Chapter 2

The morning was bright and beautiful as always, shame for Ariel and her sisters to spend the morning walking with their father. They swam up to the centre of the palace where they meet their father sitting on his throne along with Sebastian standing up straight on the side of the throne. King Triton said firstly, "Good morning girls."

"Good morning father" the daughter said at the same time.

"Marina" Triton greatens the girl's governess, Marina Del Ray

"Good morning your majesty" Marina bowed to her king, then she looked up to Sebastian, "And to you, Sebastian."

"Your timing is much better now, Marina" Sebastian committed.

Marina swam to the side for Triton to see all his daughters looking up to him, as Attina stated of their completed duties for the week, but was she was interrupted by Ariel's soft snoring for she didn't sleep much last night after rescuing Eric from shipwreck to the beach. Attina tried to continue but she was loudly interrupted again, so Andrina dodge her elbow to Ariel to wake her up, it successfully worked but Ariel acted like nothing happened. Ariel smiled showing her respect and it was a funny accidented, but everyone stared her wrongly and disapproved from her father then Ariel slowly losses her smile.

After Attina's finished her announcement, Triton lead his daughters on the same walk around the kingdom. They all looked straight and proud, however for Ariel she looked down unhappily, till she saw a float stick towards her and the shape of it reminded her of the thing Eric was playing to make his lovely music. She grabbed hold on the stick at the middle and pretend to play like he was doing; placing the top of the stick close to her mouth and began blowing bubbles and swinging her head around. Ariel laughed and let's go of the stick, she soon started to daydream about Eric, wondering if he was thinking of her as well and would like to talk to him again. Unaware, Ariel bumped into Adella who is trying to flirt with the same boy from their yesterday's walk, Adella dumped towards the rest of the sisters like fallen pins from a bowing ball. Attina accidentally knock down Marina to the sandy ground at the side of King Triton, Marina looked up humiliated as Sebastian swam down to say something even more humiliating.

"Marina, I don't think it's very unmanageable to do be in this position, when you are meant to show the girls how to be a proper princess of Atlantica" Sebastian advice, before swimming back up he added, "Oh, and you got some sand in your hair, man."

The sisters all turned to Ariel in an angry and embarrassed look as Ariel felt low and ashamed. Marina got up and shook the sand out from her hair by her hands as the walk is now finished, and Triton allowed his daughters and Marina to go off, all expected Ariel.

Before, Triton starts Ariel began first because she doesn't want to waste her time today arguing with her father, "I'm sorry. I promise I won't do it again." Triton and Sebastian held a shock look as they never expect this kind of reaction from Ariel, as she continued, "And, to prove that, I shall go to the library and read. So, goodbye daddy, goodbye Sebastian."

Ariel left quickly heading to the library around the castle as she hidden a cheeky grim, after Triton and Sebastian look suspicious at the little mermaid. Triton whispered to ask a favour, "Sebastian, do you think… you could check…?"

"Not to worry your majesty" Sebastian agreed, "Teenagers, they think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you."

Sebastian swam towards the library through the castle, Triton was left still holding his suspicious for his young daughter. Meanwhile, Ariel swam right ahead and saw Flounder swimming aside her as she told him that she has an idea in the library. Ariel and Flounder search in the huge library for some books of some any connection between mer-people and humans, maybe in a way for Ariel to talk to Eric again. They tried to keep it quiet and low no one will know, after finding a few and placed them on a small table next to a great, beautiful glass window, Ariel and Flounder started reading through and couldn't find anything. Nearly giving up the idea till Flounder found an old, dusty, small book hidden in the shadowy corner, unaware of Sebastian was hiding in one of the gaps between the pile of books staring down on the little mermaid and the dolphin.

Flounder showed Ariel the book and she looked through as it was written in old, classic writing and it showed pictures link few of the important words in it. Then Ariel spotted a page talking about transformation; saying how if a mermaid stayed on dry land and not a drop of water lays on their tail, then their tales will evolve to the skinned fins as a human. "Flounder! Look! This could work!" Ariel pointed in excitement.

"You think so? How long can you when your tail is dry?"

