The wedding started to commence as a cream manatee started to perform the ceremony. A few of King Triton's daughters and of Queen Tatiana's sons started to sit and wait for the wedding to commence. The sea warlock started to look behind the curtain and was amazed of how many creatures came for this wedding. He knew that his plan would go through as he expected.
"Aqua, there you are."
The sea warlock looked towards the sound and the queen was coming towards him with something hidden behind her back.
"Hello, mother."
"I know you want that you are going to get married to one of the most beautiful mermaids I have ever encountered in my life. Once you both say I do, we will announce you king and queen when the wedding ceremony ends."
"Mother. Look, there's something I need to tell you."
"Before you say anything, I want to give you something from your father."
She then handed the sea witch the exact gift he gave to his friend before he died.
"What is this?"
"This is an elusive charm you can give to your wife. She will always be with you no matter what comes your way. Your father gave this to me before he died. Though I did blame that good for nothing sea witch for allowing him to die, I never had the chance to apologize and thank him for providing us such a momentous gift. I never had the chance to tell him that you were his anniversary present back then. He would have been so proud of you."
While she was talking about the good old days, the sea witch started to look at the gift he was given and in his heart was full of rage. Why would a woman who sincerely hated him with a passion could suddenly say that she wanted to apologize and thank him for the gift? What she told him years ago was unforgivable and he would never let that go. In rage, his hand started to break the gift into two and tossed towards the ground. As the queen noticed his attitude, the queen started to ask why he was acting like this. Suddenly, she finally realized something: this merman wasn't her son; it was the sea warlock himself. Before she called the guards to come, he used his evil power from his song and Queen Tatiana was in full possession.
"I want you to tell the guards to not allow anyone that does not have a wedding invitation to not enter the wedding until we say that we do."
"As you wish, my son."
"If any creatures try to get in without your permission, you must kill them."
"Very well."
She started to swim away to find her guards. The sea witch then swam towards the front of the wedding altar, waiting for the most beautiful mermaid out of all the sea kingdom. The Wedding March started to play throughout the chapel as Ariel and King Triton started to swim towards the front of the altar. Though she was not ready for a commitment with a merman she had never been acquainted with before either, Ariel knew that this was for the two kingdoms and it was her duty to do so. While she was swimming towards the altar, Aqua started to come towards the door where the wedding was taking place, but several guards started to block the door.
"Only creatures who have a wedding invitation are not able to enter this door." the guard replied.
"Do you know whom you are speaking with?" Aqua asked.
"No matter what, we only respect no other creature than the queen."
Aqua then looked towards the altar entrance as the manatee started his wedding speech to the group. He knew time was about to run out.
"Good sirs, whom you are speaking with is the queen's son. I demand you to allow me to pass."
"We would allow to do so, sir, however, our orders are from directly from the queen herself."
"Look, you need me to get in, or else the entire kingdom is at stake."
"We are not here for false hope. We are here by order of the queen."
As he tried to reason them for letting them in, Sebastian started to swim towards the guards.
"Good sirs, you must let him in. He is the groom for this remarkable wedding of Princess Ariel from the neighboring kingdom of Atlantica."
"If he is what he says he is, allow him to show the mark of royalty and sing the song only the King knows."
The mark was easy for him to show since he is royal, but singing in front of the guards was the only thing that he was not entirely sure about. Since his hair was cut short due to Erica, he wasn't sure if the power that was gone from him ever recovered at all. Aqua knew that if he doesn't sing, the entire kingdom would fall on his hands. He was about to sing when he heard the manatee reply the end of the wedding speech.
"By the power invested in me, I now pronounce you both-"
"STOP!"
The entire kingdom from both sides looked at the entrance of the door and noticed Aqua's power was being restored. His short hair remained as it was, but his entire full power was able to regain strength as it was before. With all his strength, he started to swim past the guards and go straight towards the couple. Before he was within an inch away from them, the Queen stood there with rage in her eyes and was about to use her song towards her son. Not knowing what to do, he used his hand to point towards the sea witch.
"That merman is an imposter!" he declared.
All the creatures and sea people looked at each other as they have heard his declaration.
"Why would you say that?" the sea warlock inquired. "Isn't the merman suppose to have long beautiful hair just like the prince?"
"Because that hair you contain is not yours. It's mine."
"The only ones that can decide who is who is the queen herself. Mother, can you tell this boy who I am?"
The queen, being in possession, swam close to the sea witch and looked at her only son from a distance. She was about to declare the sea witch as her son when she noticed something familiar of the boy. He had the same resemblance of his father just before he died and was telling for her to fight the darkness and let go of all things past. Just like that, the power that took possession of her started to vanish away and allowed her to be restored.
"My son?"
"Prince Aqua Marine, youngest son of Queen Tatiana and heir to the throne."
