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Thank you for joining us on our magical adventure! Brought to you by @egdramaqueen,@asklilyluna, and @askjamessirius, featuring the members of the Harry Potter Gif Roleplay community.
As Ella descended the stairs, her heart raced as her mind did. Would who she was, who she really was, be enough? There was no magic to help her this time. This is perhaps the greatest risk that any of us will take. To be seen as we truly are.
“Please?” He extended the shoe toward her.
And Ella slipped her foot into the slipper. A perfect fit.
They stepped out into the foyer to see Lady Tremaine descending the stairs.
And she and Kit left the house together.
Forgiven or not, Cinderella’s stepmother and her daughters would soon leave with the Grand Duke, and never set foot in the kingdom again.
Scuttle flew back to Ariel and informed her of the dastardly deed Ursula had done. Ariel dove into the ocean after the ship, swimming as fast as she could without her powerful tail, Sebastian swam for the sea queen’s help, and Scuttle and Flounder gathered every creature they could to stall the wedding.
Max growled at her.
Max whimpered and retreated.
Vanessa reached the end of the aisle to a bewitched Eric, and the ceremony began. SQUAWK!
Suddenly, a flock of gulls and pelicans descended on the woman, picking at her hair, tugging at her dress and veil, and the ceremony descended into chaos as sea creatures flopped onto the deck, all attacking the bride.
Just then, Ariel reached the hull of the ship and began to climb.
Scuttle went in for the final attack on the bride.
Scuttle yanked.The shell necklace crashed to the deck, shattering, and the light within it floated toward Ariel.
But it was too late… the sun had reached the horizon. The third sunset had come.
Ursula dragged Ariel down into the depths, leaving Eric horrorstruck.
—
Triton blasted the contract, but to no avail.
And so, Triton took the place of her youngest daughter, the crown falling from her head, the trident falling from fingers, as she withered into one of Ursula’s seaweed creatures.
“At last, it’s miiiiine… .”
Ursula cries out in pain as a harpoon strikes her. She whips around to see Eric, having thrown it at her.
Flotsam and Jetsam easily capture the prince, holding him under water as Ursula aims the trident at him.
And Ursula’s blast instead hit the eels.
“N o ! ! !”
Ariel quickly swam Eric back to the ship and to air and urged him to get back to shore, but he refused. Suddenly, the entire sea around them began to roll and tumble fearfully as a massive Ursula emerged from the depths, now the size of a Kraken.
The waves rolled and circled around her, creating a maelstrom and flinging Ariel and Eric to the depths.
The maelstrom surged around them, dragging shipwrecks from the depths of the sea, jagged and broken circling around the Sea Witch. Ursula aimed her trident at them.
Ursula was suddenly skewered by the bow of a wrecked ship, the momentum from the maelstrom of her own making propelling it through her.
And the Sea Witch was no more, her desire for power becoming her own undoing. And the sea became still at its surface once more.
Meanwhile, beneath the sea, in Ursula’s cavern, the withered souls returned to their original state, and Queen Triton took up her crown and trident once again. But her heart ached, for she saw how heartbroken her daughter was to be separated from the Prince and the land.
—
Eric had refused to move from the shore since he had washed up there, determined to wait for the love of his life, without knowing whether he would ever be able to see her again.
Triton summoned the magic of her trident and the current began to twist around Ariel.
The name echoed through the darkness, startling the princess.
“Anastasia…” the name echoes again, this time louder and closer, startling her.
Anya emerged from the hedge maze far away from the palace.
The ground shook around them with a deafening echo, and Anya gasped as the memory flooded back to her.
Green demons began to pour from the reliquary, attacking Anya and pulling at her gown and hair.
Bartok flew away into the night and Anya cried out,
The bridge around Anya began to crumble, pieces cascading into the river below.
“How enchanting…” Rasputin taunted. “Together again - for the last time! You’ll get a kick out of THIS.”
The demons sprang forth, seized Dmitri and flew him to a fifty-foot tall sculpture of a flying horse. The statues eyes suddenly glowed green and took off, attacking him.
Rasputin sprang from the swirling depths and seized Anya’s wrist, forcing her to the stone’s edge.
Anya tumbled off the edge of the bridge.
"Right!!” Anya’s voice rang out as she pulled herself back over the collapsing stones.
Anya tackled Rasputin to the stone floor, the reliquary skidding out from Rasputin’s hand. Next thing, it was under her foot.
CRACK! The Green contents of the reliquary suddenly glowed red, cracks ran all along the living horse statue and it exploded, shrapnel knocking Dmitri off his feet.
Resolute, Anya turned to face Rasputin.
CRACK!
The Reliquary exploded, sending Anya and Rasputin flying backwards in opposite directions. The demons, now free of their bondage descended on Rasputin… and he was no more.
A moment later, Anya was at Dmitri’s side, checking for signs of life. “Dmitri?” she asked.
But no response came.
Suddenly she heard movement and a groan from behind her.
She turned sharply, smacking him in the face by mistake.
Seeing him alive, she threw her arms around him.
The sound of Metal against stone distracted them both, breaking the moment. Dmitri looked down to see what he had bumped to discover Anya’s fallen tiara.
Jane walks up the lane to the family home, carrying rally flyers; Jack is dousing the street-lamp in front of her house.
Mary Poppins appears at the nursery window above.
Mary Poppins: Good morning, Jane. I see you’ve bumped into Jack. The children and I are heading into town to get something fixed. Would you like to come with us?
Mary Poppins: That’s right. You ought to give Jack one of those flyers.
The door swings open at the witch’s touch, revealing, not the workshop, but a dark candle lit room. A cauldron the size of a bathtub sat in the middle.
