*Listening to If You Can't Hang by Sleeping with Sirens*

I can literally see the ending to this story in the horizon.

Will this be my first completed fanfic?

Let us find out.

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The sun was slowly making it's descent towards the horizon as twilight was approaching bringing forth the third and final sunset.

Marinette watched the wedding ship depart from the castle docks as she felt every piece of her heart break from the sight.

She slid down to the ground and allowed her feet to hang over the water. She brought her hands to her face as she cried seeing her tears fall from her face for the first time.

"Marinette?'

Marinette moved her hands away as she felt someone touch her ankle and looked down to see Alya and Tikki in the water below. They both held worried and saddened expressions.

"I brought them here." Plagg made his way to Marinette and curled up next to her in an effort to provide comfort to the blunette.

"Plagg told us what happened." Tikki said.

Alya reached up grabbing Marinette by the hand. "We will figure this out girl. I promise you that. We'll....we'll swim away, get away from here. I'm not going to let him take you. We'll...." Alya's voice began to crack, she felt herself about to break out in tears at any moment. "....We'll find a way....we have too."

Marinette tried to wipe away her tears and bring forth a smile, but she couldn't. Alya was such an amazing friend and Marinette couldn't imagine being where she was right now without her support.

As determine and stubborn Alya was Marinette knew that even she was at a dead end for what to do next. This was it once the sun went down Marinette's life would be over and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it.

Adrien might not love her, but at least she still had her friends by her side.

To the end.

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Juleka and Rose were on their way to meet up with Alya and Tikki to hear about the progress Marinette might have made in getting her Prince.

"I'm so excited! How do you think their wedding will look like Juleka?!" Rose asked in excitement. "Do you think it's anything like a mermaid wedding or do you think human weddings are very different than the ones we've seen??!"

"We'll I've never really been to a wedding so I'm not sure." Juleka said with a smile. "Why are you so happy anyway?"

"I'm sorry, it's just soooooooo romantic!!" Rose's eyes began to sparkle as she recalled the story of how Marinette had met the Prince. "It's true love I just know it! Maybe we can still see the wedding if they have it on one of those boat things?"

"I think you're mixing your own fantasies with Mari's." The dark mermaid teased. "Aren't you still gushing over that Prince of yours?"

Rose pouted sticking her tongue out at her friend. "Can you blame me? Prince Ali is so sweet and kind....I wish I could meet him one day..."

"Maybe you....will..." Juleka looked up realizing the light had suddenly disappeared.

"It's night already?" Rose asked tilting her head slightly confused.

"No...it can't be." Juleka swam towards the surface. "I'm going to go check it out."

"Wait for me!" Rose quickly followed.

When they reached the surface they realized it had been a large ship that blocked out the light.

"This boat looks alot more festive than the ones we've seen near the castle." Juleka said.

Rose gasped. "Maybe it's a WEDDING SHIP do you think Marinette's up there??!"

"Maybe....you wanna find out?" Juleka said sarcastically.

"YES!" Rose grabbed on to one of the ropes and proceeded to pull herself up.

"W..What?? Rose I was kidding!!!"

The pink mermaid continued to pull herself up untill she reached one of the ship's porthole which was opened. Ignoring her friend's desperate pleas for her to come back down the blonde looked into the porthole hoping to possibly spot Marinette.

Instead she saw a brunette girl dressed in a wedding gown as she twirled around admiring herself in the mirror

"Everything is going perfectly according to plan." The girl spoke. "With the Prince under my control, Marinette will be unable to stay human and I'll finally have the leverage I need to become ruler of all the seas."

Rose's eyes widen and looked at the mirror with a horrified expression at what she saw.

In the mirror was a man....no....a witch! Around his eyes a purple light was shined and it reflected into the girl's eyes as well.

"Just a few more hours until sunset and it will all be mine." The girl cackled meniacally.

Wait.....Sunset....Marinette!

When Rose dove back into the water, Juleka was ready to scold her, but the purple mermaid quickly rethought her decision when she saw the worried look on her friend's face.

"Rose what's wrong? What happened?" Juleka asked.

"We have to find Marinette!" Rose urged. "Now!"

