In the middle of the night during the first week of October, all is quiet, except for the attic of the Enchanted Ones. The teenage witches are being hassled by a horned demon. The broad-shouldered brute with two big brown horns coming out of his skull stampedes towards Kim.

'Kelly, get him!' Kim quickly stretches her hands and freezes him before he knocks her over.

'This'll teach him to eat cats,' Kelly squints her eyes and the horned demon flies against a stack of boxes standing against the wall behind him.

'Handcuffs!' Nathalie points to a pair of handcuffs (Don't ask me where we got those.), which light up powder blue and split into surging and hovering little orbs. The blonde then points to the K.O.-ed horned demon's hands on his back and the tiny, powder blue light orbs zip to them. The following moment, the tiny orbs stick together again and the horned brute is in chains.

When he has been captured, Ivan comes orbing in in a swirling flurry of white sparkles. 'Another good catch?'

'Yes, a horned demon. He's all yours,' Kelly gestures to the stupid monster in handcuffs.

'Okay, I'll take him to Magic School. Costabor will know what to do with this guy. Go to bed. You guys earned it. Thanks for helping.'

'Yeah, but it still frightens me that these demons can just barge in here unannounced. I mean, how do they know where we live?' Kim crosses her arms.

'Well, they simply sense your presence. It's one of their gifts.'

'As long as those gifts don't bother me tonight. Deuces!' she spins around and leaves the attic without so much as a word.

'What's her problem?'

'A Latin pop quiz, nothing serious,' Nathalie shrugs.

'I'll be off then. Come on, bull head!' he grabs hold of the horned demon and orbs to Magic School in a swirling flurry of white sparkles.


From a similar flurry of sparkles, Ivan steps into Costabor's office with the shackled horned demon. The headmaster stands up to meet his protégé halfway.

'The Enchanted Ones are sure getting the hang of it. Thank them for me.'

'I already did. What should I do with him?' Ivan pushes the horned demon forward. Costabor takes him from him and puts him down in a chair.

'I'll take care of that one. Go on home now.' Ivan orbs out and then Costabor takes a small driftwood box from one of his desk drawers.

'What's in there?' the horned demon asks curiously.

'The beginning of the end.', the headmaster opens the small box and removes some kind of glistening golden pearl, 'Do you know what this is?' The stupid monster shakes his horned head in denial, 'This is a mermaid egg and today's your lucky day.'

He drives his hand into the demon's lower abdomen. His hand goes right through the demon's layers of skin as if he were putting his hand in a tub of water. He places the egg inside the demon's body and when he pulls his hand back, the monster looks unchanged.

'As soon as that egg comes into contact with fresh water, it'll hatch and the mermaid guppy will start gnawing at your meat until there's nothing left of you but an empty skeleton.'

'That's horrible!' the demon shivers and starts squirming to get himself loose.

'Indeed, too bad for you. Green Lake!', Costabor waves his hand over the demon and orbs him away in a swirling flurry of white sparkles, 'Let's see how the Enchanted Ones are going to handle that mess.'


At the bottom of a deep lake with actually green water, the horned demon is resisting the handcuffs with all his strength in between rock formations and water foliage. He won't die by drowning, but the prospect of ending up as mermaid food scares the living daylights out of him.

Unfortunately for his sake, he is swallowing gulps of fresh water, which causes the mermaid egg to hatch. The mermaid guppy, a golden humanoid monster with octopus tentacles instead of legs, immediately starts nibbling at the demon's organs. The horned brute is suffering excruciating pain, which he eventually succumbs to. Meanwhile, the ugly octopus-like mermaid feasts on the bountiful meat of the deceased demon.

A week later, the mermaid guppy has grown and it has developed a golden shark tail, but the little octopus limbs still dangle from its waist. Another week later, the creature already very strongly resembles a mermaid, even though it has a pale green skin and long ginger hair. The pale skin is as wrinkly as a prune, just like when you've been soaking in the bathtub for too long.

The mermaid is already trying to sing, but her singing sounds like nails on a blackboard. After another week of practice, she is full-grown (no more octopus arms, but a set of piranha teeth) and she has mastered her seductive and lethal singing voice.

The lake that the mermaid grew up in, the Green Lake, borders a small city. "Small" can be taken quite literally because the settlement is inhabited by leprechauns. All houses are like miniature figurines and were built in classical Irish style, in gold and green colors, with lots of shamrock patterns. The leprechaun city and the Green Lake are situated within the vast domain of Magic School.

The leprechauns themselves are oftentimes not much larger than 3ft. 11in. and are always dressed in traditional Irish clothing. Because they guard pots of gold, which they use to spread luck, they also often wear gold accessories.

