Ch9: Bye Bye Sea Witch

The day was ending, the sky turned dark, but the environment felt different, it wasn´t like a normal and calmly night, in that moment Morgana had the trident, luckily for Ariel and her family, Melody was able to get out of her prison because of Edward and his friend, but now, dealing with the sea witch was priority number one.

"Fools! I have the trident now. And all the creatures of the sea are in my power!" yelled Morgana to all of her enemies who were looking at her with fear, except from Triton who was full of anger. Morgana started to shoot green blasts to the mersoldiers, and when the lightning hit each one of them they bowed to the sea witch. "I'm the queen of the sea, and you will bow down before me!" yelled the witch full of joy of what she was doing.

"Ouch, this hurts, I can´t move!" said Finic. "Dad, why I can´t move? Will I stay like this forever?" Asked the guppy to Flounder, who was dealing with the same problem like him.

"Watch and see how utterly powerful I can be!" said to Ariel while she shoot a blast to her.

"Mom!" cried at unison Melody and Edward full of fear when they saw their mother fighting the magic and eventually bowing before Morgana. Edward had a better perspective of the suffering sea creatures, including now his mother and his friends.

"The end begins for all of you with fins!" Morgana felt how the power of the trident was decreasing each time she used it, but she didn´t want to show fear, she decided to use the rest of the magic with her worst enemy, Triton.

"Eddie, come on, become a human again, so we can both stop her." Melody told to her brother who seemed to be thinking in another plan that could be more effective.

"Actually, Mel, I have an idea, what if I distract her while you climb the ice, I mean, she will be looking for me, I just made Undertow killed himself, so she´s very angry with me, and…I´m afraid of heights." Melody just gave an amused look at Edward.

"Fine, ok, I can do this." Melody said to herself and then started to run to the iced throne. Edward just gave his sister a thumb up to cheer her up.

"Melody!" Edward shouted in attempt that his sister turned to him. "Good luck." The girl gave him a smile and nodded letting him know that the good wishes were welcomed.

"That´s it Triton, Bow down! Bow down before me!" said Morgana to the old merman, who was fighting the spell. Triton felt how the trident wasn´t very effective with her, and he was the only one who knew why.

"No your majesty, you mustn't." a defeated Sebastian said worryingly to his king.

"I´m sorry Sebastian." Still knowing that the trident wasn´t very powerful in Morgana´s hands, it was powerful enough to make him obey her commands. "I have no choice."

Melody was now climbing the ice when she saw King Triton bow to Morgana, she saw too Flounder, and her mother too; tears were forming in her eyes. This is all my fault. I have to end this, one way or another.

"Oh! Wishes do come true." The witch said to herself. "See that, Ma? Who's your favorite now?" screamed Morgana to the dark sky.

"Hey Squid witch." Edward said to Morgana.

"What did you said?" answered to the boy in attempt to scare him.

"You heard me, or do you prefer ink breath, because it stinks here, and I assume it´s because of you."

Keep going Eddie, you´re doing great. Said Melody to herself, she got to admit that right now, her brother´s sarcasm was very useful.

"Shut up you brat." I can´t shoot him, if I do that, the trident wouldn´t have the power to let me kill Triton. Morgana thought. Fine, I´ll kill Triton and then I´ll deal with that kid and his stupid sister. "It's over, Triton. I sentence you to oblivion!"

When Melody saw that the witch was going to kill her grandfather, she didn´t think twice and jumped taking away the trident.

"You! Just what do you think you're going to do with that?" said Morgana to the 12 year old girl.

"Stay back!" Melody replied, she was full of fear on her inside, but she owed this to all of the ones she accidentally betrayed.

"Wrong end sweetheart." Morgana laughed at the girl, she was trying to look that nothing mattered, but if Melody discovered that the trident didn´t work with her she could have the cards by her side.

Edward was watching Melody being wrapped by the witch, so he decided to do something, he hesitated by a moment, because he knew that his plan will work out, but because of that he was afraid, he took away his ring and decided to run to the ice throne too, he was running as fast as his legs allowed him.

Melody realized that she was using wrong the trident, but she was feeling fear on that moment, she could feel Morgana´s tentacle around her foot, she will throw her and let her die if she didn´t act soon, so in her mind she just thought of chop one of the tentacles with the trident.

"Grandfather…I think this belongs to you." King Triton raised his face when he heard his granddaughter´s voice talking to him for the first time, he could see that Melody was a very brave girl, he catch the trident and after that it lit a reddish yellow.

