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The gang was near the sunken ship, just as musty as ever.

"Atlantica!" Riku cried. "And Ariel!"

"And Ursula." Kairi pointed at the cloud of ink that Ursula was rising from.

"Insolent fools. With Eric, I'll lure that troublesome mermaid into a trap." She cackled and disappeared.

Riku shot off towards the palace. "Where are you going?" Donald called.

"To save Ariel!" Riku yelled back to them.

"Riku!" Goofy shouted. The shark swam up from the depths and glared at Riku.

"Attack!" Sora yelled. They swan forward.

"GRAVIKU!" Donald yelled.

Sora tried the new attack from the Xavier institute. "PULSE!" Magnetic Pulses shot through the water and hit the shark.

"HERE!" It was Ariel. She spiraled at the shark and hit him. The shark stared at her. "Stay back." She yelled to Sora, who began to advance. "I got this." The shark slowly swam forward. "I got this." She repeated to herself. "I got this." The shark tried to take a bite out of her. "I don't got this."

She swam as fast as her fin could take her. Until she reached an enormous anchor. She swam through it. So did the shark, and sharks aren't quite as small as anchors. The shark was caught.

"Ha!" Kairi laughed. "Take that."

"Ariel!" A man's voice echoed through the area. At first, they thought it was Triton, but this voice was young. "Ariel!" A man about Ariel's age came towards them. He had a light blue tail, ink black hair, and blue eyes.

"What is this place?" The man asked.

"Eric? What are you doing here?" Ariel asked.

"I don't know either. I was . . . gone. I don't know. It's like I was suddenly here." Eric said.

"Sora." Soras own voice had said this. He turned to the source of the voice. The clones were standing behind him.

"Not you clones again." Kairi said.

"Yes, and this time, we're smarter and we have your abilities."

The Riku clone stepped forward. "You can control Heartless- but I can control you all."

Sora swam over to the side of the Riku clone and stared at the team.

The clones and Sora advanced for attack. They began to attack Ariel and Kairi. Riku, Donald, Eric, and Goofy came to their sides and fought them off. Sora said in a gloomy, trance-like tone, "We'll be coming back." They all swam off, into Ursula's den.

"After them!" Riku yelled. They followed the six into the den of tides.

..............~Den of Tides~.................

"Sora?" He was treading in the middle of the room where Ursula's cauldron sat.

The cauldrons burst out a column of blue light and sucked Sora in, were he became a polyp. (Those green plants that look all sad and drooping in "The Little Mermaid")

"Sora!" Kairi cried. She swam over to him. "Sora, are you alright?"

"NO ESCAPE!" Something behind the group hissed. Flotsam and Jetsam were staring at them, their yellow eyes piercing the group's souls.

"What can't we escape from? Eels?" Riku taunted.

"Ursula." Jetsam said.

Riku and Eric spun around to see Ursula standing behind them.

She cackled and began making fireballs erupt from her cauldron. They knocked out Donald. She than said. "Riku. You want to be the prince of Free Hearts, correct?"

"I am." Riku said.

"NO, my dear, Sora is. I gave you a test of my magic by letting you be the prince.But my magic can give you the heart you need."

"SORA, DON'T LISTEN!" Eric and Ariel cried. Ursula pointed her finger at them and they too became polyps.

"Now, what do you say? All it will cost you is-"

"No." Riku said. "I won't dessert my friends. And that's what makes me a Free Heart." Everyone returned to his or her human forms except Sora, who was against his will, teleported somewhere. Ursula swam off into the depths.

"Eric." Ariel said. "We have to get her before she reached the trident!"

"Why would she need the trident?" Kairi asked.

"To keep Sora like that forever so he can't lock the worlds and stop the heartless." Eric said.

A dolphin swam into the lair with a note in its mouth.

"Dear Sora,
Peppy here is going to take you to the throne room. Hurry!
Sebastian

Everyone grabbed onto the dolphin and off they went.

...............~Triton's Palace~................

"Ah ha! The trident is mine!" Ursula called.

The team swam into the throne room.

"Wrong Ursula." Ariel said. "Only royal blood can touch the trident" Ursula's leg snapped out, grabbed Eric and yanked him towards Ursula.

"And something tells me you're going to get it, hon." Ursula taunted.

"Ursula, what's Eric doing for you?" Ariel asked, setting Ursula up.

"Nothing, It's you I need." She said.

