At the bottom of the sea...

"Ellen! Anita!" the Master called out for her servant.

"I'm here, Master." Ellen answered.

"Good," the Master nodded, "we can get along with the plan."

"The plan, Master?" Anita echoed.

"The red pearl princess, Ema. Ellen located her kingdom."

"It was a tough thing to pull off. But I made it." Ellen bragged.

"Big deal..." Anita muttered under her breath. The two of them didn't like each other.

"Our plan... well, it'd be true to say my plan to get the eight pearls of the mermaid princesses."

"But sir... I believed there were only seven of them."

"Eight, Anita. Weren't you paying attention?" Ellen responded

"That's right." the Master said. "I thought there were only seven pearls as well. It made sense. There were seven oceans. Seven kingdoms. But it turns out, the eight kingdom's been right under our noses the whole time. The kingdom of Princess Ema, the keeper of the red pearl."

Meanwhile in Ema's Kingdom...

Ema stared in shock as she looked around herself. The mermaids were in despair, swimming around in panic.

"Now you see how bad things are, Nikora." Ema said sadly.

"It's horrible that something like that happened, Ema. I'm so sorry." Lucia said sympathetically.

"I am as well. I believed the barrier was unbreakable." Nikora added

"This new evil... it's more powerful than everything we've ever seen." Liana, Ema's servant said. "it was horrific. Truly horrific." She shook in fear at the memory.

"The kingdom's gonna need much repair..." Nikora estimated, "but we'll help ou as much as we can."

"Thank you, Nikora. I really appreciate that."