Here we go, the third and last chapter of the Atlantica arc. Just so you all know, I decided to not include the first fight with Ursula. That battle was just kinda annoying to me. Anyway, I hope ya'll enjoy Chapter 26.
Chapter 26 - The Crystal Trident
Atlantica - Triton's Throne
King Triton was sitting in his chair. He looked very, very weak. Ariel was staring horrified between her weakened father, and the person who caused him to lose his strength. Sebastian also looked on aghast at the king's condition. Ursula was laughing meniacally as she held the golden trident in her hands.
"The trident is mine hand at last!" she cackled as she gazed longingly at the powerful weapon. Then she turned to the two merpeople and grinned evilly. "And I couldn't have done it without your help, my dear."
Ariel looked mortified at what she had done. How could she have been so foolish? "Ursula, no! I didn't want this!"
Ursula's eels, Floatsom and Jetsom, began to swim around Ariel and King Triton. "Why not?" Ursula asked her with an evil smile. "Aren't you tired of following your dear daddy's orders?"
That sentence reminded the sea witch of something. "Oh yes. We had a deal, didn't we?" Ariel looked devastated at Ursula. "Time for a little journey... to the dark world of the Heartless!"
Floatsom and Jetsom had returned to Ursula. "We cannot find the keyhole." croaked Jetsom. "The keyhole is not here." added Floatsom.
"What!" yelled a shocked and angry Ursula. Before she could shout in rage however, she heard something behind her. She turned her head slightly to see Cody and his guardians approaching her.
"Why, we have company." she chuckled. "I'm afraid you're a little late, handsome!" she cackled again as she and her two minions disappeared in a cloud of dark ink.
Cody swam harder to try and catch the sea witch, but by the time he reached the spot, she had disappeared. "Darn it! she got away."
Flounder swam hastily toward Ariel and King Triton. Cody looked in horror at the shape the King was in. He looked very weak. Lindsay tried to heal him, but it didn't work. It seemed that Triton had lost power when his trident was stolen.
"Daddy!" muttered a very sad Ariel. King Triton turned to his daughter, however he did not appear angry, to Bridgette's relief.
"The trident..." stuttered the king weakly. "We must get it back. Ursula may be heading for the open ocean."
"Come on, let's go guys!" yelled Cody.
"Why? we don't owe him." whispered an irritable Noah. Cody and Bridgette frowned at him. "Don't you remember how he's treated us?"
"Yes. But if we don't get his trident back, Ursula's going to destroy this world with it." replied Bridgette fiercely. "Plus, it's the right thing to do."
Noah looked between his friends faces, then he sighed in defeat. They were right, of course they were right. He nodded, Cody, Bridgette and Lindsay smiled in response.
Ariel swam over to her friends before they left the throne room. "Wait!" she told them pleadingly. "I'm going with you. My father is hurt and it's all my fault. I have to stop Ursula!"
Cody smiled and nodded. "Of course you do. Come on, let's go." he turned back to King Triton and Flounder. "Flounder, you look after the king."
"Okay." replied the fish.
"I'll go with you too." said a determined Sebastian. The crab swam over to Cody's group and landed in Ariel's hands, who smiled gratefully. "I'm right behind you, Ariel."
"Don't worry Your Majesty, we'll get that trident back before you know it." Lindsay proclaimed to the king of the seas.
King Triton stared at Ariel and her new friends. He then smiled and nodded gratefully. Cody, Ariel and the others swam out of the throne room.
"Maybe... I was wrong about you, keyblade master." he muttered weakly. "Good luck everyone."
Atlantica - Triton's Palace
Immediately after leaving the throne room, Cody's group ran into some Heartless. There were six Screwdrivers, as well as a large, new kind. This Heartless looked like a very large anglerfish, shaped like a beach ball. It was blue, had a yellow angler that curved inward, long, spiky flippers and the Heartles symbol on it's abdomen.
"Great. Not these guys again." grumbled Noah, looking at the Screwdrivers.
"That is a really, really big Heartless, guys." said Lindsay timidly as the Aquatank charged at the fivesome. Everyone dodged and separated to fight the Heartless.
Cody fought against the Aquatank. He slashed away at the fish Heartless, who would charge at him or swing it's flippers to get him to stop. After a while, the Aquatank burst into black bubbles.
The Screwdrivers would dash around like before, but the five heroes had now found out the timing of when they dashed and stopped. So now they weren't as challenging as they were before. Bridgette used her Aquaspheres at two Screwdrivers and destroyed them, Noah and Ariel used thunder spells that killed three more, and Lindsay reflected the attack of the last one, which stunned it, and allowed Bridgette to finish it off with her trident.
