The Gummi Ship took off and Niko looked around and saw a new world neither had seen before. He also noticed it was nothing but water. Snapping his finger, Niko looked to Sapphire.

"Hey uh Sapphire?" Niko began. "I don't quite remember what your position was on mermaids."

Niko pointed to the world in front of them and blushed.

"You see...the only way we can survive in the world is to take on the appearance of mermaids." Niko continued. "I don't have a problem if you'd rather stay here, but the Gummi Ship can only stay outside of a world for a few minutes. Then it sorta just disappears until needed."

Sapphire peered out the window, having mostly recovered now. She was good at that, recovering and getting back on her feet. She shrugged and folded her arms.

"Just don't leave me for one and we won't have an issue," she replied casually and sarcastically. What was the problem with mermaids?

"Don't worry." Niko said. "No mermaid will ever replace you."

"A quick flash of light and the duo appear in the water now taking the form mermaids. Niko has a shark's bottom half and Sapphire has a typical mermaid look with a sapphire clam shell bra.

((Which I don't know of...there were so many in The Little Mermaid.))

Niko looked at himself then at Sapphire and shook his head quickly to remove any unsightly ideas from his head.

"So according to the journal." Jiminy's voice came from inside a bubble. "The princess of Atlantica is known as Ariel."

Sapphire was a little alarmed by suddenly having a mermaid tail, but she recovered quickly. "Do we know where she is?" she asked Jiminy, swimming a little bit in circles to orient herself.

"No." Jiminy said. "Maybe we should ask her father, King Triton."

"Good idea." Niko replied.

"And where would he be?" Sapphire inquired, tilting her head to the side, eyes wandering through the ocean around her.

"Let's try the castle over there." Niko replied swimming towards it. Suddenly a scream is heard. Looking towards the direction, Jiminy gasped.

"That's Ariel!" Jiminy shouted. "Let's go you two!"

As soon as the scream was heard, Sapphire swam in the direction it came from, a look of determination on her face. She didn't wait for Jiminy's cue before she took off. Niko followed Sapphire, keeping close behind her. Niko spotted Ariel first and swam in front of her to block an attack.

"Get to safety!" Niko said. "Let us handle them."

Sapphire summoned her Keyblade (which was, much to her chagrin, unable to rest on her back in the mermaid form), ready to fight whatever dangers it was that assaulted Ariel. She gestured for Ariel to hurry and flee, scanning over her to make sure she wasn't harmed. Just as Ariel left, Heartless appeared. Niko got ready to fight and swam towards them swinging expertly at the Heartless. Sapphire was really getting used to fighting with her Keyblade. The Heartless were easily defeated, her and Niko slaying them efficiently and with expert prowess.

Once cleared out, Ariel swam out of her location and swam around Niko and Sapphire.

"Who are you?" Ariel asked. "You don't look to be from around here."

"We're from another ocean..." Niko lied. He looked to Sapphire going she'd say the same.

"Sapphire we can't where we're from." Jiminy whispered into her ear. "We have to protect the world order."

Sapphire looked to Ariel. "Don't worry about who it is we are," she replied gently as she could, voice still sharp and hard. "Are you alright?"

"Yes." Ariel replied.

"That's a relief." Niko replied. "Let's get you back home. I'm Niko. This is Sapphire."

"It's nice to meet you both. I'm Ariel."

"A pleasure," Sapphire told Ariel. "Just lead us to your home and we'll make sure you get there safely."

"Okay. Follow me." Ariel said swimming away. Niko looked to Sapphire and shrugged following her towards King Triton's castle.

Sapphire made a slightly disgruntled noise, following after Niko, who was following after Ariel. She felt slightly suspicious. Jiminy noticed Sapphire's skepticism. He was rather good at that and wasn't afraid to call her out on it.

"Sapphire did you know I was as skeptical as you are now when you and Niko came along?" Jiminy asked.

"You had, and still have, every reason to be," Sapphire muttered, her reply low as she swam along. Jiminy certainly seemed like a skeptic, so this came as no surprise to her.

"well I don't now." Jiminy said. "Because I feel like I can trust you. You might seem suspicious of Ariel, but I wager in time you'll learn to trust her too."

Sapphire let out a dry, humorless laugh. "Might be a mistake on your end," she muttered as she swam on. "Let's just say I have trust issues, Jiminy." That was an understatement.

"If you insist Sapphire." Jiminy said chuckling. Upon arrival to the castle, Trident gave a look of pure anger mixed in with relief that his daughter was safe.

"Ariel! Thank goodness you're safe!" Trident said.

"Daddy! Melody is still out there and Ursula somehow was revived!" Ariel said. "We have to save her!"

"Ursula's alive?!" Jiminy and Trident shouted in unison. "We gotta stop her!"

"I'm going to make the assumption that Ursula is evil and Melody is Ariel's...daughter." Niko said taking in the situation. "We'll help!"

"You will?" Ariel asked "Oh thank you! She's in Ursula's Grotto. Please hurry!"

"You got it!" Niko said saluting! "Sapphire! Let's go!"

Niko swam off pretty quickly. Sapphire rolled her eyes and swam after Niko, summoning her Keyblade. More villains to take down? And so soon? Niko swam as fast as he could towards Ursula's Grotto. He never really knew where it was and he just went with his gut, eventually leading them to the right place. Following closely behind Niko, Sapphire continued on, eyes scanning back and forth searching for threats.

"You found the place quick," she mumbled, eyes darting back and forth.

