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Chapter Six:
Triton's Righteous Fury
For the next few days Ariel was on cloud nine. She would dance around the palace singing to herself, and everyone had noticed how much happier she was. Before then she would be out of the palace, and away from her father. But lately they couldn't her out of the house. One morning Ariel was in her room all morning, and her sisters thought it was time she came out of her room and did something more in agreement with her personality.
"Ariel, dear, time to come out. You've been in there all morning." called Andrina.
"Coming!" Ariel called back to her sister, and she swims out of her room humming a familiar tune.
"What is with her lately?" asked Atina as Ariel was looking at herself in the mirror. No sooner that Ariel gets up to swim away, King Triton swims into the room.
"Morning, Daddy!" says Ariel as she kisses her father good morning and swims away.
"Oh, she's got it bad." said Atina
"What? What has she got?" asked the now curious king.
"Isn't it obvious, Daddy? Ariel's in love." Jumped Andrina.
"Ariel? In love?" asked the king, wondering who the lucky fellow was to capture his daughter's heart. Triton swam to his throne to try to figure out who it was. "Could it be Urchin?" King Triton thought. "No, it can't be, Urchin is just a boy!" he thought again. "Could it be Reicka? No he's far too old. I've got it, it's Grigle. No, no, no! I can't think who she may be in love with!" stated a upset Triton.
Just outside the palace, Sebastian was pacing and Flounder and Sora was waiting for their friend to emerge from her house. She has been in the palace for the last few days and they were hoping that she was alright, so they could go looking around the bottom the ocean.
Ariel had went exploring the ocean to find a rock with flowers surrounding it. She laid on it, plucking the flowers one at a time. And with each of the flowers petals were also picked one at a time.
"He loves me! He loves me not. He loves me! He loves me not." Ariel continued this abut four or five times, until she found one that said 'He loves me!' and she was aesthetic.
"Ariel you know your fadda would 'ave a royal shit fit!" said the Jamaican crustacean. "He would rip a huge hole in your fin if he knew!" but Ariel didn't hear what he said, ergo she didn't answer him.
"Ariel?!" asked Sebastian. "Ariel are you listening?" Ariel didn't answer again. "ARIEl!!" screamed the crab, snapping Ariel out of her fantasy. "Ariel, I don't want you to get to involved to become brokenhearted." exclaimed Sebastian.
Ariel completely blew him off and made plans of her own. "I gotta see him again - tonight! Scuttle can re-show me where he lives. He knows!" said a still excited Ariel.
"Ariel - please. Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?" asked an annoyed little crab.
"I'll swim up to his castle. Then Flounder will splash around to get his attention, and then with -" started Ariel but she was cut off by Sebastian.
"Down HERE is your home! Ariel - listen to me. The human world - it's a mess. Life under the sea is better than anything they got up there." said Sebastian as he started to sing, in his little Jamaican accent.
"The seaweed is always greener, in somebody else's lake. You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake! Just look at the world around you, right here on the ocean floor. Such wonderful things surround you what more is you lookin' for?"
"Under the sea! Under the sea! Darling it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me! Up on the shore they work all day, out in the sun they slave away, while we devotin', full time to floatin', under the sea!" continued Sebastian getting too into his song.
"Down here all the fish is happy. As off through the waves they roll. The fish on the land ain't happy, they sad 'cause they in their bowl! But fish in the bowl is lucky! They in for a worser fate! One day when the boss get hungry. Guess who's gon' be on the plate?"
"Under the sea! Under the sea! Nobody beat us, fry us and eat us, in fricassee! We what the land folks loves to cook, under the sea we off the hook. We got no troubles, life is the bubbles, under the sea! Under the sea! Since life is sweet here, we got the beat here, naturally! Even the sturgeon an' the ray, they get the urge 'n' start to play. We got the spirit, you got to hear it! Under the sea!" and at this time Flounder showed up with Sora looking for Ariel. But Sora got way into Sebastian's sng to go any further.
"The newt play the flute. The carp play the harp. The plaice play the bass, and they soundin' sharp! The bass play the brass. The chub play the tub. The fluke is the duke of soul! Yeah! The ray he can play, the lings on the strings. The trout rockin' out, the blackfish she sings, the smelt and the sprat, they know where it's at! An' oh that blowfish blow!" Sebastian kept singing, not noticing that Flounder had showed up, and took Ariel away, and had to pry Sora away from the jazzy beat.
"Under the sea! Under the sea! When the sardine, begin the beguine, it's music to me! What do they got? A lot of sand? We got a hot crustacean band! Each little clam here, know how to jam here, under the sea! Each little slug here, cuttin' a rug here, under the sea! Each little snail here, know how to wail here! That's why it's hotter, under the water, ya we in luck here, down in the muck here, under the sea!" finished Sebastian doing as much as a jazz hands as she could.
"Ariel?" half asked and half called the crab. "Ariel?! Where are you?" asked Sebastian. "Somebody's got to nail dat girls fins to the floor!"
