A/N: I have advice for you readers. You don't have to listen to it, of course, but I'm just saying it out of experience. If you're trying to battle dragon Maleficent at level 25 on the hard mode, don't. Just... don't do hard mode. Because, eventually, you will have to fight dragon Maleficent, and Donald won't heal you. Yes, anyway, since I changed the description of the story, I have to remember my disclaimers again! Today we're going to get assistance from Melody!
Melody: Um, Lollipop doesn't own any characters from Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy? And definitely not anybody from the Disney movies! Keira, Quince, and the plot are the only things that belong to her.
Quince: I'm not a thing
Keira: Could've fooled me.
Can't believe I forgot to mention this! Obviously, there are spoilers for the Little Mermaid Two in this chapter!
"Wow, this place is so beautiful!" remarked Melody, awe in her voice. She, Tip, and Dash had finally arrived at the fabled land, Atlantica, where many mermaids and mermen were swimming around. No one initially questioned Melody's appearance; Atlantica was so large that she could have easily been from around there. Unbeknownst to everyone, even she, she was the granddaughter of Atlantica's ruler.
In her distraction of taking in her surroundings, she was not paying attention to where she was swimming and ran into a blond boy. They apologized in perfect unison and laughed. "Hey, I haven't seen you around here before, are you new?" The boy asked; Melody nodded, unable to find her voice as she stared at the cute stranger. "That's cool, you wanna hang out with me and my friends?" Melody smiled widely and nodded more frantically. "What's your name?" Melody opened her mouth to respond, but she was stopped by Tip grabbing her arm.
"Agh, never bring a country fish to the big city," he complained as he pried her away from flirting further; or, more accurately, to pry her from the flirting boy.
The boy looked a little discourage and more than a little frightened by the angry penguin. "Uh, well, I'll see you around!"
The three of them entered the throne room of the palace and were very shocked to see that no one was there. In fact, the only thing that was in the room was the thing that they had come for; the golden trident shone bright and beautiful in its large stand. "There it is!" Melody whispered as if she were afraid somebody would hear.
Tip pushed her along. "Go and get it! It's either now or never, kid!" He told her in what he clearly thought was a reassuring voice.
Now that the object she needed was in her line of sight, she found herself having a hard time willing herself to grab it. This was, after all someone's possession... No, no, she reminded herself, this was someone's stolen possession; it was Morgana's! "U-uh, r-right!" She swam forward and seized the Trident by the rod though it did not so much as budge. Frowning, she tugged a few more times until it came loose and she tumbled backwards in the water.
Voices came from the hallway behind them. "Hurry up, Melody!" Dash urged her as he swam out of the room. However, something on the ground had caught Melody's eye, a picture of a little girl. She swam toward it in order to get a better look, but Tip pulled her away before she could even get close.
"We can't stay here!" He hissed as they followed after the walrus. Behind them Sora, Ariel, Kairi, a fat yellow fish, Donald, Goofy, and King Triton swam into the room.
Triton shook his head. "There have been no signs at all, none whatsoever." He looked to Sora, his anxious expression not fading. "So you say that the Heartless are back? Are you sure that they're here?"
Sora glanced at Donald and Goofy. "Well, we're not sure, your Majesty, but we're pretty positive." He replied, sweeping his eyes to the stand beside the throne. "But Heartless aren't that important right now."
"Huh?" Donald quacked, "What do you mean?"
All eyes followed Sora's. "The Trident is gone?"
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"Heartless keep getting weirder and weirder," decided Keira as she swung at one of the Screwdrivers. It blocked while another one used its spear to jab her in the back, "And progressively more annoying!"
Morgana cackled from a safe distance as she and Undertow watched the fight with entertainment. "Fool, you cannot beat the Heartless!"
Undertow was much less interested in the princess, fixing his mistress with a glare. "Why didn't you use that potion on me?"
Morgana's laugh faded, her eyebrows raised. "Surely, you aren't still angry about that?"
"Wouldn't you be angry if you were shrunk down to my size?" Morgana had to agree.
"When we get the Trident, Undertow," she promised. "In the meantime, relax while we still have something to entertain us." Little did she know that an old, white, forgetful seagull had already caught sight of them and turned back to relay the news.
XxX
"O, Prince Eric, husband of my favorite girl!" A loud and annoying voice called over the roaring of the sea. Cloud, Tifa, Riku, Eric and Mickey looked around for the source as Scuttle closed in and landed on the ship's railing. Immediately, Eric remembered the seagull from his wife's childhood.
"Scuttle," he spoke with a shaky voice, "Did you find anything?"
The seagull nodded with obvious pride. "I did, and I even remembered! Let's see, now... I found Morgana's hideout. It's in a cave that way." Scuttle pointed a wing in the general direction he had just flown from. "Morgana's got this army of weird-looking green creatures attacking a girl."
"Was Melody there?" Eric asked urgently.
