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Aqua: Mermaid Princess of Atlantis
Chapter 12 - Starry Starts to Soar
Written By: StarMermaid91
Based on the characters “One Piece” created and owned by:
Eiichiro Oda
It’s been a week since Luna is promoted to a royal advisor of Princess Aqua, and she will guide her to choose the right path to be a queen.
And today, it’s about her cousin Starry who has found another Blimp Pearl.
November 3rd, 1524
♫Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home - Main Titles (0:00 to 1:47)♫
As this chapter started, the fish school swam through the reef and rocks, until we saw a pod of killer whales swam underwater to explore. Some orcas are recognized by the Atlanteans while some of them are news.
They swam to the surface and blew their air out of their blowholes and breathing before diving. They were migrating to find some food to eat.
Among the orcas, Starry swam and raced with the baby whales. She’s having so much fun since the morning, even though she’s not as fast as her cousin Aqua.
As Starry left the orcas, she’s now swimming with the pod of humpback whales, and then racing with one of the sailfish before heading to the reef and rocks.
After she’s left the reef, Starry’s swimming towards Atlantis. But as she’s heading towards the palace, she sees Aqua, Queen Athena, Luna, Coral, Chel and Raki swimming towards the surface.
“Hi, Aqua! Hi, Aunt Athena! Wanna go for a swim?” Starry asked.
“Oh, we would love to, Starry, but we’re going to the surface to have some fun flying in the sky.” Athena replied.
“In the sky? Wait, don’t tell me. You’re going to use Blimp Pearl to inflate yourselves to fly up there?” Starry asked.
“That’s the idea. My father was busy writing the documents in his office, so we let him work in peace. So we brought Luna, Coral and Chel to join us for fun.” Aqua said.
“And I’ll keep my eyes on them.” Raki said as they kept swimming towards the surface.
♫Kirakira☆Precure à la Mode OST 1 - Let's La Cooking!♫
A little while later, Aqua, Athena, Coral, Chel, and Luna were already inflated and enjoying themselves in the skies. They were flying around as two mermaids in their Super Blimp forms were moving their tails and two axolotls were waving their tails in a similar manner, and a female penguin was flapping her wings.
Aqua playfully bumps into her mother, then bumped by Coral and Luna, and they are all laughed together as Athena and Chel follow them to fly over the clouds.
On a rock, Starry sat on it and looked up at the inflated girls, and was fascinated to see them flying in the sky. As for Raki, he’s pretty happy for Luna who flies in the sky while being puffy.
“Hey, Raki. Did you panic out when Luna was inflated?” Starry asked.
“No, not a lot. To be honest, I’ve seen her several times back at Págos Island eight years ago, and seeing her puffy looks kind of funny. But it’s good to see her flying like… well, a bird.” Raki replied honestly.
“But when I saw Aqua, Coral and Athena inflated, I didn’t see that every day.” Raki said.
“I see, but when I saw Aqua inflated for the first time, she kind of looked funny, but then she looked cute and round and floaty when she floated in the sky.” Starry said as she’s looking at her cousin keeps flying around while twirling.
“That Blimp Pearl of hers sure is really handy, isn’t it?” Starry said.
“Yeah, it could be useful when it comes to flying, even though it makes any mermaid become puffy like a giant pufferfish.” Raki said.
Starry smiles wishfully while looking at Aqua emerges through the clouds and goes up higher, and she’s above the sea of clouds and looking at the view of the ocean.
Aqua looked down at Starry, and waved her arm while trying to call. “HEY, STARRY!”
Her cousin laughed and waved her arm happily, then she stopped and wondered if there were any Blimp Pearls somewhere in the reef.
“Someday… I shall find another Blimp Pearl somewhere in the ocean.” Starry said dreamily.
“Oh ho whoa! Do you think that'll be easy, young lady? They are very rare to find, and there’s 20% to find them. It will take a few years to find it. Or so I believe it.” Raki said patronizingly.
As Raki talked, Starry leaped into the water and disappeared under the surface.
“But if you want to go out to explore the ocean, you have to ask Aqua and Luna to find the Blimp Pearl, and then-” Raki continued, and looked around to see Starry’s not around.
“What? Where did she go?” Raki wondered, then gasped in realization. “Oh, no…! She’s going out to explore!”
♫Pokémon Sword & Shield - Postwick♫
But it doesn’t look like Starry is going out to explore yet. She's heading back to Atlantis where she needs to talk to her parents.
A bit later, Starry packed her bag and is now outside of her house.
“Oh, Star~!” Sabrina (39 years old), Starry’s mother, said as she approached her daughter and hugged her. “Just be careful when you’re going to explore the caves.”
“And here’s the necklace I made for you.” Rodion aka “Rody” (41 years old), Starry’s father, said as he put the necklace with a yellow pearl around her neck.
“You should make sure to concentrate on this magical pearl if you are in the cave that is dark. This will cause it to illuminate, and then the star symbols and dots will glow, which will make the cave appear brighter.” He said.
“Thanks. This could be useful.” Starry said before she waved her arm. “Well, I’m off. See ya later!”
Then she floats off with a bubble around her waist.
“Hehe, look at her. Yesterday she was a child, but today she's an adult.” Rody said.
“Yeah. She's been 18 years old since a few weeks ago. But she has an adventurous spirit just like Princess Aqua.” Sabrina said.
♫Pokémon Sword & Shield - Wild Area (South)♫
After some time had passed, Starry arrived at the hill, which was located further away from Atlantis. She took in the breathtaking panorama of the reef, which included the canyons and the deep abyss. And there are lots of species down there.
“Wow… What a landscape! This atmosphere feels different than the last time I’m with Aqua. I'm wondering if there's a Blimp Pearl near here.” Starry said as she looked at the view with her excited expression.
She gazed down into the deep canyon and noticed the entrance to the dark cave.
“Hmm… I have never seen this entrance before. I gotta take a good look at this.” Starry said as she swam down towards the canyon.
Then she felt gentle, but cold currents, and she started to shiver.
“Brrrr…! It's cold down here.” Starry shivered, but then she kept swimming towards the canyon, and then arrived in front of the entrance.
“Wow… It is terribly dark here.” She said, as she first looked at the darkness.
Then Starry examined the pearl on her necklace, wondering if it could sparkle. She then took her father's suggestion and closed her eyes, focusing on the pearl's power, which began to glow pale, light yellow.
And then the yellow dots and star symbols on her bikini, including her star-shaped hairpin, glow, brightening the cave.
“There we go. It worked! Now it makes me feel comfortable when it’s getting brighter here.” Starry said as she swam cautiously as she got inside the cave.
But as Starry’s now inside the cave, she can hear a deep rumbling sound ahead, and then rocks on the roof start to crumble.
“Woaah…! Was that an earthquake?!" Starry questioned as the entrance is beginning to crumble, the rocks started to fall apart and is currently cave in.
Starry was unharmed, but she gasped in horror when she realized she was trapped inside the dark cave.
“Oh, no…!” She cried as she tried to move the rocks aside, but it made it worse.
More rock falls from the roof to the ground, and it makes it impossible for Starry digging out of the cave.
“Ugh, great…! The cave entrance is blocked. I’m trapped.” Starry sighed frustrated, then looked at the path in the cave. “Looks like I have not choice but to just go deeper
into the caverns and find another way out.”
♫New Pokémon Snap - Outaway Cave Mural♫
Then she swims forward in the damp cave which is brightened by glowing dots, star symbols and her hairpin.
But as she swam further in the cave, she gasped amazed after she entered a large space of a cave with glowing sea weed, kelps, fishes, corals and rocks.
Slowly, Starry swam ahead to examine the shimmering topics surrounding the massive underwater cave. She is fascinated by the bioluminescent rocks, coral reef, and kelps.
“Wow… It’s beautiful. I thought they only glowed at night. I guess I was wrong. I should have studied about this bioluminescence.” Starry said as she swam through the glowing reefs and rocks.
After a while, Starry swam further in the cave while there were more bioluminescent topics on the floor. She swam through the whole skeleton of a prehistoric shark, Megalodon.
It was nearly 24 meters long, which makes Megalodon not just the biggest shark, but even the largest fish in the world.
“Oh, poor prehistoric shark. It must have starved to its extinction.” Starry said somberly, but she keeps swimming onward.
As she’s swimming through the caves, Starry saw the glowing mushroom shaped corals that turned the lamps on just like lamposts in the village.
