"Ariel? Ariel? Ariel, come on slow down where are we exactly going?" Flounder shouted at me as we swam together. I gave him a mischievous smile. Today was the day, I was actually going to see what was up there. This would be the day that I would know what the dangers of the outside world were that my father held my sisters and I back from.
"Where do you think?" I smiled at my little fishy friend.

"The surface? Ariel that's not that fun, don't you want to-" I turned towards Flounder and grabbed his face in my hand.
"Flounder listen to me, I am sick and tired of just being stuck down here. Look up what do you see?" I asked. He looked up with me to see that great circle above that somehow made the water warm. There were so many things I had learned and it seemed like such a waste to just absorb all of this knowledge and not put it to use and see what all of this stuff I knew actually meant.
"It's the sun"
"Don't you want to just know what it feels like on your skin or fins?" I corrected myself.

"Look you can go up there by yourself. I am staying right here" he stated.
"Alright then" I nodded as I continued swimming up.
"Wait hang on I'm coming" he said once he realized that he was completely alone in the middle of the ocean, where anything bigger than him could probably eat him. The water felt warmer the further we swam up. I was just a couple strokes away, I'd finally be able to see things I could never imagine seeing.

"Are you sure you want to see this? I mean what if it's not that great" Flounder asked.
"Then we won't come up here again" I promised. I took one last stroke and my head was above the water now. The first thing I felt was wind. It blew my hair back a bit and I was actually cold but then once I got used to it. I felt the warmth of the sun. I watched as my hair dried in the sunlight. It was so strange it was like the color of bright coral when it was dry, compared to what it usually looked like which was just this red brownish color.

"So we've seen it can we go back now please?" Flounder asked. I crossed my arms and looked at him.

"No" I told him as I started wading towards these rocks to go relax on.
"I'll tell on you"
"What are you five?" I asked raising an eyebrow at him. My heart was beating at a million beats per hour, this felt so amazing breaking the rules and all. Why hadn't I done this earlier? There was nothing scary at all, uphere it was so pretty. The sky almost matched the color of the sea, if you looked down you could practically see the sea world below you, and the land they had so many colors and so many places to explore and look at. When I finally made it to a tide pool I sat myself up on a rock.
"I actually like my hair like this" I said as I twirled it between my fingers, feeling it's warmth, I flicked my tail in the water watching it make tiny waves. I leaned back on the rock and and closed my eyes, just smiling to myself.
"I wish I could sit up there with you Ariel" Flounder looked up at me. I looked at the tide pool beside me and scooped him up then placed him in the pool.
"Thanks" he smiled at me and then paused for a moment.
"You're right Ariel your hair does look beautiful like that" he told me.
"Awww thanks Flounder, you're best fish a girl could ask for" He looked away from me for a moment. Was he blushing? Can fish even blush? I flipped onto my stomach to see behind me that there was a dock just a little ways away there were people walking on the decks of ships and going into town.
"We should get closer" I whispered to Flounder.
"I thought you were ok over here?" Flounder asked.
"I am, now let's move closer"
"OH NO YOU WON'T" this Caribbean accent snapped at us. I let out a groan as I turned around to see this tiny little crab looking very angry with us.
"Sebastian, you followed me?" I asked.

"Oh yes I did. I knew it! I knew you were planning something like this. That smile you had on your face today, was the smile of a troublemaker. I even told your father but all he said was that you were his little girl that always obeyed him. Ha FISHPASTE!" Sebastian explained. Flounder and I just stayed silent since we didn't know how to reply to that.
"Why by the time I tell your father he'll make sure to tie those fins of yours together for the rest of your life" he snapped. I smiled to myself as I let Sebastian keep snapping I reached my hand out to him and grabbed him.
"What are you doing to me you crazy child, put me" he shouted as I picked him up.
"I'm sorry but you and my father have to set me free, also I have to make sure you don't tell on me while I'm gone so sorry for this" I apologized as I flipped him on his back and watched him struggle to get back on his stomach.
"You are going to be a tuna sandwich when I get to you" he said. I smiled at him and laughed a bit. Oh I was so going to be dead for this, but that was the fun of it. Besides if my father could forgive one of my older sisters,Attina, for her ripping off starfish legs to see if they would grow back phase I'm pretty sure he'd forgive me for this.

"You ready to go Flounder?" I asked turning towards him ignoring Sebastian's constant protests.
He looked scared for a moment but he then nodded. I scooped him up again and placed him back in the ocean. I jumped in with him and swam up closer to the docks. We passed by many ships that were massive. It seemed so strange how they could just so easily float on water. Flounder and I hid mostly behind ships to watch people walk across the boardwalks and into town. Humans were so amazing with the way they walked and the way they interacted with each other it was so sweet. I noticed that it was getting darker outside.
"Alright I'm ready to head back" I sighed as I turned to Flounder.
"You ok Ariel? You seem kinda sad" I looked at my tail fin with a disgusted look now as I realized what I could do if I had legs. I mean sure with my tail I can swim pretty fast, but if I had legs like the humans did I could learn to swim just as fast and not only that I could walk and travel and see so much more than just the ocean.
"Maybe we should head up here again Flounder shouldn't we? Flounder? Flounder?" I asked noticing that he was gone.
"Ariel" I heard something shout under the water. I went under and saw that Flounder was in a fishnet. I swam over to him but couldn't find him once I got close to the net since other fish were getting caught in it as well. I noticed it was being pulled up towards a ship. I tried to break the net a part with my hands and I started to stretch it out a bit along with the fish. Several fish managed to swim out of it but not Flounder. I suddenly noticed that I was being pulled up with the net as well, I didn't realize how far I was being pulled up until the net stopped moving and I heard this weird coughing noise. I looked away from the work I was doing to notice this man with short black hair and gorgeous blue eyes staring at me hanging on to the net, he had a hook for a hand as well but that didn't at all make a difference.

"Um hello" I said trying to see if that's how humans greeted each other as well.
"Hello there" he nodded looking me up and down. This must have been an odd sight for him having to see, some strange red haired girl, in a purple sea shell brassiere hanging on to his fish net trying to set her fishy friend free. I was lucky I hadn't been pulled up any further because then he would've seen my tail.
"May I ask what you are doing?" he asked leaning on the side of his ship.

"I believe it's called exercising" I guessed.
"Exercising?" I nodded.
"You know that net you are trying to break open contains food for my men. Now I'm sure you think that getting fit is very important but hopefully not important enough to starve more than 20 pirates"
"Right well my apologies. I assure you it won't happen again" I smiled. I looked up to see that Flounder was trying to wiggle towards me before he lost all of his energy. I had to stall more with this man.

"So you're a pirate, that must be fun" I smiled at him. Wow stupidest question to ask ever I realized. The man laughed at me.
"How much longer do you plan on holding to my fish net" I looked up again and saw Flounder was almost towards me.
"Not long"
"Would you like to climb aboard and just walk through my ship to head back to the docks" he offered. Before I could answer I felt something land on my head.
"Let's go" Flounder whispered to me, making me realize that he was the one that had landed on my head.
"Right well it seems that there is a fish in my hair at the moment so I must go nice meeting you" I smiled at him before letting go of the fish net. Flounder and I quickly dropped down to the water and the moment we were below surface we swam away as fast as we could.

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