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Chapter 1
Out on the ocean, soft singing could be heard from a turtle shape ship that sailed. Inside the room of the singing, a young woman with dark brown hair and brown eyes, bent over the crib to pick up her three month old daughter and brought her to look at the view of the ocean out the window.
Aviva smiled as she looked out the window and held her daughter, Kiara. She had truly been blessed in the last year. She had found her Martin, her other half or soul Husband, and they had a child, a daughter that was a adventure like her father.
See, the unusual thing about Aviva was, she had been a mermaid, but had been changed into a human by her father after one weird adventure of just trying to get to her Martin.
As Kiara began to squirm in Aviva's arms as some of the ocean spray hit the window. Aviva giggled at the action and began to sing.
You are my world, my darling
What a wonderful world I see
You are the song I'm singing
You are my beautiful Kiara
Martin came into the room smiling at the sound of his wife's singing. He had been really happy when Aviva had conceived their daughter, and was happier that Aviva's father, the king of the merfolk, King Solomon, was holding a special ceremony today for their daughter.
"Darling, we'd better be going." Martin said as he stepped into the room.
"Just look at her, isn't she glowing?" Aviva asked at their daughter's excited expression.
"She looks divine and you look exquisite, but look at the time." Martin replied as the escorted the two out.
"It couldn't be." Aviva gasped as she looked to see how far from shore they were. "Is it?"
"The crew is awaiting your orders." Martin youngest brother Chris smiled at the coupled as they came further onto the deck.
"We're sailing away from our borders." Jimmy, cheerfully chirped from the behind the wheel.
"Ahoy there!" Koki called from the crows nest. "They're coming!"
"Trumpeters ready!" Chris shouted to the soldiers. "Drummers, start drumming!"
Aviva smiled as she and Martin walked down to the main deck, Aviva singing, one of her talents that she had inherited from her deceased mother.
"Down to the sea we go,
Down to a world I know.
There's never been, not ever before,
A child born of sea and shore."
The crew responded in song as Martin, Aviva, Kiara, and Chris approached deck
"Down to the sea we go,
Down to the world below.
A journey to bless a princess-to-be,
Under the sun and under the sea."
"Aviva's coming!" A fish called as he swims to the ocean gathering the attention of the fish, turtles and the merpeople.
Sebastian conducting a ocean band to play a hip-hop beat while he sang.
"What's all the big commotion
That's spreading through the ocean
From sea to shining sea (laughs)
There is no hesitating
Today we're celebrating
Aviva's Kiara.
Sebastian bounced along to the beat as he shooed the sea creatures up to the surface.
Today with Solomon's daughter
Comes to the water
We're gonna have a spree
I think I hear her now
Aviva's Kiara
Lad-da-di-da
Many of the merfolk began to sing as they swam towards the surface of the ocean.
"Up from the sea we rise,
Up to the world of skies.
There's never been, not ever before,
A child born of sea and shore.
Up from the sea we rise,
Up to the world of skies.
Forever to be, together as one,
Under the sea and under the sun."
Aviva walked to the edge of the ship, followed by Martin and Chris. Gesturing to the seafolk as she sang to Kiara.
"This is your world my darling,
One world, the land and sea.
My hope for you for always,
Is that your heart will hold part of me."
Everyone stopped and stared as guards came out of the water, welcoming the good King Solomon of the merpeople, who used his magic to hold himself up at boat level so he could see the happy infants. The crew and merpeople sang in echo with each other.
"Down to the sea we go, (Up from the sea),
Down to the world below."
Aviva smiled and sang happily with everyone else as he held an excited Kiara in her arms. This was the first time since the births that she had been able to see her father, and the first time for Kiara to meet any of Aviva's family.
"Together we come forever to be.
Under one sun, the land and the sea
Together we come forever to be.
Under one sun, the land and the sea."
Solomon smiled as Kiara grinned at him, so he made a rainbow, much like the one he had made at Martin's and Aviva's wedding. As the cheering behind him settled, he revealed the locket he had brought with him.
" My precious Kiara." Solomon sighed as he held up the seashell locket with Kiara's name engraved on it. "I'm giving you this locket so that you will never forget that part of your heart will always belong to the sea."
Opening the locket, a ball of magic swirled out and made a picture. It showed the underwater sea kingdom that had once been Aviva's home, with merfolk swimming around happily. A soft melody played, the same on that Aviva had sung a few minutes before.
As Kiara cooed, Aviva smiled at her. It was perfect. Kiara would remember she was of land and of sea with this gift.
