A/N: Hi readers, FoF and Maddie here. We're so so so sorry it took many years to finally complete this story. We had finals: again, and again, and again. Till now in 2020. We re-read this story today after many years and realized it was finally time to give you the conclusion, the proper ending it deserves. We hope it was worth the wait.

The rising full moon was in prime full moon position for brainwashing a mermaid. Emma exited the bathroom for a second time after crying again and wiped her remaining tears from her face. Her tears were salty like the clear ocean water. She could feel the ocean calling her, even though she hadn't seen the full moon. A text came in from Will. Even though he was standing in the house.

Guys...take care of Bella plz. I have to go. Sophie is having an emergency.

"Will!" Rikki screamed, I'm standing right in front of you.

"Oh...Right. I probably could have whispered it. I didn't want Bella to hear."

"Didn't want Bella to hear what?" Bella shot a glare from her clearly narrowed eyes. She placed her right hand on her right hip, glaring with a burning, blazing intensity in her eyes. She was angry and enraged.

"Hello Bella. I was just talking to Rikki." Will answered calmly although there was a slight edge to his voice.

"Will, I told you not to talk to Rikki anymore!"

"SHUT UP BELLA FOR ONE SECOND!" Will screamed although his scream was hushed because of the shack neighbors.

"Oh my Gosh Will. If you aren't nicer to me I will no longer kiss you on the cheek anymore."

"Good because you are sick anyway. Goodbye Bella. And I hate the way you kiss." Will then exited his house and went to go help Sophie who was currently experiencing an emergency. He was losing his crush on Bella. He was angered by this realization and more strife was in every step he took to go and help Sophie who was having an emergency.

Meanwhile, Rikki obnoxiously knocked by Bella and rolled her eyes at Bella's angered face. She stomped back to the living room.

Emma was simmering. Not literally. That was Rikki's thing. She thought back to all of the cruel things Bella had done up until this point—she'd blamed Emma for Will sexually assaulting her, accused her of calling her friends an ableist slur, threatened to kill her, and most pressing of all...she'd befriended her friends. Behind her back!

She hissed like a rattlesnake.

Emma looked at Bella who had not moved from the comfy couch. It was a comfy couch Will stole from a homeless shelter. So the couch was extra comfy because it was for a good bargain: free. Bella got up finally. She had to use the bathroom to go be sick somewhere else. When she did, the full rising moon reflected from the small crack in the window to the doorknob, to the faucet, to the shower rod, to the mirror, and then to her icy clear blue eyes.

I must go to Mako Island. It is the only way to restore balance to my friend group, she thought. Then she said it aloud and left the bathroom. She closed the bathroom door in a robotic manner. Her body moved. Even though she was so dreadfully feverish and most likely on her death bed before, she was now fine to walk and swim for miles.

"Where are you going?" Cleo asked.

"I must go to Mako Island."

"No you're not because Will texted us and said we have to take care of you so here we are taking care of you." Cleo screamed in her face.

"Um…No."

"That's it I'm calling for back-up." Cleo announced with ice in her tone. She dialed Lewis' number and screamed at him once he answered her call.

"Oh my Goodness Cleo are you okay. I am trying to fix the air conditioner. Also I am also very sick, and this took a lot of effort."

"No Lewis you need to come here NOW!" Cleo screamed.

But it was too late now. Bella ran out of Will's shack at full speed like a monkey to match the full moon.

She crashed into the sick Lewis, who promptly passed out.

Cleo shook her unconscious boyfriend. "WAKE UP, LEWIS! WAKE UP." She began to cry salty tears. She instinctively slapped Lewis' face to wake up from his unconsciousness. She also kicked his stomach. "LEWIS WAKE UP!" Emma and Rikki watched from the curb. They just made sure they didn't look up at the sky. Because of the full moon. Because they could not be possessed.

Lewis woke up from his unconsciousness and stood up. "CLEO! STOP HITTING ME!" he gushed into tears. Cleo kept hitting him, not listening to a word indignantly and with ignorance she did not listen, ignorantly. She sobbed. Because she was not listening. Finally Rikki took control of Cleo and the situation.

"Bella ran off into the night to go to Mako Island! What do we do?"

"Leave her there." Emma growled and mumbled under her breath, pursing her lips and crossing her eyes, so that her friends couldn't hear what she was saying. She was the (ice) queen of being subtle.

Taking care of Bella now. She sent text to Will to keep suspicions at bay. TTYL :3 XD :-) ^_^ ~-~ [-_-]

Thanks, Emma! I knew I could count on you. :D ;) 3

"No, Emma." Lewis said, having heard her. "We have to go after her. I am too sick and critically injured right now to make this trip, so you guys will have to work as a team while I call my brother...The EMT worker." Lewis paused to cough up blood. His rib cage was definitely bruised.

"Who the heck is that!" Cleo roared. "Do I need to call him?"

"Go find Bella!" Lewis hissed. He gritted his teeth and lashed his furry tail. Cleo looked at it and scowled.

"Lewis! That was for tomorrow night! Not for the public—!"

