Hello my lovely readers! Saphira coming to you. I just want to say i am so sorry this chapter took so long to come out. I had to re-write it a few times to make sure it flowed good. Also 75 favs and 87 follows?! That is AMAZING!!!!!!!! That is the most i've ever gotten for my stories. The only story i had that came close to that was my Pirates of the Carribean fanfic, called The Raven of the Sea. Unfortunately it was rudely removed from the website by some unsavory bullies on this webiste. So thank you all so much!!!! :-D

Now i just want to say that on the last chapter, i got a nasty guest review that blamed me for making my strong character Ember into a weakling. First of all, i want to say that being afraid of water is not a weakness. It makes Ember human and there are people out in the world who are arfraid of deep water such as a pool, lake, and even the ocean. My mother is one of these people. I wanted to write a character people can relate to in some way. Not a perfect Mary Sue like Rey from the star wars sequel trillogy.

Now to Deadly Ice 88: Well i'm glad this story helped you on a bad day. :-)

To Guest Kaia: I hope you will go back and re-read the last part of my last chapter. I took some of your suggestions :-) Also trust me, Mal will find out about Ember almost drowning and she will have a feild day. :-)

To Guest999: Normally Ember doesn't allow herself to be manhandled like that and she tried to nicely tell Audrey about it but Audrey ignored her. Also in what way could Ember and Audrey be friends? I'm really curious to know if you will tell me. :-)

To animefreak112097: Well here is the next chapter. Enjoy. :-)

I do not own any of the characters besides Disney. Enjoy!

P.S. If my story is remotely similar to another on this site, please KINDLEY and CALMELY pm me and i will rewrite it to the best of my abilities.

Chapter 6: Music, Strength, and Rudeness.

Darkness, that was all Ember could see all around her. 'Am i dead? I must be dead. But if that is the case, why aren't i being judged?' Ember thought to herself. Suddenly she could register a constant hard pressure on her chest. She could also hear...voices?

"Please Ember, don't die! I'm sorry!""

"Come on sweetie, breathe."

That was what Ember heard before she was suddenly saw a light ahead of her. She could feel herself being pulled towards it. Before it enveloped her and her eyes suddenly snapped open.

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Ember opened her eyes to see her teacher and classmates above her. However she barely noticed nor heard the teacher telling everyone to back up and give her space. She was too busy coughing up pool water. Once she was done, she focused on evenning out her breathing...which was in vain as Audrey enveloped her in a hug.

"Ember! Oh i'm so sorry i pushed you. I thought-" Audrey began but Ember roughly pushed her off of herself.

"Audrey don't touch me! You nearly killed me! I'm barely here for a day and already you try to kill me?!" Ember all but shouted at her as she scrambled to her feet and away from Audrey and the group.

However before anything could escalate, Ariel (the swimming teacher) spoke up. "Girls that is enough. Audrey, hun, why don't you just sit down on the bench and i will talk to you in a few." Ariel said before turning to Ember. "Ember, you are exscused from swimming. I'll take it off your school schedule and you can pick a different P.E. class to take. You can also go back to the locker room to change. I'll send someone in to help you get your clothes." Ariel said though Ember was already storming off to the locker room.

She sat down on a bench to wait, though she didn't have to wait too long as a girl came in. This girl looked to be 16 years old and was really pretty in Ember's mind. She was Ember's height and was slender. She had fair skin, pink lips, and long black hair that looked to be tied in a pony tail with a green hair tie. She also had aqua blue green eyes and wore a red one piece bathing suit that looked like it had fish scales on it.

She walked over to a locker and turned in the locker combinations. The locker opened and the girl retrieved the black and blue clothing before giving it to Ember. Ember walked into a bathroom stall and began to change. Though as she did, the girl in red decided to make small talk.

"I'm really sorry about what Audrey did. She can be a bit..." The girl began but Ember cut her off. "Rude? Pushy? Doesn't think before she acts? Please stop me if anything i say is correct." Ember said as she changed out of Audrey's bathing suit and began to change back into her clothing.

"I was going to say headstrong but what you said describes her better." The girl said, laughing. Which caused something rare to happen to Ember. Because Ember...smiled. A real genuine smile that only her father, step mother and sister (on even rarer occasions) had only ever seen.

"Don't worry though, she is going to be properly punished." The girl said as Ember walked out of the stall. Wearing her own clothes and threw the bathing suit at the girl.

"Oh what's the punishnment? No tea parties for a week? No dress shopping for a month? Really, i am curious." Ember sarcastically said, causing the girl to laugh.

