Kraken Wants Out

Alright, it's been long enough. It is now time to start binging this one until I'm satisfied with where I'm at.

You might be asking if this story will also be ending within ten chapters, and the answer is: maybe. We're entering the New Rome arc, with this chapter being the end of the Cruise arc, and if this story is to end at the end of the New Rome arc, it's going to end on cliffhanger, and I didn't intend for that to happen. These arcs are the replacement for the Sea of Monsters, meaning the Titan's Curse would be next, canonically, for the PJO arcs, but the next Tokyo Ghoul arc is the Owl Suppression Mission, only with this continuity it would be the Kraken Suppression Mission, and Percy, Persia, and Kraken will not be sitting that one out.

So, after the New Rome arc is the Kraken Suppression Mission, which is going to be something. Either the end of this story, the first arc of the sequel, or just another arc.

Time will tell.

Anyway, I've been informed that it's getting boring reading about how Eto is always dominating Percy, and I agree. Time for some action!

Disclaimer: I don't own PJO or TG

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Last Time, On Green-Eyed Ghoul:

Amphitrite taught Persia how to mimic the abilities of sea life, and Persia used this newfound power to make like a clownfish, and alter her gender on a physical level.

Amphitrite also cursed her stepchild as her way at getting back at Poseidon, and she did this by making Persia a nymphomaniac. Whenever Persia is in her girl form, enough pressure to her vagina will cause the release of excess amounts of hormones and pheromones, making her seek sexual release immediately, however, Amphitrite made it where this release would only be sought from the current partner, meaning Persia isn't going to jump the first penis she finds.

Eto and Persia engaged in sex, in which Eto got too crazy and was too rough and caused enough pain to make Persia cry. After that happened, the One-Eyed Owl calmed down, and became more gentle. Persia and Eto's relationship changed, with Eto vowing to be more humane and respectful, as opposed to her domineering and dominating.

While those two had sex, Kaneki, almost completely white-haired and suffering from phantom pains of centipedes in his ears and his fingers and toes being cut off, restrained and rendered unconscious a furious Touka.

The Romans are chilling, and want off this boat.

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Current time

As he had so many nights already, Kaneki bolted up with a scream, scrambling from his bed, clawing at his ears.

"GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT!"

Touka's eyes snapped open at the panicked shouting, and she was quick to rush to Kaneki's side. Her kakugan flared as she pinned him down and held his arms to the ground. Blood soaked the floor.

Because Kaneki had torn off his ears.

He struggled and thrashed under her, screaming about his fingers and toes.

"KANEKI!" Touka roared. "KANEKI, LISTEN TO ME!"

"AAAAAGH! THEY'RE IN MY EARS! GET THEM OUT!"

The Rabbit, terrified of what was happening, slugged the teen across the face hard enough to shred his cheek, blow out teeth, and tear his gums. Any human would have died immediately from shock, but not a Ghoul. Kaneki laid there, eyes wide, now still.

It took Touka a minute, but she found her voice. "Listen, you half-breed. There's nothing in your ears, and your fingers and toes are just fine, right where they need to be."

Despite the steel in her tone, the annoyance in her voice, she was scared. This was actually the third time this night alone Kaneki had woken from a night terror, screaming and attacking himself, and she didn't know what to do, what she could do. She didn't have a phone to call Anteiku with, didn't have a computer on hand, and she considered herself lucky no one had complained about the noise, and that no one like ship security had come to ask questions.

Kaneki was panting. "I'm sorry," he whispered.

Touka took what she could get, and tried to brush off everything by throwing up her usual crass and uncaring persona. "Don't worry about it. Percy used to do this all the time when he was a kid, though he would also piss all over me. Almost put him in diapers because washing sheets and clothes got old real fast."

Kaneki looked at her with a flat eye. "Really?"

"No."

"Which part was a lie?"

"He never actually pissed on me, and I never threatened to put him in diapers, but he did crawl in my bed after a nightmare, sweating like he had just come in from a twenty-mile run at top speed. You good now? My legs are starting to hurt."

"Yeah, I'm good."

Touka let off Kaneki, and they both got to their feet. Blood soaked the sides of the Eyepatch's head and down his face, staining both his shirt and the floor. To Touka's extreme impressment, his ears and his cheek (presumably his teeth and gums as well) were all healed.

