"Wait, where's Attina?" Ariel asked looking around for her eldest sister.
"She's living in Fantasia with her husband, as a centaur" Adella squealed.
"She's also expecting her fourth child" Aquata added happily.
"Wait a minute, daddy actually allowed her to become one of them?" Ariel asked shocked, "He called them barbarians"
"Well, he called Eric's kind barbarians to and you changed his mind on that" Adrina smiled.
"Speaking of Eric, where is he? Or are you just visiting?" Alana asked.
"I have to tell you something, I'm not going back up to the surface. I'm home for good" Ariel said.
"Why? What happened?" Arista asked as the others nodded as well.
"Eric was cheating on me and we fought constantly" Ariel confessed, "Without the help of the nanny and two young maids, I'd still be there"
"On a more happier note, did father tell you?" Alana asked changing the subject to the much appreciation of Ariel.
"Tell me what?" Ariel asked confused.
"Alana, shush. I think the news should come from father" Adella said.
Ariel yawned just then, before smiling sheepishly at her sisters saying, "Sorry guys. I just haven't had a good night's rest in awhile"
"Get some rest Ariel, we'll help you carry the babies to our old room," Arista said.
Once Ariel and her sisters reached their room, Aquata and Arista along with Ariel carefully put the girls down on the clamshell bed before bidding each other a good night as Ariel started searching for a makeshift crib for each of them.
There was a knock at her door and the person swam in without waiting for a response.
"Who are you?" Ariel asked slightly afraid of the dirty blonde haired Merman.
"Ariel, it's me. Urchin" the merman said.
Ariel scrunched up her nose as she looked at the male in front of her before breaking out into a smile as she said, "Wow, you look so different"
"Same as you" Urchin grinned before noticing the girls, "Flounder wasn't exaggerating when he told me about how many daughters you have"
"I don't have that many" Ariel laughed softly.
"May I hold one of them?" Urchin asked.
Ariel nodded and watched Urchin carefully picked up Tune saying, "They're beautiful"
"Thank you, what are you doing here so late?" Ariel questioned still searching.
"I had to deliver a message to your dad when I heard that you were back, so I wanted to drop in and say hi," Urchin said.
Triton swam into the room just then saying, "Urchin, would you mind giving us a moment? There's something I need to tell Ariel"
"Yes, your majesty. I was about to leave anyway" Urchin said as he put Tune down and swam out of the room.
"What did you want to talk to me about? If it's about what happened between me and Eric, I don't wanna talk about it" Ariel said sitting down on her bed.
"No, Ariel it's not about that. I don't know how to say this, but I'm seeing someone" Triton said.