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Chapter Three:
Humans? Where?

Ariel, Sora, Flounder and Sebastian, left the grotto and was on there way back home to the palace in Atlantica. Ariel and Sora were talking on how where she hat gotten ger collection from, and they had plenty of time to talk for they had to stop quite a few times to let Flounder catch up. Sebastian had been in a foul mood the whole way home because of Ariel and Sora constantly talking of the human world items, that is until Ariel had spoken directly to him.

"Sebastian?"

"Yes Ariel?"

"Sebasian tank you for not telling daddy, he out of everyone should know that daddy would never understand!" said Ariel.

"Your welcome Ariel." replied Sebastian.

As the for creatures of the deep swam further and further towards the palace, they didn't see the two swimming eels, with one glowing eye each, above them, looking down upon them. Once they had hit a certain point the eels swam away, back the way they came. All of a sudden the ship full of sailors had gone atop of them. Ariel had noticed the shadow and the flashing lights around it, and realized that it was too small and to 'flashy' to be a baby whale, even the smallest whale wasn't that small.

"What is that?" asked Ariel so quietly that only Sora had heard it and looked up with Ariel. Flounder being the slacker that he was saw that Sora and Ariel was looking up, and also being as nosey as he was, had looked up as well.

"What do you suppose that is, Sora?" asked Ariel

"If I had to guess, it's a ship. I thought you might have known that? Havent you seen humans before? Because you had told your father that you had." asked Sora.

"No I have never seen a human before, or a ship that was afloat for that matter." replied Ariel.

"So you lied to your father?"

"Yah, but he thinks anything out of the vicinity of the palace is way too dangerous for a princess. So he tells me everything is dangerous besides sunken ships because no upright ship-dwelling fish would harm a princess."

"So do you want to check it out, so it's no longer a lie?" asked Sora.

"No, Ariel don't do it!" yelled Flounder, trying to get Ariel to go home, but it was to no avail, they started swimming up to the surface. "SEBASTIAN!!! ARIEL IS GOING UP TO THE SURFACE!"

"Huh...?" asked Sebastian, looking back to see just Flounder swimming as fast as he could to catch up to the crab. "Flounder, where are those two?"

"Going up to the surface!" said Flounder gasping between words.

"What?!?" asked a very surprised crab. "Ariel! ARIEL!" screamed the know frantic crab, and he started to tread water as fast as he could to get to the now surfaced mermaid.

Noticing the flashes, Sebastian had jumped clear out of the water. Screaming "Jumpin' jeddyfish!" for he has never seen fire in the sky. And before he could land back in the water Ariel and Sora was closing in on the ship.

"Come on Flounder, lets go get those two pesky nosey teenagers!" said Sebastian.

Once Ariel and Sora got to the ship, Sora being the gentleman merboy he was let Ariel go up first. She got up to a hole on the ship and saw many humans doing some odd thing with their feet. Then she remembered that it was called dancing. One human in particular had caught her eye. He was by her estimate about five foot, eleven inches, had black hair and was very tan and even more attractive in her eyes. He was also playing a snarfblat or otherwise known as a flute. On the other hand Sora had his eye on someone also but never saw the persons face for they never turned around, all Sora knew was that they may have something special.

"I've never seen a human this close before Sora!"

"I know aren't they magical?" asked Sora.

"What's krackin Air, Sora?" asked a familiar voice and Ariel knew automatically that it was Scuttle's voice.

"Have you ever seen anyone as perfect as him?" asked Ariel as the mans dog had come over to him and tried to get him to play.

"I dunno, he looks kinda hairy and slobbery to me." said Ariel.

Ariel had noticed an old man was constantly looking at his wrist, guessing he had a tick that made him do that. "Ahh midnight." he whispered, loud enough that Ariel had been able to hear it

"Midnight? What's so special about midnight?" Ariel asked Sora. Sora had shrugged his shoulders not knowing the answer. The old man had started to speak once again.

"Silence! Silence! It is now my honour and privilege to present our esteemed Prince Eric with a very special, very expensive, very large birthday present." said an the old grouchily looking old man.

"Ah, Grimsby - y'old beanpole, you shouldn't have." said Eric and ad that point the tarp that covered the statue was pulled off, and his dog started to growl.

