The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning Page #5

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- [Benjamin] I said no.

Look, I haven't worked my tail off

for the last 12 hours

- just to have it snatched away.

- How about a nice relaxing bath?

- Benjamin.

- Kelp wrap? Lomi lomi rub?

Give me the key!

You said never give it to you

in a fit of rage!

- I'm perfectly calm!

- Doesn't sound it.

- Give! Give!

- Oh!

- Mm-mmm.

- Give!

- Oh, look at the pretty fishies.

- Really? Where?

- Oh!

- [laughs]

Ooh, yum-yums!

Come to Mommy.

- [electrical sizzling]

- [chortling]

[speaking in baby talk]

Oh, yes. Mommy wuvs you.

OK, I'm not gonna watch this part.

[shuddering]

My, my, are you hungry? Ooh...

- Who wants crab cakes?

- What are you going to do?

Whatever it takes

to get rid of Sebastian!

- But what about Ariel?

- Ariel? Ariel?

You're right. She'll tattle.

- I'll have to get rid of her, too.

- What?

- That's brilliant, Benjamin, brilliant!

- OK, that wasn't what I meant.

I never liked her anyway.

I'll make it look like an accident.

That's it! An accidental

underwater ambush

by a team of the cutest

wittle yum-yums ever.

- You've lost your mind.

- Sic 'em, boys!

Ooh, what hath we wrought?

Oh, swim, you pretties.

Swim, you pretties. Faster! Swim.

- [all growling]

- Wait up!

[melodious tinkling echoing]

[Sebastian snoring]

- Sebastian.

- Five more minutes, Mommy.

Sebastian, did you hear that?

Leave me alone. Sleeping.

But there's something out there.

Come on, help me find it.

I'm tired. You go check it out.

[melodious tinkling echoing]

[gasps]

[chuckles]

[Athena's Song plays]

[Sebastian] It was an

anniversary present.

Your father had the music box

made for your mother.

Athena was more than his queen,

you know.

She was his best friend.

[Ariel] The family together.

Music playing all the time.

[Sebastian] The palace

always echoing with laughter.

[all laughing]

When your mother died,

the whole kingdom was heartbroken.

The heart that never healed

was your father's.

It's so sad.

He's forgotten

what it feels like to be happy.

I... I have to bring this back to him.

If you insist.

This is why we came here, isn't it?

Whoa, whoa, let me get this straight.

You led us out here...

To the armpit of nowhere, man.

In the hope that Red

might find the music box.

And now you wanna go back

to the palace...

- To return the music box to the king...

- On the chance that maybe it'll...

Remind him to remember

how to be happy...

And then he'll bring music back?

That about sums it up.

Couldn't we just strap it to a dolphin?

He'd get it eventually.

[all whispering]

Listen, the band talked it over, and...

We just can't take that chance.

- What?

- Huh?

It's OK. Maybe someday

it'll be different.

You'll come home

and play music all you want.

Sure, Red. Someday.

- Someday.

- Bye.

What? No, no, wait. Ray-Ray!

Guys! We can't just let them

go back alone.

- Drop it, small fry.

- But we took an oath!

To jump, jive, wail, groove,

rock steady, and at all times

lend a helping hand

to your fellow music lovers!

The Catfish Club is history.

That oath don't mean a thing.

Well, it still means something to me.

Hey, Ariel! Wait up! Ariel!

I don't remember this much kelp

when we came through here last night.

Oh!

Kelp, schmelp. I ain't afraid

of these overgrown weeds.

Hi-yah!

Take that! And that!

[yelling in slow-motion]

[thumps]

[thumps]

Guys? That ain't kelp!

[all hissing]

- Surprise!

- Marina?

- What are you wearing?

- I thought I'd dress for the occasion.

What's the occasion?

- [screams] Go, go, go, go!

- Sic 'em, boys.

- [cackling]

- [growling]

Keep going!

- [yelping]

- [chortling]

- [screams] Ah!

