Here's the characters that are in this story
Ariel: Jay
Eric: Nya
Sebastian: Cole
Flounder: Lloyd
Ursula: Garmadon
King Triton: Edna(Queen Edna)
Scuttle: Dareth
Flotsam and Jetsam: Pythor and Skales
Grimsby: Wu
Max: Kai
Chef Louis: Zane
Carlotta: Misako
The foggy air slowly moves over the sea as a ship sails quickly over the waves. A woman with short, ebony hair and her furry dark brown dog run over to a sail that is being let down to make the ship go faster. When it falls she catches it and ties it to the hook. She holds the rope and looks out into the foggy air and the moving salt water. She sniffs the air and smiles. "Isn't this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face," the dog starts to bark as she sighs happily and turns around to face her butler, "perfect day to be at sea."
"Ohh yes..." the butler says sickly, his face all green, "delightful..." He quickly leans back over the railing and vomits. Nya runs over to a man that is having trouble pull down a rope. She starts to pull on it with him.
"A fine strong wind, and a following sea. Queen Edna must be in a friendly type mood." The man that was struggling said.
"Queen Edna?" The woman asks a bit confused.
"He's the ruler of the merpeople, lass. Thought every good sailor knew about him." A man unloading some fish says.
"Merpeople... Pay no attention to this nonsense, Nya." Wu says, finally walking over to the woman, known as Nya.
"It ain't nonsense. Lemme tell yah," the man that was unloading fish walks over to Wu and waves a fish in his face then dropping it,"Down in the depths of the ocean is where they go!" The fish falls over the side of the ship and into the water. The fish swims down towards a big underwater castle, where many many merpeople were swimming into. Inside, a small seahorse announces the ruler of the kingdom.
"Her royal highness, Queen Edna!" A cart gets pulled in by three dolphins with the queen riding in the cart. She holds her staff in her right hand and smiles at everyone. Her staff starts glowing a golden color and she makes a small explosion of magic right under the ceiling. It's remains rain down onto the subjects in tiny specks of gold. "Presenting, the royal chief of order, the ratio, the cretaceous Cole!" The little seahorse says. A small cart being pulled by two fish comes in. A small red crab sits in the cart, waving to everyone. The fish pull him up next to the queen. They get pulled to the throne where Edna sits.
"I am really looking forward to this performance, Cole!" Says the queen excitedly. The crab, known as Cole, smiles and blushes lightly.
"Oh your majesty... This will be the finest concert I have conducted yet. Your sons they will be spectacular!" Cole's cart suddenly flips over, but he climbs back into the seat and turns it right side up.
"Especially, my little Jay." The queen says with a smile.
"Yes, yes. His will be the best." Cole says with a small smile but it disappears as he gets pulled to the music stand where he will be conducting the concert. "If he would show up for rehearsals..." He grumbles to himself. As he gets out of the cart, the crowd starts to clap. He pulls his music out of the cart and sets it up. He starts conducting the band to play as the concert begins to start. 6 giant clams rise up. They pop open and a boy is sitting in every one. The boys all have different colored tails. They start to sing together.
"Ah, we are the sons of Edna
Great mother who loves us and names us well
James, Josiah, Jeremiah, Judah, Jasper, Jude
And then there this is the youngest in his musical debut
Our seventh little brother, we're presenting him to you
To sing a song Cole wrote, her voice is like a bell
He's our brother, Ja-" Everyone gasps as they see that there is nobody inside of that last clam that was rising up.
"Jaaayy!" The queen yells furiously.
~At an old sunken ship at the bottom of the sea~
A boy with a sea foam green tail and orangish-reddish hair swims toward a sunken ship with his yellow fish with green stripes. The boy excitedly looks around.
"Jay! Wait for me!" The small yellow and green fish yells while swimming as fast as he can.
"Lloyd! Hurry up!" Jay yells softly.
"You know I can't swim that fast..." Lloyd says while trying to catch his breath.
"Look. Over there." Jay points over to a sunken ship. "Isn't it fantastic?"
