Arista at the Sunken Ship

Somewhere in the ocean, there was a 20-year-old woman with pale blonde hair in a ponytail, blue eyes, and a red mertail with clear lighter red fins, wearing a red shell bra. She also wears a pinkish-red beaded hair scrunchie. Her name was Arista. The blonde-haired mermaid swam as she came to a stop. She smiled big when she discovered something magical.

"Arista! Wait for me!" a voice called.

Arista rolled her eyes slightly then looked over. "Flounder, hurry up!"

Someone swam to catch up with Arista. He is a 10-year-old fish with yellow scales, blue fins, and green eyes. His name was Flounder, Arista's best friend.

"You know I can't swim that fast." Flounder said, panting.

Arista gasped and pointed to what she was staring at. It was a big sunken wooden ship. She knew that any sunken ship is a possible place to explore. Not to mention, discover human objects since ships are from the world above. "There it is!" she exclaimed, "Isn't it fantastic?"

"Yeah, sure. I-it's great," Flounder gulped. "Now let's get outta here."

Arista grabbed Flounder's tail before the fish could take off. "Oh. You're not getting cold fins now, are you?" And she dragged an unwilling Flunder to the ship.

"Who, me? No way," replied Flounder. "It's just, that, uh, it looks damp in there. And, yeah, I think I may be coming down with something. Yeah, I got this cough." He made a fake cough into his fin, which didn't convince Arista one bit. The blonde-haired mermaid found an opening in the window. "All right. I'm going inside," she said. "You can just stay here and - watch for sharks."

She swam through the hole, carrying a red shoulder bag over her right shoulder.

"O.K.," Flounder smiled, not having to go in the creepy ship after all. "Yeah - you go. I'll stay and-"

Then it hit him.

"What? Sharks?!" Flounder exclaimed in full alarm, "Arista!"

He swam through the hole. Unfortunately, the fish got stuck. "Oh my!" cried Flounder, "I'm stuck!" He began wiggling through the hole, to no avail.

"Arista!" Flounder grunted, as he tried to squeeze through the hole, to no avail. "I can't- I mean- Arista, help!"

Arista looked over. She giggled, and she went over to him. "Oh, Flounder." she smiled.

What was she going to do with him? Kindly, Arista tugged Flounder's fins and began to pull.

"Arista, do you really think there might be sharks around here?" Flounder whispered.

Unbeknownst to the blonde-haired Mermaid and fish, a giant shark named Glut swam past by them.

"Flounder, don't be such a scaredy cat." Arista said.

"I'm not a scaredy cat." Flounder grumbled.

After Arista pulled Flounder in, the two friends began exploring around the sunken ship.

"This is great," Flounder said nervously. "I mean, I really love this. Excitement, adventure, danger lurking around every corn-"

The poor fish caught a glimpse of a skull, then threw himself back away from the frightening object and crashed into a pillar. "YAAAAHHHHHHHH!!"

There was a loud crash as the old beam started to fall, tearing a hole into the deck above, and dashed into Arista. He kind of knocked into her.

"Arista!!"

"Oh, are you okay?" Arista asked, as she caressed the shaking fish with fear.

"Yeah sure," Flounder whispered. "No problem. I'm okay now."

"Shhh!" said Arista. She saw something shiny from the second floor. They both swam up through a hole to see its source. They discovered a human object. It was silver, long and had six points at its end. Arista swam over and picked up the object.

"Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" she gasped, "Have you ever seen anything so wonderful in your entire life?"

"Wow! Cool!" Flounder exclaimed, "But, err, what is it?"

"I don't know. But I bet Scuttle will." said Arista, as she put her fantastic find in her red bag.

"What was that?" a startled Flounder gasped, "Did you hear something?"

Arista looked around and saw a small brown horn. She smiled and swam to it. She picked up the small brown horn from the box. "Hmm, I wonder what this one is?" she said to herself.

"Arista!" Flounder said.

"Flounder, will you relax?" Arista smiled warmly, "Nothing is going to happen."

Flounder turned around slowly, seeing the jaws of Glut through the old window of the boat.

"AAHHHH!! Shark!! Shark!!" Flounder screamed, "We're gonna die!!"

Glut began chasing Flounder and Arista around the ship. It followed them through every hole of the ship. Flounder kept screaming in terror. Arista accidentally dropped her bag on a broken wooden floor. Glut, hungrily, munched on the floor toward Arista. The princess swam down and grabbed her bag, just in the nick of time! The two friends managed to find the window hole which was the same window that led them inside the ship. "Oh no!!" screamed Flounder, as he got stuck through the hole.

The fish tried wiggling through the window to get out, but nothing happened.

Arista swam through a separate window hole herself and pulled her friend out. She successfully got out! Alas, it didn't stop Glut from chasing them, causing Flounder to scream again. As they swam around in circles around the ship, Flounder accidentally bumped into a ship's harpoon and slowly started to fall down. Glut decided to take his opportunity to catch his bait once it reaches to the ground. Arista saw that, and the blonde-haired mermaid dropped her bag. She quickly swam down caught the fish, through the hole of an anchor. It led Glut through the hole. Glut didn't count on getting stuck in the hole. Arista picked up her fallen bag.

"You big bully." Flounder said, as he blew a raspberry at the brute.

Glut made a chomping sound with his mouth, scaring Flounder.

Arista laughed as she kept swimming up. "Flounder, you really *are* a scaredy cat."

"I am not." Flounder protested.

Arista playfully rolled her eyes.