"Since she wasn't on those other two ships, she has to be on this one." Eric said. "So while your men are distracting all those pirates, I'm going to search for Melody.
"Do you need back up, sir?" The general asked. "I'm sure we can spare you a couple of men."
"No."
The general nodded. "You heard the king, head out."
There were three ships that had pirates on them. Two were docked, and one was sitting in the ocean. They have been sneaking up on the other two so the pirates wouldn't see them coming. But they are sure now the third ship had heard about the other two attacks and is aware of what is coming.
The soldiers climbed onto the side of the boat and hung on to the net. All at once, they all jumped on, with their swords out, ready to fight. Once all the soldiers had all the pirates preoccupied with fighting, Eric climbed onto the ship and snuck down to where they had kept Athena. He thought since it's the same guys who held Athena captive would hold Melody captive in the same place.
Unfortunately for Eric, Melody wasn't in that same room, so he kept looking. He heard noises coming from down the hall and thought to hear his daughter's voice. He quickly, and quietly, ran down the hall and opened the door slightly so that he could peek in to see if it was his daughter. It was. The head pirate was in there. He must have knew Eric was coming and would be ready to fight him. But for Eric, he wasn't necessarily ready to fight, especially in front of Melody. He would feel awful he stabbed and killed the guy in front of Melody because it's even a bit traumatizing for him. Eric could only imagine how much it would be for his little girl. But he decided he would do whatever he had to do, even in front of Melody, to save her, even if it does mean killing the guy who took her.
"Daddy!" Melody cried out when Eric stormed in.
The pirate turned around with a smile on his face. "Ah, King Eric, here to save your fish, I mean daughter, I see."
"Hand over Melody." Eric ordered. "And I'll spare you."
The pirate laughed. "That won't be fun. I was hoping to fight the king... The king who stole my mermaid."
"Who saved my grandmother!" Melody corrected.
"Shut up, you little brat, or I'll get the stick again!" The pirate snarled. Eric swung his sword out from his belt. The pirate laughed again. "Ah, are we gonna fight? I was hoping we would! Boys!"
Two large men entered the room. Eric then wished he had taken the general's offer up on having two backups.
"No daddy and I'm worried. What if something happened!"
"Maybe I should get involved then." King Triton said. "What has it been, two days already?"
"No, please don't. Eric and his army can handle it..."
"What if they can't?" He asked. "I could have these pirates all dealt with within minutes with my trident."
"I know they can. It's just how long will it take?" Ariel started to cry again. "I just want my daughter back."
"Okay Ariel."
"I need to go back inside. It's not safe for me to be out here and neither for you daddy. You need to go back to Atlantica."
King Triton let out a sigh and nodded. "Very well, Ariel. I'll have Sebastian come back and check on you later; just to keep me up to date."
Eric ducked and tripped one of the pirates with his foot. Instead of stabbing him with his sword, Eric punched him once very heard with his fist to knock him out. Once he had the two men dealt with, it was one on one with the main guy.
"It's just you and me now." Eric said. "We can go the easy rout, where you free my daughter, or we can go the hard rout and I'll do what I did to your buddies to you, or much worst."
"I think you and I both know what rout we're taking." The pirate laughed.
"Dad!" Melody cried out.
The pirate took his sword out and same did Eric and the two of them began to fight. Eric doesn't normally fight because he normally doesn't have to since he has an army, so this was his first "real fight". But of course being the protective father he is, he's willing to do anything to rescue his little girl, even if it does put him in danger. He obviously proved that to Ariel when he rescued her from Ursula and Morgana.
Eric's shirt was torn with a little blood on it from being scraped with the pirate's sword. But Eric was still going to fight until he won. He fought hard. Not too long after, two of his soldier's came down, looking for Eric and saw he needed assistance. Those two men joined in on the fighting. As those two soldiers took his place with the fighting, Eric sneakingly grabbed the keys to the cage when he tackle onto the pirate. And once he was distracted by the two soldiers fighting him, Eric went to rescue his daughter.
It took Eric a minute to find the right key on the key ring. But once he did, he quickly picked Melody up and tightly, in his arms, ran off the ship. He jumped off the pirate's ship and onto his ship, where they would be much safer.
Eric sat Melody down on the deck of the ship and gave her a hug. "Oh, Melody, are you okay?"
She nodded. "I was scared nobody would find me."
"I wasn't going to stop until I did." He said. Eric had the caption of the ship take it back to port so they could go home and Melody could be turned back into human. "Your mother is going to be so relieved you're safe. She told me I wouldn't be allowed back until I found you."
Melody chuckled and hugged her father again. "I love you, daddy."
Aw, isn't the end cute? I was debating on adding more, as in Ariel reacting to having her back and safe and same with King Triton but I decided on ending it with Melody saying I love you to her father. I feel as if she's never affectionate towards her parents. Does anyone else feel like that? So then I was debating on her even saying that. But I was like, you know what, she would probably say that to her father after rescuing her. Wouldn't she? I mean I feel like I would if I was in her position. She was gone for two days. Anyways, this didn't take me long to write since I was motivated to write it, so that's why you got 3 new chapters without a long wait. Anyways, I'll shut up now and thanks for reading!