SQUAWK. “Easy on the eyes. Tight pants. Fantastic.”
The Witch shows Merida an iron coin bearing the symbol of two crossed axes.
The Witch begins tossing strange herbs, objects, and things into the cauldron, and brews up a potion.
The witch fishes out a tart from the potion.
The Witch ushered Merida to the door, her spelled cake in hand.
As Merida turns to face the witch, she finds that both she and her cabin have disappeared and she is suddenly back in the circle of stones.
—
And so Merida returns to the castle, and prepares a tea tray for her mother and places the tart on the tray.
“What’s this?”
Elinor: *takes a drink and gargles it to get rid of the taste* Oh that’s better. Now, why don’t we go upstairs to the lords and put this whole kerfuffle to rest? *takes Merida’s arm and leads her out to the lords*
Elinor: *swoons a bit* Oh!
Elinor begins to swoon and Merida catches her.
Merida takes her upstairs, to her bed, and begins tucking her mother in.
Merida hears a growling noise from where Elinor rolled of down the bed
She walks round to see if her mother is alright, she sees a giant shape rise from the floor and as it turns we see Elinor has transformed into a bear making Merida scream with terror.
A shattered glass heal sat on the desk between the Lady and the Captain of the Guard.
“No one need ever know the truth.”
—
The Captain comforted him, “Do not lose heart, Kit.”
“Iam king.”
The slipper traveled the length and breadth of the kingdom, visiting every maiden both high and low, and every sort in between. The Grand Duke was true to his word. He spared no effort to demonstrate to the prince that the mystery princess was not to be found. But whatever they tried, the magical slipper refused to fit even the most eligible of maidens. Meanwhile, the Captain grew distressed.
“We haven’t found the girl. I’m disappointed for our king.”
—
Ella did not know who was downstairs. Nor did she care. For surely no one had come to see her.
Though Ella was sad, her spirit was not broken.
She knew that the ball, and her time with the prince, would become beautiful, distant memories, like those of her father and mother, and her golden childhood.
Ella’s charming melody drifted through the open window to the Captain’s ears below. “Do you hear that, Your Grace?” he asked.
But the Captain was not ready, and stopped the door with his hand. “Just a moment. Madam, there is no other maiden in your house?”
“Then has your cat learned to sing?”
“But she’s lying, Your Grace,” the Captain insisted.
The Captain smirked in triumph, “It would be my pleasure, Your Majesty.”
“We’ll see about that. Miss. You are requested and required to present yourself to your king.”
“Who are you to stop an officer of the king? Are you an empress? A saint? A deity?”
Lady Tremaine looked as though she had been slapped. The Captain patiently said, “Come now, miss.” And Ella followed him down the stairs, her heart racing.
The next day, Eric took Ariel on a private tour of the kingdom as promised. Ariel couldn’t help but stare in wonder at everything, intrigued by the slightest detail. And in turn, Eric could not stop staring at her in wonder as she looked at the world, mesmerized by her curious spirit. He showed her every one of his favorite sights, his favorite places to go when he needed to be alone, and that evening, the most charming place he could think of… a nearby lagoon.
Ariel’s friends were never far away, more than ready to lend a helping hand.
“O.K. All right, this calls for a little vocal romantic stimulation.”
Under Sebastian’s careful direction, the creatures of the lagoon come together to create the most beautiful, inexplicable music. Eric, so distracted by the beautiful woman in front of him, did not register the oddities at play around him, but was filled with the desire to know more about the young lady
Eric laughed, “O.K., no. How ‘bout - Diana?”
Eric wasn’t sure where the name came from, but one came to him from somewhere,
And a smile broke across Ariel’s face and she nodded.
Sebastian’s music continued on behind the couple as they floated along, and Eric shared with Ariel the concerns he had about taking over his father’s crown.
“I just feel so trapped, he said, “I’ll bet you do, too. Not being able to say what you’re thinking.”
The two slowly came closer and closer together, when suddenly…
The boat flipped over, spilling them into the lagoon water.
Flotsom and Jetsom congratulated each, shaking tails, before descending into the depths, unseen by either of the pair…
—
Ursula’s magic took hold, transforming her appearance into that of a human, but instead of her low, brazen timbre, her laughter became light and melodic… the voice she’d taken from the young princess…
—–
Back at the castle, Eric sat on the wall of his castle, looking out over the sea…. Ariel had retired for the night, and he found himself thinking that perhaps this girl, the one who was right in front of him, warm and caring, was better than a girl who he may have imagined in his water-boggled haze, no matter how hauntingly beautiful her voice may have been…
But just as he’d decided this, he heard something…
A melody floating across the shore…
His eyes desperately searched for the source of the music, and in the distance he could see a figure making its way across the dunes. He strained his eyes to see her better, and in those moments his guard was let down and Ursula’s magic swept over him, warping his mind and entrancing him. This… this was the girl he’d been looking for. There was no doubt of it.
Ariel awoke the next morning to loud squawks from Scuttle, flying in the window and congratulating her on her engagement! The entire Kingdom was buzzing about the news! Prince Eric was to be married that very night. Ariel overjoyed, ran out into the hall, still in her night things.
Heartbroken, Ariel returned to her friends. That evening, she watched from the pier as the ship that carried the couple to their Happily Ever After set sail. Flounder and Sebastian stayed by her, trying to comfort her. But Scuttle… little though he knew about how humans really worked, could tell something was not right… he took flight behind the ship. As he flew about the portholes, he caught sight of the young lady to whom the prince was going to be married, but her meek and mild behavior was gone now.
Scuttle flew back to shore as fast as they could, crying out for Ariel…
