- Hey everyone, I'm Caitlin and welcome to the Disney club.
Today, I'm gonna read to you a story that I love
from the Disney Princess 5-Minute Princess Stories.
Here we go.
(soft music)
[Caitlin] Ariel Makes waves.
One beautiful morning Ariel, her sisters and their father
were eating breakfast under the sea.
During their meal, King Triton told the girls
he had to attend to the business of ruling Atlantica
and couldn't spend the day with them.
Ariel's favorite days were the ones when
her father joined them on the reef
so she was particularly disappointed.
But her sisters had a plan for the day.
They were going to play, Ride the Current at reef.
Once they got there, the girls counted one, two, three
and flung themselves into the rushing water.
Ariel, Aquata and Andrina swam back into the current
after an exciting ride, but something didn't feel right.
As they tried to move towards slower water
they realized they were stuck.
They swam harder and faster
but the current was holding them in place.
They were caught and the waves are pushing them farther
and farther from their home.
To make matters worse, the strong current kicked up mud
from the sea floor making it impossible for them
to see anything.
Far from home and unable to spot the route back,
the girls were lost at sea.
"How are we going to get home?" Andrina wondered aloud.
Fortunately, Ariel had an idea, if they swam up
to the surface, they can look for the reef.
"We're not supposed to go there," Aquata warned.
But Ariel knew it was the only choice,
so she grabbed her sister's hands and swam to the surface.
"Ariel, where are you going now?" Andrina asked
when Ariel started swimming towards some rocks.
"If we head over there maybe we can get some rest
before we searched for home," she responded,
but when they got to the rocks they found a bird.
"Eek, humans!" It screeched.
"We're not going to hurt you." Ariel assured it.
"We're just mermaids and we're lost
and we can't find our way back."
"Mermaids?" The bird said fascinated.
"I haven't seen mermaids in years."
"Wait, you've seen mermaids before?" Aquata asked.
"Do you remember where?"
"It was in a little cove that way,"
the bird said pointing with its small wing.
"Then we need to go that way to get home."
Ariel declared, turning to her sisters.
"I know who can help," the bird said and flapped away.
Moments later, it was back with dolphins.
"These fellows will pull you for awhile."
"Oh, thank you!" Ariel said.
"I hope you get home soon!" The bird called
as it flapped out of sight again.
The girls held tight to the fins on the dolphins backs
while the dolphins skipped along the water
and slashed through the waves.
When they got closer to the cove,
the sisters thanked the dolphins for the lift
and dove back into the water, hoping to see
something familiar.
But instead two hoking shapes came into the view.
Sharks!The girls froze, "Hide!" Ariel whispered.
"We have to hide." Ariel and her sisters
headed for the first hiding place they saw, a shipwreck.
They stopped just inside, clutching the edges of the opening
and peeking out the sharks outside.
Fortunately, the sharks started swimming farther away.
"Maybe we should stay here a while just to be safe."
Andrina said softly. "Or at least safer."
When the girls felt safe enough to talk above a whisper,
Aquata breathed a sigh of relief.
"Can you imagine Attina's face when we tell her about this?"
But Ariel wasn't paying attention anymore,
she was exploring the ship.
"Ariel!" Andrina said, "What are you doing?
That's human stuff."
"It's wonderful!" Ariel told her sisters,
she couldn't get enough of it.
Ariel wanted to find more but she heard someone
in the distance. "Ariel, Aquata, Andrina."
"What was that?" Ariel said.
Aquata's and Andrina's eyes widened
and we all quickly swam out of the shipwreck.
Outside they found two of King Tritons guards
whom the King had sent to search for them
when he heard they were missing.
"We came straight away," one of the guards said.
They were impressed by the young princesses,
they nearly made it home all by themselves.
But another current was on its way
and they had to fight to swim through it.
Ariel had the idea to swim down so they wouldn't get carried
so far away.
"We're right behind you!" Said one of the guards.
Aerial dove deeper into the blackness
and eventually felt the pull of the wave lesson.
Her plan had worked, but once you looked around,
no one was with her.
She was alone and lost in the darkness.
"Hello? I'm lost, I need help, can anyone hear me?"
She shouted "I can't even see anything,
if only some fish could light up and show me the ways.."
she continued, talking to herself.
Just then, two little lights came on,
inches from her nose, it was a fish.
"Can you help me? I'm looking for my two sisters
and two guards," Ariel said.
But the fish didn't answer.
"Well, you don't talk I guess, but if you've seen them,
could I follow you please?"
The fish led her through tunnels until they came across
a school fish, all with lights.
They lit a path for Ariel to follow
and she is eventually found her way back to the guards
and her sisters.
After Ariel found them, the guards led the girls straight
to the palace to see King Triton and their other sisters.
"I'm overjoyed, you returned safely, "he said,
"But disappointed you wandered off."
"You could have been lost for good."
"Your Majesty..." one of the guards said,
"it's worth noting that when we found the young princesses,
they were well on their way home all by themselves.
Quite resourceful, I think too."
"And we didn't wander off," Aquata added.
"There was a rogue wave over the reef."
"Well," King Triton said, turning to his daughters,
"I'm proud that you can take care of yourselves.
What would you like as a reward?"
The girls thought about it, and Ariel finally spoke up.
"After breakfast tomorrow,
will you come play with us on the reef?"
King Triton laughed.
"There is nothing I'd like more." The end.
Wow, that was a great story.
It's so cool that Ariel's interested
in things she can learn more about.
Thank you so much for watching.
Bibbidi, bobbidi, bye!