Sea Dreamer part 2

In an unknown location, Bryce's youngest daughter, Meredith. Who had upper-back-length saffron yellow hair, eyes like emeralds, wore a yellow-green skirt, she carried a small red bag and a sleeveless top that was light blue as she leapt onto a rock, looking towards something with astonishment, when she heard someone shout, "Meredith! Wait for me!"

Looking back, she said, "Cardiff! Hurry up!"

Her best friend, Cardiff, a Pembroke Welsh Corgi, ran up to her, panting.

"You know I can't run that fast…" he panted.

"There it is…" Meredith said as she pointed to the ocean. "Isn't it fantastic?"

"Yeah, uh, it's great… Now let's get out of here!" Cardiff said, trying to run away, but Meredith grabbed him by his back leg, saying, "Cardiff… You're not getting cold feet NOW, are you?"

"Who, me?" Cardiff asked as Meredith ran to the ocean and he followed. "No way! It's just that I ate and you're supposed to wait a few hours before explorin'. You know, I think I'm coming down with something!"  

Then Cardiff tried to make some convincing coughs as Meredith just smirked at him as she moved to the sea, saying, "Ok, I'm going in. You can stay out here and… watch for wolves."

"Ok," Cardiff said as Meredith dove in. "You go, I'll stay here and- What?! Wolves?! Meredith!"

Cardiff tried to dive into the sea, but he got stuck in some seaweed as he struggled, saying, "Meredith… I can't… I need… Meredith, help!"

Giggling, Meredith went over, saying, "Oh, Cardiff…"

"Meredith…" Cardiff whispered as Meredith began pulling him inside. "You really think there might be wolves around the ocean…?"

"Cardiff, don't be such a scaredy dog!"

"I'm not a scaredy dog…" Cardiff said as he finally dove in, unaware of a silent but large threat roaming around the shore.

"This is just how I like it," Cardiff whispered as he and Meredith both dove up for air, trying to sound convincing. "Excitement, adventure… danger lurking around every cor- AHHHHH!!"

He screamed from seeing an eel and bumped into Meredith, shivering as she said, "Oh… Are you ok?"

"Yeah, sure…" Cardiff whispered, frightened. "Just give me a second to get my bearings."

"Shh," Meredith shushed as they swam toward the ocean floor and looked around. Meredith then spotted something, thinking, "Oh my gosh… Oh my gosh!"

She swam over and picked up a long shell, went back up for air, saying, "Have you ever seen anything more wonderful in your entire life?!"

"Wow, cool!" Cardiff said swimming over to see. "But, err, what is it?"

"I don't know!" Meredith said excitedly as she pocketed it into her bag. "But I bet Dal will!"

As they went back to shore, Cardiff heard something walk by and looked around, saying, "Did you here something?"

"Hmm, wonder what this one is." Meredith said, looking at a big shell.

"Meredith…" Cardiff whined as something loomed up behind him as Meredith said in slight aggravation, "Cardiff, will you just calm down? Nothing is going to happen!"

But Cardiff looked behind him and let out a silent scream of seeing a wolf, poising its jaws, then ran towards them as Cardiff screamed, "WOLF! WOLF, WE'RE GONNA DIE!!!"

Meredith and Cardiff evaded the wolf and ran up to higher ground. As they ran the wolf burst through the woods, its mouth wide open as Cardiff accidentally ran inside but zoomed out like crazy as he screamed and the wolf started biting through the woods after them. Meredith dropped her bag in the wolf's path and quickly ran through the trees, the wolf following her, forcing itself through the trees, which led to log, Cardiff got stuck again, but Meredith managed to get him out faster before getting herself out and not a moment too son. The wolf burst through the log and chased them around the shore, but Cardiff bumped headfirst into one of the rocks. Dazed he began to fall, barely missing the jaws of the wolf as it tore into the spar. Meredith looked down and saw the wolf running towards Cardiff as he fell. Running quickly, she reached him first near some kelp as the wolf roared towards them… and ended up stuck in the kelp. Meredith grabbed her bag and ran as Cardiff gloated to the wolf.
"You big bully!"

He stuck his tongue out at the wolf, giving him a raspberry, making the wolf reach out as far as it could, smashing his teeth together. Had Cardiff not pulled it back in, his tongue would be gone as his eyes were as large as dinner plates and he whined, swimming to catch up with Meredith, as she giggled, saying, "Cardiff, you really are a scaredy dog…"

"I am not!"

Near a seal shore, a seal was humming merrily as he looked at shells as he chuckled. But he heard someone shout his name, "Dal!"

"WHOA!!!" He yelled as he saw Meredith and Cardiff. "PRINCESS OFF THE PORT BOW….!!! MEREDITH! HOW YA DOING, KID…?!?!?!"

"Dal, look what we found!" Meredith said, putting her bag on the ground.

"Yeah, we were near the ocean-" Cardiff tried to say, but Dal interrupted.

"Ocean stuff, huh?!" Dal said excitedly.

"Here, lemme see." He said, bouncing clumsily over, bouncing on Cardiff's head, much to his annoyance, and dug into the bag. He pulled out the long shell, saying, "Look at this! Wow… This is special! I mean this is very-very unusual."

"What? What is it?" Meredith asked excitedly.

"It's a… Lightning Whelk!" Dal whispered. He held the shell in his flippers, saying, "these shells carry whelks-"

"A Lightning Whelk …!" Meredith breathed.

"What about that there one?" Cardiff asked.

"Oh, this!" Dal said, picking up the pipe. "I haven't seen in years… This is WONDERFUL! A Conch."

Meredith and Cardiff said, "Ooh…"

"Now the Conch dates back to prehistorical times when people use to sit around," Dal said as he got up in Meredith's face, his eyes wide open as he said, "And stare at each other all day! Got very boring."

He took up the Conch as he said, "So, they had this Conch to make fine music, allow me."

He took a deep breath and blew into it, only succeeding in blowing out water, ocean dirt, grime, and a bit of seaweed as Meredith nervously said, "Music…?"

"IT'S STUCK!" Dal said rather dramatically.

"Oh the concert!" Meredith gasped as she put the shells back in her bag, saying, "My father's gonna kill me!"

"The concert was today?!" Cardiff gasped.

"Maybe you can make a little planter out of it…" Dal said before Meredith swiped the conch from his flippers as she and Cardiff began to run away as she said, "I'm sorry! I gotta go! Thank you, Dal!"

The princess and dog ran as Dal waved, saying, "Anytime there, sweetie! Anytime!"

As Meredith and Cardiff ran home, they remained unaware of two spies leering at them as their eyes seemed to come together into one, forming a crystal ball for someone else more terrible who was watching. In a dark and frightful place, somebody spoke with a cracked, husky, grating voice. "Yes. Hurry home, princess. We wouldn't want to miss old daddy's celebration. Huh! Celebration indeed, oh bah! There were REAL performances and celebrations when I lived in the palace;"

Crawling out from her hole came the witch, Aster, who was beautiful but sinister, she had a long magenta-red hair that reached to the floor, and red eyes that were also beautiful but devious. She was covered in black robes. Her body was thin.

"But now look at me" Aster said rather dramatically. "Wasting away to nothing. Banished and exiled and practically starving! While HE and his wimpy people celebrate!"

She walked along the floor of her grotto, vowing, "Well, I'LL give them something to celebrate about soon enough. Fiachna! Fiachra!"

The spies of Aster, a pair of ravens, hurt their heads on a rock from being surprised as they heard Aster speak to them in their minds.

"I want you to keep an extra close on that dear sweet daughter of his. She may be the key to Bryce's undoing."