The battle had been won. Everyone made their weapons vanish as Cody asked Ariel "What's the fasted way to the open ocean?"
"Through the current we went through earlier." answered Ariel.
"Well then, what are we waiting for? Let's hurry and stop Ursula." said Bridgette.
Ursula had just exited the current and travelled through the cave and had reached the open ocean at last. Her lair wasn't very far from here. Floatsom and Jetsom swam alongside her.
However, she got the feeling that someone was following her. She turned around, and sure enough, she was indeed being followed by the keyblade master and Triton's daughter, as well as those foolish friends of their's. She stopped, turned and glared at Cody, Bridgette, Ariel, Noah and Lindsay.
"Stop right there, Ursula! You can't run from us!" shouted Lindsay fiercely.
"You're time has come!" added Sebastian, on Lindsay's shoulder. Ursula growled, which made Sebastian hide behind a frightened Lindsay. Then she cackled loudly.
"You pitiful, insignifcant fools!" shouted an amused Ursula. "You dare challenge the new ruler of the oceans?" she pointed her trident at the teens and fired a bolt of lightning.
Lindsay swam up and summoned her Reflera spell before it could hit her friends, and the shot rebounded and hit the two eels, who burst into dust a few seconds later. Ursula looked in horror at the deaths of her pets. She then looked back at the teens in rage.
"See what you did now, Lindsay? You've pissed her off." grumbled Noah.
"But, she would have killed us if I hadn't done that." said Lindsay defensively. Noah smacked his forehead.
Ursula shouted in rage. "I rule the seas now!" She suddenly began to glow. Cody suddenly looked down to see a large cloud of darkness had appeared below them.
"Oooooh myyyy gooooosh!" yelled a wide eyed Bridgette. Cody looked back up to see that Ursula was growing in size. Everyone's eyes widened as the sea witch was now the size of a skyscrapper, as was the trident she held.
"THE SEA AND ALL ITS SPOILS! BOW TO MY POWER!"
The sea witch grinned evilly at the five teenagers. They noticed that she now wore the same crown on her head as the one King Triton usually wears.
"W-W-What do we do now Cody?" stuttered an obviously scared Lindsay.
Cody had to admit, he was scared. He had no idea how they were going to defeat Ursula now. But as the key bearer, he knew that he had to do something. He summoned his keyblade as he glared at the giant sea witch.
"We're going to stop her." he said with fierce determination. "Here and now."
"I was afraid you were going to say that." whined Noah, but he summoned his spellbook nonetheless.
Bridgette and Lindsay summoned their weapons too. Cody looked at Ariel. They nodded. Then they all charged toward Ursula's face.
Ursula laughed as the five teenagers came at her. "Not so fast!" She shot giant bubbles from her mouth that exploded when they reached Cody's group. They were able to dodge the attack though, and had reached the sea witch's head. They immediately began to attack.
"Get ready for this!" Ursula shouted, bringing her head back and shooting more bubbles from her mouth. Cody, Bridgette and the other three backed away and avoided her bombs. They once again began to attack her head.
"You dare to strike me!" shouted the sea witch in rage. She then took a deep breath. Suddenly Cody felt himself getting pulled toward Ursula. Her inhaling acted like a vacuum, and was trying to suck them all into her mouth.
Lindsay, Noah and Ariel hid behind Ursula's head, so they were out of danger. Cody however felt himself getting pulled toward Ursula's mouth. He tried to swim against it, but the force was really strong. He was about to be swallowed, when Ursula felt something hit her in the eye. Cody felt the pull disappear, he looked back to see Bridgette had shot a geyser into Ursula's eye.
"Thanks Bridgette." Cody told his crush appreciatively.
"No problem." she replied with a smile. "Now, let's kick this witch's butt."
Cody swam over and began swinging his keyblade at the dazed Ursula. Ariel and Noah used spells, Lindsay swung her wand and Bridgette slashed at the sea witch's head as well. Ursula could do nothing until she regained her breath.
"Insignificant fools!" she shouted after regaining her breath. She shot off some more bubble bombs. Ariel and Bridgette got hit hard by the attacks, but Lindsay used Cure and healed them. Suddenly, Ursula began to take a deep breath. Cody figured that she was going to try her vacuum move, until Bridgette informed him that something wasn't right.
"Everybody move out of the way!" she screamed.
Ursula shot off a huge beam of light. Cody and Ariel were just able to dodge the humungous attack. The destructive beam flew into the side of a large seamount, which caused a huge explosion which destroyed the underwater mountain completely. Cody, Bridgette and Ariel stared in frightened awe at what Ursula had just done.