"Yeah. Sure. I-It's great." Lloyd says, frightened. "Now can we get outta here?" Jay grabs his tail and pulls him to the boat.
"You're not getting cold fins now, are you?" Jay asks, irritably.
"Me? No way! It's just that... it seems cramped in here. Yeah, and I think I may be coming down with something... Yeah, I got this cough." He fake coughs as Jay cautiously looks inside a window. He just ignores Lloyd.
"Alright. I'm going inside. You can just... stay here and watch for sharks." Jay smirks and swims inside.
"Yeah. You go. I'll stay here and watch out for... What? Sharks?!" Lloyd swims through the window but gets stuck. "Ugh. Jay. I can't-... Jay, help." Jay swims up there, chuckling lightly.
"Oh Lloyd..." He laughs and grabs Lloyd's fins, pulling him inside.
"Do you really think there's sharks around here?"
"Lloyd, don't such a guppy..."
"Guppy...?" As they swim deeper into the ship, Lloyd tries to calm himself down. "It's great. I-I-It's like... an adventure... With danger lurking around every corner-" He screams in fright when he sees and scary statue. He hits the other wall, knocking some pots down. He bolts over to Jay and hides in Jay's arms. He's trembling in fear.
"Oh, Lloyd. Are you ok?" Jay asks him.
"Y-Yeah sure... I-I'm ok." Jay looks up and shushes Lloyd. They both swim through a hole in the ceiling and look around. Jay gasps quietly and smiles widely when he sees a shiny fork with two bent teeth.
"Oh my gosh..." He swims over to the treasure and picks it up. "Have you ever seen something so wonderful in your entire life?" He picks up and looks at it.
"Wow... Cool! But uh... What is it?" Lloyd asks. Jay puts it in his small blue bag.
"I don't know! But I bet Dareth will!" Jay says excitedly. Unbeknownst to the two, the shadow of a shark swims by the shaded window. Lloyd hears a swish.
"What was that?" He asks as Jay swims away quickly. "Did you hear something?" Jay picks up a smoking pipe and leans against a pole.
"I wonder what this one is..." Lloyd had stayed by the window and a shadow of a shark swims right up behind him, getting ready to attack.
"Jay..."
"Lloyd, would you relax? Nothing's going to happen!" Jay says. Lloyd turns around to face the window. He sees the shadow of the shark getting ready to chomp down. Lloyd screams and swims off right as the shark bites down, breaking the window.
"Shark! It's a shark!" Jay is holding onto Lloyd now, so they can get away from the shark. They swim around the room quickly, making the shark bounce off the walls. Jay and Lloyd swim up a staircase to another room, but the shark goes through the floor, appearing in front of the two and making them scream and swim the opposite way. The two start swimming down a long hallway, the shark following. Jay's bag gets pulled off his arm and stuck onto a broken piece of wood behind him. He gasps and starts to swim back towards it. He grabs it right as the shark reaches him. Jay and Lloyd swim through a hole in the ceiling, where as the shark just crashes through. Lloyd gasps when he see the small window he got stuck in before. He pushes himself through but gets stuck. Jay pushes him out and swims out himself. The shark crashes through and starts swimming towards them again as they start swimming away. Lloyd runs into a pole and starts sinking to the floor. Jay sees and starts swimming after him. He grabs Lloyd through the thick ring of an anchor. The shark starts swimming towards them quickly. Jay backs out of the ring right as the shark gets himself stuck in the ring. Jay starts to swim away. Lloyd looks at the shark and blows a raspberry at him. "You big bully!" The shark snaps his jam at him and Lloyd screams, swimming back to Jay.
"Lloyd, you really are a guppy." Jay says with a laugh as they swim to the surface.
"I am not!" When they reach the surface, they look over at a seagull, looking around through a telescope.
"Dareth! Dareth!" Jay yells as he moves over to the small rock that sticks out of the water. Dareth, the seagull, stands up and looks through the telescope the wrong way.
