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Chapter 1: Ariel's Quest
Deep beneath the calm, blue ocean waters, a young, vibrant mermaid with red hair and a scaly, green tail is swiftly swimming. Her name is Ariel, and she has just embarked on a very important journey filled with danger, evil, and soulless metal men. Peter Pan gave Ariel specific instructions. Being a mermaid, Ariel has the ability to travel across worlds. Pan told her to travel to a parallel world known locally as Pete's World. However, this world is better known for being the origin of the infamous Cybermen. Pan requires one of the two most powerful objects in the universe known as the Blue Diamond, which was sent to Pete's World by Rumplestiltskin to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. The legend says that the Cybermen abandoned this world in search of another, but there was no justification for this story. So, there could still be Cybermen everywhere. Pan gave Ariel a special magical bracelet that will give her legs whenever she wants.
Ariel was still sad over the fact that The Evil Queen had taken her voice about a year ago. In a recent adventure with the Doctor and his companion Clara Oswald, the Time Lord gave Ariel a telepathy pendant, a necklace used by Arcateenians. It gives the user the power of telepathy. Ariel could not use it to talk, but she could use it to insert her thoughts into another person's mind. It wasn't quite talking, but it was the next best thing. It was telepathy at its finest.
Ariel didn't exactly want to go on this dangerous quest. However, if she didn't, Pan promised that he would kill her one true love, Prince Eric. Ariel refused to let that happen. Even if she could never gather the courage to speak to Eric again, she could at least protect him from Pan's wrath. She had to. She knew that she could never find any other love. It didn't make sense. There were plenty of merfolk in the waters, but she couldn't help falling in love with the human Prince. Ariel would do anything to protect Eric. To prove this, she was about to go to a world where the threat of Cybermen could be very real.
Yet, that wasn't the reason that Ariel should fear this place. Peter Pan warned the mermaid about an evil witch who lives on Pete's World and is keeping the Blue Diamond for herself. Her name is Rose Tyler. After hearing Pan's warning of this blonde menace, just thinking of the name gave Ariel chills. Pan said that he encountered Rose a long time ago back on Neverland and that his island was nearly destroyed.
Ariel was determined not to let this witch stop her from retrieving the diamond and saving Eric. She'd even kill this Rose Tyler if she had to. Peter Pan also warned Ariel that Rose sometimes went by another name, Bad Wolf. Yet the title didn't matter. This girl apparently did something to scare Peter Pan, and that makes her dangerous.
As Ariel kept swimming to her final destination, she was left to wonder. What had truly happened between Rose Tyler and Peter Pan?