Marinette watched the sea from the port hole in the room. She sighed as she thought of her friends. How worried they must be, would she ever see them again? What was that pirate going to do to her? Was he going to starve her to death? She was very hungry but she would not give in. She would not cry. She would sing just like she always did when things looked bleak. She chose to sing a song based on a story she had heard.

Adrien went down stairs once again to try and intimidate her into talking when he heard her sing.

Note: She sings the first half of this song and sings the second part later.

"Though my heart has dissolved into the sea.

My voice is still echoing I love you.

Let the fragments be scattered on the ocean's breeze.

My voice will keep on blessing you.

All I really wanted was to see the sky above.

The stars blinking in and out of existence.

That was the day you entered my world.

Ah, the first hearts beats were the start of my tragedy.

Adrien tried not to but his efforts were in vain and he felt tears trickle down his face.

"Even if the pain will make me cry.

Even if my legs are my constant torture,

I will keep on dancing just for you I know you will hear me one day."

He fell to his knees and began to cry. It took a lot to make him cry in fact he hadn't cried since he was seven and his father had left him but this mermaid's soft voice and sad song had touched his stone heart and moved him to tears.

"Don't..." He sobbed. "Don't...sniff...don't...I...I...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry."

It took awhile but after pulling himself together and wiping away his tears he went in her room. She turned around and looked at him with her sad blue eyes which stabbed his heart like a knife.

"Please stop!" He said. "Please don't sing anymore sad songs!"

"Why? Does it make you feel guilty?"

"No! It's...just annoying." He said. "If I give you food will you please for the love of god stop?"

She noticed his eyes were red and puffy, she could tell that he was deeply saddened by her tears but was trying in vain hide it.

"Okay." He gave her the bread. She ate the entire loaf in just two minutes, the poor thing was just so hungry. "Thank you."

He left her room and went back upstairs aboard the deck. Once aboard he found his men and Alix balling their eyes out.

"Nino are you crying?" Adrien asked.

"No mate...sniff..." He sobbed. "It's just that...sniff! I think Ivan put onions in the slop."

"I think...sniff...I got onions are in my eye too." Kim said blowing his nose.

"No you didn't because I...didn't put onions in it." Ivan said.

"Okay that's enough! I can't have my men boo-hooing on the job." Adrien ordered. "Now get back to work!"

He locked himself in his room where he began to cry hard. Her song had guilt tripped him big time, it also reminded him of what it was like to be taken prisoner. Locked up, alone and afraid, fearing if you would live or die. It made him feel like he was a monster, just like Hawkmoth.

...

Tikki flew across the winds and oceans to find Trixx. She was a fox selkie, but also a sorceress who could use great power and magic. Though she wasn't as powerful as she used to be. Years ago, the source of her power a necklace was stolen now she only had bits and pieces of magic left. She was a crabby woman but with good intentions who resided in a cave somewhere between land and sea.

"Excuse me." Tikki called. "Trixx? Are you here?" She flew into the cave to meet a small fox.

"Yes. What do you want?"

"I need your help."

"Of course you do." She said annoyed. "You never come by just to say hello do you? Follow me." She led her into a room with spell books and potions. Once they entered Trixx changed it a woman with short orange hair, long eyelashes, and fox claws instead of finger nails. "So what's the problem?"

"My friend Marinette, you know her?"

"Dark hair? Easy around the eyes? Ladybug earrings? Sings like an angel?"

"Yes she's been captured by pirates."

"Oh! Well she's sunk."

"Please! You've got to help her!"

"What can I do? I'm not exactly good with a sword."

"Use your magic."

Trixx sighed. "There's not much I can do."

"Please Trixx! You're the only one I could turn to."

"What about Fu?"

"He'll be away for the next few months."

"Alright I'll see what I can do. Now what exactly do these pirates plan to do with her?"

"I'm not sure. But most of the time pirates capture mermaids to sell their body parts. Apparently mermaid parts are worth a lot of money."

"Of course they are. Mermaid hair can heal the sick, mermaid scales can turn lead into gold, and a mermaid's heart can restore youth."

"Oh dear me."

"If selling her parts is all they want to do then the solution is simple. She just can't be a mermaid anymore, I can change her into something else and they will have no use of her." She said. "I can turn her into a fish or a crab, perhaps a seagull or a dolphin?"

"But could you change her back?"

"No. I'm afraid the effects would be permanent." Trixx sighed. "You know I've been told that being dolphin isn't that bad."

"Don't you have a temporary spell?"

She opened a spell book and flipped through a few pages. She skimmed over the words until she found the right section. She read over it. "There is one is a temporary spell I can do but it's a risk."

"What is it?" Tikki asked.

"I can make her a potion that will turn her into a human."

"A human."

"Temporarily, just long enough for her to escape." She read the page, pulled out a caldron, and began tossing in the ingredients. She mixed them all together to make a bubbling green liquid that she poured into a small bottle.

"Have her drink this on the night of a full moon which is three days from now and when the next full moon rises which will be twenty seven days after she'll turn back into a mermaid."

She placed a lid carefully on the bottle. "Once she drinks this her tail will be transformed into two of the prettiest white legs in the world and she shall move with such grace and elegance that it will appear as if she is floating. To all who see her they will say she is the most beautiful human being they ever saw."

"That doesn't sound bad."

"You haven't heard all of it. True the effects are temporary but while in this form should she fall in love and win the love of a man so completely that for her sake he forgets all others, cleaves to her with his every thought and his whole heart, and lets the priest join their hands in marriage then she shall become human forever more."

"Forever? But she'd never be with us again."

"That's not the worst of it...What if he loves her not? Humans are known to be very unfaithful and cruel. If the man she gives her heart to falls in love with another woman then it will mean her death."

"What do you mean?"

"All it takes is for him to say I love you with all my heart to another woman then her time is up."

"What happens then?"

"As the full moon rises on the night she is to change back, her heart will break and she will turn to sea foam. Poof! Just like that! I told you it was risky."

She handed the potion to Tikki. She grabbed it with her tiny ladybug hands. "Thank you."

"Don't mention it, seriously. The last thing I need is a bunch of mortals coming to my home begging me for favors." Trixx said turning back into a fox. "And be sure to warn Marinette before giving her the potion."