Around this time of year the happy little people celebrates their version of New Year, which goes hand in hand with lots of music and partying. The young monstrous mermaid hears this party music and swims towards it.

A male leprechaun is moping about on his own on the bank of the Green Lake, feeling lonely on this New Year's Eve. The mermaid sees an opportunity and takes on her beautiful appearance. Her sharp piranha teeth turn into pearly white straight dentures, her golden shark tail becomes that of a dolphin and her wrinkly green skin smoothes out to a flawless, pale white skin. Then she sings her infamous song.

'Hear my begging call, sweet man, and join me underwater. Love does conquer all, sweet man, and none must fear the slaughter.'

Hypnotized by the mesmerizing voice, the leprechaun walks into the water. The mermaid stops singing and changes back into her monstrous form. She swims towards the male leprechaun, who is standing up to his armpits in water, and pounces him. She shreds him to pieces and drags him into the deep.


A month later in the Enchanted Ones' house - Kim is in a particularly good mood and cheerfully bounces down the spiral staircase that leads straight into the kitchen.

'What a beautiful morning.'

'You're in a good mood. Do you have a new boyfriend or something?' Kelly asks curiously.

'I wish. Today I just feel, I don't know why, really happy.'

'Did you win the lottery?' Nathalie raises an eyebrow.

'No, I'm just so very merry.'

'You won't stay that happy for long,' a voice suddenly rings through the kitchen.

'What was that?' Nathalie asks. Not another demon?

The following moment, Ivan orbs into the kitchen in a swirling flurry of white sparkles. 'It's just me.'

'What a pleasant surprise, Ivan,' Kelly smiles broadly. As if it could ever be an unpleasant surprise to see you.

'Every time I see you, Ivan, I just get this headache,' Kim smiles taciturnly.

'Why?'

'Because you're always a bearer of bad news.'

'Ow, spill it! What's going on this time, Ivan?' Nathalie drums on the breakfast table.

'Someone's attacking innocent leprechauns.'

'Leprechauns? Those bearded little guys with tiny pointy hats?' Kelly asks befuddled.

'Those are real?' Nathalie marvels. Would the goblins from Harry Potter exist as well?

'Yes, but their numbers are visibly dwindling. More and more of them are disappearing every night.'

'Those poor little guys,' Nathalie pouts. 'Why would anybody want to hurt them?'

'Leprechauns are bringers of luck. They mine gold and let it ripen. When it's just right, they use the gold nuggets to spread luck around the world.'

'Neat,' Kelly nods. 'Has anyone seen who or what made them disappear?'

'Some claim it's the work of mermaids, but that's impossible!'

'Because they don't exist?' Kelly guesses with a grin.

'No, mermaids do exist, but they aren't native to the Green Lake.'

'What's the Green Lake?' Nathalie asks.

'It's where the leprechaun city is situated.'

'O, now I get it,' Kim rolls her eyes sarcastically.

'I guess we have to come with you to this leprechaun village?' Kelly asks.

'Leprechaun city!' Nathalie corrects her.

'City or village, whatever. We have to come along with you, don't we?'

'Yes, that's right.'

'There we go again,' Kim sighs. Nothing screams excitement like a trip to a miniature city. The sisters hold hands and then Ivan orbs with them to the leprechaun city in a swirling flurry of white sparkles.


The four of them appear atop a green hill that towers above a little Irish city and provides a perfect view of the settlement and the lake. The entire miniature city was designed after Irish example, with paved golden streets, little clover green roofs, windows, and doors, and golden yellow walls.

'What an adorable little city!' Nathalie giggles, already feeling more than connected to the leprechauns and their city. It's as if I ended up in the world of Harry Potter! Which actually is the case, because you're a witch, smart-ass! she argues with herself.

'What's gotten into you?' Kelly asks.

'I just think it's impressive that such little people are able to build such a city.'

'We're not that little!' they suddenly hear a squeaky woman's voice calling. The noise comes from below and when they look down, the four youngsters see a little chubby leprechaun woman. She is carrying a small basket under her arm.

'O, how neat!' Nathalie squeals.

'Hello Ivan. How do you do?' the little lady asks.

'I'm fine, but how are things here?'

'Oh, none of the missing leprechauns has been found. We women make up the majority now.' This fact apparently troubles her, because tears are forming in her eyes.

'Girl power, that's good, right?' Kelly laughs.

'O, there's nothing good about it! Our fathers, husbands and sons have suddenly gone missing and we don't know where to.' Now her resistance falters and the leprechaun woman starts to cry.

