Somewhere in the darkest trench of the sea, lies a hellish valley filled with creepy fishes that glows in the dark. River of lava erupting from the depths below, combined with a lake of boiling hot mud. Beyond the dark trench, there's a lair made of the bones of drowned sailors. Inside of the lair, lives Eraza, the demonic sea witch. Still the same terrifying woman with pale white skin, two live octopuses for a suitable fashion wardrobe, complete with a sultry gown-like black octopus tentacles for legs. For years, she needs to feed on the youth of sea creatures in order to sustain her thirst and contain her power. So she has her three evil henchmen, the half eel, half mutant men, to bring her some little sea lion for her to feed on. Frightened for its life, the sea lion panicked. The sea witch then approaches the sea lion with her tentacles splaying about, ambushing the poor creature. She gently shushes it and then wraps her tentacle around it, thus draining its life. The little sea lion yelps loudly on top of its lungs as it's now at the mercy of the wicked woman. Instantly, the sea lion drops dead and withers away. Eraza is now beautiful once again, but her cruel nature still remains. For what she can remember, she had it all as the evil queen of Mermaidiana until King Aquarion defeated her. The wicked witch of the sea plots revenge against the king, despises him severely for her banishment from the kingdom.
"All these years of wasting away my life while he claims my throne, and celebrates with those pathetic mer-people!" snarled Eraza, clutching her fists as she sat on her chair made of bones. "Even though I'm banished here for eternity, I must admit. It does give me all the time in the ocean world to think. Yes, thinking about how to get my revenge on that tyrant! It matters not how powerful that brute of a king he is, there always will be a weakness underneath the skin of a strong figure. Once I figured out his weakness, I will crush it and crush him!"
As the sea witch thinks out loud, her crystal orb lights up and shows the little mermaid, Akauriana swimming so happily with her friends. Eraza turn to see her crystal orb as it changes to a scene where Akauriana rescues Prince Dominick from a stormy shipwreck and she falls in love with him. Enticed by that sight, Eraza finally found King Aquarion's weakness; his beautiful youngest daughter. She sees this as an opportunity to take back the throne of Mermaidiana, only by using what is precious to her enemy. The only thing he treasures the most.
"Yes! Yes, that's it!" says Eraza with a wicked glee. "The only way I can have my revenge on King Aquarion is through his own daughter! Not only that, she's in love with a human. Not just any human. A prince!"
She lets out a wicked crackle for she now has set her plan in motion.
"This is just too easy for me." Eraza crackled like the demon that she is. "Her father's greater hatred for human beings and her love for one, will serve as a tool. A key for King Aquarion's undoing! When it comes to it, I'll be the one to grant her wish. She'll grant mine! When I'll have them all in my grasp, the kingdom of Mermaidiana and all the seas will be mine once again!"
The evil demon sea witch turns to call on her mutant eel men to do her bidding.
"I have a task for the three of you." commanded Eraza. "Go and keep a close watch on that little mermaid. When the time comes, bring her to me!"
The eel men grinned ominously. They take their commands from the sea witch and swam off to the open sea. Meanwhile, in the secret sanctuary, the mermaids is spending time in their own cove, still talking about that faithful stormy night. Especially when Akauriana risk her own life to save Prince Dominick from shipwreck, even if the law about merfolk and human beings in contact with each other is forbidden.
"I still can't believe she actually save that human prince last night." said Lee Lee, interacting with the others.
"Me neither, girl." said Taliah, combing her long dark brunette curls. "That mermaid surprises me every time. When she says that she's the most rebellious princess in her royal family, I admit. She's not kidding."
"Big deal!" said Nixie in a harsh tone. "So she broke her father's rules and saves a stupid human from drowning. Let her get in trouble with her dad! I don't care whatever happens when he finds out!"
They turn to Nixie in pure disgust. Taliah is already annoyed with Nixie's attitude.
"Now you look here, Nixie!" Taliah snaps at her. "I don't know what you got against her but you've been like this since you swam away to here years ago! To be honest, it's getting on my nerves! You need to stop!"
Nixie rolls her eyes in disgust. She got up from the rock as she was going to leave.
