Reminder, Beetlejuice the animated series belongs to Tim Burton.

Chapter 2

"Wow! Cool! But, uh, what is it?" Vince asked curiously as Kath picked up the strange thing.

"I don't know, but I bet Beetlejuice will." Kath told her friend as Vince noticed something. "What was that?" Vince asked as a shadow swam behind them.

"Did you hear something?" Vince asked as Kath swam off to look for more strange things.

"Mmm? I wonder what this one is." Kath asked herself as she picked up another strange thing and then placed it in her bag with the other strange thing.

"Kath?" a worried Vince asked as a large fin appeared behind the little fish.

"Vince, will you relax? Nothing is going to happen." Kath told her friend as the fin moved revealing a large shark just as Vince turned around.

"Shark!" yelled Vince in fright as the shark growled and then smashed into the ship.

"Shark! We're gonna die!" yelled Vince as he swam around in fright and then crashed into Kath in order to get away from the shark.

Kath swam in fright as she knocked over more strange things in order to get away from the shark.

The little ragdoll mermaid then swam through the ship with Vince right behind her as the shark tried to eat them.

But as they hurringly swam, the stitches in Kath's hand unraveled causing her hand to drop onto the ship's floor which caused Kath to quickly turn around, grab her hand and then swim away from the hungry shark.

"Oh, no!" yelled Vince as he and Kath found the only way out of the ship was tiny holes. Vince quickly swam into the hole but he ended up getting stuck causing Kath to push him through the hole as hard as she could.

After Vince was though the hole, Kath followed him out of the ship as she tried to escape the shark which then began to chase them around and around the ship wrecks until the shark got trapped in a hole in an anchor.

"You big bully!" Vince told the shark before he quickly swam away to catch up with his friend who was swimming up to the surface.

"Vince, you really are a guppy." Kath giggled.

"I am not." protested Vince.

Meanwhile on the surface, Beetlejuice, a black and white seagull was sitting on a rock and looking through a mini telescope the wrong way as he sang a strange song.

+On the surface+

Beetlejuice: Hmm-hmm, fourteen hundred

and ninety-two

Dah-de-dum

Dee-do-do

Rum-dim-dim

Dee-do-dee-do

"Beetlejuice!" yelled Kath causing Beetlejuice to stop singing and look through the mini telescope the wrong way.

"Whoa! Ragdoll mermaid off the port bow!" yelled Beetlejuice not knowing that Kath and Vince were floating next to his island.

"Kath, how you doin', kid?" Beetlejuice yelled as he put down the mini telescope.

"Whoa, what a swim." Beetlejuice told his friend in shock.

"Beetlejuice, look what we found." Kath told her friend as she held out her bag.

"Yeah, we were in this sunken ship, and it was really creepy..." began Vince before Beetlejuice interupted him.

"Human stuff, huh? Hey, let me see." Beetlejuice told Kath as he ran over to her.

"Oh! Oh! Look at this." said Beetlejuice happy as he dug into Kath's bag and pulled out one of the strange objects.

"Wow. This is special. This is very, very, unusual." Beetlejuice told the ragdoll mermaid.

"What? What is it?" Kath excitedly asked her friend.

"It's a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies, to straighten their hair out." Beetlejuice told Kath as he began to twirl the dinglehopper in the air.

"See? Just a little twirl here and a yank there and violee. Ya got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over." Beetlejuice told his friend as he handed her back the dinglehopper.

"A dinglehopper." said Kath happily.

"What about that one?" Vince asked as he pointed his fin at the other strange human thing.

"Ah! This I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful." said Beetlejuice as he picked up the human object.

"A branded bulbous snarfblatt." Beetlejuice happily told his friends.

"Oh!" said Kath and Vince in awe.

"The snarfblatt dates to prehistorical times when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day. Got very boring." Beetlejuice explained as he got real close to Kath.

"So, they invented this snarfblatt to make fine music. Allow me." Beetlejuice explained as he then blew into the snarfblatt causing seaweed to pop out of it.

"Music!" gasped Kath in shock as she remembered something really important.

"Oh, the concert! Oh, my gosh! My father's gonna kill me!" Kath yelled at Beetlejuice as she grabbed her new human things.

"The concert was today?" Vince asked in shock.

"You could make a little planter out of it." Beetlejuice told his friends not knowing about the concert that Kath had missed.

"I'm sorry! I've gotta go! Thank you, Beetlejuice!" Kath told her friend before she and Vince dived back into the sea.