'How awful! Is there anything we can do?' Nathalie asks.

'Yes, you could get those mermaids out of the Green Lake.'

'I've already told you: there are no mermaids in the Green Lake!' Ivan drones.

'And yet those mongrels are swimming in the lake!'

'Calm down, you two! We're here and we're going to help, but you need to stop shouting or there'll be hell to pay!' Kim outshouts the other two.

'Feisty girl,' the leprechaun lady whispers snickering.

'Yeah, and they're all like that,' Ivan snickers in return.

'Can you please take us to your leader?' Nathalie almost begs.

'Of course, I'll take you to our king.' The five of them walk through the little city until they arrive at a small castle that oversees a golden square.

'Our king resides here,' the leprechaun lady points to the pocket-size fortified stronghold in clover green and golden colors. Another cozy little building! Nathalie thinks.

Ivan and the Enchanted Ones' arrival had apparently already been announced, because not a moment later, blaring trumpets and drumrolls sound from the tiny castle. The green wooden portal swings open and a small, noble man with a long white mustache and a gold crown on his head steps outside.

'Welcome, dear friends!' the leprechaun king welcomes them. 'I suppose you are here because of our predicament.'

'Yes, we're here to help you with your mermaid infestation,' Nathalie confirms.

'Marvelous, come along!' he urges them. The leprechaun king leads the four visitors to the bank of the Green Lake and stops there. 'Presumably, it all started right here.'

'Presumably?' Kelly raises an eyebrow.

'This is where we recovered the hat of one of our brothers. It was also the only thing we recovered.'

'When did it all start?' Kim asks.

'About a month ago, around the New Year's feast.'

'But New Year's isn't until next month?' Kelly asks befuddled.

'Leprechauns celebrate New Year's in November,' Ivan clarifies for the girls.

'Are you sure that it's the work of mermaids?' Nathalie asks.

'Absolutely, each night we've heard singing coming from the lake,' the leprechaun king assures her.

'I think it's best that we patrol the bank tonight,' Kelly decides.

'That's okay with me,' Nathalie nods. It's not like I had any plans or anything.

'Same for me, but I want to stop by a fishing store first,' Kim says.

'I'll take you,' Ivan offers.

'Then we'll see you tonight?' Kelly asks.

'Yup, see you tonight,' Kim nods. Next, Ivan orbs away with her in a swirling flurry of white sparkles.


Late at night, Kelly and Nathalie are walking along the bank of the Green Lake when suddenly a swirling flurry of white sparkles emerges before them. Once the sparkles have cleared up, Kim appears, sent by Ivan. And for some reason she is carrying a harpoon gun.

'Good, you're finally here, but what's that in your hands?' Kelly asks.

'The only thing I can do is freeze people. You both have active powers and I want to be able to defend myself against these mermaids just as well,' Kim waves the weapon around.

'Alrighty, just be sure to aim that thing at the right person,' Nathalie shies away from her waving around the harpoon gun. The Enchanted Ones then walk around aimlessly until a certain moment when they hear a mermaid sing:

'Hear my begging call, sweet man, and join me underwater. Love does conquer all, sweet man, and none must fear the slaughter.'

The three teenage witches immediately run towards the voice. When they reach it, three leprechaun men are already walking to the water.

'Stop! Don't!' the girls warn them, but the leprechauns are completely hypnotized by the mermaid's magical singing. They keep on walking until they are up to their elbows in water. Just like a hungry shark, the mermaid then swims towards them.

'We need to get those leprechauns out of the water,' Nathalie says determined.

'Then we just pull them out,' Kelly squints her eyes and the leprechauns fly from the water onto the dry bank, but the mermaid jumps after them. Changed into her monstrous form with the wrinkly green skin, she shrieks in the middle of the air with a voice like nails on a blackboard.

'Rhaa!'

'Shoot her!' Nathalie panics.

'I thought you'd never ask,' Kim fires the harpoon and hits the mermaid in her shark tail. The creature then plunges back into the water.

'You've got her!' Nathalie cheers.

'Yeah, but she's putting up a fight!' Kim is struggling to hold onto the harpoon gun.

'Rhaa!' The mermaid is fighting like a devil in a font of holy water and wants to swim away with all her strength, but the harpoon won't let go of her tail.

'Help me!'

'Yes of course,' Kelly also grabs hold of the harpoon gun and helps Kim pull in the mermaid.

'There is an easier way. Mermaid!' Nathalie stretches her arm to the lake and waves over to the bank. The water around the mermaid glows powder blue and a moment later the deadly temptress lands on the bank in a sea of tiny, powder blue light orbs.

