A/N: Here is the update that I have been dying to do. I mean, the episode that it's based on is my absolute favorite! You will notice, however, that this was divided into three chapters... It got so long...
Also, Kisame has a severe case of Atychiphobia... Let's see if you will figure out what that means by the end of this chapter.
Let's read...
Wide, dark eyes looked around from a small child's vantage point from on top of his father's shoulders. His father was a tall demon of broad stature, so he easily had a good view of the event that he and his parents came to see.
Hoshigaki Kisame, age 5, pointed out into the streets and exclaimed, "There they are!" In an underwater city such as this, parades and things were always a good source of entertainment. Especially if they were held in honor of Sanbi No Same. First a large group of mermaids tossed shells and pearls into the water around them, then a squad of dolphin riders performed a few tricks for the audience…
The parade went swimmingly along (no pun intended) before, finally, Kisame's mother stated, "Here comes Lord Sanbi!" Kisame was more than excited: he had only seen depictions of the shark deity in the forms of pictures and statues, and his family spoke so high of him that he must be amazing.
Then, standing on top of a large, coral-decorated float next to his wife weasel-deity Rokubi No Raijuu, Sanbi No Same stood waving and calling out to all of the city's citizens.
Kisame's eyes were keyed in on the powerful deity who controlled water with a simple thought in his mind. His wife was beautiful too, waving to the crowds and staying underwater with the help of an aquamarine ring that went perfectly with the scarf around his neck –
Abruptly, the scarf drifted away from Rokubi, the weasel trying to grab it but it had already floated out of his grasp. Kisame gasped, immediately swimming to where the scarf had floated to and swimming towards the float.
"Excuse me?" He asked, gulping as Sanbi looked over to him. He quickly bowed, apologizing, "I'm sorry to be messing up your pretty float by standing on it, and I'm probably ruining the parade, but Rokubi-sama dropped this and…"
"My scarf!" Rokubi waded over, gently receiving the scarf from the small shark-demon, "Thank you so much, little one." When Rokubi patted him on the head, Kisame couldn't help it: his face faded into purple from a severe blush. Then Sanbi spoke up,
"Hey, you want to sit up here for the rest of the parade? In fact," He silently gestured for two of his royal guards to go find his parents.
If Kisame had thought that Sanbi was a sight, seeing the two water-demons clad in royal blue armor swimming gracefully, beautifully, through the water was nothing short of incredible.
At the end of the day, when Kisame's parents prepared to take him home (such an exciting day he had today), Kisame had to ask, "Those demons! The ones in the really pretty armor? How did they get it?" Sanbi chuckled, patting the small shark-demon's head,
"That's the normal garb of anyone who is skilled enough to join my royal guard, kid."
That day was the day that Kisame vowed never to rest until he had enlisted into Lord Sanbi's Royal Guard.
It was a calm day. The blue sky hosting only a few, puffy white clouds above Adamant Falls. Let's look at the golden-sanded shores where Kisame and Zetsu were standing, the shark-demon speaking up, "..Now, what have we learned?"
"Lots of control," Zetsu replied, Kisame nodding,
"Good."
"Screaming and hollering,"
"Yes," Kisame nodded, "And most importantly?"
"Passion."
"Right! So now that you know the elements of a good cheer," Kisame smiled, "Let's hear one!" Zetsu sighed before waving a flag with a chibi-Kisame head on it,
"Yay." Kisame groaned,
"What the hell? You're going to cheer me on like that? Louder!"
"Yay." Zetsu tried again.
"Louder!"
"Yay."
"LOUDER!" Kisame shouted. Zetsu took a huge breath before whispering,
"Yay…" Kisame shook his head in obvious dismay, Zetsu asking, "Too loud?"
So the cheering practice may have been an obvious failure, but Kisame still had to do some real practice. So he swam out into the ocean, surfboard on his back, thanking the gods that there were some waves out.
Over on the beach, Zetsu cheered, "Yay." Kisame shook off the feeble cheer before using his own chakra to move the waves underneath him, jumping onto his surfboard and using his own power to manipulate the waters around him.
"And now," He whispered to himself, "Phase One of the routine." He rode the board over to a row of rock spires, weaving through each of them without so much as a scratch.