Then there was a frantic knock at the door, and the two Ghouls were then aware of a very distinct scent…only there was something distinctly off about it.

"Touka? Kaneki? What's going on in there? I heard screaming! Please, open up!"

Kaneki immediately made for the door, but he was yanked back by a scowling Touka. She stormed up to the door and almost ripped it off the hinges. "You smell like sex and it makes my nose burn. What do you want?"

Persia flushed, becoming flustered at having the oils and chemicals around her identified so easily. "W-Well, I-I heard screaming from way down the hall, and I—hey!"

The daughter of Neptune was wearing an ocean blue nightie that went a little above her knees, and Touka, smelling something way more wrong than just sex, flipped the front of the skirt up, revealing a simple pair of white panties…with no bulge. They were completely flat against Persia's crotch, and suddenly the reason for the smell was painfully clear.

Touka's face contorted. "What in the fuck…"

She grabbed Persia by the front of her nightie (where it had been procured was anyone's guess, as Touka certainly did not own any garments of the sort), and yanked her into the room, locking the door behind her.

"Why do you have a vagina? How did that happen?" Touka demanded, red eyes glowing against the black of her sclera.

"S-Salacia, my stepmom, she showed me h-how I could mimic sea creatures, and the c-clownfish...can change its gender. I-I know I'm just a personality holding Percy's place until he's ready, b-but I wanted something to make me, me...and Salacia helped."

Touka and Kaneki were both silent for a while as they digested that, and Touka was done first. She jostled Persia. "And when Percy is ready, can he change back into a boy?"

"Y-Yes...I think so…"

Touka's eyes narrowed, and Persia suddenly started to feel very cornered. The young Ghoul was jostled again.

"Turn back into a boy, right now! I want to see it work to make sure."

Persia hastily shook her head, closed her eyes, and concentrated. Touka held up the nightie, watching intently. The panties expanded, the material crackling slightly, as male genitalia grew in the place of the female. The Rabbit nodded once. "Fine. You can switch back if you want."

Persia did that, as having a penis while wearing panties was not very comfortable.

A massive clapping sound suddenly boomed throughout the cabin, and Persia stared up at Touka from the ground with wide eyes, eyes brimming with moisture, a hand on her stinging cheek. Kaneki looked at Touka, deeply surprised.

"You irresponsible...disrespectful...little BRAT!" roared the Rabbit. Her red eyes glowed mercilessly as she glared down at her little sister. "I can understand running away after what happened. I can understand joining a group that makes you feel loved and accepted. I can understand going on a rampage and slaughtering dozens of humans."

Touka inhaled and exhaled several times, seemingly hyperventilating, trying to calm herself down from the tirade she was on, but she failed.

"But SEX!?" The volume made Persia flinch, making a few tears fall down her face. "You are not even fourteen yet! And you're spreading your legs for someone twice your fucking age! Are you kidding me!? Have you given any thought to what might happen to you!? You could get fucking pregnant for all we know!"

Kaneki piped up. "How?"

Touka rounded on him, furious eyes smoldering like burning coals. "She's a demigod. Conventional things don't apply. Considering some stories, it's not much of a stretch to believe that a female can get another female pregnant, and the last thing we need is for Persia to be pregnant with a kid, because if she changes back into a boy, that could very well kill the child, and no one here is prepared to deal with an infant."

"Oh."

Touka rounded back on Persia, but the words caught at seeing the girl's sniffling state. She was trying not to let loose a flood, but the dam was cracking. A little bit of guilt wormed into Touka's heart, but it was tiny compared to the flame that was still roaring in her. The Rabbit found her voice again and opened her mouth to deliver another riot act, but an iron grip clamped down on her bicep.

Kaneki was staring at her with a deadly serious gaze, his left eye emitting red light against a pool of black. "Let's take this outside."

Touka didn't get to protest before she was yanked out the door. In the hallway, she gained enough sense of public decency to whisper-yell, so as to not wake up everyone on this side of the ship. "What the hell!?"

