Hi, my name is Josselyn! This is my first story that I'll be publishing here. Feel free to leave me a review with constructive criticism, it's always useful. :) Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Once Upon a Time.


Chapter 1: New Beginning

"Mommy, can you read us a bed time story?" said one of the little girls.

"Of course," said the mom softly. "Which one would you like to hear?"

"Tell us about how you and daddy met again." The two little girls jumped with excitement on their beds.

"Oh, not that story again," their mother pouted.

"Please mommy?"

"Please?" Their mother tried to calm them down. After she managed to settle them down, she opened their covers to tuck them in. She got a chair, sat it down between her girls' beds and smiled.

"Alright, let's see…. how did it start again dears?" She looked to her eldest daughter to commence the story.

"Once upon a time..."

"Captain, she's not going to handle this storm!" said Mr. Smee.

"She can handle it, she can handle anything as I command!" said Hook.

"Aye! Captain!"

They were sailing out at sea for three days straight to find Peter Pan and finish him once and for all. He knew that if he sailed, somehow they would have their duel, to which they hadn't finished yet. His mind drifted off again; thinking of that time again about 4 months ago, when the ship rose up from the seas after they went into the portal. The ship sailed and sailed for the whole night, as the crew were sleeping and two of the men were on duty to guard the ship if anybody would dare to enter Hook's ship. Captain's ship was called the Jolly Roger. He knew that it felt right once he repeated the name in his mind and told the crew. It was his life; his home….this ship was everything to him after he lost his brother Liam in an accident when they were kids. He felt his precedents every time when he needed his help to deal with a problem that he had, even when he wanted some company; though it had been many years since he had lost him, he loved him truly like no other brother had loved each other. They both had each other's back no matter how big the trouble may have seemed. Once the ship landed into Peter Pan's Island, Peter saw something out of the telescope and went flying to investigate what was going on.

As Peter landed he said, "You know it's dangerous to come onto a person's property without an invitation."

"Aye, it's also dangerous to be talking to strangers and you should know that by now kid."

"Hmm…I see. My apologies, how rude of me to not introduce myself. I'm Pan, Peter Pan."

Hook thought to himself, 'Peter Pan….it can't be….'

"The name's Hook, Captain Hook."

"What brings you onto my island?"

"It's a secret."

"Oh, well if you tell me what you're looking for I think I can help you, Captain."

'Should I trust him? I can't…if I tell him, he'll ruin everything.' Hook didn't know what to do from that moment but as he thought a little bit harder and looked at this boy, he came to the conclusion that it wasn't a good idea to trust him…it just didn't seem right to him.

"It's a secret. I better be going…."

"Alright, suit yourself pirate but know this….from this moment forward, you can never leave this Island without my permission."

Hook walked away without a word to say as his crew followed him from behind to find that treasure of his that he always dreamed of getting. He was astonished from what Pan had said. He knew something wasn't right, and from that moment on, Peter and Hook never gotten along. They kept their distance apart but until one day, Peter went to Hook's ship and humiliated him in front of his crew, and he knew he had to get his revenge. Something had to happen from those 4 months when they met, but what could have happened between them that had to get to this point? What made them both very angry to hate on each other even more than they were already angry now?

As he was sailing through the seas and his mind was coming back little by little from remembering the past, he spotted something in the water.

"Did you see that Smee?!" The storm was catching up with them and getting worse and worse by the minute.

"What Captain?!" replied the elder man.

"I said DID YOU SEE THAT IT THE WATER?!" Hook pointed to the water.

"No Captain, I don't see a thing!"

He knew he saw something in the sea. 'No,' he thought. 'It couldn't be…' He continued to sail the seas. All of a sudden, he saw something ahead and started to sail to the right and far worse, the water was going on top of the boat and the crew were in action to get away from the storm.

"Hoy the flags, on the railings!" Hook command and off they went.

Soon enough, the storm went down bit by bit, they got away and saw land.

"Land!" cried one of the crew members.

"Aye," responded Hook. "We will sail towards land! Prepare yourselves mates, we will escape from this storm and soon enough we will succeed victory!"

The crew cheered and cheered towards what the captain said.

"Now get back to work you scurvy brats!" said the Hook. He walked away and patted on one of the sailors beside him to take the wheel as he went towards Mr. Smee. "Let me know when we have landed."

"Aye, Captain!" said Smee, as Hook went below the deck to his cabin. He closed the door and took off his coat but knowing he only hand one hand was useless. He sat down and turned around to look at the ocean view, he got up and stood there for a moment as the rest of the crew upstairs were working.

'A mermaid? No, it… can't. Dolphins maybe but mermaids… impossible,' he thought.

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the sea was a kingdom where all of the mermaids swam with friends and family, music all around and full of joy. This kingdom was called Atlantis. The kingdom where a king ruled all of the seven seas and had a family of his own. His name was Triton, King Triton. He has 7 daughters and their names are Alana, Amelia, Ava, Amy, Alison, Abby, and Ariel. Ariel was the youngest of all her sisters. They all obeyed their father's commands and an adviser of his entire kingdom but Ariel was always the one who wanted to explore the world, out of the seas and into the human world. Her father knew that it was a dangerous place to be, so he forbade all of his people including his daughters to never set foot on land ever. Even though Ariel knew that her father would never approve of her being up top of the human world, she had to see for herself; to give it a try and if it was bad as her father said, she would never go there ever again.

Today was a special day; it was the anniversary of her mother's death. Ariel would usually go out of the kingdom and get something special that came from the human world and put it behind her tombstone. Ever since her mother died, she felt sad and unhappy that she didn't get to spend more time with her mother. Blaming herself of what those pirates did to her, believing that she could have done something more to prevent the pirates ship from killing her. King Triton would sometimes go to the wife's tombstone but she couldn't bear to see it so one day, he just stopped going. But Ariel kept on going even though it hurt so much to see it, she felt happy whenever she got the chance to talk to her, at her mother's tombstone like if she was actually still alive.

Once she found something very special from her collection that came from the human world, she went straight towards her mother's tombstone, sat down and took out a thingamabob. "Hi, mother. I know I haven't been here for quite some time but I brought you a thingamabob. Scandal say's that the humans use it to play with it but I think it's used for something else."

Ariel took a deep breath and continued but as soon she was about to speak, her voice began to break a bit. "I miss you very much, mother. I know I shouldn't blame myself for what happened but I wish that I could have done more to save you."

A tear streamed down Ariel's cheek. She hastily wiped away the tear and tried her best to calm herself down. She proceeded to get up and look down at her mother's tombstone, "I love you mother very much. I promise you that I will make you proud and show father that the human world isn't as bad as he thinks it is."

She straightened up herself and swam as fast as she could to her cave where she kept most of her treasure from the human world, hidden for her father so that he would never find them. Ariel then headed towards a box where it contained a magical bracelet that she found a few years back after a month or two when her mother died. This bracelet had jewels all around it. She then swam up towards the surface of the sea and saw the blue skies, beautiful seagulls and the wonderful view of the land. As she swam towards a big rock, she took a deep breath and looked at the bracelet for a moment and thought, 'I'll prove to him that the humans aren't as bad as he says they are.'

Without another thought, she put on the bracelet for the first time, and something started to change in her; she saw her fins were changing and she smiled big with excitement. Ariel saw her fins slowly transforming into human legs. Her inexperience with human legs caused her to lose her balance and fall down backward onto the cool wet sand.

"Human world, here I come!"


Author's Note: If you enjoyed this first chapter, feel free to leave me a review. I'll be updating a new chapter every Sunday. See you next chapter! :)

~JossieAmor