"Ooh…" Zetsu blinked at the sight. Kisame rode out of the area before announcing,
"Phase Two." He jumped off the board and into the air, plunging into the water in shark-form before he swam around in three circles. His speed and power created three impressive whirlpools before he breached the water and landed back on his surfboard, rushing out of the area. The spins made Zetsu a bit dizzy, but he managed to call out,
"Way to go." Kisame rode the surfboard out to where the waters were calmer, almost still before he stated,
"Here we go. Phase Three: The Great Shark Tsunami!" He waited until his chakra was back in balance before using as much of it as he could to get a wave forming. He rode the swell of water before forcing some more of his chakra into it, making it grow.
He managed to make it the size of a political office building before something went wrong. The water's natural magic was fighting against his own chakra, the water-magic slicing at his skin. "Shit!" The second he blinked, the wave began to crumble apart. "No, wait!" And before it was completely gone, it spat Kisame out of the water: sending him flying through the air.
"Kisame," Zetsu called out, chasing his friend, "Is this part of the routine?"
A book gently floated into an empty slot on a high shelf in the Adamant Falls library, Itachi turning around and thanking his friends, "Thank you all so much for helping. Rokubi-sama recommended these books to me and once I started reading, I couldn't stop!" Just as Hidan was going to say something, everyone turned at the sound of someone shouting,
"Fuck my life, fuck my life, FUCK MY LIFE!", before Kisame crashed in through the window: causing all of the books to fall from their shelves all over again.
Everyone groaned as they dug themselves out of the heavy tomes. Zetsu let himself in through the front door, calling over, "Kisame, you rock. Whoo-hoo." Kisame shook his head, helping Itachi to his feet before taking a bottle of pills out of his pants pocket. He took a couple before apologizing,
"Sorry about the mess." Then he turned to Zetsu, "That was a truly feeble performance." Zetsu shook his head,
"I liked it! Especially the part with the whirlpools."
"I'm talking about you!" Kisame growled, "That cheering of yours makes jeering look good!" Ivan helped Alfred out of the clutter of books before he walked over and asked,
"Comrade, tell me what is being the matter? Why the arguing?" Zetsu gulped, helping Tobi up,
"Were we arguing? I'm sorry."
"Ugh…" Kisame groaned before turning towards everyone else, "I wish you guys could come to Adamant Sea City to cheer me on in Lord Sanbi's Aquatic-Arts Contest!" Itachi had to ask,
"What's that?"
"Ooh!" Tobi cheered, jumping up, "It's where the best water-demons in the world come to compete and show off their skills! Some are fast!" To prove his point, Tobi rushed around the room once, twice, before he stopped, "Some are graceful!" He tried to plié, but he ended falling on his ass-e. Kisame shook his head before looking towards Kakuzu,
"You're a stitch-demon, why don't you come along?" The stitch-demon immediately turned the suggestion down,
"I have my reasons."
"I really do wish we could come and see you." Sasori smiled, Kisame agreeing,
"I would love for you all to come. Zetsu's heart is in the right place, but that's about it." Zetsu frowned before Tobi jumped right back up and smiled,
"Tobi would love to see you do The Great Shark Tsunami! It's the best thing ever! Not that Tobi's actually seen it, but come on! It's The Great Shark Tsunami, for Yonbi's sake!"
"Tobi, calm down." Itachi held his cousin to the floor before asking, "Can someone tell me what The Great Shark Tsunami is?" Deidara leaned over and whispered to Itachi,
"You need to get out more, un.", before Tobi jumped up and began,
"A legendary feat of power and skill! When a water-demon like Kisame goes fast enough and can mold his chakra with the magic of the ocean around him – BAM! – A tidal wave that's so high, so wide, that it blocks out the sky!" Kakuzu nodded and took over the explanation from there,
"Named after the first creature to ever perform the task, Sanbi No Same, it was thought that only he could do it. But Kisame here," He wrapped an arm around his friend's shoulder, "Has done it too."
"Come on…" Kisame shook his head, "I was just a kid back then." Tobi was practically bouncing on his heels as he asked,
"But you're going to do it again, right?"
"Yeah," Itachi nodded, "If you pull that off, you'll win for sure!" When all the eyes in the room were on him, Kisame coughed before giving a nervous chuckle,
"Are you kidding? With all my training, I can do that technique in my sleep! But anyway, the grand prize this year is a whole day with Lord Sanbi and his royal guard!" He sighed a wistful sigh, "A whole day with my idols… If one of them mentions enlisting, it will be a dream come true!" Zetsu cheered,
"Yay."
