Few weeks have passed since their "convenient visit" and they continued to talk more and more about the facts about mermaids and merman. Sometimes, during the weeks, Erica sometimes would ask if she can see this spirit personally, but he always said no. If so, then she would be possessed by evil spirits within and may allow herself to die in the cave. One day, the dangerous event caused their life to never be the same again. Prince Aqua was going back up towards the cave as he noticed Sebastian was swimming towards him.

"Just where do you think you are going, your majesty?"
"Where do you think, Sebastian? To my sanctuary."
"To meet with that human, isn't it?"
"What?"
"I have noticed your behavior has changed. Now, it is high time you need to be prepared for the wedding."
"I don't want to get married."
"What you desire is not your decision. It is the law's."

"Law's rule or not, if I were to rule, I would disregard the law or change the law."
"You cannot change law when you are not a ruler."

"Well, from my understanding, you are not my mother's assistant. You are only a conductor of our music department."

"Not from your mother. If you were only here instead of spending much time with a barbarian creature, you would have noticed that she promoted me as an assistant."

"Great."

"Now, as your new assistant from your mother, I demand you to go home to prepare for your wedding plans."
"I don't want to."

He quickly swam towards the shore without a care in the world. Sebastian tried to follow him, but he was nowhere to be found. Aqua finally came towards the shore in the cave and sat there waiting. Erica came just in time as normal, but as she was coming close, she then noticed Aqua as a merman. He was the exact merman that she saw during the hurricane. With no hesitation, she quietly grabbed her camera and positioned herself for that exact moment, but as she was about to snap the picture, she then noticed how beautiful he looked. At a glance, he almost look like an actual art canvas watercolor in various amounts of detailed paints. His long silky hair was as red scarlet like a rose, his tail was green and silky to behold, his masculine body above that was a sight to behold, and his eyes as blue as the deep blue sea. She became so hypnotized with the appearance, she accidently dropped her finger to press the flash button. That bright light scared him badly that he dove straight down to the ocean.

"Wait. Come back!"

Before she knew it, she started to go to the water and swim towards the boy, but when she did, the faster she ran to him, the deeper the water became. Erica tried to swim towards him, but what was not known then is at that exact moment a shark swam by and noticed the legs of a human. Aqua noticed after he started to swim away towards the castle the shark started to come towards the girl.

"Why am I doing this?"

He swam as fast as his little fins could as the shark was close to the girl. Erica noticed the shark fins and quickly swim as fast as possible, but each time she tried to get to shore, the waves pulled her closer to the shark. The shark then took his first bite for blood and almost ate her alive when Aqua started to sing. To prevent the creature for killing her, the shark started to feel the power, moved away from her, and towards Aqua. The shark went towards him as he continued to use his singing voice to tame the creature. With his magical sound, the shark then started to swim away and never returned. Just when he was safe and sound, he smelled blood through the water and swam up quickly. As Aqua went up to the surface, he then noticed Erica was swimming towards the rock and tried to get up with an injured leg.

"Mom's going to kill me if she sees this." she replied as she started to clean the blood off.

"That will not work." Aqua replied as he came close.

"How would you know? You are all immortal."
"Not all of us are immortal. We do get injured from time to time."

He then grabbed his hair and placed it on her leg.

"Cover your ears."

"Why?"
"Just do it."

Not wanting to know why, she obeyed silently and covered both her eyes and ears. Aqua then sung a language only mermaids and merman can understand. While singing, she then opened her eyes to see what is going on. His magnificent red hair started to glow in the shade of white to clean the blood off her leg and become brand new as if the attack never happened. While he was singing, she started to carefully removed one of her hands off of one of her ears and started to touch his hand. He had just finished the song when he felt a touch of human hands. Aqua looked up and his hair returned back as red. Their hands moved away for a moment.

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to-"

"How much did you hear?"
"Hear what?"

"What I was singing earlier. How much did you hear?"

"All I heard was egg-u-lo ma-gone-is. That was pretty much it."

"Oh. Then you only heard the end. That's good."

"You have an amazing voice."
"Thank you. It is not safe for humans to hear."

Before she could ask why, she then recalled the book seller's warning.

"Oh, is it because if any person hears it, they may end up dead depending on the song?"
"Yes. That is why I wanted you to cover in case if I told you something wrong during the enchantment."

"Thank you, by the way."