Melody got distracted when she gave back the trident and she fell from the ice when Morgana made an attempt of getting the power back. Ariel who was now released from the spell looked with suffering how her daughter was falling to the ground.

"Gotcha" Edward said as he grabbed Melody´s hand. He was standing in a good position, Melody was able to climb where her brother was and after that she took a deep breath.

They were amused when they saw how his grandfather shouted to Morgana that she will never hurt their family again.

"There will be no escape for you…ever!" He shot a blast to Morgana, who immediately froze. After that the ice palace started to shake.

"Hey Mel, I don´t want to rush you but I think that we should get away from here," said the redhead while he was standing up. "Because from my perspective we could get hurt here and I don´t want to spend my whole summer lying on bed."

"What do you suggest little brother? Jump to the water." Melody asked Edward trying to know what the idea was.

"Precisely, we´re not going to die if we jump from here, and we both can swim fast so… JUMP!" Both kids jumped from the ice that was starting to fall. They swam as fast as they could, when they reached to the shore Melody fell asleep exhausted.

"Dad?" She found herself being carried by her father, who seemed to be calmly. Oh I´m glad that he´s all right, I hope that they´re not so angry with me, especially mom.

"Oh, Melody, I was so afraid we'd lost you."

"I was afraid too…sorry."

"Don´t worry darling, you´re safe now, it´s all that matters." Melody smiled and hugged Eric after hearing those words from him.

He carefully let Melody joined Ariel, who was cleaning Edward´s cheek, clearly he wasn´t enjoying that. His face changed when he saw his sister approaching to them.

"I'm sorry, mother" Melody said as she hugged Ariel, she didn´t care if she was angry with her, she was really sorry for all that she´d done.

"Oh, no, sweetie, we're sorry," Wait, did mom just said that she´s sorry? Melody thought to herself. "We should have told you the truth before, to both of you." Ariel corrected herself when she saw Edward who was standing by Eric´s side.

"I didn´t mean to hurt anyone, and Eddie," turning to her brother "You saved me, you didn´t care of being afraid of heights, if you weren´t there I could…" Edward as seeing that Melody was still scared he decided to interrupt.

"Well of course, you know I´m afraid of heights, but if I had lost you, who will carry me to get the cookie jar from the kitchen." They all giggled after Edward´s joke. Melody hugged him tightly. "I guess it´s over. What a way to start summer vacations, you should run away from home more frequently you know." Edward said to Melody.

"Oh and sorry for what happened when we were at the castle…both castles," Edward turned to Melody trying to figure it out what was she talking about. "I mean first, because of running away without telling you and because of letting those rays hurt you and your friend."

"Nah, forget it, just please don´t do that again Mel, and don´t worry it didn´t hurt, at least I didn´t felt too much pain."

Melody just stared at Ariel who was looking at her with nothing but love, "I…I just hoped I'd be a better mermaid than a girl." She said with sadness in her words.

"Oh, Melody, sweetie, it doesn't matter if you have fins or feet. We love you and your brother for who you are on the inside, our very brave children."

"Just like their mother." King Triton said joining the little family. Melody couldn´t choose if she felt happy for meeting her grandfather or guilty for taking his trident or because she didn´t had a very thought of him because of the story Morgana told her, but as her parents and her brother, he didn´t seem to be angry with her, at least not as she knew, because she didn´t know him. She decided to take a risk, she never had met anyone in her family and she was happy to have someone else in her family.

"Oh grandfather." Melody said as she hugged him, she felt relieved when she felt that the old merman returned her the hug.

"Melody, I don't blame you for wanting to join us merfolk. And because you're my grandchildren, I'm giving you and your brother a most precious gift, I´m going to give both of you a choice. You can come to Atlantica with me or you can return to your home on land."

The girl turned to her parents and her brother, who was sharing the same worrying look in his face, will she became a mermaid and leave her home? Or Edward? What about her parents, she loved them, what if she had another option, maybe destroying the wall, if Morgana was gone, she was pretty sure that her parents will eventually remove it, there was no threat after all, not anymore.

"I have a better idea."

Okay, so I´m sorry for taking a long time to upload the chapter, but I wanted to write a good one, I read a few chapters of this story and I rushed it so, I´m taking this and the upcoming chapter (the last one of this story) and letting you know that it won´t end here, I´m working on a sequel, that´s all I can say right now. And by the way, I wanted to thank Many Faced Mage for giving me ideas for this chapter and for the nickname that Edward used with Morgana here. So I hope that you like this chapter and stay tuned for the next one. Thanks and don´t forget to R&R.