[At the throne room, Sebastian arrives, and his chariot is going crazy] [panting]
WHOA! WHOA! Good morning, Your Highness.
King Triton Sebastian.
King Triton Anything to report?
[clears throat]
Unfortunately, the sprat and the... smelt were still... [shrieks] squabbling. No worries. I told them I'd sic the salmon on them. [chuckles]
King Triton Sebastian, what would I do without you?
You'd be negotiatin' with the sprat and the smelt, that's what.
King Triton [The princesses arrive before their father]
Good morning, girls.
G Girls
Good morning, Father.
King Triton Marina.
Good morning, Your Majesty.
I... uh... [chuckles, groans]
King Triton Well, I presume you've all been attending to your royal duties this week.
Yes, Father. We've been working diligently.
But, we're always done early.
And the coral is in bloom.
[swims to her father]
So I thought maybe we could go for a swim on the reef?
King Triton Not today, Ariel.
But it only happens once a year. It could be fun.
King Triton I don't have the time.
I was thinking we could just skip the morning walk.
[sternly]
Ariel! Your father said "No."
Yes, sir. [swims back to her sisters]
[They begin to swim out]
Be on time tomorrow.
King Triton [exhaling deeply]
Great.
[They swim to go on their walk with their father]
King Triton That will be all, Sebastian. Marina. Good day, girls.
King Triton [They begin to swim until...]
Ariel.
[whispering]
He sounds grumpier than yesterday.
Time to go to bed. [With Triton and Ariel]
King Triton [sternly]
A princess does not tickle another princess with seaweed.
[smiling nervously]
You saw that? I was just trying to have some fun.
King Triton You disrupted your sisters.
King Triton Well, I didn't.
King Triton [interrupts]
Is it too much to ask that you simply walk with your family?
[frustrated]
That's all we ever do.
King Triton [threateningly]
Ariel...
Can't we do something different?
King Triton [yelling at Ariel]
ENOUGH! [Ariel is shocked at her father's behavior] You have to learn to respect the way I run this kingdom. [pulls out a seashell-shaped tool] Barnacles.
[shocked]
What? That'll take all day.
King Triton [hands her the tool]
Well, then you'd better get started, young lady. [Ariel is angry at her father as he swims inside the building]
[to herself]
I hate this place. [She swims off to where she will get all the barnacles off]
[In the morning, Sebastian crawls up to King Triton in his throne room]
Good morning, Your Highness.
King Triton Sebastian. Marina.
Good morning, Your Majesty.
King Triton I have a problem. [Sebastian is shocked] It's Ariel.
Finally! So you see it, too? Oh, yes. She's rebellious, insubordinate, headstrong. We need to immediately implement a series of checks and balances designed to crush her spirit. What? Too harsh?
Absolutely! Your Highness, she is young, going through a phase.
King Triton I don't remember having this much trouble with any of her sisters.
I do! They're all a handful. We should shave their heads.
King Triton [clears throat]
King Triton Alana wasn't difficult at all.
Yes, Your Majesty. But Arista and the blowfish incident, remember?
Oh! It took weeks to clean up the palace.
And how about Aquata and that stingray?
King Triton Well...
And the time Attina got her head stick in the conch shell.
King Triton Well, perhaps you're right, Sebastian. Still, it seems Marina could use some help. I want you to look after Ariel.
King Triton No offense, Marina.
[They bow down as King Triton leaves]
Soft shell.
King Triton Dismissed.
[Sebastian and Marina Del Rey has to stop fighting and shocked]
King Triton [After King Triton and his Royal Guards storm the club] [angrily]
This is how you watch over my daughter?!
King Triton I trusted you!
Sire. [Marina looks at this in pleasure]
King Triton Guards! Lock him away.
King Triton LOCK THEM ALL AWAY!
But, Your Majesty, please!
SG Swordfish guard
Come on. Let's move it. [The guards escort the band, pushes Flounder] Hey.
SG Swordfish guard
Sure you are, kid. [As they take them away]
King Triton Marina, you will take over Sebastian's duties immediately.
King Triton Attina. Take your sisters home.
Father, you can't do this!
King Triton It's already DONE!
[Attina and Aquata drag Ariel out. As the princesses exit the club, King Triton, in far more rage than before, uses his trident to blast the rocks to block the entrance to the club]
King Triton [After the club is destroyed, the princesses in the throne room at the palace]
You are all confined to the palace.
[bitterly]
Why don't you just lock us in jail?