'That works as well, of course,' Kelly shrugs.

'Yeah, but now she's cut loose from my harpoon!' Kim yells pointing to the freed mermaid.

'Rhaa!' the green shark woman screeches. She hops towards them like a fish out of water.

'Shoot, shoot, shoot!' Kelly tugs at Kim's sleeves.

'Where was that button? Oh here!' Kim fires the harpoon straight through the mermaid's heart causing her to dissolve into bubbles.

'Weird,' Nathalie frowns. I had expected something more, at least something other than bubbles.

'Everything that happens to us is weird these days,' Kim grumbles.


The girls help the leprechaun men that they saved back to their families and afterwards discuss the situation with the king. Ivan is present as well. The four tall humans almost need to duck their heads to enter the throne room.

'Your Majesty, that mermaid won't be bothering you anymore,' Nathalie reports as proud as punch.

'Yup, she dissolved into bubbles,' Kelly nods affirmatively.

'You and your people are safe again, Your Grace. We can leave now!' Kim beams.

'I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. According to our eye witness, someone else has disappeared tonight.'

'There was an eye witness?'

'Yes, the missing leprechaun's wife,' Ivan explains. A sniffling leprechaun woman is led into the throne room.

'She has taken my Seamus,' the leprechaun widow blubbers, drying her tears with a handkerchief with a shamrock pattern.

'Don't worry. We'll do everything we can to retrieve your husband and to punish the mermaid that did this to him,' Nathalie promises her while she comfortingly squeezes the leprechaun woman's shoulders.

'Thank you.' Weeping and sniffling, she walks out of the throne room.

'You said we would do anything we could to retrieve him, but what exactly are we going to do?' Kelly asks.

'No clue, but I couldn't tell her that we don't know what to do.'


Later in the attic of their father's house, the gang has opened up the Enchanted Book, but not yet found anything. Frustrations arise.

'Well, this doesn't help jack squat!' Kim sighs. 'Everything we already now is in it.'

'Everything?' Ivan asks.

'Everything,' she nods and she reads from the book of spells, 'A mermaid is a very dangerous creature who uses her singing voice to lure victims in the water...'

'...Once they are in the water, she attacks them and lays a single egg in their carcass, which almost immediately hatches. The guppy then feasts on the host's flesh...' Kelly adds.

'...After three weeks the mermaid is full-grown and the cycle starts anew,' Nathalie concludes the lesson on mermaids.

'It doesn't say anything on how to defeat them?' Ivan asks.

'It only says that they dissolve into bubbles if you pierce them through the heart, but we already knew that,' Kim says.

'Nothing else?'

'There is a spell that turns you into a mermaid...' Kelly says.

'That's it!' Nathalie exclaims because she just had a flash of genius. 'We turn ourselves into mermaids, infiltrate their society, and defeat them from the inside out.'

'That may actually work,' Ivan sounds optimistical. As long as the mermaids don't expose you and skin you alive.

'Yeah, but what if our cover is blown and those mermaids attack us? By the time we've vanquished one of them, two others have already taken out one of us,' Kim reasons, as if she were able to read Ivan's mind.

'What if I orb them to the bank?' Nathalie suggests. 'We would be sending them away before they could attack or warn other mermaids.'

'Then they would just be lying on the bank and they could jump right back in the water,' Kim disapproves of the idea. That's just a drop in the ocean.

'But what if we arm the leprechauns and let them stab every mermaid we send up?' Kelly suggests.

'Yes, you'd be decreasing their numbers drastically and they couldn't expose you,' Ivan backs her plan. His support boosts her confidence.

'I'll copy the spell on a piece of paper together with the reversal spell.' Kelly runs to the old coffee table standing in the attic, takes a pencil and a piece of paper from it, runs back to the Enchanted Book, and copies the spells.

'Okay. I'll go to the leprechaun king and explain to him what we're doing, because we're going to need his people's help,' Nathalie decides before orbing out.


The following day, an army of leprechauns has gathered on the banks of the Green Lake. Every leprechaun is holding a knife, pickaxe, shovel or other sharp weapon, ready to stab a mermaid through the heart. Widows of missing leprechauns are amongst the ranks as well and they want revenge for their husbands, whom the mermaids tore away from them. Nathalie inspects the formation with pride and then turns to her sisters.

'And sisters, ready?'

'Yup,' they nod affirmatively.

'Be careful, though! Mermaids are dangerous creatures,' Ivan warns them. 'I wouldn't want you guys to get hurt.'

'Don't worry about us, Ivan,' Kim smiles. Though, Kelly could maybe use a little extra support, Ivan, she winks mentally.

