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The story begins on a foggy morning out on the open sea. A ship then comes from the fog, filled with sailors singing stories of the legendary merfolk. Aboard that ship is a young prince, named Eric, his dog Max, and his advisor Grimsby, who denounces the merfolk as, “nautical nonsense,” but one sailor insists they are real. While distracted by Grimsby, a fish the sailor was holding slips from him and falls back into the ocean.
The fish breathes a sigh of relief before swimming away from the ship. The fish then crosses the deep ocean until at last, we see merfolk. They then make their way through the ocean towards a shining underwater castle located in an aquatic kingdom called Atlantica. The castle is the domain of King Triton and is where he was holding a concert in his name, performed by his seven sexy, bikini-clad daughters and the crab court composer, Sebastian.
The concert goes as planned until it is discovered that Triton’s youngest and sexiest daughter, Ariel, is not there, much to his anger. As it turned out, Ariel was out excavating a ship graveyard with her best friend, Flounder the Fish. Inside one wreck, she finds a pipe and a fork, which fascinates her curiosity, all the while unaware of a shark watching her and Flounder from outside.
The shark bursts into the room Ariel and Flounder are in and gives chase to them, all across the graveyard, until the two manage to get the shark ensnared in an anchor ring. They then make their way to the surface, where their friend, a seagull named Scuttle, lives. Ariel asks Scuttle to tell her what the items she collected are. He describes the fork as a dinglehopper, an item humans use to style hair; and the pipe as a snarfblatt, an object for making music.
Upon hearing the word “music”, Ariel is quickly reminded of the concert she missed and makes haste back home. However, Ariel fails to realize she is being watched by two suspicious eels by the names of Flotsam and Jetsam. The two are spies under the employ of Ursula the Sea Witch, a member of King Triton’s court before being banished. Ursula hates Triton with a passion for his atrocities towards her and constantly schemes of ways to exact revenge. The moment Ariel caught her eye, Ursula commanded her cronies to watch her, hoping to use her to get to the king.
The story then moves to the royal palace, where Triton and Sebastian are scolding Ariel for missing the concert. But Flounder moves in to defend her, accidentally letting slip the encounter with Scuttle, which quickly angers Triton. The law of his kingdom forbids going to the surface world for fears of merfolk being caught by humans. But Ariel believes humans not to be all that bad, which angers Triton to the point of telling her that as long as she is living under his ocean, she’ll do what he says and what she does not want. And this sends Ariel away crying, with Flounder following after.
When they’ve left, Triton asks Sebastian if he was too hard on Ariel, to which Sebastian replies, “definitely not.” Sebastian suggests that Ariel needs constant supervision, which gives Triton the idea to send Sebastian to keep an eye on her. Sebastian complies with the King’s demands but feels dissatisfied with the idea of, “tagging along some headstrong teenager.” However, Sebastian’s thoughts are interrupted when he sees Ariel and Flounder swimming off elsewhere, prompting him to follow her. He is led to a hidden grotto where he discovers a variety of human objects gathered together.
Still hurt by her father’s words and not trusting him, Ariel talks about her collection of human objects, and how she desires to visit the world of humans, despite what her father had to say of them. The mood is quickly broken by Sebastian crashing in, and threatening to reveal Ariel’s grotto to the king. Ariel attempts to reason with him, but before anything could be resolved in the conflict, a large object is seen floating overhead blocking moonlight from the grotto roof. Ariel, being ever curious, swims to the surface to figure out what this massive object was. The object proves to be a human ship, shooting fireworks into the night sky. Ariel swims towards the vessel, in spite of Sebastian’s protests, and climbs aboard to behold dancing seamen. Ariel learns that the humans aboard are celebrating the birthday of their prince; one creature that catches her eye is Max, the sheepdog who takes a liking to Ariel. But Ariel is left enamored when she sees the dog’s master, Prince Eric, who receives a large, gaudy statue of himself as a birthday present, from Grimsby, who sourly proclaims that he hoped it would be a wedding present. Eric protests that he just has not found the right girl yet, but insists that when he does it will hit him, like lightning. It was then that the sounds of thunder echoed in the distance, followed by an ever-growing gust of wind.
