Northern Atlantic Ocean

The storm is cover everything in sight and hiding everything under dark rains and flashes of lightning.

Boon wipes water from the wave that splash on the ship out of his face and pull the trawl line with other fishermen, dragging the fishes filled fishing net with their tired arms.

Captain shouts an order again. He seems to be in a good mood when seeing that they have caught some shark among other fish like basses or mackerels.

Some fishermen quickly run at the still moving fish and start cutting its fin with their knife, before throwing the bleeding animal overboard.

Wounded shark sinking under the waves, leaving only trail of blood behind.

While shark's jaw can be sold in a high prize, it's illegal for the fishing fleets to kill shark now due to their reduction in number.

So, the fisherman has to cut shark fin and drop poor animal back in the sea, pretending that they never catch shark during the fishing progress and sell (Easier to conceal.)

dried shark fin in the black market.

It's seemingly that some people still believes that shark fin will give them some special power or worse, they just want to show off how rich they are by serving a near extinct

animal menu during one of their luxuries feasts.

Not that boon care about whether shark will become extinct that much when his family is in the blink of starving.

He used to watch television and see some scientist in neat clothing and perfect hairstyle talking to a camera about how every shark will became extinct in 20 years if people

keep catching them and all.

But to boon it was like something long and uncertain future.

He has three children and his wife working in some factory he couldn't remember the name, when he is leaving them to work as a fisherman on some old ship in an ocean

that he never heard of.

They could barely afford the food for everyone in each day, much less 20 years.

Why should he care if some animal going to face an extinction if it means that boon and his family will survives for another day? Maybe his daughter can become a doctor or

teacher and save hundred people in one day. Right now, boon just need to make sure they survive first.

Thinking of his family made boon's heart hurt. But he shook his head again as they start pouring every fishes they caught the cargo.

Surely his wife and children must live comfortable with the money his boss sending to them by now.

Or at least boon hope, because he never gets out of this fishing ship for more than one year.

His life has turn into the hell routine since boon and other fishermen set foot on this accursed ship.

It's start with working, working and working. Sleep for a few hours and eat whatever scrap left from the fish they catch and then working again.

Some worker tried to run when they know what they were getting into. But most of them just keep working in hope that they can be free some days.

However, with guards walking around the deck with their firearm and threaten to shoot everyone who run. Boon doubt that the day will ever come.

Boon looks up at the stormy night and wipe the mixing of sweat and sea water from his face after they finish pouring the fish in the container, hoping to get some rest after

an exhaust night.

One guard kicking the side of boon rib, making him stumble.

He quickly gets up and looking for his attacker. But the guard already moving to someone else.

"Clean the fishing net! We will be moving to the next target in 30 minutes." Captain barks an order, he is dressing better than everyone on this ship and has his own warm

cabin while the rest of them have to cramp in empty cargo.

There are more than a few angry mutters from every ship's worker, but .357 Magnum that never move far from captain's hand making no one dare to confront him face to

face.

"There is still one left." One guard point at the finless shark that somehow dodge everyone eye after fisherman cut its fin.

Red blood run on ship's iron deck, making everyone life harder trying to clean it.

Boon swears and start walking toward dying fish but the big wave splashing everyone again, the force knocking him on his feet.

"Somebody helps me throw it!" Boon cries.

One guard muttered to himself but quickly walk and grab the fish head while boon holding its tail.

But before he could drop the fish overboard, the wave come and boon face filled with sea water again.

Boon going to swear at this cursed ocean but stops when he realizes something. The water that gets into his mouth has a taste of iron instead of normal salt like other times.

He looks at guard who help him pick up shark's body and scream because the man in front of him has no head, red blood pouring from his neck like fountain.

Boon stumble on the ground and screaming as the guard and bloody shark drop on ship's deck, covered it with red color.

Some guard swear and swinging their weapon around, but there is no one around them except from shaking ship crew and empty ocean.

"What happen!" Captain asks, pistol in his hand.