"Woah! Merman off the port bow! Jay! How you doin' kid?" Dareth yells thinking that Jay and Lloyd are about 30 feet away. When moves the telescope away, Jay's face is right there in front of him. "Woah. What a swim."
"Dareth! Look at what we found!" Jay hands him his blue bag.
"Yeah, we were in this sunken ship and it was really creepy!" Lloyd says.
"Human stuff!" Dareth jumps down but lands on his face. He gets up and runs over to him. Dareth pulls the fork out of the bag and looks at it. "Look at this!"
"What? What is it?" Jay asks excitedly.
"It's a Dinglehopper!" Dareth says. "Humans use these babies to straighten their hair out." He twirls the fork around his few head feathers. "See? A few pulls here and a yank there and then you're done." He pulls the fork out and his head is all poofed up in a messy afro. "A beautiful whole head of hair that humans go nuts over!" Jay holds it and smiles.
"A Dinglehopper..." He says.
"And what's this thing?" Lloyd says, motioning to the pipe. Dareth grabs it and looks at it closely.
"Now this... I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful! Abandoned, moldish, Snarfblat." Jay and Lloyd gasp in unison. "Now humans would get bored and would sit around... And stare at each other all... day... It got very boring. So they invented the Snarfblat for many uses. Like making beautiful music." He blows into the pipe making seaweed and bubbles coming flying out. Jay suddenly remembers something and groans.
"Music! The concert, oh my gosh, my mother's gonna kill me!" Dareth was ignoring him and trying to make the pipe work.
"The concert was today?" Lloyd asks. Jay snatches the pipe and puts it in his bag.
"I'm sorry! I gotta go!" He waves goodbye to Dareth as they swim away. "Thank you!"
"Anytime!" Dareth says, waving back. Jay and Lloyd swim as fast as they can to the castle. When the two swim past a thick crack in a rock, two eels watch them as they swim away. One eye on each eel is fake so that the eels' master can watch. From where the master's home is, he watches Jay and Lloyd as they swim away.
"That's right. Hurry. Swim home, prince. We wouldn't want to miss the little celebration, would we? Ha! Celebration indeed. Bah! In my day, we would have a feast where I lived in Atlantis." He grabs a worm from his small bowl and toss it into his mouth. He chews it slowly. He suddenly turns all dramatic. "And now look at me... Wasted away to practically nothing... Banished away to exile and practically starving. While she and her flimsy fish folks celebrate. Well I'll give him something to celebrate soon... Pythor! Skales! I want you to keep a close on this handsome little son of hers. He may be the key to Edna's undoing." He piercing white eyes show in the shadows.
~Back at the castle where Edna is talking to Jay~
"I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young man!" Edna says while sitting in her throne.
"I'm sorry, mom, I just forgot!"
"As a result of your carelessness, the entire celebration was-"
"It was ruined! That's all! Completely destroyed! This concert was to be the best of all... And now thanks to you, I am the laughing stock of the entire kingdom!" Cole yells at Jay. Lloyd suddenly gets in front of Jay.
"But it wasn't his fault!" Lloyd says. The queen glares at Lloyd, making him nervous. "Uh.. Well first, uh... This shark tried to... yeah, but we couldn't.. a-and Grrrr... a-and wooooah! Phew! Then this seagull came saying 'this is this' and 'that is that'..."
"Seagull?" Lloyd realizes what he said and covers his mouth. Lloyd suddenly hides behind Jay. "What? You went up to the surface again, didn't you?! Didn't you?!" Jay gets nervous.
"Nothing happened..." Jay says.
"Jay, how many times must we go through this? You could've been seen by one of those barbarians. By one of those humans." Edna says angrily.
"Mom, they're not barbarians!" Jay says quickly, balling his hands into fists.
"They're dangerous! Do you think I want to see my youngest son stabbed by a fish-eater's hook?"
"Mom, I'm 16 years old! I'm not a child!"
"Don't you get that tone of voice with me, young man! As long as you live in my ocean, you will obey my rules!"
"But if you would just listen!"
