nina del carmen: Lol, it saddens me how people hate pink. But to each their own!

All of us gather around her as Ursula wheezes with every inhale and snorts with every exhale. I try to keep from giggling to not wake her up. Yvette readies her wrench. "Alrighty. Time to take out the kraken."

Victoria lowers her arm and whispers, "No! We can't! We have to take her to the blue house, remember?"

Yvette looks at her half-lidded. "The blue house?"

"Yes, we're calling it that!"

"What makes you think she'll come with us in the first place?" Yvette questioned agitatedly.

Ursula slowly gets rises up and rubs her eyes. My eyes bulge. "Guys?"

"We'll simply tell her that her life is in danger," Victoria continued. "She'll have to come with us!"

"I think you're forgetting how prideful these guys can be!" Yvette snaps back.

Ursula's eyes begin to open, and she smacks her lips. "Guys…" I repeat.

"Well, I think you're forgetting how important this whole mission is!" Victoria retorts.

"Guys!" I whisper as loud as I can. But already, Ursula yawns a giant yawn.

Lulu panics. "Shit! Hold on, I can handle this!" She gets out her remote and hits pause. Ursula's image becomes static and still. She waves her hands around in a cheesy gangster fashion. "Hah! Take that Ursula the Sea BITCH."

Alicia yells, "Lulu! What are you doing? You know that effect only lasts for a short time!"

Lulu gasps. "For how long? I forgot!"

I chime in, "How about if Lulu just keeps an eye on Ursula and keeps pausing every time she moves? Sound good?" Alicia thinks about it and nods. "Lulu, you are our lookout. Watch her, okay?" Lulu looks at her with a scrunched up face and sighs. "Fine, whatever."

Alicia turns to us. "Everyone else, let's start searching the place." We go in separate directions and look in our own areas. I search through her vanity and its drawers. Kayla calls out as she looks behind a chair, "What exactly are we looking for?"

Alicia answers as she searches through her bookshelf, "Something that would be sentimental or close to her."

Rose tells her as she looks through her closet, "Wouldn't that be too obvious?"

I answer as I look under her sitting stool, "Yvette was right when she said that villains are prideful. Especially, of their own things."

"Why thank you, Hannah," Yvette says. "At least, someone agrees with my inputs."

Victoria looks at me, irritated. "Stop encouraging her." I chuckle nervously and turn to Lulu. She stares intently at Ursula. She begins to move again and Lulu yelps out, pushing the pause button.

I begin my search again when Lulu calls out, "Hey, Alicia?"

"Yeah?" Alicia answers.

"You said it had to be something sentimental and close, right?"

"I did."

"Could her horocrux be something like…I don't know…a seashell necklace?"

We turn to Ursula and see that she indeed has that such accessory. Victoria smiles. "Good work! That's the seashell necklace that Ursula uses for power in the movie!"

Alicia nods. "Alright, Lulu. Now grab it."

Lulu says, "Well, thank you all, I…wait, what did you say?"

"Grab from her," Alicia says bluntly. "You found it, you take it."

Kayla cheers, "Yeah, Lulu! Time to be a hero!"

Lulu inhales through her teeth and says, "But…then I'd have to…go near her."

"Yeah?" Alicia says, one brow raised.

"And I'd have to…touch her."

"And?"

Lulu sighs. "Son of a beaver," she mumbles. Lulu hesitantly inches toward Ursula and reaches out slowly to her necklace. That's it, Lulu. Slowly…slowly…

Then Lulu grabs the shell and we all sigh with relief. She shouts cockily, "Ha ha! Once again, I, the great Lulu Calliope have succeeded in…doing something!"

Alicia says, "That's wonderful, Lulu. Now, let's get going…"

"Never before has Lulu Calliope taken on such a challenge as going against the sea monster, Ursula. But there is no challenge too…challenging for this Lulu."

Victoria rolls her eyes. "Come on, Lulu."

But Lulu continues her speech. "Courageous is she. Bold is she. Gorgeous is she! Lulu Calliope is all of the above and more."

"Lulu…" I say. "The effects are going to wear off soon…"

"Nevermore will Ursula, the scourge of Atlantica, be anything more than just a huge mass of meat fit only for the cruddiest calamari fed to prison people! For I, Lulu Calliope—" Her wrist gets grabbed by a violet hand, and Lulu's eyes bulge out.

If looks could kill, Ursula's smirk and death stare would be a stab in our faces. Multiple stabs.

"Well now. I am quite surprised," Ursula starts. "I didn't think I'd have any guests stop by."

Lulu nervously giggles. "He…he he…he… HEEEEEEELLLLLLLPPP!"

Ursula begins to slowly, only to raise her voice. "What in the name of Poseidon are you all doing with MY THINGS!?" Ursula yells.

Rose looks at the top she had been holding from her closet. She slowly puts it away and closes the door. "Umm…beauty tips?"

Ursula looks at her dumbfounded. "So, you thought that you can just gallivant around my cave and go through my belongings just to get beauty tips?"

