Me: Sorry it took so long people! But Chapter 3 is finally here.
Taoki: I wonder where are our wifes went?
Butler: Maam and your wife and taking pictures with the current mermaid princess.
Me *shocked*: So many?! The camera must have run out of battery by now.
Shizuro: Zahir890 is thanking you all who is following and liking the story.
Taoki: He does not own Mermaid Melody. Just the OCs.
Me: And now let Chapter 3 begin!
Butler: Sir, can I have a glass of water?
Shizuro *smiling*: Sure.
Chapter 3: Nagisa's ancestors and the Mermaid Flute.
Everyone, except Azumi who is sleeping, is seated in such a way that they are students and Yukito is a teacher.
"So. What do you want to know?" Yukito asked.
"Well if you don't mind, could you tell us about his ancestors?" Hanon asked.
"You mean Nagisa's ancestors right?"
"Yep."
Yukito smiled.
"I will be happy to tell you guys but first tell me why did you ask me about that?" Yukito asked.
"Well when Naoki came, I mentioned that Masahiro said to me that he is the descendant of the man who was saved by the mermaid, that's when Naoki told us everything about his ancestors, family and locket." Rina said.
"As soon as she told us everything, I was wondering about Nagisa's ancestors." Hanon said.
"Yeah and when we first met, you showed us the unknown law which we don't know at that time and we were so happy that time that we didn't ask you anything about Nagisa-kun and his ancestors." Luchia said.
"You only told us about your family." Kaito said.
"So we would to know more about him." Nikora said.
"Your son is so cute that we really do want to know more." Taki smiled.
"Hey! That's my line!" Hanon whined.
Everyone laughed.
"Okay then. Just give me a few minutes." Yukito said.
Yukito went outside and came back in a few seconds and showed everyone an old book which combines a diary and an autobiography called:
'My life with a beautiful Aqua Mermaid Princess by Kandou Shirai.'
Everyone was surprised but Hanon was so excited.
"Rina! Even his ancestors has written the book about mermaids." Hanon said happily.
"Calm down Hanon. Let's hear what Yukito has to say." Rina said.
Hanon then calmed down. Yukito then said:
"Before I begin. Let me tell you guys that this is written in first person. So I am telling it in third person. Understand?"
"Hai!" Everyone said.
Yukito then took a breathe before beginning to tell the story:
"It all happened like this. During the 15th century, there was a war between mermaid princesses and the water demons. The water demons wanted to control the ocean ruthlessly so that they can conquer land as well. The war lasted for about 50 years."
"50 Years?!" Everyone was shocked.
"So long?!" Hanon gasped.
"How terrible!" Luchia cried.
"But didn't the Sea Godness at that time didn't do anything about it?" Rina asked.
"She tried to make peace between them but the water demons didn't want peace. What they did instead was that the staff that Aqua Regina now holds was thrown away to such a place that it couldn't be found. She was sad and she helplessly watch as the water demons were slowly overpowering the mermaid princesses." Yukito said.
"That's a very selfish act of them." Kaito said.
"But then what happened next?" Nikora asked.
"Then this happened." Yukito smiled.
Everyone was curious about why Yukito is smiling.
"One day in the human world, Kandou Shirai, who wrote this book, was walking in a forest when he discovered the staff which was stuck on a tree. He climbed it and he got it." Yukito said.
"Did he break the staff?" Taki gulped.
"If he did, then how would Aqua Regina have the staff?" Hanon asked.
Everyone laughed for a few seconds.
"Kandou thought that it was a magic staff which gives out magic. He then said hocus pocus and then abrakadabra but it didn't work." Yukito said.
Everyone giggled a little bit.
"He then thought it was a walking staff. He went to his village and asked everyone whose staff is this but everyone said that it was not theres."
"He even thought that it was a walking stick?!" Luchia laughed.
"Yep." Yukito said.
Everyone laughed loudly as a result.
"But then he did the best thing which caused the 50 years war to end. If it hadn't been for him, mermaids won't have exist anymore. Even we won't have been here." Yukito said happily with tears in her eyes.
All were curious to hear about what act did he do to save the mermaids.
"One day he went to the shore with the staff in his hand. He looked at the sea where the war was still taking place. He then raised the staff, pretending to be the empire and said this:
"If only I could be the Emperor of Japan, I would make every living things live happily as they be."
Then as he tapped the staff on the ground something happened..."
"What happened?" Everyone asked.
"When he did so, the staff then flashed a bright light on the sea. Even Kandou was surprised and fell on the ground. It lasted for a few seconds and everything became completely normal again."
