The next morning on dry land, it was time for Eric's tour for his guests. Ariel was amazed by everything even before they started to look all around.

"Have they kissed them yet?" Flounder asked Sebastian as they passed the water.

"Not yet." Sebastian told him.

"Ohh..." Flounder pouted before going back under the sea.

'They will later on.' Atticus thought to himself.

"Ready?" Cherry was at Atticus's side.

"I sure am." Atticus whispered.

Cherry and Atticus then set off to get Eric to kiss Ariel and Darla to kiss Urchin before time would run out from Ursula's deal. But before that, they were given the tour of the kingdom. During the tour, Cherry and Atticus had to try to get the couples together. They were going through the town and joined in on some dancing. Eric helped Ariel with her dancing while Darla helped Urchin.

'Perfect, dancing usually brings two people together.' Atticus thought to himself with a smile.

"This could work..." Cherry said as they watched.

"Yeah." Atticus whispered.

The two young couples danced with the other people, but there was no kissing yet.

"Yo, guys!" Scuttle called to Cherry and Atticus. "Any kissing?"

"Not yet." Cherry and Atticus told the seagull.

Scuttle frowned. "Well, they better get crackin'!"

"Keep your tail feathers on!" Atticus told the seagull.

Eric decided that the kids would enjoy a puppet show, so they took a stop by there. Ariel was intrigued by the puppets and even took one off the hand of the puppeteer, then was surprised to see it was no longer moving and she didn't understand why or how.

'Well, that was a surprise she'll never forget.' Atticus thought to himself.

Urchin looked puzzled like Ariel did. Darla looked puzzled the most of all. Eric took them to move on.

There was a horse-carriage ride and Eric thought it would be nice if he was alone with Ariel on it. Atticus decided to sneak by and watch while Cherry would handle Darla and Urchin.

'I just know this is going to work.' Atticus thought to himself.

"Hmm..." Cherry was trying to think of a romantic scene for two kids that were seven and nine-years-old. She then came up with a perfect romantic plan.

Urchin was clearly in love with Darla after hearing her sing, but Darla did not seem to notice how he felt about her.

"So, why did you trade your merman life for a human?" Darla asked.

"Uhh... Well, to make sure Ariel would be okay." Urchin made up an excuse.

"Uh-huh, sure." Darla said, unconvinced.

"Well, she's my sister..." Urchin insisted.

Darla looked at him. "Urchin, what's the real reason?"

"Just told ya, Goldilocks..." Urchin called her by his nickname for her again.

"Okay, okay." Darla said.

'This is getting awkward...' Cherry narrowed her eyes at Darla and Urchin's interactions.

"Um... I like your singing..." Urchin glanced back.

Darla sighed softly. "Thank you."

"Well, at least they're talking." Cherry groaned quietly.

"How long have you sang?" Urchin asked.

"Since I was almost four..." Darla rubbed her arm. "I always had a song in my heart..."

"You don't sound very happy about it?" Urchin looked at her.

"Well, it's just that I've always wondered where it came from..." Darla shrugged. "Like, whether if my mother or my father sang."

"Can't you ask them?" Urchin asked, referring to Patrick and Emily.

"I don't think they know." Darla frowned.

"What do you mean?" Urchin asked.

"Oh, you don't know?" Darla looked back. "I was adopted."

"Oh, I guess I didn't know." Urchin said.

"Yes..." Darla slowly nodded. "I lived in an orphanage after my real parents were in a car accident... One day, a movie producer came to the orphanage and had a talent show for a special child to represent after his other clients got too old. I almost didn't audition because I didn't think I was anything special."

"So then, what happened?" Urchin asked.

"Well, I sang my song, and Mr. Mammoth liked me..." Darla explained. "I packed my bags, moved out of the orphanage, and my new life was set. I moved into a magical kingdom called 'Hollywood'... I was immediately pampered and spoiled and I starred in my first featured film called 'Li'l Dickens'. It was the story of a little girl adopted by a movie producer and she becomes a big celebrity star."

"So, basically that movie was based on your life." Urchin noticed.

"Yes, and I starred in more films after that," Darla listed. "Yankee Doodle Darla, Darla Got Yer Gun, Darladdin and the Magic Lamp..."

"So basically, all of the movies you have been in have had your first name in them." Urchin said.

"Not all of them..." Darla looked at him, then folded his arms. "Li'l Ark Angel didn't..."

"What was that one about?" Urchin asked.

"The people were so bad, so the Lord made the rain come down and all of the people drowned," Darla explained. "I was basically an angel from Heaven above and I built a boat and put all the animals two-by-two in my little boat on the sea."

"Wow." Urchin said.

"That movie didn't make it off the ground so much..." Darla continued.

"What happened?" Urchin asked.

"Um... I did something terrible..." Darla pouted.