Without warning, a hurricane blows in, sweeping up both ship and crew violently in a volley of wind and water. The crew rushes to batten the hatches down, but to no avail. Ariel is thrown off the vessel but manages to catch sight of the ship being struck by lightning, setting it on fire. When the ship crashes into a gaggle of rocks, the crew is sent overboard, along with the statue of Eric. Though they all abandon ship and make it to the lifeboats, Eric discovers that Max is still on the burning vessel and goes off to rescue him. Unfortunately, while Eric manages to get Max to safety, he cannot save himself when he gets blown away by a massive explosion caused by the onboard gunpowder and lands into the ocean below underwater. While she witnesses this and rushes towards his aid, Ariel rescues Eric and takes him back to shore.
Once at the shore, Ariel talks of her desire to join Eric’s world before fleeing at the sounds of Grimsby and Max approaching. While Ariel sings, Eric only manages to catch a glimpse of her before she leaves; but as Grimsby raises him up, Eric vividly remembers a girl who had saved him and is determined to find her. As Ariel watches them from a nearby rock, Sebastian tells her that the situation must be kept secret from her father, but Ariel does not pay attention. Instead, with vigor and determination, Ariel makes a bold proclamation that she will be a part of Eric’s world.
However, what Ariel does not realize is that she’s being watched by Ursula’s eels. Ursula is gleeful of the situation and eerily looks to a gaggle of polyps in her lair, all former dreamers who came to her power. She then mutters about Ariel becoming a charming addition to the group.
A few days later, Ariel spends her time daydreaming of Eric, which piques the curiosity of her father and her sisters, who believe Ariel to be in love with another merman. All the while, Sebastian is a nervous wreck trying to keep the secret from being found out. Ariel then decides that she wants to visit Eric, but Sebastian is having none of that. He attempts to bring her down to earth by talking about how the sea is better than the land. But while he’s distracted, Ariel slips off nowhere to be seen, and Sebastian is left alone to grumble about her. Suddenly, the royal herald calls for Sebastian to report to the King about Ariel. Sebastian, afraid that Triton figured out what has happened, accidentally slips the truth during the meeting and is forced to tell the King everything, much to his fury. Back at Ariel’s grotto, Flounder reveals that he had saved the statue of Eric from the wreck, much to Ariel’s delight. However, the pleasantries are cut short when Triton arrives at the grotto with Sebastian behind. After a short argument, Ariel confronts Triton and tells him that she rescued Eric from drowning to death, and she loves him. Horrified by her words, the enraged Triton confronts Ariel and blasts all the secret treasures in her grotto and reduces them to a junk pile with his trident. When Triton even blasts the statue of Eric into pieces, Ariel breaks down and begins sobbing. After a now remorseful Triton leaves, feeling extremely regretful, ashamed and guilty over what he had done, a weeping Ariel tells Sebastian and Flounder to leave her alone to grieve, not allowing them to comfort her.
However, unbeknownst to her, Flotsam and Jetsam enter the grotto and sweet talk Ariel into going to Ursula to achieve her dreams of being with Eric. Not trusting Triton, Ariel accepts with an escort from Flotsam and Jetsam who send her to Ursula. As they leave, Sebastian tries to warn Ariel about Ursula, but she doesn’t want to hear it as she is still angry with him for telling her father. Flounder and Sebastian follow after Ariel all the way to Ursula’s lair. Ursula comforts Ariel and explains that she can grant Ariel’s wish to be human for a week, but she must marry Eric before the sunset on the seventh day, or she belongs to Ursula. Flotsam and Jetsam interrupt Flounder and Sebastian attempting to stop Ariel. In exchange for legs, though, she must give away her voice. Ariel agrees to these terms and signs the contract, trapping her voice in a necklace Ursula wears, and giving her human legs.
Once Ariel has been transformed into a human, Sebastian and Flounder escape Flotsam and Jetsam’s grasps and help take her to the surface as Ariel can no longer breathe underwater. After making it to shore the group meets up with Scuttle on a beach near Eric’s castle. Sebastian threatens to tell King Triton about the deal Ariel made with Ursula, but Ariel manages to convince him to help the group as she loves Eric and she would be miserable if she went home. Scuttle then tells Ariel about how to blend in with humans, and the first step is to dress like them. Next, Scuttle takes a portion of a sail and some rope for Ariel to wear, just as Prince Eric arrives at their location. Though Eric does not know she’s the girl who saved his life, he is willing to bring her to his castle to be taken care of, with Sebastian tagging along in a pocket in Ariel’s sailcloth.
Later, inside the palace, Eric spies on Ariel as she undresses and bathes. After she gets out of the bath, Ariel meets with Eric and Grimsby in the dining hall for dinner, where the two men discuss giving Ariel a tour of the kingdom, to which she agrees. Later that night, Ariel watches Eric play with his dog Max and goes off to bed. Sebastian discusses plans to get Eric to kiss Ariel, though Ariel does not listen, being too enamored in the human world’s splendors. Finally, after Ariel falls asleep, Sebastian tells her she is “completely hopeless” and drifts off.