"Whoa. That's some power that she's got." muttered Cody.
"That's the trident's power." Ariel informed them. "In the wrong hands, it can be devastating."
"We need to watch out for that attack." added Bridgette. the three of them turned to see that Ursula was trying to catch her breath again. So they took the opportunity to attack her face again, Lindsay and Noah were already doing this.
Noah read in his book, he felt that now was the best time for the spell he had finally perfected. However, before he could use it, Ursula regained her strength and shouted "Now I'm angry! Time to teach you some respect!"
She raised the giant trident into the air. About twenty bolts of lightning rained down from above. Striking all five teens. While they hadn't killed them, the attack had done some real damage to the teens. Ursula began to cackle again.
"Now! Prepare to die, foolish children! This won't be pretty!" she said before she began to take another deep breath.
Cody looked in horror as the sea witch prepared to unleash that devastating cannon beam. He couldn't move, he couldn't do anything to stop her. He felt so helpless.
Noah felt really weakened. But using what little strength he had, he raised his hand into the air. His red wristband began to glow bright yellow. He yelled rather weakly "Thundara!"
Thunderbolts, larger and more powerful than before, rained down onto the unsuspecting giant. She felt the bolts strike her and she cried out in pain before she could use her destructive attack.
Lindsay then raised her wand and healed everybody. Cody felt the pain disappear, so did Noah, as well as Ariel, Bridgette and Lindsay herself. They looked up to see that Ursula was very weakened from Noah's upgraded thunder spell.
"Wow! Great thunder spell, Noah." praised Ariel. Noah blushed and looked rather smug.
"Alright you guys, let's finish this!" yelled Cody as he swam and charged at Ursula. The others followed him. Ursula couldn't move as the teenagers began their assault on her face again.
Ariel used her corkscrew attack, which was followed by another Thundara spell from Noah. Bridgette followed up with her Aquaspheres. Cody used Ariel Sweep, then immediately used the Sonic Blade afterward. Six attacks later, Ursula screamed in fear as Cody thrust his final attack onto her.
Ursula clutched her throat. Bubbles began streaming from her mouth. It looked as if she was choking. Cody, Noah, Lindsay, Bridgette and Ariel swam away as the sea witch gasped for breath. Lightning bolts began erupting from her. She screamed as loud as she could, causing the teens to cover their ears from the sound. Then, the giant, evil sea witch burst into a huge black cloud of smoke. Ursula was gone. They had won.
Suddenly, a light shone in the darkness. When the dark cloud had vanished, the golden trident stood stationary, back to it's original size. Ariel went over and grabbed her father's trident and hugged it tightly, happy that she had gotten it back.
Cody swam over and grabbed the sheet of paper that had appeared next to the trident. Bridgette, Lindsay and Noah joined as they all looked at another piece of Ansem's report. To their surprise, the seawater wasn't diluding the ink. They nodded to each other.
Suddenly, someone had thrown their arms around Cody. "Thank you so much, Cody." cheered a happy Ariel.
Cody blushed. He was shocked that the mermaid was hugging him, but he smiled and hugged her back. Bridgette looked at the two jealously. The mermaid, seeing the surfer girl's face, immediately broke the hug. Then she went and hugged her, much to Bridgette's surprise.
"Thank you, Bridgette." she whispered. Bridgette's expression changed as she hugged Ariel back. Ariel then went and hugged Lindsay and Noah too. Sebastian than emerged from his hiding spot.
"Good job, everyone!" he congratulated. "Now let's get that trident back to the sea king."
They all nodded. Still clutching her father's trident, Ariel led them all back to the palace.
Atlantica - Triton's Throne
King Triton sat in his throne, returned to full strentgh and holding his trident again. He looked down at his daughter and her friends, while Sebastian sat next to him.
"Daddy, I'm so sorry." Ariel apologized, feeling deeply ashamed of herself.
"Please don't be angry with her Your Majesty." Cody pleaded with the sea king.
"No, I am sorry." King Triton began sadly, shaking his head apologetically. "It's my fault. You followed Ursula because I wouldn't let you follow your heart. And when you found that crystal trident, I lost my temper and destroyed it."
"Oh yeah. Why did you destroy it, King Triton?" asked a curious Bridgette.
"That crystal held the power to reveal the keyhole." answered Triton. Cody's mouth dropped at this revelation, so did the other threes'. Ariel looked shocked as well. King Triton continued. "The keyhole is dangerous, I had to keep you away from it at any cost."
"Daddy..." muttered Ariel. Triton turned to Cody.
"Key bearer, I have one more request: Seal the keyhole. My trident also has the power to reveal the keyhole. Will you do it?"
