~Chapter Sixteen~
"MOM!!!" I screamed slamming the doors open and swimming in at a fast speed, "WHAT DOES THE JERK MEAN BY FIANCE?!!"
The rest of the girls swim in and stand besides me.
"Hikari it's the only way. We need to protect the kingdom. Do you want them to rule the sea?"
"How is me marrying him gonna help! He still gets the kingdom anyway and then he'll still gain control over the sea!" I exclaim.
My mom looks into space for a moment.
"Oh dear you're right." She says and we all anime fall.
"THEN CALL OFF THE ENGAGEMENT!!!" I scream.
"Sweetie it's too late." She tells me.
"Then we stand and fight!" Hanon says swimming up besides me, "You can't just let her marry someone without love. How did you feel?!"
This hits a nerve on my mother. I see something flash in her eyes.
"You know. You're right. Hikari, I'm so glad you've made such great friends. I'll figure something out, don't worry." She tells me looking at all of my new friends, "If worst comes to worst, as Hanon said we'll need to fight."
"We're all ready!" Luchia says.
"Yeah!" Everyone agrees.
"Then there's no doubt that we can't pull this off. For now sweetie I want you to take you friends and the rest of the princesses back to the human world. It's safe there. I'll contact you somehow when I can figure this whole thing out."
"Okay. Thanks. . . mom. I love you." I tell her before we we're out of sight.
"I love you too sweetie!" she yells out, "More than you'll ever be able to know." She adds.
"YAY!!! TRIP WITH HIKARI!!!" Kasumi and Yuki squeal as we get ready for the journey to the surface world.
"You two better behave! We don't want to cause trouble for Hikari." Sakura says.
"Don't worry so much Sakura. They'll be good. Wont you?" I ask them.
"For Hikari, anything! We promise!" they say in union as we all sweatdrop.
"We're getting closer!" I say as I see the end to the portal ahead of us. "Brace yourselves!" I tell them.
We leap out of the portal and once again me and Toshi are the only ones who have a graceful landing while once again everyone else lands in the familiar heap of mermaids.
"Oww." They moan.
"Again! Again!" the twins yell getting up.
We all sweatdrop.
"On the way back okay." I tell them.
"Okay." They agree looking around.
"Let's go. Not much further." I tell them.
"And here we are!" I tell them as we surface.
The others surface not long after.
"Wooow!" the twins say as they look at the buildings and the lights.
"It's so small." Sakura says.
"Yeah I guess it is." I say remembering they have never left the realm before.
"Why do these humans have so such small castles?" Yuki asks.
"And so many in one place?" Kasumi adds.
"Well you see these aren't castles. They're called houses and this is a town. The humans have a . . . unique way of life." I tell them.
"Ooooh." They all say.
"We'll enough chit chat time for bed." Hanon says as she starts swimming to shore with the rest of us swimming after.
As we arrive on land we all switch into our human forms.
Our three new companions study there new forms.
Sakura's silver hair turns a shade of blonde that was almost as pale as snow and stops at her shoulders while her silver eyes turn pale blue. Instead of her mermaid attire she wears a dark gray skirt and a light blue tank.
Kasumi's marine streaks disappear while her hair stops at her hips. Her marine eyes switch to a more normal shade of blue and a baby blue sundress appears on her.
Lastly Yuki's streaks disappear and her hair stops at her ears. Her eyes turn a darker shade of brown on she wears a pair of tan shorts and a brown tank.
"We'll off we go!" Hanon says as we all go our separate ways. Lina returning to her apartment, Karen, Noel, Coco and Seira going off to wherever they go and me and the girls towards pearl bath.
"Watch out." We warn them as we head towards the door.
"I've been expecting you-" Taki says swinging the door open right on que.
"TAKI!!!" Nikora says eyes of fire and a bonfire in the backround.
"Fine! Fine!" she says as walks away and disappears behind her door. One can only wonder what she does all day alone in her little closet.