'Okay, we only need to say the spell that's on this piece of paper,' Kelly shows the small written strip of paper.

'And where are you going to put that after we've cast the spell?' Nathalie asks.

'Then I put it in this little tube together with the reversal spell,' Kelly holds a black necklace with a little tube for a pendant in front of Nathalie's face.

'Stylish!' Kim compliments her.

'Thank you. Here goes nothing.' The Enchanted Ones cast the spell together:

'Transform our legs and with your aid,

we will become a mermaid.'

'Nothing's happening!' Nathalie fumes impatiently. Stupid spell from that ridiculous book!

'Give it some time,' Kelly urges her. Blue glitters start to crawl over their bodies, from the tips of their toes to the tips of their hair. 'See, we're already changiiiii...' she tries to add, but she is already falling to the ground. Not just her, her sisters thud on the sandy bank too.

The three teenage witches have transformed into mermaids from head to...well...tail. Where there had been legs only a moment ago, the girls are now sporting a colored dolphin tail. Kelly's is purple, Nathalie's blue and Kim's pink. For the remainder, they are only wearing a shell bra the same color as their tail.

'Look at us! We have a tail and a shell bra!' Kim unsuccessfully tries to cover her body, and mostly her breasts.

'Doesn't look too bad,' Ivan (despite his courtesy still a man) ogles the practically naked upper bodies of the three girls.

'Enjoying the view, Ivan?' Kelly raises an eyebrow with a grin.

'Yes...I mean, no...wait...' he blushes.

'Ivan, you cheeky devil!' the leprechauns chuckle.

'There is one problem. How do we get in the water?' Nathalie tries to hop forwards, but just like the mermaid of last night she doesn't get very far.

'Pssh easy!', Kelly squints her eyes and glides into the water, 'Yippee!'

'Duh!' Nathalie orbs into the lake.

'Cool, but how do I get into the water?' Kim hobbles forward a bit clumsily.

'Wait, I'll help you out. Levitatio!' Ivan points to her and she starts to levitate above the ground.

'Ivan, I don't know if you understand the concept behind "swimming".'

'All in due time,' he bends his hand to the left and Kim hovers to the water and stays suspended above it. 'Good luck!' He lowers his hand and she drops into the water before swimming to her sisters. Together they dive into the deep green water.


At a certain moment, Kim notices that their surroundings keep getting darker. The Enchanted Ones are already so deep in the Green Lake that light has difficulty penetrating here. Thankfully, Kelly has thought about everything and she takes out three mineworker lamps. The teens put on the headbands and turn on the lights on their foreheads. Three rays of light illuminate their way while they swim deeper and deeper into the Green Lake.

At the bottom at last, the girls suddenly see a creature with the head and the arms of a child, but the tentacles of an octopus instead of legs. The mermaid guppy is swimming around a fresh corpse and sticking on the dead leprechaun with its greedy tentacles.

The Enchanted Ones stick to the plan and so Nathalie sends the little monster and the corpse to the bank in a sea of tiny, powder blue light orbs. Now they can continue on their path without the guppy sounding the alarm.

On the bank of the Green Lake, the corpse materializes near the leprechauns. They notice it as soon as they recognize Nathalie's powder blue light.

'O no, it's my Seamus!' the widow recognizes her former husband when the leprechauns reach the body. She bursts into tears, but suddenly the mermaid guppy jumps from Seamus' body. The bystanders jump out of their skin, but after a battle cry from Ivan, one of the leprechauns pierces the creature with a spear causing it to dissolve into bubbles.

Meanwhile, the Enchanted Ones keep swimming along the bottom of the Green Lake. All of a sudden, Nathalie sticks out her blue dolphin tail to stop her sisters. Again, two mermaid guppies block their path, but now a creature that looks like a cross between a shark, an octopus, and a human who has been in the bathtub too long swims towards them as well.

Without hesitation, Nathalie also orbs these three creatures to the bank in a glowing sea of tiny, surging powder blue light orbs. Like before, the three mermaid guppies end up near the leprechaun army and are slaughtered immediately.


The Enchanted Ones have now reached a point where the green water of the lake has suddenly turned colder. The shivers are running across their half-naked bodies and smooth tails. Thanks to the spell, the three undercover mermaids can speak underwater too.

'Brr! It's so chilly around here,' Kelly rubs her arms to warm herself up. How do those mermaids survive in these bikinis?

'We must have reached the deepest spot of the lake,' Nathalie assumes.

'Hé, look over there!' Kim points to a trench that stretches out before them. On either side of the teenagers, gnawed on and devoured leprechaun skeletons line the trench. It is like a mass grave at the bottom of the lake.

