*EDITED* (Thanks to FrivolousFlare for the correction haha!)
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Chapter 6: The Little Mermaid
Characters:
Ariel: Terra
Prince Eric: Cinderblock
King Triton: Slade
Trident: Kid Flash
Sebastian: Beastboy
Flounder: Raven
Ariel's sister: Robin
Ursula: Starfire
King: Control Freak
Queen: Seymour
Terra: Oh golly, wow! I'm Ariel! This is so... unexpected!
Robin: …Are you crying?
Terra: No. Starfire's just blinding me with her laser eyes.
Starfire: Lalala sparkle sparkle lalala
Raven: Hmm. Should really get her tested.
Aqualad: Wait a second! Why am I not in this story? I'm Aqualad, for crying out loud! I was literally born for a role in an underwater film!
Kid Flash: Well, I don't really want to be a glowing golden stick. Plus I think Slade has sweaty palms.
Slade: Muahaha.
Terra: Well, I think-
Robin: I'm playing a woman character again! I'm telling you, I get the worst roles.
Raven: …I'm a fish.
Beastboy: I'm a singing crab.
Starfire: An evil octopus woman yay!
Robin: Okay scratch that. Where is our dear author anyway?
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Beastboy: Wow! Who knew voice messages could last so long!
Once upon a time, there was a beauuuteeefuul girl named Ariel. She was really pretty and all, you know. Yeah. She was also a mermaid. Had a real fin and everything.
However, this mermaid was not very bright. You see, because of the exorbitant amount of time she spent under the water, plus the hours under the sun, Ariel's happy, sparkly hair turned blond. Also, her brain was pretty much fried.'
"Lalalalalalalalala I love to singgggg! Even though I'm underwater and could chok-" COUGH COUGH COUGH
See? Mermaids.
One fine, glorious day, Ariel ventured out of the water to see the surface world. And it was shocking!
"There's no water up here! I can talk without choking!" She looked down. "I have a fin?"
The commotion caused by Ariel's startling 'revelations' had attracted attention from a passerby ship. The captain of the ship was so horrified at the sight of such a creature that he panicked and crashed the ship! Within seconds, the entire boat had sunk deep below the surface, while Ariel was still figuring out why she couldn't pick up water.
"Oh I see, it just flows right through- OH MY GOODNESS!" Ariel turned to see the capsized ship with numerous passengers screaming for help. "Don't worry, giant drowning fish, I shall save you!'
She heroically swam over and immediately spotted a soon to be sinking gentleman by the side.
"Help me! I can't swim! Please help, I'm made of rock for crying out loud!" The prince cried out before going under.
With all her strength and innate mermaid awesomeness, Ariel hoisted the prince up and brought him to dry land safely. Unfortunately her attempt had drained her energy dry and she couldn't help anyone else. Which kind of sucks. Hmm. Let's see, the rest of them grew wings and flew out of the water!
What? It's my story.
"Thank you for saving me!" The prince sputtered out gratefully. "OH MY GAWD YOU HAVE A FISHTAIL!" He then fainted dramatically.
"Meh," said Ariel, and abandoned the prince there.
However, that wasn't the last Ariel saw of him. Over the next few days, he was the only thing that occupied her thoughts, which is an amazing feat given her limited memory capacity and insanely short attention span.
One day, Ariel's sister, who has no name because she's just a side character, really, came up to her.
"Hey." Ariel's sister said hey. To Ariel.
"I JUST MISS HIM SO MUCH, YOU KNOW?"
"I bet that evil octowoman whose name I can't remember can help. She's a witch. A sea witch. That makes her awesomer than land witches because you can't burn sea witches on a stake underwater."
"You are like, so smart! I wish I was as smart as you," Ariel sighed. "KTHXBYE!" She disappeared in a flash.
"I wish I was a sea witch," Ariel's sister pointlessly said.
Swimming madly fast, Ariel reached the dark, deep cavern where the sea witch, Ursula, dwelled.
"HI!" Ariel screamed.
"HI BACK! You're here! I knew you'd come! Oh glorious day!" Ursula happily spun her eight tentacles.
"Oh my unimportant sister was right! You are helpful! I trust you already." Ariel floated down beside Ursula. "Can you do a reading for me? What will happen between the giant fish I rescued and me?"
"Umm… I'm sorry, I'm not Paul the Octopus. But! I can tell you something. That giant fish you rescued is not a fish, but a man!" The sea witch revealed.
"Really? Oh, now this is just wrong."
"I can help!" Ursula pushed a pink, bubbling potion into Ariel's hands. "This will make you fully human for a while and allow you to meet the prince. Aww, how sweet!"
"Wow, really? No charge?" Ariel asked stupidly. Sigh.
"That's righ- oh wait." Ursula fumbled through a set of papers. "The script says, and I quote, I have to take your voice."
"But why? How will people hear me then?" Ariel asked, horrified.
"Tell her it's the price required and also because she needs to stop talking, when you are actually insidiously plotting to take over the entire ocean world."
