Here it is! The Chapter where are two protagonists meet! BUMB BUMB BUMAAAM! I really had trouble with this one, because I didn't know how Aqua was going to get into the Realm of the Monsters. I don't know it works really, cause I know main entrance from the movie in up a cliff, but I wanted to think of other ways to enter and leave the realm.

Anyway, hope you enjoy it!

It was late evening. The ocean was dark yet tiny specks of glowing plankton glowed brightly. The squid who live deep below came to feed near the surface, and so had the golden mermaid. Aqua, swimming out from the dark speared a squid, making it a meal for herself. She quickly glanced up through the water, she saw millions of stars sparkling. Swimming up she breached the surface, to get a better look, and dined on her squid shish-kabob.

"So beautiful," She sighed. "When the sky is dark like this, it looks like the sky is apart of the sea. Just one giant blanket of blue water, covering the world."

After finishing her squid, it was enough to tied her over for the rest of the night. Clutching her spear and bag, she dived back down. She decided to swim deeper, while sticking to her coordinates. Mermaids are closing related to marine mammals like dolphins and whales, and came swim depths of over three hundred feet deep, or even more. And being the curious little mermaid she was, Aqua wanted to see how deep she could go.

"Living in a reef that is only thirty feet deep, isn't all that exciting." She told herself. "I wonder what kind of creatures live down here." As she swam deeper and deeper she pasted four hundred, then five hundred. It wasn't until she reached one six hundred and sixty feet deep, when she heard a loud booming sound.

She could tell in was an echolocation from a whale and if she had to guess, a big one, and it was coming right above her. Not really sure if this whale was friendly or not, Aqua held her spear in front of her for defense, turning around. As the figure came out from the darkness she only saw its mouth...wide opened...and coming straight at her!

"AAHH!" Aqua screamed, she did a spin kick to the side just missing the gaping mouth. As she straightened herself up she finally saw the whale's eye. It was large as a giant clam shell, and was a deep blue color, yet when it caught her figure it was gentle and kind. Aqua was mesmerized, this mammal had to be at least a hundred feet long. Then it hit her, "You're a blue whale." She gasped. The largest creature in the ocean, and she was swimming right next to it.

It cried out to her, but unlike other dolphins and small whales, she couldn't quite understand what it was saying. But then again not all sea creatures had the ability to communicate with mermaids. Yet she could tell that it wanted her as company.

Smiling Aqua swam with it right beside its eye. Listening closely to the whales calls, she found out that it was a female, and a very old one. "You're so majestic. It's amazing how something so large, can swim so gracefully." Aqua complemented her new friend, as the whale smiled back at her. Aqua continued to ask her questions. "Are you far away from your home to?" The blue while called again, still not quite understand her perfectly, but she managed to understand yes and no.

'Yes.' The while said.

"Yeah, I'm pretty far from my home to." Aqua sighed, feeling a little sad again. "I'm trying to find my family, my mother particularly. Do you miss your mother?" She asked looking back at the whale's eye.

'Yes.' She blinked, while giving a slight nod.

"Going along this journey, I never knew how difficult it would be, and just how scary the ocean is. I was safe in my coral reef...but it was very lonely. And even the though the ocean can be scary some times...it's also very beautiful. I mean, I've never seen a blue whale before, or even swam beside one. Thank you." Aqua smiled brightly.

The blue whale cried out again, which to Aqua sounded like "Thank you." But soon the whale had to swim on. Saying farewell, Aqua watched as the most amazing creature she had ever seen, disappeared into the darkness of the water.

Aqua kept a smile on her face, feeling joy and happiness go through her. Continuing her dive she went as far as one thousand feet deep, farther down then the blue whale could go, the water was below freezing and there was no visible light, besides the little flickers of green plankton. "Okay, I think this is as far as I can go." Aqua said. But as she stared down at the depths she saw a glowing light, it was faint, but she could see purple. Was it an underwater volcano? She couldn't sense any heat, and she probably reached her limit. But she wanted to know what was down there.

Holding her bag strap in one hand, and her spear in the other, she dove even deeper. The further she went, the brighter the light got. She could see purple light mix with pink, what is that? It wasn't a volcano, but it sertenly bight enough to be one.

