This is a remake of my lonely mermaid story. I told you guys it was a stand along chapter well here is it's original form with some more added to it.


Chapter 5

"There you go my dear." Daryl smiled giving a young girl with green hair and blue eyes some some sea shells.

"Thank you Daryll." The girl smiled and disappeared under the water of the water tank she was in flipping her pink tail up as she dived down.

This girl was a mermaid and she was saved by Daryl at the end of spring. She had attacked by a shark last spring and washed up on the shore of forget me not valley. Daryl had seen her on his early morning walk and dragged her to his lab and placed her in tank. The water tank she was in was only 6 feet wide but it was 20 feet deep and it would keep her safe as she recovered from her injuries.

"It's starting to look more like home." She thought putting the shells here and there to decorate it then returned to the surface and started to prepare some food for Daryll's lunch.

Leia heard a knock come from upstairs and Daryll went up to see what it was.

"Ah Tony it's good to see you my boy." Daryll said.

"Sup Daryll you busy?" Said Tony.

"No Tony is something wrong?" Daryll said.

"Yeah my Cheese maker is on the Fritz and I've got to make 12 pounds of it for Ruby today." Tony said.

"Well I can take a look at it just give me a minute." Daryll said.

"Huh I wonder who Tony is?" Leia thought and Daryll came downstairs.

He walked up to her tank and gave a large fish to Leia surprising her. (After all she did have a knife in her hands and she thought she was going to stab him when he shoved it in her arms.)

"I'm going to be gone for a few hours so heres something to eat my dear." Daryll said.

"Oh okay." Leia said and Daryll closed the tank and locked it.

Daryll left and Leia was locked away alone in the tank again. (It had a lid with slits in it for air not that she needed it because she had lungs and gills but you know. Daryll did this every time he left the lab. It's a good he did because Tony actually went down there when Leia was there and he didn't see her because of the cover.)

"I know he wants to protect me but when Daryl is not around I get so lonely it scares me." Leia thought and curled up in the corner of her tank.

"So what were you doing downstairs?" Tony asked adjusting his cap. (Tony's hat was filthy since he never washed it. He felt it was lucky and washing it would make it unlucky. Hey I feel the same way about my hat too which I'm wearing as I type this.)

"Never you mind!" Daryll half shouted scaring Tony.

"Jeez sorry Daryll it's just that you didn't grab any tools and I didn't hear any machines on downstairs is all." Tony said started walking.

"Yes well whatever you do stay away from my basement. There are some things that must not be seen by human eyes." Daryll said following.

"Does that make you an alien then?" Tony joked.

"Yes, yes it does." Daryll said trying to drive the conversion away from his basement.

"You are not." Tony said.

"I might as well be I'm an outcast in this town!" Daryll said.

"That's because you're in your lab all day long doing the goddess knows what." Tony smiled and walked a bit faster.

"Hmm you got me there. If you hadn't been a friend of Tyler we won't be friends right now." Daryll said.

"Yep so what is in your basement?" Tony asked.

"It's not for you to know!" Daryll yelled in his face.

"Alright alright I won't ask again." Tony sighed.

"He's getting curious but I know Tony better then anyone in this town and I don't think he'll try anything. After all he still trying to figure out how to get the robot I gave him work." Daryll chucked to himself. (Oh so that's what that extra room is for.)

They arrived at the farm and Tony took him to his storage shed.

"Here it is." Tony said showing Daryll the cheese maker.

"Huh it looks fine to me." Daryll said.

"Watch this." Tony said pouring some milk in and turned it on.

He turned it on and the cheese maker laughed evilly.

"Oh back for more huh? Well feel the wraith of my cheese blast!" The cheese maker said firing a blob of green cheese that was aimed at his face. Tony dodged the attack and bashed the maker with his hammer making it turn off and leave a large dent in it.

"See every time I try to use it that happens." Tony said leaning on his hammer and Daryll's eye started twitching.

"Are you out of your mind?! I can't fix this! Jeez you should get the priest to fix this thing not me!" Daryll shouted flailing his arms up and down.

"He did. All you have to do is replace the evil spirit filter and fix this broken gear right here." Tony said pointing to it.

"Well if that's all I have to do why can't you do it?" Daryll asked.

"Remember what happened the last time I tried to fix something?" Tony said.

Images of the villagers running around screaming as Daryll's second robot was destroying a random town flashed before his eyes.