"I…I don't know. We were trying to throw away that fish and his head is gone." Boon almost crying as he speaks. It's not that he never saw some gore. But there is big trench

between seeing someone die from stabbing wound during drunkard fight and seeing someone's head has been cut cleanly in front of him.

In the stormy night, middle of nowhere.

"A shark? Or the accident from ship's sling." One of the guard asks, looking nervous.

"Shark don't bite like that. And there is no cable over there." One of the fishermen said, his name is Mali. Some native from southern Pacific Ocean Island.

"Then what…" Before that guard could answer something piercing through his body and send him flying to the cabin's wall, pinned dying man's body with an iron plate.

Everyone looks at the thing that pierce through the man's heart.

It's look like spear but two blades instead of one, similar to medieval military fork.

Fishermen scream and remaining guards swear as they waving their gun aimlessly at the stormy sea.

One guard scream as something drags him away from the ship's deck.

Other shooting their assault rifle aim at the dark water around them. Captain aim his revolver too but didn't shoot at anything.

Something wrapping itself around remaining guards and knock them over their feet, boon looking at them and surprised at what was wrapped around surviving but unable to

move guard.

"A fishing nets?" Boon exclaimed.

"It is on the deck!" One of the guard shouts as he is trying to tear himself out of a long net.

Captain turns his head toward direction, gun follows but unable to shoot since something cut his right hand in less than a second.

Captain scream and dropped on the deck, blood pouring from his hand.

"Isn't it weird?" A newcomer said as he sheaths his short blade, ignoring the whimpering man on the ground.

"That when land dweller like you cutting our animal alive and drop them to die in our sea. You seem to be fine with it, but when we did the same to you. It's become a big

deal."

The man laughs. He is wearing a strange hood that has a strip on it, similar to a tiger skin.

His sand color hair gleaming by the ship's light, showing his cruel yellow eyes and a sharp looking tooth as he pulls his war fork out of the wall, letting guard's dead body drop

on the floor.

This is no man. Boon think. A monster under the wave, coming to kill them all.

There is other too. Out of nowhere, thing in fish looking costume suddenly appear on the ship's gunwale. There are eight of them, aiming bizarre looking weapon in their hand

at the remaining fishermen.

"Val. Call our sharks." A man in tiger hoodie pick captain by his neck and drag him at the ship's edge, ignoring blood and captain's cries in pain.

Boon looks in the dark water and surprised. Even with the murky and nonstop moving wave, he can see shark dorsal fins gather around then ship, waiting for something.

It's weird. Boon think. Most of the time, shark will not gather on the surface this many. It's as if someone has calling them to be here.

One fisherman uses this chance to pick captain gun up but get his head blow up by one of the intruder's energy gun instead.

"There is no need to fight. You all are going to die eventually.

Why don't let it become a message for other land dweller not to f**k with Atlantis." He throws the captain overboard, smiles as many sharks bites captain and drag him under

the surface, leaving only trail of blood behind.

"Please." Boon whimper, dropping on his knee while Mali praying for his south pacific god.

Man from the sea grab boon by his neck and drag him at the gunwale, his strange is so much that boon unable to breath by the man's grip.

"Why are you crying, human? Isn't it is the world where we live in.

Fish eat fish world. You just forget that there's always a bigger fish, that's it." Man in strips hood laugh and lift boon body, ready to throw him overboard, but the big wave

come and splash boon back on the deck.

The man swears and lower his body to pick boon up.

"Yes, there is." Someone said from behind them, and every hoodie man jerk as the newcomer standing on the ship's deck.

She is a silver hair girl in great white shark hoodie, the blue trident and her eyes glowing in the dark.

The strips hood man controls his nerve.

"Trident and blue hood. You are our former king runaway's daughter. Gawr Gura." He said in disbelief.

"And you are a sadistic spoils brat who killing somebody for pleasure. Who are you again?" Gura sneers.

Strips hood seems to be proud of himself as he boasts.

