Eloise put on her coat and buttoned up the heart-shaped buttons. "Ready?" she whispered to Vincent.
"Ready." Vincent said before giving her a magic necklace.
"What's this?" Eloise held it, tilting her head.
"This will give you the ability to become a mermaid," Vincent said before kissing her on top of her head. "And that will give you the ability to understand and talk to animals."
"Oh, okay..." Eloise blinked, then giggled with a slight smile. "Maybe I can talk to Weenie and Skipperdy when I get back home..." she put on the necklace before they walked out to the water.
"Amber, I think I know what to do," Darla said on the phone before hanging up for the night. "I decided that Eloise can come to school with me if she's ready, and if not, I'll try to look for work in New York so she doesn't just have Nanny..." she then sighed, feeling lost as she wouldn't be rich anymore. "It's for my daughter."
"I'm happy for you, Darla." Amber said.
"I'll let her decide..." Darla gave a nod, she then mentioned it was late and she needed to get some sleep, so she hung up and went to get ready for bed.
Eloise and Vincent walked to the end of the water as the wind got stronger.
"Ooh, I'm so cold, cold, cold!" Eloise shuddered.
Vincent then gives her his coat. Eloise sniffled slightly, but she held the coat until they would go under the water. It was then time for them to go in, after counting to three. Eloise shut her eyes tight and tried to hold her breath, she believed Vincent, but was a little nervous about actually going in the water, but not needed to swim necessarily. They both then dove in and the necklace then began to glow and and where Eloise's legs began to glow as did Vincent's legs. Eloise was given a pink tail fin while Vincent was given a green one. The girl opened her eyes and saw she was now a young mermaid, the bow in her hair disappeared and now it looked like it was replaced with a mauve seashell.
"Wow, look at me!" Eloise giggled, she felt like she was living in one of her dreams.
"Cool, looks great on you, cous." Vincent said.
Eloise smiled. "I guess we better go... Help me out a little though?"
Vincent did as they were swimming to save their family members.
Darla went to their bedroom to say goodnight to them. "Good night, dears..." the woman said with a smile, but frowned. "They couldn't have fallen asleep that easily..." she mumbled, feeling curious as she walked to the filled beds that were completely covered up. She then went over to the beds to check on them. "Eloise... I know you're worried... But it's okay..." Darla pulled back the covers and let out a gasp as she didn't see her daughter, lightning seemed to flash to show dhe wasn't there. "Oh, no..." she then checked Vincent's bed and panicked. "No, no, no! They're gone!" She then looked outside and had a horrible thought. "They must've gone to get the twins and Felicity..." she sighed. "Oh, I hope they'll be okay..."
Back at the castle...
"Well, this sure beats an in-flight movie." Jessie commented as they were flying.
Felicity and Melody recited from the ancient temple again as Zapdos and Moltres were charging each other up. The others came over to Melody and Felicity.
"What if the ancient legend is coming true?" Melody asked.
"If it is true, all intelligent life will be destroyed." James remarked.
"That's right." Jessie nodded.
"He has a point." Emi hated to admit it, but she did.
"And I'll be..." James said.
"YOU will be fine." Meowth scoffed.
"Yeah, you don't have much to worry about." Estelle said to James.
James glared at them.
"We gotta do something." Ash declared.
"We have to set Moltres and Zapdos free!" Misty added.
"Yeah, but how?" Tracey finished.
"Come on, Ash, let's break Moltres free first." Akito said.
Ash and Akito went up, but the cage zapped them back on the floor.
"Pika Pi!" Pikachu sounded worried about them.
Ash sneered at the trap.
"You guys okay?" Emi sounded cautious.
"Yeah, but I'm surprised, my strength should have gave us an advantage." Akito said.
"Probably too strong even for that." Emi shrugged.
Pikachu tried to help them by electrically zapping Moltres's cage, but it wasn't even enough.
"These trapped prisons are the unstoppable!" Felicity couldn't believe their luck.
