Currents, Chapter 2
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Summary- Set during and eventually after Kingdom Hearts 2. Sora always wanted Ariel to be with him, but he thought since she was a princess, and a mermaid that that could never happen. What if that could all change? Sora/Ariel, Sora/Kairi. AU!
Chapter Summary- After the musical, Sora leaves for a while, longer than he said he would be gone. Ariel, thinking Sora has lost all intrest in her, finds the sea witch, and she turnes her into a human, that way she might be able to be with Sora, and Sora could be with her. But the sea witch has other plans.
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Sora had been rushing back and forth, helping out with the musical, and helping out people from other worlds, he had just finished helping Jack Sparrow and Will and Elizabeth out, by helping them defeat Captain Barbossa, who had been cursed by Aztec Gold, a treasure sealed away in a stone chest, and whomever removed one of the 842 gold pieces was cursed. They couldn't eat, they couldn't drink, they couldn't die, they couldn't even feel, and when moonlight shined upon him and his crew, they turned to skeletons. But now it was time for the musical to go on.
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Atlantica-
"Where are they?" Ariel said to Sebastian nervously, Sora and friends, hadn't shown up for 2 practices and Sebastian and her were getting worried that they might not make it to the musical, but Ariel just wanted him to be here, she loved seeing him.
"I don't know, but dey better show up soon, or else we can't go on! I've made too many adjustments for dem and I cant change dem in de time dat we have!"the red crab nervously said while walking around in a circle.
Ariel looked out into the sea, then directed her gaze towards the surface, where she wished she could be, but just as Ariel was about to sigh, Sora, Donald and Goofy swam very fast into the backstage, of the theater and bumped into a wall with a crash. Her face turning into a big smile.
"Hiya" Sora dumbly said making Ariel giggle.
"Hello Sora, you made it" She said, with a sigh of relief.
"Where have you guys been, you've missed two practices! I sure hope you know what to do!" Sebastian squeaked annoyed waving his baton around like an idiot.
"Don't worry we know!" Donald quacked in response.
"You better!" Sebastian said to him, "Ok mons, places, places!"
Swim this way...
...to have a lot of finny fun!
The crowed then cheered for the amazing spectacle that they had just witnessed, as Ariel Sora, and the others all bowed. The whole time Sora was having the time of his life, whenever he and Ariel touched, his heart floated, and little did he know, but hers did too!
"Ariel you were wonderful! Why I haven't seen you this happy in a long time!" King Triton, her father said to her, his golden triton standing proudly in the water.
"Thank you daddy" Ariel giggled and then turned to Sora, "You were fantastic Sora!" She said with a smile.
"Thanks Ariel" he said, "Um, Ariel? There is something I think I should tell you"
"Yes?" She asked.
"Me and the others, ar-are going to be away for a while, so I won't get to visit you guys that much anymore..." He began.
"Why, is something wrong?" Ariel said worried.
"No it's just there are other people that I-we," Sora said noticing Donald and Goofy," have promised to go and help out" he finished.
"Oh I understand" she said,.After all he was the keybearer, and with that he does have to go and lock other worlds, she said to herself.
"I wish that I could stay longer, but others need my help" he proclaimed, 'Believe me I wish I could" he thought while looking into her eyes.
"Oh I know, it's just the only times I see you are when we need to practice, and with the musical over..."she said looking away.
"OK then, I promise to come back here as soon as I am done helping out who ever's next so that I can see you, and also take a brake, OK?" he said with a grin.
"OK" she said turning her head to look back at him in his cobalt eyes.
"Great!" he said, "OK lets go guys!" Sora said, waving to Donald and Goofy.
'That was fast!' Ariel said to herself, 'I guess he's really got to be somewhere, just not here'
"C yah!" Goffy and Donald called to everyone with a wave, and with that Sora and company left for a very long time...
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Ever since Sora had left, Ariel had not been herself, often spending a lot of her time in her grotto, thinking about Sora. He had broken his promise, he hadn't stopped by to see her, or even have a short rest, like he said he would, and because of this she had come to the conclusion that Sora had completely lost interest in her and all of Atlantica."Most likely because I am a mermaid" she muttered to herself. Then she remembered the Sea Witch, Ursula. She and Sora foiled her plans earlier, but she thought that she possibly would still help her. So she went to find her.
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As Ariel came upon her lair, she looked at it, it looked almost like a skeleton of a rather large fish, and it scared her. She then heard laughter emit from the entrance.
"Sea Witch?" Ariel called out into the Sea Witch's lair.
"Come in my child..." A gloomy voice called to her.
As Ariel swam to the voice, things with big eyes began to grab on to her arms, pulling her down to them, moaning as they did so.
