This makes Merliah unsure if she can save Oceana, and the boutique owners find out that she is hiding when their pet seal, Snouts, tickles Merliah's toes. They see Eris make whirlpools that were impossible to escape from, and take merpeople to her dungeons. Zuma and Merliah enter a fashion boutique to get her a fake tail as a disguise as they witness the festival. Zuma tells Merliah that Eris' Merillia was not as powerful as Calissa's, and it was making the ocean weak. They arrive in the underwater kingdom, and find that a festival held by Eris is happening. Merliah goes with Zuma to help her mother. It also said Calissa was making Merillia, the magical life force of the ocean. It revealed that Calissa was alive and needed help and that Merliah was half mermaid. The necklace had been given to her when she was a baby, and it played a message when she threw it. Merliah becomes angry because she doesn't understand what was going on, and throws a necklace she'd been wearing, on the floor. Merliah's evil aunt, Eris, had taken her throne. She tells her that the mermaid kingdom, Oceana, ruled by Merliah's mother is in danger. Zuma the dolphin finds Merliah with her friends again, confirming that everything Break said was true.

Merliah doesn't believe him and leaves to talk to her friends about this. Break agreed to take care of her, so her mother gave Merliah to him when she was a baby. However, Merliah would be unsafe living among mermaids, because she was born with a human appearance. Her grandfather, Break, who takes care of Merliah, reveales to her that she is actually half-human half mermaid her father Rip married a mermaid named Calissa, and had Merliah.

Merliah tells her friends what happened and then goes home in deep thought. Merliah is shocked but chooses not to believe it.

A talking dolphin named Zuma has a conversation with Merliah, and then takes her back to her friends. Seeing this, she dives underwater and realises that she can breathe and talk underwater. One day, during a surfing competition, suddenly there's pink highlights on her hair while she is surfing. She is nicknamed the 'Queen of the Waves', and her friends, Hadley and Fallon, even make a song for her. Merliah Summers is a champion surfer who lives in Malibu.

In the end, she discovers that what makes you different could be your greatest strength.' With help from her new mermaid friends, Merliah saves the ocean kingdom. One minute she's a normal teenager and the next she learns a shocking family secret: she's a mermaid! Merliah and her dolphin friend Zuma set off on an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana. 'Barbie stars as Merliah, a surfing champion from Malibu.

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