King Triton Ariel, you are confined to the palace until you understand what you've done.
[angrily]
What did we do? Tell me, Daddy.
No! [swims up to Triton so she can try to reason with him] We haven't done anything wrong. All we did was listen to music.
King Triton [outraged]
Which you know is forbidden!
But why? Why can't we have music?
King Triton This discussion is over.
King Triton I do not have to explain myself to you.
I don't understand. We love music!
King Triton [losing control of his rage and yelling at Ariel]
I WILL NOT HAVE MUSIC IN MY KINGDOM!!!!!
[Hearing this, Ariel becomes heartbroken and devastated by this.]
I may not remember much about my mother, but I know she wouldn't have wanted this.
[Ariel leaves the throne room, as the king and her sisters watch her leave. Triton becomes saddened while watching Ariel swim away]
[At the palace, King Triton is sitting on his throne, as Marina arrives]
And thanks to my bold new initiatives, second only to my fabulous day wear and dressy evening separates, productivity in all sectors is up 20 percent. [The king ignores her as he swims away] Squids are producing more ink, kelp more oxygen, and the coral reef is just churning out the plankton. Chuga, chuga! [laughs] I do so enjoy fresh plankton on my salad, don't you? [He didn't answer] I'll take that as a yes. Ohh. As you can see, I - [raises chair to Triton's level] I'm a self starter, Your Majesty. Here to anticipate your every need! Not like that last guy, what was his name? Sooner we forget about him, the better. In fact! Let's make a vow, never to mention his name again. Here, I'll start! [claps hands over mouth] There! Wasn't that easy? [Benjamin appears]
King Triton [Remorseful]
I think I was too hard on them.
King Triton Perhaps I went too far.
Nonsense, Your Highness. Not possible. [Her seat went down to Benjamin]
[angrily turning around with her chair and yelling at Benjamin]
WHAT?!
Huh? [Attina arrives with the flower Ariel left behind]
King Triton [shocked]
What?
[grabs Benjamin]
Why didn't you tell me?!
We can't find her! We've looked everywhere!
King Triton Don't worry, I'll find her. Get me Sebastian!
What, what No, no, no! No, I'm in charge here! [swims to Triton, but stops when he gives her the look]
King Triton Guards! Search the palace. Search every inch of Atlantica! FIND MY DAUGHTER! [Leaves along with Attina as the guards gone off to find Ariel]
Your Majesty. Whoo-hoo! Your Majesty, Your Majesty. [growls] [She turns to look at the flower as she goes to pick it up and squeezes it in anger.] Sebastian.
[At the final battle is over, Marina, still stick in a tube, decides to swim up and run over Sebastian] [gasps]
SEBASTIAN!
King Triton [As Ariel swims forward, King Triton arrives and watches] [horrified]
ARIEL! NO!
King Triton [Marina starts to go after to hit Sebastian, but Ariel blocked the attack, knocking her out of the way to save Sebastian, but rendered her unconscious. Ariel falls down, As King Triton swims toward her as the others watch in sadness. Then, the music box falls down from Ariel's arms and it opens and plays the song, as King Triton listens to it and realizes what has become of him] [devastated]
What have I done? [singing] ♪ Endless sky. Waves try to measure. The days that we treasure.
[Then suddenly, Ariel wakes up]
Daddy?
King Triton I'm... I'm so sorry I didn't listen.
[hugs him]
Daddy. Let's go home.
[King Triton swims off with Ariel in his arms]
Guys, you came back.
Sure did, small fry. Like you said, we took an oath.
Come here, you little knucklehead. Group hug!
[They group hug around Flounder, squeezing him.]
Guys... can't breathe.
[Then Sebastian closes the music box and smiles at the audience]
King Triton [At the courtroom, the merpeople gathered in] [clears throat]
To my daughters, and to all the citizens I hereby decree that music will once again ring clear from one end of my kingdom to the other!
King Triton Therefore, I hereby present Atlantica's first official Court Composer.
Thank you, Your Highness. Uh.... Not that we don't trust you, Your Majesty, but...Swifty, Hit it, Sing it, mon.
S Swifty
[clears throat]
Raise your right hand, fin, claw, tentacle, or whatever the case may be. [Triton raises his hand] Very good. Do you promise to jump, jive, wail, groove, rock steady and at all times lend a helping hand to your fellow music lovers?
King Triton Um... I do?
[hugs her sister]
Thank you, Ariel.
