Here's Chapter 3! This part of the story's based on the "Part Of Your World" sequence, but I've not written any lyrics or doing anything like that. I've essentially placed dialogue in as a replacement, where Ariel and Sora simply converse about Ariel's fascination of the human world, with a few odd references to the original scene in the film. Enjoy!

"Sebastian, do you have any idea where we're going?" Ventus huffed as the three were swimming along a fairly quiet part of the kingdom, rather secluded but surrounded by wonderfully charming sea flora. The three had been on the lookout for Ariel and Sora for what felt like hours, and Ven could almost have sworn Sebastian was deliberately not looking for Ariel.

"I know where we are, mon!" Sebastian raised his voice defensively from where he was perched on Roxas' shoulder, acting as a guide for the twins.

"Are you sure?" Roxas questioned, "We've been out here for ages, now! Surely you saw where they went!"

"You kidding?" the crab laughed sarcastically as he wiggled his crab legs, "'dese small things don't let you move as fast as the merpeople! Especially when the merperson is Ariel!"

"Wait!" Ventus suddenly cried as he heard movement around them. "Hide!" he ran behind a nearby rock, with Roxas following him (and in turn, Sebastian being dragged along in a rush).

"What is it?" Sebastian asked, but he must have been a bit louder than he intended, as the twins hushed him and pushed him downward so they couldn't be seen.

Surely enough, the movement was coming from merpeople. As they came into view of the peering twins, they were revealed to be Sora and Ariel, along with Flounder, simply swimming around.

"So, uh…you gonna go back to your dad?" Sora asked the mermaid.

Ariel sighed, "But I need to prove to him that humans aren't as bad as they seem! They're just as good people as you or me!"

"Will it be enough for him, though?" Sora asked, "Also, I heard that humans were kinda were the reason why…erm…" he trailed off before eventually deciding to cut himself off there.

"…yes, but that was years ago, and we've gotten over that." Ariel responded knowingly, "Now, they're ought to be worth at least a second chance to him!"

Sora awkwardly moved his tail fin while keeping up with the mermaid's pace, "But what is it about humans you like so much?"

Ariel stopped swimming and faced the teen, not uttering a single word. She looked around to make sure she was alone (the twins and Sebastian ducking their heads just in time), and came close to his ear, "Let me show you," she whispered, as she pulled back and started swimming in another direction.

"C'mon, Sora!" Flounder chimed, "You need to see it!" he wrapped as much of his fin as he could around Sora's arm and attempted to pull him in the direction but to no avail.

"OK, OK…" Sora sighed with a smile as he claimed his own arm back and began following Ariel, "What is 'it', anyway?"

Meanwhile, Ventus and Roxas saw this as an opportunity to follow the three, with Sebastian crying in shock as he was suddenly pulled away.

It had been quite a while now, and Sora was staring at a rather large rock formation Ariel had seemingly taken him to see. Sure, the structure was impressive, but it wasn't exactly special for any other reason than being the tallest thing in the area.

"Is this it?" the spiky-hair brunette asked.

"Not exactly," Ariel replied as she swam over to the side of a large boulder at the front of the cave, and proceeded to make an effort to push it away from whatever she wanted.

Sora was about to help the mermaid, given she looked as if she was struggling, but to his surprise she was actually fully capable of moving the rock herself, as it gave way and moved over a couple of meters. What the rock turned out to be blocking was a passage, and when the three made their way through, it seemed like quite a long-winded passage. One that practically went under the sea grounds for part of the journey, or at least, that's how it felt.

"How far have we got left?" Sora asked impatiently.

"We're nearly there!" Flounder answered, excitedly. Sora began to notice that the part of the passageway they were in was gradually lighting up a nice, shade of blue. One you'd often find around the lower parts of the kingdom.

"Here." Ariel announced as she stopped upon reaching the end.

Sora was slow to stopping, and bumped into the mermaid, before quickly gathering himself, "Why, where are we-?" Sora halted as he gazed at all of his surroundings. Why, it was a cavern! A cavern full of marvelous objects from the human world, it seemed! It was an impressive feat, standing very, very tall, with several shelves with numerous kinds of trinkets and gadgets galore. An emerging rock lay at the bottom of the cavern, right in front of them, and the very top was open, allowing for light to enter and shine upon everything in this wondrous place, creating an almost heavenly sight.

"Damn, this is impressive!" Sora exclaimed, as he felt his draw drop and pupils dilate. He swam over to an odd spherical object close by and touched it. It was attached to a strong metallic frame, and it seemed like the sphere wasn't, as it began to rotate slowly. The brunette retracted his hand, but did not take his attention away from the object, as the odd shapes on the sphere began moving in and out of view.

"It's all from the human world," Ariel began, as she started playing with some lovely human jewelry, the likes of which she had never seen in Atlantica, "From ships…random findings…all of it. We go out everyday and find something new to add to the collection!"

"This must've taken ages to put together."

"Only, like, a year or so," Ariel shrugged, turning back to everyone else, twiddling with the strap of her bag.

"How'd you keep this place a secret for that long?" Sora asked as he followed the mermaid as she took out the dinglehopper from her bag and placed it with care on one of the lower shelves, "I mean, surely, someone must know about this with such an opening," he gestured to the top of the cavern.

Ariel giggled, "I think you've forgotten that it's quite far from the kingdom. Not even Daddy would think of coming out here, as he's got no reason to."

