The Not-So-Little Mermaid
By Dark Phoenix
The version of the story that never was, up until now!

Comments? Criticisms? - Email me after you've finished reading! Feedback is most appreciated: thedarkphoenix2008@yahoo.com

***DISCLAIMER***
This story is not suitable for anyone under 18. If you are NOT into female muscle growth, superhuman strength, violence, and mild sexual themes, then this story is not for you. But if you ARE into those things, then read on.

***NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR***
They thought they could keep a lid on it! They thought their twisted version of the tale would remain buried forever! They were wrong! Rejoice muscle and spinach fans, for I have recovered the story that some perv made for kicks, but was forced to dispose of it before he was caught! Disney would be furious to know that the cat has been let out of the bag! It seems that a certain author decided to have a little fun with The Little Mermaid. It turns out that he was a huge fan of female muscle and spinach stories. This is the alternate climatic ending to the story that is not suitable for children!

Please note that if you aren't familiar with Disney's "The Little Mermaid", then much of this won't make much sense.


* * *
Cut ahead in the story to the ill-fated wedding that is in progress.

The priest begins, "Dearly beloved..."

Flounder is pulling Ariel toward the ship. Flounder is struggling with Ariel, "Don't worry Ariel. ugh...we...we're gonna make it. We're almost there."

The priest continues, "Yes, um, do you Eric, take Vanessa, to be your lawfully wedded wife, for as long as you both shall live?"

Eric emotionlessly answers, "I do."

The priest turns to Vanessa, "Eh, and do you..."

Birds and animals swoop in for attack, causing great chaos in an attempt to sabotage the wedding.

"...then by the power inves..." the priest continued to say but got interrupted by the attack.

Vanessa swipes at the birds and animals, "Get away from me you slimy little...Oh, why you little!!"

In the struggle, the shell holding Ariel's voice is broken and her voice finally returns to her. Eric comes out of the spell as she sings.

Eric comes to his senses as he turns around to see..., "Ariel?"

Ariel embraces him, "Eric!"

Eric is surprised by this revelation, "You...you can talk. You're the one."

Vanessa is furious, "Eric, get away from her!"

Eric ignores Vanessa as his attention remains on Ariel, "It...it was you all this time, wasn't it?"

Ariel leans in close to Eric, "Oh, Eric, I...I wanted to tell you."

"It's alright." Eric says as they lean in to kiss.

Vanessa panics, "ERIC NO!"

But it's too late for them. The sun sets and Ariel turns back into a mermaid. Vanessa has an evil look in her eyes as she transforms back into her original form.

"You're too late! So long, loverboy!" Ursula says with glee as she grabs Ariel and leaps overboard into the water.

"Ariel!" Eric yells, but they're gone.

As they descend into the depths of the sea, Ursula glares at Ariel, "Poor little princess. It's not you I'm after. I've got a much bigger fish to..."

"Ursula, stop!" came a booming voice from behind. Ursula turns around in mock surprise to see King Triton.

"Why, King Triton! Ha ha ha! How ARE you?" she asks with an equally mock interest.

"Let her go!" demanded Triton.

Ursula tightens her fierce grip on Ariel. She's in pain as she knows that she's much too strong for Ariel to get away from her.

"Not a chance, Triton! She's mine now. We made a deal." Ursula yelled.

Ariel called out to her father, "Daddy, I'm sorry! I...I...I didn't mean to! I didn't know..."

Triton attacks the contract with a fierce blast from his trident, but to no avail.

"You see? The contract's legal, binding and completely unbreakable, even for YOU. Of course, I always was a girl with an eye for a bargain. The daughter of the great sea king is a very precious commodity. But...I might be willing to make an exchange for someone even better..." Ursula says as she stares at Triton with a glimmer in her eyes. They both know what she has in mind.

* * *

Back on the surface, Eric is rowing away from the ship as hard as he can.

Grimsby looks at Eric like he's crazy, "Eric! What are you doing?"

Eric is holding tight to his resolve, "Grim, I lost her once. I'm not going to lose her again!"

* * *

Ursula and Triton continue their standoff. Ursula produces a new contract and gives it to Triton.