"Ash, Emi, bring out your Pokemon, maybe more attacks will cause the cage to break." Akito assumed from his detective skills.
Ash got out his Charizard. Moltres saw them helping, but just looked hopeless since it was trapped.
"Fire and electricity aren't enough!" Misty pointed out.
"We can't just give up, we gotta keep trying!" Tracey encouraged.
Felicity came to the Team Rocket members, even if they were bad guys. "Can you all not help us with our problem?"
"Well if things are going to start getting ugly, we might as well try Wheezing." Jessie said to James.
"Right, go!" James threw out his Pokeball, summoning his Pokemon which looked like bombs.
Not even the strongest Pokemon could get threw and they fell and bounced on the floor.
"Come on, ya big palooka!" Meowth growled. "Fight!"
Jessie groaned as she took out her Pokeball. "Let's try Arbok!"
Her Pokemon came out, looking like a giant purple cobra.
"Cool, ooh, Miss, can we both call out the attack at the same time, please?" Estelle asked Jessie.
"Um... I guess that would be okay..." Jessie shrugged. "Which attack would you like for it to do?"
Estelle began to whisper into Jessie's ear of which attack they should let it use.
"Alright then, let's do it." Jessie said.
"Alright, Arbok, use poison sting!" Estelle and Jessie commanded in unison.
Arbok did as told, it leaned its head back, then used poisonous and stingy breath to break the prisons. That didn't even do anything. Jessie didn't want to admit it, but it was actually nice to have some help.
"Squirtle, Bulbasaur, I choose you!" Emi commanded as she used two Pokeballs to summon the Pokemon she announced.
The two Pokemon came out, trying to use their powers, but nothing would work. However, once all their powers combined together, there was now an explosion.
"Yes, it worked!" Akito cheered.
Zapdos was still stuck, but Moltres managed to make it out of its prison. The fire bird looked down at them and squawked to them once it was finally free. It fired fire, but not toward them as it hit Zapdos's cage to let it free. It was enough, and now the lightning bird was free. Both bird Pokemon were now crowing and flying out the castle to their freedom.
"I did not think it would be the possible!" Felicity smiled as she saw the sight.
"I don't think those two are happy, but are angry at each other." Akito said.
"But why?" Felicity asked.
"Fire and electricity." Emi sighed with a shrug.
"You look familiar somehow..." James said to Felicity.
"Or that they think that the other was responsible for being captured and wants to make the other one pay for it." Akito said from his detective skills.
The group went to see the bird Pokemon as they were still in the castle. The castle seemed to be going down to a snowy region.
Eloise and Vincent kept swimming, but Eloise stopped as she held herself. "Ooh... It's cold again..." she shivered slightly.
"Stay close to me, it might warm up your body." Vincent said.
Eloise went up to him, shivering only slightly now. "Why is it so cold? The water from before wasn't..."
Urchin swam by, seeing them, he did not know who they were. "You two must be going near the polar parts... The water is colder there, but if you've been in the water long enough, you get used to it... I never seen you two around Atlantica before..."
"We're kinda new..." Eloise shrugged at the merman, she did not know who this was and he didn't know who she was.
"We're looking for my younger twin brother and sister and cousin." Vincent said.
"Hm... What do they look like?" Urchin asked.
Eloise described them the best she could from memory.
"Hmm... I haven't seen anyone like that... But my sister, her husband, and daughter are looking for people as well... Maybe we can all help each other." Urchin suggested.
"Thanks, their names are Akito, Estelle, and Felicity." Vincent said.
Urchin nodded as they went along together. The name Felicity tipped him off though, he had to wonder if it was a coincidence or not.
The castle was about to crash land on Lightning Island. Cherry was holding a black widowed parasol as Forte was rowing a boat to the island as the castle was on its way there.
"Why didn't I ever teach you how to row?" Forte panted, a little exhausted.
"Because you were too busy staring at the wonderful gift puberty gave me as a teenager spawning into an adult, NOW ROW!" Cherry barked at him.
