It was not long before real mermaids saw the human child on the beach looking longingly out to sea, and she was given the ability to breath underwater like them by Diangga the sea-witch. Dyesebel had many adventures under the waves with the merpeople until she fell in love with a normal looking man, Diangga then informed her that along with giving humans the ability to breath underwater, she could also turn sea creatures into full humans. But before this could happen a former lover of the man, having found out about his growing relationship with Dyesebel, kidnapped her and sold her to a freak show in a carnival, which led to a new set of trials for her. Eventually found by the man, he broke her out of the carnival and took her back to the small islet.