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.
