Fins And Flight

Ch. 14

Peter was being hurled out through the cave. He felt himself break the sealing and as soon as he did he began to fall towards the ground. He kept going faster and faster with no end in sight. He didn't know what to do, but he had to do something. Then suddenly he finally came crashing down, the orb breaking on contact. Peter toppled and rolled as he slammed against a large rock, and everything went dark.

Peter woke up with a sudden shake of the head. His head was swimming and his body felt like led. After a moment he forced himself up by his forearms, shaking his head to shake off the dizzy feeling. It took him a minute to remember what had just happened, it had all happened so fast. As soon as his memory came back he suddenly stood up and looked around, regardless of the pain.

But before he could do more, a large sound rumbled through the air. Suddenly a large rock came up out of the water. What looked like an rock throne was on top, with Morgana in it. As the rock came up more, what looked like and ice version of Atlantica emerged out of the water. But it wasn't as beautiful as the real Atlantica. It looked evil and hard, gagged pieces of rock came out everywhere and was surrounded by muggy green water. They sky had turned dark and the clouds the color of black and green. It was a horrible sight.

"All hail Queen Morgana!" Morgana bellowed.

Peter stared at the sight. He was trying to think of a way to free Ariel and then save Melody.

"Come on, think Peter think!" Peter mumbled to himself.

Then, as if out of pure instinct, he had gotten an idea. Peter slowly took out his dagger and floated up behind Morgana.

Then from a short distance, a large ship started to come out from behind a rock. Eric was on deck, stirring the ship. As he looked up, he saw Morgana holding Ariel in her tentacles.

"Ariel!" Eric gasped.

"Ah, Prince Eric." said Morgana. "Come to join the party? We're having a blast!"

She aimed the trident at the ship and gave it a huge whole that started gathering water. Eric and the crew dove off and onto the ice patches.

"Oh, dear Ursula would have adored this." said Morgana happily.

She laughed again. All of a sudden Peter came up behind her and hit the hilt of his dagger hard on her in the head. As she moaned in pain, her grip on Ariel had loosened.

"Go!" Peter shouted.

Ariel slipped out and dove back into the water. Peter tried to follow her, but before he could do anything, Morgana grabbed him with one of her tentacles. It wrapped tightly around his waist, holding his arms down.

"You sneaky little brat. I should've just killed you when I had the chance."

"Well nothings stopping you now, so why not get it over with?"

Peter glared at her. Then her tentacle went over his mouth.

"Insolent boy." Morgana sneered.

"Morgana!"

They both looked down. King Triton was coming up out of the water in a seashell carriage carried by dolphins. There were many mermen following behind him.

"King Triton!" Morgana laughed. "Oh how nice to see you back here."

Triton stopped just in front of the large rock they were sitting on and glared up at her. He glanced at Peter for a moment, then turned back to Morgana.

"Release Peter," he commanded loudly. "and surrender my granddaughter, and I shall spare you."

"Ohhh, I'm so scared." she laughed wickedly. "Face it Triton, without the trident, you nothing compared to me. I'm in charge now. Oh Undertow…"

Suddenly she shot a green lighting bolt at Undertow. It hit him and he went into the water. Morgana blow on the trident and smiled. Then the water started to turn and swash. Then undertow came back out, he was the size of a large ship. He came toppling down making the water splash.

"Oh yeah!" he hollered happily. "I'm back baby!"

"Where's Melody?" Eric yelled at Morgana angrily, pulling out his sword. "What have you done with her!?"

"Oh, you want to join your daughter?" Morgana called. "Well, I think that can be arranged." she smiled evilly.

At that moment, Cloak and Dagger wrapped their tails around Erics ankles and pulled him underwater.

"Eric!" Ariel cried.

Both her and Sebastian dove in after him. As Morgana smiled, Scuttle had come up and started yanking on her hair.

"Let the boy go!" he yelled.

While she was distracted, Peter slipped out of her grip and flew away. Then Morgana whacked Scuttle in the head with the trident.

"You…are very bad…" he muttered before falling.

