Here we are guys, after 13 chapters we're finally at the end. :') I'd like to say thanks to everyone that's taken the time to read this story, and all my reviewers. Without you guys I'd really have no reason to be writing. You mean the world to me. :D

Well, without further delay, let's wrap this little tale up.

Chapter 14

Melody opened her eyes, to see a wizard fish swimming away in the distance.

"Rascus!" She called. When he turned she started waving. "Thanks!"

"You're welcome kid!" After they exchanged thanks they both left, each with somewhere to be. Melody looked for her mother, the layout of the area just starting to come back to her.

Just past some more much smaller ravines and coral her mother found her.

"Melody!"

"Mom!" She cried as she hugged her.

"Oh thank god you're alright!"

"I'm so sorry..." She admitted, having regretted throwing such hurtful words at her mom. "I never knew what you had to go through."

"Just don't ever run off again on me again!"

"I shouldn't have said those things."

"What things?" She stopped the hug to make eye contact with her daughter.

"Those things I said to you."

"That you wanted to see the canyon?" Ariel said, wondering why her daughter felt the need to apologize.

"No I said rotten things to you." She said, unwilling to repeat them.

"Melody dear we never argued." Melody thought for a second, before accepting the fact that as a result of her wish she had not said bad things to her mom. "The rocks must have knocked you silly. Let's go back to the palace."

"Still I'm sorry for everything mean I've ever said." Ariel's daughter persisted, unwilling to not apologize for her memories.

"It's fine Melody." They were both pretty quiet for the rest of the swim back.

There's something different about mom. Melody thought to herself. She just seems more...vibrant. On the way back she also noticed that the flowers around here were brighter, almost brimming with more life. Could that mean... Nah don't get your hopes up. What're the odds of what happened having any effect on my life? Besides that ONE argument?

Once they could see Atlantica in the distance Melody finally broke the silence.

"So are we gonna go exploring ever again?" She asked her mom, afraid her overprotective nature would forbid any plans in the foreseeable future.

"I think we could use a little break."

"I know but you wanted to finally do this today and I blew it."

"You do know it was your idea to come out here right?" Ariel inquired. "It was last week too. Just like it is every week we come down here."

"Really?" Melody asked. Her mother sighed.

"Next time we stick with the ships. The ones that don't cause concussions." She scratched her daughter's scalp in a playful manner.

Maybe I did change a little. She looked at the palace, only to have thoughts regarding Triton's fate come flooding back into her mind. She wondered if she was so lucky.

Suddenly something she'd never seen before came up to the both of them, although she figured out what, or rather who it was instantly.

"Dad?" Melody said in disbelief, seeing her father as a merman.

"Melody!" He caught her in a hug. "Thank god you're safe."

"You're here! Under the sea!" She exclaimed joyously.

"What are you talking about? I come every year Mel." She laughed a joyous chortle, beginning to wonder if she was dreaming.

"Did you guys get lost?" He asked Ariel.

"I never get lost." She said.

"I know but it happens sometimes."

"Like the first day you came to daddy's palace?" She giggled.

"The halls all look the same!"

"They do not!" Her parents continued bickering until someone else came to meet them. Someone that made Melody feel as though her world had been turned upside down.

"Grandfather?!" She wrapped her arms around the old merman, unwilling to let go. Just as she had five years ago. But then again, wasn't that now in a different future? Or past? So now this was the first time she gave him a dramatic hug.

But to her it wasn't.

"I... I thought I would never see you again..." She cried tears of joy, knowing her mission had been a success. It worked. The soothing pair of two very simple words echoed throughout her mind, inevitably joined by a third. It actually worked.

"Oh dear Melody. When we received news of the seaquake in the area you and your mother were we were all so worried, that something terrible had happened." He pulled away to look into his granddaughters eyes. "But Flounder wouldn't hear of it." She smiled a great big smile, for a friend who could notice the difference of seventeen years and be there for her twice.

"Let's go home." Melody said, and she went off to tell the tale. The tale of a great undersea avalanche, the tale of a special wizard fish, the tale of a great journey across time that had saved their king. And whether or not they believed it, she could care less.

A/N:

Well I hope you guys enjoyed this little tale. Although I would have to credit my love for Disney's version of the classic fairytale (as well as Ms. Jarvey's input), nonetheless this has proven that I can complete a fanfic. :)

I already mentioned some things that inspired this writing (way back in the A/N for ch1), but I didn't really mention why this was a time travel story. In essence, my original intentions in writing a time travel piece was to keep the sequel as canon, while rewriting it. So from the timeline of this story, everything we've seen on the big screen involving Melody never happened (which I can definitely imagine some TLM fans would appreciate), they now only exist in her memories (like the 2009 Star Trek film). Long story short, this is my TLM 2 remake.

Prime time for a sequel? Eh...

If you did enjoy this story, or you hated it, or you even have something to comment on then by all means leave a review; any and all will be greatly appreciated.

-Jerry533482