Aqua and Cora's could not have gone any worse. One minute Aqua had to save Cora from drowning and then the next minute they were arrested for being the daughter and friend of the daughter of the kingdom's most hated person. Aqua kind of expected it though Cora was not taking this treatment kindly, she has been pacing back and forth in the cell ever since they got there. It was a very different cell back in her kingdom, minus the fact her kingdom was above sea level, the bars on the cell were like dead coral and it was twisted around the doorframe so not even the smallest creature could swim through and their bed had no blankets or pillows it was just a carved out rock. Aqua found it comfy and Cora did not know how she could.

"Would you stop pacing please?" Aqua demanded at Cora as she was on her final nerve.

"No I can't! I am stressed out! How do you expect my parents to react to me spending time in the dungeons?" Cora retorted back at Aqua.

"They probably won't care since you are on an important mission!" Aqua shouted at her, she swam to Cora to get into her head. Cora was obviously offended she tried to hit Aqua with her tail but Aqua quickly fought back and held it down with one of her tentacles making Cora fall down to the floor as well.

"You really thought you could hit me?" Aqua whispered to Cora as she laid defeated on the ground. Cora did not respond. She knew Aqua was right, it was an idiot move.

The moment was broken by a distant sneeze. Both girls looked up from their position but saw no one was there. They both then leaned against the bars of the cells to see closer but they still could not find anyone.

"Is someone there?" Cora shouted. A young, shy and timid mermaid then swum forward she could've been 8 or 9 with how tall she was. You could obviously tell she was scared of them. "Well hello there, what's your name?"

"D...De...Deliah." The young girl responded.

"That's a beautiful name Delilah. I'm Cora." Cora sat down on the floor to be eye level with the young Delilah. "This is also my friend Aqua."

"So you are friends with her?" Aqua scoffed and rolled her eyes at that remark from the young girl.

"Of course, why wouldn't I be?"

"Because her family is evil, her mother tried to kill the king."

"Can I clarify? So did my aunt." Aqua chimed in.

"See it runs in her family, evil!" Delilah answered. She was obviously getting more scared being in the presence of Aqua, Cora was noticing, Cora dragged Aqua to the far corner of the cell.

"Be nice to her!"

"What? Why?"

"Because she could be our way out!" Cora whispered frantically. Aqua was in shock at what Cora just said.

"You did not just say that."

"What?"

"You are trying to manipulate a child!"

"She could be our way out!"

"That's evil!"

"Do you have any other plans?" Cora questioned her. Even though Aqua knew this was wrong, she had a point, they swam back to Delilah and had to play nice with her. It took her awhile but Aqua got into the swing of things, it wasn't that hard being nice. Eventually Cora asked Delilah to get the cell keys, to which she did, she got them very quickly, almost surprisingly quickly. That didn't matter right now though.

Cora also asked Delilah to lead them out of the dungeon. Delilah did give them a challenge they swum in many different directions up, down, left and right that it was becoming more odd to Aqua that they did not bump into any royal guards. Eventually the three girls swum up this hole which took them just outside Atlantica. Cora and Aqua were very relieved at the least.

"Thank you Delilah, you can swim home now." Cora thanked her. Though it got very creepy very quickly as Delilah began this very creepy laugh. Her face then started to morph, her tail broke and her voice got deeper until a new person was in Delilah's place.

It was Aqua's cousin, Ocean.