"Don't you start with me!" Kisame snapped at the plant-demon before he calmed himself down and said, "I have to go rest and pack up for the trip. I'll see you guys later." And with that, he walked out of the door. When Kisame was gone, Zetsu sighed,
"He's been practicing that technique for the past six months, and he still hasn't gotten any better at it. Wish us luck guys…" He left the library before Itachi nodded to himself,
"Well, back to cleaning! Again!" Just as he picked up a pile of books, Deidara nudged him on the shoulder,
"Um, hello~! Go on, un!"
"Deidara, what are you going on about?" Itachi frowned back, the bird-demon explaining,
"Find a spell that will get us into Adamant Sea City, un! Oh," He sighed dramatically, "Did you see how nervous he was?"
"Nervous?" Kakuzu laughed, "Kisame?" Deidara could only scoff,
"You all obviously don't know stage-fright when you see it, un! We have to find a way to be there for him. Now, go on!" He booty-bumped Itachi forward into a pile of books, the weasel-demon groaning,
"Where the hell would I even start? Finding an underwater-breathing spell in this mess?" Tobi blinked before he announced,
"One second!" He rushed off, rushing back with a book that he deftly threw into Itachi's face.
"Fucking… Tobi!" Itachi shouted before he read the bookmark entry in the book, "Here we go, a spell that allows a demon of the earth to journey underwater for three days." As Itachi read, Hidan asked,
"How the hell..?"
"It landed on Tobi's face when Kisame crashed into the library!" Then Itachi shut the book before saying,
"This spell is extremely complex. I'm not sure if I—"
"Itachi~!" Deidara frowned, "Do this for your man, un!" Itachi blushed before he sputtered back,
"He's not my – Fine! Who wants to be the test-subject then?" The room was quiet until Deidara crowed,
"I will! Because Kisame's too much of a sweetheart to go through this alone, un!" At Itachi's signal, everyone cleared away from the section of the room Deidara was in.
"Here we go." The weasel-demon slowly performed the hand-signs for the spell, streams of light and mist whisping in from the open windows to surround the bird-demon. Itachi gritted his teeth, the force of maintaining the spell getting to him before a crackle of light forced him away from his work, the room filling with light.
When the bright light cleared, everyone looked at the result with awe: especially in Sasori's open-mouthed case. Itachi gave an exhausted chuckle, Sasuke and Naruto helping him up, "I think it worked."
"Now docking Bubble 822 from Adamant Falls…" That was what an intercom system in a large underwater building called out as a large, opaque bubble floated in. A puffer-fish demon swam over before covering himself in spikes, popping the bubble: a large group of people filing towards baggage claim.
"All I'm saying," Kisame told Zetsu as the two demons, along with Mizuki, walked over to retrieve their bags, "Is that you need to be more aggressive. Don't be afraid to let people know what you want." They soon got their belongings and checked out of the Bubbleport before going to see what restaurants were open around the building: it had been a long trip.
They found a place that served cube-shakes (a milkshake that was served in a cube that had been carved out of ice) and take-out. They were about to go in when Kisame looked over and groaned, "Are you shitting me?"
There at the counter were a trio of catfish-demons (two female, one male) who were painfully familiar to Kisame. When the male looked over, he smirked, "Well if it isn't our dear cousin Kisame… The failure of the clan."
"What's the matter," One of the girls said, her sister adding,
"Flunk out of anymore schools lately?" Kisame tried to ignore them, asking Mizuki,
"What do you want to eat?"
"Little boy," One of the catfish-demons called over, "I would go back to treading water before Kisame's failure rubs off on you!" Her sister cackled,
"Ask him about The Great Shark Tsunami!"
"That's nothing but an old sea-shanty," Their brother scoffed, "Besides, he doesn't have the skill to pull something like that off!" Zetsu had had enough,
"Wait just a minute!" When the trio looked over to the plant-demon he gulped, "I'm sorry, just trying to be more assertive. Anyway, don't you dare talk to him like that! He will perform The Great Shark Tsunami!"
"Hardly." One of the sisters huffed, the other adding,
"There's no such thing!"
