Little mermaid x reader

Chapter 5

*Edited 1/5/2020*

(Reader's Pov)

"Ariel wait!" I yelled out to my sister who totally ignored me like the diva she is. I pushed my self to catch up to her swimming figure and caught her wrist stopping her.

She tried to pull her arm away but quickly gave up. She snapped around and glared at me. "What!" She snapped at me, nostrils flaring and I swear her eyes turned red.

"Just... just talk to me. I am here to listen" I told her calmly, smiling a little as well to show her that I was open for her to talk to.

She tried to keep her angry façade up but started to crack when she couldn't stop the tears streaming down her face. She snatched my hand away from my grip and hid her tears behind her hands.

"Dad doesn't understand! humans aren't barbarians, they are intelligent and interesting. they would never hurt me! but he never listens. Why does he listen to everyone else but me" Ariel ranted still hiding her face behind her hands but I could tell she started to calm down when her shoulders stopped shaking.

I didn't say anything to here like "it's going to be ok" and what not because I didn't know if it would be. Dad has always been soft on us, Ariel especially. She always got away with everything as a child up until Sebastian got involved.

Sebastian is like that stern Grandma you have who always scolds you for not having manners and is always the one telling your parents how to raise you. Once he got involved, dads got stricter but in a good way that parents should. I liked the change because instead of it being a house filled with animals and dad the caretaker we have evolved to mermaid people again.

Ariel on the other hand absolutely despised the change. She loved having the freedom to do whatever she wanted when she wanted but now with Sebastian, she couldn't do any of that. I swear she acts more like a spoiled three-year-old than her actual age.

"You wanna get out of here?" I asked her which she nodded her head.

I took her hands away from her face to see her red blotchy face that she always had after she cries "Come on let's go to your cave of wonders"

I told Flounder to get Ariels bag of human stuff and meet us at the back of the throne room as it is the best place to hide and closest to cave.

Once Flounder came back struggling to carry Ariels bag we made our way to our destination not knowing someone was following us.

'Mini time skip'

We got to the cave of wonders which had all types of human items Ariel has found over the years filling the shelves I carved. Ariel plopped down on a little ledge near all the shelves while I sat on a clam I moved into the cave for me to sit on.

I looked around the lit area and saw new items amongst the others. I wanted to ask Ariel when she went and collected these things without me but didn't after seeing her sorrowful face.

 "Ariel are you ok?" Flounder asked her concerned. Flounder is such a sweetheart he never wants people to be sad so he tries his best to cheer them up, but in this situation, I don't think he does how to cheer Ariel up. Ariel sat there fiddling with her newest object aimlessly in her hands before she replied.

"If only I could make him understand" She sighed probably thinking about all the time's dad scolded her for going to the surface.

"You just don't see things the way he does" I added, trying to lift her mood a bit. She glanced over to me and smiled.

"Yeah, I don't see how a world that makes such marvellous things, could be bad" She looked back at Flounder for recurrence of her claim which he agreed to.

Ariel then started singing which I just sat and watched because I'm not the type to sing like my sisters. I rather chat about training and battle strategies then talk about boys. I rather dance with swords than dancing at all. 

I'm the only tomboy out of my whole family and to be honest, it gets lonely from time to time because I am soo different from my sisters that they don't know how to relate to me. When interacting with them, they tend to be awkward when talking to me. I'm ok with that though, I rather they talk to me than not at all.

I was snapped out of thinking about my semi depressing life by one of Ariels items falling off the shelve making a racket and breaking on the floor. To my surprise though Sebastian was hurled out of the crashed item. He tried to catch himself from falling by holding onto a piece of fabric that was hung over the shelve but he accidentally sent more items off the shelf and onto him.

"Sebastian" Ariel gasped in surprise, She swam up to his covered figure worriedly "You ok?" She asked. I got up from my clam seat and swam next to Ariel.

"No!" He screamed in anger. He shook all the stuff off of him (with some of Ariel's help) and crawled closer to Ariel and me.

"Ariel, (Y/N) W-w-what are you wha-wha-wha" Sebastian was so shocked and angry at his discovery that he was stammering over his words.

"What is all this!" He demanded us shaking some human jewellery off of one of his legs.

"It's Ugh, it's ugh just my collection" Ariel tried to explain doing one of her nervous twitches of pulling on her hair.

"Ooh, I see," Sebastian said, pulling a calm collected face but with a sarcastic smile. He held up one of the human's inventions that were smaller than him and looked to be examining it "Your collection" He also began nodding his head.

'I think Sebastian has finally gone insane' I thought as I have never seen him act this way my whole life, by now he would have blown u-

"IF YOUR FATHER KNEW OF THIS PLACE!" Sebastian screamed enraged, throwing the human items still on him.

'there he goes, back to normal'

"You aren't going to tell him aren't you!?" Flounder questioned Sebastian worriedly getting in his face.

"Oh please Sebastian" Ariel begged swimming closer to him "He would never understand"

"Don't do it please" I also begged knowing how precious this place is to my sister. Sebastian looked at me shocked like he didn't think I would be on her side and not his. 

"Ariel, (Y/N), you are under a lot of pressure down here, come with me I'll take you home" Sebastian tried to slip himself out of this conversation and trick us to go back home so he could tell father. Sebastian took Ariel's hand and tried to pull her along but I snatched it away.

"No" Sebastian looked shocked. He stared up at me with wide eyes

"No?" He questioned. I got up close to him and glared at him harshly. I saw Sebastian physically gulp at my proximity. 

"You are just going to go running to father once we get home and I can't let you do that" I explained to him.

"How do you know that?" Sebastian asked me offended crossing his pinches and turned his head away with a huff.

"Because I have grown up with you!  If you tell father he will come here and use his powers to destroy this place, the place Ariel has cultivated and put all her love into. If dad destroys this place you will destroy Ariel as well along with her trust and love. You really want that to happen?" I questioned him pointing over Ariel who was supporting a frown.

Sebastian's face slumped as he thought of the consequences of doing what he was going to do and shook his head no.

Before I could educate him anymore the area around us turned dark. When we looked up we saw something move above us.

"What you suppose that is?" Ariel questioned. I just shrugged my shoulders and began swimming up to the surface with Ariel and Flounder behind me to investigate ignoring Sebastian's calls behind us.

'damn this has been a long day'