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Since 'voice' plays a major theme in The Little Mermaid, I decided that this time I should give the major characters a voice! Of course you are free to imagine how their voice are, but I will tell you who I have in mind for each character (especially for singing):

Allen: Zachary Levi (Flynn Rider)

Gwen: Mandy Moore (Rapunzel)

Reine: Charice (her song, New World, is the reason why I pick her to be Reine's voice)

Neil: HE IS THE HARDEST! I tried to find his voice the first but ended up to be the last *upset upset* in the end I think I'd say the nearest is... please don't laugh: Josh Groban. Yes, you read it right, Josh Groban and his Broken Vow (or You Raise Me Up or whichever song you remember him by). Like I say, finding Neil's voice is the hardest for me *sob*

In any case, the song used below is a modified version of Tangled's When Will My Life Begin

And yes, I will use any song I see fit although this is a so-called Little Mermaid sequel :P

I hope you enjoy it~

Death was always a tricky thing. You knew it lurked nearby, but whether it accompanied you for some time before it took you away or it suddenly pounced on you like a hunter on its prey it always stopped your at the middle or something.

Many people thought that our story ended once our life ended, but this was not so. Our life might end, but our story never. It continued, but simply without us being physically present.

Likewise, Prince Eric Jr. missed a lot of things when his life was abruptly ended. One of them was his daughter who, at the time of the unfortunate accident, was still dwelling in the safe sanctuary of her mother's womb. The young princess grew up not knowing many things, including her own father, save for stories that she was told by the castle occupants. She, too, didn't have the same discontentment towards the wall or the longing for the sea like her brother, for as long as she had known, sea had always been a forbidden territory. At most, her interest towards the sea was still within the boundaries of the expected curiosity of a teenager.

The lack of fatherly figure in her life caused her to grow very attached to her brother, ten years her senior. She looked up to him, idolize him, even—and when she was very young she was almost like Allen's shadow, tailing him almost everywhere he went. Now, fourteen years old, she didn't really do that anymore although she often skipped happily towards him when he was around.

"Allen~" she hummed happily, "Will you braid my hair today, too?"

Allen smiled, "Sure, let's head to your room."

Arms linked, the two siblings headed to Alicia's room where she sat in front of her dressing table while Allen began to brush her hair carefully. Allen had an unexpected patience and diligence when it came to take care of as well as decorating someone's hair—especially when the hair in question was smooth and well cared for, just like Alicia's whose strawberry blonde hair glistened under the sunlight.

"Do you want it to be a bun, or a tail?"

"Bun!" She replied with a grin.

Allen smiled and he began parting her hair into locks and intertwining them carefully, forming half-a-crown on the left side of her head. "You have nice hair, as always,"

Alicia smiled, "I know you love my hair, so I keep it well!"

Allen laughed and he immersed himself in creating a circlet of braid on Alicia's head. With years of practice, it didn't take him long to finished the half crown. Allen held it fast with a pin and began to braid the other side when the door was knocked.

"Enter!" the princess replied.

"Princess,"

At the sound of his voice, Alicia glanced at the door and found Neil half-entering the room. She quickly turned away, but before Allen saw a faint blush on her reflection on the mirror. "Y-Yes?"

"Your mother has been looking for you."

"I… I see." Alicia stammered, "Um… please tell my mother I… I will find her as soon as I'm done."

"Yes."

With that, Neil quietly left the room.

Allen said nothing, but he quickly finished up his job on Alicia's hair.

He, too, had another person he wanted to see.

Gwen withdrew her hand from the merfolk sitting across her. "That's all I have to say."

The merfolk pulled his hand back before bowing respectfully. "Thank you, Princess-Seeress." He then glided out from the chamber specially made for this purpose and threw some gold coins inside of the box at the doorway.

Gwen saw it and sighed heavily.

This is only a little bit more honourable than prostitution. She thought to herself. As much as she detested it, she knew that the income from this small fortune telling that she could perform by touching the skin of the subject made up one-fifth of the treasury.

At least she was contributing something, although she couldn't really say she agreed to it.

Suddenly, her deep sapphire eyes turned black and her pet dolphin, a male silvery dolphin called Viserys immediately blocked the entrance to the chamber so that her mistress could have some privacy.

The dolphin went to his mistress' side when he saw her eyes turned blue again. "Anything I can get you?"

Gwen shook her head.