The steel in Kaneki's eyes tempered Touka's fire. "I ask you the same thing. I can understand a big sister reprimanding her little sister for being irresponsible, but that was extreme, even for you. That was more than just a little reprimanding, that was a full blistering. That was something fueled by more emotion than just anger. So: what the hell is wrong with you? You slapped Persia and made her cry."

Touka's defenses went up. "I don't have to explain shit to you, half-breed. Besides, this a family matter, and you're not a part of our fam—"

"And yet," Kaneki interrupted sharply, "Percy and Persia have both called me big brother. If that's not grounds for being considered family, then I don't know what is—and last I checked, you're not actually Percy and Persia's sister. You met them when they were four. I don't know what grounds you're using to say I'm not family, but I can guarantee I can find the flaw in your reasoning. So if this is a family matter, then I'm either privy to it, or neither of us are."

Touka scowled, deeply upset at this turn of events, even more upset at this switch in power. Kaneki was supposed to be a doe-eyed, bumbling, half-breed who didn't know jack about being a Ghoul, or Ghoul life. He was supposed to be inferior to her, yet here he was, bearing down on her, standing taller than her, eyes colder than hers, lecturing her, making more sense than her.

Kaneki wasn't an idiot. He was an avid reader, and had developed sharp characterization skills, and he knew how to identify idiosyncrasies and flaws, and he knew how to psychoanalyze. He knew Touka's type, she was prideful, protective, and most importantly, controlling. She thought, at least subconsciously, that the best way to protect her younger sibling was to have absolute control and authority over them, dictate them, command them.

And, well, in light of that night, in light of Aogiri Tree and Persia's relationship with Eto, Touka's control over the green-eyed Ghoul had slipped, fractured, and waned, and like anyone with a controlling personality that found their control diminishing, they became angry and sought to vent that anger in any way possible, and reassert control.

Case in point: Touka's unwarranted rage at Persia, and her slapping of the child.

"So, what is it, Touka? Why did you really slap your little sister? Why did you scream at her? Why did you make her cry?"

Touka remained silent, scowling, holding Kaneki's gaze as she refused to submit or show weakness.

"Why?" Kaneki probed again. "Why?" Harder. "Why?" More force. "Why?" He was getting in her face. "WHY?" Kaneki pinned her to the wall. "WHY?"

And then Touka erupted.

"BECAUSE I'M LOSING HER, GODDAMMIT!" Her breathing labored. "I've been in her life since she was four, I've practically raised her alongside Sally and everyone else, I've played with her, spared with her, fought with her, took her hunting, celebrated every birthday, taught her how to read and write, homeschooled her, and saved her from the CCG. And what do I get in return for all of that? A slap in my face in the form of her opening up her legs for a green-haired bitch."

"You think you're losing her," Kaneki said, "but you're pushing her away."

"What?"

"Ever since we got on this boat and Eto became known, you've become distant and have avoided Persia like a plague. Stop it. Give her a hug, spend some time with her, plan some pranks, have a good fight, go for a swim. If you think you're losing her, go and find her. You think Persia's replacing you with Eto, and she's not. She just wants to love you again."

The door creaked open, and the teens' conversation came to a halt.

Persia's face was tear-stained, and her cheek was the faintest shade of pink. She didn't look at either of her siblings. "I'll—I'll just be going…"

Kaneki gave Touka a meaningful look.

Swallowing, the Rabbit placed a hand on Persia's shoulder, halting the sullen child. "Hey, stinky. You need a bath."

"Okay…"

Persia tried to leave Touka's grasp, but the Ghoul's grip tightened. "I meant now, Persia. C'mon, I'll show you how girls are supposed to wash themselves, because I'm 100% sure you haven't had a bath since we got on this boat."

The daughter of Neptune brightened slightly. "Can you help me do my hair?"

"Yep."

Persia broke into a smile.

As Touka led her sister to the cabin's shower, she caught Kaneki's eye.

The white-haired Ghoul nodded with a small upwards twitch of the corners of his mouth.

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Persia spent the rest of the night snuggled up against Touka, just like old times, and Kaneki spent the rest of his night reading. He claimed it was because he was wide awake and couldn't fall asleep if he wanted to, but Touka knew that he didn't want to wake Persia up later in the early morning with screaming from a night terror.

Kaneki didn't want to scare his little sister.