"It couldn't have been that bad." Urchin assured her.

"Wanna bet?" Darla looked into his eyes.

Urchin insisted she should go on.

"Well..." Darla curled her finger in her hair which strung the curl before she let go and it bounced back into a golden curl she was known for. "I was a rather unhappy little girl... I always focused on getting my way and what I would want... This cat named Danny was so insistent on becoming a movie star and I didn't like it one bit, so I decided to try to sabotage his plans with the other animals... So I went with my butler Max and we flooded the stage they were on when Mammoth had a press conference so he would get mad and kick all of the animals out of Hollywood."

"Oh, my..." Urchin said with wide eyes.

"It worked..." Darla held her knees in her arms.

"I-I'm sure that everything got better." Urchin said.

"I lost everything..." Darla twiddled her fingers.

*Flashback*

Danny and Sawyer were going to become stars with their friends and the press took a picture of it.

Darla got up from the trap door that she fell through as her karmic downfall and Max was nowhere to be found. She dusted herself as she was badly battered and watched as she got what she deserved. "I didn't mean to hurt anybody..." she said with tears in her eyes.

"I hope you're proud of yourself, Darla..." LB scolded. "I'm afraid I won't be representing you anymore."

"Please, just give me another chance!" Darla begged.

"No!" LB glared at her. "No more chances."

Darla felt herself shrink inside, this had to be the worst day of her life.

"Sell off her house for an auction in the morning..." LB told Flannigan.

"My house...?" Darla was now heartbroken. "Where will I live? Where will I stay!?"

"I don't know and I don't care!" LB glared at her again.

Darla squeezed her eyes shut as more tears came into her eyes. The audience gave no sympathy, they only viewed Darla as a spoiled and self-obsessed brat and they thought she deserved her punishment in the end. Darla had been reduced into becoming a janitor and was forced to clean up after every movie set and movie going for the rest of her life. No one cared or even gave her remorse. That was, until Atticus and Cherry decided to help her with cleaning up the mess.

*End of Flashback*

"Goldilocks, I had no idea..." Urchin was surprised. "At least you remember your parents a little..."

"You don't remember yours?" Darla asked.

'Shut up and kiss already!' Cherry growled in her head.

"No, I never found out about them." Urchin frowned.

"Oh, I'm so sorry..." Darla scooted closer to him and held out her arms to hug him.

Urchin looked to her and the two shared a hug as he let tears roll down his face. This was as close to a romantic moment that they could get. Cherry rolled her eyes, but it was better than nothing. Scuttle came to a tree and looked to her. Cherry shook her head, knowing he would ask if Darla and Urchin had kissed yet or not. This only caused for the seagull to groan.

Eric came back with Atticus and Ariel from the horse-carriage ride, Atticus and Eric looked a little pale due to what happened during the ride.

"Did they kiss?" Cherry asked Atticus.

"No." Atticus shook his head.

"You okay?" Cherry asked.

"Ariel wanted to drive..." Atticus shuddered slightly.

"Goodness..." Cherry smirked rather darkly.

"You wouldn't act like that if you got to experience her driving like me and Eric did." Atticus said.

"Meh." Cherry shrugged carelessly.

"I wonder about you sometimes..." Atticus shook his head at her.

"You love me really." Cherry ruffled up his hair.

"Yes, but like a sister and like a sister you drive me crazy sometimes." Atticus said.

"Eh, I'm genetically designed to become a royal pain in the butt..." Cherry chuckled at herself.

"You can be a pain at times." Atticus said.

"Why do I even have friends?" Cherry looked off with an actually sad smile, she seemed to have actual smiles when she would be sad for some reason.

"Because friends are always there for you whenever you're sad or upset." Atticus said.

"I'm not sad, I have nothing to be sad about." Cherry kept her obviously depressed smile.

"You sure?" Atticus asked.

Cherry looked at him, then away. "Nuthin'..."

Atticus hummed at her.

Soon, it was after dark, and Eric was going to take Ariel for a boat ride. And where Urchin and Darla were going to join them to make this a double date. Eric found it cute since they were little kids. They were rowing across the lagoon.

"Move over," Flounder told Scuttle as they spied on the affair. "Move your big feathers! I can't see a thing!"

"Nothing is happening and only one day left." Scuttle told him.

"Dang it, there's gotta be a way to get them to kiss." Atticus groaned as he and Cherry had joined the fish and seagull.

"All right, this calls for a little vocal romantic stimulation, stand back." Scuttle said.

"No!" Cherry tried to stop him.

Scuttle flew over and sang very badly.

"Too late." Atticus groaned quietly.

"This takes me back..." Cherry covered her ears.

"To what?" Atticus asked.

"That parrot puppet at Captain Kiddie's carnival." Cherry told him.

"Oh, right." Atticus said.