The queen started to swim towards her boy when the sea warlock started to sing his death song. In quick response, Aqua covered his ears while others started to hear the song of death. In pain, each of the mermaids and mermen started to ache inside their hearts while the sea creatures started to fall possessive to the spell. In rage, the queen continued to fall back into the darkness and prepared to kill Aqua. As he started to dodge his mother's attack, he went towards the sea witch and pinned him towards the ground.
"What have you done to all of them?" Aqua asked as the incomplete song had stopped.
"The serum that I have placed from you only contains evil magic from the forbidden spells. Once all are exposed to the spell, they are contained by death within a few moments on my saying."
"You will not hurt a single creature under my watch."
"I'd love to see you try."
As he started to sing again, Aqua covered his ears again and more people started to feel pain. The prince knew that if he exposes the forbidden spell, then he will fall victim and will not be able to fulfill the prophecy. Then, something hit him. If his song is restored, maybe there is a way for him to not feel exposed at all. Aqua then started to sing a delightful tune to all that were exposed, but took a little effect to the music. As he tried to sing again, the queen went to strike her son down to the ground and he became scared of what she was becoming. When he lost sight of his mother, the sea witch looked at him and laughed.
"You think that your music can stop me?"
"He doesn't think." a voice replied.
Both Aqua and the sea warlock turned around to see where the voice was coming from and as they looked up, both Fowler and Erica was by the bells and floated above.
"He knows that he can." Fowler replied.
"What?! But how did you human even escape from the fallen items?"
"It was the help from within that brought me to freedom."
As Aqua was trying to understand what she was talking about, the sea warlock just laughed.
"If that's the case, then why aren't you swimming? Don't you know that if a creature who can't swim will end up dead?"
Aqua then looked and noticed that Erica wasn't swimming. She was barely able to float without her tail to help after the injury from the heavy debris, but knew that Aqua is in trouble and is in need of help.
"I don't care if I can't swim, see, or sing. As long as Prince Aqua is safe and secure, then I'm happy and content. No matter what comes your way, nothing can stop us from defeating you."
Aqua noticed that while she was saying those things, her body started to glow as if she was telling the truth. Then something hit him: if the power within him glowed inside when he needed to protect something he loved and cared about and she started to glow as well with the same reason, then he knew just what to do.
"If nothing can stop you two, then can your dolphin friend be stopped?"
He was about to sing when Aqua yelled for cover. Both Aqua and Erica covered their ears while Fowler started to feel the same pain as the other creatures, but more possessive as the queen. King Triton started to feel more excruciating pain the more he heard the music. The princes and princesses also felt this pain as well, even Ariel. Queen Tatiana, on the other hand, started to go deeper in the darkness that her powerful voice could intend to destroy any creature that came to him. While she started to charge towards Aqua for the kill, Erica then noticed Ariel. She knew that according to Sebastian's knowledge of the princess, he mentioned that she had the most beautiful voice throughout the entire kingdom. Erica then had an idea: using all the strength she moved her body towards Ariel to convince her to use her voice to free everyone. By the time she was coming close, Fowler, being possessed by the death song, used his calling to bring all the killer whales to come and destroy the mermen.
"Ariel," Erica replied as she was close, "you need to sing. It's the only way."
As if she started to hear her reply, Ariel used all her strength to sing. Her voice was just as beautiful as Aqua's, but hers took more effect to help others. Many creatures started to swim away from the wedding, some of the princesses and princes were free from the spell, and King Triton was also released. The only creatures who weren't free as of yet were the Queen and Fowler.
"Your majesty, I suggest you leave. We wouldn't want to risk your children in danger."
"As you wish, Prince Aqua."
He and his daughters started to swim away for them to flee from the death song and surprisingly never return for the rest of the day. The sea warlock was full of rage when Ariel was able to set them all free.
"YOU!" he yelled at Erica.
As she covered her ears as normal, Erica started to feel a bit different. She felt feel like she couldn't breathe. The light started to glow on her entire body slowly and was starting to leave her helpless underwater just like before. While she was feeling the pain, Aqua noticed the change started to take effect and was swimming towards her when his mother came out of nowhere to kill him on sight.
"Mother, please, you have to stop!"
She roared in rage as she started to use her song, but he started to swim a bit away.
"You keep this up, then your son will die. Think of my father, your husband! Would he love you this way now?"
With no response, she started to attack again, but as Tatiana started to come close, an image of the King started to appear as a ghost to her. As the queen stopped for a moment, Aqua then started to swim towards Erica as the light started to come towards the head. She was barely intending to breathe what she had left, but little air from the water was able to keep her from surviving. Just when Erica was about to breathe her last breath, Aqua came towards her and kissed her on the lips to give her the energy of life. When their lips started to remove from each other, the brightest light started to observe both him and her together, but froze time again as before. Aqua then knew how to defeat the sea witch and allow the prophecy to be fulfilled.