This is the chapter I've been dreading and you've been awaiting!
The one where your OCs appear! Yay!
I made sure to finish this before my birthday, so consider this a one day early gift to you guys to be great readers!
And I don't own MMPPP. If I did, then this fic would be in a magazine with pictures drawn by Hanamori instead of words! Yay!
"This is the right window, right?" A strong female voice asked.
"Probably, I can see your stuff in that room, so it should be alright to go in" another, softer voice replied.
Suzumi's eyes shot opened as two mermaids fell through her window. She got up and eyed the two. One had platinum blonde hair and a warm yellow tail, while the other's hair was a dark brown, and her tail's colour mirrored the colour of an emerald. The two got up and looked at Suzumi, equally shocked at the sight of someone, let alone an Aqua mermaid, in the empty room.
The silence between the three was awkward. Suzumi quickly glanced at the various clothes and items a mermaid would have.
"So, is the stuff over there yours?" She asked, swimming down off the bed and down to their level.
"Yes" the yellow tailed mermaid replied. After that was said the silence attacked for another few seconds.
"I'm Suzumi, Princess of the Aqua Mermaid's kingdom" Suzumi said, putting out her hand for the other two to shake. Instead they smiled at her and moved closer.
"Really?!" The green tailed mermaid exclaimed "I've heard of you! You look nothing like I imagined you!". Suzumi raised her eyebrows, but kept her out stretched hand steady. The Yellow mermaid grabbed it instead.
"I'm Senna! I'm a mermaid Princess too, I bet you can tell which kingdom I rule" the Yellow mermaid said, holding Suzumi's hand with both of hers "And Mayumi over there is the Green kingdom's Princess". Suzumi looked at both, frozen in excitement and shock. Mayumi then smiled at Suzumi and opened her mouth to say something when the aqua painted door swung open.
"Suzumi, are you okay? You've been asleep for 3 hours…" Hiromu's deep voice called from the doorway. The advisor looked through her glasses to see Suzumi shaking hands with the two mermaids that were thought to be missing. Hiromu took a deep breath and was so loud she almost yelled.
"Where the hell have you guys been?!" Hiromu yelled, her hands high in the air "We've been looking for you! Even Seira got off her princess ass and looked for you!". The three girls looked surprised at the normally calm Hiromu's outburst. The young woman shook her head in impatience and swam to the side of the door.
"Everyone has been waiting for a while, please leave the room" Hiromu said with almost a bitter tone in her voice "I'm sorry that you were kept waiting to get outside". The three princesses swam out of the two rooms and into the corridor.
"How does she get the power to speak to us like that?" Suzumi asked, still shocked out the outburst.
"Hiromu has a lot more respect than a lot of people in the mermaid world" Senna answered "Even some Princesses doesn't have as much respect as she does".
"She's a very intelligent person whose entire life is dedicated to this world of ours" Mayumi added on "She's sacrificed more than we could ever imagine to keep all the mermaid kingdoms safe, from what she's done, she has every right in the world to yell at us". Suzumi scratched her head in embarrassment and followed the older mermaids to the meeting room.
Several gasps were heard as the girls entered the room. Suzumi stood between Senna and Mayumi as they looked at the other three Mermaid Princesses. Roselle got up and swam to Suzumi as Senna and Mayumi sat down in their kingdom's coloured seat.
"Suzumi! It took you long enough!" Roselle laughed as she put her arm around Suzumi's shoulders.
"Everyone, this is Suzumi Paaku" Roselle laughed happily "She won't scare you too much". Suzumi smiled nervously as she looked at everyone at the small circular table in front of her. The seven seats weren't all filled; with the only ones unoccupied with a mermaid was the orange seat, the aqua seat and the deep blue seat. Suzumi looked at the other princesses over while Roselle took Suzumi to her seat. The mermaid sitting next to her was Mayumi, who she had met many times before thanks to their kingdoms being next to each other. Across from her was Senna, who she had never met before, except for the strange encounter they had five minutes ago. The rest of the mermaids, bar Roselle, she had never met before.
"Okay girls, let's get this meeting started" the familiar deep voice of Hiromu called as the redhead opened the door. The mermaids all stood up and Hiromu headed to the Orange chair at the head of the round table.
"First off, before we say anything, I would like to say that Seira is still on land, looking for Mayumi and Senna," Hiromu said, sending a short glare to the two mermaids "So I'll lead this meeting". She signalled the mermaid to sit down as she sat down herself.
"Now, I'd like to welcome Suzumi Paaku to the ranks of us Princesses" Hiromu said, obviously not wanting to focus on Suzumi and get on with the meeting.
"You've met Roselle Coxone, Senna Inohara and Mayumi Takano before" Hiromu said, pointing to each mermaid as she named them "and these two are Yukina Tougen and Sakura Hanabi".
"Anyway, to a more important matter" Hiromu said, pushing up her glasses "where in the name of all that is holy have you two been?" she continued, sounding much calmer than she did before. Mayumi and Senna stood up in union and swam next to Hiromu.
"The reason we were away for so long was because…" Senna said, looking at Mayumi to finish the sentence.
