Return To The Sea

Birthday Ball Disaster

11 years later, a wall had been built around the kingdom. The wall had been built by King Lance and King Keith to protect their daughter Princess Sofia from the evil witch Haggar's younger sister Cyrenna. The wall let in the ships and boats but kept sea creatures out.

At the moment Keith was looking for his daughter.

"Sofia?" Keith called as he walked to the ballroom. It was there that he ran into Colleen who had a pile of fresh towels in her arms. "Colleen, have you seen Sofia?" Colleen shook her head softly.

"Not since this morning, Your Majesty" Colleen commented as she headed off to put the towels away.

Keith sighed and headed to the kitchen, Lance was also busy searching the castle for their missing daughter. Keith knew that Sofia liked to hang out with the chef on some occasions and hoped she would be in there.

"Chef, Sofia's not in here is she?" Keith asked as he entered the kitchen, the chef turned and shook his head. Currently, he was on top of a ladder placing candles on top of the six-layer white and purple cake.

"No, Your Highness, but her birthday cake is. Twelve petite candles," Keith smiled and closed the door as the chef almost fell off the ladder. Keith continued on with his search for his missing daughter.

Keith eventually ran into Lance who had also been searching for their daughter.

"Any sign of her?" Keith asked but Lance shook his head with a sigh.

"No, you?" Keith shook his head as well. Lance wrapped an arm around his husband's shoulders. "Well I have the guards and servants searching for her as well" Keith nodded. "We should go get ready, before Coran finds us and yells at us," Keith cracked a smile and followed Lance to their bedroom to get ready for the party.

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Meanwhile, outside the wall, Slav was climbing a rock that stood above the ocean surface. "'Slav, you watch over her," he said," Slav commented as he jumped from rock to rock. "I'm too old for this! A crab my age should be retired, getting a tan, playing sea golf, sipping a tuna colada!" Slav throughout his yelling hadn't noticed that Matt had landed beside him on the rock.

Slav jumped into the water and sunk to the ocean floor. "Not babysitting another teenager," he said with a sigh. Slav walked along the ocean floor in search of the princess. He finally found her, swimming with a dolphin.

Her brown hair tied in a ponytail with a purple bow, her bangs loose as she swam, the sun from above reflecting off her lightly tanned skin. She was dressed in a pair of white billowy pants, a white tank top, and no shoes on. Over her shoulder was her brown bag.

"Sofia!" Slav called out to the princess. Of course, Sofia had already started swimming towards the surface and didn't hear the crab. Slav sighed and followed the princess up to the surface.

Sofia breached the surface and climbed up onto a rock, water dripping off her clothes, bag, and hair. She sat on the rock and noticed Matt and waved to the bird. Of course, Matt being a mermaid, had to stay in his bird form around the young princess. Slav at this point had climbed the rock and panted in exhaustion. He really was getting to old for this.

"Hey, Matt. Hey, Slav, what's kickin'?" Sofia asked as she wrung the water out of her hair.

"Uh, what's kickin'? Hmm. L-Let me see," Matt bonked his head three times causing the princess to giggle. "Don't rush me," Matt said as he continued to think. Slav turned to the princess angrily and glared at her.

"You know perfectly well what's kicking!" Sofia rolled her eyes at the crab's reprimanding. She stood up as Slav continued to talk.

"Now, come along. You gonna be late for the--" before Slav could finish his sentence, Sofia jumped into the water and caused a huge wave to crash onto Slav. The crab coughed up water as Sofia giggled and moved her bangs out of her face.