Chapter Três/ Three

As Sapphire swam inside of the castle she sees ton of people just there happily chatting waiting for the coronation to start. She can't believe there all here for her. Some wave and smile at her congratulating her on getting the comb and she replies she didn't get it. They all have a quick laugh and she moves on. "Soo, Sapphire how do you feel about all these people? I mean all eyes would be on you when obtaining the comb." Sapphire smiles smugly and just shrugs. "I don't know Pearl, I didn't really think about it. Like I know they would be looking at me but, I just didn't really think about what would happen next." Sapphire dropped her smile and sighed. "Maybe I lied about being ready. What if they don't like me as the next leader of the pods council in 120 years?" If Pearl were had a actual form she'll be rolling her eyes. "Girl please, I didn't mean to worry you but you should know that you have this opportunity for a reason. They wouldn't have want you as there leader unless they wanted too, and they picked you because you earned it." Sapphire shakes her head and smiles. "Thanks Pearl." Sapphire says quietly, not knowing Pearl was proud of herself for helping her friend. 4 more minutes pass and then a loud boom sound erupted. Everyone turned to look at each other confused what that was. Then out of nowhere the person who suppose to give her the comb, Alon is looking around crazily looking for someone. Then spots Sapphire and swims right for her."Sapphire-" He says in short breathes clearly having trouble breathing. He takes a deep breath, then finally talks. "Sapphire we cannot have your coronation." Sapphire stared in shock. "W-What? Why??" Sapphire was confused and very ruffled. "Because there's been a incident including the chosen ones and Delara." Sapphire squints her eyes in frustration. "Great Delara, Eirene's sister. The wannabe, and those annoying humans I'm suppose to help and protect." Sapphire rolls her eyes and puts her hands on her head to think. "So what exactly happened?" Sapphire says interested and wants to know how it is stopping her coronation. "Well, I'm not really sure about this part but, I and the rest of the council thinks that Eirene sent Delara to "finish the job". Alon says the last part in air quotes.

"Oh really?" Sapphire says smirking. "Well we all know that this can't happened." Alon shakes his head frantically. "The chosen ones are involved since you know the strawberry moon is happening for them and Eirene wants to stop them from mutating. Since you may know that if certain humans change during the strawberry moon something drastic happens, other then there transformation. This is going to be one the most powerful changes that is going to happen, and they would do anything from stopping it. You know why." Alon says glaring at Sapphire. "Of course those idiots get to be the most powerful and I'm stuck helping them." Sapphire sighs. "But you remember I'm not allowed to have the comb put on me until a coronation is done right? That's been the rules for thousands of years." Alon nods then opens up a very closed fist. He opens his hand and there is two seashell necklaces. "The seashells necklaces for the other two girls." Sapphire purses her lips and groans. "Fine, it's not like I have a choice anyways if I want to still be proven to be able to handle the comb." Sapphire then uses her powers to teleport her necklace in her hand. It's similar to the girls but a bit bigger and isn't that bland color but a purple gradient. Sapphire puts on her necklace, then puts out her hand facing a bunch of seaweed growing in the corner of the entrance. She feels the shell's energy rush through her and then purple coral starts to slowly grow little by little with sharp edges. "I haven't used this baby in awhile." Says Sapphire grinning. Alon just rigidly grasped Sapphire's hand. "Meet me by the whirl pool later on." Alon then swims away fast and Sapphire looks back to see if any guest was here. Everybody left, probably scared of that loud boom sound. Sapphire mutters something not even Pearl is able to hear and leaves going to meet Alon at the whirl pool. This is just going to be interesting.

Me and the girls end up finishing any work that was due and that's what we did most of the day, we even got the work that was suppose to be due in another month. After we finish that my mom then comes in a very professional suit and she's zipping up her purse. "I'm going with the parents of the students in the school to check out what happened and were going to talk to the principal and teachers. The authorities might be there, hopefully they would let us through. But um I'm going to drop off Natalie at grandma Adalia's house. So you girls can spend some time together after finishing your guys works. We would probably be there for a while so I left 70 dollars on the table so you guys can buy dinner." We all nod and take a moment to take in all the information. She smiles and hugs all of us, then gives me a kiss on my cheek. She then points a finger at all of us. "Make sure not to buy to much junk food." We all agree with her and say goodbye. She waves and leaves, and we all look at each other than burst out laughing for some reason. I looks at the time and sees it's 12:34. "So we can eat lunch in another hour, if you want and now play some games?" I say as I gets up and puts my stuff away. Later on we end up playing roblox and then eating lunch. I check the time once again and see it's 1:45 now. Wow we have a lot of the day to fill. We ended up going outside to the park to take a walk. (Most of the time the spotlight is going to be placed on Sapphire situation since it is the most important right now, but I would do little parts for the girls. So this is basically Sapphires POV. So don't be surprised if we get more of her. Bye for now!)