"At first he thought that he must have done something wrong so he decided to keep it with himself."
"But what he did not know was that all water demons were exterminated and the mermaids had won the war, though they wondered how it happened."
Everyone was awed on Yukito's story.
"He saved our race?!" Luchia gasped.
"With just a tap on the ground?!" Rina gasped as well.
Yukito nodded.
Hanon couldn't believe it! Nagisa's ancestor had saved their race from the brink of extinction by the water demons!
"It was later found out that there was a human who was holding the staff whose name was Kandou. So the Sea Godness came to him to give thanks to him." Yukito said
"At first, Kandou was a bit frightened but the Sea Godness calmed him down explaining that if it hadn't been for him, then the water demons would completely destroyed the sea and land as well. Kandou then asked if it was her staff. She said yes and he gave it to her."
"So was Kandou Shirai honoured?" Taki asked.
"Yep. He is known as 'The Saviour of Mermaids.' It's because of him that a long peace was followed at the sea untill..."
"Untill what?" Nikora asked.
"Untill Gaito attacked our kingdoms."
Everyone was shocked! Then that must that Yukito and the other mermaid princesses must have had a peaceful time as well.
"Wow! That was a really long peace the sea had." Luchia said.
"So that means that the mermaid princess of my kingdom saved Masahiro's ancestor, Tajiro Hamasaki, during the peaceful time, right?" Rina asked.
Yukito nodded.
"Wow! And we are so unlucky that at that time Gaito attacked us." Luchia whinned.
"I pity you." Yukito said.
"Thank you."
Everyone laughed.
"The next day, Kandou fell in love at first sight on a beautiful aqua mermaid princess of our kingdom at that time. She smiled at him and wanted to marry him. He gratefully accepted the offer and they got married." Yukito said.
"Even though in the next generations the Shirais were married to an ordinary aqua mermaids or just ordinary woman, they still are the descendants of Kandou, the saviour of the mermaids."
Everyone said, "Wow!"
"Wait so that means.." Hanon said before she was super shocked.
"Nagisa Shirai is the descendant of Kandou Shirai, the man who saved our race from extinction?!"
Yukito nodded.
Hanon couldn't believe it! She then threw herself on the chair and sobbed for a while.
"I think we really need to thank him for that." Kaito said.
"Yukito-san." Hippo smiled, "Is it possible to bring him back to life so that we can thank him?"
"I don't think so." Yukito said sadly, "The song might not work on the person from such a long time."
"Oh! I see."
"Hanon? What's wrong?" Luchia was worried.
Everyone then saw that Hanon is crying on the chair.
"Hanon?" Kaito asked.
"Why did I ever hated Nagisa in the first place?" Hanon cried, "When I first met him, I thought he was a kid and made fun of him but I never knew he is the descendant of the man who saved our race. Now I bet Kandou would be hating me right now from the sky."
Hanon couldn't hold back her tears and started to cry a lot. Everyone was sad when they saw her like this. Yukito then went to her and patted her. She then said:
"Please Hanon, don't cry. I understand that you knew little about him when you first met him. Rina also didn't know a lot about Masahiro untill Naoki told her so, right Rina?" Yukito said.
"Yep." Rina agreed.
"Yukito." Hanon said sadly.
"I am sure you guys are perfect with each other. Here, let me whip off your tears." Yukito smiled as she whipped Hanon's tears.
"Thank you, Yukito."
"Oh Yukito!" Luchia said, "Can we ask you another thing?"
"Sure." Yukito said.
"Yesterday evening, we heard a tune of a flute. It also surprised and shocked us because the flute's tune matches the exact tune of our song."
"Even I heard it when I was going with Masahiro to the Awami Shrine and we were completely taken by surprise." Rina said.
"Yeah and we tried to follow it but the tune stopped at that time." Kaito said.
"We were also taken by surprise, Yukito-san." Hippo said.
"So you finally found out, eh?" Yukito smiled.
Everyone looked at her in shock.
"What do you mean by we found out?" Kaito asked.
"Think about what happened yesterday." Yukito said.
"Okay so Nagisa was visiting here..." Nikora said.
"We heard the tune of the flute so..." Luchia continued.
"We followed it and when were following, we saw Nagisa." Kaito said.
Then Yukito can see their gears clicked on their heads.
"You don't mean to say.. " Hanon gasped before everyone said in shocked.
"NAGISA SHIRAI WAS THE ONE PLAYING THE FLUTE?!"
"That's right." Yukito smiled.
"But I don't believe it!" Luchia gasped.
"You will believe it as soon as you see this."