Back in King Triton’s palace, the situation is grim. King Triton has sent several search parties looking everywhere for Ariel and Sebastian, but not a single trace of either one has been found anywhere. Triton tells his squire (a seahorse) to keep looking and not rest until they’re found. Triton is left in grave remorse over his actions, blaming himself for Ariel’s disappearance.
The next morning, Ariel and Eric begin their tour of the kingdom, starting with the nearby town. Ariel is enamored by every single thing she sees, whether it’s puppets, horses, or dancing. The day passes into the evening when Eric takes Ariel on a lagoon cruise. Sebastian, seeing this as the perfect moment, decides to take matters into his own hands, and plays a song to motivate the two into making love. It works as Eric takes Ariel to his bedroom where they have sex.
Frustrated with the progress Ariel’s making, Ursula decides to take matters into her own tentacles and transforms herself into a sexy young maiden named Vanessa. She then uses Ariel’s voice to hypnotize and seduce Eric into having sex with her before he could announce his true feelings to Ariel. The next morning, Eric and Ursula as Vanessa are announced to be wed by sunset, leaving poor Ariel heartbroken as the wedding ship departs from a port. Ariel and her friends are left behind while Ursula convincingly plays her role as Vanessa the love-struck woman, constantly clinging to Eric’s side, raising no suspicion. While Ariel witnesses the ship sailing off, she begins sobbing over Eric’s loss.
Little does anyone know, Scuttle happens to fly over the wedding ship when he hears Ariel’s voice coming from the bride’s dressing room. He spies from a porthole, and once Ursula as Vanessa takes a look at the dressing room’s mirror, her true reflection is shown. Realizing that Vanessa is really Ursula in disguise, Scuttle flies off to inform Ariel and the group about Ursula and her plot. The group has to think fast as the sun is setting, so they come up with a plan: Ariel and Flounder go after the wedding ship on a barrel and Sebastian goes to tell King Triton what’s happening, while Scuttle goes off to stall the wedding.
Scuttle gathers lagoon and sea critters of all sorts (including bluebirds, flamingos, pelicans, lobsters, starfish, dolphins, and seals) to converge on the wedding ship as the wedding is just underway. There is a little warning for Ursula when the attack begins, and the ship is sent into disarray, giving Ariel the time she needs to get aboard. Moreover, Ursula is utterly flustered, disoriented, and sidelined from being able to do anything. Thanks to the help of Max, Scuttle manages to snap the necklace off Ursula’s neck, shattering it across the deck, returning Ariel’s voice back to her, and releasing Eric from the spell. Eric finds Ariel and admits she’s the one who saved him, but Ursula warns Eric to leave Ariel alone before realizing that she has her own voice again after her shell broke. But before the two can kiss, the sun sets, and Ariel turns back into a mermaid. Ursula transforms back to her true self, grabs Ariel and jumps back into the sea with her.
It is not long before Ursula has Ariel to herself and thinks of her next move and runs into Triton and Sebastian, and a conflict occurs. Triton confronts Ursula and demands her to release Ariel, but to no avail. Ursula counters by insisting that Ariel is her slave. After Triton hears Ariel apologizing to him, he attempts to destroy the contract she signed, binding her to Ursula, but finds that he is unable to due to being magically enhanced by being legal. So, Triton spares Ariel by signing the contract and becoming a polyp in her place as a prisoner to Ursula.
Meanwhile, Eric takes a rowboat from the wedding ship heading to Ariel’s location to help his endangered love. Ursula claims Triton’s crown and trident and becomes queen of the sea, which angers Ariel to the point of attacking her. Ariel confronts Ursula and abuses her. When Ursula attempts to use the trident to sabotage Ariel, Eric dives into the ocean below underwater and strikes Ursula in the arm with a harpoon. Ariel reminds Eric to look out while Ursula commands Flotsam and Jetsam to drown him. Eric struggles to swim to shore and attempts to pull himself onto a boat, but is pulled down by Flotsam and Jetsam. Witnessing the commotion and to save Eric by coming to his aid, Flounder and Sebastian attack Flotsam and Jetsam.
