famous_last_words1 if you're reading this I swear to Celestia if you make some kind of tentacle joke I will STRANGLE YOU next time I see you.

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Marinette struggled to get away from Hawkmoth as he dragged her further down in the ocean.

"Oh poor sweet Marinette.." The sea witch chuckled darkly. "Seems you failed to complete your end of the deal."

"Yeah all because of you!" The blunette shouted angrily. "Why are you doing this? What do you want with me?!"

"It's not you that I'm after. I intend to use you in order to claim something much more....valuable."

"You had this planned from the beginning didn't you? It's just been a game for you this entire time!"

Marinette winced as Hawkmoth squeezed her wrist pulling her closer so that they were face to face with each other.

"Listen you little wench! I gave you your time to spend with your human Prince, now it's your turn to give me something in return! I'm not going to let you or any other fish in my wa-"

Hawkmoth fell to the Sandy floor when a fist came in contact with his jaw. The force allowed Marinette to break free from the sea witch, when she looked up at her rescuer it had been none other than Alya.

"Alya!" Marinette cried happily.

"Come on!" The Auburn mermaid grabbed her friends hand. "Let's get out of here!"

Marinette and Alya began to swim away from the sea witch who pushed himself off the ground. He didn't make a move to go after them he just said, "Marinette....stop."

Marinette halted her movements staying in one place. Alya who had been holding her hand stopped as well and looked back at her friend confused.

"Marinette what are you doing?!" She asked the red mermaid. "We need to go!"

"I can't....I...I...can't move." Marinette's voice was filled with fear.

"What do you mean?! What's wrong with you?!"

"She's being a good little mermaid and following my orders." Hawkmoth said with a sinister smirk as he approached the two mermaids. "We made a deal Marinette. If you were unable to kiss the Prince before the third sun set you'd belong to me. Now you're under my control."

The familiar purple light appeared around Hawkmoth's eyes shining around Marinette's eyes as well.

When Hawkmoth made a move to get closer Alya swam in front of Marinette spreading her arms out in front of her.

"Don't come anywhere near her!" Alya said in a threatening tone. "I'm not going to let you take her!"

The sea witch gave an annoyed glare to the orange mermaid. "You my dear are beginning to prick my nerves." Using one of his tentacles Hawkmoth grabbed Alya by her throat choking her.

Alya's hand attempted to pull the appendage that was slowly starting to suffocate her as she was losing her breath.

"Stop!" Marinette shouted in a desperate plea. "Don't hurt her! I'll go with you I won't fight it, just put her down please!!"

Hawkmoth raised an eyebrow at the blunette before tossing her friend over to the side releasing her from his grasp.

Marinette rushed over to her best friend trying to help her up.

"Good choice." He spoke coldly. "Now come, there is some business I need to......take care of."

Hawkmoth notice a figure swimming towards them in the distance a sinister smile appeared on his face.

Marinette looked over to where the witch was looking, she gasped at the sight, it wasn't just the fact that Nathaniel was suddenly there, but he was there with the King's Trident in his hands.

How in the ocean does he have that?

"M..Marinette? You're....here?" Nathaniel was utterly confused the whole reason he went to retrieve the Trident was so he and Hawkmoth could use it to save Marinette, but Marinette was here back in the ocean "Hawkmoth...what's going on?"

Hawkmoth chuckled. "I'm afraid I may have misleaded you dear boy. The danger that Marinette was in isn't from the humans....." He wrapped his tentacle around the red mermaids waist bringing her closer to him. "It was actually from me.

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Adrien took off the outer part of his wedding attire and was about to use one of the emergency boats to go out to sea.

"Adrien what are you doing?" Nathalie questioned the Prince.

"I'm going after Marinette." Adrien declared as determined as ever. "Nat I lost her once, I'm not gonna lose her again."

"It's too dangerous! You're not going out there alone!"

"He won't be alone. I'm going with him." Nino said hopping into the small boat.

