Hello, viewers! Now this is a chapter of how, what, where, when, and who, centering around the vanished pair of kids, and more. Now this was inspired by a author's story: moviefan-92's 'The Little Mermaid: Beyond the Shore'. I loved reading it, and if any of you are interested to read it or the other stories he/she had made, go ahead and read to your heart's content. I'm always glad to help a fellow author. Enjoy! -Traveler.

-South of Atlantica's borders, a few days ago-

Laughter filled the light-filtered waters as the afternoon sun was shining through, and two young merchildren was playing a game of chase. The older of the duo is a 8 year old boy who goes by 'Wally' which is short for Wallaby. He is dark-haired in the shade of chocolate brown, bright amber eyes, and light-skinned in a tan tone, and he has a dark olive green tail with lighter fins.

And then there's Wally's little sister, a 7 year old girl who goes by Iris. She is dark blonde with a plum pinkish purple flower tucked in, dark blue eyes, and pale-skinned in a light tan tone, and she has a a dark blue bra with a white pearl decoration, and a dark rose red tail with lighter fins.

"Come on, bro, you're getting slow!". Iris teased her older brother with a giggle. Wally grinned with a soft growl, "I am a shark, grr! I gonna get you!". He chased Iris who shrieked with fake terror and laughter, neither noticing the dark shadow until it was too late.

Having caught Iris by the belly, Wally grinned, "Now who's slow?". He rustled Iris's hair, with her protesting, "Hey, hey, not the hair! You're ruining it, ooh, Mom's going to have to fix it again!". Wally snickered, "Why not? You look fine.", as he let Iris go. Iris glared at Wally momentarily, and moved her hands up to fix her flower back into place when her eyes caught onto the shadow.

"Wally, what's that?". She wondered out, asking her brother. Wally joined her side, "I don't know..It's not a migrating whale..".

Iris glanced at the shadow, and widened her eyes when she saw a flash of something underneath.. "Something's up there.". She then swam up, with Wally protesting, "Iris, you don't know what's up there!". He moaned to himself, "Mom's not going to like this.". He followed her immediately, and the duo soon saw a strange contraption holding a merman with a strange tail they had never seen before.

The merman was shouting, it looks like, but the kids couldn't hear him, and they got closer, hoping to hear him better when suddenly another shadow approached them from above, and it came so fast, with the kids screaming and yelling as they were encased in another strange contraption, and they surfaced slowly, then quickly, with the large shadow moving fast as a dolphin.

No trace was found as soon as the parents realized that Wallaby and Iris hasn't come home for dinner, and they had asked practically all the questions, but no one knew where or how they have vanished to. Soon, the parents had journeyed to Atlantica, hoping to receive help from the sea king, unknowing that a group of teenagers had strived out to find the missing children within the next couple of days.

-Present Day-

Iris whimpered softly as she curled up into her tail, stuck into her own glass tank, with a wooden cover in the bottom which opens up to the underwater glass cage underneath the ship. "Iris, please don't be sad. We will be out of here, I promise!".

Iris looked up and out through her glass tank, glancing at Wally who's in the same contraption, barely 10 feet away. "But I am scared, Wally! Tazorblood is really mean...".

"Don't worry, kiddo, Tazorblood may be a mean captain, but he isn't going to hurt a little girl like you.". called out the merman whom the kids saw barely a few days ago, going by the name of Elias. He is around 30 years old, yet his hair is impossibly snow-white, and he has hazel eyes, dark skin in the shade of copper, and his tail is unlike the kids or the others' tails.. It's a navy blue and cream shark tail.

Elias is actually from the Caribbean, and he hasn't seen his own wife in who knows how long since he was taken by those greedy pirates who always sold the captive merpeople to any place who wanted them for entertainment.

A voice grumbled out, "Sure, if you wanna be sold as a freaking prize to those crazy people!". Elias, being in his tank, glared at his neighbor next door, "Always negative with that stuff, Monty, aren't you?".

Monty scoffed, "What else is there, Elias? We've been prisoners so long, there's barely any hope for us.". Monty is another merman, being around 25 years old, having jet black hair, stormy grey eyes, and dark-skinned in the shade of milk chocolate. He has a sunset orange orca tail as he's from the African waters, taken from his parents some time ago.

"I don't want to lose my baby! Monty, how can you say that? No hope? There has to be hope!". wailed a feminine voice. In the last tank in the corner is a pregnant 20 year old mermaid. She's 8 months along. She has honey-tinted blonde hair, violet eyes, and light skin in the shade of pale copper, with a dark blue bra. Her tail is a light gray dolphin tail as she's from the American waters, taken from her husband a few months ago.

Elias calmed the hysterical mermaid, "Cira, calm down, you're frightening the baby!". Jacira, or Cira for short, she took deep breaths, calming down her heart, not wanting to scare her unborn child into early labor. "Okay, okay..It's okay, little one..I have hope that both of us will be out of here, and you will see your daddy.". She rubbed her baby belly gently and calmly.

Monty moaned, "Sorry, Cira. I am so sorry to say that. You're right..Hope is the only thing we got..". Iris called out, "I don't wanna be taken from my brother..". Wally assured her firmly, "Sis, you won't. We will be out of here, I just know it.".

Elias nodded, "Indeed..Yet who is saving us?". Each prisoner was silent after that question, wondering and hoping that they could escape this ship, and its greedy captain, and be free with help from the outside...