You're My Treasure

Chapter 7

I'm sorry for not applying Sebastian's accent into his speeches. Imagining him speaking every single word is too much for me.

"Jim?! JIM?!"

Sarah searched through the entire inn for his presence. She called for his name in every single room, including the guests' rooms, the most unlikely place to find him in the morning.

She rushed down the stairs. "Ben?! Where is he?!"

"Sarah, I searched every single corner in the first floor, and even scanned for any sign of life! I only came up with Morph's!" He reported, approaching the desperate mother. Morph floated towards Sarah's side from Ben's.

"Morph, you didn't see him?"

The alien shook its head as in a 'no'.

Sarah rubbed her temples with her hands, "where could he possibly have gone to?!" With a twitch of a muscle, she looked up to the window with the diamond pattern on it. The window gave a view of the ocean, which gave her a lead of a new place to search.

"There's no way he'd gone to the beach, right?" She asked to herself. Without even waiting for an answer, she lifted her dress by a little to gain more space for her legs to rush out of the inn. Once she opened the backdoor, the wind of the sea immediately welcomed her. Followed by Ben and Morph, the mother figure walked her way to the cliff that separated the inn and the beach. From on top of it, she looked down, and gasped deeply.

"Is that... Oh my god, what in the world..." she knelt down, narrowing her eyes to see better. Ben and Morph had no idea what she was spectating. Before they could even peek, Sarah rushed away to the stairs.

"Wait, Sarah-um, hold on," Ben halted himself, letting Morph go after the woman.

The robot had picked up something in his radar on the air in front of him. Something... out of its place. It's floating right on the air in front of him. Normal humans would only see the view of the sea, but Ben saw something in that view. Human eyes wouldn't be able to spot the very small object, but luckily, Ben was a robot, equipped with eyes capable of detecting molecules in the thin air. He stood there for a few seconds before catching up with Sarah.

Once Sarah reached the beach, her worst guess came into reality.

"Ariel?!"

Ariel's eyes rolled up to see the woman calling her name behind her soaked hair. A smile formed immediately.

"Sarah!"

She tried to support her weight with her arms first before trying to use her legs. But with her wobbly motion, she failed. But Sarah caught her before she could kiss the sand

"A-Ah... thank you Sarah."

Lifting her up, the woman scanned her looks. The girl she once knew as a mermaid was now a human, very much naked, except for her breasts which were covered by her seashells. It wasn't her naked look that shocked her, it was the new addition on her body; a pair of legs. Sarah's reaction was summed up with a drop of a jaw.

"Ariel... what have you done?"

"I've got myself a pair of legs!" She answered childishly.

She groaned in disbelief. "You r-really are unstoppable! Does your father know about this?"

She shook her head. "No."

"Then that makes me a hostile in his eyes. I have the daughter of King Triton with me, with her new pair of legs! Great, one thing missing only-"

"Miss, if you please, we don't have much time."

Both of the females looked down at the sand to see Sebastian. It took her by surprise to see a crustacean talking in an accent she had no knowledge about. "We only have time until sunset before she's turned into a mermaid again. She needs to see the boy at once!" A sense of fascination was taking over the woman, so she didn't pay attention to what the crab he just spoken.