Amid the chaos, Ursula attempts to use the trident to destroy Eric, but a furious Ariel intervenes and stops Ursula by pulling on her hair, causing her to miss Eric and vaporize Flotsam and Jetsam instead, reducing them to ashes. Ursula mourns their loss before vengefully turning to the ones responsible. As Ariel hurries to join Eric, the enraged Ursula spouts black ink and begins to enlarge herself. Ariel attempts to tell Eric to save himself, but he refuses to abandon her, just as Ursula’s gigantic form about the size of a kraken emerges, leaving Eric and Ariel helpless to her power. During her rampage, Ursula creates a whirlpool, raising shipwrecks from the ocean floor. Eric pulls himself into the ship with a splintered bowsprit. Saving herself from Ursula who attempts to sabotage her, Ariel avoids the trident’s blasts and begins to escape.
Just as Ursula prepares to destroy Ariel with the trident’s blasts, Eric saves Ariel and kills Ursula by ramming a splintered bowsprit towards the evil witch’s abdomen. Ursula dies by blowing up into a scattered mass of organs. While Ariel is safe from harm, Eric makes it to the shore and passes out on the beach. After Ursula is murdered and her remains sink to the ocean floor, her curse is lifted from the merfolk in her garden, as well as King Triton, and peace is once again restored to the ocean now that Triton has regained his crown, trident, and kingdom as a whole.
Back on the surface, Triton observes Ariel looking at Eric and realizes she really does love him. After talking with Sebastian, Triton decides that he has to let Ariel be free to lead her own life and tells Sebastian that he will miss her. He then transforms her once more into a human – this time permanently. Triton sends Ariel to Eric to be together again. Eric asks Ariel to marry him, to which she agrees, they kiss, and the two are immediately wed shortly after. At this ceremony, after Ariel and Eric are married onboard the wedding ship, Ariel bids her friends and family, including her six older sisters, her father Triton, Sebastian, Flounder, and Scuttle, farewell to live her new life in Eric’s surface world of humans. But not after Sebastian is chased by Chef Louis once again in an attempt to cook him, but easily outsmarts him. The story ends with Eric entering his room, finding Ariel in bed wearing only her lingerie. He gets in bed with her and they have sex.
The salty tang of the sea hung heavy in the air, a thick fog blanketing the vast expanse. A ship, its sails billowing in the wind, emerged from the mist, its crewmen singing boisterous shanties of legendary merfolk. Onboard, young Prince Eric, his loyal dog Max at his heels, listened with rapt attention. His advisor, Grimsby, scoffed, dismissing the tales as “nautical nonsense,” but a weathered sailor, his eyes twinkling with a knowing glint, insisted on their truth.
Lost in their banter, Grimsby fumbled with a fish he held, letting it slip back into the churning ocean. The fish, its silvery scales flashing, breathed a sigh of relief and swam away, deeper into the inky blue.
The fish, unaware of its encounter with the human world, navigated the depths until it reached a breathtaking sight – a shimmering underwater kingdom called Atlantica. The magnificent castle, a beacon of light and wonder, was the domain of King Triton, a stern and powerful ruler. Inside, the castle was alive with music and laughter. Triton’s seven daughters, adorned in shimmering shells and shimmering scales, performed a captivating concert, accompanied by the lively tunes of the crab court composer, Sebastian.
The concert was in full swing when a hush fell over the crowd. King Triton’s youngest and most beautiful daughter, Ariel, was missing. Furious, Triton demanded an explanation. It turned out Ariel was exploring a shipwreck graveyard with her best friend, Flounder, a timid but loyal fish. In the wreckage, she found a peculiar pipe and fork, their metallic gleam captivating her. Unbeknownst to her, a menacing shark lurked nearby, its shadowed form watching them from the darkness.
With a horrifying roar, the shark burst into the chamber, sending Ariel and Flounder scrambling for safety. A frantic chase ensued through the graveyard, a tangled maze of broken ships and forgotten treasures. Finally, they managed to trap the shark in an anchor ring, escaping with their lives.
Panting, they reached the surface, where Scuttle, a chatty seagull, greeted them with his usual enthusiasm. Ariel, eager to know the purpose of the objects she had found, bombarded Scuttle with questions. He, in his own unique fashion, declared the fork a “dinglehopper” used for styling hair, and the pipe a “snarfblatt” used for making music.
The mention of “music” triggered a pang of guilt in Ariel’s heart. She had missed her father’s concert, a blatant disregard of his rules. With a renewed sense of urgency, she turned back towards home, unaware of two shadowy eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, trailing behind her. They were Ursula’s spies, the banished Sea Witch who harbored a bitter hatred for King Triton. Ursula, driven by her thirst for revenge, had seen Ariel and saw an opportunity to exploit her.