Peter shoot straight towards the large cave. As he got closer he stopped for a moment to catch his breath and half sat half floated in the water.

"Keep it together Peter." he said to himself. "You still have to find Melody."

But at that moment he saw a large dark shadow towering over him. Peter slowly turned around and looked up. Then just as he toched the hilt of his dagger, Undertow was bearing down upon him, and ugly smile on his face.

"Oh crap." Peter moaned.

Undertow laughed cruelly. "Goin' somewhere boy?" he sneered.

Peter stared up at him and swallowed, unsure of what to do. Suddenly Undertow started coming at him, mouth opened and teeth bared.

Then Peter did something that was both very brave and very stupid. He lunged right back at Undertow, dagger held tightly in his hand, and shoved it right up the roof of the sharks mouth. Undertow yells of pain were muffled by Peter, who was on standing on his tongue to keep his grip. But even as he kept moving the dagger up, he felt a sharp shooting pain in the crook of his right arm. One of Undertows large teeth had pierced his arm and was sinking deeper and deeper, tearing through more skin and muscle.

After what felt like forever he finally yanked his dagger out. As he did he half fell into the water, hissing in pain as he clutched his arm, feeling the warm gush blood slowly but surely begin to flow from the deep gash and into the water. Undertow was thrashing around, howling in pain, beads of blood flying everywhere. After a moment he stopped and glared daggers at Peter, taking sharp intakes of breaths.

"Your gonna pay for that!" he said through a mouth full of blood.

Peter smirked. "Come and get me then!" he dared.

Then, still clutching his bloody arm, he suddenly shot fast into the water and towards the cave, Undertow quickly on his tail.

Melody and Flounder were sitting on the floor of the cave, still trapped in the electric sphere. Suddenly, Melody winced at as a sharp pain shot through her.

"Ahhh." she gasped. "What's…what's happing?"

Suddenly a bright green light started circling around Melodys tail. A tingling, bubbling sensation started on her tail as it started to split in two. After a moment, the light faded and she saw her tail had been replaced with legs. She was human again.

"Oh no." she cried.

But her words were muffled as water began to fill in her mouth. She clutched her throat, feeling air already leaving her lungs.

"Hold on Melody!"

Flounder went forward and started searching around the sphere.

"There had to be a way out, there has to be!"

But even as he searched, the air in Melodys lungs was fading, her head began to pound and she felt dizzy. She tried to find a way to get out as well, but there was no way around the electric barrier.

Suddenly something came crashing in right towards them and hit them. Melody was smashed up against the wall by the unknown object and her head had banged against the wall. And now little lights were popping inside her head, she was going to drown and she knew it. There was nothing left, nothing she could do, and the arms that closed around her were surely Death's…

Choking and retching, soaking and colder than she had ever been in her life, Melody finally came to, face down in what felt like wet sand. From somewhere close by, she heard someone else panting and staggering around. Melody almost didn't have enough energy to see her savior, but somehow managed to just lift her head up slightly. As she looked around to see who it was, she saw Peter, sopping wet and covered in sand. She saw his right arm covered in wet red stuff that looked strangely like blood.

"Peter…" Melody choked.

Peters head jerked towards her and he gasped.

"Melody!"

Without warning Peter shot forward and hugged her tightly. Melody hugged back, most of her strength seemed to be coming back. For a long moment they sat there in their embrace before finally letting go.

"Don't. EVER. Scare me. Like that. Again!" Pete said, half relieved, half angry. "God, I thought you were… Please don't do that again."

"Peter, I'm fine now. I just…-Peter, you're hurt!"

Melody stared at Peters arm just long enough to see the stuff was indeed blood, and it was issuing from a deep gash in his upper arm. After all the excitement the pain seemed to be coming back into his arm. It began to shack slightly and Peter clutched it tightly.

"It's…it's just a cut." said Peter shiftily. "I'm fine."

"No your not." Melody said firmly. "You need to get that taken-"

But she was interrupted by the suddenly yell of Morgana from her tall throne.