Ariel frozen as she didn't know to answer, then the sun light glittering through the water to shine on her face. "The sun?" Areil asked herself, unsure if it's right but doesn't mean she can't try.

"You really like him don't him, don't you?" Flounder smiled.

"No! I… I just would like to know how he's doing?" Ariel answered while trying to hide her blushing checks and her gullible words.

Ariel asked of he would come and help in case and Flounder immediately said yes, before swimming off they placed the books back and Ariel placed one in the same gap where Sebastian was hiding from, she pushed the book to the back as Sebastian was nearly squeezed to death. After Ariel and Flounder left the library, Sebastian successfully make it out alive, fell out and landed on the small table. Then, he spotted the small Flounder forgot to put away Sebastian walked over as the book was still open showing the same page.

Ariel and Flounder swam to the edge of the same beach where Ariel safety drag Eric, she could see it all happening again in her mind. Before, Ariel could crawl on the beach, Flounder checked around the area of the beach to see if there is any humans or creatures around. Feeling the hot sand giving a burning touch on her skin and scales, but it didn't hurt, Ariel laid on her front side behind a huge rock, so she is hidden from anyone who could see her on the beach. Ariel could feel the sun's boiling light evaporating the small drops of water from on her skin and scales. It took a few minutes till Ariel's movement of her tail suddenly became a feeling of moving two. Seeing green tail splitting into two, her scales blending deep into a new form of skin, and her fins shrinking down creating a new form of fins but bumpy and have five pointy things at the end of them. Ariel turned around and her eyes were widened with a great shock, she easily lifted one of her new fins to test to see if they work in her control. Ariel climbed on the side of the rock to test her new fins like the ways humans do it, her lost her balance and control but she continued and could manged a little. Flounder wowed and jumped for joy as Ariel laughed blissfully, however when Flounder splashed back down to the water a few drops slashed on Ariel's new fins, suddenly they quickly changed back into a tail.

Ariel dropped back down to the sandy ground, she looked at her green tail and understood, "Oh, if water touches me, I will become a mermaid. That's what the book meant."

Ariel slide back into the water, she said in a thrilling tone, "Oh, that felt so great. I can't believe no one has ever known or done this before."

"Great. So, are you going to do it again?" Flounder asked.

"Maybe. I just… I don't know what to do when I am on the dry land."

Flounder thought to himself of an idea, and answered,

"Well, first you got to sort yourself out."

"Oh, now don't be like Sebastian, or at least my father" Ariel warned by an annoyed look on her face.

"No, what I meant was to become a human, you have to dress like a human" Flounder explains, "You know, like those they wear or something."

Ariel understand now, but then they asked themselves "Where would she find something like those they wear?" Till Ariel grew a small grin as she had a small idea.

Down over the sharp hills through the black seaweed forest, a dark pit of broken ships has been shipwrecked and sunk down to the bottom of the sea. The gloomy green atmosphere was the shell and inside was all the darkness as a home for lost treasures and preys, leading to a home for predators. Ariel swam above them all, so she could see everything down below, however for Flounder was shivering to his bones as he didn't this area or the idea of being here. They swam to the closest one where the sun's light is bright enough to show itself fully, they swam through the broken windows at the back of the ship unnoticed of huge, black shadow swam pass behind them. Scanning around the dark walls with huge, long cracks, covered with seashells and dark green moss. Ariel was feeling thrilling as she never really had an adventure outside the castle.

However, Flounder was still shivering with fear, the top of his fin accidently pushed a bended wood to rise and the other side went low and knock an arch, which is attack to old, wet ropes and swing it back and forth, till the rope snapped and flew towards Flounder as it nearly hit him. Shock to death, Flounder swam quickly to Ariel as he was hiding away as she gently rubbed him on the head promising that he'll be fine and that she has his backs.

Ariel noticed a door way to the floor above and her eyes widen when she spotted a small, silver thing with three points coming out straight next to each other at the top. Ariel swam to pick it up and asked Flounder what it was, he answered, "I seen them before, but they usually have more points. Humans use it to brash their hair."