'That's a whole lot skeletons,' Kelly mutters in shock. What kind of monsters are these phony Ariels?

'I'll send them up,' Nathalie is about to orb the leprechaun skeletons away, but Kim stops her.

'Why would you do that? Haven't these leprechauns suffered enough?'

'They deserve to know what happened to them, don't they?'

'Okay, go ahead, but be quick!' Kelly rubs her freezing arms. This place is giving me the creeps.

'Rest in peace!' Nathalie orbs all skeletons to the mainland in a powder blue beam of tiny light orbs. A surging sea of light descends upon the bank. The leprechauns and Ivan assume it is another bunch of mermaids, but nothing can prepare them for what is to come.

The powder blue light fades away and two long rows of leprechaun skeletons are revealed. Several widows faint at the sight of it, other leprechauns burst into tears. That's a lot more mermaids than I thought, Ivan thinks in horror. If every corpse contained an egg...


In the Green Lake, the Enchanted Ones suddenly swim into an ancient city. The fact that the witches in disguise can see the Rome-themed city is astounding in itself, but the streets of the settlement are illuminated by surging golden orbs writhing with electric energy. How this is possible in the middle of the lake baffles the girls.

'Phiew!' Kelly whistles, which causes a stream of air bubbles to float upwards. 'You have to admit, it's pretty breathtaking.'

'But probably also dangerous. This city is teeming with mermaids,' Kim flinches back in fright.

'That's nothing we can't handle.' Nathalie is ready for a fight, for retribution. Silently, the sisters wade through the streets of the city and see a large amount of full-grown mermaids, but they are all ugly as hell. The young witches see piranha teeth, shark tails, and a wrinkly green skin everywhere.

'I'm feeling so anxious all of a sudden,' Kelly feels uncomfortable.

'How are we going to solve this? We can't attack every mermaid, can we?' Kim is feeling anxious as well.

'I don't think we have much of a choice.' Without hesitation, Nathalie swim to a mermaid, ready to attack her, when Kelly calls her back.

'Wait, Nathalie! I remember something from the Enchanted Book,' she hisses. Nathalie swims back and awaits Kelly's answer. 'A mermaid colony starts with a single mermaid who lays one egg in each victim. Over time, the mermaids' society grows, but if the first mermaid gets taken out, the entire colony dies because the others are her descendants.'

'But where do we find that first mermaid? It could be anyone!' Kim throws her arms up in the water. And if these mermaids are already so ugly, what must that first one look like?

'The head mermaid is probably guarded or worshipped in some large building.' The mermaid spies gaze around for a minute, searching for a large, important-looking building, when Kim suddenly sees something.

'How about that one?' she points to a large sandstone building that suspiciously looks a lot like the Pantheon in Rome. In particular, she is pointing to the geison, which reads the name of the building: Aquae Concilium, the Council of the Water.


The Enchanted Ones swim to the building supported by pillars, but remain at a distance. A handful of mermaid warriors all carrying a trident or harpoon gun are guarding the building.

'Yeah, it might not be so easy,' Kelly whispers.

'All I need to do is orb the guards out,' Nathalie shrugs.

'Maybe, but unlike us, they have harpoons and tridents,' Kim fears for her life.

'Then we dodge their attacks and I orb them to the mainland.' The sisters swim towards the warriors, but before they can lift a finger, Nathalie has orbed them away.

'That was easy,' Kim grins.

'A little too easy.' Nathalie is becoming a bit suspicious.

'Nah, they're all afraid of us,' Kelly shrugs. 'Let's go inside!' She squints her eyes and the gate to the building swings open, 'Oooh!'

Inside of the high hall of the building, an entire army of mermaids awaits them. When the sea monsters catch sight of the Enchanted Ones, they turn to them, bare their piranha teeth, and swim towards them.

'Maybe not so easy,' Kim panics.

'Nah, they're afraid of us, aren't they? Bank!' Nathalie orbs them to the mainland too. It is a real battlefield over there. The leprechauns are struggling to keep up with the Enchanted Ones. From every side, harpoon guns are being fired and knives are being drawn. Bubbles are frothing everywhere, like at a foam party from hell.

'Where do they keep coming from?' a leprechaun shouts while he defends himself against a wrinkly mermaid with all his might. Ivan stretches his hand and aims for the school of monsters. A glistening storm rages form his hand and blasts them up in the air. They all go splat on the bank and dissolve into bubbles. I've severely underestimated this entire situation. What mustn't the Enchanted Ones be dealing with? Ivan thinks.