"I guess that makes sense, I suppose," Sora smiled, shrugging as he swam leisurely around, examining everything there was within this magical place.

"There!"

Roxas was pointing at the entrance of the cavern. The three had taken the opportunity to hide behind a rock while Sora and Ariel were making their own way through, just so their cover wasn't blown immediately.

"Well, I ain't never seen dat before!" Sebastian huffed, emerging from the rock in front of them and swimming towards the entrance, "Come on!"

Ventus and Roxas obeyed the crab. Partially because they were interested in what was on the inside that Ariel was here for. Partially because they wanted to also hear Sebastian chew Sora out,. Mostly because they didn't know how willing Sebastian was to use his pincers to get his way.

The path was extremely long. Longer than Sebastian and the twins could have possibly imagined. On the bright side, at least they had stayed behind long enough for Ariel and Sora to get to wherever they were heading. Eventually, though, Sebastian and the twins found themselves at the entrance of a cavern.

"Oh, sweet they're here!" Ventus cried, as he caught a glimpse Sora and Ariel swimming around.

"And wow, this place is amazing!" Roxas added, before both blondes were hastily pinched by Sebastian, who pulled back on their hair to signal for them to get behind the entrance.

"Shh!" the crab hushed as he peered at everything inside the cavern. "Why…that girl…" he fumed quietly.

"Calm down," Ventus said soothingly, picking up a few nearby trinkets and placing them on a perched rock, "These are quite interesting…"

"Are you serious?!" Sebastian made his way to stand on the perched rock amongst the trinkets, picking up a pearl necklace with his claw, "These things…they're…"

"Shh…" Roxas shushed, "Ariel's speaking to Sora!"

"I'm guessing this is why you're so obsessed with the human world, huh, Ariel?" Sora asked, putting down a box of shining sticks and swimming upward to be with the mermaid.

"Of course!" Ariel responded leisurely, "Humans seem to make such wonderful things! Things that I can't even name myself! But these things…they feel so good…"

"Yeah…?" Sora quirked an eyebrow, unsure of where Ariel was going.

"I don't see how humans can be bad with such wonderful things being crafted by them!"

The brunette shrugged, "Well, there's more to people than what they make, so maybe…"

"Well, sure…I get that, I guess…" Ariel sighed as she made her way to a small box and opened it, starting a gentle tune and revealing two figures, one male, one female, in a dancing pose, as they slowly rotated within the box, "But…that's all Daddy sees in them. He doesn't see them as creative beings, or anything like that."

"I can see where you're coming from," Sora nodded, "Mom used to tell me great stories of how merpeople and humans used to get along, before a war was declared on the surface. After that, none of the merpeople wanted to associate themselves with the human world ever again."

"But the wars never last for long!" Ariel countered, "They all die out eventually!" She sighed again as she brought her attention back to the box, picking it up as she listened to its melody, "And it's not just the human stuff that makes me so interested…have you seen a human before?"

"No…not really." Sora shook his head, "Our kingdom's quite far from any shore."

"Well, they seem to get around places on these strange things attached to them," the redhead explained, "Where our tails and find are. Urm…what're they called…"

Flounder swam closer to the two and shook his fins slightly, to help Sora understand.

"Oh!" Ariel suddenly burst out before putting down the music box and shaking Flounder's fin gently, "Feet!"

"What's so special about them?" Sora questioned.

Ariel gazed longingly upward as she interlocked her fingers by her chest, "Oh, they're so amazing! I've seen humans dance before! And do this thing Scuttle said was 'jumping'! It's how they're able to get all the way down the, er…'streets'?"

"Wait…so are you…" Sora looked extremely puzzled as he tried to figure out what his friend was getting at, "Saying what I…think…you're…?"

"Yep!" Ariel smiled, closing her eyes and letting herself sink to the rock formation at the bottom of the cavern, "I wanna be part of the human world!"

Suddenly, the sound of something crashing to the ground was heard, and the three turned around in its direction to find Sebastian surrounded by a cluster of small pearls, that must have slipped off the thread they were all on.

"S-Sebastian!" Ariel panicked as the three swam towards the crab. He had found her secret place! What was he to say to her father! Who knows what punishment she'd get for collecting human things? What surprised her even more was that he was not alone, as Ventus and Roxas shied away from their poor attempt to hide and approached her, their heads hanging low.

"Ven? Roxas?" Sora called out angrily, "What are you two doing here?"

"What're you doing with a million human objects?" Ventus countered, but seemingly directing his question moreso to Ariel.

"Dat's what I'd also like to know!" Sebastian agreed, swimming straight into Ariel's face, "All of dis…these…human things! Oh if the King found out he'd-"

"You wouldn't tell him would you?" Flounder exclaimed with worry as he got up in the crab's face.

"Please, Sebastian, I-" Ariel silenced herself as she heard a loud bang coming from above. From the surface to be exact. She rose from her position and swam upward to the top of the cavern and out through the opening.

"What is that?" Sora asked openly, and followed the mermaid, with Flounder accompanying him.

"Sora!" the twins called after him with concern.

"Wait!" Sebastian yelled, before he and the twins went to catch up with them. Oh, he was so not done chewing Ariel out!

And that's where the chapter ends! Chapter 4 will be where we finally meet the princes! (Not really a spoiler - it's a vague idea of what to expect XD)