Suddenly she felt a current, pulling her further down to the light. Panicking, Aqua turned back up and tried to swim up, but this current was strong, almost like it was pulling her down. "C-come on!" Aqua cried kicking her tail as fast as she could. Inching little by little, but the harder she pushed, the faster she grew tired. It wasn't until a rush of water broke her attempt, she lost her strength. Aqua cried out as the current dragged her down, she panicked, what was going to one she hits the bottom? Or will there even be a bottom?! What it this was the Leviathan's doing? Was it dragging her down so it could capture her just like the other mermaids?!

As she was dragged down the light grew bight, and a net of bubbles circled her, squinting her eyes, she braced herself, but instead of hitting the bottom of the sea floor, she fell out of the ocean? Gasping out, her gills full of air Aqua fell, now a fish out of water. She saw the grown coming towards her fast, her mind raised. She spotted a weird looking palm tree, and grabbed onto its 'leaf', it slowed down her falling, but snapped, she landed on her side, hard.

She winced in pain clutching her stomach, she took deep breaths of air waiting for her transformation to take control. It was faster then last time, as her mermaid body turn into a human again. Calming herself down, she sat up, feeling battered but not broken.

"Augh...what happened?" She rubbed her head. Looking up she saw the ocean, floating above her. "Whoa, where am I?" She looked around, everything was brightly colored, with strange coral, and plants that she had never seen, on land or sea. Looking back up, it looked like the ocean had sucked out of the earth and was now stuck in the sky.

"This is so weird." Aqua said standing up, she unclipped her Atlantis armor, pulling out her clothes from her bag (which was dry for some reason) and wrapped her top and skirt around her body, before stuffing her armor in her bag. She had also dropped her spear somewhere.

Looking around she spotted it, laying on to of a weird pink leaf, it almost looked more like a tongue. As soon as she grabbed it the pink 'leaf' wrapped around her wrist. Aqua screamed as it pulled her over to a gaping mouth of a blue, black spotted angler fish-like monster. Thinking quick, she grabbed a spear sting ray barb in her bag and pierced it, the fish let go crying in agony. Running as fast as she could (because she hadn't had that much practice) and not looking where she was going, Aqau bumped into a yellow rock. But when it opened it's twenty eyes, and roared at her, she screamed and ran a different way. She kept running, till she spotted a crevasse in a rock and hid inside. Her heart was racing so fast and gasping. This was a nightmare, where was she? How will she get back to the water?

Just then, she started to feeling tingling. There was treasure near by? And from how she was feeling there was a mountain of it. Was searching for treasure really a good idea right now? Maybe there was a sunken ship, and she could find better shelter till she figures out how to get back to the ocean. Climbing out for her hiding spot, she followed her sense, till she came up to a giant, upward spiraling seashell cave. "Its in there?" She asked herself, what if this is the home of a monster much worse then the others she's seen. She had two options. "Scary cave, or open terror?" It only took one monsteras screech from behind for her to decide. "Scary cave!" She bolted in.

Peaking around the corner, her eyes grew wide. It was a rather spaces cavern. There was wide array of golds and shiny treasures, a cage made out of discarded bones on the right side, and at the very top of the cave there was an opening that seemed to be the only source of light inside. Aqua saw water at the top, and fish swimming around it. But what caught Aqua's eye the most was right in the center of the cavern. It was a mountain of gold, jewels, trinkets, anything that shined. "Wow...holy mother lode..." Aqua breathed out, slowing walking over to it, but stopped. "Wait, this is way to suspicious. A giant pail of gold inside a cave in a monster realm? What if something is guarding it?" She turned her head left and right seeing if anything was watching her, then stared back at the gold mountain. "Well...to a mermaid...nothing feels more safe and comforting then treasure..." she said unsurely, but started to climb the mountain.

Once she reached the top, she sat down on her knees, eyeing the gold, and jewel underneath her. She let her fingers run through the sparkly trinkets, cupping her hands together she scooped up gold coins, and pearls. "It's so beautiful." She gasped out smiling, then turned to a straight face. "This can't be real." Then suddenly she remembered what the Kraken had told her.

"A monstrous crustacean with a hunger for shiny things." She was on a mountain of shiny treasures, and stuck inside a world of monstrous creatures...it only took two and two to connect in her mind. "Oh no..."

