Chapter 11

Atlantica

As Sora, Donald, and Goofy flew near the next world they noticed one thing. The entire world was covered by water.

"We can't land there, we'll drown," Sora said.

"Leave that to Donald's magic," Goofy said.

"They don't call me a wizard for nothing," Donald smirked. As they landed on the watery planet he used a spell.

Sora examined himself. He had now become a merman and was easily able to breath under water. Goofy was a large sea turtle and Donald's bottom half was that of an octopus.

"Run Sebastian!" Sora heard a voice from up ahead. He saw a redheaded mermaid quickly swimming their way. Behind her was a yellow fish and what appeared to be a crab.

"What's wrong?" Sora asked. His question was answered when a large jellyfish with the Heartless symbol on it swam up to them. "A Sea Neon."

Goofy swam forward at a high speed and his shield appeared on the back of his shell and he slammed it into the Sea Neon and it was destroyed. Several more Sea Neons appeared before them. Sora summoned the Spellbinder to his side and swam forward, cutting down two of them in quick succession. Donald blasted one with a Blizarra and it was destroyed. Goofy killed the rest with a Tornado.

"Wow, that was impressive!" the mermaid said as she swam back to them. "My name is Ariel and these are my friends Flounder and Sebastian."

"I'm Sora and this is Donald and Goofy," he said.

"These creatures keep appearing," Ariel said. "The only place they don't appear would be my father's castle. I think we should go there."

"Good idea," Sora said as Ariel led the way back to the castle.

As Sora and the others swam toward the castle another type of underwater Heartless appeared. This one was like a green diver with a spear in its hand. It was a Screwdiver. Sora and a Screwdiver hit Keyblade against spear and Sora quickly pushed through the weaker Heartless.

Hundreds of Heartless seemed to be appearing. The Heartless of this world wasn't very strong but they were relentless and strong in numbers. They swam as fast as they could toward the castle. As they finally entered it a few Heartless still followed them. A blast of lightning came from the front of the room and killed them all.

"That was a close one," came a deep voice. Sora looked up to see a wise looking merman sitting on a throne. In his hand was a golden trident. "I will not allow vermin like that in my castle."

"Sora, this is my father, King Triton," Ariel introduced.

"Hello sir," Sora said and bowed with respect.

"I have never seen you before," King Triton examined him.

"We come from an ocean very far away," Sora answered. It was kind of the truth anyway.

"Ariel!" Triton turned to his daughter. "I thought I told you not to leave the castle grounds!"

"I know daddy but I…"

"No buts! I want you to return to your grotto and do not leave there until I say so! Is that clear?" Triton spoke with an amazing authority in his voice.

"Yes daddy," Ariel said while her head was down. She slowly turned to swim away and motioned for Sora and them to follow. When they were out of sight Triton turned to Sebastian.

"You don't think I was too hard on her do you Sebastian?" Triton said. "Being a king is easy but a father is a whole other story."

"You did what you must sire," Sebastian said.

"I guess," Triton said as he sighed. "So what is the word on these things that are all over the place?"

"Just as you expected sire! They are coming from Ursula's grotto!" Sebastian yelled and knocked the side of the throne with his claw.

"I knew it!" Triton roared. "I see that exile from the kingdom has taught her nothing! I will have to have a talk with her!"

"Over here!" Ariel said as she pulled a rock away to reveal a tall circular room filled with various things that one would find on land.

"Nice place," Goofy said.

"Thanks," Ariel gazed around. "Sometimes I just wish that I could leave this ocean and just explore new worlds!"

"I used to dream that too," Sora said.

"Used too?" Ariel asked.

"I mean I still do," Sora said quickly.

"Well I say we go see what's out there! I say we go explore!" Ariel said.

"Are you crazy?" Donald yelled. "Out there we are greatly outnumbered and your father told you strictly stay here!"

"My father always tells me that!" Ariel shouted. "He just doesn't understand! He doesn't understand anything!"

"I say we go!" Sora said. He understood when he had a need to explore like he had back on Destiny Islands. How he had wanted to leave that place and explore what was really out there.

"It's settled then!" Ariel said as she swam off and Sora and Goofy followed.

"They're all crazy!" Donald yelled as he tried to catch up.

They had all ended up outside of a sunken ship. They went into the ship quietly as not to disturb nearby fish. Inside they found a wonderful looking Crystal Trident. It was only the top part of a trident but it sparkled with magnificence.

"This is amazing!" Ariel said as she examined it.

"Wait," Sora said as he looked around. "What is that noise?"