"Oh I see! I only heard the first half of that, but that seems credible enough to me!" Ariel gulped down the potion. And then she started choking for real because her fins had turned into legs! Flaying her arms and legs about, Ariel struggled out of the cavern to the surface, all the while suffocating.
"Bye!" The sea witch said.
Ariel burst to the surface, but she had breathed in too much water and was unconscious. She also couldn't speak anymore, which was a really, really good thing. Fortunately for her, the prince whom she had saved was taking a stroll on that very beach!
THUMP THUMP THUMP
Prince Eric stomped heavily over to the half-dead Ariel, causing some mini-tsunamis in the process. "It's you!" He gasped. "You have feet! Oh thank goodness, I knew it was the three martinis I drank on board. There are no such things as mermaids."
Somewhere in the deep blue ocean, a mermaid dropped dead.
Haha, just kidding.
"I shall rescue you, my fair maiden!" The prince announced loudly and carried Ariel off on his shoulder.
"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me. Look Ma, see what I've found!" Prince Eric excitedly showed the queen Ariel. "I just found her like this, lying on the beach!"
"Sure you did," the queen said, winking.
"…That's called kidnapping!" The king pointed his royal finger at Prince Eric. "I should have thought of that, dang it."
"No really! She was out cold when I found her! Can we keep her, can we can we please?" The prince begged his parents.
"Well, only if you promise to take care of her! Pretend she's a lost princess or something," the king muttered.
"Okay," the prince happily said and left to get Ariel settled.
"Eye spy with my big 'ol eye, something-"
The queen was abruptly banished from the kingdom because I Spy jokes were so last last last last last last last last last year.
Meanwhile, back in the waters, a certain red crustacean and talking fish had seen everything. And boy were they distressed! Their beloved princess Ariel! A blonde!
I mean- human! And with a human prince no less. The atrocity, indeed.
"I'd give it a week," Flounder said boredly.
"Well I would bet my right claw! That she'll only stay a day. Really, she'll probably attack a mirror or try to eat the prince. He's made of rock, so that won't be a very appetizing meal." Sebastian shrugged. "We should really tell King Triton. He would want to know."
"Mmm kay. Whatevs. I'm swimming in my own pee. Swim swim swim."
So off they went to inform King Triton, who wasn't really happy at the moment.
"This skirt just doesn't fit right! What kind of designer are you!" King Triton angrily shouted. "Plus my trident is missing again! And the seaweed won't stop laughing at me!" He curled up into a ball and started crying.
"Now I'm swimming in tears, swim swim swim."
"Err… King Triton, sir? Your daughter is missing," Sebastian murmured quietly.
"WHAT? My insignificant unnamed daughter is gone?" King Triton exclaimed.
"No, the other one." Sebastian said.
"Oh." King Triton replied. "Okay."
Back at the castle, Ariel was too busy to worry about her family and friends back home. She had an entire new world to discover! She learned on the first day that it was rude to slither around in the hallways. She discovered on the second day, that the king and queen really weren't giant fish. On the third day, she realized she had feet!
The potion worked, she thought, because she had lost her voice, remember? Ariel was beside herself. Well, not really, that would be weird.
The prince had not yet come to terms with his sudden, strange guest though. She didn't say a word to him at all, and even after he removed all mirrors from the castle she never stopped looking for her evil twin.
"Wait a minute!" He suddenly exclaimed. "You can't talk, you're blonde, are you a Barbie? Oh my gosh, thank you Santa!"
Ecstatic, Prince Eric made arrangements for their marriage immediately. Little did he know, an insidious plot was unfolding deep within the ocean.
"More tea?" Ursula the sea witch offered.
"Thank you! You know, you're a really nice sea witch. Everyone should learn from you," the trident said, grateful.
As strange as it seemed, said trident was there for a perfectly rational reason. It was the drinking tea that was odd. Underwater, hello?
Anyway, because of the underwater king's flagrant disregard for the trident and all matters logical, the trident had escaped from the castle (again) to find a better owner. And finally, he had found the sea witch!
"So here are directions to the castle. You'll a need a disguise so get a cloak or something. Or be a coat hanger, I hear they have those."
What?
"OH! I mean, you don't really want Princess Ariel as your new ruler," Ursula hastily said. "She's a complete airhead. And she's marrying the prince with rocks for brains. Haha! That's funny."
"That's true. But that means I'll have to return to the king!" Again. "Again!" The trident wailed.
"Well, I could be queen, if you want."
"Hmm. Do you have sweaty palms?" The trident queried.
"No I do not." The sea witch beamed.
"THEN IT'S SETTLED!"
And it was. From that moment on, the sea witch ruled the seven seas. And even though Ursula did have a craving for sailors and icebergs once in a while, it was a relatively peace time for all ocean folk. As for Princess Ariel, she eventually became Queen Ariel, ruler of what became the dumbest and most simple-minded kingdom of all time. What a great ending!
THE END.
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