In the high hall of the Aquae Concilium at the bottom of the Green Lake, Nathalie has just orbed away the last mermaid. Even though the building is now deserted, the Enchanted Ones still have to search for the first mermaid.

'Okay, now we need to focus. Where's the head mermaid?' Kelly asks.

'Let's try this door!' Agilely, Nathalie throws the door open with a whack of her blue tail. The sisters swim through the door and enter a high, dome-shaped room. Because of the mermaids' limited resources, the enormous room hardly bears any decorations, but the high domed roof itself already demands a certain amount of respect.

On the other side of the domed room, a gorgeous mermaid about twice the size of the others is sitting on a throne made of bones. Her golden dolphin tail is twice as long as her body and seems to emit its own light because of the electric charge crackling over it like the body of an electric eel.

Her long, flowing hair has been wrapped around her half-naked body several times and shines a fiery red color in the light of a surging golden orb of electric energy. Her skin is as pale as fresh yoghurt and only intensifies her hair color. Bright colored shells and sea stars are woven into the never-ending strain of ginger hair. While she is sitting on her throne of bones, the head mermaid sings her hypnotic song:

'Hear my begging call, sweet man, and join me underwater...'

'Stop it! Your song doesn't work on us,' Nathalie sneers.

'Love does conquer all, sweet man, and none must fear the slaughter,' she calmly continues singing while she brushes her hair with a big fork.

'Girl, you're like a broken record,' irritated, Kelly squints her eyes and hoists the disproportionately large mermaid from her throne of bones. Next, the head mermaid hits her head against the domed ceiling and sinks downwards.

Provoked by these magical mermaids (and especially that one with braces), she changes into her regular, ugly form. Her skin becomes pale green and as wrinkly as a prune, her hair loses its gloss, and her dolphin tail turns into a pointy shark tail.

'Iew, she's really ugly,' Kim is disgusted by the monstrous mermaid.

'Is that stopping us?' Nathalie grinds her teeth. The revolting transformation is even making her panic a little.

'Of course not!', Kim stretches her hands and freezes the mermaid, 'There, that should keep her...hé, look at her throne!'

'Yes, it's made out of bones. Probably a symbol of authority,' Kelly shrugs.

'No, look at that skull!' she points to the human skull that rests atop the throne. Two large brown horns protrude from the skull.

'Hé, didn't we catch a horned demon two months ago?' Kelly remembers.

'Yeah, but how did he end up here?' Nathalie wonders.

'Maybe he already had a mermaid egg in him and he jumped in the water after we caught him?' Kim suggests.

'Now that's what I call a suicide terrorist,' Kelly scoffs. Suddenly, the head mermaid is moving again and she produces a deafening shriek, 'Aaaaaaah!'

'Auw! Is that really a reason to scream like that?' Kim covers her ears against the screeching. Next, armed mermaids swim into the room.

'I don't think that's why she screamed. Run! I mean: Swim!' Kelly shouts. The undercover mermaids swim off, but are closed in in the domed room on every side. The head mermaid is behind them and the mermaid warriors are guarding the only exit.

'Great idea, Kelly. Now what?' Kim panics.

'Up!' Nathalie leads the way. The sisters swim over the mermaids' heads towards the ceiling, but the head mermaid opens her mouth.

'What's she up to?' Kelly asks while she is beating her purple tail with all her might. An electric orb, like the ones surging all over the city, charges up in the head mermaid's mouth.

'That's what she's up to,' Kim panics, immediately moving her pink tail faster. The head mermaid fires the electric golden orb, which whizzes towards the Enchanted Ones.

'Fling it back!' Nathalie shouts. Kelly squints her eyes and the electric orb shoots back to the enormous mermaid. She gets hit, but doesn't have a scratch.

'Don't you usually see on TV that if you reverse your opponents' attack, they go up in a puff of smoke?' Kelly gawks at the unharmed head mermaid.

'Watch out!' Kim warns her sisters about the approaching danger. The Enchanted Ones are barely able to dodge a couple harpoons of the mermaid warriors swimming after them. The head mermaid is hot on their tail too, like a ravenous great white shark.

Now the teenage witches are trapped between two evils again. In front of them the head mermaid, who is charging another electric orb, and behind them her guards.

'What do we do?' Kelly asks.

'No clue,' Nathalie panics as well now. The head mermaid fires an electric golden orb while the mermaid warriors fire their harpoon guns.

'Wait!', Kim stretches her hands and freezes all the mermaids, and their attacks too, 'If we let them attack each other, they might take each other out.'

Kelly quickly squints her eyes. The attacks switch places and direct themselves at the mermaids.