Adrien smiled at his friend. "Thanks Nino...and...I'm sorry about what I said earlier you know I didn't mean any of that stuff..."

"Save it Dude. Just know that I get to have your desserts for the rest of this month." Nino said jokingly.

Adrien smiled and looked back at Nathalie. "I have to go after her."

Nathalie sighed shaking her head. "Please for the love of God be careful and be safe. You're still the future King after all and the only heir to the throne."

"I'll keep that in mind." Adrien cut the ropes that allowed there boat to drop on the surface of the water.

Adrien grabbed the oars taking his position as he began rowing.

"Do you even know where they went Dude?" The brunette asked.

"Not a clue." The blonde sighed.

Nino thought for a moment rubbing his chin and looked around in the water.

He nearly shrieked when a blonde head popped out of the water and a girl was smiling at him.

"Hi I'm Rose!" The pink mermaid said with a smile. "Are you Nino? We swam into Alya when we came over here and she told us to keep an eye out for you guys."

Adrien blinked. "Um...are you a friend of Marinette's?"

The blonde mermaid nodded. "Alya went after her and Hawkmoth we can take you to where they are."

Nino raised an eyebrow. "We?"

Juleka who was a little ways ahead came out of the water shouting to her friend. "They went this way Rose! Tell them to follow us."

"You heard her, follow us!"

Rose and Juleka started to swim away allowing the boys to follow behind in their boat.

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Nathaniel gripped the Trident in his hands as he stared at Hawkmoth in disbelief, realizing that he had been tricked he felt angry at himself all over again. How could he have been so blind?

"Why....?" The red headed merman began to ask. "Why go through all this trouble?"

"I needed some fish desperate enough to be able to infiltrate the palace and steal the Trident with as little suspicion as possible. Marinette here may have desired to go to the surface world, but that desire wasn't strong enough for her to be willing to steal the Trident, but you....." Hawkmoth chuckled. "....you were so desperate to get her to love you, to have her choose you instead of a human. You didn't seem to know the difference between right or wrong."

Hawkmoth continued to hold Marinette captive in his tentacles grasp he shot her a smirk. "As fun as it's all been I am indeed a man of my word. Give me the Trident and I shall give you Marinette. It's still a win-win situation in the end."

"Don't give it to him Nathaniel!" Marinette shouted. "He plans to take over the entire ocean! Don't let him-"

Before she could finish Hawkmoth squeezed her nearly taken the breath out of her.

"I'm beginning to lose my patience. Give me the Trident and I'll consider not crushing her to death."

Nathaniel held on to the Trident his heart raced in fear. If he gave Hawkmoth the Trident he may doom all the seas, but if he didn't he would kill Marinette.

"I'm going to count down starting from 3...."

What could he do? He couldn't risk the lives of every fish.

"...3..."

Marinette was precious to him, he loved her so much.

"...2..."

Didn't he say that he'd do anything for the one he loved?

"...1..."

Anything....

"I've lost my patience." Hawkmoth proceeded to squeeze the blunette and she let out a piercing scream.

"Stop please!" Nathaniel cried. "Take it just don't hurt her!" Nathaniel handed over the Trident.

Snatching the relic from the merman the witch released Marinette and tossed her over to him.

"At last it's mine!" Hawkmoth laughed happily. "The power to control all the seas is finally mine! What to do with all this power...." He gave a sinister look towards Marinette and Nathaniel. "How about I use you two to test it out?"

Marinette gasped and Nathaniel held her trying to shield her from the upcoming attack.

"Stop in the name of the King!"

Distracted for a moment Hawkmoth looked over to see the King of the Sea himself. Clinging to his arm was his spoiled daughter and they were accompanied by a numerous amount of guards.

"Hand over the Trident and we just might consider to have mercy upon you!"

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All I can say is the next chapter is already underway and it's gonna be pretty....interesting.....

See ya soon!