Chapter 2: Raiders of the Lost Ship

While Goku and his friends prepare for the arrival of the androids, the kingdom of Atlantica prepares for a concert in the name of their ruler King Triton and for the main conductor of the concert itself, Sebastian, there is no time for any horseplay..or in this case seahorse play in the backstage.

"Alright, places everyone! Places! Listen up everyone!" The ornery little crustacean commanded the aquatic musicians and singers, both fish and mermaid alike.

"Now, we may only have a few more minutes until his majesty shows up to see my-"

As he was about to finish his statement, everyone around him started giving him the hairy eye.

Fearing for his life, Sebastian quickly corrects himself before everyone decides to beat the daylights out of him, "I mean our performance of a lifetime! Now I want everyone to take their places, starting with you ladies.."

But as Sebastian was talking, one of the mermaids interrupts by saying, "Um Sebastian, have you seen A-"

"Not now young lady! Can't you see I'm trying to make preparations for the show?" Sebastain shouted sternly.

This effectively silenced the mermaid, making her not reply a single word back at him.

"Now as I was saying, Attina you must project your voice from the diaphragm. Aquata, Attina you must watch that high F. Adella, Alana, Aristia, Ariel-" As Sebastian was about to look at Ariel, he could only find her sisters that were right in front of him.

"Where is Ariel?"

"That's just it Sebastian, she's not here."

Those were the very words Sebastian was deeply afraid of hearing, especially at a time like this.

"WHAT!"

"What do you mean she's not here!? She's the soloist! She has to be here!" The scared crustacean exclaimed.

"You know Ariel.." One of the sisters said, "..Always doing something only Poseidon knows what."

Now, Sebastian was really worried, if Ariel doesn't show up soon, the whole concert will be a fiasco!

"BUBBLING BARRACUDA! The king he'll-"

But as soon as he was about to lose all hope, he quickly regained his composure before saying…

"We mustn't panic. She's got to be around here somewhere. I'll stall while you all take your places…."

Then he shouts, "SOMEBODY FIND THAT GIRL!"

Everyone scatters to their respective places, while Sebastian was now alone with his thoughts.

Come on Ariel..where are you? Please don't be somewhere dangerous otherwise your father will be dining on crab legs tonight…

Sure enough, somewhere a few miles away from the kingdom lies an old sunken ship that sank due to a horrible storm many years ago and a certain young mermaid is willing to explore it.

"Ariel, wait for me!"

"Come on, Flounder hurry up!"

The little fish barely catches up with Ariel, since he's not as strong of a swimmer as she was.

"Ariel, you know I can't swim that fast!"

"There it is... isn't it fantastic?"

"Yeah...it's great..can we get out of here?"

Ariel then grabs Flounder by the tail fin before he can get away.

"Flounder, you're not getting cold fins on me now are you?"

"Me scared? No way! I'm just a little.. concerned that's all."

Little did they know however, was that Flounder was right to be scared, for not too far away from the sunken ship was a great white shark named Glut, who was as huge as Bruce from Jaws, is on the prowl looking for his next meal.

Ariel and Flounder found many mysterious (to them) and wonderful things on ship, from rusty suits of armor, golden broach cups, a crown, bracelet and even what appears to be an old family portrait of a king and queen with two daughters. This catches Ariel's attention.

Do humans have families just like us? Ariel thought to herself as she looked at the picture.

However, she snaps out of her trance after hearing something fall from the ceiling, as soon as she found where the sound came from, she was completely mystified on the mystery object.

It was a small, orange, glowing, crystal ball that had four little red orange stars on the inside, and for some reason, Ariel can sense it has some kind of mystical power within it, just like her father's trident. Whatever it is, it's certainly other worldly.

"Oh my gosh! Flounder come look at this!"

Flounder quickly tries to find where Ariel was, bumping into everything as he looks until finally he finds her along with the crystal ball.

"Have you ever seen anything so wonderful in your entire life?"

"Wow cool! But um...what is it?"

"I don't know, but I bet Scuttle would know!"

As Ariel puts the ball in her bag, she spots other objects that catch her eye, a fork and a smoking pipe.

Suddenly Flounder starts feeling even more paranoid for he has a strange feeling that they're being watched

"Come on Ariel, let's go!" Flounder frighteningly whispered.