But it was too late, before she could react, the mountain shook, sending her body backwards. Gasping, Aqua tumbled down, she saw that the mountain pile was being lifted off the ground, and three gigantic crab legs with one broken, coming out from under. Aqua yelped as she fell of the edge, but before she hit the ground something grabbed her leg, hosting her up. Frantic being held upside down, Aqua quickly held her skirt up, and saw that a claw had grabbed her leg. It then turned her so she could be faced with its owner. Aqua's eyes went wide as her heart almost stopped, as she finally saw the full monster, a giant coconut crab. It was purple, with long antennae, followed by large eyeballs that stared right at her.

The monster chuckled as it eyed her. "What do we have here?" It asked in a male voice, as 'he' grinned, showing off barnacles stuck to his teeth. He brought her closer to his eyes. "It's a golden, sparkly...what a minute." He then frowned. "Ugh it's a human!" He held her back a little. "What do you think you're doing down here, in the Realm of the Monsters?"

Aqua was too frightened to speak, her mouth feeling dry. "I-I-I...u-umm..."

The monster eyed her. "Hmm, somethings off here. You look human," The giant crab the moved his antennae around her, sniffing her. "but you don't smell like one." Aqua flinched away from feeling his antenna touching her skin, she closed her eyes, shaking. He finally stopped, then graced the tip of his other claw through her golden hair. "You're a funny-looking little thing, aren't ya?" He then spotted her shell hair clip and reached for it.

Aqua's eyes shot open, and found her courage. She swatted her free hand at his claw, it didn't hurt him, but he moved away. "Don't touch that!" She shouted, glaring.

"Oh, what? Is it special to you?" He asked mockingly, then turned serious. "What exactly are you doing here? And in MY lair of all places? Do you not know who the Great Tamatoa is?"

Aqua shook her head, her courage now gone. "N-no sorry I don't! L-look, I d-didn't know this was your home! I was caught in an underwater current, and it pulled me down here! I just thought this was a safe place to hide, till I found my way out!" Aqua explained.

The crab known as Tamatoa stared at her again for some time, he couldn't tell what she was. She looked like any other human, being fair skinned. Yet she didn't smell like one, her golden hair, and pretty voiced got him thinking of something else, but he couldn't quite put his claw on it.

Aqua was beyond scared, so this is what the Kraken was warning her about, and being stupid and following her craving for treasure, she just wondered into her own doom. She had to think of a way to escape, but what? She looked back up at him with pleading eyes. "Please, I am so sorry, I didn't mean to entered. I-I'm just trying to find my pod. I promise to leave and never come back!"

"Heh," He let out, "so you don't know who I am hu?" He leaned his face closer, as Aqua closed her eyes, turning her head away. "Well then...I guess I'll just have to tell you!" He then smiled at her.

"Wha?" Aqua opened her eyes looking surprised.

"In song form!" He then flicked her up in the air, causing her to yelp out, then grabbing her right side up by her waste. He threw a shell up to the top of the caver that was open to water. As the shell shined like a disco ball.

(A/N. I am not that creative when it comes to songs, so I'm just going to use the same song from the movie, with little changes)

~Well Tamatoa hasn't always this glam, I was a grab little crab once

Now I know I could be happy as a clam, because I'm beautiful baby~

Aqua looked up at him, with shock and confusion. Dose this guy have mood swings so often?

~Though fools would say listen to your heart

Be who you are on the inside

I need three words to tear they're argument apart

They all lied!~

He then started spinning around with her in his claw like she was dancing along with him.

~I'd rather be SHINY! Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck

Scrub the deck and make look shiny

I will sparkle like a wealthy woman's neck~ he graced his free claw over his neck and then slights it mimicking cutting it. Aqua held her own neck, as she gulped. ~Just a sec, doncha now~ He then looked up to the water sky-light, seeing fish swim around.

~Fish are Dumb, dumb, dumb, they chance anything that glitters

Beginners. Oooah!

And here they come, come, come to the brightest thing that glitters~ the fish spotted the shining coming off his shell and swam down only to fall out of the water, right into the coconut crab's mouth. ~Mm, fish dinner~ he swallowed. Then lifted Aqua over his head, wickedly grinning. ~I just love free, food. You look like seafood~ he licked his lips he closed his eyes, opening wide as he slowly brought her down.