"Any time, sweetie! Any time." Beetlejuice told his friend as he waved good-bye.

Deep in the sea, Kath and Vince quickly swam back to Halloween Town, not knowing that they were being watching by a pair of eels with glowing eyes that belonged to a horrible seawitch who was spying on Kath and Vince through the eel's eyes.

+With the seawitch+

"Yes, hurry home, Princess. We wouldn't want to miss old Daddy's celebration, now, would we?" Claire the evil sea witch asked as she watched the ragdoll mermaid and her friend through a large bubble.

"Ha! Celebration, indeed. Oh, bah! In my day, we had fantastical feasts, when I lived in the palace." snarled Claire as she applyed more lipstick to her already red lips which made them even redder.

"And now look at me. Wasted away to practically nothing." sighed Claire as she swam out of the shadow she was hiding in to reveal an octopus creature with blond hair and pale skin.

"Banished and exiled and practically starving, while he and his flimsy fish folk celebrate." snarled Claire as she swam away from the magic bubble.

"Well, I'll give' em something to celebrate soon enough." snarled Claire as she turned around and faced the magic bubble.

"Lock! Barrel! I want you to keep an extra close watch on this pretty little daughter of his. She may be the key to Jack's undoing." Claire commanded her eels as she began to plot the defeat of King Jack.

Meanwhile, not knowing about Claire's evil plot, Kath and Vince swam to the throne room where they found an angered King Jack and Clover.

+Throne Room, Royal Palace, Halloween Town+

"I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young lady." King Jack told his daughter as Vince sighed.

"Daddy, I'm sorry. I just forgot, I.." Kath tried to explain before she was interupted by her father. "As a result of your careless behavior..." began King Jack before he was interupted by Clover.

"Careless and reckless behavior!" Clover told Kath.

"...The entire celebration was, uh.." King Jack tried once more to scold his daughter before he was interupted by Clover.

"Well, it was ruined! That's all! Completely destoryed! This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career." Clover told Kath as the little crab swam over to her.

"Now, thanks to you, I am the laughingstock of the entire kingdom!" Clover yelled at Kath causing Vince to get mad as he swam over to King Jack, Clover and Kath.

"But it wasn't her fault...Uh, well, first, uh, the shark chased us." Vince nervously explained to the king and his advisor.

"Yeah. Yeah. And we tried to... but we couldn't, and he...And he growled...And we... Whoa!" Vince explained to an unamused King Jack and Clover.

"And then we were safe." sighed Vince.

"But then this seagull came, and it was

"This is this and that is that..." Vince then explained before he was interupted by King Jack who eye's widen in shock.

"Seagull?" King Jack asked causing Vince to gasp and he covered his mouth.

"What? Oh! You went up to the surface again, didn't you?" King Jack angerly asked his daughter while Vince hid underneith Kath's hair.

"Didn't you?" King Jack then angerly asked.

"Nothing happened." Kath told her father.

"Oh, Kath, how many times must we go through this?" King Jack asked his daughter.

"You could have been seen by one of those barbarians, by one of those humans!" King Jack told his daughter.

"Daddy, they're not barbarians." Kath yelled at her father.

"They are dangerous. Do you think I want my youngest daughter snared by a fish-eater's hook?" King Jack angerly asked his daughter as he put a hand under her chin causing her to move her head away.

"I'm 14 years old. I'm not a child anymore." Kath angerly told her father causing him to get even madder.

"Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young lady! As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!" King Jack ordered his daughter.

"But if you would just listen.." Kath tried to tell her father but he refused and interupted her.

"Not another word!" King Jack ordered as he turned around.

"And I am never...never to hear of you going to the surface again! Is that clear?" King Jack yelled at Kath who's bottom lip began to tremble as she quickly swam out of the throne room with Vince right behind her while King Triton sighed as he returned ot his throne.

"Hmph! Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swam all over you." Clover told a now sadden King Jack.

"Do you think I was too hard on her?" King Jack asked his loyal advisor.

"Definitely not. Why, if Kath was my daughter, I'd show her who was boss. None of this flitting to the surface and other such nonsense. No, sir. I'd keep her under tight control." Clover told the king who had a wonderful idea.

"You're absolutely right, Clover." King Jack told his friend.

"Of course." said Clover who had no idea what the king was planning.

"Kath needs constant supervision." King Jack told his friend.

"Constant." agreed Clover.

"Someone to watch over her, to keep her out of trouble." King Jack then happily told the crab.

"All the time." agreed Clover.