Chapter 10
Senor Chapi flew over the wedding ship and landed on to the window of the bride's dressing room. He watched as Zoe twirled around singing and gloating about her success.
"Getting that Prince to marry me was easier than I thought!" She laughed. "Only 45 minutes til sunset then I'll have that little mermaid and the ocean will be mine."
She gazed into a mirror but instead of reflecting the pretty Zoe there was Sartana. Horrified, Chapi flew to the shore as fast as he could until he found where Frida and her friends were.
"Frida!" He panted. "Frida! I...I...I was flying..and I saw...I saw the bride and she...she...she's Sartana!"
"What are you talking about?" Jorge asked.
"The prince is marrying the seawitch in disguise! She turned herself into a girl and put a spell on him!"
"Are you sure about this?" Davi asked.
"I saw it! And she was singing with Frida's voice!"
"Why that old snake! She's trying to cheat!" Jorge gasped.
Hearing this Frida jumped into the water, Davi helped keep her above water.
"Davi get her to that boat as fast as you can." Jorge said.
"I'll try."
"I need to see the sea king, he must know about this."
"What about me?" Chapi asked.
"Find away to stall that wedding."
"How?"
"I don't know but if that boy says I do Frida's sunk. So get flapping!" Jorge then headed down below the sea to find Emiliano.
Chapi after thinking for a minute got an idea. He gathered up all the sea animals and led them to the ship where the wedding had begun. The guest all bowed and curtsied as Zoe made her way down the aisle in a black wedding dress. Zebra donkey sniffed and growled at her, sensing she wasn't a good person. She sneered at him and kicked him but was careful not to let anyone see. She then took her place beside Manny as the minister began.
"Dearly beloved we are gathered her today to join this man and this woman together in holy matrimony." He said. "Do you Zoe take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband as long as you both shall live?"
"I do." She said grinning at the sun which was beginning to set.
"And do you Manny take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife as long as you both shall live?"
"I...I...I...I." Manny was resisting and his mind was starting to clear up a bit. "I...Wha..What am I doing?"
"Manny you were marrying me remember?" Zoe whispered rubbing her shell necklace to strengthen her spell on him.
"I....I was?" He said confused.
"Yes! Now say it!" She ordered. "Say it! Say I do!"
He looked at Zoe and tried to remember why he was marrying her only for Frida's face to fill his thoughts. His head hurt and he found it hard to think.
"I...I...I-"
Suddenly the air was filled with squawking and screeching as Chapi led group of animals to attack the bride. Crabs and lobsters pinched her, fish and dolphins spat in her face, and seagulls pulled her hair.
"Get away from me! You slimy little-" But she was silenced by a fish smacking her in the face with it's tail.
Frida, who finally made it to the ship, climbed up to the edge and onboard hoping she wasn't too late. Chapi swooped down and squawked right in Zoe's face.
"Oh why you little!"
She grabbed him by the throat and began strangling him. Zebra donkey ran up to Zoe and bit her on the butt distracting her long enough for Chapi to rip off her necklace. Zoe screamed, the purple shell broke at Frida's feet freeing her voice and Manny from the spell. All eyes were on her as the golden voice flew from the shell's shattered remains and into Frida's throat causing her to sing. Everyone was awestruck by her lovely song.
"Frida?" Manny asked surprised to hear her sing.
"Yes?" Frida said.
"You can talk? And that song, it's the same one I heard when I was saved." He hurried toward her. "You're the one."
"Manny get away from her!" Zoe screeched. But he ignored her.
"It was you all the time."
"Manny I wanted to tell you." Frida said.
He took her in his arms and leaned their lips toward each other but before they could kiss the sunset completely. Frida gasped as she felt her legs change back into a tail.
"You're too late!" Zoe cackled.
The sky darkened and lightning struck, the guests were horrified to watch as Zoe turned back into the hideous Sartana.
"It's the old sea witch!" A sailor gasped.
"I thought she was just a myth." Rodolfo said clutching his wife protectively.
"Who are you? And what do you want?" Manny demanded.
"She knows exactly what I want, don't you princess!" Sartana said pointing to Frida.
Frida tried to run but it was no use now that she was a mermaid again. Like a serpent, Sartana slithered toward her.
"Oh no you don't!" Sartana sized Frida by her arm. "The sun has set! You're coming with me!"
"Don't you touch her!" Manny demanded.
Sartana snatched Frida up and smacked him away with one of her giant tentacles.
"So long lover boy!"
Sartana then jumped into the sea dragging Frida with her.
"Let me go!" Frida cried struggling.
"You lost angelfish!"
You cheated!"
"Whoever said I had to play fair?"
Frida broke from Sartana's grip and tried to swim away but Django and Che grabbed her arms and restrained her.
"Relax princess it's not you I'm after." Sartana said. "But you play a big role in getting me what I really want!"
"Sartana stop!" Emiliano thundered.
"King Emiliano, how are you? Anything new?"
"Release my daughter!" He ordered.
"Not on your life! We made deal! I turn her into a human for a few days to win the prince's love and if she fails I get her soul."
"Daddy I'm sorry!" Frida said. "I didn't mean to!"
"It doesn't matter! She failed so she's mine now!" She said. "Of course perhaps I am wiling to make a little bargain."
Meanwhile up above Manny grabbed a harpoon and was rowing out to sea.
"Manny! What are you doing?" Rodolfo called.
"Dad I lost her once." He said. "I'm not losing her again."
...
"What do you want?" Emiliano asked.
"Give me the trident and control of the ocean and I'll release your charming daughter." Sartana said.
"Never!"
"Fine! Keep your power but you should know once I have someone's soul they decay and decay until they're nothing left but a rotting corpse." She said. "It would be a shame to see this pretty mermaid become a skeleton but if your kingdom means more to you than your daughter-"
"Nothing! Means more to me then my daughter!"
"So do we have a deal?"
She held up a contract and Emiliano sighed.
"Perfect!"
Frida and Jorge watched in horror as Sartana sucked Emiliano's soul away and he decayed into a skeleton.
"Your majesty!" Jorge gasped.
"Daddy? Oh no." Frida cried.
Sartana grabbed the trident.
"At last! The sea is mine!"
"You monster!" Frida grabbed the trident and tried to pull it away from her but the witch knocked her away.
"Don't fool with me! You little brat! I'll tear you- Ahh!"
Manny had fired a harpoon right at Sartana cutting her arm and making her bleed black blood.
"Why you little fool! After him!" She ordered Django and Che.
Manny swam toward to the surface for air but Django and Che grabbed him and held him under.
"What's the matter Prince Charming? Can't you breathe?" Django laughed.
Jorge and Davi pinched and smacked them away.
"Say goodbye to your darling." Sartana said aiming her trident at Manny.
Frida pushed Sartana causing her to miss her target and blast Django and Che turning them to ash.
"Babies!" She gasped. "My poor little poopsies!"
She glared at the boy and mermaid swimming to the surface.
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