“Neat. This is exactly what Atlantis needs when it’s midnight.” Starry muttered, amazed.
“Excuse me.” A hissing voice from the hole, and it came from an male eel with glowing dots and approached closer to Starry. “Is this your first time being here?”
“Uhm, yes… I was exploring here to find something small and round.” Starry replied.
“You mean a pearl? Well, there are so many to be found.” The eel said.
“No, I mean this one big as a turtle.” Starry said.
“Oh… That… I don’t know. But good luck finding it.” The eel said as Starry sighed annoyed as she kept moving.
As she kept swimming, she saw lots of glowing fishes like lanternfishes and anglerfishes, octopuses, seahorses, aquatic turtles, even different kinds of sharks, and they also had orbs on their sides too.
“Wow, I have no idea all creatures and plants emit their own glowing here in this cave. I wonder how far is this cave. I have to find the Blimp Pearl… If it is here that is.” Starry said as she swam further in the large underwater cave.
♫One Piece Movie 8 OST - The Country Is People’s Will♫
Meanwhile at Atlantis Palace’s throne room…
“I’ve got a message from Starry’s parents Sabrina and Rody.” King Ryujin said who sat in his throne chair. “They said Starry went off to explore the cave on her own to find the Blimp Pearl.”
“A Blimp Pearl?!” Aqua asked, surprised.
“Wait, wait, wait! Starry went on to the cave all by herself, and without us?!” Coral asked, shocked.
“Oh dear… this is not as easy as I thought. The Blimp Pearls are so SUPER rare to find. However, there are rumors that they are hidden in the cave with shining crystals that illuminate the entire cave, as if it were a sunny day.” Athena said.
“Mechokku!” Coral cried worriedly.
“I believed Starry heard about the rumors too, she went on without Aqua and Coral since their last expedition.” Chel said.
“Yeah. Starry is daring and adventurous, much like me, but she could have invited me and Coral to join her instead of going out alone.” Aqua said, worriedly.
“Well, she can't help it, Your Majesty. She's very vigorous. Runs in the family.” Luna said as she put her wing on Aqua’s shoulder.
“Even so, traveling out alone into undiscovered underwater caves is too perilous to explore, just as you are doing in other places beyond our borders, Princess Aqua.” Raki started, before starting to panic slowly. “And I think you shall go with Starry, because you loved her very much as her cousin!”
Ryujin rolled his eyes and shrugged while showing his knowing smile. He knows Raki started to panic about either Aqua, Luna or Starry’s safety when it comes to the expedition.
“But I can’t stop worrying about whether there are predators out there like killer whales, sharks, moral eels, sea serpents, giant angler fishes, sea leopards, octopuses, giant squid! OR WHAT EVEN WORSE, THE GIANT SEA KINGS ARE GOING TO SWALLOW YOU WHOLE LIKE A SMALL FISH!!” Raki screamed while flailing his wings. “OR ANOTHER WORSE THINGS LIKE BIGGER GIANT SEA MONSTER SOME SORT OF…!”
He stopped screaming as he saw Aqua, Athena, Ryujin, Luna, Chel and Coral looking bewildered at Raki who panicked and yelled.
Embarrassed, Raki puts his wing behind his head and chuckles nervously. “Uh, hehehe… Sorry… Oh…”
“Sometimes, Raki, you need to think about your blood pressure.” Ryujin said, before turning his head to Aqua. “Aqua, I believe he’s right. You must go find Starry and make sure she’s okay. She’s on her way to the cave that contains the shimmering clear crystals.”
“Yes, father. I will. I’ll make sure Starry’s not getting hurt.” Aqua nodded before turning around and heading to the door. “Luna, are you coming with me?”
“Always will and forever, Princess Aqua.” Luna nodded before she swam off.
“Just be careful, Aqua!” Coral called.
“We will, and thanks!” Aqua called likewise before leaving the throne room.
Athena crossed her arms, closing her eyes while looking down, and wondering. “You know what?”
“What, Queen Athena?” Raki asked.
“I believed Starry wished that she could fly with Aqua and soar in the sky. So that is why she went off on her own to find another Blimp Pearl.” Athena replied.
“It could be or not, but I think Starry will find it regardless of where the second Blimp Pearl is.” Chel said.
“That is true, but let’s hope she finds it in the glowing crystal cave. After all, it's a very harmless place to explore. Except there’s one dangerous thing that can send unfortunate creatures back to the exit; the giant underwater geyser.” Ryujin said.
“WHAT?! WE HAVE TO WARN AQUA AND LUNA!!” Raki screamed while panicking and flapping his wings.
“Too late. They already left.” Coral said as Raki stopped panicking and sighed miserably.
“But hey, rest assured, Aqua and Luna will find out eventually. I hope.” Coral assured.
“I know it’s dangerous, but the geyser might be able to get them out of the cave perhaps if they did get trapped there. Since it seems like it could blow them out of the cave.” Queen Athena said.
“So, you’re saying the geyser proves to be a boon indeed? You know what, Athena?” Ryujin asked as he smiled. “I love the way you’re thinking.”
“Thanks, my dear.” Athena said as she chuckled.
A few minutes later…
♫One Piece Movie 7 OST - Luffy and Ratchet, Tight Handshake♫
Aqua and Luna have arrived at the cave entrance, but they saw the cave-in, and it's blocked.
“Oh, no…! The cave entrance is blocked! Starry is trapped in there!” Aqua cried worriedly.
“What if she could be in trouble? There’s no telling what kind of predators live there.” Luna asked worriedly.
“Well, if the cave entrance is blocked. Looks like I have to bash through it, the Armament Haki way.” Aqua said determinedly as her right arm glows and then turned into black after she activated her Armament Haki.
“Wait, wait, Aqua!” Luna objected as she put her wings on Aqua’s chest. “Let's not be hasty! This situation will require brains, not brawn. I propose we head back the way we came and try to find any passages that will lead behind this cave entrance.”
“Yeah, you’re right, Luna.” Aqua sighed as her Armament Haki faded away. “I suppose if there’s another way in, then we shall look around.”
By now, Starry went into a larger room, and there’s a 20 meters wide hole on the floor, then there’s another hole on the roof.
“Hey, there’s an exit! There’s a way to get out!” Starry said, then she looked down on the hole. “But, why is there a hole on the floor?”
♫One Piece Movie 4 OST - Shuraiya's Past♫
After she asks, she can hear the same rumbling as she gets inside the cave.
“Ah! Another earthquake!” Starry cried, as suddenly, a giant blast of geyser erupts through the floor hole, and then through the roof exit.
“What the hell?!” Starry cried surprised.
Outside the cave, Aqua and Luna noticed a 300-meter-tall, 20-meter-wide geyser eruption that reached halfway to the surface.
“Look at that size of a geyser! It must have reached halfway to the surface!” Aqua said, surprised as Luna gaped in shock. “Wait a minute, how did the geyser inside that crystal hole?”
“I believe there is a little volcano activity down beneath the cave. It is linked to the former volcano, which died a long time ago before the entire island plummeted to the ocean below.” Luna guessed.
“I guess that explains it.” Aqua said before she realized the huge underwater cave has a hole on the roof. “And if there’s a geyser up there, then it means there’s a hole on the roof.”
“Meaning?” Luna asked.
“It might be a risk, but… We have to swim through the roof hole where the geyser erupted.” Aqua said determinedly.
“It could be dangerous, indeed, Princess Aqua, but this is the only way to find Starry.” Luna said as Aqua nodded before they swam upwards to the roof.
By now, the shocked Starry with her jaw hanging in stunned before shaking her head to compose herself before asked. “A geyser?”
“Precisely.” A young male voice surprises Starry behind, and it’s a glowing eel merman named Volt who is nearly 14 years old.
“Pretty enormous, isn’t it? [Laughs] Get it? How'd you like our flow geyser? Pretty spectacular, wasn't it?” Volt asked.
“Gee, for a while I thought it was an earthquake, but I thought wrong. Does that bother you?” Starry asked.
“Appearantly not. But it does bother predators like sharks and giant sea serpents a lot to keep them out. And I bet the geyser will blow the trapped out of the cave. Should you get blown away?” Volt asked.
“Not now.” Starry replied. “I came here to look for a magical pearl somewhere in this cave.”
Then she saw a bright light from another cave tunnel.
“What is that bright light over there?” Starry asked.