"Now! Do we have a deal?" Ursula asks.

"It seems I don't have a choice." Triton says as he signs the contract. It flies out of his hands as its magic begins to take affect.

"Ha! It's done then." Ursula yells in triumph. Ariel is released and Triton is withered as Ursula laughs maniacally.

Ariel looks toward her withering father, "No...oh no! Daddy?"

Sebastian, who was watching helplessly from the sidelines, gazes at the fallen king, "Oh, your majesty..."

Ursula picks up the crown and places it on her head, "At last, it's mine. Ho ho! Now I will be queen of Atlantica, no, of all the oceans in the world!"

Ariel is furious, "You...You monster!!"

Ursula swoops threateningly at Ariel, "Don't fool with me you little brat! Contract or noAAAAHH!"

Ursula is stunned with a hit from a harpoon thrown by Eric from the surface nearby. She pulls it out and tosses it away as she turns toward him.

"Why you little troll!" Ursula screams with anger.

Ariel notices Eric and swims toward him, "Eric! Eric look out!"

Eric tries to escape, but Ursula has her sights set on him.

"After him!" Ursula orders Flotsam and Jetsam as they pursue Eric.

Sebastian sees Ursula power up the trident and aiming it at Eric, boat and all, and grabs at Ariel's arm, "Come on! You're got to stop her or Eric will..."

Ursula has that evil look in her eyes, "Say goodbye to your sweetheart!"

At the last moment, Ariel swims at Ursula as fast as she can and whips her tail at the trident, diverting the blast and causing her to miss Eric and blast
Flotsam and Jetsam, causing them to disintegrate.

Ursula looks at the space they once occupied, aghast, "Babies! My poor, little poopsies!"

Her blood boils with anger as she glares at Ariel, "I'll make you pay for that!"

Ursula begins to grow to gigantic proportions as Ariel swims to the surface to meet up with Eric.

"Eric, you've got to get away from here!" Ariel pleaded.

But Eric has other plans, "No, I won't leave you!"

Ursula explodes from the water, causing major waves in her wake. She's now giant sized and wielding the trident which is buzzing with evil energy being channeled by her own evil nature.

"You pitiful, insignificant, fool!" she says with a booming voice as her mere presence is causing waves to move rapidly toward Eric's little boat.

"Eric! Look out!" Ariel cries out, but it's too late.

The waves capsize his boat, causing him to fall into the water. He struggles to stay afloat, but Ursula's power is manipulating the water, making it threaten to consume him.

Ursula let's the magic erupt from the trident and her own body in all directions, "Now I am the ruler of all the oceans! The waves obey my every whim! The sea and all its spoils bow to my power!"

Her magnified power is wreaking havoc everywhere and creates a whirlpool that raises some shipwrecks. Eric tries to reach one of them. But Ursula blasts the ship, causing it to explode, sending Eric crashing against the hull of another ship and knocking him out. Ariel sees this as Eric begins to slowly sink. If she doesn't save him fast, he'll drown!

"ERIC!" Ariel screams.

Ursula notices Ariel's desperate attempt to save Eric and grabs her by her tail.

"And where do you think you're going? It's over for him and it's over for YOU!" Ursula yells as she swings Ariel in circles above her head and throws her as hard as she can down the center of the whirlpool, causing her to crash hard on the ocean floor.

Ursula is laughing wickedly, "So much for true love!"

Ariel is barely conscious as she comes to. She feels something squishy crammed into her mouth. Whatever it is, she finds herself strangely compelled to eat it. Without any thought, she chews it and swallows it. Suddenly, her whole body springs back to attention.

"Whoa, what is this stuff? I feel great all of a sudden!" Ariel says excitedly as she looks around and sees that she crashed into a small field of this stuff. She notices a damaged wooden sign lying face up. It says, 'Sea spinach'.

"She quickly remembers what's happening and instinctively turns toward Eric, who's steadily floating down. She knows he is running out of time really fast.

"Oh no! No time to think! Let's hope this works!" Ariel says as she grabs as big a handful of the sea spinach as she can and stuffs it all over into her mouth and chews and swallows it as fast as possible.

