Chapter Seven: Swimming with the Little Mermaid

In a bar at the harbor Rei sat alone at a table as Valdou approached.

"Rei! Our ship can't sail in this sort of weather" he said as Rei didn't respond "Rei?" he said again seeing the boy was lost in thought "WAKE UP!" he yelled.

"WHOA!" Rei jumped.

"Something on your mind?" Valdou asked with an annoyed expression.

"It's nothing..." Rei said.

"In any case I hope you're feeling more with it when we arrive in the next world our mission is-"

"I know what our mission is" Rei said.

"Since the ship isn't leaving tonight, why don't we find a place to stay?" Valdou said as Rei looked out the window to see Erica walking in the rain.

"That girl!" Rei said recognizing her and got up from the table.

"Rei!" Valdou said as Rei ran outside.

"Wait! Your're-"

"OH! PLEASE HELP ME! KILALA!"

Later Rei was arguing with a captain by his ship.

"WHAT?! Are you joking boy?"

"I'm not joking! I need you to set sail right now!"

"You're crazy! Can't you see the storm we're in! We'll all die! I'm not going out there!"

"Darn it!" Rei growled looking out to sea where boat was already sailing away.

"We did it our master will be pleased with our success" one of the trench coat men said looking at the tiara on a crate while Kilala and Jason hid under a blanket behind it.

'I'm getting it back no matter what! That tiara is important to Rei!' Kilala thought as the men began to leave the room.

'Now!' she thought reaching for it as a waved hit the boat and made Kilala trip.

"UGH!" she grunted as she and Jason saw the men looking at them..

"Good wok guys I guess we meet again..." Kilala said holding the tiara.

"It's you again!"

"RUN!" Jason yelled taking her hand as they ran out onto the deck where it rained hard as they ran to the front to see they were trapped.

"No more playing around!" the man growled.

"This tiara's going to save Rei's world! I have to give it back to him no matter what it takes!" Kilala yelled.

The man then launched a ball of darkness at them A Jason blocked it with his keyblade but the force knocked him and Kilala off the boat and into the water below.

'Oh no! The current is too strong! I can't swim! How could I be so stupid? I got the tiara back but I won't be able to take it to Rei. I'm sorry Rei' Kilala thought before passing out and Jason grabbed her and swam them to the surface as he saw a baot approach with Rei on it.

"Over here!" Jason yelled as the boat approached and they climbed on.

"Kilala!" Rei yelled.

"Rei?" she said before coughing.

"Are you okay?! Why did you-"

Here" Kilala said holding the tiara, "I know it...is important to you."

"Dummy I have something that's much more important I don't want to let you go" he said hugging her.

"Uh guys?" Jason said.

'Oh Rei. I'm so happy I'm a lucky girl' Kilala thought.

"GUYS!" Jason yelled pointing to the massive wave coming at them.

"Hold on tight! A big one's coming!" Rei yelled.

The wave then slammed down on them as the three were taken underwater.

'I'm not letting go! Never again! Not this hand!' Kilala thought as the force of the current made her and Rei lose their grip, 'no! Rei!'

'I need to do something!' Jason thought as his keyblade appeared in his hand and a light shot out from it and stop making a new door, 'a gateway!' he thought summoning his other and pointed it at the Tiara as the light grew and engulfed Jason, Kilala and Rei.

"No...Rei..." Kilala said as she and Jason were lying on a rock.

"They're still alive" a voice said.

"Uh? Who...are you?" Jason groaned as his vision only showed a womanly figure approach before he passed out again.

When they began to awake again they could hear the beat of music playing.

'I hear such lively music what could it be?' Kilala thought as they looked around.

"Where in a...wait were underwater! How are we breathing underwater?! And why can't I feel my legs..." Jason said as his eyes widen to see his tank tog was gone leaving him shirtless but wore the keyblade armor on his left arm and saw his two legs were replaced with a single Orca mermaid tail.

Jason say they were in a cave and pulled back the curtain to see a band of sea life playing music and mermaids and mermen all around enjoying the music.

"Kilala were Merpeople" Jason said seeing she now had a pink mermaid tail and a pink seashell bra on.