"What noise?" Ariel asked and as soon as the words left her mouth a part of the ship seemed to explode. A large shark had crashed through in an attempt to attack them but could not fit into the ship.

"Stay here!" Goofy yelled as the three of them swam out to face it and Ariel stayed safely in the ship. Sora swiped at the beast but it spun around and Sora was hit it's massive tail and thrown against a wall.

Goofy went on the assault but the shark was too agile. Donald pointed his staff at the shark and fired a spell.

"Stop!" Donald cast his spell and the shark was frozen in place. Sora quickly swam up to it and jammed the Spellbinder into its side and it was dead.

Back in Ariel's room Sora held the Crystal Trident up to an impression in the wall that was shaped just like the crystal. It stayed in place and the Keyblade began to react to it. Sora summoned it and pointed it at the crystal.

A blast of lightning suddenly shattered the trident into many pieces and slowly drifted to the ground.

"Ariel!" came Triton's voice. "What did I tell you?"

"Daddy! I can…"

"No! You strictly disobeyed me! Now return to the castle and I will be there later!" Triton ordered.

"But daddy…"

"Now!" he yelled and she swam away. "As for you!" Triton turned on Sora. "You can leave now! There is no room in this ocean for you or your key!"

"How did you know?" Sora asked.

"I heard the legend! The Keybearer will shatter peace and bring ruin!"

"That doesn't sound like Sora," Goofy tried to defend him. Sora put his hand out to say that it was okay.

"We'll go," Sora said and they swam away.

"Are you insane?" Donald asked. "We still didn't seal the Keyhole to this world! We still need to be here!"

"We're not leaving the world entirely!" Sora shouted. "We'll just have to wait for something to happen and if I know my life so far that won't take to long."

Later that day Ariel sat in her room crying. She was now under Sebastian's supervision at all times by her father's orders.

"Poor girl," came a slithering voice from above. Two giant moray eels swam down to her. "I bet she could be of help." said one referring to someone.

"Yes, Ursula could help," said the other.

"Who?" Ariel asked. A great puff of black smoke appeared before her and a woman octopus appeared. This was Ursula the Sea Witch, one of the ones in Maleficent's dark room.

"My dear girl," she said. "I could help you explore the worlds like you really want to. It shouldn't be too hard. After all, your new friends are from another world."

"What?" Ariel asked.

"It's true," Ursula said. "I know all. And I can help."

Ursula held Triton's trident high into the air and laughed. It hadn't been to hard to trick Ariel into believing Ursula would need the trident's energy in order to grant her wish. Now Triton was very injured and Ursula had all the power.

"Ursula no!" Ariel screamed. "I didn't want this!"

"No!" Sora yelled as he swam in with Donald and Goofy behind him.

"Too late handsome!" Ursula laughed. Ursula waved the trident around and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Daddy!" Ariel yelled and hugged her father tight.

"You must go Keybearer," Triton coughed. "I am strong and will survive this but it is up to you to destroy Ursula."

"I thought you didn't trust me," Sora said.

"Things change," Triton smiled weakly. Sora nodded and Donald and Goofy started swimming off with him.

"Wait!" Ariel stopped them. "I'm coming as well!" Sora wanted to argue but knew she would follow anyway. He sighed and nodded and they swam off.

Ariel directed the three of them to Ursula's grotto. It was a large room with a large black cauldron in the center of the room. Ursula emerged from a large seashell in the back of the room.

"Flotsam! Jetsam!" she yelled and the two eels appeared. Sora swam forward with Spellbinder pointed toward Ursula. His attack was deflected when it hit an invisible shield.

"What the?" Sora yelled as he dodged a bolt of lightning from Ursula.

"My magic is way to strong for you fools!" Ursula shouted and fired another bolt. Donald used his Thunder and blocked it. Sora cast Aero on himself and Ariel to protect her. Flotsam sped up and whipped his tail into Sora's face and Sora was knocked back and hit the wall.

"Charge!" Goofy yelled and he was pushed through the water with his magic. He connected with Flotsam and the eel was knocked out. Ursula laughed and revived the eel with her magic.

"We are unbeatable with my powerful magic!" Ursula laughed. Sora swam under Jetsam and used Blizarra on Ursula but the attack was not strong enough to break the shield of magic she had. A bolt of lightning struck Sora and he was thrown to the floor and then bounced up into the wall.

"Try this!" Donald yelled and swam right up to her. While right in her face he cast Thunder and she was blown back even though her shield took most of the blow for her. Ursula fired back by tossing something into her cauldron.