"Aye, aye, ma'am." Forte said, saluting to her.
Cherry growled as she waited for them to get there. Inside the castle, everyone tried to dodge the falling crumbles as they were slightly crashing. A boat splashed into the icy water and it splashed into Cherry and her parasol.
"I got wet..." Cherry sneered.
"I didn't." Forte smirked.
"ROW!" Cherry yelled at him again as he did as she said.
"That is why you should never ever get on her bad side." Atticus said.
"Try being married to her..." Forte muttered.
"With how she behaves I can most likely imagine how it is like." Atticus said.
"Just row the boat..." Cherry growled at the man she was forced to call her husband.
Forte heaved a sharp sigh as he rowed. "Yes, dear..."
'Good thing I never get in her bad side.' Atticus thought.
"Won't be too long now..." Forte said as he kept rowing.
"Oh, I hope they're okay..." Mo was choked up, being painfully worrid for the children.
But she was wrong as the group was now running out of the castle.
"FLICK!" Cherry called out.
Felicity stopped as she ran with the others. "I hear my Maman..." she muttered distantly.
"Keep running, maybe we'll meet her there!" Akito called out as they continued to run.
However, as they ran, Jessie and James tripped slightly and started to roll against the group and they were going down in balls down the castle way. As soon as they all hit the ground, they started running as quickly as they could.
"Keep going, keep going!" Akito called out.
The castle was slowly coming and it crashed against a stone temple that was close to a snowy cliff. A sphere rolled over and it seemed to have electrical sparks inside of it.
"Ash... Look..." Emi whispered to her brother.
Ash looked over and he saw the sphere, taking it.
"Pika Pika Pi..." Pikachu observed.
"Just one to go." Akito said.
"Look out!" Misty cried as the Zapdos seemed attracted by the sphere.
Zapdos was zapping as they ran away to avoid the charges.
"Strange birds in the sky..." Forte muttered.
"Those are Pokemon, genius." Cherry narrowed her eyes at his lack of knowledge on the battle monster species.
"And they look angry at each other." Atticus said.
Cherry looked ahead and saw the group going to a different boat. "FLICK!"
Felicity ran, then stopped again and looked over. She saw her parents, 'aunt' and 'uncle'. "Maman!" she ran toward them.
"Felicity, get back here!" Emi called out.
"We still have three angry, ancient, bird Pokemon attacking each other and then most likely going to attack us!" Ash called out.
The lightning struck Cherry and Forte then, making them wide-eyed.
Cherry narrowed her eyes then. "Too bad that didn't kill me..." she muttered.
Mo hugged her husband, a little shaky too.
"Lawrence..." Cherry growled under her breath.
"He must be coming." Atticus said.
"Quick, we have to get away from the ancient bird Pokemon." Ash said as he now pulled Felicity with them.
"Maman... Papa..." Felicity moaned as she was pulled away.
Zapdos made a bunch of water break loose and big rocks fell, making giant waves splash among the ocean.
"Quick, into the boat!" Akito called out.
Felicity and Akito climbed aboard. Cherry stood up.
"Cerise, don't, it might be dangerous!" Forte cried to her.
"Danger or not, I'm saving my baby!" Cherry snapped at him, she removed her shoes and clothes, then jumped into the water, facing the brisk cold waves.
"Oh, this isn't safe." Atticus said.
Emi climbed aboard, but tripped.
"Don't worry, I gotcha." Akito said catching her before completely falling.
Everyone screamed as they were falling and Emi was being helped in by Akito's assistance. They seemed to be appear on top of swirled up waves somehow.
Cherry didn't know how to swim before, but she kept going and she looked up, not believing what she was seeing. She moved some of her wet hair from her face and looked up. "Unbelievable..." she muttered.
"Wow..." Atticus muttered as soon as he saw what was holding the other boat up.
Jessie, James, and Meowth got out the life raft, once they did, they relaxed in it.