The Little Mermaid

P A R T I

T H E  M Y S T E R I O U S  F A T H O M S  B E L O W

"Arieeeel, we can't!" Flounder whined as he watched me. I sighed, before smiling to him.

"We won't be long, come on" I tried to con him into going. "We haven't been there yet, there's going to be so many new things!"

"Your father said to never go there" he said shaking in fear.

"What daddy doesn't know won't hurt him" I said nervously bitting my pinky. "Oh come on Flounder! It'll be fun" I said grabbing my coral coloured bag before swimming out the opening of my shared room.

"Ariel!" Flounder whispered.

"Sh! Don't get caught!" I whispered back before dashing from room to room. I swam faster as I heard guards coming around the corner.

"Come on Flounder" I said when I saw him struggling to keep up. Quickly I grabbed him and swam out of the castle and to the coral reef, it wasn't until we got there that I slowed and let him go.

"Fhew, we made it" he said. I giggled as we made our way to the shipwreck.

"Do we really need to go?"

"Yes, Scuttle can tell us what they are" I said in excitement, he'll know what my newly found treasure are, he always does.

"Scuttle!" I shouted and waved.

"Woah! Mermaid off the port bow! Ariel, how you doin' kid?" he yelled hurting my ears. Why is he looking through that thingy ma bob.

"Scuttle look what we found!" I said putting my bag on the rocks for him.

"Human stuff, huh? Lemme see here" he replied picking up the small trident.

"Look at this. Wow, this is special, this is very, very unusual" he said eyeing the thing.

"What? What is it?" I asked eagerly.

"It's a dinglehopper!" A what?

"Humans use these little babies, to straighten there hair out"

"A dinglehopper!" I said taking it and holding it up. The light shinned off it and I could see my reflection. Wow, it's so wonderful!

"What about that one?" Flounder asked.

"Ah - this I haven't seen in years. This is wonderful! A banded, bulbous - snarfblat" he said displaying it.

"Ohhhh" Flounder and I said in unison.

"Now, the snarfblat dates back to prehistorical times, when humans used to sit around, and stare at each other all day. Got very boring. So, they invented the snarfblat to make fine music. Allow me." he said before blowing into the snarblat. Music, oh no, no no no no.

"Music? Oh, the concert! Oh my gosh, my fathers gonna kill me!" I said dramatically. No no no! How could I have forgot! He's going to be so mad!

"Uh, I'm sorry, I've gotta go, thank you Scuttle!" I waved back at him before diving into the sea.

"Flounder what are we going to do!" I said worrying. "Oh, he's going to be so angry!"

"We just need to hurry, we might not have missed it"

"I hope so Flounder" I said. We made it to Atlantica moments later.

"Princess Ariel" a guard said to me. "Your father wants to see you urgently" Flounder gulped beside me and I nodded before swimming into the throne room.

"Should we go in?" he asked.

"I'll go, just stay by the door" I replied before slowly swimming towards him.