"Yeah I'll get right on it." Daryll said getting to work.

"Good I'll be in the barn. Sara is still sick and I'm not going to meet my quota for the season if I don't start milking her again soon." Tony said leaving.

"Tony. Where have I heard that name before?" Leia thought trying to remember.

"I know I've heard his name before but where?" Leia thought.

A few hours later Leia's boredom grew even more. Another hour after that she was starting to get scared.

"Where is Daryl? He's never been gone this long." Leia thought and watched the sun go down in the corner.

"I hope he's okay." Leia thought and started making something with the sea shells she had.

She thought back to the day she washed up on shore as she worked. She had been saved by a someone during the shark attack that injured her fin and possibly killed the that saved her but it saddened her that she didn't have the time too get a good look at them. Daryl found her and took her to his lab. He was able to heal her wounds yet over time she loved staying in the water tank with Daryll and chose to stay for a little while longer. At least until summer was over which wasn't for another 12 days or so.

"He takes such good care of me. I just wish I could do more for him then prepare food." Leia thought.

"There all done!" Daryll sighed wiping his forehead off.

"Wow you just barely finished?" Tony asked coming in to place the produce for tomorrow away.

"Yeah after I examined it closer I learned that the maker would need to be completely over hauled for it to work." Daryll said.

"Well lets give it a whir." Tony said.

He poured some milk in and pushed the button. Nothing happened and the maker started to rumble.

"What's it doing?" Tony asked.

"Ah I see the problem." Daryll said tightening a lose bolt.

When he did the cheese maker exploded blasting Tony against the door breaking it off it's hinges and into the storage shed wall knocking him out cold and burnt as well.

"Oh my head." Tony said waking up and saw that he was in the doctor's office.

"Ah your awake." Dr Hardy said.

"What happened? I feel like I got hit by a truck." Tony said trying to get up.

"Whoa slow down Tony you got hurt pretty badly and I'm afraid you won't be able to work for a whole season." Dr. Hardy said.

"A whole season?!" Tony said and sat up.

When he did currents of pain shot through his body and he fell back down screaming.

"Now look what you did I have to sew you up all over again." Dr. Hardy grumbled.

"So what happened?" Tony asked after taking some pain killers after Dr. Hardy had finished.

"It seems that your cheese maker exploded and you got hit by the blast. Your lucky to be alive. You'll be out of here in 3 days but your body is going to need time to heal. So I had Takakura take over your farm during that time and Rock said he'd help out too. I forbid you from working on your farm if you do your going to disable yourself for life you got that?" Dr Hardy said glaring at him with his good eye.

"Jeez I've never seen him so serious before." Tony thought.

"What happened to Daryll?" Tony asked.

"He went into a coma we had to take him to Mineral town because we don't have the resources to help him here." Dr. Hardy said.

"Oh." said Tony looking away from Dr. Hardy.

"Alright so no farm work for season got it." Tony said.

"Good now rest up Tony." Dr. Hardy smiled and left.

"Yeah rest." Tony thought and closed his eyes.

"I can't believe Daryll is in a coma." Tony thought when he left Dr. Hardy's house a few days later dressed in his Never soft T shirt and some green shorts with sandals. (Dr. Hardy took all his tools and gear as well to make sure he didn't do any work. Tony can be stubborn when he wanted to be.)

Tony was walked by Daryll's house and noticed the front door was open. Tony walked inside. Murrey was inside raiding Daryll's fridge.

"Murrey!" Tony growled and Murrey sweat dropped.

"Oh how's it going moi?" Murrey said.

"What are you doing?" Tony said.

"Someone spilled food in here so I thought I would clean it up for them moi." Murrey said.

"Murrey food wasn't spilled in here now get out or I'll sic my dog on you again." Tony said and Murrey ran past him with his arms that Tony took away as he ran.

"Geez give him a little food and he thinks he can invite himself in your house whenever he wants." Tony sighed. (Tony is patient but Murrey is just to much for him now.)

"Jeez I wish he would go home already." Tony sighed putting the food away then started to clean up Daryll's house since Murrey trashed it.

"There all done." Tony sighed later and noticed that the basement door was open.

He went downstairs and saw that it was trashed as well.

"I swear if I still had my sword with me I'd." Tony thought then heard a splash.

He moved over to the water tank and looked down.

"This stupid gate is in the way." Tony said.

"Hello?" Said Leia and Tony jumped back.

