The white haired, pink tailed mermaid swam franticly throughout the crystal waters, her big blue eyes darting from side to side. She'd swat away her white hair that'd slowly float in front of her face from time to time, due to the currents of the water. She sighed as she began swimming faster, her gaze dropping to the ground as she swam by a school of fish.

"Where are you, Lucy? Your father's going to freak."

"Ooh! Look at this one, Plue! It's see-through! I've never seen a see-through seashell before."

"Puu-"

"What do you think it's even used for?" I asked impatiently, cutting off the white fish. I twirled the mysterious shell with my fingertips.

(Yes you smart people, it is indeed glass…)

I glanced up to the top of the water. The light was faint above me, since I was pretty far down, but I could still see it. I looked at Plue, "How dare he keep me down here!"

"P-"

"I mean, I'm eighteen! I can handle humans…I think…I mean I've never met one before because of him!" I yelled, crossing my arms. I blew some of my blonde hair from floating in front of my face.

"What kind of King is scared from Humans? Oh right, my father!"

A shadow moved above me, casting me in the dark for a few seconds. Glancing up, I saw yet another ship sail by. I sighed, falling down on a nearby flat rock. As I laid there, I watched all the bottom of things sail by, whether it being ships, surfboards, even floating people deciding to go with the flow of the ocean.

"It's not fair!" I whined, watching another person swim by. I sat up from the rock, my hair floating around me from the sudden change of action.

"I've never seen my hair dry! Mira says its the most wonderful thing ever, that theres so many ways to style it!" I moved my blue tail, "She says having legs is the best feeling ever. Being able to dance, jump, walk…"

Plue watched me with his blue eyes carefully. I glanced at him, "What?"

He smacked my horn with his fin, "Puun!"

"Maybe I am thinking of going up there…" I shrugged, "Who cares. It's not like it's going to happen with my father."

The white fish sighed in relief. I straightened, "Unless I sneak up there! Or even better, run away- er, swim away…"

Plue's eyes widened as I continued, "Well until I have feet, of course. It's not like my father will come after me, right? He despises land."

"Pu-"

"Think Plue! The love of my life could be up there," I said, swimming up a little, "He could have brown hair! Or blonde, black maybe… Oh! He'll have legs! Dry hair! He'll talk about stuff other than sharks and fishing boats coming to close to other mermaids! His name would be-"

"Natsu!" a voice called, causing a pink haired boy to jump. His friend, Gray, punched his arm, "You still up for surfing after school? You can't still be upset after Lisa-"

"I'm up, and I'm not. And for your information, I dumped her."

Gray smiled, "Yeah, whatever helps you sleep at night, Hothead."

He rolled his onyx eyes, "Thanks, Coldheart."

"Ow. That was the harshest one I heard so far." Gray said, holding his hand on his chest, "I'm wounded."

Natsu rolled his eyes, "You look like a boy-scout about to make a pledge."

Gray dropped his arm, "Whatever. I was thinking we could surf near they found the last trace of a mermaid."

Natsu laughed, "You still believe in that stuff?"

Gray nodded, "The latest one they saw had beautiful blonde hair, brown eyes, and a blue tail. But get this, she had a horn."

His friend looked at him, "I thought all of them looked like Ariel, you know, seashell bra, colorful tails-"

Gray shoved his phone in Natsu's face. His friend wasn't kidding, she was beautiful. Big doe like brown eyes, blonde hair that floated around her, her amazing blue tail, and a white horn.

Natsu looked at his friend, "To bad she's not real. Where's her seashell bra anyway?"

Gray rolled his eyes, "They don't wear them, duh. They have vine like patterns that cover their, you know. See?"

He showed him the picture again. He was again, right. She had white vine like patterns covering her. Natsu looked at his friend, "Where did they last see her?"

"Saving a drowning girl. Wendy, I think that was her name."

Natsu hit him, "The location, idiot."

"Magnolia's best beach."

"No way, that close? We live on that beach. Wouldn't we hear it first?"

Gray shrugged, "That's what I thought, but it was Saturday. Remember, big soccer game?"

Natsu sighed, "Yeah I remember. Hey, does she have a name?"

Gray nudged him, "Do you have a crush on a fish, Natsu?"

He flicked him, "They can't just keep calling her 'Mermaid' all the time, you know."

"They named her Oceana. Beauty of the Ocean. Pretty high title, huh?"

Natsu nodded, "Yeah-"

Gray pulled him out the door as the last bell rang. When Nastu asked why he did it, Gray gave him a smile.

"She was coming to talk to you."

"Oh, then thanks."

"You saved a human?!"

"Yes but-"

"A human! How dare you disobey me?!"

"She was a little girl and-"

"Now the whole human world has a picture of you! Looking into the camera! Do you know how many people are out there, looking of you?!"

"Well I-"

"Quiet!"