"Sebastian!" called the seahorse.
"Yes Craig?"
"Sebastian! Sebastian, I've been looking all over for you. I've got an urgent message from the sea king." Craig said.
Sebastian was worried at this time. "What if he knows?" he thought. " Craig, did he mention what he wants exactly?" asked the nervous crab.
"No, but he mentioned it's something about Ariel!" he responded.
"Oh god, he does know!" thought an upset crab.
"Come on!" said the seahorse. "The King is waiting!" the seahorse said as they swam away towards the palace.
They arrived at the palace, and Sebastian was ushered into the throne room by Craig.
He started to go in but he paused when he heard King Triton talking. "Let's see, now... Oh, who could the lucky merman be?" the king notices Sebastian and stopped his previous thought, and hides the flower he was playing with. "Come in, Sebastian." and Sebastian obeyed his King and walked or in Sebastian's case scurried towards him.
"Yes?" Sebastian asked in a falsetto tone.
"Have you noticed anything peculiar with Ariel lately? She hasn't been acting like herself, and I am worried." said the king.
"Peculiar? Why no sire!" said the little crab with legs a-shaking.
"You know, moaning about, daydreaming, singing to herself. . . . You haven't noticed, hmm?" questioned the king knowing Sebastian was hiding something from him.
"Oh - well, I -" stammered Sebastian.
"Sebastian... I know you've been keeping something from me..." continued the king.
Sebastian kept playing dumb. "Keeping... something? I don't know what you are possibly insinuating? I haven't a clue What's happeneing!"
"so you don't know anything about Ariel, in love?"
"I tried to stop her, sir. She wouldn't listen. I told her to stay away from humans - they are bad, they are trouble, they -" blurted out Sebastian.
"Humans? WHAT ABOUT HUMANS?" asked Triton now furious.
"Humans? Ho ho ho ho. . . . Who said anything about humans?" trying to act like he never said anything. But Triton grabbed him and possibly caused brain damage.
Ariel, Sora, and Flounder were in Ariel's grotto trying to surprise her.
"Flounder? Sora? What is this all about?" asked Ariel.
"Well wait a minute and you'll find out!" said Sora.
"Yah just wait! You'll be very surprised!" added Flounder.
"We're here!" said both boys at the same time. "Ready?"
"Yes! What is it?" asked a very excited Ariel.
"One..." said Flounder.
"Two..." said Sora.
"Three..." they said together taking their hands away from Ariel's face, revealing the statue of Ariel's crush Eric.
"Oh!! Its perfect! It looks just like him. It even has his eyes. How can I ever thank you?" asked Ariel.
"You can go on a date with me and we'll call it even!" joked Sora, but Ariel just glowered at him. "It was just a joke!" justified Sora.
Ariel started talking with her statue, but to be caught by none other than King Triton.
"Oh, daddy... I was just..." said Ariel trying to find just the right words but failed miserably.
"I consider myself a reasonable merman. I set certain rules, and I expect those rules to be obeyed." said an angry father and King.
"But Daddy! -"
"who is this... this... this human?" ha asked.
"Um-m P-p-prince Er-r-ric." stammered Ariel.
"And where is he now?" asked the knig.
"Back up on land where he is safe?"
"Back? Safe? What happened that he was in danger?"
"He almost drowned after his ship sank." Ariel said sadly knowing what might happen.
"You rescued a human from drowing?" asked Triton.
"Daddy, I had to -" said Ariel.
"Contact between the human world and the mer-world is strictly forbidden. Ariel, you know that! Everyone knows that!" screamed Triton.
"He would have died!" pleaded Ariel.
"One less human to worry about!"
"You don't even know him." pleaded Ariel, trying to make her father understand.
"Know him? I don't have to know him. They're all the same. Spineless, savage, harpooning, fish-eaters, incapable of any feeling anything!"
"Daddy, I love him!" exploded Ariel
"No..." said Triton flabbergasted. "Have you lost your senses completely? He's a human, you're a mermaid!"
"I don't care." said a stubborn teenager.
"So help me Ariel, I am going to get through to you. And if this is the only way, so be it." screamed Triton blasting all of Ariel's collection, trying to make Ariel understand.
"Daddy!... No... No, please- Daddy, stop!... Daddy, Nooo!!..." screeched Ariel.
Triton left without another word, ariel was on the floor crying and Sebastian, Flounder, and Sora tried to comfort the sobbing princess.
"Ariel..." said Sebastian.
"Please just leave me alone!" said Ariel.
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Author's Note
Quick Vocab lesson: Fury- violence
aesthetic- very happy
crustacean- crab
ergo- so
glowered- frowned
Preview for Chapter Seven: Ariel goes to the sea witch and gives up her voice to gain legs to be with the humans. But what she doesn't know is that Sora was once human. What will happen when she finds out?
Sampling of What's left: Sora finding Goofy and Donald (or Vicia versa), Day one, Day two, Day three, the wedding of Ursula and Eric, the death of Ursula and Ariel's and Eric's wedding.