"We were on land for a short holiday like you promised us Hiromu" Mayumi said, stopping Hiromu from butting in "and we think we found Rina Touin". Everyone in the room started muttering something to the nearest person except Suzumi, who was pretty clueless to what this news meant.
"You did?!" Hiromu gasped, standing up and receiving nods from the two girls.
"That is fantastic! That means that Operation Trouver Le Princesse will definetly be executed!" Hiromu exclaimed. The room suddenly became tense and silent from those words.
"Suzumi, I apologise that this had to be your first meeting" Hiromu started "But this operation is vital". Suzumi nodded in confusion. Roselle gave Suzumi a look which read 'I'll tell you later'.
"Now, because of this, no one can go anywhere until Seira comes back, and that means I'll have to go meet her on land and get her down here as fast as I can, which means I need to leave one of you in charge" Hiromu said, looking around the room "Mayumi, since you're the oldest, you're in charge…and can you and Senna stay behind when the meeting ends? I need more details on your trip on land". Senna and Mayumi nodded as Hiromu took out the small mallet from under the desk and hit it twice on the bench, signalling the end of the meeting.
The four mermaids swam out of the room and into the large lobby of the castle, where Suzumi sat down on the nearest seat and looked at Roselle.
"Explain" she said, patting the seat next to her "What is this operation?" Roselle sighed and sat down, followed by Yukina and Sakura.
"The Operation is something that has been planned for years" Yukina explained before Roselle could open her mouth "It's basically an operation to find the previous Princesses, since their disappearances all those years ago was very alarming. It was more alarming considering the evils they had to fight years before, and it might be connected to that". Roselle cleared her throat and continued.
"The Operation is where two Mermaid Princesses at a time spend about a week and a half on land, and then they swap over with another two Princesses. The process repeats until we find all the Former Princesses" Roselle continued to explain "And in between the swapping process, we have Princess Meetings"
"It's a very controversial topic, but we all decided to go through with the operation, except you" Yukina added onto Roselle. Suzumi's eye's lit up as she stood up.
"Well, I'll definitely be doing the operation! If it's for Hanon-sama!" Suzumi said, clenching her fists and holding them up in front of her chest. The other Princesses smiled.
"We knew you'd say that" Sakura laughed.
"Suzumi! Wake up!" Mayumi called, knocking on the young Aqua Princess's door "Seira's back! We can decide who's going on land first!". The green tailed mermaid stood back as Suzumi burst through the door, the largest grin placed on her face.
"Really? Where?" Suzumi asked, running her fingers threw her hair in an attempt to comb it.
"She's in the meeting room" Mayumi laughed "You can comb your hair and put on a nice shirt. Suzumi nodded and swam back in her room and ran through her drawers. It had become a recent fashion in the mermaid world to wear human shirts instead of seashell bras. Suzumi picked out a frilly powder blue shirt with long sleeves. The frills started from her elbow to her wrist and from the bottom of her chest to the top of her tail. She smiled and slipped the shirt on. She combed her hair and put her aqua coloured bracelets on and disappeared downstairs.
She quickly reached the meeting room and sat down in her seat next to Mayumi. She looked around and noticed that Sakura and Senna was still to come down. But that was the least of her interests, since she could now see what Seira looked like.
Seira was incredibly beautiful. Her hair had darkened since she was born, and it now reached the top of her fins. Her bangs were now down to her shoulders, and were the only hair that was loose since the rest of her hair was in a long braid. She was a lot older looking and she had a graceful air about her.
The door opened and Senna and Sakura, followed by a very tired Hiromu, entered the room. The two Princesses sat next to each other and Hiromu headed over to where Seira was.
"Now, you all know why you're here…" Seira started as the noise died down "after staying up most of last night and thinking about this, we've decided that Suzumi and Sakura should be the first to head up together on land". Everybody nodded in agreement, but Roselle's mood experienced an ugly turn and the young woman started to scowl. Seira laughed as she noticed this.
"Remember Roselle, Suzumi needs to make friend with other Princesses, so give her some space" Seira laughed as Roselle blushed. Suzumi gave her friend a sympathetic smile while listening to what Seira said next.
"You two will leave this afternoon, so I recommend you pack your things as soon as this meeting's over. Meanwhile, the rest of you can either stay at this castle for the next one and a half weeks, or go back to you kingdoms, since it's been a week since Sakura sent out the letter" Seira finished, and hit the desk with the small mallet. Sakura and Suzumi looked at each other and smiled as they swam back to their rooms, wanting to leave as soon as possible.
Roselle followed Suzumi back to her room, and stood by the door, waiting for her to come back out. An hour later, Suzumi came out with a heavy bag, not expecting Roselle to be there.
"Roselle! This will be so exciting! I was chosen first!" Suzumi managed to say as her friend wrapped her arms around her.
"Good luck Suzumi" Roselle said bitterly as she pulled away "The human world isn't as beautiful as you may think…" the dark blue mermaid muttered as she looked away from Suzumi's confused face.
-shield self from flames-
I hope I wrote your characters right, give me a shout out if I didn't
And reviews are loved! I love my ego being inflated/deflated :p.
And expect the next chapter to be up sometime this weekend or early next week
And notice how the majority of the Princesses' names start with S. Seira, Senna, Sakura and Suzumi :p