Stephanie's POV

I have never seen Eric this mad at me. He hasn't looked at me since I told him about Cindy and I helping Melody sneak out. I feel horrible about the whole thing. I sighed as I climbed the stairs to where Eric was manning the ship. I stopped at the last stair. I just looked at him for a moment barely breathing so he wouldn't hear me.

"I know you're there." He said annoyed. I felt the tears prick my eyes as I made my way to his side. "What could you possibly want to tell me now? Is it that Ariel is cheating on me?" I felt a tear roll down my cheek.

"Eric, I never wanted to hurt you or Ariel. That wasn't my intension. I only wanted to help a little girl who was having part of her world ripped away from her." Eric turned his glare to me.

"She's isn't your daughter. You don't get to decide how she is raised. We put up that wall so Morgona couldn't get to her the way she threatened to. I just wanted to keep her safe."

"So did we! That's why we went with her all the time. When she told us she had found that bar, we told her that under no circumstances was she too out there alone. If we were with her, than she couldn't get hurt. I know that I was breaking every rule you had ever given me but I just wanted her to me happy. Eric, please, just don't be mad at me. I can't stand it when you're at me. I'm sorry." I said as more tears poured down my face. Eric, who had turned his eyes back to the sea, turned back to face me. He let go of the wheel with one hand and pulled me into a one arm hug. I wrapped my arms around him and tried to muffle my sobs.

"I'm sorry Steph. I wasn't mad at you, I was just mad at the situation and I took it out on you. I'm so sorry." I tightened my grip on him. "I just really need to find my daughter."

"I know I want to find her too, and we will. You just have trust me on this. I told you I would find Ariel without even knowing it was her and I did that." He smiled and kissed my forehead.

"I know, I do trust you; now let me get back to steering this thing before you kill us."

"Me?" I asked as I let him go. Finally, we were back to normal I could only hope that Ariel and Cindy were having better luck with finding Melody than we were.

Cindy's POV

"MELODY!" I rapidly swam over to her engulfed her in a hug. "We were so worried about you." The penguin swam between us and pushed us apart.

"We have a mission here. Melody grab the fork and let's go." Suddenly, voices were heard.

"He's coming back." The walrus said in a panicked voice. Melody grabbed the trident and pulled it from the stand. Her necklace fell off in the process.

"My necklace." The walrus grabbed her and they swam off with the penguin. I stood there dumbfound. I had just seen Melody steal the trident and I was like I was a ghost.

"Daddy! The trident!" Ariel gasped. Sebastian swam over and stopped on the stand.

"That's impossible. No one can remove the trident from this stand except you sire, you are one of your descendents." Ariel looked down and saw the necklace.

"Melody." She mumbled. Sebastian started babbling but no one paid attention. "How could she have gotten down here?" I snapped out of my trance and called Ariel's name.

"I think I know. This may sound crazy but I just saw her. She was with a…" I trailed off as two shadows swam above us. Ariel, Flounder (who had just realized was there), and I looked up.

"Wait a minute, I know those two." All three of us swam after them keeping a steady distance between them. After a while, we came to an underwater/above water cave. Ariel gasped. "So that's where it is."