"Not another word! And I am to never. Never! Hear of you going to the surface again! Is that clear?!" Jay's eyes turn cloudy. He bolts away, crying, Lloyd following behind. Edna sits back down in her throne and sighs, leaning her head against her hand. Cole scoffs.
"Teenagers... They think they everything." Cole says.
"Do you...Uh... Think I was too hard on him?" Edna asks.
"Definitely not, Miss. Why, if Jay was my son, I'd chew her up. None of this nonsense. No siree."
"You are absolutely right, Cole."
"Of course I am."
"Jay needs constant supervision."
"Constant."
"Someone to watch over him! To keep him out of trouble. And you are just the crab to do it!" Cole sighs and starts walking down a hallway talking to himself about how he can't do it. He then looks out the window and sees Jay and Lloyd sneaking off. Cole starts swimming after them. When the two stop, he has to catch his breath. He sees Jay pulling back a circular slab of stone and letting Lloyd go in then himself. Right before the slab falls back into place, Cole swims as fast as he can to get in. He gets in put one of his legs gets stuck. He tries to pull it out but right as it comes out her goes flying and hits the wall. He rubs his head then looks up. He sees shelves and shelves of treasures. I sees Jay laying on a rock that's coming out of the ground. He has the fork in his hand, looking at it.
"Jay, are you ok?" Lloyd asks him.
"If only I could make him understand... I just don't see things the way he does... I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things... could be so bad..." Suddenly a bottle rolls around and hits the small desk that Cole hiding on. Cole falls but tries to get back up by climbing on the tablecloth. He falls to the ground and lands on an accordion. "C-Cole!" Cole jumps up.
"Jay! What w-... how could-... What is all this?"
"It... It's just my... My collection..."
"Oooh. I see. Your collection. If your father finds out about this place-"
"You're not gonna tell him are you?" Lloyd suddenly asks.
"Please Cole, you would never understand." Jay asks, pleadingly.
"Jay, you're under a lot of pressure down here. Come with me and I'll take you home and get you some warm..." Jay starts ignore him when he sees a shadow blocking out the reflected sunlight coming through a gap in the ceiling.
"What do you supposed that is?" He swims away and starts going up to the surface.
"Jay?... Jay!" Jay gets to the surface and pushes the hair out of his face. He gasps and smiles when he sees the ship and many colorful explosions going off in the sky. He laughs a bit at the amazing scene. Lloyd and Cole pop up. When Cole sees it, he starts freaking out. Jay dives back into the water and starts swimming towards the ship. "Jay? Jay! Please! Come back!" Jay goes right up next to the boat. He sees a small opening to where he can look in and not be seen. He starts to climb the side of the ship, using only his arms. He peeks over the edge and smiles at what he sees. Many people dancing around to music and a dark brown dog barking and running around the ship. The dog suddenly perks his head up and sniffs the air. He follows the scent and it leads right to Jay. Jay moves to the side so the dog won't see him. When he turns back, the dog is right there. He licks Jay's face. Suddenly someone whistles.
"Kai! Come here boy!" A female voice rings through the air as the dog runs back to the owner of that voice. Jay looks back through the opening. Jay smiles when he see a beautiful lady wearing pants that stop right on her shin and a long sleeved red shirt. She had beautiful black hair that stopped right above her shoulders. Kai, the dog, jumped up and licked her face. She laughed and backed up a bit. "Hey there!" The dog was barking a bit. "Down boy, calm down!." She keeps laughing. The dog finally calmed down and panted. Jay was lovestruck by the girl's beauty.
"Hey there!" Jay quickly turns around and sees Dareth. He flies over. "Quit a show!" Jay shoos him away.
"Be quiet! They'll hear you!" Jay says quietly. He turns back around to look at the people. Dareth stands next to Jay and looks at the girl with her dog. "I've never seen them up close before..." He sighs happily and smiles. "She's very beautiful, isn't she?" Dareth gets a face of confusion.
"I don't know... He looks kinda hairy and slobbery to me..." Jay laughs a bit.