As Solomon smiled back and placed the locket around Kiara's neck, a long black tentacle shot out of the water and grabbed the baby princess right out of her mother's arms.
"Kiara!" Aviva cried out as her child was carried out of her reach.
A tentacle, much like Ursula appeared out of the water, riding on the backs of two manta rays, Rex and Weevil.
She had brown eyes and short length brown hair.
"A party!" the female cackled as the rays carted her and Kiara around.
"Ursula' crazy sister!" Sebastian yelped as he dodged the crazy female.
"I didn't miss the cake and ice cream, did I?" the girl asked as she 'fawned' over Kiara.
"Donita!" Solomon growled
"Surrender the baby, or I'll-" Solomon thundered at the sea witch as his trident, which had strong magic and was used to keep the ocean in check, began to glow.
"Ah, ah, ah." Donita tsked as she used her tentacles to climb the ship, save for the one that held Kiara as her hostage. "Ursula would have simply loved to have come... but something came up. Now-Now, what was it? Oh, yes. You all shish-kebabbed her!"
Aviva was starting to have a hard time breathing as she watched Donita toss Kiara up and down. Martin quickly reached for his wife and held her close, planning the best way to cook the tako with his creature powers
"One minute you're on top, the next you're sushi." Donita continued, not paying any attention to the glares she was getting, and pulling Chris closed for two seconds. "Now, is that fair? I ask you. But then, whoever said we had to play fair? Oh, Keith!"
The back fins of a shark cut threw the water. It was Bandit Keith. He had once been a merman, but had been banished for stealing from the treasury. Keith had been one of Donita's successful experiments. He now had a shark's tale and could change into a tiger shark at will.
"Make way, little mershrimp!" Bandit Keith bellowed at he plowed threw the seafolk. "I'm coming' through!"
Rearing upright on his tail, Keith opened his mouth as Donita held Kiara right over, barely holding on. Aviva gasped in horror at the sight.
"Now hand over the trident," Donita demanded, "Or your precious granddaughter, will be shark chow!"
"You can have anything you want." Solomon surrendered. "Just don't harm little Kiara."
"Well, well. I get the trident." Donita looked pleased how things were going her way. "Avenge poor, unfortunate Ursula, and gain all the powers of the ocean! And it's not even 10:00. Not a bad morning."
'For you maybe.' Aviva growled in her head as she grabbed the dagger she had on her waist and cut the line holding a piece of the yard up.
"Hit the deck!" Martin shouted as he dropped to avoid the piece of mast, which hit Donita right in the stomach and knocked her off the ship.
But this also sent Kiara flying, right towards Keith's open mouth. This time, Solomon could use his trident, and shrunk the shark to the size of an orange. Martin had grabbed a rope and swung out to catch his daughter just in time.
"Kiara!" Aviva gasped as she took her daughter back into her arms.
"What have you done to me?" Bandit Keith screeched. "Look at me! I'm an anchovy!"
"This isn't the end, Solomon!" Donita sneered as she began to cast a spell. "It's just the beginning!"
"After her!" Solomon shouted, and the sea guards raced to stop her, but it was too late.
"You'll never find me." Donita's voice rang as she, Keith, Rex, and Weevil disappeared in a spell cast ink cloud. "But I'll find you... and your precious granddaughter!"
"We shall not rest until that madwoman is vanquished!" Solomon declared. "Find her! Find her
A few hours later at sunset, Solomon, Sebastian, Flounder, met Aviva, Martin, Chris, Koki, and Jimmy Z at the ocean shore.
"I'm sorry." Solomon sighed with a heavy heart. "There is no sign of her. She's vanished. We'll keep trying."
"Oh sweetie, no." Aviva gasped as she picked up Kiara, who had been crawling toward the sea. "Oh, we've got to keep Kiara away from her."
"Aviva's right." Chris agreed. "Donita may try to go for Kiara again."
"Until Donita is found, Kiara can't go in the sea." Aviva took a deep breath and voiced the painful choice she had made should the search fail. "And neither will I."
"But Aviva!" Flounder gasped,
"I'm sorry, guys." Aviva shook her head. "But if Donita is anything like Ursula she'll never give up."
"This is the only way." Aviva continued as she took off Kiara's locket and gave it back to Solomon. "Kiara can't know about merpeople or Atlantica ... or even you, daddy."
"Very well, Aviva." Solomon sighed, conceding as Aviva turned back into Martin's arms as she softly cried. "You're right."
Turning, Aviva, Martin, and the rest of the crew walked back into the tortuga.
Solomon and Flounder turned back to the ocean, watching as the locket with Kiara's name on it was dropped to rest at the bottom of the sea.