"Did that come from the tank?" Tony thought frightened.

He looked around found Daryll's spare key under a box of beakers. Tony opened the lid and lifted it up. Inside the tank the water was water 20 feet deep and Tony saw something on the bottom.

"What is that?" Tony thought and Leia looked up at him. She hadn't eaten in 3 days since Daryll was not there to feed her and she was to weak to go the surface anymore.

"Hey is that a girl?" Tony thought taking his hat off. He held his breath and dunk his head under the water.

When he saw Leia he was thought she was a real girl and took his shirt and shoes of then dived in. He swam to the bottom and Leia was frightened of him and passed out. He grabbed her and pulled her to the surface. He dragged her out of the tank and saw her tail.

"What the heck?" Tony thought looking at her.

"Daryll what in the world have you been up to?" Tony thought looking Leia over. He was amazed by her beauty yet he knew something was wrong with her. Leia's stomach growled and she groaned.

"She looks like she hasn't eaten in a while." Tony thought and saw an apple nearby.

He cut a few pieces and put them in Leia's mouth. She smelled the apple and took a bite of it in almost a trance.

"That's it just a little more." Tony thought and Leia ate a few more pieces.

A few minutes later she opened her eyes to find herself next to Tony as he treaded in the water holding her head up.

"Are you okay?" Tony asked.

"Yes I feel much better now but who you?" Leia asked.

"My name is Tony." Tony said.

"I'm Leia thank you for saving me." She said blushing a little.

"No problem are you going to be okay now?" Tony asked.

"I'm not sure I feel very sick." Leia said.

"Was it the apples I gave you?" Tony asked.

"No is wasn't the apples I think there is something else wrong with me." Leia said.

"What is it?" Tony asked.

"I'm not sure but I'm starting to feel better know." She said looking into Tony's eyes making him blush a little.

"I think your lonely." Tony said.

"Lonely?" Leia said get out of Tony's grip.

"Yes it's what humans feel when we're by ourselves for too long. I've got to go now and I'm glad your alright." Tony said and climbed out of the tank.

"Wait!" Leia said grabbing his arm.

"What?" Tony said putting his shirt and sandals back on after she had let go of him.

"Um do you know what happened to Daryll?" Leia asked trying to keep Tony from leaving.

"Yeah he got hurt and is in the hospital in the other town." Tony said putting his cap on and Leia gasped.

"Oh no poor Daryll." Leia said.

"Hmm since Daryll is gone nobody will be here to take care of his experiment. Since I'm his friend I guess I should do it. I never knew he had such a thing in his lab." Tony thought.

"Hey do you want me to stay here?" Tony said.

"Yes I do I don't want to be lonely like you call it anymore." Leia said.

"Well... I can't stay here because it isn't my house but I can visit you everyday." Tony said.

"I'd like that." Leia smiled.

"First things first though I have to get you something to eat. What do you like?" Tony asked.

"I love fish." Leia said.

"Okay I'll go get some." Tony said leaving.

"I hope he comes back." Leia thought.

A storm was starting to rage as Tony collected some of his finest catches from his bath tub for Leia. (You'll find out later why he keeps them in his bath tub.)

"Huh that storm looks bad. I better get these to Leia and then get home before it gets much worse." Tony thought.

He started to run to Daryll's house and he felt a sharp pain on his side.

"Ow my stitches." Tony said grabbing his side.

"I need to be more careful they must have started coming loose when I dived in to save Leia." He thought.

He went inside and the wind slammed the door stuck but Tony didn't notice nor did he care at the moment.

Leia was happy to see him and splashed the waster behind her with her tail.

"You came back!" She said.

"Of course I can back I'm in charge of you now so what choice did I have?" Tony said.

"In charge of me?" Leia said.

"Sure with Daryll gone it comes to me to take care of you until he returns." Tony said putting the fish done on a counter next to her.

"Oh." Leia said holding onto the side of the tank.

"Here I caught this one a few days ago." Tony said giving a sailfish to Leia and put the other fish in a smaller tank nearby then feed them.

"Oh thank you I love sword fish." Leia said disappearing under the water.

She came back up with a cutting knife and chopped up the sail fish in the blink of an eye into a plate of sashimi.

"Wow your fast." Tony said.

"Watch this." Leia said grabbing some rice and seaweed and mixed it with the sashimi to make sushi almost as fast.

"Here try some." Leia said.