Yukito then grabbed her phone, searched the videos and found the video where she was enjoying Nagisa playing the flute.
"Please see this." Yukito smiled.
What they will see next will shock everyone.
In the video, they saw Nagisa, inside the house, seeing the mobile camera and whinned,
"Mom!" Nagisa said, "Do you really have to do that?"
"Come down, son. It's just family moments I am taking a video of it." Yukito smiled.
"Well that's a relief."
Everyone giggled a little bit when they are watching the video.
"Seems to me that Nagisa doesn't like to show off in the public." Taki said.
They continued to watch the video.
"Hey mom." Nagisa said, "It seems like the flute has found a new song."
Everyone was shocked about what they heard.
"Oh really, son?" Yukito asked, "How did you know?"
"I was walking home when suddenly that small aqua mermaid statue span around and the flute shined for a second."
Everyone couldn't believe what Nagisa was saying.
"I see. So what song is it?" Yukito asked in the video.
"Don't know mom but let's check it out." Nagisa said.
Then, right in front of their own eyes, they saw in the video that Nagisa taking out his mermaid flute from his bag. Hippo immediately realized it and was mouth opened.
"It can't be..." Hippo was shocked.
"Could it be...?" Taki gasped.
"That's right. It's the Mermaid Flute." Yukito smiled.
"Mermaid Flute?" Everyone asked.
Everyone then looked at the video.
"Here goes." Nagisa said in the video and soon he started to play the tune of 'Kibou No Kaneoto (Love Goes On)' with his flute.
Everyone stared in awe as Nagisa plays the flute which exactly matches the tune of the song and he is playing so beautifully.
Hanon? Happy tears started coming out from her eyes as she watches Nagisa playing.
"Nagisa, you are so beautiful. You are the one who really made me smile everytime I hear the flute's tune of our songs." Hanon thought happily.
After Nagisa finished it, Yukito, in the video, said happily:
"Bravo Nagisa! Aqua Regina must have given such a wonderful song to the current mermaid princesses."
"Thanks, mom." Nagisa said.
And then the video ends.
"So how was the video?" Yukito asked but all she could see is stunned and shocked faces. She looked at them for a few minutes.
"Uh guys?" Yukito asked.
"It's...It's..." Hanon gasped before everyone said together loudly.
"IT'S AWESOME!"
That made Yukito jumped a little.
"I can't believe it! Nagisa-kun looks so kawai when he is playing the flute!" Luchia squealed.
"And the mermaid flute is beautiful and in aqua colour." Rina smiled.
"I had never thought he could be so talented in playing this flute." Kaito smiled.
"Taro-chan plays piano well but Nagisa plays the flute beautifully!" Hanon squealed.
"And it matches the exact tune of your songs." Nikora smiled.
"Such a really sweet tune Nagisa played in the video." Taki said.
"Indeed it is." Hippo smiled.
"Could you tell us more about that mermaid flute?" Hanon asked.
"Okay. So the Mermaid flute is a very special flute which was made by the aqua mermaid princess at that time who married Kandou Shirai." Yukito said.
"Wow! What makes it really special?" Kaito asked.
"The first thing that makes it special is that, as you guys saw, the flute is in aqua colour and there is a small aqua mermaid statue on top of one side. That's what you don't see in other original flutes, right?"
Everyone nodded.
"The second thing is that when my son plays anyone of your songs, it will always match the tune of it with the flute's tune." Yukito said.
"Wow! Really?" Hanon said happily.
"Yep and when Aqua Regina gives you princesses a new song and after you sang it successfully, the aqua mermaid statue will spin around a few times and the flute will shine, indicating it has found a new song."
"Wow. So that means that when we sang that song to drive Mikeru out of the way when me, Kaito, Hanon and Rina were struck in the cave, then the new tune of the song comes to the flute, right?" Luchia asked happily.
"Yep and..."
"And?" Everyone asked curiously.
"What makes it even special is that if he plays it, the water demons will be so in love with the flute's melody that they will continue to listen to it, ignoring the others." Yukito said.
Everyone was shocked.
"Wait! It can even distract the water demons with its tune?" Hanon was shocked.
"Yep." Yukito smiled.
"Wow!" Everyone said.
"Hanon, Rina." Luchia happily said. "I think each of us have finally found a perfect boyfriend at last."
"I am so happy!" Hanon said.
"Yeah! Me too." Rina smiled, knowing that she no longer needs to dismiss talks about love. Because she already has a boyfriend and that's Masahiro.
Everyone smiled. The three girls are excited
"So we have Kaito's Panthalassa Symbol on his forehead." Luchia said happily in which Kaito smiled.
