Sora looked around frantcically for his son. He was nowhere to be found. Sora went to the nurse's station and asked about his son. They said that no one had gone to check up on Skye for a while. Sora went back to Skye's room to look for any clues. The bed was unmade and the machines that were attached to Skye were unhooked. The window had been open and the curtains were flying in the breeze. He then noticed the faint scent of Axel.
"Axel..." Sora said immediately.
Sora ran out of the hospital, got into his car, and drove home. He found his wife and mother waiting on the porch when he got there.
"Skye is missing!" said Sora as soon as he got out of the car.
"What?" cried Kairi. "My little baby..." Tears ran down her cheeks and Sora's mother walked over to comfort her.
"I think he was taken from the hospital." Sora said worriedly. "The machines were unhooked, Skye wasn't in his bed..."
"What are we going to do?" sobbed Kairi. "He's our baby, Sora. We've got to do something!"
"That's why I'm going in." said Sora. "Axel took Skye to the sea. I traced his scent to it. So I'll have to turn into a merman."
"Are you sure?" asked the queen. "You haven't been a merman even once since I gave you the power for your eighteenth birthday. You may not even remember how to swim with a tail."
"I think I remember." said Sora, taking off his jacket and unbuttoning his shirt, revealing his muscular chest. He kicked off his shoes and took his wallet out of his pants pocket and handed everything to Kairi, who set them on the sand.
"Be careful, Sora." said Kairi.
Sora didn't say anything. He just put a finger to Kairi's lips. He replaced his finger with his lips, kissing her for about a minute. Then, he broke the kiss.
"Don't worry." he reassured. "I promise to be back, with Skye. Everything will be alright."
He walked over to the shore of the beach. He let the ocean breeze blow through his spiky hair. The scent of salt water hit Sora's nose, reminiscing about his days of being a merboy visiting the surface. Sora took a deep breath and dove into the water. As he swam, his hands glowed and he put them to the sides of his legs. He felt his legs fusing together and his feet turning into fins. Sora let go of his breath and inhaled the water as his lungs finished transforming from a human's to a merman. With the flick of his newly returned merman's tail, Sora sped even faster in the search for his son.
Meanwhile, in Ansem's old lair, Skye woke up.
"Unh..." he mumbled, opening his eyes. His vision was blurred at first, but then became clear. "Wh...where am I?"
He heard laughing in the distance. Evil laughter.
"I see you finally woke up." said the laughing voice.
Skye turned to see Axel, as a merman, swimming over to him. He stopped and floated in front of Skye. He crossed his arms.
"You are so naive." he said with a smirk on your face. "What were you thinking when you poisoned yourself and not your father, hm?"
Skye didn't say anything. He looked down and saw that his legs had been replaced by a tail. He was still wearing his hospital bracelet. And he noticed that he was pinned to the wall of the lair. His arms and tail had been tied down by ropes.
"What part of 'kill your father' didn't you understand?" asked Axel, swimming back and forth in front of Skye. "It doesn't take a genius to kill their own father. I didn't think you were stupid enough to drink to poison yourself. I thought it would have been easy for you to kill Sora, since he's set down so many rules to protect you. You hated those rules, which was why you disobeyed him. He only set those rules to protect you from me. He's just chicken."
Chicken of what? thought Skye.
"You see, Sora killed my mentor, Ansem, when we were about fifteen years old." continued Axel. "He remained a human afterwords. He knows I want revenge, but he's been scared to come back down here, even though his mother gave him the power to morph from human to merman and back three years after defeating Ansem. He's never used it once."
"Think again!" said a voice.
Axel turned around and saw Sora floating there. Skye stared in shock at how cool Sora looked as a merman. His tail was long with bluish-green scales that shimmered in the moonlight. He was normally this man who had long legs and wore nothing but blue, a smile, and sometimes glasses, since he needed them to read. Sora looked cool in anything but he looked even cooler as a merman.
"Well well well." said Axel. "Long time no see, Sora. I see you returned to your true form."
"Let go of my son or else." Sora said angrily, slowly swimming forward.
Axel laughed an evil laugh. "Or else what?" he asked.
Sora held out a hand and out of nowhere, a cool looking staff that was similar to his mother's trident but had a large blue jewel on it appeared.
"Or face the dire consequences," he said. "And to prove I'm not playing..."
He pointed the trident at the large crystal ball, where it shattered into many pieces. The glass shards fell to the ground. Skye gasped. This wasn't the father he always knew. His father was normally joyous and peaceful, but right now, he was angry and looked serious with an evil twist. But he was like this because he loved and wanted to protect his son.
"You destroyed my crystal ball, ooh I'm so scared." Axel said sarcastically. He held up his fists and they glowed. "Let's see if that trident is any match against my powers!!"