"Of course, sir." answered Cody immediately. "We had planned to do that from the start."
Triton chuckled as he gazed at the boy. "Well, It appears I was the foolish one then." Cody smiled at the king.
"Where is the keyhole, daddy?" asked Ariel.
"You should know better than anyone." chuckled King Triton, surprised that she didn't know. "It's in you're grotto."
"Really?" Noah exclaimed, then he turned to his best friend. "Let's go seal it, Cody."
"Right." replied the tech geek. King Triton handed his trident to Ariel, who smiled happily and kissed his cheek. She, Cody, his guardians, Flounder and Sebastian prepared to leave.
"Key bearer," King Triton called one last time. "Thank you for everything. And I apologize for mistrusting you and your friends."
"It's alright Your Majesty." Cody said gratefully. He, Bridgette, Lindsay and Noah all bowed to the sea king, who smiled and nodded in response. Then they, Ariel, Sebastian and Flounder left to seal Atlantica's keyhole.
Atlantica - Ariel's Grotto
The group of seven had reached the grotto at last and gazed at the tablet on the wall as sunlight shined down into the area, making the water a little warm.
Ariel held out her father's trident as it began to glow. Then it hovered out of her hands, and turned itself vertically. So the trident carving on the tablet lined up with the glowing trident.
Then the carving began to glow bright blue. Suddenly, a jet of bubbles started shooting up from the rock in the center of the grotto, making everyone back away. A shining cube made completely of water appeared a moment later. In the center was a keyhole.
Cody pointed the keyblade at the keyhole. A beam of light shot from the blade and hit the keyhole. The familiar locking sound was heard as a light shined brightly. When it died down, the keyhole was gone. Then the watery cube itself vanished in a stream of bubbles. Cody made his weapon disappear as he smiled at Bridgette, Noah and Lindsay.
"Tell me, guys." Ariel asked them anxiously. "Your world, what's it like?"
The four teens looked at her sadly. Ariel must have found out about them not being from another ocean.
"Um, about that..." began Lindsay sadly. "We're sorry for lying to you."
Ariel just smiled and shook her head. "It's okay. Besides, if you all can travel to other worlds, maybe I can too." Ariel began to swim up and she gazed up at the silouette of the sun above them. "So many places I want to see..." she said longingly, spinning around. "I just know I'll get there someday."
Cody and Bridgette looked up happily at the mermaid. Ariel swam back down toward her friends. "I just know it. I'll find a way somehow."
The tech geek and Bridgette nodded, so did Lindsay and Noah. Sebastian however... "Well, if you find it, do me a favor and leave me out of it." he whined. Everybody in the grotto laughed.
Cody looked up at the surface. "I guess it's time for us to get going you guys." he told his guardians. He then said to Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian. "Bye Ariel, I hope things go well here."
"You're leaving already?" Sebastian asked him.
"We have to." Bridgette informed them. "We need to keep the Heartless from attacking other worlds. It's our job after all."
Ariel nodded. "We know. Thank you so much everyone."
"Yeah, you guys are welcome here anytime." added Flounder.
"Thanks guys." said Lindsay happily. "Hope to see you again." she waved as she followed Cody and Noah out of the grotto. They swam up since the surface wasn't very far from there.
"Bye Ariel, I'm gonna miss you all." Bridgette was about to follow her friends when Ariel called her back. "Wait, Bridgette." The surfer girl turned back around.
"I didn't mean to make you jealous earlier." she told her. Bridgette looked rather confused. Ariel elaborated. "I was just thanking Cody earlier, and I think I rubbed you the wrong way with that." she added rather impishly.
Bridgette stood there stunned. "I don't know what your talking about!" she stammered nervously, pretending she didn't know what the mermaid meant.
Ariel just giggled at the surfer girl. "It's okay Bridgette. I think you and Cody would look so cute together."
Bridgette blushed, she finally calmed down and smiled. "Thanks Ariel, see you around. Bye guys." she said as she finally left the grotto. Ariel, Sebastian and Flounder waved as their friends rose until they were out of sight.
And there you have it. I hope you enjoyed the Little Mermaid portion of Kingdom Hearts: Cody's Story. I have to say, I loved this world in the game. I'm a huge marine biology person, you see. And at last, Bridgette seems to be falling for Cody. Finally! Cody has already fallen for Bridgette, but now Bridgette's in love with Cody as well. I just wish it could happen in the actual Total Drama.
One again, I'm sorry to anyone who wanted to see the battle in Ursula's lair. I just never liked that fight to be honest.
Let me know what you guys think of Atlantica. And stay tuned for more Kingdom Hearts: Cody's Story.