What was taking them SO long?

She had sent a message to Jay via paper plane mail, put a small paper crane near the beach for Willow to find but they still hadn't come down! Suddenly, two figures smashed into the cave.

"Holy! Heavens and Hells! What the?" Jay stumbled into the Fort, followed by Willow, who both looked slightly green in crash landing on to the rock-hard floor.

"You're Pearl?" Willow slowly edged towards her, "You're not gonna hurt us, are you?"

Pearl sighed. "I can't see the future completely, just glimpse, but I know one thing for sure: We were meant to be the Hunters."

"Yea, sorta got that." said Jay, "Now, little miss future-teller, how are we breathing perfectly fine?"

"It must be the pearl in the bottle. It's keeping you to adapt to the three realms. The feather helps us fly, the flower helps us walk and the pearl lets us breathe underwater." Pearl explained as she searched around in her little cave, "You two are going to be spotted as nymphs of other realms wearing clothes like that."

"You can find a place for us to change? I can turn invisible, though I do appear visible in extreme cold conditions, but I don't mind the cold coz I'm a pretty hot guy. Willow please don't face-palm, girl." Jay smirked as Willow face-palmed.

"What's wrong with our cloth... oh never mind." Willow had just noticed that while she and Jay were wearing t-shirts and jeans, Pearl was in a formal full length dress. "You got some for us?"

"Mmm hmm... "Pearl took out a green dress and handed it to Willow, "That's one of mine, but thats ok because I have lots."

"Woah, rich girl? I never knew that." Jay seemed to do some tap-dancing, "You a millionaire?"

Pearl blushed, "It's not my fault. My mother is Aqua Leung."

Willow looked in disbelief. "As in Aqua Leung, Governor of Aquafina?"

"How did you know that?" Pearl looked surprised.

"My mom fell off a cliff once. Your mom returned the body."

"My father died, too... " Pearl sobbed a bit, "I miss him."

"Hey, girls! Share some sympathy for the dude." Jay looked rather sad, "My father died as well."

They looked around. Willow slipped into a secretive place and changed into the dress, which made her look very smart and formal. Jay, meanwhile, put his hands in his pockets and started to tap-dance again. What was that boy's problem with tap-dancing?

Jay cleared his throat, "I don't suppose you have something for me to wear? Since you're a girl?"

Pearl laughed, "You think I'll make you wear a dress? Of course not, I have boys clothes as well in here, some from my father... some from the old people who used to inhabitat here." She took out a blue suit, white buttoned-up shirt, black pants, red tie and black dress shoes for Jay. Then she picked out a pair of red flat shoes for Willow. She put her hand to her head; images of Willow and Jay in those clothes appeared in her vision. She dropped her hand and turned to her new 'friends.' "Well, do you like these clothes?"

Half an hour later, after Pearl had taught Willow and Jay how to act like sea-nymphs, the trio slowly drifted towards the main plaza of Aquafina. Angel swam to greet them.

"Hello visitors! My name is Angel Paquette, and I'll lead you through Aquafina City Hall." She smiled, "May I have your names?"

"Angel! It's me, Pearl." Pearl strolled towards her best friend, "Can't you recognise me!"

"Oh! Sorry Pearl. Didn't mean it that way. I was talking to your new friends." she gestured to Jay and Willow, "Who are they?"

"Ah, I know what you mean. This is Dylan Mitchell and Wave Goldsmith." Pearl did her best smile, "Dylan is from Polaria and Wave is from Ucean. They came here to visit."

"Sont-ils confiance, ami?" Angel whispered. It was so rare, so rare! She never spoke French unless she was terrified.

"Ils doivent être fiables, mais ils ne sont pas de la mer." Pearl answered.

"Alors comment savez-vous?"

"Parce que je suis comme eux. Nous ne sommes pas de n'importe quel royaume. Nous sommes des trois uni."

"Stop talking in whatever language you are talking in! It's annoying!" Jay sighed in exasperation. "I'm horrible at other languages!"

'Shut up! Jay, a sea nymph never say that they are horrible. We are honorably the smartest. Pretend you are the smartest. We are proud and ignorant.' Pearl spoke in his mind. It was a skill that she shared with Gabriel, but did it work with the Hunters?

'Sorry Pearl. But seriously, what did she say?' Jay's voice spoke back.

'She asks if you are to be trusted. I said of course, because you are like me.' Pearl replied. She repeated the message to Willow, who immediately understood.

"Angel, ne vous inquiétez pas. Nous sommes vos amis. Nous venons en paix. Angel, don't worry. We are your friends. We come in peace." Willow reassured.

"How do you know my language? Cela ne peut être possible!" Angel looked frightened.

"Angel, let us through, I'll explain later." Pearl rushed into the city gates and into the kelp park. No one could find them in there.

They ran until they were sure no one had found them. But even as they talked, it seemed like they were stalked, but the only creatures around were fish.

"How can you speak French?" Jay asked, "I felt like an idiot."

"You are an idiot Jay. You do have to remember that I've sorta been around the world accidently once so I sorta know how to say 'we come in peace' in every language. I memorise fast." Willow muttered.

"We need to find a way to communicate. The mind-speech might not work in different realms." Pearl asked.

"Maybe you can do that messaging thing. That was cool." Jay suggested.

"But that might be intercepted." interrupted Willow.

"I know. Wait here. I need to get something." Pearl rushed into her house a few minutes later, swimming as fast as she could to find her little treasure chest of ideas. She arrived back in the kelp forest 5 minutes later.

"What's that, Pearl girl?" Jay asked.

"This is an invention I created." Pearl explained. She hefted up a small ball thing. "I call this Nuntios. It's latin for Messenger. It can fit on your wrist easily and all you have to do is think what you want to send and it'll appear on the other two. And in the base of it, well, I sort of took your bottles of flower-feather-pearl things to make it, so the band is made of pearl, with the flower and feather embedded in it. Do you get it?"

"Yea, sorta." replied Willow, "Can we go back to your hideout now? This dress is making me feel weird."