"Are you sure you won't miss me to much?" Merida asked as she hugged me. I had to spit out a couple strands of her hair before I could answer. Her hair had a mind of it's own practically. I moved away from Merida and shook my head.

"I will" she sighed as she enveloped me in another hug, and somehow managed to lift me off the ground, even though I was taller than her.

"Do you think she'll like me?" Merida asked. We looked over towards Jefferson, who was already off the boat waiting for Merida to leave with him. This was his stop for him, and he had invited Merida to come along with him and help him run this errand. Then afterwards he had promised her that he would have her meet his daughter. The two had come very close on this journey. I felt so happy for them.
Grace? I mouthed. She nodded. I reached into my satchel, which seemed to be permanently attached to me now, and wrote.
Of course she will
"Merida we should probably go," Jefferson told her. She grabbed onto my arms and let out a girlish squeal which was completely unlike her. Falling in love with someone seemed to have completely torn down her tough girl persona. She walked off, the ship as her and Jefferson said their last goodbyes to me.

"Finally, I thought they'd never leave. Does this mean we can go back to actually being pirates again?" Killian commented behind me.

You consider me a pirate now? I asked/wrote.

"How many of the things you own now are entirely yours?" he joked. I smiled at him, knowing that he was right.

"Now then where to?" Killian asked throwing me a compass he had in his pocket. I caught it and looked at it. I watched as the arrow pointed towards Killian and grinned. I pointed in the direction and Killian laughed.
"Me? Well that's not quite that far of a destination to go to. All you have to do is ask," he winked at me. I blushed at his comment and smiled and pushed him out of the way just pointing in the direction behind him.

"Gents you heard the lady, head east" Killian shouted.

"Come on sweetheart you're fighting against a man with only one hand I can't be that hard to fight against" Killian commented. It had been a couple weeks since Merida had left and for some reason Killian had decided to teach me how to sword fight as we sat out on the deck that night.

"Try again and this time with more enthusiasm. Also move a little more, you'd be dead in seconds if I was actually fighting you" he advised. I lunged at him and he blocked the blow. I lunged at him again and was unsuccessful. He fought back now with some force and I jumped out of the way. Finally I did the best thing I could do and dropped my sword and ran leaving Killian quite confused. When he finally understood what I was doing he let out a sigh.
"Oh that's always the best the solution," Killian joked as I ran to the other side of the ship. I stuck my tongue out at him taunting him as I leaned against the railing. He ran towards me and I moved out of the way as he missed me. To surprise him I jumped on top of him from behind and we landed to the ground with the thud and making him drop his sword. I rolled off him as he flipped himself onto his back and then I rolled back onto. I put our faces so close together that our noses were touching. I playfully blinked my eyes at him with a smirk on my face, just for the heck of it. He laughed at this and we sat up. Killian bit his lip for a moment as if he was contemplating something and then leaned towards me.

"I'll be right back there's something I need to show you," Killian whispered into my ear. I nodded and he went below deck to his quarters. I smiled to myself and felt so happy at this moment. That was until I heard a someone giggle behind me. I turned around and saw her,Cora. The witch who had given me, my legs. She stood on the deck as if she belonged there and she had a strange smile on her face.

"I see you seem to be enjoying your time as a human?" she asked politely. I nodded. What was she doing here? Something must be going on. It hadn't been three years yet so what did she want with me?

"Awwww don't be to scared to see me," she said as she walked up to me and held my chin in one of her hands making me look at her. I didn't like what was going on at all. I reached behind me hoping to find some sort of weapon, just in case and felt the hilt of Killian's fallen sword and gabbed onto it. She didn't seem as kind as she did last time. She seemed harsher, as if she was ready to get what she had been waiting for and no one could stop her.
"You're probably wondering what I'm doing here, aren't you?" she asked. I nodded.
"And you still haven't been kissed yet...perfect," she smiled. I tried to back away from her but she grabbed my arm and squeezed it hard so I wouldn't move again. I felt her sharp nails dig into me, to keep me in place.