"For what?"
"For saving my life."

His heart started to feel touched. No one has ever thanked him at all before. Not sure what he was doing, Aqua started to lean in close to her for a better view. Erica noticed his form close hand and it seemed so real.

"Touch my hand." he replied softly.

Not knowing why he asked, Erica looked at her right hand and slowly touched his left for a moment. Again as before, their bodies started to glow as bright as the sun. The light that was reflected shown brightly from land and on sea. At the lighthouse, just a little ways away, the warlock then started to come near the window to see the light and smiled deeply. Her mother and father, who also saw the exact light, followed it to see what it was. The mother and father then witnessed the unfortunate event: a merman and a human glowing as bright as the sun.

"Erica!" her mother called to her, "get away from that monster!"

Aqua then noticed that more humans watched him and her in full power. In fear, he then removed her hand, dove underwater, and swam away.

"Wait!"

"Erica, you get back here this instant!" her father replied.

Before he had the chance to use his knife to swing towards the boy, he started to sink towards the ground by holding his hand. Erica turned around and noticed that her father was having a heart attack.

"Daddy!" she cried as she started to walk towards her father.

The warlock, who hid in the darkness, watched everything as well and knew that her plan was coming in order to rule the kingdom. Aqua, on the other hand, was not so lucky when he returned to the kingdom. His mother witnessed the entire scene at hand and was very disappointed.

"How could you?" his mother stated.

"Mother-"
"How could you!? You were given strict rules for not going up to the surface and yet, you did. Not only that, you also was seen by a human! That monstrous creature!"

"Humans are not monstrous creatures! She wanted to know about our kind."
"She is human. No human needs to know about our kind. If so, they will be able to use it against us."

"No, she wouldn't."
"She would. Humans are cunning creatures with no feelings whatsoever! All creatures are the same as her!"

"She's never one of them!"

He then started to swim again away from her, but she grabbed his fin and dragged him home.

"You are not going anywhere. You get prepared for the wedding, stay away from that human, and never, ever let her come even close to you! You know what will happen if you do not obey those rules."

He knew. If any mermaid or merman breaks any of the rules, the punishment is execution. If he lets that human girl get involved with his punishment, the humans will find a way to kill all of the mermaids and merman and cause serious chaos in the ocean.

"Yes ma'am." he replied softly.

He then followed his mother as they returned to the kingdom, but somehow in his heart, he wanted to see her again one last time before he was married. He couldn't stop thinking about her, but never thought that she couldn't stop thinking about him too. Meanwhile, back in the mainland, Erica and her mother were sitting in the living room as the doctor came to check on the father. As he started to come down slowly, Erica's mother started to run towards the doctor to see what has happened.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. Your husband..."

Before he could finish, her mother started to weep. From Erica's view from a distance, she knew her father did not make it. As the doctor left the house, her mother stood there with her daughter in her home.

"My dear," her mother stated, "I never want you to go outside that cave again."

"What do you mean by that?"
"If you never went to that cave, your father may have lived another day!"
"Oh, so it's my fault? Are you blaming me for killing my daddy?"
"I am not blaming the fault on you dear, but on that monstrous creature."
"He isn't monstrous. He's far from perfect."
"No daughter of mine will get close to being killed by him. That creature is completely evil! Sent by the devil himself."
"Mother, he is not satanic. He saved my life!"

"What do you mean, saved your life?"
She was about to say what happened before, but couldn't bear to see her mother in tears once more.

"What has he done to my little angel? I never want you to see him again."

That made her so mad she glared at her mother.
"You know what? Fine. I wish Father was here instead of you!"

With such hatred, she ran out of her home and toward the beach.

"Erica Germaine, get back here this instant!"

She didn't respond to her mother and never turned back.

"Stubborn girl. She's just like..."

Before she could finish, tears started to flow from her eyes again. All of her personalities were the same as her father. Meanwhile, Erica slowly sat down on the sand and started to weep. She knew what she said wasn't true, but she didn't have the courage to apologize. Since her father was gone, there was no way for him to come back to life, except one, but she didn't have the courage to speak with the warlock. If she went to him, her mother would never forgive her, but she had to do it.

"I need to make things right." she replied as she got up from her seat.

Erica turned to the side and noticed that the light house was glowing just as before, but only brighter than normal. As the waves crashed to and fro on the shores, the new adventure for Erica was about to begin.