The princesses stayed for Ariel's reunion with her sisters and father. Ariel talked and laughed among her sisters about things that happened while she was gone.
"Hey, I'm sorry for not visiting you guys." Ariel apologized.
"Don't worry about it, we understand now." Attina told her.
"Hey, we have another performance in a bit, care to join us?" Adella asked Ariel
"Of course!" She replied. The seven sisters went to get ready.
"Amazing." Tiana nodded to herself.
"Hey, we should get front seats!" Rapunzel suggested.
"Alright, let's go." Cinderella agreed. The princesses made their way to a concert hall and waited. Belle, out of her left ear, could hear crunching. She looked and saw Snow White munching on some sort of snack. Snow White noticed and smiled.
"Dried seaweed?" she asked, handed Belle one. Belle took it, wondered how it stayed dry underwater and brushed it off. She took a bite and it was...acceptable. She had to admit though, it was an addicting snack.
"I would trade Ariel for her life any day." Jasmine told Aurora.
"Life under the sea..." Tiana whispered to her.
"Shh, it's starting." Mulan pointed to the curtain that was parting on stage. Ariel's sisters began popping out on the stage from different places and singing. They introduced Ariel as a special guess and they all sang together. After the stunning and colorful performance, the audience applauded. Ariel came out of nowhere and surprised her friends.
"Boo!" Ariel laughed at her friends' reactions, "Join us for dinner!" she pleaded. Ariel took them to the dining room of King Triton's palace. "Seafood anyone?" Ariel took the cloche off of the plate and revealed fish, sushi, crabs, and all kinds of seafood. Cinderella looked away for a moment and rested her head on her hand.
"Come on Cinderella," Aurora shook her gently. Ariel looked at her with an excited face. "Try it." Cinderella closed her eyes before taking a bite of fish and discovered that she did like it. Rapunzel was having a hard time trying the food as well.
"It's okay Rapunzel," Tiana dropped her voice to a whisper, "I recommend the crab legs. You'll like them the most." Rapunzel went ahead and tried it. Ariel was happy her friends liked the food, and started with the lobster tails. Mulan took the chopsticks out of her hair and used them to eat the sushi. Belle and Snow White were eating the seaweed when they spotted a particular food.
"Sea urchin..." Belle whispered to Snow White. Snow White was hesitant, then tried a piece.
"It's really...fishy...but I like it." Belle raised an eyebrow at her friend.
"So," Jasmine stopped between words to eat a shrimp, "what...time..." she swallowed, "Do you guys wanna get back?" she finally asked.
"In a bit, I wanna show you guys some things!" Ariel replied her excitedly.
"I'm so glad to have you back Ariel. And it's nice that I've met your friends." King Triton told her.
"Aww, thanks daddy." Ariel gave her father a big hug. After the princesses were done, Ariel got up from her seat. "You guys done? Let's go!" she cried. Ariel pulled Aurora by the arm through the palace as the other princesses followed.
"Where are we going?" Mulan asked.
"I'm taking you guys to my old room!" Ariel replied. She led them into the room where she and her sisters used to sleep together. A big window on the other side of the room, and seven beds along the walls.
"Wow, this must've been fun!" Rapunzel looked into each of the beds. "Which one's yours?" she asked.
"The one next to the window on the left." Ariel answered. Rapunzel swam over and made herself comfortable in the huge seashell.
"Nice view." Tiana looked out the window and the blue water was breathtaking.
"This is where my mom used to sing me and my sisters to sleep." Ariel sighed and hung her head.
"Don't be sad." Belle patted her friend on the back and gave her a hug. Belle tried to hold back tears, thinking of her own mother.
"Mothers." Jasmine stared at the ground with her fists clenched tight and tears building up in her eyes. Rapunzel wanted to say something, but decided not to. Snow White gave a depressed sigh and curled up into a ball. Cinderella couldn't help it either and started crying to herself. Tiana, Rapunzel, Aurora, and Mulan couldn't say anything. They stayed like this for what seemed like hours.
"Ariel?" Ariel turned her head and saw Attina and the rest of her sisters entering the room. The princesses cleaned themselves up and acted like nothing happened, except for Ariel. "You miss her huh?"
"You bet." Ariel said. Attina didn't know what to say, but just stayed with her sister. Ariel wiped her tears and thought herself ridiculous for crying about something like this in front of her friends. "Come on girls, I'll show you something else." Ariel signaled for only her friends to follow.
"Where's she taking them?" Aquata asked.
"You know where." Alana replied. The princesses followed Ariel around the palace to a certain spot. Ariel removed the stone blocking the entrance and led them into her grotto.
"I'd never thought I'd see this in person." Belle stepped towards the middle in awe.
"Uh, Obsessed much?" Tiana asked.
"Not obsessed, more of a collection." Ariel smiled. She leaned over and handed Rapunzel a fork. "Works wonders for tangles." she whispered. Rapunzel started brushing through tangles with the fork.
