Melody

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Melody is the protagonist of The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea, which opens with the celebration of her birth. She is 12 years old and King Triton and Queen Athena's granddaughter, Ariel and Eric's daughter and the niece of Attina, Alana, Adella, Aquata, Arista and Andrina. Taking after her mother, she has an adventurous and rebellious streak. She has long black hair styled in a ponytail and a red tail with pink fins when she's a mermaid. She learns how to talk to animals. Melody is voiced by Tara Strong who also voices two of Ariel's sisters in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning and Princess Clara, a parody character of Princess Ariel from the animated series Drawn Together.

The celebration is interrupted by Morgana, who threatens to hurt Melody if Triton does not hand over the trident. In order to save her, Ariel grabs Eric's sword and cuts the hatch to knock out Morgana and he retrieves Melody. Although this initial attempt is thwarted, Ariel decides that the sea is too dangerous for Melody as long as Morgana is on the loose, and vows to keep all knowledge of the sea from her, including her own family background.

Melody grows up banned from entering the sea, and ignorant of the reason why. This causes a misunderstanding to exist between her and Ariel, who refuses to explain the truth of Melody's past. By the time Melody is twelve, she has been regularly secretly sneaking out to swim in the sea. Melody and Ariel eventually come to blows in an argument, and Melody runs away from the royal palace.

Melody eventually encounters Morgana, who uses Melody's love of the sea against her. Morgana transforms Melody into a mermaid. A potion falls on her foot and a green light goes around her. First, all of her clothes disappear and she is completly naked. Then, her legs turn into a tail and her shirt reappears. Melody is overwelmed with joy. Morgana promises her that the transformation will last forever if Melody will retrieve the trident from Triton, claiming that he stole it from Morgana. Unknown to Melody, as one of Triton's descendants, she had the power to retrieve the trident from its resting place when Triton did not have it on his person. While searching for the trident, Melody befriends a penguin named Tip and a walrus named Dash, and they join her in her search. They manage to sneak into the Atlantican royal palace and make off with the trident. Melody returns to Morgana at the same time that her mother Ariel, who's been turned back into a mermaid, arrives. Melody, angered at Ariel's decision to hide Melody's mermaid heritage, gives Morgana the trident. Afterwards, Morgana reveals her true colors to Melody, takes Ariel hostage, and traps her and Flounder in a cave by sealing the entrance with a thick layer of ice. Soon afterwards, Morgana's spell on Melody wears off. She turns back to a human and drowns, but Tip and Dash trick Undertow, Morgana's giant shark lackey, into ramming into the ice, saving her just in time. A battle ensues. Melody begins to climb to the top where Morgana is. When she makes it to the top,she sneaks behind Morgana and snatches the trident from her.After that, Melody throws it to Triton who later imprisons Morgana in an iceberg.

The film ends with Melody reunited with her family and turning down Triton's offer of letting Melody become a mermaid permanently, opting instead to destroy the barrier wall that separated the royal palace from the sea in order to reunite both sides of her family, where they could all be together.

In the film, Melody sings in the songs "For a Moment", "Tip and Dash", and the finale song "Here on the Land and Sea". Melody is also a playable character in the playstation game, The Little Mermaid 2 which is based on the two movies.