"Then come to the coliseum tomorrow evening!" Zetsu offered, the trio huffing as they left: promising to be there. When they were gone, Zetsu smiled and asked Kisame, "Did you see that? I was so aggressive!" Kisame only sighed, paying for Mizuki's food before they walked out of the restaurant. "What's the matter?" Zetsu asked, noticing the shark's demeanor, "Is what those cat fish demons said getting to you?" Kisame didn't answer verbally, but he did reach into his pocket: pulling out an empty pill bottle. Zetsu's yellow eyes went wide, "But you just got that subscription refilled before we left town!"
"And I need to get it refilled down here." Kisame shook his head. Zetsu only sighed before walking over and saying,
"But Kisame, just because you've failed at The Great Shark Tsunami over 100,000 times in practice doesn't mean that you won't be able to do it in front of an entire stadium…"
Kisame gulped.
"Full of thousands of impatient…"
Beads of sweat started forming on the shark's forehead.
"Super-critical water-demons judging your every movement down to the way you breathe water and—"
"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!" Kisame roared, shoving Zetsu away as he panicked to himself at a five-hundred nautical-miles a second, "What do I do? Everyone's going to see me fall flat on my ass in failure, again! Then Lord Sanbi will never let me enlist in his Royal Guard! Hell, he'll probably banish me to some deserted island in the Mortus Spires!" The bluenette fell to his knees, slamming his fist to the ground, "My life is ruined!"
"Would you calm him down?" Mizuki frowned towards Zetsu. The plant-demon was about to wade over when he looked across the way, his mouth gaping in shock as he muttered,
"Dei…"
"Yes Zetsu," Kisame shook his head, standing up, "They will all laugh at me and chase me out of town with torches and pitchforks!" Zetsu shook his head and tried to speak again,
"Deidara..?"
"Now you're cheering for people who aren't even here?" Kisame asked in disbelief. But when Zetsu pointed behind him and he turned to look at what had the plant-demon so blown away, his mouth dropped in astonish as well.
Wearing a form-fitting gown that seemed to be weaved from the bluest ocean-waters and the most beautiful sea-plants, with sapphire highlights whisping through his hair, and a shining trail of shimmering scales rolling down one cheek, Deidara swam over with all the grace of an angel-fish, Kisame calling over, "DEIDARA? Are… Are you… swimming?" The blonde demon giggled, swimming a loop-de-loop,
"I most certainly am, un! Don't I simply look divine, un? Itachi made them for me and I have never felt more amazing~!" Deidara actually sung that part, the water-chakra flowing through him improving his voice a hundred-fold. Kisame and Zetsu silently blinked at the blonde before he asked, "Why so shocked? We couldn't leave our favorite, big, strong sharkie without a huge cheering section! Oh and just take a look at these, un!" Deidara bounced on his heels before turning around once. The motion caused a pair of crystal-wings embedded with gold and gems of the sea appear. "I don't even have to swim the normal way, these make things so much easier!" Kisame gulped, nodding absentmindedly,
"You're like a harpy ( 1 )… Wait a minute," Kisame shook his head, "We?"
"Now docking Bubble 833 from Adamant Falls…" The intercom system chimed before a new bubble floated into the Bubbleport. They followed Deidara back into the Bubbleport and seeing the bubble close up. Zetsu gasped as he recognized the silhouettes, Kisame shivered before forcing a smile,
"I don't believe it." Zetsu agreed, smiling,
"It's incredible! I can't believe they let you guys buy tickets!"
"They sure did!" Tobi's muffled voice laughed out just as the puffer-fish demons were about to burst the bubble. Kisame gasped before shouting,
"Wait!", thinking the worst. But when the loud 'POP' filled the room, everyone inside seemed fine. "Huh? How are all of you..?"
"Ivan and I had some spare Aquamarines." Sasori explained. Itachi walked over to Kisame and added,
"I found a spell that makes earth-demons able to move underwater. But it used too much chakra to keep up, so I remembered what you said about Aquamarines and here we are!" He then quietly asked, "I hope it's okay."
"I'm not!" That was Hidan, the cat-demon desperately trying to get his bearings underwater. Everyone laughed as Kakuzu pulled him down, Kisame laughing,
"Oh, no! In fact, this is great!" He shivered as he felt the water near him get thirty degrees cooler, looking over to see Ivan.