“That light? Oh, I am not going in that cave tunnel. There’re glowing crystals that illuminate that cave, as if it were a sunny day.” Volt said. “And I ain’t going in there. I’m an electric eel merman, and I’m nocturnal. And I do travel when it gets dark out there and here too.”
“Okay, then I’m going without you though.” Starry said as Volt swims back.
“Well, do whatever you want. I'm going to go watch the geyser some more.” Volt said as Starry shrugged before swam off into another corridor.
As she swam through the hole which is 10 meters wide, Starry wondered. “Oh, I hope that light is not from a giant angler fish’s bulb.”
♫Super Mario Odyssey - Lake Lamode♫
But it was not from an angler fish’s bulb, instead they are glowing transparent crystals that brighten the huge room like it was a sunny day.
“Boy, I was right.” Starry sighed in relief as she slowly swam forward.
Although crystals are transparent in mysterious ways, they all sparkle wonderfully, even when their luminosities are not very bright.
The crystals are not the only things that are transparent, there are also fishes, even the non-poisonous jellyfishes, especially the goblin sharks.
The goblin sharks are active predators but pose no danger to humans and merfolk, as they feed mostly on fish, mollusks, and crab. So they pass through Starry.
“Well, I’m glad those goblin sharks pose no threat to merfolk, and also even humans.” Starry sighed.
Even the reefs are also transparent, but glowing faintly. Starry thinks it’s the safest cave she’s ever been in, except for the rockslide and geyser parts.
As she’s swimming further, she has reached the dead end, but then she saw a cyan colored pearl on a fossilized giant clam shell.
“Is… Is that what I think it is?” Starry gasped, then she remembered the color from Aqua’s pearl on her bra.
“Yes, it is! It’s a Blimp Pearl!” Starry cried happily and excitedly while her eyes shimmering amazed, then she carefully grabbed the pearl and lifted it up.
“It’s so… beautiful. I knew this must be a Blimp Pearl! Now I can finally do it!” Starry said excitedly as the pearl somehow glows and hovers above her hands.
Starry’s looking at it with her surprised expression. And then the pearl slowly floats towards her bra with the star symbol in the middle of it. And then the pearl somehow attached into her bra. Starry tries to remove it, but it’s stuck, and she’ll never take it off.
“Ugh. It’s stuck. It won't come off.” Starry grunts, then giving up to attempt to take it off.
“Well, I think it stays attached forever just like when that happens to Aqua. But, nah, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that I found another Blimp Pearl.” Starry said as she shrugged.
Starry saw a shattered mirror on the wall, and looked at the reflection while looking at the pearl which looks good on her bra.
“Wow, it looks good on my bra. I like it.” She said, then she looked through a hole and looked at the sun rays through the surface.
♫Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance - Dearly Beloved♫
She closed her eyes, and whispered. “And now… Time to test the power of the Blimp Pearl.”
And then the pearl somehow started to glow in neon color by itself which made Starry open her eyes and gasped silently.
“Oh… It’s working. I gotta keep focusing on it.” Starry said as she closed her eyes again, and focused on her Blimp Pearl’s powers.
And after a few seconds, Starry’s body started to glow like a star.
Before she's wondering what happened next to her, the sound of air entering a balloon filled the room.
Starry heard the sound while feeling the warm feeling from her body, and her breasts started to inflate. Her bra started to slowly push forward, but expanded in her size.
Her slim waist started to grow like she was steadily gaining fat. Starry opened her eyes, and she can feel the magical air filling her belly and once she rubs it, she can feel it expanding.
“Oh my God… I can feel it. I am inflating like a balloon. It feels like… I will become lighter anytime soon.” Starry whispered excitedly as her waist felt almost like she was blowing up a beach ball underneath it.
The hissing noise steadily grew louder as her tail started to swell beneath her.
Moving her arms wide at her sides, she continued to stare at her inflating self with an odd trepidation. Her tail bulged up and straightened out like some sort of pool toy.
As her tail moves slowly side to side, it's making loud squeaks as they expanded to better accommodate the magical flow of air that was being siphoned into her body which had expanded into 10 feet in all directions, her arms puffing up like rubber tubes, and her breasts inflating to 36 inch balloons.
Even though her arms are blowing up, she somehow manages to move them around instead of spreading them out into T-Pose and being immobile.
After her body reached 16.40 ft or 5 meters in length and 2.5 meters tall from her belly to back, the hissing noise subsided, and she stopped inflating, and the glowing faded out.
Her once slim upper body had completely turned out to be an enormous ball of rubber.
Starry takes a soft and smooth breath some few times, and looks around her ballooned body and carefully rubs her skin. It was like touching a cloud.
It was incredibly soft, and thin like a balloon. Pressing a finger just a tiny bit into her side, Starry could feel the air wishing around inside her, delicately rubbing her hollowed out body.
“This feels… so soft like a pillow…! It’s incredible. I’m so big… and round!” Starry gasped, amazed while smiling widely.
Then she carefully moves her tail, and she somehow moves forward. The magical air somehow makes her lighter as a feather.
“It’s working. It’s actually working! I can control the Blimp Pearl’s powers with my will! This is great! I love this! Oh, I can’t wait to see Aqua’s priceless face.” Starry laughed as she practiced her movements as she moved around with her inflated body.
Outside the cave, Aqua and Luna swam to the top of it, and arrived at the 20 meters wide hole on the roof.
“This must be the cave's other entrance.” Aqua said.
“When the geyser erupts through this hole, I believe we should exercise caution.” Luna said.
Aqua nodded, and she and Luna swam through the hole. But that was a bad timing, the geyser suddenly erupts and launches both her and Luna off the roof.
The two of them fall into two distinct locations: Luna falls into the sand with her face first, and Aqua falls into the seaweed bushes when she falls. The Atlantean Mermaid Princess emerged from the seaweed bush where she had been falling.
“Luna? Luna! Where are you?” Aqua called.
“Over here!” Luna called muffled as Aqua saw the poor penguin getting stuck while her underbody parts were still sticking up on the sand.
“Luna! Let me help you out!” Aqua called, and then halted for a moment and asked. “Or… maybe you can inflate out of there?”
“Okay, I can try that.” Luna said muffled, as under the sand, she focused on the power from her crescent moon marks.
The sound of muffled air hissing inside the penguin which started to inflate a bit faster, before she came out of the sand as she stopped inflating into the size of an oversized beachball and hovered in front of Aqua.
“Well, what do you know? It really worked.” Aqua chuckles.
And so Luna rapidly deflates while her body reverts to her normal shape and size. She then said, “Well, looks like we swam in at the wrong time. That geyser is too unpredictable if you ask me, Aqua.”
“Well, it’s time we shall go in there after the geyser stops.” Aqua said, as she’s unaware that the great white shark’s slowly swimming towards them.
♫The Little Mermaid (2023) - Shark Attack♫
Luna noticed the shark behind Aqua and started to talk before panicking. “Well, and we shall swim in perfect timing while we’re not getting eaten by THAT SHARK!!”
Aqua turned around and gasped; she recognized that it was the same shark that attacked her in the cruiser ship.
The shark opened his jaw as Aqua and Luna swam upward while dodging his teeth. The predator kept chasing after his prey who were swimming towards the rocks and reef.
Aqua and Luna were swimming through the field of seagrass to hide from the great white. The blue-haired mermaid turned around to see if it’s after them, and it’s not.
Suddenly, the shark emerges from the seagrass and misses them after they split, but he bites the seagrass and spits them out.
As they continued to swim, Luna once more caught sight of the hole and witnessed the geyser erupt for a period of 10 seconds until it ceased its activity.
Then it gives her an idea; Luna turned her head to Aqua and called. “Now it's perfect timing! Follow me!”
Luna swam faster towards the hole as Aqua heard her and followed her as the shark remained in pursuit. They entered through the tunnel as they heard a rumble on the floor.
Aqua and Luna are separated just in time as the geyser erupts from the floor, hitting the shark and launching him out of the cave. After being struck by a geyser, the great white shark gave up hunting and swam away.
Inside the cave, Aqua and Luna sighed in relief and they’re now safe as they sat on the floor.
“We made it, Luna. That’s a good call.” Aqua said.
“Yeah, and we almost get launched away again, but we dodge the geyser in perfect timing as well. And it looks like that great white shark is really having a bad day.” Luna said.
♫One Piece OST New World - Adventure in the Stomach♫
“Now let’s go find Starry, quickly!” Aqua said she got up and swam into the cave tunnel where the bright light is and Luna followed her.