Kayla stammers out while keeping herself hidden behind me, "Y-yea?"

Then, Ursula does the most out-of-character-thing for a villain that I ever have witnessed. She beams from ear to ear and says, "Why didn't you say so?!" She rushes over to her vanity and pulls out a bunch of her make-up. And I mean a bunch. She can make Sephora look like a seven-year-old girl's Barbie's First Make-Up Kit. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that exists.

Alicia and Victoria give each other a confused glance. They look at me, and I shrug. Lulu comes up to me with a paled-out face. Boy, is she traumatized. "You okay?" I ask. She looks off to the distance and asks, "Can you hold me for a few minutes?"

"This is truly exciting for me!" Ursula says with glee. "I'm sure you have all heard of my little 'reformation'," she says the word as if it were an annoyance to say. "But it's been a while since anybody has truly wanted to see me for anything! Not one merperson has wanted to make any deal with me. It's really bad for my business. The only other visits I've had was when that young lady came along."

Alicia's brows were raised. "Young lady? What was her name?"

"Oh, the child had a simple yet sweet name," Ursula says. "Jenna, I believe it was."

We all gasp. I smile, "So, she's been here?"

"Yes, and she is such an angelfish. Although even a pretty face like hers needed a touch of color." Ursula turns to me and gives a couple of tsks. "Oh honey, I believe you are in need of it, too."

"Me?"

"Of course!" Ursula swims over, grabs me, and sits me down. I think I squealed out in fright, but my brain wasn't functioning probably from being grabbed by her, so I can't fully comprehend what I did. "Your face is much too pale for there to be nothing on it." She grabs one of her lipsticks and applies it on herself, checks herself in the mirror, and says, "Oh yes, this will do for you. Here."

I lean back. "No, thank you. I don't…" But she slides it across my mouth anyway and even rubs some on my cheeks. "There now. A little color on your cheeks and lips does wonders. You look perfect!" I look at the dark mauve colors that are smeared on my face and fully disagree. Still, I can't hurt her feelings when she didn't even kill us for giving her a rude awakening. "Uh, thanks…"

Alicia goes up to her. "Listen, we are looking for Jenna, the girl you've spoken of."

Ursula frowns. "Why so? Has something happened?"

I say as I continue to ponder at my face. "She's gone missing."

"Missing?! My gracious, that poor child! She was the only decent mermaid around these parts! I miss our conversations of how much we both find Ariel a complete nuisance." She chuckles. "There was this one joke she had about how fake her red hair must be. I believe she said, and I quote, that it's 'the color of a giant rash on a whale's bottom.'" Ursula laughs and dries a tear from her eye. "The darling girl."

Alicia continues, "Do you know where she is?"

Ursula puts a finger to her chin. "I can't say that I do. One day she said she had other people to meet with and never returned." She sighs. "She's like the little sister I've never had."

"What about Morgana?" asks Kayla.

"What about her? She's nothing but an insignificant little…"

"Witch?" A voice says from the doorway. We all jump and turn to see Morgana leaning against the rocky frame of the entrance.

Ursula merely smirks. "Precisely."

"Oh, come now, dear sister. You've called me worse than that. Losing your touch? Could it be possible that your 'friend' softened you up?"

Ursula glares at her. "You should be just as grateful for what she's done for us all as I am."

"But I am grateful! It gives me the chance to regain my strength to try to completely take over Atlantica. And perhaps beyond. Meanwhile, you're having chit-chats with your puny little merpossy."

I start to choke on the sibling rivalry in the air. The other girls back up against the wall as Morgana gets closer to her sister. Ursula snarls. "What do you even want, you little pest?"

"I simply wish to inform you of my intentions to take over soon."

Victoria gasps. "You can't do that!"

"And she won't." Alicia grabs her ring and points it at her. "Leave or you'll regret coming here."

Morgana laughs. "A pin? What are you going to do? Stick it in me?"

Alicia smirks. "Not exactly." She shoots a beam of psychic energy, sending her out the door.

Our jaws drop to the floor at seeing Morgana getting thrown out. Her body crashed against a sea boulder, and remnants of the rock she hit fell all around her. Morgana coughs before getting back up. She glares at Alicia and says, "You think this is over, child? I will be ba-!"

Alicia sends another beam. Morgana yelps out, dodges it, and swims away.

Ursula sighs and puts a hand to her forehead. "What am I going to do with her?"

Kayla's eyes light up. "That reminds me! We need to visit the other characters like Ariel and Melody!"

I sigh. Morgana just had to show up.

"Let's go see them!" Kayla chippers.

Ursula sulks. "Are you sure you all don't want to stay for makeovers? I can have the cat lady over there pull off a berry palette like you wouldn't belie—"

"Hold on!" Alicia yells. She turns her pin to Ursula. "You're going to do three things. You're going to give us that necklace, come with us, and tell us where Jenna went to."

Author's Disclaimer: I do not own anything Disney-related. All rights to Disney. We only own our OCs.