisoner.

Guardians Unite

With a quick change, they started fighting off Bipon and his gang.

While Diondra was trying to find a way out of the net, the Bearakeets came to her and turned the net into blueberry licorice.

Vinod and Bipon were both fighting off. "You're as hot-headed as I remember," replied Bipon. "Still the same little cub who we looked out."

"I don't know about you," Mahi replied, "but you guys are burning me up."

Peggy and Khataranaak fought off. "Not bad for a chick," Khataranaak said. "Ballet and fighting. Where do you come up with this?"

"It will be really shocking!" shouted Peggy as she tossed lighting.

Rayne and Jangalee took each other down, "Look here, tomboy," Jangalee mocked. "Have you ever thought about wearing a dress?"

"I wear dresses sometimes," Rayne replied as she did a bubble blast, "but yeah, I'm a tomboy."

Addison did some ballet moves while Kroor missed. "Hold still, you PRIMA ballerina!" Kroor exclaimed angrily.

"Prima means starring role," Addison replied. "And since there are five of us, we're all prima ballerinas."

"Boring!" shouted Kroor as Addison pelted Kroor with flowers.

Wuitet tried to fight off Isadora, but he couldn't. "I don't really fight girls," Wuitet replied.

"Really?" Isadora interjected. "Because there are a lot of female warriors in legends like Joan of Arc, Mulan, the Amazons, Wonder Woman, Black Canary, Huntress, Captain Marvel, the Valkyries, and Hangaku Gozen."

"Yipes," Wuitet replied, "Isadora is driving me crazy."

"Get up, you cubhead!" Bipon shouted.

"Cubhead, ferocious as you can see, dangerous as tigers, and wild as wildcats," Mahi replied as she got down.

"Mahi!" shouted Peggy as she came up to her.

"Looks like the runt wants to give up," Bipon declared. "Now for the seafood."

But as they turned around, they saw that Diondra had escaped thanks to the Bearakeets. They found her on a rock eating blueberry licorice. "Yummy licorice you got here," Diondra replied. "I never had some in my life."

The Bearakeets came in, spread their magic dust all over them, and placed water wings and life preservers on them. "This is embarrassing," snarled Bipon. "Let's get out of here and get ready for the Jeivan Moon."

They walked off feeling embarassed as PRIMA laughs and changed back. "Are you okay, Diondra?" asked Addison.

"I'll be fine," Diondra answered. "It's your little bird/bear friends who turned the net into blueberry licorice."

PRIMA looked at the Bearakeets, who were eating the licorice. "Girls," Addison said, "I just realized something. Whenever the Bearakeets leave behind their magic dust, good things happen."

"Like how The Tiara Theater got more customers," Peggy recalled.

"And how they calmed the kids down from the sprinkles they ate," Rayne said.

"And making the chocolate chip cookies get more flavor at Havana Java," Mahi recalled.

"And speaking of Havana Java," Isadora replied, "there was the time where it passed the health inpection. Ms. Lizzy has been close to Peggy with their passion for dancing, Billy Shears was close to Mahi Mahi - God, I haven't said that in a long time - Rita is happier with Rayne, Mr. Mustard has been helping out through his love for yellow food from Addy, and my Maggie May is out of control like me."

"We should get back inside before Ms. Vandom finds out," Peggy suggested. "I think it's gonna rain any minute."

XxoxX

Later that night as they were heading off for bed, Mahi kept having horrible migraines from what they said. She needed to know who Bipon and crew were.

To Be Continued