"Flounder, will you relax? Nothing is going to happen."

How wrong she was.

For Glut had them in his sight and decides to make his move by breaking through the ship.

CRASH!

"SHARK! SHARK! WE'RE GOING TO DIE!"

The pair then proceed to swim for their very lives away from the ravenous shark who's not too far behind. Room after room after room, both Ariel and Flounder couldn't catch a break since the shark would burst into more rooms than the Kool-Aid Man.

The chase eventually leads them out of the ship where just as they were about to lose Glut, Flounder accidentally bumps into an old sail that has him sinking down onto the ocean floor. Ariel managed to catch him before he became conscious again by slipping into an anchor hole.

The shark tries once more to devour the two heroes which leads him to be ensnared in the anchor seemingly for good.

"You big bully!" Flounder cockily exclaimed while sticking his tongue out.

Glut snaps his jaws at Flounder in response to his taunt, which sends him darting away with Ariel.

"Flounder you really are a guppy!"

"I am not!"

The two friends end up on the surface on a small piece of land where their friend, Scuttle lives. This seagull is the self proclaimed 'expert on humans' who helps identify the objects that Ariel would often find.

But more often than not, he doesn't really know what the objects really are. For instance, when Ariel shows Scuttle the fork she found, he identifies it as…

"It's a dinglehopper! Humans use these babies to straighten their hair out!"

Scuttle demonstrates by combing his feathers with the 'dinglehopper'.

"Ta da! You got an aesthetically pleasing head of hair the humans go nuts for!"

"Wow, a dinglehopper!"

Ariel then suddenly remembers the crystal ball she found and shows it to the wacky seagull.

"Now, what do you know about this?"

As Ariel shows him the ball, he has the same reaction as she did when she found it, completely mystified.

"Woah...Where did you find this?"

Ariel answered with, "The same place where I found the dinglehopper. Do you know what it is?"

"Sweetie, I in all of my years of studying human objects, have never seen anything like this before. Whatever it is, you probably should safeguard this ball, it might be important."

"I see.." Ariel replied disappointingly as she wasn't able to get her answer about the mystery item.

Then Flounder asks about the pipe, "What about that one?"

"Ah yes..I haven't seen this thing in years! This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous snarfblat."

"Oohhh." Both Ariel and Flounder say in amazement.

"Now the snarfblat dates back to the prehistoric ages when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day…..got very boring. So they invented this snarfblat to make fine music with, allow me."

As Scuttle tries to make music with the pipe, this instantly makes Ariel remember about what she was supposed to do today.

"Music?...MUSIC! Oh the concert! Oh my gosh, father was going to KILL me!"

"The concert was today?!"

"Hmm..maybe you could put a plant in it or something."

Then Ariel snatches the pipe from out of Scuttle's wings and proceeds to wave goodbye.

"I'm sorry. I gotta go..Thank you Scuttle!"

"Anytime sweetie! Anytime…"

While Ariel tries to swim as fast as she can back home, the only thing that's on her mind is how is her father and Sebastian going to react to her missing the concert, especially when she was the soloist and how is she going to explain to them what she was doing without mentioning the fact that she almost died from a shark encounter and going up to the surface, since any mermaid going to the surface was forbidden.

Unbeknownst to her however, she's being watched. Not by another shark, but by something or rather someone much worse. This was someone that absolutely no one, whether it be on land or sea, should ever mess with, for she is the most feared sea witch in the entire ocean. Sporting six tentacles and dark magic that rivals the power of King Triton's trident, it was the one and only Ursula.

"Yeeeeees, hurry home, princess. We don't want to miss ol daddy's celebration now would we?" Ursula sarcastically exclaimed.

"Huh..Celebration indeed...BAH!"

As Ursula reaches for a krill to eat, she continues on by saying..

"In MY day, we had the most fantastical feasts when I lived in the palace. And now, look at me-wasted away and practically nothing-banished and exiled and practically starving, while HE and his flimsy fish folk celebrate!"

"Well, I'll give em something to celebrate soon enough…"

She then calls out to her two moray eel minions who were essentially her outside eyes.

"FLOTSAM! JETSAM!""I want you to keep an extra close watch on this pretty little daughter of his….She may be the key to Triton's UNDOING….."