The story begins with when goes back to Lucia. He tells her that he doesn’t regret his decision.
Tino, a prince of the merfolk, He says he will always
meets Lucia, a young woman
from a fishing village. Enraged
by the destruction wrought by
some fishermen on marine life,
Tino vows revenge on humans.
He has a change of heart,
however, when he witnesses Lucia
and her father arguing with a group against using dynamites to fish.
When a dynamite accidentally explodes at the height of the
exchange, sending Lucia and her father plunging into the seawater,
Tino decides to save them both by bringing them to the shore.
While Lucia survives, her father dies due to injuries from the blast.
Drawn to the young woman, Tino once again swims near the
shore, only to see Lucia grieving. Tino initially looks on from a
distance, but
decides to show
himself when
Lucia catches a glimpse
of him and requests
that she be given the
chance to thank
him. At first shocked to
see Tino's tail, Lucia
remembers his
efforts to save her
and her father. She returns to the beach after initially fleeing, and
sits beside Tino to talk about her life, as he does. After Haring
Aurelio banishes Prinsipe Tino from their kingdom, Prinsipe Tino
choose his family
because he loves them
dearly. Soon, Lucia goes
into labor gives birth to a
baby girl. Lucia and Tino
are overjoyed and name
the baby Beatriz after
Lucia's mother. One night
when Beatriz won't stop crying and Tino is nowhere to be found,
Lucia goes to the banca, intending to bring Beatriz to the hospital
on her own. When Beatriz's feet gets wet with seawater, her legs
turn into a fish tail. Only the magic conch-shell can turn the baby's
tail back to its normal feet. Although surprised by their daughter's
strange form,
they promise
to love their
child no matter
what. But in no
time at all, their
neighbors
discovered the
couple's
secret. When
the community is hit with a series of catastrophes, the town
believes that the anomaly is caused by Dyesebel; an accusation
that leads to Prinsipe Tino's death. Before her father is killed by an
angry, superstitious mob, Dyesebel is taken to the ocean by him
through Banak where she is sent into exile since her chances for promises not to go back to the shallow waters. Days later,
survival are greater there than on land. Dyesebel saves Fredo from drowning during a tsunami wave. She
Years have passed, little Dyesebel goes near the shore and a befriends Fredo without revealing that she's a mermaid. Fredo talks
bottle lands to Betty and tells her
on her head. about his friend
She inspects Dyesebel. He tells Betty
the bottle and that Dyesebel is always
she grows in the water. Dyesebel,
curious about meanwhile, talks to Liro
the piece of and tells him about
plastic on her Fredo. She tells him not
hand. Fredo, to be afraid of humans
meanwhile, because she has met a
thinks he saw good human in Fredo. Later, Dyesebel also talks to her sea friends
a little girl in and reveals to them her secret. She sings to let them know that she
the water. has an unseemly voice. The other mermaids hear her singing and
Dyesebel mock her voice. Dyesebel is very sad and she swims away to a
goes back place where she can be alone. She stays there and sings all by
home and herself. After
finds Banak some years have
panicking passed,
because she Dyesebel went
is nowhere to swimming freely
be found. in the sea, now
Banak scolds all grown up and
Dyesebel for making her worry. She scolds Dyesebel more when very beautiful.
she finds out she went to the shallow waters. Banak remembers Likewise, Fredo,
what happened to Prinsipe Tino. She tells Dyesebel that the people Liro, and Betty
will kill her if they capture her. Dyesebel calms Banak down and have now grown
tells her not to worry anymore because she's safe. She also into adults.
Dyesebel decides to let go of her memories of Fredo. She goes to
the place where she last saw young Fredo to return the bottle he Reyna Dyangga pins
left for her. When she's near the shore, Fredo is there looking out Ginang Orca's death on
to the sea and shouting in frustration. Dyesebel thinks he's weird Dyesebel and she makes
and she says so. Fredo hears the voice and swims towards it. sure the whole
While he doesn't see anyone, what Fredo sees amazes him even kingdom knows
more. He sees the bottle he left for Dyesebel. He calls out her that Dyesebel is
name and he dives into the sea to look for her. Fredo doesn’t see the daughter of
her but he is happy because this time he knows that Dyesebel is Prinsipe Tino and
not a figment of his imagination. This time he will do everything to a human. This is
look for Dyesebel. unacceptable to
most of the
kingdom and
they decide that
Banak and
Dyesebel should die. In the morning, Dyesebel and Banak are
released in an area inhabited by deadly sea monsters. Dyesebel
and Banak plan on fighting the sea monsters and escape. They
escape the sea monsters. Dyesebel goes straight to where the
magic conch-shell is hidden and she manages to sneak in and get
it. She is also able to defeat the soldiers of Reyna Dyangga.
However, she loses sight of Banak, who is by that time, being
captured by fishermen. Dyesebel immediately swims ashore and
begs the magic conch-shell to help her. She rubs the shell and her
tail transforms into human legs. Dyesebel is helped by a couple
and given clothes. The man brings her to Manila and Dyesebel
somehow senses that the man has bad intentions towards her.