"Whatever, Taliah!" Nixie scoffed back. "I just don't care! So you can hate me all you want! I just don't care about any of this anymore! I'm going!"
The edgy black haired mermaid swishes her deco stripped magenta and purple tail, and leaves the cove. As she swims by the sanctuary's fluorescent sea meadow, where Isabella and her other friends, Will and Paulina, were currently residing.
"She did what!?" both Paulina and Will exclaimed in pure shock.
"She saved a human prince from shipwreck last night." says Isabella as she puts a fluorescent light blue flower in her hair.
"Akauriana actually did it!" said Will. "Mermaidiana's very own princess has some gills to go against her kingdom's law just for one guy."
"I can imagine her father would be very angry with her when he finds out." said Paulina.
"That is if he finds out." says Taliah as she and Lee Lee join them. "This will be our secret from now on. We're going to have Akauriana's back and not tell anyone what happened. For her."
"For her." says Isabella, agreeing with Taliah.
They all kept the secret for their friend. Meanwhile, inside the palace, the mermaid sisters were in their chamber, doing their princessly things. Combing, brushing and grooming their hair. Coralline swam to the seaweed curtains, to check on Akauriana whom is in there for a hour.
"Akauriana! Little sister dear!" Coralline calls out. "It is time to come out! You have been in there all afternoon."
This just in, Akauriana finally exits the room, humming to herself. The mermaid princesses became puzzled and confused.
"Um okay? What has gone into her lately?" Nia wondered.
The little mermaid grabs her fluorescent tropical orange flower, put it in her hair and swims off out of the chamber. She ran into her father and grandmother whom were swimming in the hallway.
"Oh! Good day, father." says Akauriana as she kisses both of them on the cheek. "Good day, grandmother."
Then she swims off into the palace ravine. King Aquarion and everyone else watches her glide through the watery castle happily, with puzzled faces.
"She really had it bad, doesn't she?" said Leah.
"She had what badly?" King Aquarion asked.
"It's obvious. See how she's acting?" Starmy pointed out. "She has fallen in love with somebody."
"Really?" all the sisters exclaimed at once.
The grandmother grinned proudly as she swims away down the halls. King Aquarion begins to wonder who is the lucky merman might be. To him, maybe. Or in fact, it's not a merman who won Akauriana's heart. After several days have come to pass, Isabella can't help but wonder what if she can find a human to fall in love with, which she kinda doubts it. Otherwise, she felt rather down about it and no one, except her mermaid friends, could understand her emotions. Not everyone in the secret sanctuary would thought of a mermaid will find what she's looking for in the human world above the sea. But then it all changes on one faithful night. The time that Isabella can't sleep. She spent most of the hour, thinking about how Akauriana saves Prince Dominick that stormy night and fell madly in love with him. She is happy for her, but not happy about herself for not being able to find a human guy like that. Cannot bare those thoughts any longer, Isabella decided to exit the secret sanctuary in order to clear her head and swam up to the surface. The young flower mermaid sat on the rocks at the nearby shore, gazing a the moonlight above and sighs. Meanwhile, on the far end of the shoreline, Tristan the bounty hunting pirate is taking a break from all of that robbing other pirates and wealthy bystanders. All in a days work for him. While he's drinking his rum, he glances as the waves crashing onto the rocks until he spotted a creature sitting across from him on the shore. That exotic creature has long flowing brunette hair, wears florals in her hair and torso and a fish's tail. That is mermaid Isabella, staring at the moonlight and humming to herself. He can't believe what he is seeing. To make sure he is not that drunk, the young tall pirate went over ther rocky shoreline to see if he's hallucinating. Apparently he is not.
"Hey there, lovely maiden!" he calls out.
