A/N: This chapter is set a few days from the last chapter.

Chapter 10

Arista crossed her arms together as she tiredly asked, "Ariel, aren't you done in the shower yet? You've been there for about an hour now. Could you please hurry up?"

And as if on cue the bleach blonde haired mermaid's sister swam out of the shower and sat in front of a mirror while she held onto a flower as she also hummed a certain tune. While she was doing this though one of her other sister's asked, "What is with her today?"

Deciding that a shower could wait the red tailed mermaid watched as her younger sister combed her hair for a little bit before she swam up away from the mirror and towards the exit of the room. But before she was able to leave Arista saw that Ariel had bumped into their father as she let out a giggle and kissed him on the cheek while she greeted him with, "Morning, Daddy."

Hearing this only caused King Triton to let out a soft laugh in response. But while the red headed mermaid was leaving she then bumped into Balto as she smiled up at him with a dreamy type look and said, "Balto, good morning."

The bleach blonde haired mermaid watched as her sister placed the flower behind his right ear as he looked down at her with his own dreamy stare as he softly replied, "Good morning."

While two swam off hand in hand one of the red tailed emrmaid's sisters commented with, "Boy, do those two have it bad."

Hearing this caused the merking to give all of his other daughters a confused look as he asked, "W-What do they got?"

"Isn't it obvious, Dad?" Arista asked, as she decided to put her hands together to try and help her father get the picture. She then batted her eyes a little as she added, "Ariel and Balto are in love with one another."

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Balto floated down onto his bed later on that night with a content smile on his face. He still couldn't believe how great things were going between him and Ariel, but he still couldn't decide on how to tell the princess that he loved her. But then the thought of her not returning the feeling caused him to sigh heavily as he let out, "Maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up too quickly."

"Yes, that'd be the best thing for you to do right now." Someone replied, causing the merwolf to shoot his head up.

When he finally found the voice of the intruder though he only saw both of Ursula's eels as he replied, "Oh, it's you two." He then looked around a few times before he swam up to them and continued in a slight whisper, "So what do you two want?"

Both eels glared at the brown eyed merwolf as one of them answered with, "We're to remind about your deal with Ursula." The other then went on with, "Yes, she has been very patient with you. However, she is very unhappy with the fact that you have yet to bring her the trident."

"Well, what can I say. I guess it just slipped my mind." The brownish grey furred merwolf replied, as he rubbed the back of his head.

"If that's the case then might we suggest you go get the trident right now." The eel on the left calmly shot back, as he looked in the direction of the throne room. The one on the right continued with, "Yes, now would be your best chance to get it. Seeing as King Triton has left to go talk to his youngest daughter."

Balto knew that the two were talking about Ariel as his ears folded onto the back of his head as he asked, "Alright so if I do this then my contract with the sea witch will be gone right?"

"Of course." Both eels answered, as they looked back at the merwolf with smiles spread across their faces.

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Ariel swam out of her father's room happier then she had ever felt. The red haired mermaid's eyes widen with excitement as she said, "I have to go tell Balto the wonderful news." And after a little while the princess came to the merowlf's room as she pushed the curtain out of the way while she added, "Balto, I have to tell you something. My Father is willing to-" The blue eyed mermaid stopped herself midway though when she saw that his room was empty as she put a hand under her chin while she continued with, "Gee, I thought for sure he'd be in his room. Maybe I should go look for him."

But while Ariel was swimming out of the anthro sea wolf's room she looked ahead of her and noticed that something or rather someone was swimming away from the castle. This had caught the princess's attention as she swam up to a nearby pillar and peered around it. She then looked on as she saw that this person was Balto, who had her father's trident. Along with that Ursula's two henchmen swam on either side of the merwolf as the blue eyed mermaid thought, "What is Balto doing with Daddy's trident? And why are Ursula's henchmen with him?" The red haired mermaid gently began to follow the trio while ended with, "Well, no matter the reason I have to follow them and find out why Balto would do something like this."

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After quite a ways of swimming Balto and the two eels had stopped in a deserted part of the ocean. The merwolf then looked ahead of him and saw the sea witch head towards him as she commented with, "You certainly took your time when it came to bringing me the trident, furball."

"And what makes you think I'm just going to hand this over to you?" The brown eyed merwolf shot back, as he glared at the sea witch.

He then saw that same contract that he had signed as it appeared in front of him while the witch replied with, "Well, if you take a look at the contract that you signed it clearly says that you have to hand the trident over to me."

When the anthro sea wolf looked down and saw what was really written there he smirked as he responded with, "Actually if you look at the bottom of it near my signature. The contract only says that I have to bring you the trident...and not hand it over to you." He then raised the weapon and pointed at it the octopus woman. The trident then began to glow and while it did this Balto ended with, "And now I'm going to get rid of you once and for all."

Before he could release the magic that was inside the trident he felt a furry hand roughly grab him by the shoulder as a familiar voice said, "Sorry wolf dog, but I can't let you do that."

The brownish grey furred merwolf then found himself being slammed into a nearby boulder. And when he looked in front of him his eyes widen in shock as he asked, "Steele, what are you doing here?"