I look at our new friends and I see them with eyes as large as they could go and billions of sweatdrops on the back of their heads.
"Don't even ask." Toshi says and they nod their heads up and down in a freaked out manner.
"Hanon. . ." I say.
"Don't say it!" she says as she holds her hand up and groans. Another morning + new mermaids + getting up early = 1 unhappy Hanon.
The next morning after practically having to drag Hanon out of bed. She finally agreed when I reminded her it was Friday so she could sleep in all day tomorrow. So when we got to the school we registered the three of them and all that stuff.
"These outfits are so cute!" The Kasumi squeal and twirls while Sakura plays with her skirt.
"I don't know. Aren't these. . . a little short?" she asks.
"It's fine Sakura. But if it bugs you so much we can get you a boys uniform.
"Oh no! That's very improper for a lady!" she says, "Um, no offense Lina, Yuki."
"None taken." Lina says clearly not offened.
"How can you stand those. . . skirts?!" Yuki questioned her sister.
"Their fun! See!" she says and twirls.
"How we're related I'll never get." Yuki says, "But the skirt looks great on you Sakura!"
"W-well if you insist." She says.
So pretty much we spend most of the morning touring the school. Somehow they managed to get through the torture of the day.
"That was torture!" They exclaimed.
"But I did enjoy. . . gym I believe it was called?" Yuki says as we all have a flashback of how during dodgeball she almost knocked out half the male population when one of them hit her.
"I actually enjoyed, history I believe it was called? These humans have such an intresting past." Sakura stated.
"I just liked wearing this cute outfit!" Kasumi says and twirls around.
"Hikari? HIKARI!!!" A voice yells as we turn and see Kenchii run up to us.
"Who's that?" Yuki asks.
"He's cute!" Kasumi adds.
"Where on earth have you been?! I've been worried sick!" he yells at me, "You couldn't have called or something?!"
"I'm sorry. I had some urgent business back home." I say.
I see him run his hand through his hair and say something silently to himself, sounds like he was telling himself to breathe in and out. Finally he sighs and I blush as he hugs me.
"Whatever just don't do it again." He says.
"AWW!!!" I hear everyone say.
He looks up.
"New people again?!" He says in disbelief.
"Yup! Allow me to introduce you to Sakura, Yuki and Kasumi." I say, "And this is Kenchii, my boyfriend."
"BOYFRIEND?!!" the three of them scream and almost make half the human population go deaf.
The twins walk up to him and circle him, hmming as they inspect him while Kenchii just stands there confused with a freaked out look,
"You'll do." They say looking up at him.
"But if you dare." Yuki says.
"Hurt our Hikari." Kasumi says.
"WE'LL KILL YOU!!!" they scream at him and he almost falls over.
"R-right. Nothing to worry about there though." He says and grabs me by the waist, "We're totally in love so it's all good!"
I swear I could feel my mouth hit the floor as my face turns a familiar shade of crimson.
"I-idiot! Don't say things like that!" I yell and try to get him to let go.
"Why? It's true."
"Idiot." I mumbled.
"You know you love me." He said and kissed me on the lips.
"DON'T DO THAT!!!" I screech as he laughs.
"Why not?! We've kissed twice now? Or do you want to move on to stage two?"
"PERVERT!!!" I screech at him.
"Let's go on a date tomorrow! We haven't gone out once since we got together!" he says completely ignoring my outburst.
"Pick you up at twelve tomorrow!" he says over his shoulder as he walks away.
"W-wait a minute!" I cry out.
"Oh. My. GOSH!!! WE NEED TO GET YOU AN OUTFIT FOR YOUR DATE TOMMOROW!!!" Hanon screams.
"You don't mean!" I said in horror.
"TO THE MALL!!!" Hanon exclaimed as she dragged me to the mall at super speed.
I'll never know what I missed that day while I was forced to try on various outfits.
~End of Chapter Sixteen~