"Masahiro's 'Mermaid of Love' locket which can blind enemies for a few minutes if anyone attacks us." Rina smiled.
"And Nagisa's Mermaid Flute which can distract the enemies with its beautiful tune." Hanon squealed.
"Well we are all together now right?" Kaito asked.
"Hai!" All of them said.
As everyone is enjoying for a few minutes, Hanon seemed to be a bit upset. This had worried everyone now.
"Hanon? What's wrong?" Yukito was a bit concerned.
"Why didn't Nagisa tell me about this? I had a feeling he had been hiding something. Do you know why?" Hanon asked.
"Well..."
All of them suddenly became a little suspicious as they could see Yukito whistling a little bit. Rina then suddenly remembered something.
"Yukito." Rina said, "Naoki told us that if Masahiro shows his locket to anyone except us, then she will turn into bubbles. Is it also true relating to the flute?"
It was then everyone remembered what Naoki had said.
"I think so." Hippo said, "If his locket is so important to Hamasaki's family, then no doubt that the flute is also important to the Shirai family."
"Which could mean that Nagisa was hesitating to tell Hanon about his flute." Nikora said.
"Then I don't think I can blame Nagisa either." Hanon said.
"Well I don't think that's the reason." Yukito said.
Everyone was shocked at what Yukito said.
"Wait! So you don't turn into bubbles if Nagisa shows it to anyone?" Taki was shocked.
"Nope." Yukito said.
"But then why didn't he tell me about this?" Hanon was now upset.
"Fear of Jealousy." Yukito said.
"Eh?" Everyone was curious.
Silence occurred for a few minutes.
"Fear of Jealousy?" Hanon asked.
"Yep. As Taki had said, he doesn't like to show off in front of everyone." Yukito said.
"Tell us about it." Kaito said.
Yukito took a deep breathe before saying this:
"Well you see." Yukito said, "I heard that my son's class plays the musical instruments badly."
"Now that you said it." Kaito said, "I remember that one of his classmates was playing the trumpet so loudly that I couldn't even concentrate in class."
"Yep. Just like that." Yukito said.
"Then what's the need to be afraid of everyone?" Luchia asked.
"Well because..." Yukito said before she started to cry.
"Yukito? What's wrong?" Hanon asked.
"Please read this. I am too scared to tell." Yukito said as she hand over an old news article to them.
What they will read will come as the most shockest thing that they had ever read (and the most shockest thing in this story too.)
"Nearby Policeman arrested two criminals!
After their statement, police raided Watashi's house and arrested all of its family members on alleged that it attempted to kill a young boy over a flute!
Had the policeman not witnessed it, this child would have certainly being brutally killed by those criminals. Luckily, the policeman saw it and arrested them and the child was saved.
The victim is Nagisa Shirai, 8 years old. The incident took place at night in which he was returning home when suddenly they attacked him. The two criminals said that they were contracted by Watashi's father and mother to first kill him and then take his flute.
On hearing that, the police raided over Watashi's house where they were making plans at that time and also arrested the family members including Watashi, who admitted that he was the mastermind behind the plan to murder Nagisa.
According to the school and his classmates, Nagisa is a pretty popular boy not only for his looks but is known for playing the flute so well. The flute is unlike an original flute. Everyone likes his playing style and the melody is very beautiful and pleasant.
But this had fueled jealousy on Watashi, a bully everyone hates. But no one ever knew that he was born on a criminal family. Eagared to get the special flute on his own hands and sell it, he contacted his father and mother about it and together, they agreed to kill him and take his flute and sell it for 2 million yen.
The whole Watashi family confessed to it and showed no remorse or shame for their actions. They even killed 6 children to fulfill Watashi's deeds. Nagisa would have become the 7th victim.
On hearing about this incident and the confession, many of Nagisa's classmate formed a human chain demanding that Watashi be immediately being suspended from school and that he and his family be punished for this. One of his classmate, wishing not to be named, said this:
"I had a feeling that Watashi was totally jealous. When Nagisa was performing on the talent show, I noticed that Watashi had an anger on his eyes. An anger of hatred."
"But for him to have Nagisa killed, which didn't happen, and get the flute by himself? Now that's off the hook!"
At an emergency meeting, the school decided to ban Watashi. The female principal visited Nagisa's house and met his parents and went to see Nagisa, who is now suffering a shock. She regretted that she hadn't check on Watashi's background.
"One of my first priority is the safety of our children and I have totally failed." The principal broke down in tears.