"We have come to cheer you on, my friend. Also I – Dorogoy, get over here!" He had to cut his statement short when he saw Alfred swimming after the puffers, asking,
"Hey, how do you do that?" Kisame gulped again, Itachi noticing his anxious features. The weasel-demon asked,
"Are you okay?"
"Fine!" Kisame laughed, "In fact, this is great! Let me just…" He took a few careful steps away before snapping his fingers, "Let me call my parents to see if we have enough rooms for everyone!"
While the others were at baggage claim, Kisame had taken advantage of a nearby pay-phone, "Hai. … Hai, thanks mother. … Yes you'll get to meet my friends. …" Kisame blushed before sighing, "Especially Itachi. … Okay. Tell Dad I said hi. I hope to see you both soon, love you." The shark-demon hung-up the pay-phone, heaving a huge sigh. "Come on Kisame, you can… play this game on a slightly bigger scale for a little while." He turned around and walked back to the group, "So, great news! There's more than enough space for everyone, we just have to worry about getting there!"
"And how…" Hidan was trying to master swimming, only flopping about in the water, "Do you suppose we do that? Jashin-damn it, Zetsu! How are you used to this shit?" Zetsu gave a soft smile,
"Plants are at home all over the world, so I'm completely fine down here as well. But you know," He looked to Kisame and Kakuzu, "You two should show us around, since you know the area best. I mean, if you don't mind…" Kakuzu wanted to disagree, but Kisame jumped on the idea (desperately wanting to drive the focus away from his oncoming failure),
"Yeah! The Contest isn't until tomorrow, so we can go take the city by storm! In fact," He stopped in favor of giving a sharp whistle. A few seconds later, a long, tube-shaped length of ceramic that had been molded and shaped like a barracuda rushed to the side of the street, "Barracuda-bus is the best way."
"Let's go!" Tobi swam in, the others following suit before the doors slid closed and the vehicle rushed down the street. The bus drove for a good moment until Kisame announced,
"Welcome to the greatest city under the sea: Adamant Sea City!" Everyone rushed to the windows, gasping in awe and wonder as they took in the large wave-scraper buildings, busy streets, bright lights, and overall metropolitan feel.
"Ooh…" Kisame blinked, looking over to see Deidara checking himself out in the mirror, "Ah…" The bus made a stop, a trio of weather-watchers walking in. But when they saw Deidara, they nearly tripped over themselves.
"You're beautiful…" The leader of their squad gaped, the other two nodding dumbly. Deidara smiled, giggling at the compliment,
"Why thank you!" He swam over to the others, Itachi warning,
"Be careful with your new fins Deidara, they're made of crystal, pearl, and trace amounts of other gems so they're extremely delicate."
"Don't worry, Itachi," The blonde smiled, running fingers through his shimmering blonde and blue hair, "I'm sure that they can't get worn out from too much attention, un."
The bus drove on, past the political offices of Adamant Sea City where a few female politicians wanted to ask Deidara for beauty tips on his stunning scales, before Alfred gasped and spoke up,
"Hey, hey!"
"Hay is for horses, solnyshko." Ivan waved a finger, Alfred smacking it away before he went on,
"I want to see where you work! The weather-factory!"
"Great idea!" Kisame laughed, "We should get there in about thirty minutes and then me and Ivan can give you the tour!" Itachi was confused,
"Do you work there too?"
"No," Kisame shook his head, "My parents are co-owners of the place though." The rest of the group was silent, wondering how Kisame just said that like he was talking about the current of the water.
Barrels of black water, yellow stones that crackled with electricity, buckets of rainbow-colored liquid, and heavy blocks of ice were all being driven into a massive building near the center of the city. This was the Adamant Sea City Weather Factory, where Kisame had helped Ivan find a wonderful job when the Baba Yaga had first moved to Adamant Falls. The group of demons had to change into white clothing (the uniform-standard of the factory) when they arrived, but soon they were inside.
The first thing they noticed was the large carved statue in the lobby. It was of a shark-demon that looked almost exactly like Kisame who was carrying a young mermaid on his shoulder. But before anyone could ask about that piece of art, they all distracted by the painting on the ceiling that depicted Sanbi No Same controlling the weather of the sea.
"We must be quiet," Ivan whispered, breaking everyone out of their gazing, "We are about to enter my sector of work." They all walked into a room that was quiet and still, a complete contrast to the outside. It was also stark white, the only color being the gray of the tables where demons were concentrating on their work.