"My name is Seanz De veur. Son of Grand general Tigre. I am here to send the message to these land dwellers that Atlantis will not stand for their arrogant act anymore."

"By killing them? I thought my father always maintain peace relationship with human. Do you want to create war between land and sea or something?" Gura demands.

Seanz laugh. "You are hundred years late, after the king's death. Regent prime minister Sakamata Chloe demands blood for the damages that human did to our ocean.

Overfishing, wastes dropping and global warming. All these need to stop, or else wewill stop them."

"Humans aren't as weak as you think. they reach nuclear era now and have been contact with other aliens too. Okay, if a war broke out your people probably win.

But what will left after that? Wasteland with toxic water and lack of living creature. So much of a fighting to protect your land, eh?" Gura trying to put a reason in this

situation.

"Keep your weakling logic with yourself. A princess who leaving her duty for 9000 years has no rights to judge us." Seanz snarled.

"Are you going to challenge me and ignore this trident?"Gura asks, showing a blue trident that belong to the king's family.

"Put it in your ass, because I don't care. Everyone knows that Orca's clan ruling Atlantis right now." Seanz laugh, making Atlantean that standing around them laugh too even

is some is not as sure as him.

"Very well."Gura looking at her feet. And, without warning strike her trident at seanz who barely has time to counterattack with his war fork.

But he is panicking and his weapon miss gura head for an inch while her trident completely cut seanz hand in one swing.

Before seanz could scream, gura knocking him down with her feet.

Pointing trident at his neck before other Atlantean could react.

"Compare to hachama. You guys are just a joke." She snorts.

"Are you going to shoot than gun? Because I'm sure Your master head will leave his body before you pull the trigger." Gura sneers at Atlanteans who point their weapon at

her.

"Get out of here. Now!" Gura bark an order, some Atlantean start moving back but the rest still stand there, hesitate.

The lightning struck at something not far from the fishing vessel.

Everyone looks up and saw a newcomer who standing on top of captain's cabin. She is a white hair magician who wearing a big hat.

"Do as she said or facing my seven colors magic. It's up to your choice, soldier." Murasaki Shion said as she jumps to the ship's deck, small fire ball floating on her hand

despite the rain and seawater that falling upon them.

Every Atlantean soldier bow down. "Great Magi." They said before quickly retreat, facing former king's daughter is one thing.

But pick a fight with the grand master magician of Atlantis is another story, one of the soldiers look at seanz who still clutching his wound.

"He will be fine. Magician always keep their word, can't you remember?" Shion snorts, it's enough for every Atlantean to disappear back under waves, letting wounded seanz

at mercy of gura and shion.

"So, why are you here again?" gura asks, stopped seanz from running away with her feet.

"I promise with your father to bring you home. That's all." Shion said.

"Is it true that Atlantis declare war with humanity?"Gura question again.

"No official announcement yet, but everyone seems to agree that they can raid every human ship without real punishment.

Luckily no one actually did that except from these fools."Shion points at seanz who still whimpering from his wound.

"Let's me guess. It's Chloe idea." Gura said.

"Yes, but most of Atlantean agree because there is no king for almost two hundreds year, and she is the one who most likely to become one.

Guess what happen when the king die and there is no heir because she keep running away from her duty for 9000 years."Shion said bitterly.

"I run away for 9000 years but no one think about finding new heir? Sound like bulls*it to me." Gura sneers.

"King Girass always believes in you. He want to you to become his

heir and nobody else." Gura look away upon hearing shion word.

"What do you want me to do? As you said, I am just a runaway girl. Not a great king or whatever you seem to think I am."

"First. Go to Atlantis and declare yourself as a king. Not only by your blood but also your trident, making from the great tidal wave since the first king Gawr Gorgo declare

every ocean under his rules.

Beside, I heard that you able to beat former council member hachama and stop the end of this world. At least your Portfolio is not exactly empty." Shion smiles.

"I aren't beat her by myself, but whatever." Gura snorts, grabbing seanz by his neck and lift his body.