"Nagisa is a very sweet boy who plays his flute so well that the melody is very pleasant. Now I fear that he might be unable to do so."
"We are providing help to Nagisa's parents who are obivously being affected by this incident. We wish Nagisa a speedy recovery."
The policeman who saved Nagisa from being killed was invited by his parents to visit to their house. He said he felt honoured to go there.
"He was very lucky." The policeman said, "He could have being killed. I was walking at night when I heard shouts and screams and 'Take that flute!' and 'Kill him!' words. I immediately rushed to the scene where I caught them red handed. I hope they and Watashi's family gets the punishment they deserve."
A physiologist who is currently treating Nagisa Shirai warned that some of his personalities might change as a result of this incident. The court is ready to lay down charges to the Watashi's family over the killing of six children and an attempted murder of Nagisa today."
As soon as they read the article, they were so shocked that some of them even burst into tears.
"OMG! That was terrible!" Luchia cried.
"I never knew that Nagisa had been met with this incident just for the Mermaid Flute." Hanon cried as well with tears coming out of her eyes.
"Those unforgivable bastards!" Rina cried as well.
"Seriously! They even ruined the other six children's future!" Kaito said angrily.
"Child brutality!" Taki cried.
"Now that might have totally ruined Nagisa's..." Nikora cried and she couldn't say it properly because she is so heartbroken after reading what happened to him.
"That's unforgivable!" Hippo said, "And an selfish act as well. They need to be brutally punished."
"The court did so." Yukito said.
"Really? What happened?" Hanon asked.
"The court sentenced all of then to death. As for Watasi himself, he was given life sentence and forced labour since he was young at that time."
Everyone sighed in relief.
"But still that totally changed Nagisa. Now he is very afraid to play the flute in front of everyone, fearing that someone might come and get him for his flute." Yukito sadly said.
"I see. So that's why the fear of jealousy still occurs around him, right?" Nikora asked.
"Yeah and now he plays it only when he is alone or he is a bit upset."
"Upset?!" Hanon gasped. Then she immediately remembered the day when she shouted at Nagisa when he accused Kaito of being Hanon's boyfriend.
"Nagisa? Could it be that after I shouted at you, you were playing one of our song's tune with the flute and you were hiding because of what happened to you in that day? I'm so sorry!" Hanon thought sadly.
"Hanon? What's wrong?" Yukito asked.
"Uh... It's nothing." Hanon said.
"Can you tell us what happened to you guys after this incident." Nikora said.
"After this incident he stayed at that school for three years before he moved to another school where he met you guys. Naoki requested us to move to the area where they live because there could be a chance that Watashi might escape from jail and might seek revenge on my son. They also helped us during that difficult time." Yukito said.
"That's nice of her." Rina said.
"Don't worry, Yukito-san." Hippo said, "If that Watashi comes again and harms your son, we will throw him into the water."
"That's right." Hanon said, "We, as the current mermaid princesses, will protect our loved ones with our songs and nothing will come to harm, not even your son."
Yukito saw everyone's determined faces and smiled.
"Thank you guys." Yukito said before she looked at the clock.
"I think it's getting late now. I really have to go."
"Yukito." Hanon said, "Thank you for telling me everything about his ancestors, his mermaid flute and also why he didn't want to tell us about that."
"Your welcome." Yukito smiled.
"It's nice meeting you Yukito." Taki smiled.
Yukito then left after she got back the news article from them.
"Poor Nagisa-kun." Luchia said sadly, "Almost getting killed in his young age."
"All for the mermaid flute." Rina said sadly.
"At least the victims' family has got justice. The court did what they wanted." Nikora said.
"Hey where's Hanon?" Kaito asked.
"She went straight to her room after Yukito left." Hippo said.
"I see."
In her room, Hanon went straight on her bed and cried on the pillow. She never thought that Nagisa was almost killed just for his mermaid flute. She also cursed Watashi for this.
"Thank God I have finally found a boyfriend whose ancestor saved our race. I hope I can hear the sweet tune of his flute." Hanon said to herself before starting to cry again, "I am sorry Nagisa. I promise I will protect you from any harm and I will never ever make fun of you ever again."
Me: There you go. End of Chapter 3.
Taoki: Do you really have to put that incident in this chapter? Please! This incident had made us suffer a lot.
Shizuro: Calm down Taoki. Your wife, Yukito, had to explain why your son, Nagisa, won't tell about his mermaid flute to other.
Butler: I pity your son, sir. I feel very sad of what happened to him.
Taoki *smiling*: Thanks.
Me: See you in Chapter 4, people.
Butler: And untill then, like and review please.