When morning came, everyone got dressed in their day-to-day clothes, with the Eyepatch throwing on a simple ensemble consisting of a black t-shirt and white shorts, the Rabbit putting on her usual clothes, a white button-down under a blue jacket with black shorts for bottoms, and Persia also kept it simple. An aquamarine camisole top with an aquamarine skirt. The combination made her eyes pop.

Touka helped do her sister's hair, pulling her bangs back, leaving two to frame her face, and made a loose ponytail. Persia didn't have much hair for anything more than a pixie style, but Touka had been trained in the Hair Arts by Sally Jackson, and was very skilled.

Since the Ghouls couldn't have human food, they skipped on breakfast, obviously, and since none of them were hungry, all having had their fill of meat at least a week prior, the insulated bag of human body parts remained untouched.

Per Kaneki's idea from last night, Touka laid out something of an itinerary for her and Persia to do for the day, and really the rest of the cruise because the captain said they were three days from the San Francisco ports. All of that was just fine with Persia, as she had been dying for this to happen ever since the schism.

A girl's day with her sister? Hell yeah!

She just needed to tell Eto first.

"Hehe," Touka laughed uneasily. "What? Why does Eto need to know any of this?"

Persia retreated into herself just a little bit. "Because she's my girlfriend…"

"Okay...and I'm your big sister. Eto'll be fine without you for a few days."

"Well, yeah, but…I don't want to just ditch her. She gets clingy, and she gets weird when she gets clingy."

Touka's eye twitched, her smile waning, but Kaneki clapped her shoulder, and looked at Persia with an eye smile. "Go and tell Eto what's up. Touka and I will be on the lido deck."

"Okay!" Persia sprang up and quickly gave both her siblings a kiss before darting out of sight.

Touka let out a very frustrated exhale. "I thought you said to "find her" since I was losing her."

"Yes, but I thought you'd have the maturity to realize that Persia is not all yours, anymore. She's going to want to split her time between you and Eto, and you're going to have to respect that. You'll also have to come to grips with the fact that she may want to spend more time with Eto than you."

"...that is not going to happen."

"But if it does," Kaneki said with force, "you will not be doing anything to break them up. I won't let you if you try."

Touka turned her head to look at him. "You won't 'let me'? Since when did the inexperienced and stuttering half-breed have the balls to threaten me?"

"Since I woke up," Kaneki said almost coldly. "Now come on, I said we'd be on the lido deck, and that's where we're going to be."

He left the room, and Touka had to wonder just what the Eyepatch had been dreaming about to make him become the mature and serious young man he was now.

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Eto blinked owlishly at her younger girlfriend. "So...you're having a sister's day out with Touka?"

"And probably the next three days, too."

"Oh. Have fun."

Persia blinked and shuffled awkwardly. "Just...like that? I can go?"

"Yes...why wouldn't I let you spend time with your sister?"

"Because you're possessive and clingy and you put your fingers in my butt when I don't spend enough time with you, and I don't like fingers in my butt...or anything in my butt."

"Oh, right," Eto said tersely as she remembered how she greeted Persia for the first time. "Well, I won't do that. Ever again. Now, go have fun with your sister. Just know that when you get back, we're shaking the world." Eto finished with a wink, and Persia scuttled away with a blush.

When the girl was out of earshot, even with her advanced hearing, Eto frowned very deeply at her Little Sea Monster running out on her like this, and the One-Eyed Owl was very displeased with the cause of such desertion.

"I'm going to skin that Rabbit…"

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The day was a blast. Water slides, hydrokinetic cannonballs, a trip to the spa, sun bathing, and a fun little story involving poor Hazel.

The Louisianan had been coming out of her cabin when she caught sight of the shadows, and the wriggling tentacle monster steadily coming closer. Hazel had screamed and made a beeline for the opposite end of the ship. A search party had to be called, and they eventually found the daughter of Pluto wrapped around the flagpole, trembling like mad.

Persia and Touka giggled together like children at that.

However, as fun as this day was, the real fun didn't come till about three in the afternoon.

"Let's go swimming!" chirped the daughter of Neptune.

"Okay," Touka shrugged. She got up and headed for the pool, but her hand was grabbed.

"Not there," Persia stressed. "People pee in that one. Let's go swimming there!"