"I took a wild guess..." Niko said.

Sapphire gave Niko a slight smile before going back on guard again. Though strongly opposed to the nonsense of this new adventure and originally upset with her break being cut short, it felt good being back in action, however rudely thrust into it. She had missed the thrill and how it made her heart race, and she had missed the violence that she had always seemed to feed on. Niko could take care of all of the unusual things and she could kill.

Jiminy quickly snapped his fingers and looked to Niko and Sapphire.

"I almost forgot!" Jiminy said. "You two have access to Keyblade Transformations! These allow you to change your Keyblade's appearance into another weapon. Niko you can change your Keyblade into a Bow or a staff. and Sapphire yours changes into a pair of twin tactical pistols or a pair of fans. Go ahead and try it!"

Niko nodded and concentrated hard as his Keyblade turned into a staff. Nodding his head in approval, he changed it into a bow. He then looked to Sapphire and smiled.

"Your turn!" Niko said.

Tilting her head to the side, Sapphire held her Keyblade in two hands. As she pulled apart, she felt it separate, and the blade began to morph into the aforementioned fans, sharp edges appearing on the sides. She then focused and changed them into the pistols. She grinned in an almost sick fashion as she observed them. She think she had found her new favorite weapon.

"I like it," she murmured, tilting them in the water to get a better look.

"Amazing!" niko said. "Let's get in there and save Melody."

As he swam inside the grotto he began to look around. He was amazed how sick and f*** up Ursula lived. He almost threw up if it wasn't for the fact that Melody was swimming at them. Niko looked to her and nodded.

"We were sent by your mother!" Niko called out. "Hurry up and get out! We'll take care of this!"

"Thank you!" Was all Melody said before taking off.

Sapphire observed the horrid place and scowled. She raised her pistols and began to fend off the Heartless that lurked in Ursula's grotto, using the pistols expertly and with familiar ease. Niko began to fight them off as well, striking each one with deadly efficiency. Niko saw Ursula and rushed at her, only to get greeted with a stabbing to the stomach.

"Niko!" Sapphire exclaimed, her eyes lighting up with worry. Fury crossed into her eyes as she saw Ursula, feeling rage build up in her stomach. Nobody stabs her husband and gets away with it. She fired round after round at the sea witch, swimming closer to her, eyes flashing black.

Ursula began fighting off the bullets but gets hit with a majority of them. Niko began to sink to the ocean floor until he heard Sapphire call his name. He felt an off pulse of energy and he glowed purple. Niko them began firing bolts of magic at Ursula until she went down. Ursula then disappeared from from sight. Niko dispelled his Keyblade and looked to Sapphire.

"Babe?" He asked. "You alright?"

As soon as Ursula vanished, her pistols vanished and she swam quickly to Nero, eyes wide with worry.

"Am I alright? Are you serious?" she asked, frantic and sounding almost angry. "Are YOU alright?" she scanned his body for injuries, eyes wildly checking where he had gotten stabbed, chest rising and falling rapidly. He had to be okay.

"Babe relax!" Niko said chuckling "I'm okay."

Sapphire took a deep breath. She thought she'd lost him there for a moment. Abruptly, she threw her arms around him, hugging Niko close to her, shutting her eyes.

"God, don't scare me like that..."

"I'm sorry." Niko said. "So isn't it odd she just disintegrated like that? If she's the main source of Darkness here, that means she should still be here. But I don't sense her."

"Right now, let's just go back to the palace." Jiminy said.

"Yeah " Niko replied.

"R-right," Sapphire mumbled, pulling back, cheeks flushing red with embarrassment. With danger looming over their heads, it was no time to get all mushy like that. She straightened up quickly and began to swim off toward the palace, forcing herself back into a more proper mindset. Niko swims down the path back to the palace, where the trio saw everyone was fine. Niko smiled and looked to Sapphire and nods. He swam to the keyhole and sealed it, teleporting them to the Gummi Ship waiting for them. Niko took control of the cockpit.

"You ready to go?" Niko asked.

"I'm ready!" Saph said.

"Let's just go." Sarabi said.

Niko took off to the next world. Sapphire was glad to have legs again instead of a tail. She sat down in her usual spot, hand going to the sapphire charm on her necklace. She looked downward and she played with it, her mind somewhere else entirely. She needed to dispel the softness she had portrayed earlier if she actually wanted to get stuff done. It'd hold her back and make her weaker. If they were to defeat the evil, she needed the right mindset.

Niko turned on the autopilot and looked to Sapphire and sits next to her.

"What's on your mind?" Niko asked.

Letting her hand fall from the necklace, Sapphire turned her eyes to Niko. "Just thinking about what else we'll have to face," she replied, her answer not a lie but not exactly the truth, either. Her facial expression remained... Distracted. There's something more to this. Niko thought as he looked into Sapphire's eyes.

"Sapphire, I promised you when we got married that I would always be there to listen to what you're feeling." Niko said. "Please tell me what's wrong."

"Uh. I hate to interrupt," Chip said. "But we are arriving at our next destination."

"Well, I'll be darned." Jiminy said. "It's The Land of Departure. This is where Ventus, Terra and Aqua trained. I wonder if they're here?"

Niko walked over to the cockpit and grabbed the wheel taking off the autopilot. He looked to sapphire as if to say we're not done talking about this and landed the gummi ship. He was immediately met with a tackle and a hug. He looked up and saw someone he thought died.

"C-Caramel?" Niko said.