"So, you've captured him without reason?" Ariel asked, going in for the kill.

"Yes." Ursula said.

Ariel smirked. "You're a lousy villain, you know. He's a free heart. And you have no reason to capture him, which means-"

A light burst Eric free of Ursula's grasp.

Ursula gasped. She sped off into the ocean, towards the stadium where Ariel sang. And what is beneath Ariel's stage? (If you don't know, go read One for All Chapter 5)

................~Atlantis~..................

The underground city was dark and dingy, almost damp, if it's possible to NOT be damp underwater.

"Let's go to the old palace." Goofy suggested.

"There's like, no light down here." Kairi said. "Lumos Solam." She muttered. The area became bright.

"You've been here before?" Eric asked.

"They were looking for me." Ariel said.

By now, they were in front of the palace from the Lost City. It was nothing like the palace of Atlantica. Although, that might have been because there were years and years of decay upon this castle that the one above did not have.

The bridge, which before led their way to the doors, had fallen off into a trench that the castle was resting on. But swimming underwater, bridges aren't necessary. They swam over the trench and into the castle.

The first room was large with a stained glass window on the ceiling. Stained glass underwater?

"Why is there a window underwater?" Donald asked.

Ariel turned to him. "Atlantis was not an underwater city. But when they wanted to war with our kingdom because they said the ocean was only a threat to their culture, daddy decided to bring them down here." Ariel paused. "The first time you ever came, Sora, Ursula stole the trident."

Kairi looked at her. "And without the kings power, the shield that allowed them to breath was destroyed." Kairi finished the tail.

"I heard that legend." Eric said. "Everyone died." They passed over a skeleton, sunken in the water.

By now, they where in a courtyard of some sort through the back of the castle. "It's too bad." Riku said. "It looks as though they had quite a culture coming along." They passed a statue of a mermaid who looked as though she was supposed to squirt water from her hands, but now did nothing.

The light wore off of the Keyblade and the room went dark except for the hole in the ceiling, which led to Atlantica.

"Help!" a voice cried from somewhere.

"That's Sora!" Riku shouted. They swam back into the castle and stood, staring at Sora. He looked sickly and desperate.

"Help." He feebly tried.

Ursula let out a loud cackle and burst into the room. "Insignificant fools!" She grabbed Ariel and held out her seashell necklace.

Ariel's voice erupted through the room. Then, an orange orb appeared in her throat and came out of her mouth. The singing was radiating from it. It went into Ursula's necklace. She pushed Ariel into wall. Ariel floated down unconscious.

Ursula laughed. "My dear, I may not touch the trident, but this is a different story" she took the crystal trident from Ariel. The crystal extended to create a rod handle, making an exact copy of the real trident.

Ursula swam out of the castle and up on of the holes in the ceiling to Atlantica.

..................~???~.................

Ursula was gigantic. "I rule the sea now!" She taunted.

"Donald, Goofy, step back." Ariel said. Kairi, Sora, Eric, and Riku advanced.

A heart (like the ones in the game when Sora dies) came out of everyone's chest. Kairi and Ariel had white hearts; Riku and Eric had blue ones. The group surrounded Ursula's head. Their hearts all shot to the center, which was Ursula's head and exploded.

Without their hearts, they all fainted.

...............~Hospital Wing~.................

When they woke up, they were on hospital beds, just as Riku was the first time he visited Atlantica.

Sora was above Kairi, looking down at her. "You better?"

"Uh-huh." Kairi muttered. "Are YOU better?"

"Yep." Sora said.

"You guys always forget me." Riku said.

"What about us?" Donald and Goofy asked.

"Where's Ariel?" Riku yelled.

"Gone." King Triton said.

"But, you have my trust. And once again, I give you this." Triton handed Sora a marble with a wave in it.

Sora put it on the Keyblade and the Crabclaw appeared, only it had a thin layer of ice over it.

Sora promised Triton that he would rescue Ariel and Eric. Triton gave him another gift. It was a small crown made of gold, as if it were ancient Egyptian.

"I'm not sure what exactly this is, but it is a remnant of Atlantis. I believe it's called a 'millennium item.' You'll find its power eventually. Good luck."

Sora, Riku, Kairi, Donald and Goofy got on the GS3.0. They blasted off and locked onto the Princess of Bravery. Back to New York City, and off to meet the newest ally; Daredevil . . .