- Ow!

That... hurt.

[Ariel pants] This way. Quick!

Where's Sebastian?

- [hissing]

- [gasping]

[hiccups]

[yells]

[shouting]

I've tasted power, Sebastian.

- And I'm never letting go.

- Bring it on!

[grunting]

Come to daddy.

[growling]

- [squeaks]

- Hi-yah! Hi-yah! Hi-yah!

- [moaning]

- [grunting]

- Oh, my! [chuckling]

- [Marina grunts]

- [whimpering]

- [grunting]

- Now!

- Huh?

- Fire!

- [yelling]

Yeah! Awesome!

- Ooh, they hurtin' for certain.

- Yup, yup, yup.

- Sebastian's in trouble!

- Follow me!

- Let's go.

- Right in your wake, kid.

[yelping]

- The music box!

- Ariel!

Huh?

[gasping, shuddering]

How do you like that?

Oops. [screaming]

Flounder!

- [Sebastian] Come on, try and get me.

- Get back here!

- [chomping sounds]

- Ow!

# Boom, chika, boom

Chika, boom, boom, boom! #

[grunting]

- [thudding]

- [moaning]

Tight fit?

You... stink.

[rolling downhill]

- I win.

- [screaming]

- Flounder!

- Sebastian! Help!

I got the tail.

- Hey! Flounder at twelve o'clock!

- 12:
04, actually.

- Flounder.

- Whoa!

- Do the corkscrew!

- [male] Break out all the utensils.

- [Flounder shouting]

- Whoa, whoa!

- Who the fish?

- [Ink Spot] That's it.

Go, Flounder! Go, go!

[yelps]

[all cheering]

You slippery eel!

Yeah, mon, just like we planned it.

Way to go, Flounder, you did it!

- We did it, mon.

- We sure did.

- Solid.

- [Ariel] Come on. Let's go!

- [gasps] Sebastian!

- Look out!

Ariel! No!

- [Athena's Song plays]

- What have I done?

# Endless sky

# Waves try to measure

# The days that we treasure

Daddy?

I'm... I'm so sorry I didn't listen.

- I'm sorry.

- Daddy.

- Let's go home.

- [all sigh]

- Guys, you came back.

- Sure did, small fry.

Like you said, we took an oath.

Come here, you little knucklehead.

- Group hug!

- We dig you, man.

Guys... can't breathe.

Mmm.

[Sebastian] So, Ariel came back home

and life went on

just the same as before.

Well, things weren't exactly the same.

Rise and shine.

It's a beautiful day.

- Daddy!

- Daddy!

[chuckling]

[clears throat]

To my daughters,

and to all the citizens of Atlantica,

I hereby decree that music

will once again ring clear

from one end of my kingdom

to the other!

[all cheering]

Therefore, I hereby present

Atlantica's first

official Court Composer.

- [male] Yeah, yeah!

- [Flounder] Fabulous!

[indistinct chattering]

Thank you, Your Highness.

Uh, not that we don't trust you,

Your Majesty, but...

Swifty, hit it, mon.

[clears throat] Raise your right hand,

fin, claw, tentacle,

or whatever the case may be.

Very good. Do you promise

to jump, jive, wail, groove,

and at all times lend a helping hand

to your fellow music lovers?

- Um... I do?

- [all cheering]

[# Jeannette Bayardelle: I Will Sing]

Thank you, Ariel.

Yoo-hoo!

# My love is higher than the sky

# Deeper than the ocean

Warmer than the sun

- [whistles]

- # Shining down on me

# Quiet as a prayer

- A girl in the band?

- That's right.

- [trills]

- # All my love

# I will sing

Of joy and glory

# I will sing

The look in your eyes

# I will sing

# Till all the world knows your story

# I will sing

For the rest of my life

[melodious tinkling]

Daddy, how about a dance?

I wouldn't miss it for the world.

Whoo! [chuckles] Conga!

# For the rest of my life

[Sebastian] So that's how

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