"No nothing like that, but that is funny." The girl said laughing. After a while she settled down and looked at Ember. "By the way, I'm Melody." The girl, now known as Melody said, introducing herself.

"Melody, as in-" Ember began but Melody quickly cut her off. "Yes as in Ariel's daughter." Melody said hurridly. "I should have guessed, after all, you have her eyes. That and Morgana talks about you." Ember said with a laugh though Melody's fair skin turned white.

"Morgana? She's still alive?" Melody asked with fear. "Don't worry, she's still trapped in ice, though she is considered a "'decoration''' at Ursala's cafe." Ember said quickly though that only left Melody even more confused.

"You have so much to learn about the island." Ember said before Melody stired the conversation to another topic. She wanted to know what happened at the pool.

"By the way, how did you do that?" Meldoy asked though Ember was confused. "Do what?" Ember asked, "The thing at the pool, when you fell in, the whole pool began to heat up and boil. Nearly fried my tail off." Melody asked though Ember quickly school her facial features before she could panic. 'Crap! I should have guessed. Now that i am out of the barrier, it makes sense that my powers would be even stronger. I'm gonna have to start praticing again to get them under control.' Ember thought before answering Melody's question.

"Must have been the pool system heating up. I wouldn't be surpised if it was on the fritz." Ember said with a straight face, praying to the gods that Melody would believe her. Melody looked at her suspiciously for a few seconds before sighing.

"Yeah, probably. Though it would have been so cool if you were the one who did it. Besides myself, not many kids here have powers like their parents. Only a handful of us here do." Melody said piking Ember's interest.

However Ember decided that there were more important matters to attend to, so she decided to wrap this up quick. "Well Melody i really must be going. It was nice meeting you though." Ember said before quickly turning around and walking off, not giving Melody room to answer back.

"Yeah it was nice meeting you too." Melody mummbled to herself as Ember walked off.

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Ember quickly walked back to her dorm room. She rushed in and opened the door and grabbed her guitar before rushing out. She wanted to find a seculed spot to pratice her powers and her guitar. Though she knew that in order to pratice and control her powers, she had to be in a calm mind state. Hades had told her that is the first and most important rule before praticing. Though the only way for her to calm down was to play her guitar.

Ember searched around the school before walking into the forest. After a while, she came across a lake with a large and rumbling waterfall. It was asecluded spot and she knew no one would come bother her here.

Ember quickly took deep breaths to help calm herself. After a while, she felt she was ready. So she sat down on the grass and began to play a song. It was a song she and her (ex) boyfriend used to sing to each other in a duet back on the island.

'Wise men say, only fools rush in." Ember began to sing as she strummed her guitar (A/N. For those who are curious, Ember sounds and sings excatly like Annapantsu from YouTube. Basically she looks like the actress that played Mal in the movies but talks and sings with the voice of Annapantsu.). Ember began to cry as she thought back to how her life had changed in just over a few hours, she lost her boyfriend, father and step mother. True she had no friends on the island but she felt more at home there then she does her. A stranger in even stranger lands.

However the guitar playing had calmed her. But she didn't stop playing, instead a small ball of blue and light blue fire began to come out of Ember's chest as she played. The small ball of fire was even brighter and felt more powerful here then it did on the island. However Ember felt no fear from seeing it. Her father Hades had told her from a very early age that she should not fear her powers. They are a gift and to fear them, would only turn it against her. Causing it to devour her should she fear it.

As she contiued playing, the small ball of fire began to take shape and form. It formed into a beautiful phoenix that looked like it was crying tears of embers. A perfect representation of how Ember was feeling. However before Ember could begin to pratice, she sense someone behind her. So she contiued playing, though as she did the phoenix morphed back into a ball of fire before flying back to Ember's chest. Being reobsorbed into her body. She hoped and prayed to the gods that the person had not witness her powers.

Once Ember's song had come to a close, she picked up a rock and threw it into the bushes. "Ow!" A male voice shouted as he came out of the bushes followed by a girl. The boy was muscular and looked athletic. He had light tan skin with strawberry blonde hair. Though his eyes were purple. The girl however was slender with some angular features. She had fair skin, with light magenta lips and long dark aurburn hair pulled up into a pony tail with a blue hair ribbion. Blue eyelids and blue eyes. The boy was wearing an orange shirt with jeans and sandles while the girl was wearing a light blue sun dress and gold gladiator sandles.

