I drifted among the waves, little fish friends gliding through my hair, and so coincidently, Sebastian was with one of them.

"Ariel!" Sebastian shrieked and began to follow me into Atlantica city. The glorious shiny metal poles constructed into this magnificent underwater village.

But I just sighed, swimming up the halls, with Sebastian tailing behind me.

"Ariel, your father is very worried-"He began, but I stopped short, my red locks flowing into my vision.

"If he's so worried," I faced him, fingering my hair out the way which just floated from behind my ear. "He should come and follow me and tell me himself! If father were so concerned, Sebastian, he would get off his throne and be by side!" I was flustered, the cool waters were coming in, but I felt warm.

I swam away, my eyes tight shut and lips about to meld together.

I couldn't get into my room quick enough, as I glided near my sisters beds; I peered out the window and stared up. So high, it was so high. The sun was glittering on the surface, oh how I could just grasp it.

I sat on the ledge, fingering my mother's blue shell music box with gold lining, and I opened it to life. There my father and mother crystallized in gold mini figures and the melody sang.

Da da da, da da, da da da.

I sighed, the melody bringing me to tears, and the tears just seeped with the water around me.

"Ariel?" Attina drifted into the room, her large green eyes flickering over to me, and landing sadly onto mother's music box. "Ariel, what's wrong?" She was always like the mother figure to me and the girls after mother died. She was always there to kiss our wounds and hush our bad dreams.

She had her brown hair up, even wispy bits managed to escape, and her lips a soft pink and crown just like father's was as ready as ever to be put to the test of her responsibility of the undersea kingdom

"I'm just so sick." I whined, wrapping my arms around my silky scaled tail, pondering on what my life has come too. "I wanna go-"

"Don't start with that nonsense, again, Ariel." Attina began to drift out of the room, past the beds and stopped to look over her shoulder at me. "I won't speak of it, just let this phase go." She said coldly, and that pushed me over the edge as I gritted my teeth to contain a scream.

Once she was gone, I quickly flew from my window and used all the strength in my tail to power boost me to the surface. My muscles ached, like they were being twisted in all different kinds of angles, but as I neared the surface, it was dotting, the waves becoming very large and mad, sloshing my body back and forth with the strong current, the cold and bitter cold of the water was worrying as I tried to breathe but couldn't.

Then I did it. I broke the surface, my lungs filled with golden air. Gusts of invisible forces making my skin ice cold, and hair part unevenly it was irritating. But I was also being hit by something else, it was picking at my skin, it was just like water.

It hit my skin, and I was puzzled, is this rain? Of what my father calls it? How the skies pour water, for the lands above and for us undersea.

But what I believed was the sun wasn't that at all. It was a large contraption I hadn't seen before. It was mechanical, it made groaning sounds and it had a tail as well. It was flat and had bones, and it was flapping, causing me to fight against the current. And it was so high in the sky it looked like a huge eye from where I looked up at it, mesmerized by the floating metal heap.

Then I saw something move in the corner of my eye. I turned quick, hair falling in my eyes to see a young boy with bulky black slugs on him, but he was covering his eyes, as if there was something in them.

I had to get away; I couldn't let someone, and anyone see me, because I would get so grounded for this.

While he shrouded his eyes, I swam a little more on the surface, the waves crashing down on me one last time, taking me under in a whirl pool of suffocation for a moment's heartbeat. And I was all good and began to throttle under the waves above and straight down, but the kingdom wasn't there. I couldn't see the sparkling castle; I couldn't see mer-folk. I only saw blackness, blackness and bubbles.

"Oh no."