Life As Magic Knew It

Copyright WillowSuzzaGleeeee

A/N: The real end. The epilogue. Here it is. There's nothing else to do but devour this last part of this tale of a time where the mermaids lived without magic, but were drawn to the worlds of the past, present, and future. This is it.

No One's POV:

In the time that followed the mermaid's metamorphosis and welcoming into a friendship of magic, love surrounded Emma, Cleo, and Rikki. They had love for each other, as the best of friends do. They survived the ups and the downs as well as the celebrations and the chaos that came with being a mermaid in High School.

Love also creeped in as human and mermaid attractions. There were first loves-such as Cleo and Lewis's obvious friend zone territory transforming into full-blown true love. They were the sweetest pair in the course of these mermaid's lives, and in a dawn of the mermaid's Senior year, Lewis was taken out of their life, across the ocean, by his own intelligence. But, their love was to stay strong, always. At least, this is what they wanted.

Meanwhile, an attraction brewed between the most unlikely pair. A pair that at first was crafted by hatred, turned into love. Rikki and Zane found each other in the most insecure, hottest, fearful times…and fell in love as an effect. Sadly, their love was to be torn by a red head with eyes for destruction of love. As most red heads in these mermaid's worlds had. But, the curly haired mermaid and the dark haired human's love was not to be forgotten, because a romance that can turn hate to love is not a tale to be forgotten.

There was turmoil within Emma, Cleo, and Rikki's life for becoming mermaids. Such a magical gift could not be kept secret for so long. With Lewis, a scientist on their side, they fell into a trap crafted by a scientist of the name Denman, but could very easily be recognized as a demon. This scientist found her nose and scientific studies into their mermaidness. And, alas, the mermaids had to give up their powers….for twelve hours, tricking the scientist in the process.

In the mermaid's Junior year, Cleo and Lewis's love nearly fell apart. Cleo was the one to need her space where she could deal with her parent's divorce, her sister's antics, and her new powers without chaos bursting out of her mouth to Lewis. Once broken up, Cleo only found loneliness and jealousy when a certain red-haired vixen walked in and stole Lewis and his brain for a temporary time.

This red head, with a grandmother titled Gracie, who, without knowledge, helped Emma, Cleo, and Rikki become mermaids, found a need to know the secret the mermaid group carried around. When Charlotte, this specific red head, found out this secret; she acted in accordance to wanting to be special, and eventually, wanting to be a super mermaid and almost ridding Emma, Cleo, and Rikki of their powers. But, in the end, it was Charlotte who lost. And Cleo who found Lewis and love again.

But, their third year of High School was filled with more than just heartbreak, fourth mermaids, and reunited true love. Emma finally found an annoyingly attractive boy to enchanted her enough to challenge her annoyance for him. Soon enough, they found love. And, there was yet another person who knew of their mermaid secret.

But, with time, life took it's toll, and in the process, propelled Emma to have an opportunity to travel the world with her family. It was in this life-changing event for the mermaids that Emma went on in the world, and Cleo and Rikki met a new mermaid to add to their coven-a beautiful singer named Bella.

Bella was a girl who took on her metamorphosis of mermaidhood at eight years old, in an Ireland moon pool. Bella was a girl who sang her heart out, and despite being admired by many blokes, felt awkward with guys she truly liked. Bella was a girl who became Cleo and Rikki's best friend. After helping to save Rikki from a water tentacle of warnings, Bella was one of them.

Bella, indeed, did like one particular guy who seemed quite clueless until the near end of their Senior Year. Will, a new guy, a diver, and the one Bella was nuts over first only felt intrigue for Bella for her mermaidness. But, when there's a will, there's a way. And their true love formed. So, now, approximately, six people knew of their secret at some point.

The water tentacle that had, at first, lunged Rikki into it's wrath turned out to be a warning for a comet that was to come. A comet that was to crash into the Earth, hitting Mako Island first.

This comet was one that Bella had told Cleo and Rikki, she would take on her own. As it was her purpose, since she had turned mermaid in the same moon pool as Eva, a mermaid who originally stopped the comet in the olden days. Cleo and Rikki could not phase Bella. And, so it was, that Bella took on the comet, harvesting all her power to change it's direction… It was as Bella willed the comet to change that it did, destroying Bella in the process.

For the ritual performed in that alternate universe, that saved a dead Bella and a coma-induced state of Emma, failed. It was performed wrong and the flaw would come back, and alter the lives as magic knew it.

So, Bella crumbled, saving the world from the comet, and died of the fateful night of April 17th. As she collapsed, three crystals fell from the broken rocks that were never found. Three blue crystals of magic that should have saved her. Life isn't that simple though, neither was the spell, and the effects were as dire as Bella's death.

Meanwhile, as Emma took on the world, she found herself rock climbing in Greece on the lovely day of April 17th as well. As she boosted herself up the tough terrains of a specific Meteora, Emma did the most imperfect action and slipped. As she slipped, her harness, improperly connect to her, broke. This caused a fall for Emma, a fall that would lead to her coma-induced state.

The aftermath of these actions resulted in the distorted future of a Rikki and Will, married and with millions of little munchkins, Cleo, finding her way upon drugs after a fallout with Lewis, one that led her to a now successful porn director, Zane, and a new mermaid trio turned quadruples that would find their way upon Mako's pool of magic and the moon.

In our end, as well as the mermaids, we all die. There are the happy times, the wretched times, the times where you wish you could die right then…and the times where you rise above from those places and find hope to move forward in the life.

Life, in it's most bitter form, moves at a rate of magic. And magic can be a wonder, beauty, hysteria, and a wrath.

But, in the end, there are no happy endings.

A/N: And there it was. The epilogue, a short bitter taste at the real ending that comes to these mermaids we've all come to know and love. …Thank you. Every one of you. For letting this story flourish, as well as my writing. I owe this all to your reviews that inspired me to go on.

And, now, with tears of joy (or really an accomplished feeling of sad pride), I will now announce this fanfiction complete.