"You can't kill me! I am grand general's son." He yells.

"Whatever you say, lad."gura look at shion.

"Are his man gone?" she smiles when magician nodded.

"Have fun." She throws seanz overboard and laugh as his body quickly sinking under waves.

"Now. Let's talk about what to do next." Shion gets to business but gura shook her head.

"I have something to do first." She looks at surviving fisherman and guard, noticing Mali who kneel down and praying at her in his native language.

"I knows you would come, kwokua." He said with tearful face.

Gura snorts. "But I'm not. To be honest I just follow migrating sardines around here and smell human blood. That's it."

But she takes his gift that make by carving fish bone anyway. It was islander tradition, and gura don't want to upset him.

"Call the coastguard and wait for them to take you back ashore. You all probably going to jail. But I guess it's better than dying out here." Gura tell the remaining fisherman

before turning her attention toward shion.

"Now what do you want me to do again?" she asks.

As both jumping from the fishing ship to the dark water gura asks.

"Why don't you use your magic or something? I thought magician can use portal spell to travel wherever they want?"

Shion flustered "I can use portal magic! And I just use it to find you here.

It just that when I use that kind of magic, I need to wait for 12 hours per spell. Bending reality like that is not an easy job after all." She trying to explain.

Guru sneers "So you are great Magi that cannot use portal magic whenever you want? What a reliable magician you are."

"Nowadays a magician that can use portal magic is really hard to find! Only a legendary magician can use portal whenever they want."Shion protests.

"Sure! Whatever you say. But could you swim a bit faster?" Gura asks shion who swim slowly behind her.

Magician look as if she just having a marathon match for hours despite barely swimming more than ten minutes.

"I always travel by using mana or riding Atlantean 'vehicles to preserves my magic power. After all I have to spend some with my lung to be able to breath underwater and

talk with your people.

Who knows one day I have to swim across Atlantic Ocean like some herring?" Shion gasp.

"At this rate Chloe will become king of Atlantis and dies from old age before we get anywhere near her!" Gura complained.

Shark girl look around for helps because she don't want to carry magician across the ocean by herself.

Gura closing her eyes and sending a signal. It was some sort of wave that can't be heard or seen by human, but some others creature can.

Shion feels something coming from gura's body but not sure what it is.

" What are you doing?" She asks.

" Calling for a ride." Gura smiles as she looks at the dark water around her.

"You can talk with a fish?" Shion said in disbelief.

"It's not exactly a talk, more like some sort of communication between different species. I can do this as long as I remember."Gura explained.

" I heard that some Atlantean can do that." Shion recalled.

"In the Atlantis history book, Gawr Gorgo command every shark in the sea to fight for him against armies of Whale kingdom.

Not sure if it was just a legend to make him become more badass or not." She shrugged.

" I don't know about controlling. For me it's just about how we communicate.

Those tunas just come to help us because I used to help them from fishing fleets in the past, not because I can command them whatever I want." Gura explained.

Shion smiles "At least that tell me you have a good heart. You might not fight as fiercely as Chloe, but you are surely merciful than her."

Gura snorted at the idea. "If I have to rule fishes and shrimps,I guess."

In a few minutes. Hundreds of tunas are swimming at their direction.

"Never ride a tuna before?" Gura chuckled when she sees Shion face.

"I used to ride a bottle neck dolphin during my time in Atlantis but…"

Gura laugher make Shion blushed. "Hey! I can drive a car, you knows?

Well, Aqua did the driving for me but…"Last part is Shion muttering to herself but Gura ignore her.

Some smaller tuna starts swimming pass them but gura wait for the big one come closer and grab its tail.

"The trick is wrapping your leg around it's back and avoid the spike. When it starts swimming slowly mean that it's became tired. You need to find another tuna then." Gura

explain.

Shion follows her advice and get on the tuna. This one is length 8 feet long.

"Tuna are bigger than I ever thought!" She exclaimed.