Touka looked at where that slim finger was pointing, and paled. "Uh...I'm pretty sure fish pee in that one."

"Yeah, but that one's a lot bigger so the pee gets dispersed so much you can't tell it's there. Unlike that one, where it's so crowded you can feel someone fart."

Touka suddenly remembered how much Percy hated public pools, citing how they always felt dirty and icky.

"I still don't think jumping over the rail is good idea—yi!"

Persia hollered in joy as she yanked her sister along behind her, and jumped with such great strength that she cracked the deck. The two girls soared through the air, one screaming in exhilaration, the other just screaming. The deep blue of the Pacific came roaring up to meet the two as they descended rapidly, and then FLOOM.

For the first time in forever, the child of the sea immersed herself in her natural element, and it felt amazing.

Persia got lost in the feeling of the ocean, lost in the subtle bliss. She could feel the nearby pods of whales, the hunting and migrating sharks and orcas, the massive balls of krill and bait fish. Persia could swear she felt something like warm, strong arms wrap around her, and soft lips touch her temple. She smiled at this phantom embrace, and she almost cried at how loved she felt right now.

'Hey, Daddy.'

The water around her warmed considerably before fading, Neptune's time spent.

For Persia, that brief meeting meant so much more to her than she could accurately describe. It meant that she, just a personality in Percy's head, was loved by her father as equally as he loved Percy himself. It helped served to assist Persia in validating her existence as more than just a collection of memories. It made her feel like her own person.

It made her feel...it made her feel...it just...it made her feel.

Persia was tapped on the shoulder, and turned around to see Touka struggling not to drown. She giggled and made an air bubble around her sister's head, to which Touka was very grateful for, but that didn't stop her from glaring.

Persia just giggled some more and grabbed Touka's hand, and shot through the water, dragging her sister along. Persia went straight for the nearby pod of whales, and the sheer size of these humpbacks almost made Touka pee herself. An instinct in her made her want to grab the happy little girl darting around one of the cows and drag her back to safety, as these were big animals capable of God knows what, but Touka watched how Persia interacted with the whales.

It was like watching a child play with some happy dogs.

A shadow fell over Touka, and she looked up to see a curious little calf was swimming around her, trying to figure out what she was. Even though it was only a baby, it was still times bigger than what Touka would ever be. Not at all at ease with the large creature swimming around her, Touka raised her hands and backed away as much as she could, given that she was immersed in the ocean.

'Quit being silly.' Touka whipped around to see her sister glaring at her with her arms crossed. 'She just wants to play.'

Touka just kept staring at Persia. "How are you doing that?"

Persia rolled her eyes. 'Sound travels better in water, baka. I'm just projecting my voice into your air bubble.'

"Oh." The baby whale nudged Touka with her large mouth, and the Ghoul was brought back to the present. "Hey, stop that."

She was nudged again by the whale.

"Stop it." Touka was beginning to freak out just a bit, feeling threatened. A threatened Ghoul was not a good thing for anyone.

The calf nudged Touka a third time, and this time the kakugan sprang to life, scaring the calf enough to where it went swimming away to its mother.

'That was mean. She was only curious.'

"Yeah, well...curiosity killed the cat."

'She was a whale.'

"Oh whale," was Touka's pun.

Persia deadpanned. But then she perked up instantly when she registered something. Touka was suddenly pulled through the water, frowning at how easily she was being manhandled by her little sister. Persia pulled them both to where they were riding on top of one of the bulls, and Touka suddenly felt extremely apprehensive.

"Uh...Persia?"

'Shut up and hold on!' came the exuberant response.

Touka hunkered down just in time for the bull to go surging for the surface and go roaring fifty feet into the air. Touka screamed and was thrown off. Persia whooped and had the time of her life as she allowed herself to be thrown off and land in the water with a floom.

Touka paddled through the water and grabbed her sister. "We are never doing that again."

A whale came crashing through the surface and Touka squeaked and hid behind her sister. Persia was grinning like a loon. 'We are so doing that again.'

"No we are not—ah!"

Persia snickered as another whale came crashing down next to them. The whales were putting on a show for the "sea princess," as they called her. Persia found it flattering and it made her blush.

'Come on, one more time!'