Back at the royal palace, a tense meeting ensued. King Triton and Sebastian berated Ariel for missing the concert. Flounder, eager to defend his friend, accidentally revealed Ariel’s encounter with Scuttle. This sparked Triton’s ire, for his kingdom strictly prohibited contact with the surface world. Ariel, however, was convinced that humans weren’t all bad, sparking a heated argument with her father. He, in a fit of anger, declared that as long as she lived under his ocean, she would obey his rules. His words echoed in Ariel’s ears as she fled, tears streaming down her face.
Flounder, loyal to his friend, trailed after her. Meanwhile, Triton, unsure of his actions, asked Sebastian if he had been too harsh. Sebastian, however, insisted he had been right. He suggested that Ariel needed constant supervision, an idea that quickly gained Triton’s approval.
Sebastian, though reluctant to “tag along some headstrong teenager,” reluctantly accepted. However, his thoughts were interrupted when he spotted Ariel and Flounder swimming away. Curiosity piqued, he followed them to a hidden grotto, a haven for Ariel’s collection of human treasures.
Ariel, still hurt by her father’s words, poured her heart out to Flounder. She yearned to explore the human world, a longing that her father’s stern pronouncements could not suppress. Sebastian, hiding nearby, overheard their conversation. He knew he had to report this to the King, but he was torn.
Their conversation was abruptly interrupted by a large object blocking the moonlight. Ariel, ever curious, swam to the surface, where she found a human ship, its deck ablaze with fireworks. Enthralled by the sight, she climbed aboard, drawn to the lively music and the dancing sailors. Among them was Prince Eric, a charming and kind man who had just received a large statue of himself as a birthday present.
As fate would have it, a violent hurricane struck the ship. Ariel was thrown into the water, but she managed to see the ship struck by lightning, flames engulfing its wooden frame. As the ship crashed against rocks, the crew scrambled to safety. Eric, however, found himself trapped as the ship exploded.
Seeing Eric fall into the water, Ariel rushed to his aid. She saved him and brought him to shore, his unconscious form lying on the sand.
Drawn to his beauty and kindness, Ariel confessed her longing to join his world before fleeing at the sound of Grimsby and Max approaching. As Grimsby roused Eric, he caught a glimpse of Ariel and was instantly smitten, vowing to find the girl who had saved him.
Watching them from a distance, Sebastian warned Ariel that her secret had to remain hidden from her father, but his words fell on deaf ears. Ariel, filled with newfound determination, declared that she would find a way to be part of Eric’s world.
Back at Ursula’s lair, her eels reported on Ariel’s actions. Ursula, a cruel and cunning creature, saw this as a golden opportunity. She murmured to her polyps, former dreamers who had fallen prey to her power, that Ariel would make a charming addition to their ranks.
Days turned into weeks, and Ariel found herself consumed by thoughts of Eric. Her father, noticing her melancholy, assumed she was in love with another merman. Ariel, unable to contain her longing, decided to visit Eric. Sebastian, however, was resolute in stopping her. He tried to convince her of the wonders of the sea, but his efforts were in vain. Ariel slipped away unnoticed, leaving Sebastian to fret about her disobedience.
Just then, the royal herald arrived, summoning Sebastian to the King. Fearing that Triton had discovered Ariel’s secret, Sebastian panicked, spilling the truth in a moment of desperation. Triton, enraged by Ariel’s defiance, stormed off, leaving Sebastian to face the consequences.
Meanwhile, Ariel discovered that Flounder had saved the statue of Eric from the wreck. However, their joy was short-lived, for Triton arrived, his face grim. He confronted Ariel, demanding an explanation for her actions. Ariel, emboldened by her love for Eric, revealed that she had saved him from drowning. Horrified by her words, Triton unleashed his fury, destroying all the treasures in her grotto. He shattered the statue of Eric, leaving Ariel heartbroken and in tears.
Triton, consumed by guilt and remorse, left, leaving Ariel to grieve in the shattered remains of her dreams. Just then, Flotsam and Jetsam entered the grotto. They skillfully manipulated Ariel’s anger towards her father, convincing her that Ursula could grant her wish to be with Eric.
Ariel, distrustful of her father and desperate for a way to be with Eric, accepted their offer. Sebastian and Flounder, witnessing this betrayal, tried to warn her about Ursula, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. They followed Ariel to Ursula’s lair, their hearts heavy with dread.