They saw a lot of glowing transparent crystals and any aquatic creatures which fascinate Aqua and Luna.
“Oh! It’s beautiful here.” Luna gasped amazed.
“This is so stunning…! I wonder if mother and father shall see these-” Aqua said as she suddenly bumped into a big puffy creature and bounced back to the sea floor.
“Oof!” Aqua grunted.
“Are you okay, princess?” Luna asked.
“Yeah, I am.” Aqua grunted before she shook her head to compose herself and apologized. “And I’m sorry to bumped you, but we’re looking for-”
♫One Piece OST New World - Olga??? How Old?♫
“Aqua? Luna?” A voice asked, which surprised Aqua and Luna.
The puffy creature turned around and it WAS Starry who was surprised to see them, and asked. “What are you two doing here?”
Aqua and Luna gaped in shock as they saw Starry who was inflated.
“Starry? D-D-Did you-” Aqua stammered, shocked.
“How did you get so puffy like that?” Luna asked as Starry laughed at their priceless facial expressions.
“Oh, you two are not gonna believe it, but I found this Blimp Pearl here in this cave.” Starry said as Aqua dropped her jaw in surprise.
“A-A-Another one…?!” Aqua muttered in shock before snapping out of it after shaking her head and saying incredulously. “This is unbelievable…! Starry, I can’t believe that you found another Blimp Pearl here!”
“Yeah, I can’t believe it either. Now I can fly in the sky like you and Aunt Athena!” Starry said excitedly, then paused pensively and asked. “Wait… Did Raki send you here to find me?”
“Well, the thing is he was worried about you going off alone to explore and find the Blimp Pearl, and of course panicking that what if you’re swallowed by carnivores out there.” Aqua replied.
“And, well… My father gave me an order to follow you just in case you’re not getting hurt for your parents’ sake.” Aqua said, and paused pensively. “Well, most of it for Raki’s sake.”
“Yeah, Rocky was worried too much, but he does care about you.” Luna said.
“You can say that again.” Starry said as she shrugged amusedly. “What do you say that we shall get out of the cave?”
“Sounds fair enough. But how?” Luna asked.
“How about the geyser? That could be our ticket for a way out of here.” Aqua guessed.
“Good idea! If all three of us are inflated together, maybe it can launch us faster towards the surface, and maybe float in the sky.” Starry said.
♫One Piece OST New World - Escape From Bonbori♫
“You know what? It’s worth a try! Let’s go!” Aqua said as she swam through the tunnel while Starry and Luna followed her.
As they’ve arrived into a huge room of a cave with a geyser, Volt approaches.
“Well, well, well. So you’ve found the magical pearl in the bright tunnel. And I see that you have company. Now if you want to get out of here, you need to launch yourself by the geyser.” Volt said.
“That’s the idea, kid.” Aqua said as she closed her eyes and sighs tenderly. “Time to get big…”
Aqua's Blimp Pearl lights, and her body begins to inflate, becoming rounder and larger until she reaches Starry's proportions. Luna is closing her eyes and focused on her magical crescent moon marks, which illuminate, while her body stops inflating and becomes the size of an immense beach ball.
Then the three inflated females swam to the geyser above them.
“Hey! Are you sure you can be launched when you’re this puffy?” Volt questioned, amazed.
“Two words, kid. Watch. Us.” Starry said as she held her finger up before she heard a loud rumble beneath them.
“Here it comes!” Luna yelled as Volt hid behind the rock; this geyser is gonna blow!
And then the geyser explodes from the floor, pushing three inflated females who scream since they were flung so quickly. As the geyser approached the surface, Aqua, Luna, and Starry were propelled to the surface at the speed of sound.
Aqua, Luna, and Starry emerged from the ocean with a great splash and were hurled skyward, where they finally came to a stop because they were high in the cloudless afternoon sky.
After that, they are all laughing together since they considered it to be a really enjoyable experience after being thrown into the air by a massive geyser.
“That was… fun!” Aqua laughed. “I actually enjoyed that.”
“Yeah, what a blast-off!” Luna laughed.
“And we finally made Starry out of the cave.” Aqua said.
“Speaking of Starry, where is she?” Luna asked as they heard a delightful laugh behind Aqua.
Both Aqua and Luna turned around to see Starry who moved her tail up and down to propel herself to soaring through the sky. It seems like Starry’s dream has finally come true since she now has found the Blimp Pearl and is using its power to inflate herself and grant her to fly in the sky just as she always wanted.
“Aqua! Luna! I flew!” Starry laughed.
“What do you know? She can fly too, Princess Aqua.” Luna said.
“How do you feel, cuz?” Aqua asked as Starry flew around her cousin.
“This feels great! Aren’t you proud of me?” Starry replied happily.
“I sure am, Starry.” Aqua said.
“Now I can finally fly with you to explore the skies, soaring with the wind, floating among the clouds and lots of things to do!” Starry said excitedly.
“Starry, I’m so happy for you. Now that you have located the second Blimp Pearl, it appears as though you have finally joined us in our endeavor to fly through the air.” Aqua said.
“Thanks, Aqua-” Starry said before being interrupted by her own cousin.
“However, the next time you want to go exploring, you should first ask me, Coral, or Luna to join you. Understand?” Aqua scolded slightly.
“Oh… Sorry, Aqua.” Starry apologized while she held her left arm while feeling ashamed literally. “I'm just so excited that I went on my own to find the Blimp Pearl. But, okay, I'll remember that. I promise.”
“Good, but for now…” Aqua said as she closed her eyes and focused on her Blimp Pearl’s powers.
As a result, her body glows, and deep-pitched air hissing can be heard within Aqua, who begins to expand larger and rounder until she stops in her Super Blimp form.
“Let's embrace our opportunity to fly in the sky.” Aqua said which made Starry excited and nodded.
“Sure, this would be fun. And… Do you think I can get as big as you are now?” Starry asked.
“Well, go ahead and try.” Aqua nodded as Starry smiled before she closed her eyes and focused on the powers within the pearl.
♫Shadow of the Colossus - The Sunlit Earth♫
In some way, it reacted to Starry's innocent emotions and heart, causing the pearl to glow and her body to glow as well. She heard a high-pitched hissing sound coming from her body, which began to gently inflate once more.
As the magical air from the Blimp Pearl continues to produce and spread throughout her body, breasts and tail, which are still gently swelling, Starry doesn't feel any pain or unwell. Her body's potential size is all she can sense, and it feels amazing.
Her body is also becoming rounder and bigger, and her tail is becoming plumper and yet able to move, her breasts are swelling to the size of two beach balls before the hissing suddenly ceased, and she is becoming a large blimp.
She’s now 6.4 meters tall from her belly to back, and nearly 11 meters in length; Starry has reached into her Super Blimp form which surprises Aqua and Luna.
“Well, she somehow mastered her Blimp Pearl’s powers already. She’s really a fast learner, isn’t she, Your Majesty?” Luna said, amazed.
“Yeah, she sure did.” Aqua replied while nodding her head to Luna before asking her enlarged cousin. “How do you hold up, cousin?”
“Despite being big and round, I love this feeling! I love being inflated!” Starry cried happily as she spread her arms. “I’m ready to fly with you two.”
“Okay, girls. Let’s fly!” Aqua said as she, Luna and Starry moved their tails and wings to start soaring in the skies.
As they were flying for almost a whole afternoon, Starry couldn’t have enough of flying as a blimpy mermaid. For the first time, she’s having a great time flying in the sky.
Maybe in the future, Starry can fly alone if she asks permission from Aqua, Coral and Luna first… Until the next adventures with Aqua; Mermaid Princess of Atlantis.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Here's the 12th chapter of Aqua: Mermaid Princess of Atlantis.
This chapter focuses on Starry, Aqua's cousin, who seeks to found the other Blimp Pearl since she was inspired after gazing at Aqua, Queen Athena and Luna were inflated and flying in the sky.
As she's exploring, she's trapped in a tunnel cave, but discovering the wonder what awaits her.
Again, I'll add music tracks to feels like an old-fashioned and traditional Disney movie, and of course One Piece episodes.
And I hope you like my tenth chapter of Aqua Mermaid Princess of Atlantis.
CREDITS:
- Oda Eiichiro, Shonen Jump, Funimation, and Toei Animation - for creating the One Piece series.