Gura snorted. "This is normal size. In the past tuna can be bigger than 13 feet, but thanks to overfishing and all. Nowadays you are lucky if found the one that bigger than 10

feet." Gura voice lost her cheerfulness for a bit when she compares past with present.

Maybe she is start getting old after all.

As they swims alongside with tunas swarm in silence, Shion trying to break the ices between them.

"Let me tell you about what happen in Atlantis when you were gone How much do you remember about your people?"

Gura snorted. "I know about my people very well. I am not old enough to have an Alzheimer yet."

"You leave your home for 9000 years let regain your memories first. Okay?" Shion said.

Gura didn't swim away so Shion takes that as an okay.

"Atlantean homeland is a planet that fully underwater for millions of years. Except from the frozen northern sea.

Lot of being turn sentient underwater without using fire. There are mollusk clan, fish, arthropod or even sea mammal in the same water. Tearing each other throat all the

time.

By using genetic engineer and breeding tools instead of creating them by metal works Atlantean is one of the most unique sentient being in this universe. A civilization

without fire.

Even your people's ship is a living being that has been genetic engineered to carried other thing.

Such as manta ray bomber jet or horseshoe crab tank etc.." Shion explains.

Gura snorts and look away.

"After millions years of war between each species. There only three strong leader left.

Whale clan from the frozen sea, Great white king from middle ocean and tiger shark clan from southern sea.

To avoid the big war that might kill everyone on their planet.

Three kings agree to choose one king to rule them all. In the end they choose Gawr Gorgo, great white king as an emperor of the deep, ruler of all Atlantean.

Even their weapon showing this Only Gawr family can use trident as their weapon, its three-blade showing how he rule north, middle and south sea

While tiger shark can only use two-blade war fork as his family weapon, ruling east and western sea.

Whale family can use only one-blade spear as they rule the frozen sea under both shark families.

Other kings still ruling their own land but has to bow down to the emperor in order to keep their head."

"Gawr Gorgo greatest act is that he seal a legendary monster that threaten every Atlantean life. A Leviathan to sleep in the holy land forever under his rules.

However, after his death by assassination. The greatest disaster happens and destroy almost everything in their homeland. Atlantean priest tell us that it was because

Leviathan is waking up again.

To stop this, they has to sacrifice one Atlantean woman to the Leviathan in order to please the beast.

Since that day. It is become Atlantean tradition to give one woman to the beast every time bad thing happens in their society, by public vote of course."

Shion keep explaining and Gura keep looking away.

"Atlantean start moving across the universe and colonize every planet that have enough water for their civilization, leaving their ruined homeland behind.

After long travel and contact with other species they earn technologies to sustain themselves even without water. But wherever Atlantean go, they will make a portal that connect with the place they sealed Leviathan in.

And sacrifice a chosen woman to it whenever the great disaster happens." Shion concluded.

"Your father, king Girass knows this full well when he found a city in earth's ocean. So, he build the portal gateway in Bermuda Triangle.

Everything seemed fine after the council wars that happen 10,000 years ago, after all there is ocean more than 70% of this planet. At that time human is still not Atlantean

threat and they have whole ocean for themselves."

"Then the disaster happen. Ocean stream stop moving, causing eco system to collapse and Atlantean life get affect too, a famine happen across the ocean, some of them

start dying.

King Girass has no choice but perform the sacrifice ritual.

The woman that his citizen choose, however. Is an Clovis tribes woman he met on land during the ice age and bringing her to the Atlantis to became his bride-"

"Don't talk about my mother!" Gura suddenly snarled.

"Not talking about what already happen doesn't undo it. You know that full well Gura.

Isn't that why you refuse to join your father funeral? You never forgive him for his decision." Shion shift herself to another big tuna when the one she riding start swimming

slowly.

Gura clench her teeth. "He should send her away. Not giving her to those brainless bunch!" She yelled.

"He did what he think a right thing and it became a decision that will haunted him forever, that is.

I won't judge something I barely understand. But it's seem that Atlantean blame that bad thing happened because king Girass decided to have land dweller as his wife.