'Here goes nothing!' Kim moves her hands in little circles and makes the attacks move again. The electric orb whizzes onwards and destroys the mermaid warriors while the harpoons hit the head mermaid.

'Good job!' Nathalie compliments Kim.

'Yeah, but she still isn't defeated,' she points to the head mermaid, who, even though there is a number of harpoons stuck in her large body, is still swimming about. She is already charging another electric orb to boot, which she fires and Kim freezes again.

'Now I've had it!' Kelly squints her eyes and sends the electric orb back, which strikes home. It hits the head mermaid square between the harpoons. This way the projectiles function as conductors that direct the fatal electric current deep into the head mermaid's flesh.

'Aaaaaaah!' With a final scream, the head mermaid explodes in a giant bang and dissolves into thousands of bubbles. All the other mermaids and guppies dissolve into bubbles at the same time. There are so many bubbles rising to the surface that the entire city is collapsing, even the Pantheon-like building is caving in.

'Let's get out of here!' Nathalie grabs her sisters' hands and orbs with the two girls to the bank before the rubble comes crashing down on them.


On the bank of the Green Lake, the leprechauns and Ivan see the bubbles of the dissolving mermaids rise to the surface. It looks like the entire lake has turned into a bubble bath. Did they pull it off? Ivan wonders. So many bubbles can only mean one thing.

Suddenly, the Enchanted Ones come orbing onto the bank, but they are still in their mermaid form. Clumsily, they hobble closer.

'There's still three mermaids left! Get them!' the leprechauns shout, automatically running to the girls, their weapons at the ready.

'O no!' Kim stretches her hands and freezes all the leprechauns, including Ivan.

'I think it might be best if we change back into our normal selves,' Nathalie suggests.

'Do you still have the spell, Kelly?' Kim asks.

'Yup, it's still in my pendant,' Kelly takes the tiny roll of paper from the little tube dangling from the necklace. Together they cast the reversal spell:

'Transform us back, return our feet,

solve our problems in a heartbeat.'

Blue glitters are dancing over their colored dolphin tails and where the glitters fade away, their legs reappear. They are also wearing their clothes again, but they are still soaking wet. Just then, when the girls are getting back up, the leprechauns and Ivan start moving again.

'Enchanted Ones, where did you come from all of a sudden?' the leprechaun king asks, surprised.

'Those mermaids that were just lying on your bank, that was us,' Kelly winks.

'O, accept our apology. We didn't want to hurt you, noble saviors of our city,' he bows gratefully.

'That's okay. If you had turned into a mermaid, I'd have stabbed you too, Your Highness,' Kim says cynically.


Later that night, Nathalie and Kelly are sitting in the dining room musing over this once again unique experience. They are sitting at the table and drinking a glass of ice tea while they are waiting for dinner, which Kim is preparing. She spontaneously took it upon herself to be the family's chef.

'O my god, I never ever want to turn into a mermaid again. Never!' Nathalie rests her head on the hard table.

'That wasn't so bad, but that horrible fish smell! Yucky, three showers later and I still smell like slime and scales,' Kelly supports her head with the palms of her hands.

Then Kim enters the dining room with three little plates. On each plate there is a hollowed out tomato filled with a very appropriate garnish. One by one, she places the delicious dishes in front of her sisters.

'What's this?' Nathalie asks, intrigued.

'Tomate crevette,' she smiles when she sits down at the table too.

'Shrimp? Iew, yuck! I can't stand the sight or the smell of fish anymore,' Kelly shoves the plate away from her. I was never that much of a fish-eater anyway.

'Really? Because I actually really craved seafood after our little adventure.'

At that moment, Ivan appears in the dining room in a swirling flurry of white sparkles. 'Have you guys recovered from your mission yet?'

'Don't talk to me about it!' Kelly now lays down her head on the table too. I'm sorry, Ivan, I'm not in the mood to flirt for a while.

'Ivan, there's something I'm still wondering, though,' Nathalie recalls. 'How did that horned demon of two months ago end up at the bottom of the Green Lake?'

'I don't know, I just handed him to Costabor. Maybe he couldn't control him and he escaped?'

'Still, how did that mermaid egg get inside him?'

'And then another thing! Why did we have to help those leprechauns? I thought we were only supposed to protect the innocent,' Kim asks.

'Well, the leprechauns are in fact innocent, but to give you a proper reason: leprechauns belong to the magical community and since you guys are now also a part of it, it's nothing more than your responsibility to help them.'

'Mmm, what on earth did we get ourselves into when we agreed to help you,' Kelly sighs.