A large buzzer rang, a conveyor-belt carrying small ice cubes to the workers activated: each demon grabbing one before moving to the gray tables and carving them into intricate designs and shapes, each on different. "This is where snowflakes are made." Ivan whispered proudly, "Each painstakingly carved by hand and is required to be unique." Naruto looked around, giggling as he saw one with a fox's face in it moving down the 'completed work' belt.
"What do you do with the remains?" The Kitsune asked, "And the ones that are similar?"
"Ah, my favorite part!" Ivan laughed, pointing to where two very handsome creatures were crushing the remains of the cubes and rejected snowflakes with giant hammers. "We crush them into powder for snow-banks and frosting trees, da?" The cream-haired Baba Yaga waved over to the two, whispering, "Berwald! Matthias! ( 2 )" The two blondes waved back before going back to work.
While everyone was looking at the snowflakes and ice, Deidara swam up to where some particularly stunning specimens where hanging from the ceiling, "Ooh, the snowflakes look simply stunning from up here, un!" However, he had forgotten to fold his wings: the appendages shifting the water and causing everyone's hard work to start flying around.
All the workers immediately grabbed buckets, desperately trying to catch any of the precious parcels before they hit the ground. Ivan shook his head, his dark aura surging up, "We should be going before Deidara ruins Winter and causes a drought." He winced when a snowflake crashed against the ground.
"And here…" Kisame stated, opening a new door, "Is where they make the rainbows!" Water-demons (jelly-fish demons and octopus-demons) and mermaids swam about, mixing the thick rainbow colored substance from before into pools of purified water: creating glowing, sparkling rainbow-colored water.
"Oh wow!" Tobi rushed over to one of the pools, eyes wide, "Tobi would love to bake a cake out of this stuff!" He dipped a finger into the glowing water and stuck it into his mouth. Immediately, his face turned all various shades between red and violet before he panted, "Spicy! WATER!", and rushed off. Everyone laughed, Kisame shaking his head,
"I don't know why people think rainbows are sweet…"
The group continued to walk around the rainbow-pools, Kisame explaining the difference between miracle rainbows, double-rainbows, faint-rainbows, ring-rainbows, and lunar rainbows. "So you've been around weather all your life, haven't you?" Itachi asked, picking up his pace to catch up with Kisame. The shark chuckled,
"Yeah. My parents have quiet the tie to this place, so I had to learn about its inner-workings."
"Attention love-birds!" They were quickly interrupted from their conversation as Sasuke called over, "I am officially getting swamped by fan-girls, can we please move along?" Itachi had to hide a laugh as he saw his younger brother surrounded by love-struck mermaids, but it grew into a frown when he heard cat-calls of:
"Hey, baby-baby!"
"Get over here and taste some of this rainbow!"
"Let me buy you a drink, delicious!"
All being directed towards Deidara, the blonde strolling down the pathway between the rainbow pools with a growing mass of admirers following his every move. He smirked as he turned around, blushing, "Come now, you're all just too much, un! Now, keep on telling me about how gorgeous I am…" Then, who should have showed up, but one of Kisame's catty cousins. He took Deidara's hand and offered,
"I would be more than happy to compliment you over a nice dinner. How did you get those marvelous scales? And those wings!"
"Excuse me!" Sasori rushed over (not liking this guy's tone at all) the best he could before stating, "He is happily engaged!"
"Deidara!" Kisame asked, "What are you doing talking to him of all demons?" Deidara pouted before flipping his hair,
"They were just admiring my outstanding beauty, un!"
"But I can see what kind of company you keep, my dear." The cat-fish demon huffed before digging into his pocket and handing Deidara a slip of paper, "My card. And I will see you," He sneered towards Kisame, "Tomorrow evening for your latest failure. Farewell…" After he swam off, Zetsu gulped as he saw Kisame's whole frame seem to deflate from that one encounter. And when Kisame began to reach towards his pocket, the plant-demon began to push his friend along, asking,
"Kisame? Why don't you show us where the clouds are made?" Kisame nodded and looked towards the ground, his voice hollow,
"Huh? Clouds? Sure…"
( 1 ) Harpies are basically a combination of bird and sea-demons (look up Greek mythology or watch an episode of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! That has the character Mai Valentine dueling.
( 2 ) I love Sweden and Denmark… Not as much as Russia, but still…