Instead of choosing from pure blood Atlantean, typical social animal. I suppose." Shion sneered at the idea, she has read it happen hundreds of times in every civilizations

book she can lay her hand on.

"After the sacrification of his wife to the great beast Leviathan. King Girass finds another sad news, his daughter running away after knowing what happened.

He sends his soldier to looking for her anywhere. From The frozen north pole to the south. No one ever find Gawr Gura again for 9000 years. Even after they send some

Atlantean back among the stars in vain hope to know her whereabouts."

"Even after all this king Girass still hoping to see you again. He refused to remarry or name another people as his new heir. Because he still believes that one day you will

come back and rule his kingdom." Shion concluded.

"I will be very appreciate if he just name another heir." Gura snorted.

"Anyway, he needs more people to help him rules the kingdom. Especially after the war treason in Pacific Ocean that happened 4000 years ago by the bull shark family.

All of them face an extinction now, If you haven't know yet." Shion still not done with her story.

"I know about that war. And how he thanks orca family for helping him during the war by giving them position in his court." Gura said with an irritation.

"Two of them are Sakamata Chloe and her sister." Shion said

"I know them." Gura recalled.

"During the royal journeys we go to their frozen castle, around Arctic, I think.

Chloe is the brave one while her sister is a bit timid.

When their parent greeted mine, Chloe gives me a white bear fur coat she claims hunting by herself.

Her sister gives me a colorful starfish necklace, they seemed to be a good bunch at that time.

Gosh, I wish I have a friend that can travel back in time.

Every seemed beautiful in the past." Gura groaned.

"Chloe did a very good job during the war, people said that she rips bull shark king's liver out with bare hand and feast on it in front of his soldier." Shion said.

"Well, that was…metal." Gura touches her own stomach without realizing it.

" After death of her parent. Chloe become head of the orca clan and minister of defense in king Girass court.

All seemed to be going well until the great El Niño happened and making ocean became inhabitable, people screaming for sacrification again and the king allows it.

Do you know who they choose?" Shion asks.

"Don't know. I probably trying to find the source of Amazon River at the time. Geez, Andes mountains are so cold." Gura recalled.

"You climbed Andes? What a madlad!" Shion exclaimed.

"Anyway. People of Atlantis voting for Chloe's sister to be sacrificed, and you probably know the rest." Shion concludes.

"For real?" Gura exclaimed, she knows that public opinion is always full of shit, but sacrifice a member from one of the strongest clans of Atlantis? That beyond stupidity.

What do they want to do next? Tell king to hand over his wife to the Leviathan? Wait a minute…

"After the sacrifices Chloe turn another person, nothing can make her happy again maybe except crushing her enemies. She still did her duty as a minister but anyone know

that there is no love between her and Girass anymore.

Chloe start rising in ranks and replace people in king Girass's court with her own. Some people warned Girass but he didn't seemed to care. Before everyone noticed, Chloe

already had become a prime minister of the Atlantis kingdom."

Shion voice starting to fill with emotion so, Gura glances at her

" Around 200 years ago, idiot magician stumbled upon the Atlantis during it darkest time, looking for her human friend ally again alien threat.

King Girass beg for her to stay "until his daughter come home."

He showers her with promise and gifts until she accept his deal and became the first Great Magi of the Atlantis since they lost magic techniques long time ago."

"So, magician stay, not knowing that his daughter has running away more than 9000 years ago."

"Bound by her promised, magician keep her word and wait and wait and wait for 200 years but king's daughter never came.

Not even after magician's friend, Mina to Aqua dies by old age more than hundred years ago.

But magician did not leave Atlantis to join her funeral.

She did not leave even after King Girass dies hundred years ago.

'poison by his enemies' or at least Chloe said that.

For magician, promise is what you value more than your life.

If you can't keep it then your life is worthless, even if we have been tricked to do it in the first place."

"That silly magician name is Murasaki Shion." Shion said, staring at Gura eyes until she looks away.