Ursula, with a cunning smile, offered Ariel a deal. She could become human for a week, but she had to marry Eric before sunset on the seventh day. If she failed, she would belong to Ursula. In exchange, she had to give up her voice, her very essence. Ariel, driven by her love for Eric, agreed.
Ursula, with a wicked gleam in her eye, trapped Ariel’s voice in a necklace and transformed her into a human. Sebastian and Flounder, escaping the clutches of Ursula’s eels, helped Ariel reach the surface. They met up with Scuttle on the shore near Eric’s castle. Sebastian, determined to tell King Triton of Ariel’s predicament, was convinced by Ariel to help her.
Scuttle, ever helpful, instructed Ariel on blending into human society, starting with clothing. He draped a piece of sailcloth and rope around her, just as Prince Eric arrived.
Eric, though unaware of her true identity, took Ariel back to his castle, Sebastian tucked away in the folds of the sailcloth.
As days turned into nights, Ariel watched Eric, her heart filled with a longing she couldn’t deny. Sebastian, eager to bring them together, devised a plan. He played a romantic tune, creating an atmosphere of love and desire. Eric, swayed by the music and his own feelings, took Ariel to his bedroom, where they shared an intimate moment.
Ursula, impatient with the slow progress, decided to take matters into her own tentacles. She transformed herself into a beautiful maiden named Vanessa, using Ariel’s stolen voice to hypnotize Eric.
The next morning, Eric and Vanessa, unaware of her true identity, were announced to be wed by sunset. Ariel, heartbroken and devastated, watched the wedding ship sail away.
Scuttle, flying overhead, overheard Ariel’s voice coming from the bride’s room. He peered through a porthole and saw Ursula in her true form, revealing her deceit. He flew back to the shore, informing Ariel and the group of Ursula’s treachery.
With time running out, they devised a plan. Ariel and Flounder would chase the wedding ship on a barrel, Sebastian would inform King Triton, and Scuttle would create a diversion.
Scuttle, rallying the sea creatures, launched an attack on the wedding ship. Amidst the chaos, Ariel managed to board the ship, thanks to Max’s help. Ursula, caught off guard, was unable to stop Ariel. Scuttle, seizing the opportunity, broke the necklace, returning Ariel’s voice and freeing Eric from the spell.
Eric, recognizing Ariel as his rescuer, confessed his love, but Ursula intervened, threatening him before realizing that Ariel had her voice back. As they were about to embrace, the sun dipped below the horizon, transforming Ariel back into a mermaid. Ursula, reverting to her true form, grabbed Ariel and plunged back into the ocean.
Ursula, now in possession of Ariel, confronted Triton and Sebastian. Triton, demanding Ariel’s release, was met with Ursula’s defiance. She insisted that Ariel was her slave. Ariel, filled with remorse for her actions, apologized to her father. Triton, determined to save his daughter, signed the contract, becoming a polyp in her place.
Meanwhile, Eric, determined to rescue Ariel, took a rowboat towards her location. Ursula, now in possession of Triton’s crown and trident, declared herself Queen of the Sea. Ariel, enraged by her father’s imprisonment, attacked Ursula. Eric, diving into the water, struck Ursula with a harpoon. Ursula, furious, ordered Flotsam and Jetsam to drown Eric.
Flounder and Sebastian, seeing Eric’s struggle, attacked the eels. Ursula, attempting to use the trident to kill Eric, was thwarted by Ariel. She pulled Ursula’s hair, causing her to miss and vaporize the eels. Ursula, consumed by grief and anger, unleashed her fury. She transformed into a giant kraken, creating a whirlpool that raised shipwrecks from the ocean floor. Eric, clinging to a splintered bowsprit, was caught in the vortex.
Ariel, narrowly escaping Ursula’s attacks, joined Eric in the ship. As Ursula prepared to destroy Ariel with the trident, Eric, in a heroic act of self-sacrifice, rammed a splintered bowsprit into Ursula’s abdomen. Ursula, with a scream of anguish, exploded into a mass of organs.
Her death lifted the curse from the merfolk and freed Triton from his imprisonment. Triton, observing Ariel’s love for Eric, realized that he had to let her go. He transformed her permanently into a human, sending her to Eric.
Eric, overwhelmed with joy, proposed to Ariel, and they were married on the wedding ship. Ariel, bidding farewell to her family and friends, began her new life in the human world.
The story ended with Eric joining Ariel in bed, their love a testament to the power of courage, sacrifice, and the unyielding bonds of family and friendship.
