Chapter Summaries

Rhine and Aurora searched for the mirror hiding Prince Eric and Engeland's Little Princess while Ariel's curse threatened to turn her into foam at dawn. Rhine reassured Ariel that she would be safe, even as the search remained unresolved.

• Rhine used Prince Eric's button and a Crystal Ball to determine that he and Engeland's Little Princess had been taken into a hidden space, and Aurora sent her Big Dog to find its entrance.
• Inside the Mirror World, the Old Witch pushed Engeland's Little Princess to complete the wedding ritual with a dazed Prince Eric, then left through a portal to address the chaos outside.
• Rhine, Aurora, and Ariel followed the Big Dog through Engeland Imperial City, but the Old Witch's spells made hundreds of mirrors appear to be possible entrances.
• Rhine explained that Ariel's curse would not be lifted by changing back into a mermaid, and that she had not yet spent enough time with Eric to gain an immortal soul that could dispel it.
• Rhine quietly guaranteed Ariel that she would be fine when dawn came, though he did not explain how.

At the rushed wedding, Prince Eric drank a potion and transformed into a mermaid, restoring his memories of Ariel and revealing that he had been deceived into marrying the Little Princess of Engeland. Eric tried to escape the temple with the princess, but they discovered the doors were sealed shut.

• Prince Eric drank the wrong wine during the wedding ceremony and transformed into a mermaid.
• Prince Eric regained his memories of Ariel and called out for her in front of the wedding guests.
• Prince Eric told the Little Princess of Engeland that Ariel had become human to be with him and that they had planned to return to the sea together.
• The Little Princess apologized for letting Eric drink the Bewitching Drug, and Eric realized someone had manipulated his memories to force the wedding.
• Prince Eric tried to leave the temple with the Little Princess, but the guests found that the doors had been welded shut.

Prince Eric and the Little Princess discovered that the wedding was part of the Old Witch’s plot and became trapped inside a mirror’s replicated space. Rhine, Ariel, and Aurora found the mirror, but the Old Witch and a powerful warrior confronted them before they could free the others.

• Prince Eric realized that Ariel would turn to sea foam at dawn after his wedding, and the Little Princess identified Engeland’s Court Witch as the conspirator.
• The Little Princess recalled how her meeting with Prince Eric and her royal training might have been arranged, while Prince Eric failed to escape the sealed temple.
• Prince Eric used Rhine’s Silver Mirror to contact him and explain their predicament.
• Rhine Teleported with Ariel and Aurora to a warehouse, where they found a full-length mirror showing the trapped wedding party.
• The Old Witch appeared with an armored warrior and ordered him to kill Rhine, Ariel, and Aurora.
• The warrior’s Greatsword struck Aurora’s head and rebounded as though it had hit solid metal.

Aurora fought an Engeland super warrior while Rhine and Old Witch battled in the warehouse, and Ariel discovered Prince Eric trapped in a mirror. Rhine stripped the warrior of his enchanted armor, letting Aurora defeat him and leaving Old Witch cornered.

• Aurora learned the Engeland warrior’s combat rhythm during their fight and began to overpower him.
• Old Witch revealed that she had enchanted the warrior’s armor with powerful protections, preventing Aurora from finishing him.
• Ariel saw Prince Eric transformed into a mermaid in the Full-length Mirror and slipped out through a window toward the sea.
• Rhine used his magic to retrieve the warrior’s armor while the warrior fought Aurora.
• Aurora stabbed the unprotected warrior, then turned toward Old Witch as Rhine and the Three Dogs cornered her.

Ariel and Rhine helped free Prince Eric and the wedding guests from the Old Witch’s mirror, and the Old Witch fled as Rhine pursued her. Ariel took Eric toward the West Asia Kingdom so he could expose the conspiracy, while Rhine continued chasing the witch.

• Ariel arrived on a sea serpent, whose charge shattered the Full-length Mirror and freed Prince Eric and the others trapped inside.
• Ariel embraced Eric, and Rhine told the released guests that the Old Witch had imprisoned them to keep Eric from exposing her crimes.
• The Old Witch transformed into a crow and fled through the broken wall, while Rhine transformed into an eagle and pursued her.
• Ariel and Eric decided to return to the West Asia Kingdom, and Ariel summoned the sea serpent to carry them toward the harbor.
• Rhine pursued the Old Witch through the sky, sea, and land as they repeatedly changed into different animals.

Rhine cornered the Old Witch while the Engeland Emperor refused to rescue her and prepared to meet Magridore. Eric, Ariel, and Aurora sailed toward the West Asia Kingdom, but as dawn approached they feared Ariel might fall under the curse tied to Eric’s wedding.

