The Struggling Love of Ariel and Eric

Chapter 7

"You're not Ariel."

The red haired mermaid went to strike at Eric, but Namor caught her wrist.

"Where is Ariel?" Namor spoke to her firmly, holding back as much of his wrath as possible.

"I know where she is", Eric spoke aloud to no one in particular. And that was when they heard the sob coming from the beach. It was a dark haired woman, leaning up against one of the rocks on the beach; Max at her side.

"Ariel", Eric let out her name in a whisper, before speeding out of the sea and onto the beach.

At first the woman started to back away from him; having only seen the scene in the water (having scene Eric kiss her body without her soul in it). But Eric was not about to let her leave. He pulled her almost roughly to him.

But, before he could slam his lips into hers; the red haired mermaid stepped in.

She snapped her fingers and suddenly, the black haired Ariel crumbled in Eric's grip. Ariel started to scream in pain, as her human legs started to fuse together and form a mermaid's tail.

Eric swiftly took Ariel in his arms and moved her into the water.

He laid her down gently in the shallow waves, before joining Namor with the red head. Namor had already squeezed his hands around her throat.

"Namor stop", Eric yelled at him, pulling Namor's arms away from her throat. Unlucky for the two men, it allowed her a moment to escape.

"Why did you do that?" Namor yelled back at his fellow prince.

"That's Ariel's body. We are going to need it in one piece to get her soul back into it", Eric explained.

"Eric", Ariel's achingly called out to him from the shallow waters.

Eric started to swim back to her, but Namor reached her first; pulling her into his arms. She didn't pull away from him, and Eric was right by her side just after Namor.

"Eric", she winced in pain again, "something is happening to me. Eric…"

It was then that Ariel's skin started turning grey and a whirl pool appeared from below and sucked Ariel right out of Namor's arms, and out to sea.

"ARIEL!" both men cried out. Namor and Eric both dived into the water after her.

The whirlpool calmed down at the sea bed. Ariel was now a little grey, wrinkled creature, and her possessed body was right next to her.

"Turn her back", Namor yelled at the red head, as Eric swam over to Ariel; before having to swim back up to the surface for air.

"Ursual!" Ariel's father swam up from behind; Sebastian and Flounder with him.

"Oh, your majesty", Ursula's soul bowed in Ariel's body.

"Give me back my daughter", the king raised his trident.

"Well here's her contract", Ursula made the golden paper appear.

After trying to destroy it and failing; the king knew he had only one choice. The only choice a father could make… he replaced Ariel's name with his own.

The king was immediately attacked by a whirlpool and transformed into one of those little grey creatures. While Ariel's grey creature body went limp. Ariel's real body fell onto the sea bed and Ursula's true form appeared.