"Wind! Here my command!" she yelled and a tornado appeared from the cauldron. It caught all three of them and they were all thrown against the wall. Sora painfully readied himself once again.

"Cure!" he yelled as he felt his health return. Ursula tossed another object into the cauldron and this time there was a blast of cold. Sora was able to dodge it but Jetsam rammed into him and sent him back down.

"This is very tough," Donald said as they got back up. They were all shaking from the beating they were getting and it was getting worse.

"I think I have an idea," Sora said. "But I need to make sure those eels won't disrupt me while I do this.

"That's my department!" Donald assured him.

"Goofy, I need you to go over then and block Ariel. I'm not sure what this will do exactly," Sora said. Goofy nodded and quickly swam over to Ariel, covering her with his shell and shield.

"Stop!" Donald cast on the two eels and they were stopped in their tracks.

"Fools!" Ursula yelled and tossed an object into the cauldron. The water in it turned yellow. "Lightning, I call…"

"Oh Ursula!" Sora shouted, getting Ursula's attention. "What would happen if I did this?" Sora stuck the tip of his Spellbinder into the cauldron and unleashed his own Thunder spell.

The cauldron backfired in a great explosion and Ursula was temporarily stunned. Sora took advantage of this and swam forward and jammed the Spellbinder into her side and then tore it out.

"No!" Ursula shouted as she hunched over in pain. She glanced up to see Flotsam and Jetsam coming back to her. She quickly grabbed them and turned them into magic energy and healed herself with it. She quickly swam off.

"Get back here!" Sora yelled and they all followed her. They got to a place that was just a lot of space.

"You pathetic fools! I rule the seas now!" Ursula yelled. Using the power of the trident she suddenly started growing until Sora was about the size of her ear.

"I've noticed something!" Sora told Goofy.

"What's that?"

"Everybody we fight seems to get bigger somehow!" Sora yelled as he dodged a swipe from Ursula. She opened her mouth and several magical orbs flew from within her. One flew right at Donald and connected, making him go flying back and out of sight.

"Strike Raid!" Sora shouted and tossed the Spellbinder with all his might. The attack hit but seemed to bounce off of her. Goofy swam up to Ursula and used Tornado but she swatted him away.

"I can not be defeated!" Ursula yelled and pointed the trident toward the sky. Large bolts of lightning starting coming down from the sky in random places.

"Does she ever shut up?" Sora asked Donald as they recovered from a few slight injuries so they could fight back. Goofy had to dodge a lightning bolt but spun right into another one and was knocked all the way to the ground. Sora swam forward as fast as he could but suddenly he found himself being pulled into her mouth!

"Sora! Swim Sora!" Ariel shouted in support. Sora tried to swim the other way but it was getting really hard. Donald thought back to when Merlin said that every type magic had another level.

"Hey Ursula!" Donald yelled and swam right up to her. His staff glowed with yellow magic energy. "Thundara!" Donald launched the incredible blast of electricity at Ursula at it found its target right in Ursula's open mouth.

"No!" Ursula screamed in pain as she became much smaller than before and then disappeared all together. All that was left was the trident floating freely in front of them. Ariel swam up and grabbed onto it.

"Let's go guys," she said. "We're done here."

"I congratulate you all on your outstanding victory!" Triton said as he waved his trident around proudly. "I believe this could be of some use to you." Triton pulled out a piece of paper and gave it to Sora. It was Ansem's Report 3!

"I also need to find that Keyhole sir," Sora said as he pocketed the report.

"Where is that Keyhole daddy?" Ariel asked.

"You should know Ariel. It's in your grotto," Triton laughed.

Ariel held the trident up to the impression in the wall where they had placed the Crystal Trident earlier. The impression turned into a Keyhole quickly. Sora held up the Spellbinder and locked the world.

"Sora, what's it like?" Ariel asked.

"What?" Sora asked.

"Traveling to so many different places and seeing so many different things?"

"I haven't really had any time to notice my surrounding very well with all the fighting I have to do but it is cool going to other worlds."

"Maybe I can do so one day."

"Maybe."

"I want you to have this," Ariel handed him an object. It was another Keychain. Sora removed the Spellbinder and placed the new one on there. The blade turned a lighter shade of blue and they key part turned into a crab sticking from the top.

"I'll call it the Crabclaw," Sora said as he let the Keyblade disappear.

"I'll see you again Sora," Ariel said.

"Maybe," Sora said again and he swam away. Time to get to the next world.