Indeed, the man is selling Dyesebel to several men. She finds a
chance to escape from the men. She wanders alone in Manila. She
is confused by the noise and multitude of people in the city. She
wanders some more until she ends up in the middle of the street. A
car stops short of running her over. Fredo comes out of his car and
stops when he sees Dyesebel, captivated by her beauty. Fredo Lucia spills what she
saves Dyesebel from the men holding her captive. They also help believes is seawater on
the other women captured by Dyesebel's legs, but
these men. However, as they are Dyesebel's legs do not turn
about to leave the house, a group into a mermaid's tail. After
of men accost them. Luckily, leaving Dyesebel, Lucia
Fredo's friends arrive and help cries in disappointment.
them beat up the men. Fredo Liro sees everything that
hears Dyesebel mention her happened and he suspects
name to the police. Fredo asks that Lucia is Dyesebel's
Dyesebel if she has met a boy on the shore when she was a kid. mother. Liro pays an old man to tell Lucia that a baby mermaid died
Dyesebel nods and asks if he is Fredo. They hug each other, very in his care after a man left her to him. He shows Lucia where the
happy to find each other at last. When Fredo sees fishermen cast a baby is buried. Lucia opens a small wooden coffin and it has a
net over Dyesebel, skeleton of a baby mermaid with a shell necklace on top. She cries
he dives in and because this time she is sure that Dyesebel is dead. She buries the
helps her get out of remains of the baby mermaid whom she believes to be Beatriz.
the net. They swim Dyesebel goes to the burial to console Lucia. After Lucia leaves,
ashore and Fredo Dyesebel goes to Beatriz's tomb to pay her respects and she sees
ties a shirt around a shell necklace beside it. It is the same necklace that links her to
Dyesebel's her mother. Dyesebel cries as she remembers all the clues that tell
wounded tail. her that Lucia could be her mother. She goes to Banak and Banak
Fredo learns of confirms her suspicion. Dyesebel accuses Banak of lying to her
Dyesebel's search for Banak and he promises he will help her get again and she runs away from Banak. Lucia is about to be killed by
back her magic conch-shell so that they could find Banak. But first, a group of mermen and he asks them why they are doing this.
they have to tend to Dyesebel's wounds. Fredo also finds out that They tell her that they captured her so that Dyesebel would return
Dyesebel's real mother is human. Fredo then tells her that he is the magic conch-shell. Now that they have it, they have no more
willing to fight for their love, no matter the cost, just like Dyesebel's use for her. Lucia is confused and the mermen mock her
parents fought for each other. Fredo overrides all her protests until ignorance. Lucia thinks some more until the truth dawns on her:
Dyesebel promises Fredo. Dyesebel is her daughter, her missing Beatriz. Pinky and Karlo
help her escape the mermen. Dante and Fredo, with a group of
seamen, also come to her rescue. Dyesebel wakes up with Lucia
 sleeping beside her. Lucia do what she can to bring peace to
opens her eyes and hugs their relationship and their lives.
Dyesebel tightly. Dyesebel With the help of his cousins, Liro
cries and tells her mother that gets the magic conch-shell from
she wants to call her as Reyna Dyangga and he uses it to
mother. Meanwhile, Betty finds fight Dyangga's men. Liro goes to
a way to know what Lucia is Dyesebel and gives her the magic
keeping secret from her. When conch-shell. He tells her that she is
she learns that Dyesebel is no the rightful heiress to the King's
other than Beatriz, she throne and that they need her help
screams in anger and disbelief. under the sea. Dyesebel eventually
While walking down the aisle in her beautiful wedding gown, Betty decides to fulfill her duties as queen
approaches Dyesebel and spills seawater on Dyesebel's legs. of their kingdom. Dyesebel sought to
Dyesebel's legs turn into a finally
mermaid tail. Angry people end the war between her people
swarm around Dyesebel and those on land by seeking
and beat her up. Lucia and dialogue with the human
Banak can do nothing to government. This, after a string of
stop the people from casualties from the hostilities,
beating Dyesebel. Fredo including Stella and Dante. Ena
becomes bloodied in his regrets her evil deeds. She goes to
attempt to save Dyesebel. Lucia and asks her forgiveness.
Liro uses his merman shout Betty also begs
to clear the people away forgiveness from
from Dyesebel, but men from the Bantay Dagat shoot Liro and Dyesebel.
carry Dyesebel away. Dante Montilla died while trying to help his
son Fredo save Dyesebel. Dyesebel and Fredo exchange wedding
vows in front of Lucia, Banak, and their loyal friends. Fredo tells
Dyesebel that he doesn't regret even their painful memories
because it brought him to Dyesebel, while Dyesebel professes to
 Now recognized as the rightful queen of
the merfolk, Dyesebel led her kind to a
cave where the first blood in the long-
waged war was shed. Here, she
negotiated with humans to put an end to
their destructive ways of fishing, which
has long been the reason for mermaids'
animosity toward them. Dyesebel
pushes for a peace treaty between
humans and mermen. However,
Dyangga gets in the way and causes a assassination of her father, Tino, to seize his throne. Dyesebel's
violent encounter between human and sacrifice silences the opposing groups, and both men and mermen,
mermen soldiers. In an attempt to carry Dyesebel towards the hospital. With Dyesebel in critical
sabotage Dyesebel's efforts, the ousted condition, her human mother, Lucia, made a televised appeal to put
queen triggered fighting once more with the help of her henchman, an end to
Kanor. Liro, Dyesebel's childhood friend, was killed after taking a the war
bullet for her. The loss of a loyal soldier pushed Dyesebel to make before
a desperate plea to stop the fighting, this time by physically tackling there are
the warring sides and putting herself in harm's way. When Coralia, any more
Dyangga's daughter who had bullied Dyesebel as a child, was casualties
caught in the sight of a human soldier, Dyesebel did not hesitate to on either
plunge into the water to save her from a gunshot. Dyangga, side. After
captured by humans, an
could only look on as the apparent
mermaid she has hated for jump in
so long took a bullet for time,
her daughter. For Dyesebel
Dyesebel, it was the was seen
ultimate sacrifice—risking swimming in her kingdom and, later, freely walking on land—a sign
her life for the same family that a truce between humans and mermaids had finally been
who had plotted the
reached. Here, she was welcomed by Lucia and Fredo, as well as
a little
girl who

appeared to be her own.