Chapter 10

Trouble

Marty breached the surface and immediately ripped off his mask. He took deep breaths to try and calm himself, all the while thoughts were rushing around in his head. He couldn't get his mind off the fact that they all thought that he was a weird fish.

"What have I gotten myself into?" Marty said to himself shaking his head. He looked towards land and thought about what he should do.

"I have to make my decision now" Marty said to himself. If he decided to go back down below the waves, he would have to remain there until the three day trip was up. If he chose to go back to land however, he would never see her again.

Little did Marty know, a little red crab was watching him.

"Dat's no fish! Dat's a man! A human! Oh the sea king would kill him if he knew humans could live underwater" Sebastian whispered to himself.

Marty made his decision and pulled his mask back on. He looked back at the island in the distance with a rundown castle by the shore before diving beneath the waves.

Sebastian watched as the human dived below the waves and swam off towards Atlantica. Deciding not to tell the king, but rather question Ariel later. Sebastian followed the human back to the castle keeping his distance.

Swimming back to the beautiful city was easy, and so was finding the castle. But for Marty, finding the dinning room was going to be a challenge. He wandered through the halls before finally giving up. He turned around and came face to face with a bright red crab with crossed arms.

"Just what are you doing wandering the halls of the palace?" Sebastian asked. He knew they were in the treasury hallway. Behind each door were jewels and shells of very valuable nature, even to the humans. Sebastian knew the human was planning on stealing something before running off to the surface where the king would never find him.

"I'm trying to find the dinning room can you please help me?" Marty said in a relived and yet stressed tone. And for some reason Sebastian believed him. He didn't know why, he just knew the human was telling the truth.

"Your in da wrong part of da palace" Sebastian said. "Da Dinning room is on de other side of da palace" He said pointing behind him.

"Thanks, Oh and by the way. Is everyone still eating?" Marty asked as he began to swim away.

"Dey should be" He said.

"Thanks again!" Marty replied eagerly swimming off. By the time he reached the dinning room his legs were throbbing from swimming. He could tell that only by being underwater for a few hours, his legs were getting stronger.

"Ah I see you've decided to join us again!" Triton said with a smile. As he said it all eyes in the room fell on him as he swam forward. He made his way to his seat next to Ariel and Triton and sat down. The beautiful red head next to him gave him a calm reassuring smile. He instantly felt better and relaxed his muscles.

He sat there admiring Ariel and being intimidated by Triton's large looming figure throughout dinner. Once everyone had eaten Triton decided to ask why Marty didn't eat anything.

"Marty?" Triton said in a clear concerned voice. "Why didn't you eat anything?" he asked.

"I don't eat" Marty said. He knew that he shouldn't lie, it would eventually come back to get him like always. However Marty didn't have much choice in this case.

"Is that so? Tell me then, how are you able to survive?" Triton asked genuinely curious.

"I don't know" Marty shrugged. "I guess I just... do" he said.

"Very well then" Triton said rubbing his chin.

Marty bowed and swam off to his room where he would finally have some peace.