"Oh wonderful! This school also has peeping Toms!" Ember shouted angrilly as she put her guitar away. "Hey! My brother was not peeping!" The girl said angrilly. "Oh so he's a spy then? Does that make it any better?! He had no right to be watching me!" Ember shouted back, just as angrey. The girl began to walk up to Ember, clearly looking for a fight. Which was fine with Ember, she was looking for things to take her anger out on.

"Enough!!!" The boy shouted, grabbing the girl's arm. "Galatea, that is enough." The boy said grabbing the girl and shooing her off to the lake. Before turning to Ember.

"I am so sorry...Ms." The boy began but was cut off by Ember. "Ember, Ember Phoenix, my friends call me Em, or Phoenix, or atleast they would if i have any." Ember said with sarcasm eyeing the boy up and down. "Well then, Ember." The boy said with a smile and blush but Ember couldn't see it due to it being dark out. "So, do boys like you usually come with guard dogs like her?" Ember said, jabbing her thumb in the girl..Galatea was it? Directions.

"Hey!" Galatea shouted but the boy ignored her. "Yeah i am so sorry about my sister. She's just protective of me. Anyway my name is Herb." The boy, now know as Herb said. "Herb?" Ember asked with a face that said 'Are you for real?'

"Yeah it stands for Herbert. I don't really like it much either but my dad wanted something that began with the letter H and could be shorten to a nick name." Herb said, stratching the back of his head. "Let me guess, you're both the children of Hercules and Megara, aren't you?" Ember asked sarcastically.

"Yes but you could be a little bit nicer about it." Galatea said as she walked up to Ember's personal space. "I was being nice about it, you just chose to over react." Ember said back. "Wow, you must be a real peachy person to be around with. With that attitude of yours, i bet you have little to no friends." Galatea bit back though Ember was unfazed by her, even though the comment about having no friends did sting. "And with your natural way to read people, i bet your just a psychologist, aren't you?" Ember said back. However before anything more could be said, Herb stepped in.

"Enough!!!!" Herb said pulling Galatea away from Ember. Though Ember also had enough as well. "Whatever i'm out of here." Ember said though that caused Herb to turn at her. "Wait! Do you want me to walk you back to campus? Or your dorm room?" Herb said causing Ember to smirk at him. "Ah, don't worry Herb, I'm a big girl, i can handle myself. Plus i don't think your guard dog would like that." Ember said causing Galatea's face to turn red with rage. Though Ember began to walk away. No longer hearing the ongoing conversation between the two.

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Meanwhile with Herb.

"Wow Gal...isn't she something?" Herb asked his twin sister with a dreamy far off look in Ember's direction. Who only scoffed at the notion. "Oh yes she is something...A true pain in my ass!!!!" Galatea shouted before knocking on her brother's head with her fist. "Hello! Come in Herb. Come in!" Galatea said but Herb was ignoring her. Finally Galatea had enough and grabbed Herb's head with both of her hands, snapping him out of it. "Come on Herb! We have dad's obstacle course to do tomorrow. Besides, you know how much i love showing off." Galatea said as she pulled her brother along. "Yeah...yeah." Herb said dreamily, walking alongside his sister back to the campus.

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Back to Ember

'I swear, first i nearly die, then peeping Toms, and now rude girls? Can this get any worst?' Ember thought to herself as she walked back to Campus. Out of the corner of her eyes, she saw 4 shadows running towards the museum. 'Apparently it can.' Ember thought with a huff as she ran towards the 4 shadows. She saw them standing not so sneekly outside the museum door. However before any of them could go in, Ember spoke up. "And just what are you guys up to?" Ember asked, leaning nonchantonly against the wall.

"Ember, you scared us." Evie said, holding a hand to her chest. "VK, remember?" Ember asked sarcastically. "We're gonna steal the fairy Godmother's wand." Mal said with a small smile. As if she just solved the answer the the universe. "Wow...that's...so stupid. But let me guess, mother put you up to it? You always were her little minion." Ember said, causing Mal to quickly answer back. "We're not going to fail, we're going to succeed. When we do, we're gonna take over the world." Mal said with a smile though Ember only huffed.

"Right...well let me know how you end up failing. I always enjoyed a good laugh." Ember said before turning around and walking back to her dorm room. Opening and closing her door and locking it. She put her guitar down and changed into her pj's before flopping down on the bed and closing her eyes. Hoping that this was all just a really bad nightmare.

And finally done with this chapter. Man was it a long one. It sure looks like Ember might be making friends and maybe something more? You'll all just have to read more to find out. So until next time my lovely readers, READ and REVIEW. :-)