"Wow," Eric cringed. "Somebody should find that poor animal and put it out of its misery." he then said in an attempt to joke with Ariel.

Ariel simply nodded with a nervous smile before looking up to see her seagull friend attempting to sing.

"Jeez, man, I'm surrounded by amateurs!" Sebastian groaned.

"Please tell me you have a better idea." Cherry said to the crab.

"Please, please, please tell us that you have a better idea." Atticus begged the crab.

"Of course I do, Atticus, don't you remember that I'm a composer in Atlantica?" Sebastian rhetorically asked.

"Oh, right, then this date is saved." Atticus smiled.

"A crab is a composer?" Cherry asked.

"That's what you find weird about this adventure?" Atticus looked at her.

Cherry shrugged.

"You want something done right, you've got to do it yourself," Sebastian scoffed, then smiled as he summoned musicians to provide music. "First, we've got to create the mood."

"You got that right." Atticus smiled.

"Percussions, strings, winds, words..." Sebastian called for the instruments.

Darla waved her hand into the water as she floated with Urchin across from her. "Well..." she then yawned. "It's kinda getting kinda more or less rather LATE!"

"I'm sure this will get more exciting." Urchin said.

"It better..." Darla was very bored now.

It was indeed going to get more exciting, but in the romantic way. Sebastian made the music fill the air, but Eric could not see where it was coming from.

Eric noticed it, but not a whole lot. "Did you hear something?"

Ariel simply shook her head with a shrug. Sebastian was singing with the music to lure Eric into falling in love with Ariel and Darla with Urchin. And where at times, it seem to work.

"You know, I feel really bad not knowing your name," Eric said to the crimson-haired girl. "Hey, maybe I could guess... Is it... Erm... Mildred?"

Ariel shook her head.

"Okay, no, how about Diana?" Eric guesed then.

Ariel looked disgusted with that name.

"Rachel?" Eric tried.

"Ariel, her name is Ariel." Sebastian whispered to him.

"Ariel?" Eric asked, not sure who had said that.

Ariel smiled.

"Ariel?" Eric repeated, he assumed that had to had been her name. "Well, that's kinda pretty... Ariel."

'Perfect, now he knows her name.' Atticus thought himself with a smile.

Darla sighed as she waded in the water.

"You look prettier without a bow." Urchin spat out.

Darla looked back at him. "You think so?"

"Yeah." Urchin nodded.

"I've always worn a bow..." Darla shrugged. "Even my old swimming cap had a bow with it."

"Well, with or without a bow, you look pretty." Urchin smiled.

"You really think so?" Darla's smile grew slightly.

"I can tell by your eyes." Urchin smiled back.

"My eyes...?" Darla asked.

"Everything about you is just cute as it is beautiful." Urchin complimented.

"Awww! Thank you, Urchin." Darla blushed with a smile.

Urchin smiled, this was working like a charm.

"Hoo-ray..." Cherry 'cheered'.

"Now, all they need to do is kiss." Atticus whispered.

Nothing could ruin this moment. Ariel and Urchin were about to be given their kisses. However, before anything could happen, the boat tipped over and the four of them ended up in the water.

"Dang it!" Atticus groaned.

"I am not amused." Cherry's eyes narrowed.

"Darla, are you okay?" Urchin asked the blonde girl worriedly.

Darla coughed up some water and cleared her throat. "I'm okay..."

"Don't worry, I gotcha." Eric said, helping Ariel up.

Ariel was surprised, but she smiled that he saved her.

Ursula's Cavern...

"Nice work, boys, that was a close one," Ursula told her eels. "Too close! Those little tramps! Oh, they're better than I thought... At this rate, they'll be getting kissed by sunset for sure... Well, it's time Ursula took matters into her own tentacles! Triton's brats will be mine, and then I'll make those humans writhe! I'll see them wriggle on a hook like a couple of worms!"

"What are you going to do about the Dimple girl then?" Flotsam asked.

"Yes, what are you going to do about her?" Jetsam added in.

"I know what to do with the prince, but I'll need a volunteer to distract the golden girl herself." Ursula grinned darkly.

Flotsam and Jetsam looked to each other nervously. They both then started nervously swim away.

"GET BACK HERE!" Ursula yelled.

The eels swam back unwillingly.

"I'll handle the prince, you get the girl, you just need to distract her long enough for me to take the prince." Ursula told them.

"How do we do that?" Jetsam asked.

"Make her forget about the merboy." Ursula insisted.

"How do we do that?" Flotsam asked.

"BE CREATIVE!" Ursula told the spineless eels.

"Yes, Ursula..." Flotsam and Jetsam muttered in agreement.

"Perfect..." Ursula grinned once she took Ariel's voice and transformed into a human woman with flowing brown hair and crystal blue eyes. "From now on, call me Vanessa."