Tony looked at the piece of sushi and groaned softly. (He wasn't really a fan of fish but didn't want to be rude either.) He grabbed it and ate it. It was a lot better then he thought.

"Wow this is good." Tony said.

"Thank you." Leia said.

(And now my friends the rest of this chapter that you have been waiting to see.)

Tony took some of the sushi and sat down on Daryll's couch and ate some of the sushi. Tony noticed Daryll's research book.

"Oh I've been wanting to read this for a long time." Tony thought picking it up and opened it.

Tony opened the book and red the first page.

"Dear Tony if you are reading this know that my security camera will record it." Tony read and looked up into the northeastern corner of the room.

"A man." He groaned but decided to keep reading any.

"Well as long as your going to read it anyway here is a log of my experiments and what you need to do to continue them." Tony read.

Tony read the log and moved up to some bubbling beakers.

"Lets see stir this once every 3 days at the least and once ever hour at the most. When it turns blue take it off the heat and drink it." Tony thought and started stirring it.

The stirring stick he used was eaten away by the liquid and it blue.

"Cool." Tony said and drank it.

"What is?" Leia said making Tony jump as he finished drinking it and it felt icy cool as it ran down his throat like it was peppermint.

"Whoa sorry I forgot you were here." Tony said.

"It's okay so what are you doing?" Leia asked.

"Just continuing Daryll's experiment." I said.

"He's always working on things but I don't know what they do." Leia said.

"Me either I'm just glad he doesn't use me as a test subject anymore." Tony said.

"Test subject?" Leia asked.

"Yeah he's expermented on me before." Tony said.

"What did he do?" Leia asked curious.

Tony rolled rolled up his sleeve and showed Leia a tattoo of a power berry.

"Daryll injected me with a solution that helps me work longer without getting tired. But injecting it made my skin turn red where where he injected it into me so went out of town a few weeks ago and got a power berry tattoo to cover it." Tony said.

"Did it hurt?" Leia asked.

"A lot I was really weak for a few days but after a while I got stronger and stronger and I'm still getting stronger now." Tony said.

"What did he use on you?" Leia asked.

"He used uh this." Tony said showing her a syringe and she screamed.

"Get the thing away from me!" She yelled.

"Whoa Leia what's wrong?" Tony asked.

"That's the evil device that killed my father!" She said started crying.

"What?" Tony asked dropping it.

Leia cried for a few minutes then called down.

"Will you get rid of that thing?" She asked.

"Huh oh sure." Tony said worried about her and threw the syringe away.

"There it's gone now tell me what's wrong?" Tony said sitting next to the tank.

Leia calmed down and started her story.

"When I was 7 years old I found one of those evil things and showed it to my father.

It had a green liquid inside of it and my father's eyes lit up when he saw it. My father knew more about humans then I did and said that it was a wonderful device that makes fish stronger. My father put it in the treasury and had it well guarded should my father need a boost for his powers should we come under attack." Leia said.

"So how did it kill him?" Tony asked starting to wish he hadn't opened this can of worms.

"When I was 10 my kingdom was under attack and my father took the device into battle." Leia began and Tony stopped her.

"Wait your a princess?" Tony asked.

"Well yes why?" Leia asked.

"So she isn't an experiment she's a real mermaid but if that's the case what is she doing here?" Tony thought.

"Anyway my father was started to lose and he used the device on himself. My mother told me his muscles grew larger and his eyes grew cold and merciless. He defeated no slaughtered the rest of the soldiers that were attacking our kingdom then still in a rage I've never seen before proceeded to the capital of the king that sent the soldiers and ravaged his entire kingdom in the course of 3 days and he didn't stop once. He finished his killing spree with the king that sent the attack and then he came home. It was late and he entered his throne room and sat on his throne. It was watching him as he breathed in and out deeply then he started coughing and started to gasp for breath and then he fell silent. The next day my mother said he was dead and the device as to blame." Leia said sadly and started to cry again.

"Cardiac arrest." Tony said.

"What?" Leia said looking at him.

"He died of Cardiac arrest his heart stopped due the it being unable to pump enough blood to his major organs as the serum made his adreniline pump to fast and he didn't feel the need to stop and catch his breath. To last for 3 days without needed to rest is very interesting. I must adjust the serum to allow it better control and patent it for humans." Tony said.

"What? You mean... you did this?" Leia asked horrified.