"Not that one..." Jay grabs Dareth's beak and moves it so that he can see the girl. "That one..." The girl's butler starts to speak.
"Attention everyone! It is now my honor to present our esteemed Princess Nya with a very... large favor." Everyone starts cheering.
"Awe, Wu. You shouldn't have." Nya says nicely.
"I know." He says. A man starts to take off the sheet that is covering his gift. "Happy birthday, Nya." It was a statue of her in a big poofy dress. She raised an eyebrow. Kai started growling when he saw the statue.
"Uh.. Gee, Wu... It... It's really somethin'." She rubs the back of her neck nervously.
"Yes. I sculpted it myself. Of course I am the one that always gives the presents."
"Oh come on, Wu! Don't start. You're not all down because I didn't fall for that prince, are you?"
"No, Nya. It isn't you alone, I just want to see you happily settles down."
"Well, he's out there somewhere... I just... I just haven't found him yet... " She lowers her head and closes her eyes but she looks back out into the sea.
"Well, I never catch you looking hard enough."
"Oh believe me, Wu. When I find him, I'll know without a doubt. Like BAM and it'll hit me." She smiles. "Like lightning." Right when she says that, lightning strikes in clouds nearby.
Someone on the ship yells, "Hurrican a'comin'! Secure the riggin!" Lightning starts striking through the sky right above the ship. The waves start growing and rain starts pouring. The water from the waves starts to pour onto the deck. Jay flies back into the water. He swims back up to the surface just in time to see lightning strike the ship making a sail catch on fire. The ship suddenly hits a giant rock and makes the crew jump off the boat. Kai start barking, signaling Nya that he he's still on the ship.
"Kai!" Nya jumps into the water and quickly climbs up a rope to the deck. A pole that's holding a sail starts to fall right about Nya. She jumps out of the way just in time. She hears Kai bark again. "Jump Kai! Come on!" Kai looks around frantically and jumps into her arms. She starts running back to the edge but her foots gets stuck in a hole. She throws Kai into the water and he swims to the small row boat. Wu pulls him in.
"Nya!" Wu calls up. The ship suddenly explodes, throwing debris everywhere. Jay gasps and dives underwater. He goes towards the boat and sees Nya unconscious. She's slowly sinking. Jay bolts towards her and grabs her by the waist. He swims to shore while the sun starts to rise. Jay puts Nya on the shore and he lays next to her with his hand on her cheek.
"Is... Is she alive?" Jay asks Dareth.
"It's hard to say." Dareth walks down to her feet and puts the bottom of her foot against his head. "I... I can't make out a heartbeat."
"No, look! She's breathing!" Her eyes were closed while lightly breathing. Jay moves her head so her face is towards the sky. Jay smiles lightly and starts to softly sing. "What would I give to live where you are?
What would I pay to stay here beside you?
What would I do to see you smiling at me?
Where would we walk?
Where would we run?
If we could stay all day in the sun
Just you and me, and I could be
Part of your world
I don't know when, I don't know how
But I know something's starting right now
Watch and you'll see, someday I'll be
Part of your world..." The whole time he was singing, he softly had his hand on her cheek. She started to wake up and grabbed his hand softly and smiled. She started to open her eyes and look at him. She couldn't really see him very well because of the sunlight. Jay heard Kai barking and he was running towards them. Kai ran up to Nya and licked her cheek. Nya had stopped smiling when she saw that Jay was gone. He had gone back into the water.
"Nya! You're alright!" Wu said, helping her up. Kai was splashing around in the water, looking for Jay. Nya then thought of Jay and smiled.
"A boy... saved me... He was... singing. He had the most amazing voice..." Nya starts to get all wobbly. Wu grabs her arm again and puts it around his neck to help her stand. Jay watches them leave and raises up on a rock, singing.
"I don't know when, I don't know how
But I know something's starting right now
Watch and you'll see, someday I'll be
Part of your world!" We wave crashes up onto the rock behind him.
-TO BE CONTINUED-
Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Little Mermaid. Disney does.