"Yes, Vanessa." Flotsam and Jetsam bowed their heads.

"Now, you'll have to look different than you do now." Ursula said.

Flotsam and Jetsam looked to each other before Ursula cast her magic on the two eels in order for her new plan to work so she oculd get what she wanted from her deal with Ariel and Urchin, playing crudely unfair. The two eels were merged into one and was now a strong, young boy that was the same age as Urchin, only this boy had dark red hair. Once they were set, they moved onto dry land as it was late.

Eric was outside, playing his flute while Darla was getting ready for bed.

'Well, they were close to kissing.' Atticus thought to himself.

Cherry was looking through her book. "One more chapter before bed..." she yawned as she flipped to one page.

And when she saw the next page, she was shocked.

"Oh, no, no, no, no." Cherry muttered, but had wide eyes.

"What is it, dear?" Michelle asked.

"I have to talk with Atticus right now!" Cherry told her mother.

"Um, okay." Michelle said.

Cherry put her book in her arm and rushed down the hallway to find Atticus.

Eric was playing his flute after Grimsby came to check on him, but he stopped when he heard Ariel's singing voice, which was odd since Ariel could not speak anymore. He looked out to see a beautiful young woman in the sand and he felt hypnotized by her singing like a Siren in the Odyssey.

Darla was about to get to bed, but she felt a disturbance, she went out to the balcony and saw a shadowed figure of a boy a little bit older than her. "Who's there?" she demanded sharply. "I got a brother who's as strong as Hercules."

"Don't worry, I mean you no harm." The boy said.

Darla calmed down a little, she came closer. "Um... Who are you and what do you want?" she put her hands on her hips then.

"My name is Ryan," the strange boy said. "I just wanted to come and talk."

"Um... Okay..." Darla shrugged, this boy seemed friendly enough, she then walked over to him and sat on the end of the balcony, being careful not to fall and she got a look at the boy. "Erm... What would you like to talk about?"

"Anything you would like to talk about, Beautiful." Ryan said.

"Oh, I'm not that beautiful..." Darla smiled slyly, soaking that up.

"Oh, but you are..." Ryan insisted and put his hand on her face and stroked it. "You look so beautiful for a six-year-old girl..."

Darla giggled shyly to that. "I'm actually seven and I have a birthday coming up."

"Well then, Happy early Birthday." Ryan said.

Darla smiled bashfully then. "Thank you... This'll probably be my first birthday in a long time I've celebrated with anybody... Um, it's late, I should be getting to bed..."

"Of course, well, good night, sweet princess." Ryan said before kissing her.

Darla's eyes widened from the kiss and she felt a little bit different. Ryan allowed her to get some sleep, then seemed to slither down from the balcony. Darla wobbily came back to her guest bed and flopped on the bed, going into a deep sleep until morning. Eric couldn't seem to be able to think straight. Ursula's fiendish and wicked plan was working like a charm so far as she was now using Ariel's singing to hypnotize Eric.

"Atticus Fudo, where are you?" Cherry nearly growled as she still couldn't find her friend.

"Over here." Atticus said.

Cherry looked over and rushed over. "Listen to me."

"What's wrong?" Atticus asked.

"Where's Ariel and Urchin?" Cherry asked. "They're in danger!"

"What kind of danger?" Atticus asked.

"Ursula's hatching a plan," Cherry opened up her book. "She's disguising herself as a human woman and using Ariel's voice to seduce Eric into marrying her so Ariel can belong to Ursula."

"Oh, no..." Atticus said with widened eyes.

"Where's Ariel?" Cherry slammed the book shut.

"She's asleep, but... We can't wake her..." Atticus tried to be considerate.

"We have to tell her though!" Cherry inssited.

"If we do, then she might think we're lying." Atticus said.

"The truth is a pain, but we all have to suffer through it and it'll only set us free..." Cherry insisted, rather vulgarly.

"Yeah, but how do we tell her?" Atticus asked.

"Ariel, Ursula is tricking you to get your boyfriend, sorry, but life isn't always just a bowl of cherries, it's a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get." Cherry recited.

"Oh, sure and then she gets heartbroken and accepts her fate being Ursula's for the rest of her life!" Atticus glared.

"Hey, just being honest..." Cherry shrugged innocently.

"We'll figure out what to do in the morning." Atticus said.

"So you do need my help..." Cherry walked off. "I didn't think I was very useful to you."

"Of course you are useful." Atticus said.

"I guess we'll wait until morning..." Cherry walked off. "night, Atticus."

Atticus nodded to her before joining Ariel to bed. "Night, Cherry."

The two friends went their separate ways for the night in hopes that they could get to Ariel and Urchin with the news before there would be a painful misunderstanding in the morning. Unfortunately, the next day wouldn't be such a good morning.