The Little Angel (Phantom of the Opera/The Little Mermaid)

Chapter 16

ERIK: *the rashness vanishes leaving him a perfectly calm but seething* you hurt her and I'll torture and then execute your eels in the most painful way possible. And make you watch.

URSULA: If you want her... Go and get her! *throws her to her seaweed garden*

ARIEL: *seaweed strengthens and starts to wrap around her body, making an unbreakable pod*

ERIK: you forget, Ursula...I'm a stronger magician than you... Did I ever tell you why I kept a garden of souls?

URSULA: Why?

ERIK: *raises is hands and smirks* they are servants of a sort. They will obey me. They can haunt things, you see. Plants and animals...

URSULA: *gulps*

ARIEL: *the seaweed releases her and lays her gently down on top of a slanted rock*

ERIK: *smirks* you see? *the souls inhabit the body of some fish and carry her back to Erik's cave*

URSULA: Erik... *looks at him seriously* I'm sorry

ERIK: sorry doesn't fix things.

URSULA: Then what will make it better?

ERIK: you can't change the past by changing the future. I want you to stay out of my life. Go find someone else in some other part of the sea.

URSULA: I'll do what you wish...

ERIK: I happen to know where there is a group of octopuses that would find your magic and company very interesting.

URSULA: *eyes brighten* Y-You would?

ERIK: I would send you there under the bonds of magic and some of my most trusted merfolk. You're lucky Ariel's made me soft. Otherwise, it would be off with your tentacles.

URSULA: Thank you, Erik

ERIK: don't thank me. Thank the girl who you considered worthless. *smirks* if you are ever found in my kingdom again, I will make the rest of your life short and painful.

URSULA: I understand...

ERIK: there will be no mercy. Not even Ariel can stop me.

URSULA: I get it!

ERIK: alright. I don't want to see your hide ever again. *swims away*

ARIEL: *is lying down in the floor of his lair, resting on a soft bed of sand*

ERIK: *swims to her side* *glances back at the souls of the merfolk* thank you...

*the souls go back to the seaweed form*

ARIEL: *wakes up* Erik..?

ERIK: I'm here, Ariel. Every things fine.

ARIEL: *looks at him* What happened?

ERIK: Devon knocked you unconscious.

ARIEL: *gasps* We have to get to the palace!

ERIK: why?

ARIEL: The celebration I promised!

ERIK: of course! *scoops her up in his arms* we couldn't miss that. Do you feel well enough though?

ARIEL: My head hurts but I'll be fine

ERIK: if you feel unwell just let me know. I don't want to push you.

ARIEL: I will. I promise. *smiles*

ERIK: thank you. *begins to swim towards the castle*

ARIEL: *blushes and snuggles in his arms* I just adore being held by your protective arms...