- Disney - for inspiration from The Lion King and The Little Mermaid
- Yours Truly - for making Aqua: Mermaid Princess of Atlantis
Chapter 12 - Starry Starts to Soar
Written By: StarMermaid91
Based on the characters “One Piece” created and owned by:
Eiichiro Oda
It’s been a week since Luna is promoted to a royal advisor of Princess Aqua, and she will guide her to choose the right path to be a queen.
And today, it’s about her cousin Starry who has found another Blimp Pearl.
November 3rd, 1524
♫Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home - Main Titles (0:00 to 1:47)♫
As this chapter started, the fish school swam through the reef and rocks, until we saw a pod of killer whales swam underwater to explore. Some orcas are recognized by the Atlanteans while some of them are news.
They swam to the surface and blew their air out of their blowholes and breathing before diving. They were migrating to find some food to eat.
Among the orcas, Starry swam and raced with the baby whales. She’s having so much fun since the morning, even though she’s not as fast as her cousin Aqua.
As Starry left the orcas, she’s now swimming with the pod of humpback whales, and then racing with one of the sailfish before heading to the reef and rocks.
After she’s left the reef, Starry’s swimming towards Atlantis. But as she’s heading towards the palace, she sees Aqua, Queen Athena, Luna, Coral, Chel and Raki swimming towards the surface.
“Hi, Aqua! Hi, Aunt Athena! Wanna go for a swim?” Starry asked.
“Oh, we would love to, Starry, but we’re going to the surface to have some fun flying in the sky.” Athena replied.
“In the sky? Wait, don’t tell me. You’re going to use Blimp Pearl to inflate yourselves to fly up there?” Starry asked.
“That’s the idea. My father was busy writing the documents in his office, so we let him work in peace. So we brought Luna, Coral and Chel to join us for fun.” Aqua said.
“And I’ll keep my eyes on them.” Raki said as they kept swimming towards the surface.
♫Kirakira☆Precure à la Mode OST 1 - Let's La Cooking!♫
A little while later, Aqua, Athena, Coral, Chel, and Luna were already inflated and enjoying themselves in the skies. They were flying around as two mermaids in their Super Blimp forms were moving their tails and two axolotls were waving their tails in a similar manner, and a female penguin was flapping her wings.
Aqua playfully bumps into her mother, then bumped by Coral and Luna, and they are all laughed together as Athena and Chel follow them to fly over the clouds.
On a rock, Starry sat on it and looked up at the inflated girls, and was fascinated to see them flying in the sky. As for Raki, he’s pretty happy for Luna who flies in the sky while being puffy.
“Hey, Raki. Did you panic out when Luna was inflated?” Starry asked.
“No, not a lot. To be honest, I’ve seen her several times back at Págos Island eight years ago, and seeing her puffy looks kind of funny. But it’s good to see her flying like… well, a bird.” Raki replied honestly.
“But when I saw Aqua, Coral and Athena inflated, I didn’t see that every day.” Raki said.
“I see, but when I saw Aqua inflated for the first time, she kind of looked funny, but then she looked cute and round and floaty when she floated in the sky.” Starry said as she’s looking at her cousin keeps flying around while twirling.
“That Blimp Pearl of hers sure is really handy, isn’t it?” Starry said.
“Yeah, it could be useful when it comes to flying, even though it makes any mermaid become puffy like a giant pufferfish.” Raki said.
Starry smiles wishfully while looking at Aqua emerges through the clouds and goes up higher, and she’s above the sea of clouds and looking at the view of the ocean.
Aqua looked down at Starry, and waved her arm while trying to call. “HEY, STARRY!”
Her cousin laughed and waved her arm happily, then she stopped and wondered if there were any Blimp Pearls somewhere in the reef.
“Someday… I shall find another Blimp Pearl somewhere in the ocean.” Starry said dreamily.
“Oh ho whoa! Do you think that'll be easy, young lady? They are very rare to find, and there’s 20% to find them. It will take a few years to find it. Or so I believe it.” Raki said patronizingly.
As Raki talked, Starry leaped into the water and disappeared under the surface.
“But if you want to go out to explore the ocean, you have to ask Aqua and Luna to find the Blimp Pearl, and then-” Raki continued, and looked around to see Starry’s not around.
“What? Where did she go?” Raki wondered, then gasped in realization. “Oh, no…! She’s going out to explore!”
♫Pokémon Sword & Shield - Postwick♫
But it doesn’t look like Starry is going out to explore yet. She's heading back to Atlantis where she needs to talk to her parents.
A bit later, Starry packed her bag and is now outside of her house.
“Oh, Star~!” Sabrina (39 years old), Starry’s mother, said as she approached her daughter and hugged her. “Just be careful when you’re going to explore the caves.”
“And here’s the necklace I made for you.” Rodion aka “Rody” (41 years old), Starry’s father, said as he put the necklace with a yellow pearl around her neck.
“You should make sure to concentrate on this magical pearl if you are in the cave that is dark. This will cause it to illuminate, and then the star symbols and dots will glow, which will make the cave appear brighter.” He said.
“Thanks. This could be useful.” Starry said before she waved her arm. “Well, I’m off. See ya later!”
Then she floats off with a bubble around her waist.
“Hehe, look at her. Yesterday she was a child, but today she's an adult.” Rody said.
“Yeah. She's been 18 years old since a few weeks ago. But she has an adventurous spirit just like Princess Aqua.” Sabrina said.
♫Pokémon Sword & Shield - Wild Area (South)♫
After some time had passed, Starry arrived at the hill, which was located further away from Atlantis. She took in the breathtaking panorama of the reef, which included the canyons and the deep abyss. And there are lots of species down there.
“Wow… What a landscape! This atmosphere feels different than the last time I’m with Aqua. I'm wondering if there's a Blimp Pearl near here.” Starry said as she looked at the view with her excited expression.
She gazed down into the deep canyon and noticed the entrance to the dark cave.
“Hmm… I have never seen this entrance before. I gotta take a good look at this.” Starry said as she swam down towards the canyon.
Then she felt gentle, but cold currents, and she started to shiver.
“Brrrr…! It's cold down here.” Starry shivered, but then she kept swimming towards the canyon, and then arrived in front of the entrance.
“Wow… It is terribly dark here.” She said, as she first looked at the darkness.
Then Starry examined the pearl on her necklace, wondering if it could sparkle. She then took her father's suggestion and closed her eyes, focusing on the pearl's power, which began to glow pale, light yellow.
And then the yellow dots and star symbols on her bikini, including her star-shaped hairpin, glow, brightening the cave.
“There we go. It worked! Now it makes me feel comfortable when it’s getting brighter here.” Starry said as she swam cautiously as she got inside the cave.
But as Starry’s now inside the cave, she can hear a deep rumbling sound ahead, and then rocks on the roof start to crumble.
“Woaah…! Was that an earthquake?!" Starry questioned as the entrance is beginning to crumble, the rocks started to fall apart and is currently cave in.
Starry was unharmed, but she gasped in horror when she realized she was trapped inside the dark cave.
“Oh, no…!” She cried as she tried to move the rocks aside, but it made it worse.
More rock falls from the roof to the ground, and it makes it impossible for Starry digging out of the cave.
“Ugh, great…! The cave entrance is blocked. I’m trapped.” Starry sighed frustrated, then looked at the path in the cave. “Looks like I have not choice but to just go deeper
into the caverns and find another way out.”
♫New Pokémon Snap - Outaway Cave Mural♫
Then she swims forward in the damp cave which is brightened by glowing dots, star symbols and her hairpin.
But as she swam further in the cave, she gasped amazed after she entered a large space of a cave with glowing sea weed, kelps, fishes, corals and rocks.
Slowly, Starry swam ahead to examine the shimmering topics surrounding the massive underwater cave. She is fascinated by the bioluminescent rocks, coral reef, and kelps.
“Wow… It’s beautiful. I thought they only glowed at night. I guess I was wrong. I should have studied about this bioluminescence.” Starry said as she swam through the glowing reefs and rocks.
After a while, Starry swam further in the cave while there were more bioluminescent topics on the floor. She swam through the whole skeleton of a prehistoric shark, Megalodon.
It was nearly 24 meters long, which makes Megalodon not just the biggest shark, but even the largest fish in the world.
“Oh, poor prehistoric shark. It must have starved to its extinction.” Starry said somberly, but she keeps swimming onward.
As she’s swimming through the caves, Starry saw the glowing mushroom shaped corals that turned the lamps on just like lamposts in the village.
“Neat. This is exactly what Atlantis needs when it’s midnight.” Starry muttered, amazed.
