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Kono was sitting on a surfboard with her feet dangling into the ocean at her and Chin's favorite spot which was a beach that had a small thicket of bushes and flowers at one end of it. When she was younger, her parents had to practically drag her out so that they could go home. But she had always felt like it was home. A sense of calm came over her once her feet hit the water. The further she went in, the more serene she got and the more she felt at one with the ocean. It was fortunate that she had taken to the side of the family that loved the water because she knew a few of her ohana who didn't and, considering their lineage, that was odd.

She had been told since she was young that her family was descended of Ione, one of the 50 nereid daughters of Nereus, and Lono, the Hawaiian god of cultivated, agrarian foods. Though she was one of the ones who loved the ocean, she couldn't keep a garden alive to save her life. Unlike her cousin, Chin, who was amazing at keeping his garden alive. He was a descent of Kane, the Hawaiian god of wild foods, jungles and forests which includes the gifts of wood, medicinal plants, leaves and flowers. He liked the water just fine but he preferred the forests and, when he was a teen, could always be found hiking when he wasn't playing American football. He was always bringing home some such flowers and leaves and mixing them up in the kitchen at home. He took them with him to his football practices. The team came to rely heavily on him for them as they either soothe their aches or ingested them and felt their internal aches dissipate within minutes allowing them to get back onto the field. Because of that skill, he sort of became the 'doctor' of the team. Unlike a few of his cousins on his side of the family who had gone into pharmacology, he had felt more of a pull towards being a cop. He still kept up his skills and quite a few people had still come to him in the family but that had gone down when he had been accused of stealing from the department. Ever since then, it had only been his old teammates and a few others who had come to him for his salves and potions.

A lot of their cousins didn't stay with the old ways and practiced their craft like Chin did or allow themselves to be so intuned with the ocean like Kono. In fact, a lot of their cousins didn't keep in touch with Chin whatsoever after the incident. And Kono was mad at a lot of them for that but she knew her cousin and knew that he didn't do that.

So while Kono was simply sitting in the ocean on her surfboard about a mile out from the shore, she could see Chin hunched down at the small patch of bushes and flowers at the end of the beach; picking flowers and leaves and putting them in his small satchel. In their down time, they liked to hang with each other as they could go hours without saying anything to each other, simply being in their elements.

Chin stopped picking flowers and picked up his phone. When he finished the call he got up from his crouching position and waved to Kono, indicating that she needed to come in. She paddled back in to shore, albeit very slowly. She had learned better impulse control as she had gotten older but she still didn't like leaving the ocean. When she reached the shallows, she rolled off her board and tucked it under her arm as she headed back into shore. "What's up cuz?" She asked of Chin.

"Steve is calling us in, we got a case," he informed her. She grumbled but stabbed her board in the sand and pulled on her shorts and tank top. She looked regrettably back at the ocean before pulling her board from the sand and following Chin back to the car. She strapped it to the top of her car with his help and flopped into the drivers seat while Chin threw his bag in the back seat and rolled down the window, resting his arm on it while Kono started up the car and headed towards headquarters.

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They entered 5-0 headquarters: Kono with her board tucked under her arm and Chin with his satchel slung across his chest. Kono quickly walked to her office and rested her board on the outside while Chin opened his door and threw his bag onto his desk before they joined Danny and Steve at the tech table. Kono settled next to Danny while Chin settle on the other side of Steve. Danny bumped her hip with his and said, "Had fun out there?"

"Always," she grinned playfully as she bumped him back. Since the beginning there had always been a light flirtation between them but neither had taken the next step. Kono was always coming up with a reason as to why she couldn't ask him out: there was a big case, he had his daughter this weekend, it was a team outing and not the appropriate place or time to ask him. At least, she hoped that she wasn't reading the signs wrong and he was flirting with her and not just being friendly with her. But from the way his gaze lingered on her, she was hoping it was the former. She stretched her arms above her head and noticed out of the corner of her eye that Danny seemed to turn his head more towards her and give a more appreciative smile.

"Thank you guys for coming in. Sorry to ruin your day off," Steve looked apologetically at Kono and Chin.

"It comes with the job brah. What do you got?" Chin enquired.

"We've got a weird one today. There is a new drug kingpin on the island going by the name Kainalu. We've only just been made aware of him because of a few deaths recently that HPD have surmised are all the work of a new drug being found in the victims systems which looks almost exactly like water. It bonds with the red blood cells so it travels through the body faster and the effects are felt quicker. It gives the user a feeling of euphoria in their brain and pleasant tingling in their extremities. Only problem is that people take too much of it so that the high lasts longer. Unfortunately with that, comes a huge crash. Because people are taking too much and, as you can see from these pictures, come crashing down so hard that their entire body falls into a relaxed state. So relaxed that none of their internal organs register that they are failing in time to save them," Steve stated.

"So you drug yourself into a relaxed state of death. Sounds fun," Danny griped. Chin huffed.

Steve continued, "They're calling this drug Bliss. One of the biggest problems is that we can't find the distributors or where they're making it. All we know is that it's being distributed at beach parties and seeing as it's Spring Break, there are a lot more college kids on the beach so there is a higher probability of someone taking the drug and dying on Hawaiian soil. We all know how susceptible college kids are to drugs and partying. Let's try and shut this down before we have any more casualties. Chin, check out the beaches where the victims last were and see if you can come up with a pattern or something that connects the victims. Kono, look up all the parties that are happening over Spring Break and pool it down to the ones happening on or near a beach. Danny, you and I are gonna go down to Max to get the information on our most recent victim then we're going to Fong to see what he's uncovered. Let's try and stop this thing before it gets out of hand." Chin and Kono nodded and headed off to their respective offices. Steve and Danny turned and headed out to the door to the elevator to head down to the basement and see Max.

I know I'm mixing Greek and Hawaiian legends here but I liked the way they fit and it seemed upon reading that the Hawaiian gods weren't heavily into the practice of sleeping with each other as much as the Greek ones were. With that being said:

Nereus was the old man of the sea who had 50 sea-nymph daughters and each one represents a different faucet of the ocean such as sea brine, seam foam, rocks, sand as well as various skills of seaman.

Lono was the Hawaiian god of cultivated, agrarian foods, especially the sweet potato. It is said that he used a net to fish up the sun and the moon and set them in orbit. When it became time to sculpt humans, he supplied the fertile soil with which to create the bodies with while his brother Ku sculpted the bodies and Kane, the oldest of the brothers, breathed life into them. He liked to descend from the heavens and surf which was how he met his mortal wife Kaikilani. He was so jealous of her intense beauty in that he always assumed that she were cheating and struck her down with his powers in his jealousy. He regretted his actions and wandered the island mourning her and created the Makahiki festival which lasts from October - February, the rainy season for Hawaii; though the tears are debated as belonging to Papa and Rangi for their separation

Kane was the Hawaiian god of wild foods and plants like trees as well as the forests and jungles with their multitude of gifts such as wood, medicinal plants, nuts and berries, leaves and flowers etc. He is said to be the chief of the Hawaiian trinity which consisted of his brothers Lono and Ku. It is said that when he saw that the constant lovemaking of Papa and Rangi prevented the birth of all the deity's, he grew upwards like a tree so tall that it separated them and allowed the birth of them all.