At this moment Aqua started panicking. Oh Neptune, he was going to eat her! Her mind raced every second she had. Got to thing of something! Got to think of something! She then looked up here the fish came flying down, open water! Lifting her arms up, she twirled her wrists as if wrapping a net of water in her hand. She then pulled down as hard as she could. The water above them came down like a waterfall. Tamatoa just opened his eyes to see water coming down of him, mostly in his gaping mouth.

Chocking on the water, he dropped Aqua who landed on her side. It didn't hurt that much, so she quickly got up and ran, but she didn't get to far. Some water splashed of her skin, and very quickly her legs turned back into a tail. She fell down on her stomach, then slipped over using her arms to lift her body up in a seating position. Great, without her legs she was a beached fish, with no way of escaping.

Tamatoa sprayed out the salty water from his mouth, coffin up. He panted filling his gills with air. He looked up at the surface. "How did that happen?" He then glared down trying to find the human. "Where are you, you sneaky little-" he then spotted her, but instead of seeing a human, he saw she now had a tail. His eyes widen and the creature below him, then it hit him. Golden hair, a beautiful voice, able to control water, and a shiny tail: she was a mermaid.

He then grinned down at the helpless Aqua, who tried to scoot back away from him. She spotted her bag she had dropped and grabbed it. "Well now~" he said stepping close to her with little effort. "I thought I smelled something fishy about you." He chuckled at his pun. He then reached for her grabbing her by the waste again, lifting her up. Aqua grabbed a sting ray barb and tried to stab his claw with it, but it just broke. She grabbed some more and started chucking them at his eyes, which his eyes looped around dodging them. "Now, now, there's no need to be ruined." Using his other claw he used to hold her arms down. "If I had known you were valuable, I wouldn't have tried to eat you."

"Let go of me!" Aqua yelled, no longer afraid. she pulled her arms out, and started beating her fists down on his claw, wiggling her tail from under.

"I'm afraid I can't do that now~" She stopped beating him, as she watched his expression changed to sinister. "I have heard of your kind before. Tell me, is it true that you can sense treasure miles away?"

Aqua didn't like where this was going. "N-no, that's not true." She tried to lie, but she new she sucked at it.

"Don't lie to me." Tamatoa growled, but let it go. "Well then mermaid, I have thought of a better idea. As you can see, I am a collector~. I enjoy anything that is rare and that sparkles." He brought her closer to his eyes. "And I think you would be the perfect treasure for my collection." He grinned wider.

Aqua gasped out, eyes wide. He was going to keep her?! As if she was a mere jewel?! "Y-you can't! You can't do this!" She struggled again trying to pull herself out. "I am, *pull* a goddess! *pull* you are a crustacean! You should *pull* fear me!"

Tamatoa watched in amazement, her struggling and telling him that she was above him was quite hilarious. "Is that so? Well, for where I'm standing it seems like the goddess doesn't have the right to tell me what to do. And you seem really young to be a goddess." He shook his claw wiggling her around so she would stop beating on his claw. "I've made up my mind. My dear mermaid, you now belong to the Great Tamatoa! You should be honored."

"No, never! I with not be your treasure! You can't do this!" Aqua cried out.

"Babe, I've already have." The coconut crab lifted behind his mountain of gold and picked up a giant purple clam shell. Cracking it open, he threw her into it, as she cried out, before closing her inside.

Aqua tumbled in, landing on her side, watching in horror as he closed her in. It was spacious for her to sit upright and lay down, and here were cracks along the get for air to get in. By this time her tail had dried up and turned back to legs. "Let me out!" She started punched and kicking the shell.

"No use trying, just give up." She heard him say. "You're not going anywhere, Babe, so just except it."

"No, I can't!" Aqua kept on fighting, she started to tear up a little. She was so close to finding her pod, and now she's a prisoner of a monsteras crab. "Please! You have to let me go! I have to find my family...I have to find my mother." She couldn't hold back the tears, and she softly cried.

From outside the shell Tamatoa heard her weeping. He just rolled his eyes, expecting this to happen. 'She'll get over it.' He told himself. He set the clam shell with his new prize gem inside, at the very top of treasure hoard. He dug a pit under him and shimmied himself back in the grown dosing back to sleep.

Inside the shell Aqua cried. This was all her fault, her own stupidity. If she had just swam back to the surface this wouldn't be in this world of nightmares, and in prison by the worst monster there is. Weeks of traveling, getting lost, starving, or dying from exhaustion. To be tramp in the monster realm. The little mermaid weeped, as she cried herself to sleep.