"Ug, get off of me!" She said while pulling away from them, when she was free she swam to find Ursula and when she did, told her she wanted to become human.
"Why certainly dear! But it will cost you" The Witch began.
"But I don't have any-" Ariel said only to be cut off.
"It won't cost much, just a token, merely a trifle...all I want from you is" Ursula began thinking of Maleficent, the triton, and a certain treasure in Ariel's grotto, "for you, and your friends, Sora and the other two fools, to never return!" She demanded, thinking of how they could ruin her plans, which were to rule the seven seas.
"But, I'd never see my father or sisters again, or Flounder, and Sebastion!" Ariel said.
"Oh well, sacrifices must be made for true love... oh yes, if you plan to make this form permanent, you'll have to have lover boy and you kiss, but this can't just be an ordinary kiss, it must be a kiss of true love" The witch said,"But if this doesn't happen with in three days, you will belong to me and you will make a lovely contribution to my garden." She said with a laugh, she was determined to make sure that the two did not kiss and that way, she would have the whole royal family under her command.
Ariel being only sixteen, was quite smart for her age, but also very naive, and being so, she agreed to this and nodded. Seeing that the Sea Witch threw special objects into her cauldron, and began to chant. Just then a yellow substance swallowed Ariel up, and transformed her into a human, and being so she couldn't breath underwater, Flounder and Sebastian who had seen the whole episode, swam up to her and took her to the surface, where she met a certain one-winged, silver haired man, who helped her up and asked her for her name.
"Um, Ariel, who are you?" she replied, stumbling again and asked.
"My name is Sephiroth" he told her, "I was looking for someone who seems not to be here"
"Oh well thank you for helping me up"she said as she began to walk away only to stumble and fall, making Sephiroth chuckle.
"Here" he said offering her his hand, "let me take you to my house at Hollow Bastion, there we can talk and you can rest"
Ariel noticing his sword, got a little worried, but since she had nowhere else to go, accepted his offer, so he walked her over to his Gumi ship, and set coordinates for Hollow Bastion.
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Hollow Bastion-
"Thank you forgiving me a place to stay, Sephiroth" Ariel told him once they had made it to his home.
"Anything for a lady" the man said, making Ariel blush. "You look tired you should get some sleep" He told her.
"Ok" she said looking at the bed he had laid out for her, and going over to it and lying down, she didn't sleep though, she didn't quite trust this man, so she spent the night thinking about Sora, and what he would do when, and if he saw her in time.
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The next day Ariel went searching around town, hoping for some trace of Sora, he must have had to have been here, heartless were everywhere, but the strange orbs, the town's defense system, as Sephiroth called them, protected her. She wasn't wandering around for too long until she heard a brown haired man talking to brunette woman, about a computer and Sora.
"Sora? Keyblade Sora?" She went over and interrupted them.
"Uh ya, you know em?" The man asked.
"Why yes he's my friend, where is he?" she asked.
"I'm not sure but he should be back anytime, I left him a message telling him to come back right away" the man said.
"Ok good!" Ariel was about to walk away until she realized that she wouldn't know when Sora returns, so she asked if she could wait for Sora with them. The man said that he was going to the castle, and the girl said that Ariel could come with her to wait at her friend Merlin's house, where she met Merlin, Yuffie, Cid, and eventually properly introduced herself to the girl and was told that her name was Aerith.
She wasn't waiting too long before a flushed Sora ran in through the door, and said, "What's the emergency?...Ariel?" he said looking at the red-headed beauty.
"Oh hello Sora, I got legs" she said back to him, moving her perfect legs.
"I see that, wha...how did this happen?" He asked puzzled.
"Oh I um... never mind" she said not wanting Sora to know about Ursula and there deal.
"Oh ok...oh right, why did Leon want me here?" Sora said.
"He found Ansem's old computer and he wants you guys to check it out" Cid replied, "and what do you mean, 'I got legs'?" Cid asked Ariel.
"Oh I, um used to be a mermaid" she answered.
"Well I've heard stranger things" Cid replied while shaking his head.
"Um where is Leon exactly?" Sora said.
"Oh yah he's at the castle, Aerith's there too" Yuffie said.
"Ok then, Goofy, Donald, lets go!" Sora commanded.
"Wait! Sora can I come?" Ariel asked.
"Um this might be dangerous, but I'll protect you!" he told her.
"Ok good" she said while looking at his cute smile.
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-End of Chapter Two-
Oh I think this chapter worked out well, I think in the next one, Ill put in what Ursula's ful plan is
SO What do you think, got any suggestions? Post them in a review, it's greatly appreciated!
