Cherry Meets the Little Mermaid

chapter 13

The nightmare was over and the souls that Ursula had kept in the past were released and were able to live their lives again in peace and harmony. Triton was released as well after his trident landed on the ground. It now seemed to be like morning and Eric was washed up on shore. Jessica, Patrick, and Emily hugged Atticus once he came back to the sea to check in with them before he would go back on the surface.

"Don't ever scare us like that ever again!" Jessica told him.

"I'm sorry..." Atticus smiled to his family. "I just wanted to make sure things were going to be okay with Ariel."

"We understand, dear." Emily smiled to her son.

"You've done really well..." Patrick patted Atticus on the head. "You're a real miracle."

"I've never been prouder." Jessica smiled, not even jealous.

"Thanks." Atticus smiled.

Ariel's sisters came to see her and Urchin. Ariel was very happy to see her sisters again, but she looked a little distant right now. Ariel's sisters and Atticus could were that and where he began to explain to them everything that happened.

"So, you went on land?" Alana asked.

"Ariel, what was it like?" Aquata asked.

"It was nice..." Ariel said softly. "But..."

Adriana looked at her. "But what...?"

Attina, being the oldest, seemed to sense something in her youngest sister. "It's that boy, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is, and I love him." Ariel told them.

"Is it true love?" Adella asked.

"I-I'm sure it is..." Ariel looked distant.

"And I love Darla..." Urchin admitted. "She's a great girl and she has a very angelic voice... I never knew she had it in her..."

"Awww! My little sister has her first love." Jessica awed.

Urchin blushed at that. Triton thought about his children being in love and thought of a solution.

"Uncle Triton, I know why you're thinking and I think its a perfect solution." Atticus smiled.

"Excuse me, I'd like to be alone for a little while..." Ariel went above the ocean to find Eric.

Urchin nodded to her and let her go.

Darla came into the water in her mermaid form, then snuck up behind Urchin. "So... You like me, huh?"

"Don't flatter yourself, Goldilocks." Urchin teasingly smirked to her.

"You so do love me." Darla smiled.

"Ah, shush..." Urchin shoved her.

"Nope, not buying it..." Darla shoved back.

The two then shoved each other and started to chase each other again.

"Can't catch me!" Darla laughed as she passed sponge beds.

"Oh, yes, I can!" Urchin laughed, taking a shortcut.

The others shook their heads and rolled their eyes to this with small and amused smirks for the two blonde kids.

Triton came up to the surface with Atticus and Sebastian as Ariel found Eric on shore. "She really does love him, doesn't she?" he asked the crab and his nephew.

"She truly does." Atticus said.

"It's like I always say, Your Majesty," Sebastian added. "'Children got to be free to lead their own lives'."