Chapter Fourteen

"Phew!" I say to myself when we're at least five miles away from the palace.

"HIKARI!!" Hanon screams as she and the rest of the girls collapse on the ground from exhaustion.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU JUST DRAGGED US AT LEAST FIVE MILES!! Now Explain. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?!" She says with that look a mother gives you that says 'tell me or else'

"W-well. . ." I start.

Suddenly there was a rustle in the plants.

"Uh. . ." I say as I feel a sudden shiver go up my spine. Then I see some sparkles in appear.

"HIKARI!!" I hear voices scream and out comes flying two figures.

"Here we go again." I say when I'm tackled to the ground.

"Hiya Hikari!" One says. She has dark skin, dark brown eyes and dark brown hair with light brown streaks.

"Long time no see." The other says. She has dark skin also, marine colored eyes and dark brown hair with marine streaks.

"Nice to see you too." I say from under the dog pile.

"You guys! Get of Hikari!" Another voice says.

Out comes a mermaid with flowing silver hair.

"I'm sorry! I tried to stop them! But when they heard you came back and well, then there was just no stopping them. . . I'M SO SORRY!!" She says and bows.

"It's okay Sakura, but, you think you two could get off now?!" I say.

"OKAY!!" They say in union and are off in a millisecond.

"Now apologize to Hikari and act you age." Sakura says.

"We're sorry Hikari." One says.

"Yeah, so sorry." Says the other and they go into a depression state.

"Oh come on! I-it's okay you guys!" I say.

"YEA!!" They say and cling onto me.

"Oooh?! Who are they?" They ask pointing to everyone.

"Well-" I start.

"HI. KAR .I!!" A voice says and we turn to see Toshi with a depressing black aura around her.

"H-hiya Toshi." I say with a gulp and slowly back up.

"YOU LEFT ME BEHIND!!" She screams and then comes the water works.

"Oh hey Sakura! How long have you been here?" She asks and we all anime fall.

"Oh, for awhile now." She says.

"Hello! Mind explaining who's who?!" Hanon asks while the others just nod their heads in confusion.

"R-right. Okay then! This one here with the brown streaks is Yuki holder of the brown pearl." I say.

"Hello!" She says.

"This here," I say "is her twin sister Kasumi holder of the marine pearl. They're both thirteen."

"Hiya!" she says.

"And here is our last friend Sakura, holder of the silver pearl. She's the same age as me and Toshi."

"It's a pleasure to meet you all." She says and bows.

"Now is there any reason for us to introduce ourselves?" Hanon asks.

"Oh no need we already know who you are! You're-" Sakura begins.

"NO NEED!!" Hanon says.

"We've kinda been through this a lot lately." Luchia says all of them sweet dropping.

"Okay-" I start to say.

"OH MY GOSH!!" Yuki says.

"IT'S KAREN AND NOEL!!" Kasumi yells and they let go of me and each cling onto either Karen or Noel.

"Uh. . ." Karen and Noel say in union with confused looks.

"We're twins too!" Yuki says.

"We love you guys! Of course Hikari's still our number one!" Kasumi says.

"Okay. . ." They say.

"Hey! Wait a second! Isn't you dolphin friend named Kasumi too?" Coco asks.

"Uh huh!" says Kasumi. "My real names Yumi but Kasumi is a name Hikari chose so now I go by Kasumi. They rhythm too!" she says.

We all sweatdrop.

"Say, do you guys have any icecream around here?" Seira asks.

"What is this icecream you speak of?" The twins ask in union.

Seira gets this look on her face of pure horror.

"Seira. . . calm down." Luchia says.

To late.

"WAAAH!! WHAT TYPE OF PLACE IS THIS?!" Seira screeches.

"Seira! WE'LL BE BACK HOME SOON!! SO JUST DEAL WITH IT FOR AWHILE!!" Luchia screams over her screeching.

"Sniff. . . okay. Will Luchia buy me some when we get back?" She asks all teary eyed.

"Sigh. . . okay." She says.

"Sana! Be quiet or they'll hear us!" We hear someone whisper scream behind the algae .

"Sigh. . . You've been found out so just come on out and no one gets hurt." I say.

"This is your fault!" A voice says and out comes a young version of Sakura.

"My fault?! I wouldn't have had to say something if you weren't laughing so hard!" Hitomi says.

"SANA/HITOMI!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" Me and Sakura yell.

"Well we were chasing after this giant squid-" The mini Sakura begins.

"The truth!" Sakura says.

"Sigh. . . we were bored so we saw you and decided to eavesdrop." She says.

"SANA!! Sorry everyone. This is my little sister Sana." says Sakura. "Sigh, she's such a handful."

"Oh whatever, why don't you cry me an ocean." She says.

"SANA!! And she also has one sour tongue." Sakura says with a sigh.

"Hitomi, why are you here?" I ask.

"I was playing with Sana and she wanted to come spy on you guys so I went with her, I'm sorry big sister." She says with a sad face and fake tears.

"Sigh. . . you're forgiven. Just don't do it again!" I say.

"Okay. Maybe we should all head back now." Hitomi says. "It's getting late."

"You're right. We'll see everyone tomorrow!" I say. As me and the girls start to swim back and Toshi, Sakura, Sana, Yuki and Kasumi swim back to their own kingdoms.

"Mom's already arranged a room for each of you so just follow the maids and they'll take you to your room. See you in the morning!" I say as I swim off.

"See you in the morning!" Everyone says as they each follow a maid in a different direction to her room.

"Sigh. . ." I say when I get to my room and close my door. "What a day."

"Why don't you tell me all about it?" A hear a deep voice say.

I turn around.

"YOU!!" I scream in fury.

The figure moves as fast as lightning and I'm suddenly pinned to the wall.

"Long time no see Hikari." He says.

End of Chapter Fourteen