• Rhine chased the exhausted Old Witch through the imperial city until his three Big Dogs surrounded her.
• The Engeland Emperor explained that the Old Witch had acted for her own selfish ends and refused to intervene, then ordered guards to bring Magridore to him.
• Eric, Ariel, and Aurora returned to the West Asia Kingdom’s Flower Boat, and Eric told his attendants about the Old Witch’s conspiracy and his transformation into a merman.
• The Flower Boat sailed away as Ariel’s sisters and grandmother surfaced to wave goodbye before disappearing beneath the waves.
• Eric and Ariel embraced on deck, but Eric remembered the curse that could turn Ariel into sea foam after he married another, and Aurora worried as sunrise neared.

After the Sea King rescued the West Asia king and his people, he invited the king and loyal attendants to visit the Deep Sea Palace. In Engeland, Rhine killed the Old Witch, whose vengeful spirit was drawn away by a curse, then used her mirror to uncover a past conversation with Maleficent.

• The Sea King rescued the West Asia king and the ship's survivors, and humans and merfolk shared stories on the island shore.
• The Sea King offered to take the king and his attendants to the Deep Sea Palace in a giant fish, and they accepted.
• A huge dog killed the Old Witch after Rhine and his allies suppressed her final counterattack.
• The Old Witch became a vengeful spirit and threatened Rhine before a dark vortex pulled her away.
• Rhine searched the Old Witch's body, used her mirror to view its last exchange, and recognized Maleficent in the image.

Rhine returned to the Flower Boat and revealed that Ariel had already gained an Immortal Soul before the Old Witch’s curse could threaten her. He explained that Aurora’s care for Ariel had helped create it, leaving Ariel safe and the friends aware that the new soul still needed love to sustain it.

• Rhine concluded that the Witch Council would take notice of the Old Witch’s death and decided the Sea Witch in Coral Forest needed a warning.
• At dawn, Ariel remained unharmed, and Prince Eric and Aurora assumed the interrupted wedding had failed to trigger the curse.
• Rhine returned to the ship and explained that Ariel’s Immortal Soul had formed before the Old Witch’s plan began.
• Rhine revealed that Aurora’s concern and affection for Ariel had helped grant her the Immortal Soul, and Ariel embraced Aurora in gratitude.
• Rhine explained that he had concealed the truth to keep Aurora’s feelings nourishing Ariel’s fragile, newly formed Immortal Soul.

Rhine helped Prince Eric prepare to reveal Ariel's identity, while the king of West Asia visited the Sea Kingdom and sought an alliance with the Sea King. The Sea King pretended to be undecided as both rulers anticipated a lucrative partnership.

• Rhine restored Prince Eric's human legs and explained that he could mass-produce mermaid-to-human and human-to-mermaid potions using blood from his magical Big Dogs.
• Prince Eric planned to ask his father to let him marry Ariel, and Rhine advised him to explain that Ariel was the Mermaid Princess of the Sea Kingdom by presenting it as a prophecy.
• The king of West Asia saw the underwater kingdom and realized that an alliance could bring his nation maritime protection, abundant seafood, and profitable trade.
• The king asked the Sea King to form an alliance and promised to promote mermaids among humans and supply the Sea Kingdom with goods from land.
• The Sea King acted aloof and said he would consider the proposal while the king of West Asia privately resolved to offer generous terms.

The King discovered that Ariel, the mermaid princess he had promised to help find, was the woman Prince Eric loved, and regretted having opposed their marriage. Eric returned to the West Asia Kingdom with evidence of Engeland’s conspiracy, while worrying that his father would reject Ariel once he learned her identity.

• The Sea King told the King that his youngest daughter, Ariel, had gone ashore in human form, and the King promised to protect her and help find her.
• The King learned that Ariel had a beautiful singing voice and realized she was the mermaid princess Prince Eric loved.
• The King returned to the West Asia Kingdom overwhelmed by regret and asked whether a potion called Regret Medicine existed.
• A guard reported that Prince Eric had returned, and the King went to welcome him.
• Eric brought evidence that the Engeland Princess had used Magic Spices to erase his memories and planned to report the conspiracy to his father in person.
• Ariel comforted Eric as he worried that the King would refuse to let him marry a mermaid.

Prince Eric married Ariel in a ceremony that united the West Asia Kingdom and the Sea Kingdom, while the Little Princess of Engeland watched from afar and quietly blessed them. Rhine sensed that the many gathered wishes would soon bring him a powerful reward, and the story remained in the West Asia Kingdom as the Sea Hag’s plot and another fairy tale still awaited resolution.

