Book Two: Ocheana

Chapter Two: Ariel

I struggled to keep with Ariel, Araxie, and Flounder and the rest, Korra was about the natural speed of a being, is a natural water bender I guess, swam faster than any of us. We eventually reached the surface, Ariel set down her brown sack on a nearby rock with a seagull, with a telescope?

Wan rolled his eyes at my confusion, then said, "Throw logic out remember?"

I huffed as we wade closer, Araxie was just watching the entire thing, "Scuttle, look what we found!" Ariel pulled out a fork. "Yeah, we were in this sunken ship, it was really creepy," Flounder added. Arixie eyes widen, "You went into a sunken ship?"

"I guess so!" Ariel smiled at Araxie, The relatively wise Scuttle looked at the fork, he surveyed it closely then came up with a conclusion. "it's a dinglehopper! Humans use these little babies, to straighten their hair out. See - just a little twirl here an' a yank there and - viola! You got an aesthetically pleasing configuration of hair that humans go nuts over!"

I giggled at his guess, "Good guess, but no..." I smiled at Scuttle who looked perplexed, I swim towards ariel. "This is really called a fork, it's really for eating things like salads or steamed sea prunes. But it can be a dinglehopper if you want it to be." I handed the fork back to ariel, who looked even more interested. "You know human things?"

"Sure yeah, so does my brothers and sister." I added winking at my past lives, Aang joined in "We can help you learn more if you want!" he grinned, Ariel seemed to glow at that prospect, Scuttle relaxed, "Well, my job here is done! You found yourself human experts!"

"Yeah, we can teach you about human music and-" Korra was interrupted by Ariel gasping in shock,

"Music? Oh, the concert! Oh my gosh, my father's gonna kill me!" Ariel packed her artifacts back into her bag, "Wait that was today?" Arixie and Flounder said in unison.

"You need a planer." I joked but hoping Ariel's father would be forgiving enough to let her off the hook, " Uh, I'm sorry, I've gotta go. Thank you Scuttle!" That was our way back, we all waved goodbye and swam back in.

The rest of us were eavesdropping on the conversation with her father, Araxie decided to not sneak up.

"I just don't know what we're going to do with you, young lady." Ariel's Father's voice boomed through the palace.

"Daddy, I'm sorry, I just forgot, I-" Ariel started to make excuses until a red crab started to join King Triton's rant.

"As a result of your careless behavior," The crab added on.

"Careless and reckless behavior the entire celebration was, er-"

"Well, it was ruined! That's all. Completely destroyed! This concert was to be the pinnacle of my distinguished career. Now thanks to you I am the laughing stock of the entire kingdom!" Flounder quickly went in Ariel's defense.

"But it wasn't her fault! Ah - well - first, ahh, this shark chased us - yeah - yeah! And we tried to - but we couldn't - and - grrrrrrrrr - and - and we - whoooaaaaaa - oh, and then we were safe. But then this seagull came, and it was this is this, and that is that, and -"

Oh no. I thought to myself.

"Seagull? What? Oh - you went up to the surface again, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?" The king yelled as he stood up from his throne, Ariel backed up slowly.

"Nothing - happened. "

"Oh, Ariel, How many times must we go through this? You could've been seen by one of those barbarians - by - by one of those humans!"

All of us cringed at that exact moment, Wan huffed in disdain.

"Daddy, they're not barbarians!"

"They're dangerous. Do you think I want to see my youngest daughter snared by some fish-eater's hook?"

"Well excuse me I'm vegetarian," Aang whispered as he crossed his arms.

"I'm sixteen years old - I'm not a child anymore!" Ariel yelled back,

"Don't you take that tone of voice with me, young lady. As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules"

"But if you would just listen-"

"Not another word - and I am never, NEVER to hear of you going to the surface again, Is that clear?" Ariel was near tears, then she rushed off in a fit of sadness.

"Yikes. Well, that was speciesist." I said as we swam home, Wan sighed, "Well humans don't have the best reputation in my time."

"Same here!" Korra and Aang chimed in.

"I'm not going to dwell on it too much, besides I'm hungry and thirsty." Wan stopped while the team kept swimming.

"I'll meet up with you all later, I need to clear my mind."

"Alright, we'll see ya around!" I waved goodbye, I felt something off about Wan.

A/N Part two is done! So do people have any theories about What's going on with Wan? If you do tell me!