“Excuse me.” A hissing voice from the hole, and it came from an male eel with glowing dots and approached closer to Starry. “Is this your first time being here?”
“Uhm, yes… I was exploring here to find something small and round.” Starry replied.
“You mean a pearl? Well, there are so many to be found.” The eel said.
“No, I mean this one big as a turtle.” Starry said.
“Oh… That… I don’t know. But good luck finding it.” The eel said as Starry sighed annoyed as she kept moving.
As she kept swimming, she saw lots of glowing fishes like lanternfishes and anglerfishes, octopuses, seahorses, aquatic turtles, even different kinds of sharks, and they also had orbs on their sides too.
“Wow, I have no idea all creatures and plants emit their own glowing here in this cave. I wonder how far is this cave. I have to find the Blimp Pearl… If it is here that is.” Starry said as she swam further in the large underwater cave.
♫One Piece Movie 8 OST - The Country Is People’s Will♫
Meanwhile at Atlantis Palace’s throne room…
“I’ve got a message from Starry’s parents Sabrina and Rody.” King Ryujin said who sat in his throne chair. “They said Starry went off to explore the cave on her own to find the Blimp Pearl.”
“A Blimp Pearl?!” Aqua asked, surprised.
“Wait, wait, wait! Starry went on to the cave all by herself, and without us?!” Coral asked, shocked.
“Oh dear… this is not as easy as I thought. The Blimp Pearls are so SUPER rare to find. However, there are rumors that they are hidden in the cave with shining crystals that illuminate the entire cave, as if it were a sunny day.” Athena said.
“Mechokku!” Coral cried worriedly.
“I believed Starry heard about the rumors too, she went on without Aqua and Coral since their last expedition.” Chel said.
“Yeah. Starry is daring and adventurous, much like me, but she could have invited me and Coral to join her instead of going out alone.” Aqua said, worriedly.
“Well, she can't help it, Your Majesty. She's very vigorous. Runs in the family.” Luna said as she put her wing on Aqua’s shoulder.
“Even so, traveling out alone into undiscovered underwater caves is too perilous to explore, just as you are doing in other places beyond our borders, Princess Aqua.” Raki started, before starting to panic slowly. “And I think you shall go with Starry, because you loved her very much as her cousin!”
Ryujin rolled his eyes and shrugged while showing his knowing smile. He knows Raki started to panic about either Aqua, Luna or Starry’s safety when it comes to the expedition.
“But I can’t stop worrying about whether there are predators out there like killer whales, sharks, moral eels, sea serpents, giant angler fishes, sea leopards, octopuses, giant squid! OR WHAT EVEN WORSE, THE GIANT SEA KINGS ARE GOING TO SWALLOW YOU WHOLE LIKE A SMALL FISH!!” Raki screamed while flailing his wings. “OR ANOTHER WORSE THINGS LIKE BIGGER GIANT SEA MONSTER SOME SORT OF…!”
He stopped screaming as he saw Aqua, Athena, Ryujin, Luna, Chel and Coral looking bewildered at Raki who panicked and yelled.
Embarrassed, Raki puts his wing behind his head and chuckles nervously. “Uh, hehehe… Sorry… Oh…”
“Sometimes, Raki, you need to think about your blood pressure.” Ryujin said, before turning his head to Aqua. “Aqua, I believe he’s right. You must go find Starry and make sure she’s okay. She’s on her way to the cave that contains the shimmering clear crystals.”
“Yes, father. I will. I’ll make sure Starry’s not getting hurt.” Aqua nodded before turning around and heading to the door. “Luna, are you coming with me?”
“Always will and forever, Princess Aqua.” Luna nodded before she swam off.
“Just be careful, Aqua!” Coral called.
“We will, and thanks!” Aqua called likewise before leaving the throne room.
Athena crossed her arms, closing her eyes while looking down, and wondering. “You know what?”
“What, Queen Athena?” Raki asked.
“I believed Starry wished that she could fly with Aqua and soar in the sky. So that is why she went off on her own to find another Blimp Pearl.” Athena replied.
“It could be or not, but I think Starry will find it regardless of where the second Blimp Pearl is.” Chel said.
“That is true, but let’s hope she finds it in the glowing crystal cave. After all, it's a very harmless place to explore. Except there’s one dangerous thing that can send unfortunate creatures back to the exit; the giant underwater geyser.” Ryujin said.
“WHAT?! WE HAVE TO WARN AQUA AND LUNA!!” Raki screamed while panicking and flapping his wings.
“Too late. They already left.” Coral said as Raki stopped panicking and sighed miserably.
“But hey, rest assured, Aqua and Luna will find out eventually. I hope.” Coral assured.
“I know it’s dangerous, but the geyser might be able to get them out of the cave perhaps if they did get trapped there. Since it seems like it could blow them out of the cave.” Queen Athena said.
“So, you’re saying the geyser proves to be a boon indeed? You know what, Athena?” Ryujin asked as he smiled. “I love the way you’re thinking.”
“Thanks, my dear.” Athena said as she chuckled.
A few minutes later…
♫One Piece Movie 7 OST - Luffy and Ratchet, Tight Handshake♫
Aqua and Luna have arrived at the cave entrance, but they saw the cave-in, and it's blocked.
“Oh, no…! The cave entrance is blocked! Starry is trapped in there!” Aqua cried worriedly.
“What if she could be in trouble? There’s no telling what kind of predators live there.” Luna asked worriedly.
“Well, if the cave entrance is blocked. Looks like I have to bash through it, the Armament Haki way.” Aqua said determinedly as her right arm glows and then turned into black after she activated her Armament Haki.
“Wait, wait, Aqua!” Luna objected as she put her wings on Aqua’s chest. “Let's not be hasty! This situation will require brains, not brawn. I propose we head back the way we came and try to find any passages that will lead behind this cave entrance.”
“Yeah, you’re right, Luna.” Aqua sighed as her Armament Haki faded away. “I suppose if there’s another way in, then we shall look around.”
By now, Starry went into a larger room, and there’s a 20 meters wide hole on the floor, then there’s another hole on the roof.
“Hey, there’s an exit! There’s a way to get out!” Starry said, then she looked down on the hole. “But, why is there a hole on the floor?”
♫One Piece Movie 4 OST - Shuraiya's Past♫
After she asks, she can hear the same rumbling as she gets inside the cave.
“Ah! Another earthquake!” Starry cried, as suddenly, a giant blast of geyser erupts through the floor hole, and then through the roof exit.
“What the hell?!” Starry cried surprised.
Outside the cave, Aqua and Luna noticed a 300-meter-tall, 20-meter-wide geyser eruption that reached halfway to the surface.
“Look at that size of a geyser! It must have reached halfway to the surface!” Aqua said, surprised as Luna gaped in shock. “Wait a minute, how did the geyser inside that crystal hole?”
“I believe there is a little volcano activity down beneath the cave. It is linked to the former volcano, which died a long time ago before the entire island plummeted to the ocean below.” Luna guessed.
“I guess that explains it.” Aqua said before she realized the huge underwater cave has a hole on the roof. “And if there’s a geyser up there, then it means there’s a hole on the roof.”
“Meaning?” Luna asked.
“It might be a risk, but… We have to swim through the roof hole where the geyser erupted.” Aqua said determinedly.
“It could be dangerous, indeed, Princess Aqua, but this is the only way to find Starry.” Luna said as Aqua nodded before they swam upwards to the roof.
By now, the shocked Starry with her jaw hanging in stunned before shaking her head to compose herself before asked. “A geyser?”
“Precisely.” A young male voice surprises Starry behind, and it’s a glowing eel merman named Volt who is nearly 14 years old.
“Pretty enormous, isn’t it? [Laughs] Get it? How'd you like our flow geyser? Pretty spectacular, wasn't it?” Volt asked.
“Gee, for a while I thought it was an earthquake, but I thought wrong. Does that bother you?” Starry asked.
“Appearantly not. But it does bother predators like sharks and giant sea serpents a lot to keep them out. And I bet the geyser will blow the trapped out of the cave. Should you get blown away?” Volt asked.
“Not now.” Starry replied. “I came here to look for a magical pearl somewhere in this cave.”
Then she saw a bright light from another cave tunnel.
“What is that bright light over there?” Starry asked.
“That light? Oh, I am not going in that cave tunnel. There’re glowing crystals that illuminate that cave, as if it were a sunny day.” Volt said. “And I ain’t going in there. I’m an electric eel merman, and I’m nocturnal. And I do travel when it gets dark out there and here too.”