• Prince Eric told the king that Ariel was a mermaid princess, and the delighted king urged them to set a wedding date.
• Aurora practiced swordsmanship, discussed how she had learned from her fight with the Engeland warrior, and Rhine promised to find her a stronger weapon.
• Rhine sensed wishes from the king, the Sea King, merfolk, and others gathering ahead of the wedding.
• Prince Eric and Ariel exchanged vows aboard the Flower Boat as humans and merfolk gathered to celebrate their union.
• The Little Princess of Engeland watched the wedding from a distance, blessed the couple, and sailed back toward Engeland.
• Rhine and Aurora remained in the West Asia Kingdom because the Sea Hag’s story and another fairy tale still needed to be settled.

After helping the Sea Kingdom and humans build lasting ties, Rhine arranged for the Sea Hag to become the Sea King's Palace Alchemist and gave her the potion recipes. Back in the West Asia Kingdom, Rhine and Aurora received a protective gift and discussed Eric's new purpose before an immense Power of Wishes surged toward Rhine.

• The Sea King thanked Rhine and Aurora for helping his daughter and offered Rhine a reward; Rhine collected sea treasures and promised to provide a potion master to support contact between land and sea.
• Rhine brought the Sea King and merfolk soldiers to the Sea Hag, who was appointed Palace Alchemist and warned that the Witch Council might try to eliminate her.
• Rhine gave the Sea Hag the potion recipes and received a Memory Bubble about the Witch Council; the Sea King’s people found a self-healing magical whale to supply potion ingredients.
• The Sea Hag settled into her new role, and Rhine and Aurora received plant roots that made them invulnerable to poisons and more resistant to spells and curses.
• Aurora told Rhine that Eric had become more mature and was working toward becoming a respected king who would improve relations between humans and merfolk.
• Rhine reflected on Eric’s role as a symbol of human-merfolk friendship, then felt an unprecedented wave of Power of Wishes rush toward him.

Rhine obtained the Scepter of the Sea, a powerful reward formed from the wishes tied to the sea and the Sea Kingdom, and tested its ability to command storms and waves. Three days after Eric and Ariel’s wedding, Prince Henry returned to the West Asia Kingdom and persuaded the king to hold a ball so he could find a fiancée.

• Rhine received the Scepter of the Sea after the Sea Kingdom and West Asia Kingdom formed an alliance.
• Rhine used the scepter to summon and then calm a vast storm and whirlpool, discovering its immense power over the sea.
• Three days after Eric and Ariel’s wedding, the king announced that Prince Henry had returned to the palace.
• Henry met Ariel, praised her beauty, and complained that Eric was married while he still had no fiancée.
• Henry proposed a grand ball to choose a fiancée, and the king agreed to hold it.
• Rhine and Aurora overheard the conversation, and Rhine thought the ball resembled the story of Cinderella.

Rhine and Aurora identified the Witch Council's members and decided to travel to Maleficent's desert castle, which Rhine believed was in the Land of Oz. Before they left, Ariel asked Rhine to help her childhood friend Mo Mo pursue a human girl, while news spread that Prince Henry planned to hold a grand ball.

• Rhine and Aurora reviewed the Sea Hag's intelligence about the seven Witch Council members and Maleficent's powers, castle, and return schedule.
• Rhine recognized the Queen's Magic Mirror and inferred that Maleficent's castle lay in the Land of Oz, so he and Aurora planned to travel there next week.
• Ariel asked Rhine to help Mo Mo, a commoner merman who loved a human girl, as the Sea King hoped more human-merfolk couples would build support for their alliance.
• Rhine agreed to meet Mo Mo, and news spread that Prince Henry would hold a ball where a girl might be chosen as his fiancée.

Rhine learned that a young merman had fallen in love with Cinderella through years of messages carried by magical birds, and agreed to help her attend Prince Henry’s ball. After seeing Cinderella mistreated by her stepsisters, Rhine returned toward the palace to put his plan in motion and encountered Fairy Leila, who was preparing to help Cinderella with magic.

• A young merman told Rhine, Ariel, and Aurora that magical birds had carried messages between him and Cinderella for years, though they had never met.
• The birds reported that Cinderella’s stepmother and sisters planned to keep her from Prince Henry’s ball, and Rhine agreed to help her.
• Rhine, Ariel, and Aurora followed the birds to Cinderella’s home, where her sisters mocked her as she worked in the courtyard.
• Rhine decided to return to the palace and find Prince Eric, while Fairy Leila secretly planned to conjure Cinderella a gown and carriage.
• Rhine revealed himself to Fairy Leila and said Cinderella might no longer need her help as Prince Eric’s carriage arrived outside Cinderella’s home.

