"This is so exciting, Mother, I can't wait to see how beautiful Atlantica looks." Eloise said.
Darla smiled to their daughter as they passed various merpeople and sea creatures on the way. They both waved to them and this was so far a lot better than Paris for Eloise. This seemed a lot more cool. Aquata swam with a much older Stevie and they seemed to have quadruplet children. They all saw Darla and Eloise and waved to them. Darla smiled back and waved to them with Eloise as they explored the world that was under the sea. Eloise felt like she was in a fantasy book as she didn't think mermaids actually existed.
'This is amazing.' Eloise thought as she looked around the underwater world.
Darla decided to swim Eloise over to King Triton's underwater castle.
"Hello there, Darla, so nice to see you again." Triton smiled at his adoptive niece.
"Hello Uncle Triton." Darla smiled back.
"Uncle?" Eloise looked curious.
"Yes, Eloise, this is Uncle Triton," Darla told her daughter and then looked to Triton."Uncle Triton, this is my daughter, Eloise."
"Oh, she looks so much like you..." Triton smiled as he met his great-niece. "She has her father's nose though."
"I agree..." Darla chuckled. "Speaking of which, where is he?"
"He's with the others, you came at a good time, we've decided to have a little family reunion soon," Triton chuckled. "Why don't you go inside, Eloise?"
"Umm... Okay!" Eloise smiled as she dashed inside the castle.
"Playful, isn't she?" Triton chuckled at the little girl's energy.
"You won't believe the calls I get when I'm not visiting her." Darla laughed a little.
"Well, let's hope that this family reunion doesn't get ruined." Triton chuckled.
"I'm sure it won't..." Darla smiled, then a little sadly this time. "I'm sure Aunt Athena would've loved it."
Triton sighed softly and smiled back to her. "I'm sure too."
Eloise swam in the room and saw the possible children of Attina, Aquata, Alana, Adriana, Arista, Adella, and Ariel. "Hi!"
The others looked over to her.
"Who are you?" Melody swam over, being the oldest despite Ariel being the youngest sister.
"I'm Eloise, I'm six!" the girl used her typical introduction with anybody she was willing to meet. "Are you guys my cousins then?"
"Yep, we sure are." Melody said.
The younger merboys and mergirls dashed over and playfully tackled Eloise. Eloise laughed as she was having fun at this called family reunion.
"Oh, children, settle down, please!" Sebastian tried to sort them out.
But just like of how every child is, they didn't listen to the crab.
The crab sighed. "Children dese days..."
"Wow, a talking crab!" Eloise swam over to the crustacean with a smile.
"Yes, little lady," Sebastian smiled and bowed to her. "I am Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian Crab, but you may just call me 'Sebastian'."
"Hi, Sebastian!" Eloise still smiled. "I'm Eloise!"
"Yes, so I've heard, and welcome to our home in Atlantica," Sebastian smiled to her. "I hope you have fun here."
"I hope so too!" Eloise smiled, very excited and eager, she never thought this would actually be happening to her on a summer.
"This must be very exciting for you, my dear." Sebastian guessed.
"It is, it really is." Eloise said.
Melody giggled. "I know how you feel... I didn't know about the true life under the sea until I came here by accident."
Eloise looked around. "Where is he?"
"Who are you looking for, child?" Sebastian asked her.
"My father," Eloise said softly. "My mother said he would be here!"
"Who's your father?"
"I think Mommy said his name is 'Urchin'."
"Oh, don't worry, my dear, I'm sure your father will be here momentarily." Sebastian assured her.
"I hope so... I see him even less than my mother!" Eloise cried, that was really saying something.
"Don't worry, Eloise, he'll be here soon." Marine, a daughter of Stevie and Aquata assured.
"Yeah, we're all here for you." Reef and Lief added.
"Yeah, so don't worry, your father is coming, we just know it." Melody said to cheer up Eloise.
"I hope so..." Eloise was tired of waiting.
"Come on, you can play with us." Coburn suggested, he mostly looked like Attina and even had a crown.
"What sort of games do you play underwater?" Eloise asked her cousins.
Her cousins began to tell her all of the games that they could play underwater. Eloise decided they should play hide and seek. There could be thousands of places for them to hide around the ocean. Since Eloise suggested it, they all wanted her to be it and Melody decided to help her out since she didn't know the ocean as well as the others did. The two were becoming close like sisters.
Darla reunited with Ariel's older sisters and they all caught up with things.
"So, how's life been with you all?" Darla asked as she joined them in the lounge room.
"Well, in case you didn't tell, I hooked up with Stevie," Adella started with a smile. "We had four kids... Marine, Delphine, Josephine, and Doreen!"
"Nice names." Darla chuckled at the rhyme scheme.
"Thank you, we chose the names that fit each of the children perfectly." Adella said.
Darla giggled.
"Where'd you come up with the name Eloise?" Alana asked, curiously.
Darla smiled softly. "It was my mother's name... Once I found out I was going to have a daughter of my very own, I thought it'd be nice."
"How sweet." Arista smiled.
"Yeah and the name really suits her." Attina said.
Darla smiled, she looked around. "Have either of you seen-"
Someone came behind Darla and playfully covered her eyes. "Guess who?~"
Darla was surprised at first, but chuckled once she recognized the voice. "Never mind."
Urchin laughed and he hugged her, joining her on the couch.
"What took you so long?" Darla smirked to her merman husband.
"I had a little traffic trouble." Urchin said.
Darla rolled her eyes slightly.
Urchin noticed she was without a little girl. "Where's my daughter?"
"With her cousins," Darla smiled. "She couldn't wait to spend some time with you."
"Well then, I guess we shouldn't keep her waiting then." Urchin said.
Darla and Urchin smiled. The other daughters of Triton decided they should see the kids as well to check on them.