As Sapphire swam to the whirl pool, she was thinking to herself as always. Pearl knew that she had times she wanted to talk to her and not talk to her. Sapphire, didn't believe she was fretting. She usually listened to the motto she heard the elders say while spending time on the human land. "Fake it till you make it." Sapphire finally reaches the entrance of the whirlpool and sees Alon there with a serious expression. "Good your here." Alon says obviously ready to go. "Okay, so you know this is going to not be easy." I nod my head and look at the strong big whirl pool beyond the gate. The elders put that 2,450 years ago so nobody was able to go through here into land. It was easy access. Since Alon was on of the elders he's one of the only ones who can open the gate and could easily go through the whirlpool. I heard many stories about this place, mainly ones my mother told me once I was a little mer child. "Once your able to defeat the monster whirlpool you get transported somewhere close to the human world then there is the door you'll see. The only way to go through that door is powerful magic." She smiles brightly, a pretty smile. A piece of chestnut brown hair flies up and she tries to put it back down fast. My mother was the one with order and my father was the opposite. But I loved them both equally. I shake my head to get out of that memory. I clear my throat and Alon stares at me. I glare in confusion and he just shakes his hand and continues trying to open the gate. I hear a click and get closer. "I don't know why my magic was acting up before." He just sighs heavily and puts his hand out signaling for me to go through. The whirl pool is just twirling and doing what it does best. Minding its business keeping any outsiders out. Sapphire was trying to fool herself and if definitely didn't work, she was scared. I mean of course she was it was justified. But she wanted to put on a brave face. I turn back to face Alon and see that he is hold a purple glowing piece of kelp. The one that might help me get human legs. Sapphire took the piece of glowing kelp in her hand and held it tight. She did not want to loose it in the whirlpool at all. "Thanks Alon, for everything!" He just nods his head and smiles.

Then he uses his magic to teleport the comb to him, at first it was glowing a little yellow but then it died down. "Wow.." Is all Sapphire manages to say. Sapphire had to do this for the sake of her home and the whole kingdom but for her parents too.Sapphire then gently took the comb out of Alon's hand. As soon as it left it grew a little bit bigger. Sapphire eyes scrutinized the whole thing, and meticulously put it on her head. She felt a zap quickly go through her body and suddenly felt energized. "Thank you again.." Sapphire says as she's already going through the gate. Then she hears Alon yell behind her, "Make the right Sapphire, show us that you deserve that comb. Save the kingdom...Save the girls." Sapphire paused at the last part but before she can hesitate for another second, the whirlpool pulled her in since she was close enough. "Ahhhh!" Is all Sapphire can say. I can't do this, Sapphire thinks to herself . I cannot beat this whirlpool. Sapphire then heard a ahem. "Girl I didn't want to say anything before, since I wanted you to have a little time to yourself but um now this is just too much. Don't say you can't do it I know you can, but you just need to know that." Sapphire was a little dazed when she said that but then out of nowhere a blue shimmery glow appeared. Then came out was a mermaid but it was a faint image. Wait was that Pearl? She had light brown skin with a reddish undertone. She had short glimmering blue hear with shiny purple eyes. Pearl then holds out her hand and it faces Sapphire. What is she going to do? Is all Sapphire is able to say. Then black is all that she sees.

Me and the girls are all walking out of the ice cream showing licking our delicious ice cream cone. "Ahh, I needed that." Celeste says as we walk the street to the mall. Aurelia was just silent the whole time. "Are you okay?" I ask as I walk a little closer to her. Aurelia eyes squint, then she heavily sighs and look at me. "Oh, yeah I'm okay. Thanks for asking." She walks a little ahead of me and Celeste and we both look at each other. We had to throw out any last bit of the ice cream since we were not allowed to have food or drinks inside. "So what are you guys buying?" Celeste asks in a sing song voice. Aurelia just shrugs and speeds up to go upstairs. Me and Celeste look at each other again and go after her. I hope she is actually okay. We reach her and she's at the shoe aisle. "Aurelia what's wrong?" Celeste asks then putting a hand on Aurelia's shoulder. Aurelia kept shook her head and shrugs her off. "Just leave me alone!" She says to Celeste with red eyes and tears brimming. She then runs down stairs and I was about to run after her but not before looking at Celeste who is clearly appalled and looks like she's going to cry too. I give her a quick hug then go to run after Aurelia. Oh Aurelia what's the problem? I run down the stairs and through the door really fast. I wonder where she went. I pulled out my phone from my jeans back pocket. I look at the case and smile sadly, It's us in pre school. I sigh and unlock my phone and go to contacts. I click on Aurelia and hear the phone vibrating. Pick up pick up! Then voice mail. "Nǐ hǎo, Aurelia here, sorry I can't talk I'm busy." Ugh, come on Aurelia. I sigh frustrated and try to keep calling her but it keeps going to voice mail. I had a tightening of my throat and a short intake of breath, tears started to race down my cheek. Oh please be okay Aurelia.

"Haha, haha. So funny, "Oh please be okay Aurelia". The voice was distinctive and dark. "Well I'll make sure she's alright." The voice continued to laugh, it was the most wicked and the most ugliest laugh you can hear. "Um, ***." Another voice halted this person's evil watching time. It was low and soft it almost sounded innocent. "Ugh, what now?" The first voice said clearly vexed. The second voice paused a little before forming a sentence which piqued the first one. "Out with it already!" That made the second voice palpitate and shift back a little. The second voice suspired and just went on. "I finally found a way to get the humans." The first voice shot a baleful glare at the second voice in a skeptical glance. The second voice looked up intimidated at the first voice and wavered slightly. The first voice curled there lip at the second voice fragility. "What do we do?" The first voiced asked back now turned on the second voice. The second voice was now blissful that the first voice was not looking at her sending the second voice dirty looks. They decided to answer quickly so they didn't get yelled at again. "Well....***********************." The second voice replied gazing down at the first voice home floor. The first voice put her finger on her chin tapping thoughtfully. They honestly thought they could have did better, but just inclined their head. "Then let's get on with it." The first voice said in clear boredom. The second voiced piped up happily. "Great!" A little too happy which made the first voice groan in annoyance. The first voice just shook her head and rolled her eyes. "Just go please." Said the first place in her normal voice a bit nicer now. The second voiced bobbed her head and swiftly swam out, knowing that the second time they said it wouldn't be as nicer.