The Lost Merman

Let the Battles Begin!

Prince Eric remembered looking on the map and he and Triton decided to march to the Temple of Jaco-Palo. The next morning, Eric's army started marching on the land, while Triton led his army under the sea.

After marching for two hours, Eric halted his army and he couldn't believe what he saw. He saw the Temple of Jaco-Palo falling into pieces.

King Triton and his army appeared from the sea and saw what Eric was seeing. Nothing made sense. Neither did the army of the sand monsters appearing in front of them, followed by Jaco-Palo.

"Hello," greeted the feathered monster. "Come to join the party."

"What party?" asked Triton.

"Why, the funeral of your daughter and your granddaughter!" Jaco-Palo grabbed a little orb of magic, threw it in the air and it show Ariel and Melody trapped in his dungeon and the roof falling down on them.

Eric and Triton nearly began to show their sadness and weakness, but they lit up their angry faces to hide them.

"We'll stop you before you kill anyone else!" shouted Triton.

"What's to kill?" asked Jaco-Palo. "You've lost everything – your wife, your daughter and your granddaughter! Oh, I get it. You're fighting for revenge, aren't you?"

"Well, I'm not! I'm fighting for the survival of my and Triton's species!" yelled Eric.

"Me too!" shouted Triton.

"So are we!" shouted both armies.

"If that's what you want," smiled Jaco-Palo, "let the battles begin!"

He lifted his wing in the air and threw it down, giving the signal for the sand monsters to attack.

The Land and the Sea Armies braced themselves for impact, but it was not enough as each and every single soldier were caught from the sand monsters that emerged from below.

"Did you really think it was going to be a fair fight?" Jaco-Palo chuckled.

"Well, rules were made to be broken!" shouted a voice from the sky.

Then Jaco-Palo and everyone looked up at the sky and saw Jaco-Palo's entire bird army flying towards them and spitting mouthfuls of water to the sand monsters, realising the prisoners.

"What are you doing?" Jaco-Palo yelled. "I ordered you to stay."

"What kind of a good boss are you if you ordered these little birds to die?" asked Chris who had his wings back and was riding on Kevin, who was now the size of Toughclaw! "I've freed them from your spell and given them the freedom to take orders from me."

"But how did you escape and get your wings back and..." Jaco-Palo could not believe it.

"Well, let's just say, you're not as powerful as you think you are!" Chris smiled, as if the quiet and shyness was kicked out of him. "I stole a little power orb, enough to give myself wings, escape from that terrible dungeon and everything."

"Chris? What about Ariel and Melody?" asked Eric.

"Oh, they're busy!" Chris told him. And he was right.

Barry was as tall as Kevin and, while he was flying, Ariel, Flounder and Sebastian were on his back and they were throwing tiny orbs to the sand monsters.

Berry was doing the same, with Melody, Tip and Dash throwing tiny orbs at the sand monsters.

When an orb touched a sand monster, the sand fell off and it revealed a skyman. They were a whole bunch of groaning skymen lying everywhere. The humans helped them up and assured them.