“Okay, then I’m going without you though.” Starry said as Volt swims back.
“Well, do whatever you want. I'm going to go watch the geyser some more.” Volt said as Starry shrugged before swam off into another corridor.
As she swam through the hole which is 10 meters wide, Starry wondered. “Oh, I hope that light is not from a giant angler fish’s bulb.”
♫Super Mario Odyssey - Lake Lamode♫
But it was not from an angler fish’s bulb, instead they are glowing transparent crystals that brighten the huge room like it was a sunny day.
“Boy, I was right.” Starry sighed in relief as she slowly swam forward.
Although crystals are transparent in mysterious ways, they all sparkle wonderfully, even when their luminosities are not very bright.
The crystals are not the only things that are transparent, there are also fishes, even the non-poisonous jellyfishes, especially the goblin sharks.
The goblin sharks are active predators but pose no danger to humans and merfolk, as they feed mostly on fish, mollusks, and crab. So they pass through Starry.
“Well, I’m glad those goblin sharks pose no threat to merfolk, and also even humans.” Starry sighed.
Even the reefs are also transparent, but glowing faintly. Starry thinks it’s the safest cave she’s ever been in, except for the rockslide and geyser parts.
As she’s swimming further, she has reached the dead end, but then she saw a cyan colored pearl on a fossilized giant clam shell.
“Is… Is that what I think it is?” Starry gasped, then she remembered the color from Aqua’s pearl on her bra.
“Yes, it is! It’s a Blimp Pearl!” Starry cried happily and excitedly while her eyes shimmering amazed, then she carefully grabbed the pearl and lifted it up.
“It’s so… beautiful. I knew this must be a Blimp Pearl! Now I can finally do it!” Starry said excitedly as the pearl somehow glows and hovers above her hands.
Starry’s looking at it with her surprised expression. And then the pearl slowly floats towards her bra with the star symbol in the middle of it. And then the pearl somehow attached into her bra. Starry tries to remove it, but it’s stuck, and she’ll never take it off.
“Ugh. It’s stuck. It won't come off.” Starry grunts, then giving up to attempt to take it off.
“Well, I think it stays attached forever just like when that happens to Aqua. But, nah, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that I found another Blimp Pearl.” Starry said as she shrugged.
Starry saw a shattered mirror on the wall, and looked at the reflection while looking at the pearl which looks good on her bra.
“Wow, it looks good on my bra. I like it.” She said, then she looked through a hole and looked at the sun rays through the surface.
♫Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance - Dearly Beloved♫
She closed her eyes, and whispered. “And now… Time to test the power of the Blimp Pearl.”
And then the pearl somehow started to glow in neon color by itself which made Starry open her eyes and gasped silently.
“Oh… It’s working. I gotta keep focusing on it.” Starry said as she closed her eyes again, and focused on her Blimp Pearl’s powers.
And after a few seconds, Starry’s body started to glow like a star.
Before she's wondering what happened next to her, the sound of air entering a balloon filled the room.
Starry heard the sound while feeling the warm feeling from her body, and her breasts started to inflate. Her bra started to slowly push forward, but expanded in her size.
Her slim waist started to grow like she was steadily gaining fat. Starry opened her eyes, and she can feel the magical air filling her belly and once she rubs it, she can feel it expanding.
“Oh my God… I can feel it. I am inflating like a balloon. It feels like… I will become lighter anytime soon.” Starry whispered excitedly as her waist felt almost like she was blowing up a beach ball underneath it.
The hissing noise steadily grew louder as her tail started to swell beneath her.
Moving her arms wide at her sides, she continued to stare at her inflating self with an odd trepidation. Her tail bulged up and straightened out like some sort of pool toy.
As her tail moves slowly side to side, it's making loud squeaks as they expanded to better accommodate the magical flow of air that was being siphoned into her body which had expanded into 10 feet in all directions, her arms puffing up like rubber tubes, and her breasts inflating to 36 inch balloons.
Even though her arms are blowing up, she somehow manages to move them around instead of spreading them out into T-Pose and being immobile.
After her body reached 16.40 ft or 5 meters in length and 2.5 meters tall from her belly to back, the hissing noise subsided, and she stopped inflating, and the glowing faded out.
Her once slim upper body had completely turned out to be an enormous ball of rubber.
Starry takes a soft and smooth breath some few times, and looks around her ballooned body and carefully rubs her skin. It was like touching a cloud.
It was incredibly soft, and thin like a balloon. Pressing a finger just a tiny bit into her side, Starry could feel the air wishing around inside her, delicately rubbing her hollowed out body.
“This feels… so soft like a pillow…! It’s incredible. I’m so big… and round!” Starry gasped, amazed while smiling widely.
Then she carefully moves her tail, and she somehow moves forward. The magical air somehow makes her lighter as a feather.
“It’s working. It’s actually working! I can control the Blimp Pearl’s powers with my will! This is great! I love this! Oh, I can’t wait to see Aqua’s priceless face.” Starry laughed as she practiced her movements as she moved around with her inflated body.
Outside the cave, Aqua and Luna swam to the top of it, and arrived at the 20 meters wide hole on the roof.
“This must be the cave's other entrance.” Aqua said.
“When the geyser erupts through this hole, I believe we should exercise caution.” Luna said.
Aqua nodded, and she and Luna swam through the hole. But that was a bad timing, the geyser suddenly erupts and launches both her and Luna off the roof.
The two of them fall into two distinct locations: Luna falls into the sand with her face first, and Aqua falls into the seaweed bushes when she falls. The Atlantean Mermaid Princess emerged from the seaweed bush where she had been falling.
“Luna? Luna! Where are you?” Aqua called.
“Over here!” Luna called muffled as Aqua saw the poor penguin getting stuck while her underbody parts were still sticking up on the sand.
“Luna! Let me help you out!” Aqua called, and then halted for a moment and asked. “Or… maybe you can inflate out of there?”
“Okay, I can try that.” Luna said muffled, as under the sand, she focused on the power from her crescent moon marks.
The sound of muffled air hissing inside the penguin which started to inflate a bit faster, before she came out of the sand as she stopped inflating into the size of an oversized beachball and hovered in front of Aqua.
“Well, what do you know? It really worked.” Aqua chuckles.
And so Luna rapidly deflates while her body reverts to her normal shape and size. She then said, “Well, looks like we swam in at the wrong time. That geyser is too unpredictable if you ask me, Aqua.”
“Well, it’s time we shall go in there after the geyser stops.” Aqua said, as she’s unaware that the great white shark’s slowly swimming towards them.
♫The Little Mermaid (2023) - Shark Attack♫
Luna noticed the shark behind Aqua and started to talk before panicking. “Well, and we shall swim in perfect timing while we’re not getting eaten by THAT SHARK!!”
Aqua turned around and gasped; she recognized that it was the same shark that attacked her in the cruiser ship.
The shark opened his jaw as Aqua and Luna swam upward while dodging his teeth. The predator kept chasing after his prey who were swimming towards the rocks and reef.
Aqua and Luna were swimming through the field of seagrass to hide from the great white. The blue-haired mermaid turned around to see if it’s after them, and it’s not.
Suddenly, the shark emerges from the seagrass and misses them after they split, but he bites the seagrass and spits them out.
As they continued to swim, Luna once more caught sight of the hole and witnessed the geyser erupt for a period of 10 seconds until it ceased its activity.
Then it gives her an idea; Luna turned her head to Aqua and called. “Now it's perfect timing! Follow me!”
Luna swam faster towards the hole as Aqua heard her and followed her as the shark remained in pursuit. They entered through the tunnel as they heard a rumble on the floor.
Aqua and Luna are separated just in time as the geyser erupts from the floor, hitting the shark and launching him out of the cave. After being struck by a geyser, the great white shark gave up hunting and swam away.
Inside the cave, Aqua and Luna sighed in relief and they’re now safe as they sat on the floor.
“We made it, Luna. That’s a good call.” Aqua said.
“Yeah, and we almost get launched away again, but we dodge the geyser in perfect timing as well. And it looks like that great white shark is really having a bad day.” Luna said.
♫One Piece OST New World - Adventure in the Stomach♫
“Now let’s go find Starry, quickly!” Aqua said she got up and swam into the cave tunnel where the bright light is and Luna followed her.
They saw a lot of glowing transparent crystals and any aquatic creatures which fascinate Aqua and Luna.