Her whole body shudders as an explosion of strength fills every fiber of her being. Her lower fish half becomes very muscular and her upper body swells with massive muscles. Her seashell bikini instantly snaps from her hulking frame, leaving her topless and fuller in the breast department than ever. But she doesn't seem to notice, much less care. She flexes a bicep as her peak rises all the way up to her fist. An image appears in her throbbing bicep of a school of great white sharks swimming in formation. She swims toward Eric with great speed and clutches him in her arms and takes him to the shore where she lays him down to recover.

She looks out at the chaos that's ensuing and swims straight at an unsuspecting Ursula like a torpedo. Ursula turns around too late as Ariel slams into her, knocking her back several hundred feet. Ursula clutches her midsection in agony as she looks in the direction of what hit her. Her jaw drops as she sees what couldn't possibly be Ariel. But her hair and face are a clear giveaway. But she sees that she's even more muscular than Triton, in fact scarily so. Ariel notices Ursula's reaction and flexes both of her oversized biceps which now shows a heavily armored submarine in her left bicep shooting waves of torpedoes at a fleet of battleships in her right bicep sinking every one of them with one hit each.

Ursula realizes she's frozen in fear and snaps out of it.

"I don't know how you got that power, but it's no match for mine! I'll rule the seas yet!" Ursula declared as she fires blast after blast at Ariel with the trident.

But Ariel began swinging her fists at them, punching each blast away while steadily swimming toward her target. Ariel was now point blank with Ursula, still punching her futile blasts and punches the trident itself out of her grip where it lands near Triton.

"Mess with my man will you!? It's time I turn you into seafood!" Ariel yells as she cocks her fist back and delivers a hard right uppercut which sends Ursula flying skyward until she disappears in the clouds above. The sea begins to calm back down as everything returns to normal. The whirlpool disappears and the shipwrecks sink back down the ocean floor below.

She turns around to face her friends. Triton takes back his trident and he too returns to normal. Everyone is staring at Ariel's buff physique with mixed reactions. Sebastian is blushing even redder than he already is. Her father covers his eyes, not wanting to see his precious daughter naked. So does Flounder as he cowers in fear from the strength that Ariel is emanating. Ariel hears paddling and rejoices to see a weak, but conscious Eric being taken to her by Grimsby. Eric is still shaking the remaining cobwebs from his head as he sees Ariel for the first time since he was knocked out. His eyes about popped out of his head, as did another part of his male anatomy.

"So my beloved, what do you think?" Ariel asked seductively as she flexed every muscle in her body as they bulged to amazing size. Eric could feel himself becoming highly aroused at the sight.

"You look...you look wonderful Ariel!" he said.

Everyone's attention was caught by falling tentacle pieces and several bits of blubber splashing into the water. Ursula was no more.

Ariel was admittedly feeling a bit naughty, but she had to know, "So tell me. Do you prefer me looking like this or as my slender self?"

Eric waded into the water and took her hands, "I would love you know matter what you looked like. And besides, it's your lovely voice that captured my heart."

"Ariel." came a voice from behind her.

Ariel turned around to see her father with a stern look on his face. He waved his trident at her and a new shell bikini appeared which was large enough to cover up her huge bust.

"It's time to head home." he said.

Ariel swam up to him. Even with her new coverings, it was very hard for Triton to keep his firm composure.

"Daddy..." Ariel began to say.

"Look, I am grateful to you for saving everyone from Ursula. But you..." Triton was saying until he was interrupted.

"Yes father I know, the rules." she said, upset that after everything that's happened, he still fails to see what she truly wants.

Her father's expression softened as he put a hand on her shoulder. Again, he felt intimidated by her bulging muscles. They felt as hard as stone.

"Actually, I was going to say that you need to get some sleep. I have some thinking to do and you'd do well to get some rest as late as it is." he said.

Ariel's gazed went downard, "Yes daddy."

She turned to Eric and swam up to him as Triton and the others watched. She looked back, "I'll be home in a minute daddy! Just give me a minute to say goodbye to Eric!"

Triton nodded as he gestured to Sebastian and Flounder to follow him as they swam home.

