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Barbie in A Mermaid Tale is about a sixteen-year-old girl called Merliah
Summers, (Liah for short). She is a top surfer at Malibu and is
nicknamed, "Queen of the waves”. On the day of a surfing competition,
Merliah is surfing mavericks, when one part of her hair suddenly turns
pink on contact with seawater. Nervous of showing everyone her hair, she
dives underwater and meets a pink-ish purple coloured, dolphin named
Zuma. When Zuma talks Merliah gasps but finds out that she can breathe
underwater. Zuma takes Merliah to her friends then disappears. Merliah
tells her friends Fallon and Hadley what happened, and then she goes
home, confused. After telling what happened to her grandfather, Break,
Merliah finds out that she is half-mermaid. Thinking that her parents
died when she was a small baby, Merliah’s grandfather tells her the
truth. Break tells her that Merliah’s father was a human named Rip and
that her mother was a mermaid named Calissa (who in fact, is the Queen
of Oceana).Break tells her that when Merliah’s father died, Calissa was
worried about the fact that Calissa’s evil mermaid sister Eris would try
to rule over. At the same time, Calissa gave birth to Merliah. Merliah
had no mermaid fins which made it dangerous for her in Oceana. Calissa
didn’t want Merliah to get hurt, so she took Merliah to her husband’s
father, Break. Calissa asked if Break could raise Merliah so that she
would be safer on land from Eris’s rule. It worked. Then Eris took over
and Break told her that Calissa had died or was in Eris’s rule. At
first, Merliah didn’t believe Break and left to tell her friends the
news.
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