At the bottom corner, Ariel found a small orange bag and thought of placing the pointy thing in it so that she could treasure it. Ariel and Flounder looked around for something link to what humans mainly wear on land, then Ariel found a small, dark brown pipe thing. She remembered something like it but bigger and brighter when music was allowed in her young age, Ariel tried blowing through it, but only dark sand and small, muddy seaweed came out at the other end.

Flounder looked around close to a huge hole at one side of the ship where next to it outside long, dark green seaweed float up waving around as the curtains. Suddenly, there was that huge, black shadow swimming slowing pass the seaweeds, Flounder could feel the strong, shifty movement from the back of his grey fins. He slowly turned around facing the waving seaweeds and focus through the small gaps he could look through, till Flounder's black eyes meet another pair of big, black eyes sending him a death stare. At that moment, Flounder realised what it was, a porbeagle shark, before it swam right through the seaweed and tried to attack with his huge mouth with big, shape, white teeth.

"Shark!" Floundered loudly alarmed Ariel. Flounder swam to Ariel, as she holds her bag around her shoulder, and they both tried to swim away from the shark, but it was chasing after them faster. Even dodging through in different floors and on different floor levels, the shark was only a second away from taking them into his lunch for the day. Ariel and Flounder finally swam out from the ship, they were swimming fast to the surface, suddenly Ariel looked back and noticed Flounder was slowing down and started to stop his swimming and go down.

"Need… air…" Flounder was fading away, slowly sinking down back to the dark bottom of the sea. Ariel realise that dolphins don't have gills, so they need air from the surface, but what worse the shark physically broke the other side of the ship and has spotted Flounder.

Ariel raced down to get Flounder before the shark does, luckily, Ariel was closer to Flounder, but the shark was swimming faster. Fortunately, Ariel mange to get Flounder, but the shark was getting closer, and closer, and closer. Behind Ariel was huge anchor with a large hole at the top which gave Ariel an idea hopefully it would work. She swam close to it and waited for the shark to come a bit closer, when it began to open its big mouth then in second Ariel swam through the hole, and the shark's head slide through and got trapped in it. Ariel swam away above and stock out her tongue at the shark's stupidly fail at his hurt, then she began swimming up fast carrying Flounder as he wasn't awake, and her bag to surface for Flounder to breathe some air.

Above the surface was bright and blue, Ariel got Flounder to a rock for herself to rest her arms on and placed her bag on the surface, while she deeply prayed for Flounder to be alright. At the start, Flounder was gasping in for some air then soon got his breathe and began breathing easily and normally. "I'm sorry Flounder" Ariel apologised, "I dragged you along."

"It's not your fault" Flounder said in a positive tone, he would forgive as a good friend and did like that kind of adventure. Flounder was jumping over the surface to show Ariel that he's fine, soon Ariel smiled and laughed as she joined in jumping with him then again swimming in twirling in circles.

"Wait!" Ariel stopped suddenly, she turned to Flounder, "What don't we use that flag things?" Flounder looked confused and asked Ariel again but to describe it, "They were lots of them on the top of the ship, and they were flat like a stingray."

"Oh… You mean the sails" Flounder corrected.

"Yeah, could I just wear them?"

"Maybe?" Flounder answered, he didn't say she can't because he thinks it could work.

"Come on!" Ariel said. Flounder asked where exactly they are going, and Ariel answered to where Eric's ship was first shipwreck.

The sea was calm and still but there were a few strong waves crashing at those huge, sharp rocks, and the sun was starting to fall making the endless sky darker as it was turning into night. Ariel and Flounder swam down to the bottom and found the bottom ship cracked in half like opening an oyster. Quickly they found the sails most been ripped apart and at the sides, Ariel untied some ropes which were still attached to the sails. Once they got parts of the sails which is covered with small seaweeds, Flounder helped Ariel on how to wear them like how female humans would. Flounder said usually they wear it all over their bodies, so Ariel cover her front and back as she tight notes on the sides laying on her shoulders and cut a hole at the top meddle, so Ariel could fit her head through.

They finally finished the design and they were pleased with it. Ariel took her dress off and said, "Right let's try it tomorrow. But where am I going to hide?"