"In case we never see each other again, I want to give you something to remember me by." Ariel said as she flexed a huge bicep and placed Eric's hand on it. It was the most pleasurable thing he has ever felt. He couldn't hope to put a dent in it. Ariel started singing while she invited him to feel all the muscles of her body.

"I'm strooong to the finish cause I aaaaate my spinach says Ariel the little mermaaaaaid!" she sang.

Both of them laughed together. Finally, she turned and swam home herself.

* * *

Morning finally came and Eric was up early and standing on the beach staring out into the sea. He wasn't his usual self. After everything that has happened, he was finding it hard to believe that King Triton still wouldn't let Ariel choose her own fate. Ariel, who also was up early has turned back to her normal slender self and was watching from a distance unseen, sighing with love.

Triton and Sebastian were looking on.

"She really does love him, doesn't she, Sebastian?" Triton said while still watching her.

Sebastian also kept his gaze forward, "Well, it's like I always say, Your Majesty. Children got to be free to lead their own lives."

Triton turned towards his lobster composer, "You...always say that?"

There's a moment of silence between the two as Triton finally looks up again, "Then I guess there's just one problem left."

Sebastian looked at him, "And what's that, Your Majesty?"

Triton's face was filled with a sort of sad content, "How much I'm going to miss her."

Triton swims toward Ariel with Sebastian trying to keep up.

"Ariel." Triton says. Ariel didn't notice his approach as his voice startles her.

"Father!? I was just..." she began to say.

But Triton shook his head, "It's ok Ariel. Look at you. You really are all grown up. I've decided....I've decided that you must choose your own path in life. If it's a life with Eric that you want..."

Triton took his trident and shot a mystical wave of energy that enveloped Ariel. Her fish tail once again turned into legs. She looked down at them and tears appeared in her eyes.

Triton smiled, "Now go on, he's waiting there for you."

Ariel hugs him, "Oh daddy! Thank you! Thank you so much!"

With that, Ariel swims to shore. Eric sees her and notices her legs have returned. Words weren't needed as they embraced each other. Finally, they kissed as the scene changes to them kissing on their wedding day. Everyone is happy. Sebastian has just finished conducting their wedding song. The whole crowd claps and cheers as Sebastian bows.

"Yes, Thank you, thank you." he says as Ariel and Triton hug.

"I love you Daddy." Ariel says.

"I love you too sweetheart. And you're always welcome to come back home at anytime. I'll be able to turn you back and forth between a mermaid and a human at will."

Ariel and Eric board the ship which is being used to take them off on their honeymoon. The ship sails off as Ariel and Eric kiss. The two of them are excited to spend some time alone together.

"So tell me my beloved wife. Was it that spinach you sang about that gave you those wonderful muscles the other day?" Eric asked.

Ariel had a gleam in her eyes, "I'll tell you what. If you let me drive this thing, I'll take you to the place where I found it. There's plenty there you know!"

Eric could barely contain his excitement. He took Ariel by her hand, "Actually, before we do that. Let's go below decks and...consummate our marriage."

"I was wondering if you'd ever ask." she said as they disappeared through the doors.

-Epilogue-

Eric would go on to discover that Ariel was a natural at sex and better than he could possibly have imagined.

After repeated trips back and forth from Atlantica, her father discovered a way to give Ariel the ability to change back and forth between being a mermaid and a human at will without his assistance. It was a good thing too because it was hard on his schedule to keep doing this.

Ariel would eat more of that sea spinach and give Eric the most sensual and sexual thrill rides of his life. She loved to show off her rippling muscles and ripping gigantic boulders from their foundations and holding them over her head with one hand. She even went so far as lifting the ship itself with Eric on it. It felt so good to exert her incredible strength like this. She would also turn into mermaid form and with Eric on their ship, she'd use her spinach enhanced strength to push the ship across the waters as fast as a modern day speed boat.

Unfortunately, when Eric tried to eat the spinach, he found out it didn't work on him. Turns out it only works on those with mermaid blood in them. And even when in human form, Ariel would always have mermaid blood. But he didn't mind.

And the two lived deliriously happily ever after!

THE END