She saw it clearly. Those children of sea would come and brought the tide of change in the deepest of seas.

And it would happen soon.

Her voice held such power that the fishes would stop to listen alongside merfolks—even the sharks would swim in circles, but thought nothing of their prey, and listened to her singing. Even the strong currents calmed down so that the princess' voice could be heard, but not reaching the palace from where she had escaped, again—this time, from her lessons.

Seven A.M. the usual morning line-up

Lessons will start and the same ol' story again

Grandpa's trident, oh-so-powerful that it's glowing

Praise the King and by then it's like seven-fifteen

And so I keep wonderin'

Why bother repeating

As if there's something beneath

We can't know about?

I look around and pause and think

So basically

I'm wonderin'

What they're hiding from us.

Just like any other day, Reine snaked away from the guards and escaped to the furthest settlement from the palace, the same place where she would usually visit after stealing the party food. She found this place two or three years ago, when the palace lessons started to bore her (not to mention the etiquette class afterwards, that made her fins felt like falling out from her tail if it were possible). That was how she knew life outside the palace was so different than the life inside—before this, she thought every merfolk would at least own a formal suit, but in this settlement she learned that one of her dresses (which consisted only of a skirt to cover the upper part of her tail while her top would simply be bikini top of some sort) could be split up for five to six people. This was the kind of truth tutors in the palace never mentioned about, although they told her that these lessons they taught in the small, stifling class was about life itself.

All these concealment and selective truth bothered her honest mind. Her grandfather seemed to be a just king—the guests in the party always had nothing but praises for him.

But that was all she could see now: seemed to be.

Allen finally found Neil who was, as always, all by himself at the back of the palace. "Hey~" he greeted with a grin.

"What's the business?" Neil asked straightforwardly, dropping the formalities since there was only the two of them.

"What do you think of Alicia?"

"Huh?"

"Alicia, my sister!" Allen repeated with impatience rising in his tone.

"Why so sudden?!"

"I think she likes you." Allen said with a grin.

Colour rose to Neil's cheeks, "Are you crazy or what?!"

"Hey, I'm just stating my observation!" the prince retorted, "Why don't you ask her out?"

"What kind of a brother are you?" Neil grumbled, "Did you just give her away to a guy ten years older than her?"

"I'd rather do that than letting her off with some rascal that I don't know." Allen admitted, "Besides, we could be real brothers if you end up with her!"

Neil rolled his eyes. "Allen, don't you forget," he said, "I'm a servant here."

"Hey!"

Neil ignored Allen's protests and stomped away to the direction of the beach, knowing that the prince was following him, still with his so-what-if-you-are-a-servant complaints. He had told Allen about the hole on the seawall, anyway. What both of them didn't realize, however, was that Alicia noticed them and, prompted by her teenage curiosity, decided to follow them quietly

And so the three people created trails of footsteps on the sand to the singular hole on the wall. Alicia seemed to have forgotten her initial intention when she saw the glimpse of the rolling waves through the hole and broke into a sprint and an excited squeal, "It's so cool~"

Neil and Allen turned and found the princess, much to Neil's horror.

Oh my God, I'll totally be fired after today… he groaned internally.

Alicia, oblivious to the sudden change in the mood, dashed to the hole and dipped her feet into the water. The mermaid blood in her body responded to this sensation warmly, exciting the young princess. "I've never seen waves from this close!"

Allen and Neil caught up with her quickly. "Alicia…" Allen called, trying to formulate the words in his head.

Suddenly, the skies turned black and the thunder struck the ocean. A huge roll of wave crashed to the wall and caught Alicia with it. "Help!"

"Alicia!"

Without much thinking, Allen leapt into the water. Alicia had never learned how to swim. Neil knew this as well and jumped into the water after the siblings.

Alicia tried to gain control of her limbs in the water, and it came rather naturally to her despite the lack of proper training in swimming. However, the successive waves kept dragging her down, as if reluctant to let her go. She saw her brother swimming towards her, and behind him, Neil.

Alicia tried to open her mouth, but quickly shut it back when the brine seawater immediately poured in as bubbles of air escaped her.

Allen and Neil saw the bubbles, and they became more frantic than ever. No matter how fast they swam, she kept drifting further and further away.

None of them knew that they were being played right into the Fates' hands.

The Fates at work!

The descendants of Triton are back to the sea!

Stay tuned for the next chapter!

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