Ranma and melody were at school. It was lunch time. "Kiekies should not be causing trouble and threatening teachers don't ya know hmm?" principle kuno said as he approached Ranma and melody with his usual grin.

"Go away" Ranma said annoyed already knowing what the principle was going to say and do.

"No, no kiekie you be causing problems for teachers you need to learn so here have a coconut" he said as passed a coconut to them, melody looked at it confused, Ranma then quickly through it into the air and they all watched as it exploded in mid air "oh so kiekie no like coconuts huh here have a pineapple" principle kuno said as he passed a pineapple to melody who threw it back at him scared after seeing the pineapple, principle kuno caught it with both hands and sweat dropped and began sweetening and passed it back to melody who passed it back and this continued until it went boom, just in front of principle kuno's head. Ranma smirked at the sight of the pathetic principle who now laid unconscious on the ground, then he heard something that made his blood run cold, thunder he then looked up at the forming clouds and grabbed melody's hand and ran towards the school gate before jumping over it and heading towards the nearest body of water, Nabiki saw this and smirked, feeling she was about to get some dirt she could use later, so she followed them by climbing a tree and jumping onto the school wall before jumping down and then froze as she saw Ranma and melody, the rain had began to fall and the minute it touched them their legs merged to form tales and Ranma's curse activated and they fell face first onto the ground, Nabiki's smirk then grew even more when she thought how much people would pay to see actual mermaids, she grabbed their tales and dragged them home, Ranma and melody couldn't do anything till the rain stopped, as the minute their tales dried and they became human again they would turn back into mermaids within a second and Ranma couldn't concentrate his mermaid abilities as he couldn't turn round to see whoever was dragging them to manipulate the water within them.

Tendo residence…

Nabiki got a glass tank ready full of water and it was big she then threw melody in, followed by Ranma, she then place a lid on the top so that if they did turn human it would only go against them.

"Nabiki I should of known it was you" Ranma growled as she moved her tail slightly, she wouldn't dare use the water as it could harm melody and there was too much water to focus on Nabiki.

"well Ranma you do owe me money and I do get what I'm owed Ranma, your friends have caused so much damage to this place that your debt is sky high so this should help pay that debt off…slightly" Nabiki explained. Nabiki then left to start getting signs ready, she decided to blow school off today after all how often do you find two mermaids to exploit.

"There has to be some way out of here" Ranma said as he placed his palm on the tanks wall. Ranma then swung his tale at the glass; however, it didn't even scratch the tank.

Melody then sank to the bottom of the count and brought her tale to her chest and hugged herself. "Trapped again except this time it's not by a sea witch" melody whispered to herself, her voice about to break. Ranma swam down to melody and sat on top of her tale like she would knees and put her palm on melody's cheek.

"Don't worry we'll get out of her" Ranma said as she attempted to comfort her.

A few hours later…

The tank was surrounded by people who wanted to see the mermaids, several of them had started to tap the glass, some even began to slap it full force, melody still on the bottom of the tank gripped the sides of her head trying to block the noise from outside the tank. Ranma then took her tale and struck the glass wall as hard as she could and people began to back off, startled by the sudden act. She then swam down to melody "don't worry I'll get us out of here" Ranma told her softly as she patted her back softly.

"How?" melody wept without hope as she looked up at her. Ranma then looked outside the tank and smirked as he saw a flash of red hair.

"We've got a visitor" Ranma said as she turned back to face melody.

"Who? More tourists?" melody asked her voice filling up with emotion even more.

"Guess again" Ranma said as he used his head to indicate to where a red headed woman was speaking with Nabiki, who was counting all the money she had earned.

With Nabiki…

"2000, 3000…10,000 yen well that should cover .5% of Ranma's debt" Nabiki said to herself as she pocketed the cash.

"Why are you doing this?" a voice asked from behind Nabiki, she turned round to see a woman with red hair, who didn't look happy.

"doing what...showing people the impossible, besides they agreed to this they get 10 yen an hour so it was there decision we even made a contract last week and decided to show them today" Nabiki lied.

"Yeah I know that's not true as they would never agree to this and one of them only arrived here a few days ago and they don't exactly look happy" the woman argued.

"Well believe what you want what I say is true…and if you have a complaint just tell me who you are and I'll file it" Nabiki lied to get this woman off her back.

"I'm there mother, princess of one kingdom and queen for another and your going to let them go, tell everyone this was a fraud and never bother them again" Ariel said threateningly as she stepped forward.

"Yeah right and why should I do that?" Nabiki replied.

"you've seen what Ranma can do well I am capable of a lot more as Ranma is only half mermaid where as I am whole mermaid" Ariel said and when Nabiki just snorted at Ariel's notion, Ariel then twisted her wrist and forced Nabiki up against the tank by using the water in her body (similar to blood bending), a tear began to fall from Nabiki's eyes. "now release them and tell everyone that this was a stunt and they are fake mermaids" Ariel said as her anger continued to boil and Nabiki could only agree through gritted teeth, Ariel then released her hold on Nabiki and let her go and tell everyone it was all fake and release her children, Ariel approached the tank and watched her children as they noticed her and swam happily towards her pressing their hands against the glass.

Nabiki had to give everyone refunds she then took the lid off the tank and as soon as she had melody and Ranma jumped out of the tank and Ranma quickly used the water in the tank to make a slide of ice to make the impact less painful, he then using his abilities dried their tales and they both stood back up again and glared at Nabiki who took this as her opportunity to take her leave.

Ariel then left with Ranma and melody and headed towards the lake, however, what they didn't realize was that Nabiki was watching them from her room and watched as Ranma and melody jumped into the water and became mermaids, however, what Ariel did was jump on top of the fence, nearly losing her balance instantly and had to use her hands so not to fall she then jumped again and her entire body glowed as her legs became an emerald tale, Nabiki noted that it appeared that Ranma and melody became mermaids when coming into contact with water where as Ariel could become a mermaid at will, Nabiki smirked as she began to schem a way to get all three of them into another tank and charge people to see them, all she had to do was get the dirt on them to get them to agree so they don't escape so easily again and with this knowledge of Ranma and melody needing to avoid water more than ever could be exactly what she needed.