"You're right!" She felt how smooth her hair was. After enough sightseeing, Ariel returned them to the palace.
"Come on Ariel we gotta go." Snow White told her.
"Ariel?" Cinderella asked. Ariel just looked at the ground.
"I...I don't think I want to go." she said.
"Aha funny, come on. We have to go." Tiana smiled.
"No. I haven't seen my family in a long time and this 'hero powers' thing is just stressing! I can't do it, and I'm tire of it." Ariel sternly told them.
"There's nothing you can't do Ariel," Aurora started, "We're in this together, all of us."
"I'm sorry Aurora but it's too much!" Ariel stammered and turned away from her friends, arms folded. The girls were shocked at this.
"So you're just gonna walk out on us like that?" Mulan shouted at her.
"It's too much! I can't handle it! I can't handle fighting all the time, and risking my family!" Ariel fought back.
"That's enough." Cinderella tried to break up the fight but wasn't heard because Jasmine stepped in.
"So you're only worried about your family?" Jasmine shot at Ariel.
"Stop it!" Tiana yelled. Everyone got quiet. Mulan and Jasmine both proceeded to glare at Ariel who tried staring them down right back
"Come on ladies." Aurora told them to follow her up to shore. The princesses took their last looks and swam away. It was a long swim up, and when the princesses arrived on shore, they were as tired as they could be. As Aurora got up from the water, her fins turned back into feet. She looked up and saw the face evilly grinning at her.
"Good evening." Captain Hook greeted her. The girls got up to fight and found themselves outnumbered by Hook's crew. Aurora got in fighting position as well.
"You can try to fight all you want my dears, we'll see how long you last." Hook stepped back leaving his men to take care of the princesses.
Cinderella went freezing pirates and sending them into different time zones. A pirate caught her off guard and she was almost destroyed before Mulan came to her rescue.
Rapunzel was exhausted, but tried her best using her hair to round-up as many enemies as she could. She couldn't do her spin, so it was all whipping for her this time.
Snow White and Belle hid behind rocks trying to think of something to do to help.
Aurora's voiced ringed through the pirate's ears immobilizing them, and using her supreme agility to dodge attacks. Tiana came up and threw men at each other.
Jasmine was cornered because she didn't have anything to throw at the pirates on this flat, sandy, beach. She then felt something swirling in her hand, it was the sand itself. Jasmine realized she had controls over the sand and created a small sand storm.
"We're losing." Belle whispered to Snow White.
"There are no birds here!" Snow White cried, then saw a small crab crawling on the floor. She whispered something to it and let it be. Soon, a tiny swarm of crabs were all over the pirates.
"That should get 'em." Belle high fived Snow White. But she was wrong, most of the men just shook them off. The princesses' eyes widened as the men came after them.
"It seems you little girls have lost." Captain Hook taunted. Two pirates came out from behind a rock with Belle and Snow White with their hands behind their backs. Suddenly, out of the water burst a shot of water. Ariel did a front flip and landed between Hook and Aurora.
"Not yet." Ariel told him. She threw her arms forward and a giant waved came from the ocean. Hook's face was priceless when he saw the ginormous tide over his head. "Belle get us out of here!" Belled and Snow White freed themselves from the pirate's grasp and Belle opened a portal to Aurora's castle. Everyone hopped in and left Hook and his crew to face the rage of the sea. The wave came crashing down as Hook was screaming and trying to get away.
"You came back!" Rapunzel and Snow White squeezed Ariel so tight she couldn't breathe.
"Erm..thanks girls, but...you're crushing me." As soon as she was let go, she gasped for air.
"Sorry!" Snow White and Rapunzel both said and smiled the widest smiles ever. Mulan and Jasmine looked at Ariel with a slightly sad face, and Ariel just looked away. That night, the girls were off to their own rooms. Ariel, Mulan, and Jasmine were the last to get ready. The three of them opened the doors and just stood there.
"Ariel," Mulan and Jasmine turned and said at the same time.
"Jasmine, Mulan," Ariel said at the same time as well.
"Ariel, we're sorry." Jasmine walked up to her.
"I'm sorry too, for yelling at you." Ariel told her.
"No! Don't be!" Mulan waved her hands. "It wasn't your fault, we shouldn't have questioned your choice." Mulan hugged her friends, said goodnight, and walked into her room.
"I just didn't understand why you would leave us so suddenly like that." Jasmine explained. "We need you Ariel! We'd be nothing without you! If any of us were missing, I'm sure we have a problem. Because we're a team." Ariel put a hand on Jasmine's shoulder.
"It's okay. I forgive you. And I understand why you feel that way. We both can't take another person disappearing from our lives. " Ariel gave her a loving smile. The two girls both hugged each other and said their "Goodnight"s. Each girl thought about the same thing that night. That no matter what happens, the girls will stay friends no matter what.
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