"Hush Max..." whispered Eric. Max didn't like that Eric had told him to hush, so he ran over to where Ariel was, Ariel hid, and looked over to see if the dog was gone. To her not so surprising surprise, he wasn't. And the next thing Ariel knew the dog had licked her face. "Max, here boy. Hey, come on, mutt, whatcha doing, huh Max? Good boy." asked Eric excitedly, trying to get his dog riled up. And it had worked, Max had started jumping and running around when Grimsby had come over to Eric to talk to him, Ariel was listening very intently, and Sora was still staring at the one person on the ship with shoulder-length silver hair.

"Eric, I was hoping the present would have been a wedding present..." stated Grimsby.

"Grimsby, please don't start. You're not still sore because I didn't fall for the princess of Glauerhaven, are you?" asked the prince.

"Eric it's not just me, the whole kingdom wants you to settle down and produce heirs." said Grimsby.

"I know but she has to be the one."

At that point Sebastian had gotten to where Ariel, Sora, and Scuttle were. Took one look at the ship full of humans and eeked so loud it would have gotten the sailors attention but Ariel and Sora had shut his yap for him.

"Ariel we should be getting back to da palace. Da king must be getting apprehensive about you being so late." said the crab.

"Just a minute..." started Ariel, wanting to hear the last thing Prince Eric had to say.

"Grims, I will know the one it will just hit me like the lightning on the key of Ben Franklins key. I want her to be the one I want to spend the ret of my life with." said the prince.

"O.K. lets go." said a very disappointed Ariel, for she knew if she were human, she would be the perfect match for him.

Ariel had dove into the sea but let Sebastian and Sora had go before her. She dove deep into the sea and caught up to Sebastian, but back up on the ship, Eric had seen the young face, and heard the voice of the young princess and thought maybe it may have been a hallucination from being out on the sea for the past two days. But wether she was or wasn't a hallucination, he had become smitten with the young princess and thought she may be the one. And out of nowhere brewed a horrible storm, and princess Ariel knew this could not end well. The little ship was tossed from side to side and a torch ignited a trail fo gun powder, exploded, and set the ship on fire, and Ariel had heard it the explosion and waited to see if her human crush was harmed.

"Come on Ariel, lets go!" stated a now irritated crab.

"Wait!" screamed Ariel.

All the sailors were running around frantic trying to get off the ship. Everyone was safely off but the prince had just realized that his dog was still on board. Eric climbed up to the top deck of the ship to get his precious dog. Eric got Max off the burning ship but got hit on the head and passed out. Thankfully the ship had started to sink and he wasn't burned to a crisp, but he was still unconscious and couldn't help himself swim to shore. Ariel had almost given up and left but she soon saw that the ship was sinking and she waited, until she could see that the prince was safe.

"Arie..."

"Will you wait a god damn minute Sebastian!" screamed a worried princess.

"What did you say to me?" asked Sebastian.

"Wait... A... God... Damn... Minute, I didn't stutter." said Ariel again losing her focus. Then right out of the blue she could see Eric's black hair and she knew she had to do something or lose the one she possibly loves.

"Ariel!!" screamed Sora, Sebastian, and Flounder at the same time.

"I have to do something, so don't try to stop me!" cried Ariel already halfway to Eric.

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Author's Note

O.K. here's the deal, I saw that I was changing bits and pieces of the story but keeping it pretty much the same as the actual story. And I thought that I should try a new direction. So I thought 'What if Prince Eric saw Ariel?' and what would happen if he did? So I hoped I did a total make over with the story, while leaving some things the same. Hopefully I did! =) But this is only Chapter Three, hopefully the story takes a 180 degree turn over the next four chapters (and stays that way from then on), from the last two. Please Read and Review! And make my day!

Preview for Chapter Four: Ariel rescues Prince Eric, but it's the story that we don't see in the film. Ariel notices that he lives in a culture rich with the three languages (English, French, and Spanish), so tune in, the next chapter will be long! So I probably wont get to it until Sunday (27/9/2009) or Monday (28/9/2009).

Sampling of What's left: Ariel going to the sea witch, Ariel getting legs, Sora getting legs (again), Triton torching Ariel's grotto (maybe), Sora finding Goofy and Donald (or Vicia versa), Day one, Day two, Day three, and much more.