(A/N) Haha, I managed to meet this deadline! *sets off a partypopper* Yes! And the surprise will be up too. So, if you want to, check out Platyouille as well:) Any way, back to the girls. Enjoy:*

Chapter 8

Oh no. What were we going to say? They had seen Candace's tail! They were all in shock, Isabella and I was in shock! Nothing was going to explain it to them, and so I looked at Isabella and sighed. I was so angry. With both of them. Candace for revealing us, and Isabella for going up here in the first place. They can explain this to mum!

"Wha...?" Their captain stuttered. He looked over to us. Isabella shrugged and headed over to the railing again.

"Like we said, we are fine here." She lifted her purple tail above the water, so it was visible to all on the ship. The Captain and his green haired friend shot backwards.

"What... What are you?" They stuttered in unison.

"Mermaids." I sighed.

They all looked at us, completely dumb-struck. Then one of them burst into laughter. He was stood next to the one who had his head over the ship.

"Good one." He chuckled.

I groaned and swam down to find Candace. Hopefully she hadn't managed to tell Mom yet. As much as I wanted to kill both of them, I didn't want to get them in trouble, despite what I said before. To my luck, she was just trembling behind a large rock. I sighed and swam over to her.

"Candace?" I patted her on the shoulder, trying to comfort her.

"They...They saw me. They saw me. ALL OF ME! OHMYGODWEARESOBUSTED" She was soon shouting and going crazy at the thought she had just revealed us. I pulled her into a hug, and she soon shut up.

"There, better?" I cooed. She nodded into my shoulder.

"Good. Now, calm down and we can go back up there." She pulled away from me, her mouth hanging open.

"WHAT?!" She screamed. "We can't go back up there! We need to get Queen Vivian! She needs to mmhmmmg..." I put my hand over her mouth to stop her from rambling further. Then I grabbed her wrist and swam upwards. Once we reached the surface I let her go.

"Look, Candace. You don't need to worry. If something was wrong about them, then why haven't they caused any harm to Isabella? Remember what happened last time. Surely they would have taken her whilst our backs were turned." I soothed her. Candace looked at me suspiciously, and then started to think.

"Fine. But if something goes wrong again, I'm going straight back to...to...t..." Candace started to stutter. I turned around and saw a blonde haired man walk across the ship, holding some kind of tube in his hand was walking over to where Isabella had perched herself. Suddenly, Candace swam over to her, and pushed her off, saying a quick "Move it, sister" in the process. I shook my head. Only Candace could become an obsessive wreck after seeing one quite good looking person. I lingered by them for a moment until I saw the Captains green haired friend stood looking at the ocean. I decided that there was no point me staying near my sister, so I swam over to him.

"Hi. What's up?" I smiled up at him. Startled, he looked at me, obviously being too lost in his own thoughts to notice I had moved. He simply waved at me, and knelt down.

"What were you looking at?" I asked him, trying to get a conversation. As worried as I was, curiosity was starting to take over. He simply shrugged.

"I'm Vanessa by the way." I smiled at him.

"Ferb" He smiled. 'Not much of a talker I see' I thought to myself. Something about him seemed to capture my interests, and I couldn't help wanting to get to know him better. But my conversation was cut short when someone else popped up above the water.

"What are you doing up here?" Monty hissed. His father, Sir Monogram was ruler over the guards, and everyone expected his son to be exactly the same. I knew Monty, however. He didn't want to take over from his dad as head guard. He had more ambition.

"And why are you talking to people like him after what happened last time?" He grabbed my arm and pulled me away from the ship.

"And what do you mean by that?" Ferb had obviously been listening to Monty, and although his expression remained the same, I could sense a feeling of aggravation in his voice. Monty's face turned sour.

"The last idiotic humans that came here tried to harm Vanessa. We had to get our top guard to rescue her. I do not want a repeat of that!" Monty sneered. Ferb simply raised his eyebrows.

"You think that I'm going to cause harm to her? Surely, and correct me if I'm wrong, surely if I was planning to do such a thing, I would have done it by now?" He folded his arms and awaited Monty's response. Monty was simply dumbstruck. He shook his head.

"Vanessa, we need to get you to safety. These idiots probably have the same theory that the others did!"

"Oh, and what theory would that be?"

"Look, could I get a word in?" I interrupted their little squabble, and rubbed my temples. "Thank you. Now, I think Ferb is right, Monty. They have had plenty of opportunity to capture us, and they haven't yet. So you have nothing to worry about!" I turned to face Ferb, getting my arm out of Monty's grip. "And the last people that visited, when I was about 5 years old tried to capture me and drain my 'mermaid magic'." Ferb looked confused.

"Magic? I thought that was just a myth... Well, then again, so were mermaids..." He trailed off, whilst I burst into laughter.

"No... There is no such thing as mermaid magic! It's just some stupid tale people told their children..."

"And because of that, Vanessa almost died!" Monty interrupted, clearly worried about me. Monty could be sweet; he always showed concern for me and all my sisters. Even though he didn't like the idea of becoming ruler of the guards, the position certainly would be perfect for him. I shook my head, snapping out of my thoughts.

"Monty, don't worry about us, we are all fine! Trust me!" He sighed in defeat. He never could argue with royalty, and since I was the eldest, my word was defiantly law, unless in a conversation with mom, of course.

I smiled at Monty. "Why don't you meet the rest of the crew, I'm sure Ferb would happily introduce you." Ferb and Monty exchanged glances, before Ferb crouched down and introduced himself. Oh, yes. These two will defiantly be entertaining to watch...

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