"I know" Flounder swam to the dress and hold it with one of his fins through the holes, Ariel was about to follow him but then Flounder stopped her, "No! Wait! I'll go and do it. You go back to the palace."

"Why can't I go with you" Ariel asked.

"Because it's a secret, and I will show you just wait" before Flounder left he took Ariel's bag with her small treasures she found from the ship. Flounder shouted before he disappeared, "Trust me!"

Ariel waved goodbye but held a suspicious look thinking, "What is Flounder hiding from her, but she trusted him as he would trust her to save his life. Ariel swam back to the palace all seen quiet as usually, everyone she passed were all so quiet, they didn't smile or laugh or anything. When she entered at the doorway of the castle, Ariel was stopped by a death-staring small, red crab in front of her face.

"Sebastian" Ariel was shocked, and felt a bit nervous whenever she sees him giving he that look, "How are you today?"

"Ariel, where were you today?" Sebastian asked.

"Oh, I… was exploring with Flounder" Ariel was stubbing at the start hoping Sebastian doesn't get even more suspicious.

"I thought you said you would be at the library."

"I was, but then Flounder asked me to come with him for today."

"Flounder um…" Sebastian said, now Ariel wished she didn't mention Flounder in case Sebastian would ask him. Sebastian continued, "Didn't you realised form last time he was a troublemaker."

"Yeah, but people change" Ariel said, "Oh, please Sebastian, leave him be he hasn't done anything wrong."

"Oh, don't worry Ariel, he's don't the one I'm worrying about" Sebastian gave Ariel a deep stare at her now knowing who he was talking about.

Ariel took a breather and this time she spooked out more specious, "Look, I'm don't need you to check me like I am little child. Or, why don't you least check with daddy, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't mind you spying on his youngest daughter." Ariel swam away fast through the hallway leaving Sebastian as his curiosity increases for the little mermaid. Ariel entered in her bedroom and all her sisters were there; Aquata argued with Arista for stealing her stuff again. Attina, Alana, Adella and Andrina were sitting facing at their mirrors sorting out their hair and putting makeup on their faces. Attina turned around and watched as Ariel laid down on her bed and gaze through the window, Attina spotted something palely white in Ariel's red hair.

Swimming over and took it out, Ariel turned around to face her, Attina asked, "What is this?"

The rest of the sisters turned around to see what is happening, Ariel focused on the thing Attina was holding. Realised that it was small ripped piece of the sails from the ship, "I don't know" Ariel lied and moved her shoulders up.

"Then why is it in your hair?" Attina asked.

"How should I know?" Ariel stood up, she tried to take the piece from Attina's hand but Attina keeps moving her hand away till she gets some answers. Ariel getting annoyed, "What are you going to do? Tell daddy on me?"

"Speaking of daddy" Alana mention, "He's coming."

Everyone swam to their beds before Ariel snatched the piece from Attina's hand and hiden it deep in the side of her bed. They were all at the font of the beds waiting for their father to come in. Once he came in and said, "Goodnight girls."

"Goodnight father" they all repeated back.

"Sleep well" Triton ended with the girls repeating back.

Triton leaves silently, and the daughters slide in their beds getting ready to sleep, however Ariel kept her eyes wide open gazing again at the beautiful through the window, while only of tomorrow. Wondering if Eric would remember her? Would he try to find her? And if they did meet again, would she do? What would she say? Ariel could just daydream these wonders all night, because if she closes her eyes and sleep on it then she'll probably think of the worst cases that could happen. But, Ariel could only wait till tomorrow to see what will happen, and only hope for the best.

What's up guys! Before starting off, I just to say because I didn't write it down in the first chapter, that I don't own any of the little mermaid, the characters, the places, the scenes, any of that! They all belong to Disney!

I added a lot of different scenes, I did say before that I will add some things link the film 'Splash.' So, whenever mermaids on land and their tail have been untouched by water then their tail will transform into human legs. I have also added the shark chase scene from the original Disney film, because I loved that scene and it looks so cool.

Hoped you have enjoyed this chapter. See you soon.