Touka didn't get a chance to protest as she was dragged onto the back of another whale as it breached the surface, soaring thirty feet into the air before coming back with a massive splash.

Touka was pale as a sheet of paper, Persia was happy as Ghoulishly possible, and the whales eventually had to move on. To which Touka was immeasurably grateful for, and Persia was sad to watch happen. But all the fun and excitement was tiring for the younger girl, and she wanted to take a catnap. She would've been just fine with sleeping right there in the ocean, but Touka was opposed to that, and so Persia ferried them both back to the ship, to which they got back on board without anyone being any the wiser, found the cabin, and crashed together, with Persia snuggling into Touka's arms.

But it wasn't over yet.

The visit of Neptune's daughter to the pacific did not go unnoticed by otherwise hostile divinities, chief among them Oceanus and Kronos, who was sailing along in the Atlantic in a box, and the Time Titan had orders for his brother.

Three simple little words that were iconic, symbolic, unintentionally detrimental, and Oceanus followed without question:

"RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"

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The sisters were actually just waking up when they heard the screaming start, and it was enough to make them wide eyed and alert. The scent of an approaching sea animal, a big one, and panic made them bust out of their cabin in their bikinis. Something really big was coming up really fast, making a very big wake around itself, and where Touka wasn't spiritually enough attuned to sense it, Persia and the Romans were and the Romans were gathering arms and armor.

Persia instinctually recognized the approaching behemoth of a monster.

"The Kraken…"

She wasn't scared of it, she was on the ocean for crying out loud, but she was wondering how it got here, why it was here. Yes, she knew monsters were attracted to demigod scent, but this many demigods, easily a hundred of them, maybe a few less, should have been enough of a force to drive any intelligent monster away, even the likes of the Kraken…or, more accurately, the Kraken was so powerful that this many demigods were a beacon, not a deterrent. Either way, it was here, it was a threat, and it needed to be killed.

Persia was just fine with taking this thing on, but someone wasn't letting that happen.

'NO!'

Persia stumbled and fell, clutching her head as her brother roared at her from inside.

'No, I have watched you get pampered like a princess and screwed like a bitch by Touka and Eto respectively, while I've been stuck helping Percy. I am not letting you make me sit back on the sidelines anymore. I want OUT!'

Touka fussed and freaked out over her sister, but Persia groaned as Kraken forced his way to the front, yanking her back into the Consciousness with Percy. Inside, Persia noted with great satisfaction that everything had been pieced together, and her brother was just sitting in a chair with his head in his hands, dressed in Anteiku's uniform.

Outside, Touka backed up instantly when her sister's eyes sprang open, green kakugan blazing. The scent changed, the aura changed, everything changed. Almost everything, anyway. Kraken was nice enough not to stretch his sister's bikini by switching to male, and he also didn't want to experience wearing female clothes while having a shaft. Persia's memories of that was enough for him.

"Touka," Kraken greeted curtly, and then he leapt over the rail.

The Rabbit was pale, because she realized just what had happened, and who was now out and about in the world, and she wasn't quite sure how to feel about that. She looked over the rail and decided to watch, because, while on the fence about Kraken, the masked Ghoul was still her little brother.

In the water, swimming out to meet his namesake, Kraken took stock of his opponent. Big went without saying, its head seemed to be protected by a carapace shell, it looked to have four crab-like legs, massive arms with four fingers each, and a few super thick tentacles coming from behind the monster.

While this thing might have had tremendous size as its advantage, Kraken had the home field. He was immersed in it, surrounded by it, drawing constant power from it. He didn't need Medusa's head to kill this monster.

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Back on the ship, Vanessa the praetor found Touka. "Where's Percy!? Or Persia!?" Over the din of panicked shouting, she also had to shout. Touka just pointed out to where the Kraken was, and Vanessa turned in time to see something that made the blood rush from her face.

The Kraken came out of the water in all of its colossal glory, spraying water everywhere, but there was something on its neck, drawing blood, a lot of it. Touka recognized it as a dragon of her culture, a massive length of water coming from the ocean's surface, to bite the Kraken's neck. Vanessa thought it was a giant water snake.