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"Maybe we can get a head start. You can get on one of those boats for now and once you turn back you can jump back into the water and we'll be on our way." Tikki had been trying to suggest a way for them to escape the sea witch, but every time she did that bad feeling kept coming with each solution.

Marinette hadn't moved a muscle once she finally stopped crying. Staring at her reflection in the water she held the same face as the Prince when she saw him that morning.

I was stupid to think he might love me back. I'm such an idiot, what was I thinking?

She brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them close.

I'm a fool......

"Marinette?" Alya spoke. "Are you okay?"

The blunette shook her head.

"Listen girl, forget about the Prince. If he can't see how amazing you are then he was never worth the time in the first place. We're going to get you out of this."

As much as Alya wanted to believe herself and as far as she was willing to go, she didn't know if they'd be able to succeed, but she wasn't going to tell her best friend that.

"Marinette!" The four looked over and saw Rose frantically swimming towards them and Juleka following closely behind. "Alya! Tikki!"

When Rose made it over to the them she desperately tried to catch her breath as she tried to get out the words she was trying to say.

"Prince....witch....ship.....sunset...!"

"Rose calm down!" Alya shouted slightly frustrated. "Tell us what's going on!"

Juleka patted her pink mermaid friend on the back. While the blonde tried to get a hold of herself she decided to speak for her.

"We just saw the Prince's ship." She said. "When Rose looked inside she said she saw the sea witch disguised as a human girl!"

"What?!" Alya and Tikki shouted. Marinette looked confused and Plagg's ears perked after hearing.

"How do you know it was him?" Tikki asked.

"He...he looked in the m...mirror and his reflection was there!" Rose said finally able to speak a full sentence. "I..I heard him say that..h..he has the Prince under some sort of spell..and that once the sun goes down today he'll be able to take over the entire ocean!!"

"That would explain why the Prince was acting strange today..." Plagg said. "What did the girl you see look like?"

"S..she had brown hair. It was orange and white at the end and I she had this necklace it was orange and it looked like a tail."

Marinette's eyes widen at the description. Too her it almost sounded as if the girl Hawkmoth was disguised as was...

Lila!

Marinette stood up from her position as she looked at the sun that was inches away from the horizon.

Before the sun sets.....

"He's not going to get away with this." Alya said. "We need to figure out a way to stop that wedding."

"What can WE do?" Rose said worriedly.

Marinette suddenly jumped into the water as she attempted to swim. Alya swam over to the girl holding her up above water.

Plagg pulled a rope untying the knot that held a pile of barrels that rolled into the water. Marinette used one of the barrels to keep herself afloat.

"Okay ladies here's the plan cause I'm only going to say this once." Plagg said hopping on to the barrel that Marinette was clinging to. "Marinette tie that rope around the barrel. Tikki you're going to grab on the other end and pull Marinette to the ship as fast as your fins can take you."

"Got it!" The red fish chirped.

"Blondie and Purple girl you two need to find any help you can find land or sea we're going to need alot of it for this. Try talking to our friends over by the lagoon."

"Yes sir!" Rose saluted diving into the water.

"We're on it." Juleka said diving after her.

"What about me?" Alya asked.

"I need you to find someone. He's a human that works over by the fishing docks, he's very good friends with Adrien he'll help as soon as he realizes his friend is in trouble."

Alya's eye's widen in fear and her heart began to pound. "O..okay..h..how do I know to find him though? What does he even look like?"

"Actually you've met him before." Plagg said with a smirk. "His name's Nino and he happens to be the same human who's nose you smashed with a rock."

"What?! You really think he's just going to listen to me after I did that?! What if he-"

"He doesn't hold as much of a grudge as you think. We need his help, he's our chance at gaining better access on to the ship."

Alya breath a sigh and groaned. "Fine fine fine! I'll find him as soon as I can." She turned towards the blunette. "You missy owe me BIG TIME so don't you even THINK about disappearing on me....got it?"

Marinette smiled reaching out her arm gesturing for the mermaid to give her a hug which she did.

"We're going to do this." Alya whispered and released the girl. "Go get your boy."

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Hmm.......do I like this chapter?

Hmm......my self criticism is urging to be released.

*Sits in my chair drinking eggnog out of a wine glass.*