Scuttle shook his head sadly. "Nope! But Morgana did mention something about having the Trident brought to her." As if on cue, Ariel, Sora, Donald, Goofy, Kairi, the fat fish, and King Triton surfaced.
"The Trident's been stolen and only Melody could have done it," said Ariel in a voice of deep regret. "Have you guys found anything?"
Mickey nodded. "Fellas, I think we'll need an army on our hands."
"The girl was Keira," guessed Cloud.
"It had to be," agreed Mickey.
XxX
"Silly Heartless," Keira began as another captured heart floated up to Kingdom Hearts, "You can't beat me."
The entertainment had very quickly ceased once Keira figured out a strategy against the Screwdrivers. As the last one was defeated, Morgana sighed, "We need that Trident."
"Exit stage left." Keira dove underwater and disappeared from the cave.
It was Undertow who knocked Morgana out of her reverie, "That girl! She got away!"
Morgana waved an impatient hand. "That's not important, it won't last long." Undertow fixed the envious octopus with a quizzical stare, but she did not elaborate.
Keira resurfaced at the mouth of the cave just as Melody was attempting to enter it, and the two ran into each other. She overcame her shock, urging, "Melody, whatever you do, don't bring her that Trident!"
Melody glared a little at her, clearly impatient. "If I don't give her the Trident then I can't be a mermaid forever."
"And that trip to Atlantica would've been for nothing!" added Tip angrily. Melody was starting to wonder if Tip only had the one emotion.
"Oh, you'll both get over that," decided Keira. "Don't give her the Trident, Melody, I mean it!"
A scowl appeared on the girl's face. "You're not the boss of me, Keira!" On cue, Morgana came swimming their way; she looked distressed, but Keira knew it was just an act.
"Oh, Melody! Don't listen to this wretched girl, she's a liar. She's jealous that you can become a mermaid, too."
Keira fixed the octopus with an incredulous stare. If only she could come up with such amazing stories, then she would never have to do any schoolwork. "Where do you even get these things?" she demanded, flabbergasted. Though she knew Melody was blinded by her own wants, Keira knew that she had to try to convince her otherwise. "Melody, you can't trust her! She's working with an evil witch that wants to take over the world! Morgana doesn't care about you, Melody!"
Morgana's expression became very tragic. If the wretched woman was not so awful, even Keira might have felt badly for her. "Please, darling, hand me the Trident. It's the only way to make you one with the sea." Melody looked to Keira only once before handing over the Trident, and, instantly, all hell broke loose. "Foolish girl!" Morgana laughed, body glowing with power from the Trident, grabbing both by the arms and pulling them back into her cave. Tip and Dash had long retreated, spooked by the appearance of the octopus.
Melody's jaw dropped, unable to believe that she had been so badly manipulated. "B-but y-you said th-that you would m-make me a mermaid. I don't understand..."
"Poor, naïve child, hasn't your mommy ever taught you not to trust complete strangers?" Keira glared at the woman and tried to hit Morgana's arm repeatedly with Shadow Heart, but it didn't seem to affect the octopus at all. "I am all powerful! Even that foolish key that Maleficent seems to fear has no effect on me!"
XxX
Eric carefully steered his ship between icebergs. The air had become steadily cooler, and he assumed that they had gone quite north. The ship came to a stop as Eric awaited further instructions. Surrounding the ship was a merpeople army, as well as Sora, Kairi, Goofy, Donald, Ariel, and King Triton. "Where is it from here, Scuttle?" called Sora as the seagull landed on the side of the ship and scratched the top of his head.
"It's right ahead. No, wait, that's an ice berg. Was it east? West? No, no, no. Maybe it was South-North?"
Donald quacked with agitation. "Scuttle, there's no such thing as 'South-North'."
Sora and Kairi smacked their foreheads. "He didn't honestly forget, did he?" groaned Sora as Kairi giggled nervously and looked around. Had she not been staring so intensely at the rock, she probably wouldn't have noticed the Penguin and Walrus, but, luckily, she did.
They looked scared to death, she thought, so she followed her heart and called, "You two!" Reluctantly, Tip and Dash swam toward her. "You haven't seen a blonde mermaid swimming around with a black-haired girl, have you?"
Dash tilted his head to the side. "Melody and Keira?"
"Yes!" The whole group exclaimed, relieved.
Kairi grinned, pleased with their luck. "Where are they?" Dash pointed a shaking fin toward a cave that was glowing grin.
"I-in th-there." A mad cackle filled the air, and, as if on cue, an army of Heartless surrounded the group.
"Well, Sora, there's the answer. There are heartless here." Donald quacked disdainfully.
A/N: Okay, let me say that if I have been referring to King Triton as King Trident that I'm sorry. I just noticed that I've been typing it a few times in this chapter that way. So sorry. Dx Next chapter should be the last one for this world. Then again, I might lengthen it out a bit. And as a future warning, this story is probably going to be very long. So if you don't like long fanfics, I suggest you stop here. Ja!