In the water, dodging through the thrashing, Kraken the Ghoul was putting everything he had into his construct, putting everything he had into biting through the muscle, tearing through the esophagus, crushing the vertebrae. He could feel it working, just as the monster also felt it working, and it was getting more desperate, thrashing with more violence.

Kraken grew too focused on crushing and moving that he failed to see where he was moving, and he smashed right through an undersea rock and lost concentration. It was enough for the monster the free itself, the water dragon disappearing back into the waves. The Kraken, enraged and furious went headfirst into the water, mouth wide, intent on swallowing the Ghoul whole. Unfortunately, the monster was not wholly intelligent, nor was it aware of Kraken's ingenuity and resourcefulness.

With its maw wide open, it gave the son of Neptune a very big target to aim for. Calling upon the water all around him, Kraken shot upward like a rocket, barreling for the surface at 400 hundred miles an hour, kagune wrapped around him and the barbs all facing up. The monster's head erupted when something like a bullet from below went right through it, tearing right through its brain.

Kraken soared upward for a few dozen more feet before gravity took hold of him once more, and he splashed down amongst a sea frothing with golden dust. Next to him, a very big eye was casually floating around in the water, and he supposed that was his spoil of war, so he grabbed the cornea and started swimming for the boat.

When he got close enough, he propelled himself up over the rail just in time to hear the captain's announcement.

"Thank you, crew and passengers, for your cooperation in out fire drill. Please, return to your activities and have a great time!"

Just like that, dozens of doors burst open as the mortals did indeed return to their activities. Kraken found himself being stared at by a praetor and a handful of legionnaires.

"Yes, the eye is a bit weird, isn't it? I think I'll mount it on my wall."

"You just...you just…" Frank stuttered.

Hazel finished, "You just killed the Kraken by yourself."

"A son of Neptune and water go very well together. If we were on land, that would've been much harder. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find a place to put this, I need to tell Touka something, and I need to talk to my girlfriend."

All the Romans parted like the Red Sea before Moses as Kraken moved past them.

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The SSS-rated Ghoul found his fellow human-killers in Eto's cabin, Kaneki standing in between the two females, acting as a buffer zone. Touka looked very displeased, and Eto looked like she was enjoying the girl's displeasure.

"Kraken," Kaneki greeted with a nod. His brown eyes were darker, narrower, more serious. Kraken nodded in greeting and found this change in Kaneki pleasing. The green eyes slid to Eto, "We need to talk." A smirk and a little bit of lust, "I look forward to it." Touka scoffed but didn't say anything.

Kraken dropped the oversized eyeball. "Percy says he's ready to come back out."

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That was fun. It's nice to get back into the swing of Tokyo Ghoul. I admit to not being very familiar with current manga events, but I do know there's a new season coming out, and apparently Kaneki's a super Ghoul that can turn into a 'Dragon.'

Fun.

There may be an event very far into the future in which Kraken and Dragon battle. Very far into the future.

So, Percy's pulled himself together after his psychological episode, all by himself at that, very impressive, and he's ready to come back out. What this means for Persia and Kraken remains to be determined, but this incarnation of Percy Jackson is far too nice to just kill off his 'siblings,' so that means no recombining. So don't ask.

And what's this?

A secret ending?

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Underworld

She supposed it was nice here. No CCG, no enemy Ghouls, she didn't have to worry about hunger, or killing, or getting any of her family killed...but it was boring down here. It was repetitive, monotonous. This was what peace was like. Stagnant, stale, the same thing, over and over again.

She was never a woman for settling down, not with her lifestyle. Besides...she had a son that needed her.

She recalled several stories about people leaving this plane of existence, most of them involving trickery and bartering, so she supposed she was going to be the first one to fight her way out. She'd probably have to go through a list of deities, maybe even hades himself, but it didn't matter.

She wanted out. She wanted to see her baby. And she would cut through anyone who got in her way.

Her white mask, serene and calm, her white cloak, rustling lightly, and her white wings, shaped like the dorsal fins of killer whales and littered with veins of red, spread widely, and with a powerful flap, she took off into the air, her kagune generating enough downwards force to propel her into the air.

Sally Jackson would see her son again in the living world, and God help any who tried to stop her.

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Yeah, I never intended to leave Sally in the Underworld, especially because her death was brought about by Kronos. Though how she gets out of here is going to quite the epic battle.

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