Isabella became startled by his voice and she hid behind a rock. She peeks over to see that Tristan is approaching her, not knowing if he is bad human being. To her surprise, he turns out not to be as evil as Akauriana's father, King Aquarion claims them to be. Charmed by his physical appearance and his strong rebellious personality, Isabella feels compelled to show herself to him. Just as Tristan tries to get to know her, little do he know that he's talking to a mermaid; a fabled creature of myth and folklore. The minute he saw her tail, the pirate was stunned by his sight. Isabella wondered what was wrong. Has she frightened him? She don't know what will happen to her if a human sees a mermaid. It was rumored to humans that mermaids might be sirens that sings to the sailors and drowns them. To the mer-people, they are to believed that humans who spots a mermaid or merman would either capture them, kill them or eat their flesh. But luckily that didn't happen here when the two eyes met. Though he is stunned by her tail, the young pirate still approaches her. With both of his bare feet in the shallow waters to cool in between his toes, Tristan examines Isabella who too balanced on her own tail to look at him.
"You're not afraid of my tail?" Isabella asked the handsome man.
"No, I'm not afraid." said Tristan. "I'm quite shocked actually to the fact that I'm talking to a real rare creature of beauty."
"Oh..." Isabella sighed softly, blushing.
"Your tail is very beautiful, by the way." said Tristan, being his charmistic self.
"Thank you." says Isabella, swishing her tail.
The minute he laid eyes on her, his heart starts skipping a beat. As the moment went on, they talk away about so many things, share each other's stories and even share their hearts. Tristan may be a bounty hunting pirate but he still has a charming noble characteristics of a prince. Everything about him is enough to charm any girl around him, but none has captured his heart like Isabella. Even though they've just met, but his charismatic ways and Isabella's enchanting mermaid beauty is enough to make both of them fall in love.
"Hey, you know what?" says Tristan.
"What is it?" Isabella wondered.
"I think I should give you something to remember me by." said Tristan as he gets up from the rocks. "But I want you to close your eyes for me."
"Okay." says Isabella as she closes her eyes.
Tristan went to his stolen goods he stored in the mini cove and grabs what appears to be a pendant. Inside of it was a poem that reads, "As deep as the blue sea. As clear as the endless sky. If you only think of me, I will always be close by". Then he went over to the flower mermaid and place the pendant necklace around her neck. She opens her eyes to see what he gave her. With her heart melting inside, Isabella holds it close and looks at Tristan, smiling.
"I found this one when I was treasure hunting on the new lands coast." said Tristan, charming her. "I thought you'd might like it."
Not only that the pendant contains a poem, but it also a melodic lullaby plays along inside of it. It immediately touches the mermaid's heart. She has never heard a lullaby so hauntingly beautiful, it reminded her of Akauriana's beautiful voice. No tears of joy coming from her eyes for mermaids can't cry. But the music is enough to break her heart. Isabella hugs Tristan and he too hugs her back in return.
"It's beautiful." said Isabella, lying her head on his brooding chest. "Thank you so much for this gift."
"Don't mention it." chuckled Tristan. "May I ask for your name, mermaid?"
"I'm Isabella." the flower mermaid introduced herself.
"Lovely name." said Tristan as he too introduces himself. "Tristan is thy name and hunting is my favorite game."
The pirate's humorous personality amuses Isabella. Not only he makes her laugh, but the warmth of his body and his arms comforts her. Just as they got antiquated with each other, the moment is suddenly interrupted by some nearby angry voices. It was the people from a village that Tristan robbed moments ago. That's when he knew it was his time to go. He turns to his beloved mermaid one last time.
"Well that's my cue." says Tristan as he prepares to leave. "I should be going."
"Oh. Well, I hope we will see each other again." said Isabella.
"Yes, we will." reassured Tristan, holding her close to him. "If I'm out at sea, I'll be looking for you."
"I'll promise I'll come to the surface to visit." says Isabella, eagerly.
"Good to know." said Tristan as he kisses her forehead. "And I promise that I'll stop at nothing to see you again."
He runs back to the shore. While he is wiping the sand off of his feet and puts on his boots, he looks at Isabella with a smile. Then Tristan went to grab his sack of treasure and runs off. Isabella too disappears into the water so the angry villagers doesn't see her. On her way back home, Isabella will never forget that special night she had with a rebellious, brooding but gentle pirate, Tristan. By the time she returned to the secret sanctuary, she lied on her seaweed shell bed and gaze at her pendant to remember him by. From this time forward, Isabella can't wait to share her interesting story to her friends and she especially sharing it to Akauriana, the little mermaid.
