Jessica's Point of View

We entered Ursula's cave. We passed through a cavern of scary-looking small green plants with eyes that tried to stop us, but we swam through. We went into Ursula's chambers. "Come out! You can't run!" Donald shouted.

"Your time has come!" Sebastian added. Ursula showed herself, and the battle began. Ursula used her cauldron to perform powerful magic, but we were able to withstand it and fought Ursula and her eel assistants until her eels disappeared in a cloud of darkness.

"You'll pay for this!" Ursula exclaimed as she swam away.

"Let's go. We must get the trident back," Ariel urged.

I swam to the small passage where Ursula had left. "We can't go this way. It's clogged," I announced.

"We'll find her," Sora assured us.

We swam around Atlantica until we found Ursula, who was holding the trident. "You pathetic fools! I rule the seas now!" Ursula boomed. She began to grow bigger until she was giant. "The sea and all its spoils bow to my power!"

It had been a long time since I had fought an enemy that big. I was grateful I had another keyblade wielder on my side. We fought Ursula. She looked like she was about to bite Sora until I shoved him out of the way. "Thanks," Sora said before we went back to fighting Ursula.

Eventually, Ursula began flailing and bubbles coming out of her mouth. She let go of the trident as she fell into a cloud of darkness. Ariel grabbed the trident. "Now we have to take it back to your father," I commented.

"Right," Ariel agreed. We swam back to the palace and delivered the trident to King Triton. "Daddy, I'm so sorry."

"Please don't be angry with her," Sora pleaded.

"It's my fault. You followed Ursula because... I wouldn't let you follow your heart. And when you found that crystal, I lost my temper and destroyed it," King Triton sighed.

"Oh, yeah, the crystal! Why did you destroy it?" Goofy brought up.

"That crystal held the power to reveal the keyhole. The keyhole is dangerous. I had to keep you away from it at any cost," King Triton replied.

"Daddy..." Ariel trailed off.

"What's a keyhole?" I wondered.

"You don't know? Are you not a keybearer?" King Triton pointed out.

"I am, but my training didn't go very far," I explained.

"A keyhole is a gateway to the heart of its world. It must be sealed with a keyblade," King Triton explained. He turned to Sora. "I have one more request:
Seal the keyhole. My trident also holds the power to reveal the keyhole. Will you do it?"

"Of course. That's what we had in mind from the start," Sora agreed.

"Where is the keyhole, Daddy?" Ariel questioned.

"You should know better than anyone. It's in your grotto," King Triton answered.

"Really... Sora, let's go," Goofy urged.

King Triton gave Ariel the trident, and I followed her, Sora, Donald, and Goofy. Sora pulled back a boulder to reveal the entrance to Ariel's grotto that I hadn't known about until then. Ariel used the trident to reveal the keyhole. "Would you like to try?" Sora offered.

"How do you do it?" I asked.

"Summon your keyblade and point it at the keyhole. It should do the rest," Sora said.

I summoned my keyblade and pointed it at the keyhole as Sora instructed, and a beam of light came from my keyblade and went into the keyhole. When the beam vanished, so did the keyhole. "Did I do it?" I inquired after vanishing my keyblade.

"You did great," Sora encouraged.

"Tell me, Sora. Your world, what's it like?" Ariel smiled. The cat was out of the bag. I knew I could do nothing to convince Ariel that there weren't any other worlds, even if I tried.

"Oh, about that... Sorry for lying to you," Sora apologized.

Ariel giggled. "It's okay. Besides, if you can travel to other worlds, maybe I can, too." Ariel began swimming up. "So many places I wanna see... I know I'll get there someday. I'll find a way somehow. I'm sure of it."

"Well, if you find it, do me a favor and leave me out of it," Sebastian grumbled.

"Ariel, you should go home. Your father probably wants his trident back," I mentioned.

"Right," Ariel replied. She began to leave but then turned around. "Aren't you coming?"

"I'll catch up with you. I have something I need to do," I explained.

"Alright. I'll see you back at the palace." Ariel left.

"Now it's time for some questions and answers. Who gave you a keyblade?" I wondered.

"No one. It just came to me. How do you have one? Does that mean there are more keyblades than mine?" Sora inquired.

"Of course there are," I stated.

"Why don't you come with us. The more keyblades we have, the better," Donald suggested.

"I can't. I'm waiting for someone. What are you trying to do?" I questioned.

"I'm looking for my friends, Riku and Kairi, and Donald and Goofy are looking for their king," Sora answered.

"He told us to find someone with a key, which led us to Sora," Donald added.

Any trust I had for the three outsiders faded. If a king was looking for a keyblade, it could mean danger. "Who is your king?" I demanded.

"His name is King Mickey. He's the king of Disney Town. That's where Donald and I are from," Goofy replied.

My doubts instantly faded away, and I smiled. "Mickey? I haven't seen him in ages. How is he?"

Donald and Goofy looked sad. "We're not sure. He left us to find out why the stars are blinking out. He wrote us a letter to send us on a quest to find the key. We don't know where he is," Donald sighed.

My smile fell. "He's missing?"

"Afraid so," Goofy grumbled.

"Oh. Mickey is a dear friend, and I would help you guys, but I have to wait here. I'm waiting for someone very special to me, and I don't want him to think that I abandoned him when he comes for me," I explained, thinking about the chance that Zexion would become Ienzo again during the time I would have left with Sora, Donald, and Goofy.

"I understand. If the King were coming back for us, we would wait, too," Goofy mentioned.

"Good luck. If you find him, please tell him I miss him dearly," I requested.

"Of course we will," Goofy agreed.

"We should get going," Donald brought up.

"Of course. Sorry to keep you. Maybe I'll see you again someday," I said. We went our separate ways, with them leaving the world and me going to the palace.

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