"Fools! I have the trident now. And you are all in my power!"

She started to shoot lighting bolts at the water. Some of them hit some of the merpeople. When it did, they started glowing a bright green and started bowing on top of the surface.

"I'm the queen of the sea, and you will bow down before me! All of Never Land will soon know of my wrath."

Melody turned to her mother, who had just been shot too. She tried to stay up, but then she had dropped Eric and fell forward on her front. Morgana wasn't even paying attention to where she was aiming. Another bolt started coming towards Melody. She covered her eyes, waiting for it something to happen.

But nothing did.

Melody opened her eyes looked down, and gasped. There in front of her, glowing in green static, was Peter. He had gotten in front of her just in time and was now struggling to stay up, holding on to a large rock. Unfortunately he was using his injured arm and soon he had fallen on his front, forced to bow to Morgana.

"Pathetic fools. Watch and see how utterly powerful I can be!" Morgana yelled. "My rule will proceed in Never Land, and the end will begin for all with fins!"

As she laughed insanely, Melody looked down at her legs.

Legs, not fins.

Melody glared at Morgana, then started running towards the large rocky castle. Morgana was to distracted to notice her walking up to the ice. As more gagged pieces started to come up, Melody jumped on them. They carried her just were she needed to go. Now she was on the edge of a large throne. She started to climb, and slipped. She had almost fallen off, but managed to keep a hold on it.

"That's it Triton." laughed Morgana. "Bow, bow down to me!"

Morgana continued to shoot Triton with multiple bolts before he had finally fallen forward.

"Oh," she sniffed. "Wishes do come true. SEE THAT MA?" she screamed. "WHO'S YOUR FAVORITE NOW?"

Melody was now crawling up on the edge. She could see Morgana leaning forward and holding the trident tightly.

"It's over Triton." Morgana yelled. "I'm the ruler now, and I sentence you to history-"

But just as she raised the trident, Melody jumped forward and snatched it out of her grasp. Melody fell and landed on her back. She glanced down at the crowd for a second. When she had taken the trident, the spell Morgana had cast seemed to have lifted. Everyone was now up on their feet or sitting straight in the water.

"You." Morgana growled. "Just what do you think you going to do with that?"

Morgana started to come towards Melody. Melody tried to back up, only to come to the edge of the rock.

"Mel be careful!" Peter called.

Melody looked down at him then glared back at Morgana.

"Stay back!"

She pointed the trident at Morgana. But instead of the front, she was pointing the less dangerous end at her. Morgana laughed.

"Wrong end sweetheart…"

Morgana grabbed Melodys ankle with on of her tentacles and began to drag her forward. Melody gasped, not knowing what to do. Then without thinking, she dug the more dangerous end of the trident deep into Morganas tentacle. Morgana screamed in pain as she suddenly let go of Melody.

"Grandfather," Melody yelled. "I think this belongs to you."

And she threw the trident out towards her grandfather.

"No!" Morgana cried.

As she came forward, she pushed Melody off the edge. Melody had no time to stop it, and started to fall down straight towards the gagged pieces of rock. She started to scream with terror.

"Melody!" Peter yelled.

He started flying as fast as he could towards her. Melody continued to fall, almost to the ground. But just as she was about to land on a patch of sharp rocks, Peter scooped her up and caught her. They started to tumble slightly as they hit the smooth ground and slammed against the stone wall of a very large rock.

The trident continued to fall towards the water and King Triton caught it with one hand. He glared up at Morgana.

"Never again, will you or yours threaten my family, or my friends. You will never hurt any of us again. Ever!"

Triton aimed the trident at Morgana and a golden lighting bolt shot towards her. As it hit her, an icy barrier started cover her. Morgana screamed, but was stopped as the ice formed around her. A moment later, the giant ice started to crack, and she slid and fell into the water. As she did, the stone palace was disincarnating. Piece by piece it began to fall, until the whole thing was completely gone, replaced with a large water hole.

Morgana was gone.

OMG, I'm almost done with this! The next one will be up soon, promise.