I fell silent as my gaze dropped to the castle's floor tiles. My father pinched the bridge of his nose, breathing heavily, he opened his eyes to glare at me once more, "Go to your room. You are not to leave this castle until you turn nineteen."

My jaw almost dropped, "But I turn nineteen in a week!"

"Oh, is that so? That won't do. Until your twenty one. A mature adult."

I stared at my father, who sat there calmly on his throne. His hand gripped tightly on his staff. His short blonde hair waving effortlessly, his red tail flicking from side to side, his black horn that erupted from his hair. I glared at him, "Mother wouldn't do this. She would've understood."

His grip tightened and his words came out more harsh, "Room. Now."

Crossing my arms, I swam up to my room, his royal guards slamming the door behind me. I could hear them position themselves in front of the door, not allowing anyone in or out. I groaned as I threw myself on my bed. Staring at the ceiling, I noticed a blur of white hair pass by my window. Quiskly swimming over to the window, I peered out.

"Mira!" I hissed. She spun around, relief filling her eyes when she saw me.

"Thank God! I thought I had to tell the king I couldn't find his daughter after that picture-"

"I need you to take me to shore."

She stared at me. "E…Excuse me?"

"I need you to take me to shore. I'll live with you and Laxus-"

"What did you do, Lucy?"

"I mentioned my mother."

She sighed, "I can't-"

"You can! Laxus knows about us! You have to, you're the one who told my father about that picture, you got yourself into this."

Guilt crashed over her face. "Fine. but if your father asks, I had nothing to do with this."

I squealed, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mira!"

She rolled her eyes as she opened the window wider, "C'mon, lets go."

When I was out I started to swim in circles. "What's it like up there? Are the people nice?"

Mira grabbed my arm as she nodded, "Yeah, whatever."

When we reached the surface, Mira looked at me. "Wear this, and don't, under any circumstance take it off. Do you understand me?"

I nodded, taking the silver gem necklace. "What is it?"

"You'll stay human at any drop of water. Put it on, now."

I did. I was surrounded by a bright white light in less than a second. When it disappeared, Mira was looking at me, kicking her newly formed legs, her pink gem glowing on her necklace before dying out. I was about to say I don't feel different, when I started to float down. Kicking my tail, I realized I didn't have one. Two long legs where there instead of one tail. I was about to laugh in glee, when water filled my mouth. Panicking, Mira pulled me up for air. She smiled,

"Humans can't breathe underwater."

"I realized." I snapped, aware of her mocking tone.

She smiled, "Now, lets get you clothes."

I glanced down. "Oh. My. God."

I was naked. Head to toe, bare. In public. Mira gave a sympathetic smile. "All mermaids change naked. C'mon, I have some clothes under an abandoned dock close to the house."

"Thank god."

When I did finally get changed into some clothes, which Mira explained was a lime tank top, a white shirt, and some black shorts, I realized the white shirt was of course big on me. So it just hung on one shoulder. Mira handed me some flip-flops, glancing at the water. I looked over at it.

The waves increased, bigger and bigger, more ferocious. I sighed. "Looks like he figured it out."

Mira shivered, "Let's get out of here."

Natsu looked out at the waves. Gray sat down next to him. "No good man. How does a storm roll in that fast?"

Natsu looked at the clouds his friend was talking about. He was thinking the same thing. "I've never seen the waves like this. I heard the LifeGuard had to call everyone out as quickly as possible."

Gray's eyes widened. Natsu looked to see what he was staring at. Mira, his neighbor, was walking down the beach with a strangely familiar girl with her.

"Oceana." The two boys said together.

She was frowning at the waves that seemed to crash closer and closer towards her. Mira laughed and when she noticed the two boys, she waved. The two boys waved back slowly, not taking their eyes off the blonde. When they started to get closer, Mira smiled. "Natsu, Gray, this is my-er, sister-

"Oceana." Gray answered for her.

The blonde looked at him confusedly. "I'm sorry, who?"

Mira smiled, "My sister, Lucy."

Natsu nodded, "That makes a lot more sense."

Mira's head cocked to the side, "What do you mean?"

That she's secretly a mermaid along with you. "That you guys have matching necklaces, duh."

Lucy didn't say anything, just continued to glare at the ocean's waves. Mira grabbed her arm, "Um, let's go met Laxus. You'll see Natsu and Gray tomorrow at school. See you later!"

Before she trailed in the door behind Lucy, she looked back at the boys. "I wouldn't go surfing for a while. Something tells me the waves will only get worse."

And she was gone. Natsu looked at Gray, who's eyes were still glued on the door. "Natsu. We found her. Now all we have to do is get her in her fish form."

He looked at his dark haired friend. "And how do you expect to do that?"

Gray looked at him with a smirk. "We have water at school."

Natsu just stared at him as he continued. "We pour water on her and bam! Instant mermaid! Oceana will be ours! What'ya say?"

"I say you're crazy."

Gray smiled "That's funny, cause I'd would say I'm a genius."