"I came to tell you that I got a better offer, your wish has been terminated," she said. I felt my eyes widen.
"Turn's out your father was willing to pay a handsome price to have you back and so I took it. He gave me the whole ocean for the return of his little daughter," she cooed. I shook my head. I didn't want to go back at all, not now.
"It's time for you to go," she sighed as she let go of me and turned me around towards the ocean. I felt my heart beat quicken. She was going to push me in. I felt my grip tighten on the sword, she hadn't noticed it yet. I quickly swung at her, but she was gone.
"You'll have to be much quicker than that. After my daughter pushed me into a mirror I have attained quite the reflexes," she said as she appeared behind me and I tried to stab at her again, but missed.
"Hmmmmm you're fighting quite hard to not go back," she pointed out. I could hear her voice now but I couldn't see her. Then I heard her let out a gasp as she realized something.
"Oh you're in love, that's it. Well if you are in love with him and he loves you. Why hasn't he kissed you yet? Maybe he doesn't love you have you ever thought of that? He is a isn't he. When have you ever known of a pirate to actually love something. You're just leading yourself on," her voice was nearly a whisper now in my head. I shook my head vigorously at her words. She was wrong, I knew she was. I wouldn't let her place any doubts in my head.
"Still not willing to go back then? Well, I promised your father I'd return you to him. I didn't say that you would be alive," Suddenly everything was eerily quiet. I knew I was alone but I couldn't see her. Maybe she was gone? I heard footsteps behind me and saw Killian walking up the stairs from his quarters. He was holding something in his hand very tightly as if he didn't want to drop it, whatever it was, and he had a huge smile on his face. I returned it hoping that what had just happened was some insane hallucination. I was however proved wrong. As soon as Killian and I made eye contact Cora appeared right in front of me with this smirk on her face. I tried to run but I couldn't move.

"Ariel," Killian tried to lurch towards me to protect me, but Cora held him back with magic.
She thrust out her arm and I felt my heart beat slowly as her hand somehow went into my chest. I could feel as her fingers enclosed themselves around my heart and the next thing I knew, she had ripped it out. I saw a glowing red heart still beating in the palm of her hands. How had she done that? I looked like I hadn't had a scratch on me but I knew my heart was no longer in my body. I couldn't breath and I felt empty.

"NO!" I heard Killian shout. He let go of whatever it was he had been holding and I noticed it was ring,as I saw drop to the ground. He ran to me as I collapsed the ground.
"Ariel, come on," Killian begged as he picked my head up and I looked at him and placed a hand on his cheek. Cora had this evil smile on her face.
"Love it's quite painful isn't it?" Cora smiled at us. We both ignored her.

"You are not leaving me, I'm not letting this happen again," Killian told me. Cora squeezed my heart, just for the heck of it, causing a spasm of pain to run through my whole body. I grasped onto Killian as if he was my lifeline.
"Just one kiss that's all it takes right?" he asked me. Cora stopped smiling and looked at Killian as if she hadn't expected this.
"Stop no, what are you doing?" she snapped at him.

It has to be my true love though that breaks the spell and they have to love me back I tried to mouth to him even though I knew he wouldn't understand me.
"You dense little mermaid you. How could you ever think I didn't love you," he sighed. Cora squeezed my heart again angrily and this time I knew she was doing it to kill me. Killian didn't have much time as he leaned towards me. I grabbed his face with both of my hands as I tried to make this quicker and our lips were nearly centimeters apart. And that's when I was suddenly encompassed in a huge purple cloud and I felt everything being ripped away from me and all I could sense was this darkness.

DUN DUN DUNNN! OOOOH cliffhanger there. I hope you liked it and review if you did. Ok sorry to brag but guess what guys! I got another acceptance letter! WOohooo that's 2/5 so far I hope the other three are yes's as well AHHHHH!