Prince Eric and Ariel visited Cinderella’s home to personally invite her to Prince Henry’s ball. Cinderella’s stepmother and sisters were stunned when the Crown Prince chose Cinderella, and the stepmother began to suspect Cinderella had an extraordinary identity.

• Prince Eric and Ariel arrived at Cinderella’s home, startling her stepmother and sisters.
• The stepmother sent her daughters out to greet Prince Eric while ordering Cinderella to stay inside.
• Prince Eric rejected the two sisters and asked for Cinderella, presenting her with an ornate invitation.
• Prince Eric and Ariel found Cinderella in her work clothes and earnestly persuaded her to attend Prince Henry’s ball.
• Cinderella clarified that she had not meant to refuse, while her stepmother poured water over her bewildered daughters and declared Cinderella must have an extraordinary identity.

Prince Eric and Ariel helped Rhine persuade Cinderella to attend Prince Henry’s ball, prompting her stepmother to lavish her with apologies and a beautiful gown. As Cinderella arrived at the palace, Rhine’s plan to help a young merman win her affection remained underway.

• Prince Eric and Ariel apologized for the late invitation, and Cinderella agreed to attend Prince Henry’s ball.
• Cinderella’s stepmother feared her status and ordered her daughters to help curry her favor instead of mistreating her.
• Cinderella’s stepmother bought Cinderella a beautiful gown and urged her to forgive the family.
• Fairy Leila learned that Rhine had arranged for the stepmother to pay for Cinderella’s gown and help secure her respect.
• Rhine praised Prince Eric and Ariel for their performance and thought that helping Cinderella attend the ball was only the first step toward winning her affection for a young merman.
• Cinderella arrived at the royal palace in a carriage while the invisible Fairy Leila followed her.

Rhine and Fairy Leila helped Cinderella prepare for the ball, where Prince Henry became captivated by her and she left behind a Crystal Shoe at midnight. Prince Henry decided to search the kingdom for the shoe’s owner, while Aurora and Rhine questioned why he could not simply remember Cinderella’s face.

• Fairy Leila conjured Crystal Shoes for Cinderella, and Rhine explained that Mo Mo had arranged her invitation and sent her a valuable pearl.
• Cinderella learned she could leave her stepmother’s home and planned to meet Mo Mo in person after the ball.
• At the ball, Prince Henry became captivated by Cinderella and kept her as his dance partner, though she had never learned to dance.
• When midnight came, Cinderella hurried away and left one Crystal Shoe on the stairs, and Prince Henry decided to find her by having every girl’s foot measured.
• Aurora and Rhine questioned Prince Henry’s plan and wondered why he could not remember Cinderella’s face.

Henry searched the kingdom for a girl who could wear the Crystal Shoe, while Cinderella reunited with her longtime friend Mo Mo and planned to join him beneath the sea. The chapter ended with Cinderella’s stepmother giving her daughters a potion she claimed would reshape one of their feet to fit the shoe.

• Henry traveled through the kingdom, letting willing girls try on the Crystal Shoe, but none fit it perfectly.
• Cinderella dismissed the idea that Henry was searching for her and met Mo Mo at the seaside, where they spoke as longtime friends.
• Cinderella told Mo Mo she planned to drink a potion that would let her live beneath the sea with him, and he confessed he had never expected they could be together.
• Rhine and Ariel watched Cinderella and Mo Mo’s conversation in the Crystal Ball.
• Cinderella’s stepmother urged her daughters to try on the Crystal Shoe, but neither could fit it.
• The stepmother returned with a potion from the Mermaid Kingdom and claimed it would give one daughter a foot shape that fit the Crystal Shoe.

Rhine and Aurora left the West Asia Kingdom for the eastern desert after Cinderella began a new life with Mo Mo and the Sea Kingdom allied with the land kingdom. Prince Henry soon announced that he would travel to the White Kingdom to pursue Snow White, along the route Rhine and Aurora were taking.

• Cinderella's eldest sister drank the mermaid potion, grew four feet, and tricked Prince Henry into believing she was the bride whose foot fit the Crystal Shoe.
• Rhine explained that Cinderella had escaped her past to live with Mo Mo, then told Aurora they would head for Maleficent's castle in the Land of Oz and that she should train to fight a dragon.
• Rhine and Aurora departed the West Asia Kingdom as Ariel, Prince Eric, and the merfolk bid them farewell, celebrating the alliance between the Sea Kingdom and the West Asia Kingdom.
• Prince Henry told Prince Eric he planned to visit the White Kingdom to pursue Snow White, and Eric realized Rhine and Aurora would travel in the same direction.