"No I read it out of here." Tony said horrified as well and showed Leia Daryll's research book.

"What?" Leia said and looked at the book.

"I can't read this." She said.

"Well says that Daryll is the one that dropped the serum where you would find it and give it to him. The notes before it say he used your father as test subject long before this happened. That is how he knew what it was." Tony said and felt sick.

"But why?" Leia asked.

"I don't know but I need to find the rest of his log books. I have to figure out what he's done to me." Tony said and started pulling books off the shelves.

Tony spent 2 weeks looking at Daryll's research books. As he read more and more he became sickened by what he read and then came the day he made a truly sickening discovery.

"The girl isn't strong enough to test my power serum on but I have Tony for that it is fine for now. Regardless this girls DNA is very useful. She was bleed badly when she was hurt and I used her blood to make a potion to turn humans into mermaid. With this I can get more test subjects when ever I want and use them to further my research. I plan to test it on Tony but will he be willing to do it? I don't know so I'll have to trick him I guess. Though it is made with her DNA I'm not sure what it will do to a male." Tony read and threw the book against the wall waking Leia up who had fallen asleep while try to learn how to read human words.

"What's wrong?" She yawn.

"I'm turning into a monster." Tony said and she gasped.

He's blue eyes had turned yellow and his hair was aqua blue.

"Tony what's going?" Leia asked.

"Remember that potion I drank when I first met you? Well it's turning me into mermaid or a monster who knows what's going to happen to me." Tony thought and screamed as a long tail with fins on tip shot out of the small of his back. Long fins came out of his arms and he grew lots teeth like a shark. The last thing that had change was that the blood that came out when he changed was blue. The same color as the potion he had drank.

"Damn it Daryll I'll get you for this." Tony thought and passed out leaning against the tank.

Leia wasn't sure what to do. She had to help him and would do so the only way she knew how. She grabbed Tony and pulled him into the tank. He sank to the bottom and Leia began to sing. As she did rainbow colored notes came out of her mouth and wrapped around Tony. His features new features started to disappear and 10 minutes later he woke up.

"Where am I?" He thought and looked around.

Everything was crystal clear and he realized he was under water but didn't need to breath.

"Am I dead?" He thought.

"Tony?" Leia asked swimming in front of him.

"Leia?" Tony said and could hear his words coming out of his mouth.

"Oh I'm so glad your okay!" She said hugging him making him blush.

"T-thanks." He said and hugged her back.

"I was so worried but it looks like your going to be okay." She said holding a cracked mirror in front of Tony.

He's hair and eyes had returned to normal. Tony grabbed piece of coral and cut his arm his blood was red again.

"I'm okay but how?" Tony asked.

"I sang for you Tony my songs can heal wounds." Leia said.

"Thank you I'm all better now and I breath under water to now." Tony said.

"That's strange only my mom has enough power to give humans the ability to breath under water and that's only for a little while. What's weird is that you've been okay for 8 hours I've just been waiting for you to wake up." Leia said and gasped when Tony kissed her.

She blushed deeply and looked very confused when Tony pulled away.

"Leia you saved my life I could have died if you hadn't saved me. Perhaps your more powerful then you realize." Tony said.

"It is possible my mother said mermaids can gain a lot of magic power if they fall in love with someone." Leia sand gasped then covered her mouth.

"What did you say?" Tony asked.

"I said that... I love you." Leia said still blushed and now it was Tony's turn.

"But why?" Tony asked.

"You took such good care of me Tony. Your teaching me how to read and doing all of this so I can get some understand more about what killed my father and you taught me that Daryll can't be trusted. You have earned my love and respect Tony that is more then any human has ever got from a mermaid." Leia said.

Tony's heart started beating quickly and his features came out but it didn't hurt this time.

"Whoa." Tony said.

"Are you okay?" Leia asked.

"I feel fine better then before it seems that your magic has given me control of what Daryll as done to me." Tony said and returned to normal.

"Wow." Leia said smiling.

"This place isn't safe anymore I have to get you back to the ocean." Tony and swam to the surface.

"But I can't go back." Leia said.

"What why not?" Tony asked.

"Because I'm engaged." Leia said.

"Huh? But then why did you tell me you love me?" Tony asked confused.

"Well that's the thing Tony I'm engaged... to you." Leia said blushing deeply.

Tony's eyes shrank and his left eye twitched.

"Say what!?" He yelled and Leia couldn't stop blushing and then giggled.