"Hello!" Ariel said swimming down upside in front of them as Kilala and Jason just stared.

"AHH!" Kilala screamed trying to move back but hit a rock trying to use her new mermaid fins.

"Oops" Ariel said.

"Uh who are you?" Jason asked.

"I'm Ariel" the red haired mermaid smiled.

"Uh…" Jason said.

"You both should feel better soon, since I gave you Sea Anemone Powder! Um..."

"Jason?"

"...Kilala, that's me."

"You're not from around here, are you?" Ariel asked.

"Uh what makes you say that?" Jason asked.

"Oh! You must be from the southern sea! I've seen lots of rare fish come from that way!" Ariel said holding up their old clothes.

"...Did you dress us?..." Jason said with a blush, 'well I guess with my lower half gone there's not much to look at but...how the hell do I got to the bathroom!'

"Welcome to Atlantica!" Ariel smiled.

"Uh...um!" Kilala said as she took their hands.

"Is it your first time here? Let me show you around!" Ariel said.

"WAIT! Where's Rei?!" Kilala asked.

"Rei?" Ariel said.

"Wasn't there another boy with me?" Kilala asked.

"You were the only one I found" Ariel said.

"I see..." Kilala said.

"But don't worry! Let's find him together! Just leave it to me!" Ariel said.

"Wait!" Kilala said as Jason and her crashed.

"Hee hee not too good of a swimmer are you?" Ariel asked.

"Uh no! That's not it at all! Uh in the Southern Sea the currents take us where we want! No one there knows how to use their...tails" Jason said.

"You know...I remember someone coming here with the same problem...he had a sword shaped like a key...and he had two other friend with him...oh I wish I could remember their names" Ariel said.

'This Princess also knows that boy Snow White mentioned? How come no one can remember him?' Jason thought.

"Ariel!" Sebastian yelled as he and Flounder swam to them.

"Flounder! Sebastian!" Ariel said.

"You ditched rehearsal again! King Triton is very, angry!" Sebastian yelled.

"What a crabby...crab" Jason said.

"I'm not letting you get away this time! You need to practice for your debut concert! I'd appreciate it if you'd consider who I feel-"

"Oh! Sebastian can teach you both how we swim around here!" Ariel said.

"YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!"

"Sheesh all right I'll go practice but first help them learn to swim" Ariel said.

"My, you're being awfully obedient today...fine...okay, it's time you learn how to swim, just flap those tail fins and follow Flounder around till you get the hand of it...hm I seem to remember doing this before" Sebastian said.

"Okay" Jason said as he and Kilala began to kick their fins to follow Flounder around.

"This is fun!" Kilala said doing a twirl.

"Excellent, not let's move onto defending yourselves" Sebastian said.

"From what?" Jason asked.

"Them!" Ariel said as they saw several Heartless like fish coming towards them.

(A.N. Play Kingdom Hearts OST: An Adventure in Atlantica (Extended) for this battle!)

"I got them" Jason said summoning his keyblades as Flounder and Sebastian hid in a nearby clam as Kilala summoned her keyblade.

"Might as well get some practice in" Kilala said.

"Ha! Rah! Ya! Hu!" Jason yelled attacking one and destroying it.

"Ruh! Ha! Yah! Hiya!" Kilala said attacking one and sent him spinning back.

"Firaga!"Jason yelled blowing up two.

"Thunder!" Kilala said.

"NO!" Jason yelled as they both got electrocuted with the Heartless as the Heartless blew up and turned to hearts "...never use electric type spells in water" Jason groaned.

"Sorry" Kilala said.

"Is it safe?" Sebastian asked.

"Yep" Jason said.

"This reminds me of something..." Ariel said thinking.

"Who cares! Now let's get back to the palace for your lesson" Sebastian said.

Ariel then whistled as a dolphin swam in and Jason and Kilala grabbed onto it as they began to swim off fast.

"Later!" Ariel said.

"Ariel, wit! ARIEL!" Sebastian yelled.

They then began to search all around the kingdom and asked local fish about Rei but each time they would get put to a dead end.

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