"Come on Alana! Hurry up!" Attina's voice hissed, grabbing her younger sister by the hand and trying to pull her along quicker. But alas, the younger, dark haired princess wasn't quite as fast as her older sister, which was why Attina was suddenly forced to stop.
"Princess…Attina…stop…not so…fast…!" Sebastian wheezed out, swimming in front of the girl and holding out an exhausted claw to make his point. Of all people, why was he have to be the one to babysit the two oldest, and most reckless, princesses? The girl's were practically whirlpools; and he was just an old crab!
"Sebastian, we aren't even going fast!" Alana whined, mimicking her older sister by crossing her arms in front of her band in an annoyed fashion. Really though, if they couldn't shake Sebastian off soon, then this day would never be fun!
"Yeah Sebastian, you just gotta learn how to…" Attina's sentence trailed off then, as her eyes wandered towards the left of Sebastian, who was still panting heavily in front of her. Her green eyes finally connected with a merboy, about her age, looking miserable. However, when he caught sight of Attina gazing at him, he stuck out his tongue quickly, as did the young princess in response, before she watched the boy swim off to catch up with his mother.
"Who is dat?" Sebastian wondered, noticing the eldest merprincess's clearly sour expression. Maybe if he got the girl's thoughts off track, she would abandon this venture to the market, and so would her sister, leaving the crab to have some much needed peace and quiet! Oh how joyous!
"That's Nereus; he's in my class." The child stated matter of factly, turning her hypnotic green eyes back to Sebastian. "He has morrats (a/n 'morrats' is polish for cooties)." Attina stated with another sour expression, her nose scrunching up at just the thought of it. All boys had morrats, but Nereus especially because he wouldn't let the young princess play make-believe-sharks with him one time.
"Ew! That's gross!" Alana squealed in disgust, her face scrunching up in horror. Morrats could very well be the worst possible disease in all the oceans!
"Boys are gross." Attina corrected her sister, who quickly nodded in agreement. Why big girls were always kissing big boys, she would never understand. It's as if they weren't afraid of getting morrats! Never in a million years would Attina kiss a boy; never, ever, ever!
"Well, you aren't gonna dink dat forever. One day you are gonna get married to a boy." Sebastian said mildly, his big mouth unknowingly starting to get him in trouble. Both merprincesses looked at each other in horror at his words.
"No way!" Both girls shrieked at the same time, their voices lost amongst the crowd of busy merpeople buying this and that in the market place.
"Yes way." The crab defended his point, still not realizing that his words were going to be the end of him soon. "As Queen, Attina, you'll have to marry so you can have children for the kingdom." Sebastian reminded despite the sour looks that the two princesses shared with one another.
"Well, when I'm Queen I'll be different." Attina said with a firm undertone in her voice. Her green eyes started to shine at just the thought, a slow, mischievous smile coming onto her lips.
"I'm gonna be a mighty queen, so enemies beware!" The girl sang happily putting her hands on her hips and puffing her small chest out in pride. But Sebastian just rolled his eyes at the child.
"Well, I've neva seen a Queen or ding, not all quite there." The crab said in response to the girl, who ignored him completely, as she grabbed a toy sword that had most likely been lost by a poor child earlier on, and thrust it out.
"I'm gonna be the main event, like no Queen was before! I'm brushing up on looking down, I'm working on my BLAST!" The girl mimicked using the trident with the sword in her hand, but the hard thrust out that she had done made her lose her balance, and fall backwards on her tail.
"Thus far, a ratha, uninspiring thing." The crab commented, crossing her claws in front of his shell as he stared down the young princess. The girl though, was hardly listening to his commentary, as she got right back up off the ground, and threw her arms out happily.
"Oh I just can't wait to be Queen!" Attina laughed, starting to swim off with Alana close on her fin strokes. Sebastian's eyes widened, as he quickly started to swim after the two girls, realizing that he could lose them easily in this crowded market place.
"You've got a long way to go, young princess, if you dink..." Sebastian finally caught up to the children, coming in between them both, huffing and puffing from the long swim.
"No one saying do this." Attina said, her voice thick with annoyance as she focused in on the crab to prove her point.
"Now when I said that, I—" Sebastian tried to start, but was cut off by Alana.
"No one saying be there." Alana challenged, catching onto this with her older sister, as she narrowed her eyes at Sebastian.
"What I meant was..."
"No one saying 'stop that'!" Attina mimicked the adult's voices which had forever told her to do such a thing.
"Look, what you don't realize..." Sebastian tried to reason with the Princesses, but his patience was starting to wear thin.
"No one saying 'see here'!" Both princesses shrieked at the same time to the crab, before morphing into giggles and swimming further into the crowd of people in the market place.
"Now see here!" Sebastian called, swimming after the two girls as fast as he could, his patience finally lost.
"Free to swim around all day…" Attina said dreamily, extending her arms and giggling happily at just the thought of it.
"Well, that's definitely out..." Sebastian's voice trailed off, as Attina's overpowered his.
"Free to do it all my way!" Attina laughed again, swimming off with her sister. But Sebastian was starting to catch on, and before the girl's could go any further, he was in front of their faces.
"I dink it's time that you and I arranged a heart to heart!" The crab said, annoyance and the faint trace of frustration evident in his tone. But Attina merely shook him off.
"Queens don't need advice from crustaceans for a start!" The girl challenged outright, laughing as she intertwined her hand with her sisters and sped off deeper into the market place.
"If this is where the monarchy is headed, count me out! Out of service, out of Atlantica, I wouldn't hang about! This child is getting wildly out of claw…"
"Oh, I just can't wait to be Queen!" Attina giggled, spinning in circles with her younger sister. By now, the children who had wandered away from their mothers had gathered around the young princesses, hanging on their every word and creating a sort of following.
"Everybody turn left!" Attina called out, and all the children did as she commanded, their tails swishing behind them as they did, and therefore hitting Sebastian.
"Everybody turn right!" Attina called out again, and the children obeyed her, all of them giggling, and not paying attention that moving so fast made their tails swish behind them, and hit Sebastian once again.
"Everywhere you look I'm, standing in the spotlight!" Attina said proudly, raising herself up by swimming higher than the other children. But Sebastian would have none of it, as he mangaged—somewhat bruised and beaten—to swim up to the girl's face.
"Not yet!" The crab called out, trying, once and for all, to stop the eldest merprincess. But by now, the other children had joined in on the fun, as they gathered close towards Alana and Attina.
"Let every creature go for broke and sing! Let's hear it in the school and on the fin! It's gonna be Queen Attina's finest fling!" The children chanted, going to close towards the merprincesses and therefore squashing Sebastian as they all lifted the girl's up the air.
"Oh I just can't wait to be Queen! Oh I just can't wait to be Queen! Oh I just can't waaaaaait ... to be Queen!"
Just a quicky note here: I do not own this song, but I did take liberties with twisting the words around a little so that it fits the story. I hope none of you are really mad; I'm a huge fan of the original!