"Call someone else who's in the mermaid club if you need backup. I just spent hours fixing the air conditioner and I have passed out three times today. And I am PROUD to be me. I am Lewisstar of the Australia Clan." And then he hung up with no explained.

So Cleo ignored him and ran after Bella. Her friends followed her close. They screamed as they ran. Somehow the moon was not affecting them so they were okay.

"Guys what are we going to do if we can't find Bella in time."

"Let her be. I'm sure she will make friends with the fishes in the ocean." Emma added to the conversation with a huff. She flipped her hair in a dramatic fashion and stomped her foot.

Hey Emma how iz Bella jw? [0_0] o_O o.o 0-0

It hadn't even been two minutes since Emma had said that she was keeping an eye on Bella. And it hadn't even been twenty minutes since Will had left for the emergency.

Are you driving? Pay attention to the road! She is getting along swimmingly…:3

Emma laughed out loud.

It's okay because I'm at red light. Okay just checking in. Good night Emma :-) LOL

Emma and the other girls continued to run and scream for Bella. Will meanwhile was en route to the Gold Coast Hospital because Sophie was in an emergency if he did not mention that already.

So the girls continued to run and scream but it was to no avail. Bella was nowhere to be found. What were they going to do?

"What are we going to do?" Rikki asked.

"I don't know."

"Well figure it out okay!"

"Shut up Rikki I'm trying my best!"

"Well try harder!"

The girls bickered and Emma scowled, rolling her eyes to the back of her head and sent them an annoyed glare with her icy burning eyes and screamed. "Girls stop!" They all stopped and stared at the moon. Then they walked and then they ran to the nearest body of water.

Guys guys guys how iz Bella?

No response. In her robotic trance Emma crushed her phone with her bare hand.

They all arrived at the moon pool. Bella was standing there too. They all stared at each other. Bella was also standing there too.

"The balance is not right." Bella said. She was pale. She was like a zombie. A zombie mermaid.

"The moon calls." Cleo said.

"Who will it choose?" Rikki wondered. Hopefully not her. She would be okay if it was Cleo.

"Will it choose?" Emma asked. "Or will we?" She would also be okay if it was Cleo. Secretly, everyone hoped either Cleo or Bella was chosen. They were perhaps the most obnoxious girls they have ever encountered in their existence on this planet.

The moon pool bubbled, matching the intensity of the situation. The water turned murky in contrast to its usual crystal clear likeness. Whoever went in there was not going to be heard from again. That was what the moon said.

Emma shoved Bella into the water without hesitation. Bella screamed as she fell in. She flailed. They all stared.

"Hey guys I am here - " Lewis announced as he arrived, only to be knocked unconscious again by robotic Cleo. His body rolled into the into a sandy corner. He was safe though he was okay.

The moon pool bubbled with intensity.

"I will have my revenge!" Screamed Bella. She raised her right and left hands. Emma was a dead statue. She broke on the ground. Cleo and Rikki stared.

"You killed our friend." Rikki then boiled Bella to death. The corpse was disgusting.

"You killed Bella!" Cleo screamed, snapping out of the trance. She raised her left hand, but finally unconscious sandy Lewis woke up and grabbed her left hand and her right hand for good measure. He spit out sand from his mouth.

"No! No!" Lewis cried. "Let it be. There is nothing else we can do."

"The moon..has decided…" Cleo sadly said. The water turned normal.

"I kinda wish it took you instead," Rikki mumbled to Cleo. "But we must complete the balance. We need 3 mermaids, and we just killed 2."

They turned and stared at Lewis.

"Girls please -" Lewis cried.

But it was too late. Cleo knocked him into the moon pool. He broke some bones in his fall. He flailed wildly as he was swimming next to corpses after all. But it was far too late.

Guyz? Guyz? Guyz? They did not check their phones to see the distressed spam from Will.

Lewis roared a mighty lion's roar as he emerged from the pool as a merman. The circle of balance was now complete.

Their corpses faded into the pool. Rikki and Bella cried over the loss of Emma and they guess Bella too. Finally, Cleo took out her phone.

Bella is dead. She texted Will. And so is Emma.

Oh. Okay. :( I am sad to hear that. At least I don't have to kiss Emma anymore. Bella was a bad kisser too. I prefer kissing my shells :)

Okay we will buy you a shell when we return home. Or find one in the ocean. How is Sophie?

Sophie is dead.

Rikki laughed. She hated that bitch anyway. She told Will so. Now that Bella was dead maybe she should have a threesome with Will and Zane. Would Zane go for that? Will definitely would. She thought back to his most recent haircut. Definitely. She squirmed.

"I can't believe I fixed her air conditioner for nothing!" Lewis cried. "What a waste of time!"

"I can't believe Emma met the new girl, only for them both to die!" Cleo exclaimed.

"I can't believe that this is how our story ends after eight years." Rikki moaned partially out of pain, and partially thinking about her future activities with Zane and Will. Her tail was moist. That is how mermaid anatomy works. If anyone was wondering.

The End.