"Well, what can I say. A d*ck move from my father, I guess. You will get used to it." Gura finding her voice at last.

"The point is I didn't want to be here as much as you do.

But everyone has their duty and only a coward will run away from it. Understand?" Shion declares.

"I will think about it." Gura turn her head away, rather looking at the dark water of Atlantic Ocean instead of anger and sorrow on Shion face.

" We already reach Atlantis!" Shion yell, waking Gura from her own reveries.

She looks down at the dark water and saw dim light below her, too little for human to see. But more than enough for Atlantean like her.

Gura swimming downward while Shion jumping from her tuna's back with the same speed, it seemed that magician has regain her magic power during the time she rest.

The Atlantis is below them. A city that made by mixing of rock, anemone, coral reef and other living sea creatures.

Gura didn't look around as they swimming pass glowing crinoid that Atlantean use as a street lamp and a traveler bench made by sponge.

Lot of beautiful fishes swimming in the city, knowing that no one want to eat it when there is plenty of more juicy fish farming nearby.

Some hunter from seven gilled shark wave at Gura when she swim pass him in the coral forest near the city. He is holding a bow made by sea urchin and using genetic

engineering angler fish as his flashlight, looking for their dinner.

Gura wave back at him, now she and Shion is tossing away their costumes and Gura's trident.

Hood is what Atlantean classified their social status and even those who don't know Gura probably remember her great white shark hoodies, same goes with Shion magician

costumes.

So now they just wearing normal clothes made by seaweed as their traveler suit.

Even Shion is not sure what citizens of Atlantis will react if their long-lost king daughter suddenly come back home to reclaimed her throne.

So, they agreed to hide and wait for wind direction, some clan like shrimps or shark probably support Gura as their king, but the rest is still uncertain, especially orca clan

under Sakamata Chloe.

Crustaceans king from Indian ocean is a diehard Gawr family supporter and probably greets her with open arm, but Shion afraid that he would declare war with orca clan and

create a civil war that will ripped apart Atlantis kingdom instead, since Crustaceans king is being well known for his bad temper.

So, their plan is to make everything peaceful as possible, just sneak in, send message to Gura supporters and tell them to gathers here, make an epic ceremonial return and

peacefully send Chloe's army (hopefully) back to their home. Easy peasy.

They sneak in small tavern at city's edge, it's owner come from Humboldt squid clan, while always looking angry he is a very kind heart person who did anything is his power

to follows costumer demanded.

Gura know that since he was serving lionfish menu despite them being Pacific creatures, the amount of working he did in order to get them here must be insane.

(Nowadays lion fishes are an invasive species in Atlantic Ocean and aren't that hard to find. So nope, he isn't trying that hard.)

Gura munching on her lionfish that has been boiling in hydrothermal vents seasoned with anemone poison before looking at Shion.

"Tasty. Don't you want some?"

Shion give a weak smiles " 200 years underwater… I already tried every fish in this world. No need for sea food anymore in my life."

Before Gura could answer someone else approaching them. He is a big muscular man who wearing a tiger shark hoodie that somewhat look familiar for gura's eyes. A two

blades war fork glowing in his left hand as he spoke.

"My name is Tigre De Veur. Grand general of the Atlantis kingdom.

My son reported that he spotted you not far from here.

Hope you can come with me at the palace." Groups of armed soldiers that pour into small tavern and aiming their weapon at Gura and Shion told them that they has no

choice but to follows an order.

Gura weight her chance. Together with Shion she might beat this general and his men… If there is no back up and he didn't have anything under his sleeves.

"What is this? Tigre." Shion said angrily, she seems to know this man more than Gura did. 9000 years of her absent seemed to really make her became a stranger in her own

city.

"We will discuss this once we reach Prime Minister chamber." Tigre didn't take his glances off Gura as he speak.

"Well, not so much of a stealth mission aren't we?" Gura said jokingly at Shion.

It's seemed that Chloe already knows their whereabouts.