“Oh! It’s beautiful here.” Luna gasped amazed.
“This is so stunning…! I wonder if mother and father shall see these-” Aqua said as she suddenly bumped into a big puffy creature and bounced back to the sea floor.
“Oof!” Aqua grunted.
“Are you okay, princess?” Luna asked.
“Yeah, I am.” Aqua grunted before she shook her head to compose herself and apologized. “And I’m sorry to bumped you, but we’re looking for-”
♫One Piece OST New World - Olga??? How Old?♫
“Aqua? Luna?” A voice asked, which surprised Aqua and Luna.
The puffy creature turned around and it WAS Starry who was surprised to see them, and asked. “What are you two doing here?”
Aqua and Luna gaped in shock as they saw Starry who was inflated.
“Starry? D-D-Did you-” Aqua stammered, shocked.
“How did you get so puffy like that?” Luna asked as Starry laughed at their priceless facial expressions.
“Oh, you two are not gonna believe it, but I found this Blimp Pearl here in this cave.” Starry said as Aqua dropped her jaw in surprise.
“A-A-Another one…?!” Aqua muttered in shock before snapping out of it after shaking her head and saying incredulously. “This is unbelievable…! Starry, I can’t believe that you found another Blimp Pearl here!”
“Yeah, I can’t believe it either. Now I can fly in the sky like you and Aunt Athena!” Starry said excitedly, then paused pensively and asked. “Wait… Did Raki send you here to find me?”
“Well, the thing is he was worried about you going off alone to explore and find the Blimp Pearl, and of course panicking that what if you’re swallowed by carnivores out there.” Aqua replied.
“And, well… My father gave me an order to follow you just in case you’re not getting hurt for your parents’ sake.” Aqua said, and paused pensively. “Well, most of it for Raki’s sake.”
“Yeah, Rocky was worried too much, but he does care about you.” Luna said.
“You can say that again.” Starry said as she shrugged amusedly. “What do you say that we shall get out of the cave?”
“Sounds fair enough. But how?” Luna asked.
“How about the geyser? That could be our ticket for a way out of here.” Aqua guessed.
“Good idea! If all three of us are inflated together, maybe it can launch us faster towards the surface, and maybe float in the sky.” Starry said.
♫One Piece OST New World - Escape From Bonbori♫
“You know what? It’s worth a try! Let’s go!” Aqua said as she swam through the tunnel while Starry and Luna followed her.
As they’ve arrived into a huge room of a cave with a geyser, Volt approaches.
“Well, well, well. So you’ve found the magical pearl in the bright tunnel. And I see that you have company. Now if you want to get out of here, you need to launch yourself by the geyser.” Volt said.
“That’s the idea, kid.” Aqua said as she closed her eyes and sighs tenderly. “Time to get big…”
Aqua's Blimp Pearl lights, and her body begins to inflate, becoming rounder and larger until she reaches Starry's proportions. Luna is closing her eyes and focused on her magical crescent moon marks, which illuminate, while her body stops inflating and becomes the size of an immense beach ball.
Then the three inflated females swam to the geyser above them.
“Hey! Are you sure you can be launched when you’re this puffy?” Volt questioned, amazed.
“Two words, kid. Watch. Us.” Starry said as she held her finger up before she heard a loud rumble beneath them.
“Here it comes!” Luna yelled as Volt hid behind the rock; this geyser is gonna blow!
And then the geyser explodes from the floor, pushing three inflated females who scream since they were flung so quickly. As the geyser approached the surface, Aqua, Luna, and Starry were propelled to the surface at the speed of sound.
Aqua, Luna, and Starry emerged from the ocean with a great splash and were hurled skyward, where they finally came to a stop because they were high in the cloudless afternoon sky.
After that, they are all laughing together since they considered it to be a really enjoyable experience after being thrown into the air by a massive geyser.
“That was… fun!” Aqua laughed. “I actually enjoyed that.”
“Yeah, what a blast-off!” Luna laughed.
“And we finally made Starry out of the cave.” Aqua said.
“Speaking of Starry, where is she?” Luna asked as they heard a delightful laugh behind Aqua.
Both Aqua and Luna turned around to see Starry who moved her tail up and down to propel herself to soaring through the sky. It seems like Starry’s dream has finally come true since she now has found the Blimp Pearl and is using its power to inflate herself and grant her to fly in the sky just as she always wanted.
“Aqua! Luna! I flew!” Starry laughed.
“What do you know? She can fly too, Princess Aqua.” Luna said.
“How do you feel, cuz?” Aqua asked as Starry flew around her cousin.
“This feels great! Aren’t you proud of me?” Starry replied happily.
“I sure am, Starry.” Aqua said.
“Now I can finally fly with you to explore the skies, soaring with the wind, floating among the clouds and lots of things to do!” Starry said excitedly.
“Starry, I’m so happy for you. Now that you have located the second Blimp Pearl, it appears as though you have finally joined us in our endeavor to fly through the air.” Aqua said.
“Thanks, Aqua-” Starry said before being interrupted by her own cousin.
“However, the next time you want to go exploring, you should first ask me, Coral, or Luna to join you. Understand?” Aqua scolded slightly.
“Oh… Sorry, Aqua.” Starry apologized while she held her left arm while feeling ashamed literally. “I'm just so excited that I went on my own to find the Blimp Pearl. But, okay, I'll remember that. I promise.”
“Good, but for now…” Aqua said as she closed her eyes and focused on her Blimp Pearl’s powers.
As a result, her body glows, and deep-pitched air hissing can be heard within Aqua, who begins to expand larger and rounder until she stops in her Super Blimp form.
“Let's embrace our opportunity to fly in the sky.” Aqua said which made Starry excited and nodded.
“Sure, this would be fun. And… Do you think I can get as big as you are now?” Starry asked.
“Well, go ahead and try.” Aqua nodded as Starry smiled before she closed her eyes and focused on the powers within the pearl.
♫Shadow of the Colossus - The Sunlit Earth♫
In some way, it reacted to Starry's innocent emotions and heart, causing the pearl to glow and her body to glow as well. She heard a high-pitched hissing sound coming from her body, which began to gently inflate once more.
As the magical air from the Blimp Pearl continues to produce and spread throughout her body, breasts and tail, which are still gently swelling, Starry doesn't feel any pain or unwell. Her body's potential size is all she can sense, and it feels amazing.
Her body is also becoming rounder and bigger, and her tail is becoming plumper and yet able to move, her breasts are swelling to the size of two beach balls before the hissing suddenly ceased, and she is becoming a large blimp.
She’s now 6.4 meters tall from her belly to back, and nearly 11 meters in length; Starry has reached into her Super Blimp form which surprises Aqua and Luna.
“Well, she somehow mastered her Blimp Pearl’s powers already. She’s really a fast learner, isn’t she, Your Majesty?” Luna said, amazed.
“Yeah, she sure did.” Aqua replied while nodding her head to Luna before asking her enlarged cousin. “How do you hold up, cousin?”
“Despite being big and round, I love this feeling! I love being inflated!” Starry cried happily as she spread her arms. “I’m ready to fly with you two.”
“Okay, girls. Let’s fly!” Aqua said as she, Luna and Starry moved their tails and wings to start soaring in the skies.
As they were flying for almost a whole afternoon, Starry couldn’t have enough of flying as a blimpy mermaid. For the first time, she’s having a great time flying in the sky.
Maybe in the future, Starry can fly alone if she asks permission from Aqua, Coral and Luna first… Until the next adventures with Aqua; Mermaid Princess of Atlantis.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Here's the 12th chapter of Aqua: Mermaid Princess of Atlantis.
This chapter focuses on Starry, Aqua's cousin, who seeks to found the other Blimp Pearl since she was inspired after gazing at Aqua, Queen Athena and Luna were inflated and flying in the sky.
As she's exploring, she's trapped in a tunnel cave, but discovering the wonder what awaits her.
Again, I'll add music tracks to feels like an old-fashioned and traditional Disney movie, and of course One Piece episodes.
And I hope you like my tenth chapter of Aqua Mermaid Princess of Atlantis.
CREDITS:
- Oda Eiichiro, Shonen Jump, Funimation, and Toei Animation - for creating the One Piece series.
- Disney - for inspiration from The Lion King and The Little Mermaid
- Yours Truly - for making Aqua: Mermaid Princess of Atlantis
Category Story / Inflation
Species Aquatic (Other)
Size 1250 x 1250px
File Size 633.5 kB
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