Breaking The Surface (on hold)

Breaking The Surface

Ch 1- Under the Sea

As usual, Ariel was late. Sebastian, her crustacean teacher, knew that she was probably off wondering some new shipwreck, but she was supposed to be practicing for the upcoming concert that her father was holding to celebrate his seven wonderful (and talented) daughters. King Triton was not a merman to be messed, ruler of the sea and all, and Sebastian did not need to feel his wrath (again) to know what would happen if Ariel missed the concert, again.

_________________________________________________________________________

*Ariel’s POV

Ariel was off as Sebastian thought, exploring an abandoned shipwreck. She was quickly growing bored because her bag was full of human things that she needed to take to Scuttle to see what they were; she was waiting for her friend Cephan, who was still digging around in the endless sea of human stuff. “Cephan, are you ready to leave yet? Sebastian is going to kill me if I’m late for my lesson, again.”

“Just a minute, Ariel, I’m almost done.” Was the reply as she saw his tail flip over his head as he dove for another treasure item. “Aha! Found it.”

Ariel rolled her eyes, Cephan said that about every piece of human stuff he found, everything was an “aha!” moment. “C’mon, Cephan. Today would be awesome and not the next wave cycle.”

Cephan put his hand up in front of him, “Ok, ok, don’t get your scales in a twist.” He said, swimming ahead of her, holding his bag of items.

“Are you going to be able to carry all of that, Cephan?” Ariel inquired, pointing to his bugling bag of human items.

“I’m a merman, Ariel, not a guppy.”

“Hey! I heard that.” Said a yellow and blue fish, swimming besides Ariel.

“Oh Flounder, you know he didn’t mean you.” Ariel giggled. Flounder was her best friend, besides Cephan, from years ago. He was always a little scared to do things, but he was getting braver every day.

Flounder huffed and swam further ahead of the duo. “Ariel, you’re father is going to kill you if you don’t get to that concert tonight on time.” Flounder was more worried about how Ariel’s father was going to react then the crab that was in charge of the whole recital.

“I won’t be late, and if Sebastian threatens to tell him, I’ll just have to tell Daddy about the time I caught Sebastian reading sheet music he had found in the Museum.”

“I thought Sebastian didn’t like human stuff?” Flounder asked.

“It’s music, Sebastian loves another with a music note attached to it.” Cephan replied, laughing. “Ariel, are you coming, you’re slower than kelp!” He teased. Cephan had been one of her best friends for as long as she could remember. They had done almost everything together and in tide school, they had been told that they would make the cutes couple and should marry one day. As much as Ariel loved Cephan, he was like the brother she never had in her sea full of sisters. She couldn’t see Cephan in that husband role for her, she wanted someone else, a human. She had heard stories from her parents when she was little about people who walked the earth above the sea and she hoped that maybe one day she would be able to visit the surface and maybe find a human, who could love her? It was wishful thinking.

___________________________________________________________________

*Arianna’s POV

Arianna walked along the shore line, lost in her own thoughts when she heard, “Arianna!”

She turned around to see her brother a couple feet behind her, running towards her, trying to catch his breath in the process. She laughed as he approached. “Eric, what are you doing out here? Did mom let you free for an hour before you’re supposed to go back to writing out ball invitations and practicing the latest waltz?” she teased, as he finally approached her.