I walked into the Hall of Origin the next afternoon. "Arceus, I'd need to speak with—" The hall was empty. This was a meeting day, where was everyone? "Did I miss out on something?" I walked around. No, I was completely alone. There must've been some sort of a memo passed around in my absence.

"They'll hate me for this, but whatever," I struck the sword into the ground in front of the table. Almost immediately, portals started to open at the sides of the table, and legendaries stepped through. They were expecting to see Arceus at the semi-podium, but I tend to disappoint a lot of people.

"Calvin?" It was very overwhelming to stand at the head of a table and yet turn out to be the smallest person in the room. "What do you want?"

"Well, if you haven't noticed," I retorted. "Today is a meeting day…where's Arceus?"

"We haven't seen her for the last three sessions," Since I summoned everyone, let's see who I could mark absent. No Arceus, and no Giratina—yep, that explains it. Lugia was also missing, but he was gone long before I left.

'No Arceus…no Giratina…' I thought over. "That leaves me in charge."

Many of the legendaries groaned disdainfully, some laughed, knowing that I didn't have much power over them. I cleared my throat, and revved up for an announcement. I did this all the time with my employees, so I could compare. "You guys have the rest of the day off," Now the mood changed, most of them in shock or had gasped from shock. "You heard me. Enjoy your day off…bye."

I struck the sword into the ground again, re-opening their individual portals. They happily walked through, leaving only a handful of legendaries in the hall who could find their own ways home. Mesprit was one of them.

"Mesprit!" We hadn't spoken in a while, so it was heartwarming to see her. "How have you been?"

"Hi, Calvin!" She said, greeting me. "It's been quiet these last few months. Oh! Is it too late to tell Molly happy birthday?"

"I'm afraid so," She looked a bit sad. "But it's alright, I'll send her your regards."

"Thanks," She said. "So, have you heard the big news?"

"About what, exactly?"

"So you haven't heard…" She went on. "Okay then, get ready…Lugia has a daughter!"

"What! That's…that's amazing!" That would explain his absence. "Wow…what's her name?"

"Cornelia, she's three months old," She said. "He says he needs some advice from someone who's raised a daughter already."

"…me?" She nodded. "Wow, that's great and all, but from me? I'd be honored to."

"Alright then," She said. "I'll come by this evening. You should probably get a boat."

"Right…" My next door neighbor owned a boat. I could ask him if we could borrow it for the day. "See you later."

I returned to the restaurant later that afternoon to take over the shift. I stood behind the counter for an hour, taking individual customers' orders and placing them at tables. Molly entered and walked up to the counter. "So how did it go?"

"She wasn't there," I said. "Probably on a date somewhere."

Molly shivered. "That's so wrong on so many levels."

"Anyway," I gave a customer his change and receipt. I waved Molly behind the counter, and we both walked into the storage room, to look for some onions. "While I was there, I did manage to find out that Lugia has a daughter now."

"That's great!" Molly shrieked. "Tell me about her!"

"Her name's Cornelia, and she's three months old," I said. "Lugia asked me for some advice, and I'm going to see him."

"I think I'm going to call her Connie," Going to? She looked at my facial expression "…I mean if I come along…right?"

"Molly, this isn't a family vacation," I said. "Plus…I don't even know where we're going."

"Hey! I'm involved in this too!" She said. "You can't win this one, dad!"

"What the—" She stormed out the room. Come to think of it, I haven't won any of the arguments against Molly since before Mateo's battle. "I'm losing my touch…"

I walked back to the kitchen. "Here are your onions."

I dropped them on a table. Danielle looked at me with interest.

'You lost another argument, didn't you?'

I chuckled. "You're in charge for the rest of the day."

Following a quick visit to my neighbor, asking him if I could borrow his boat for the day, I went back to my house to get prepared. I never went to visit the legendaries, nor did they come to visit me, but I did know that Lugia lived somewhere in Johto, in an underwater cavern. You would think that that would be the best place for his daughter, right? Speaking of daughters…Molly wasn't here.

"Spreading the news, I bet," Latias wasn't at the hall when I summoned everyone, so she must've gone to see her. "Well, it's not like she doesn't deserve to know."

I walked into my bedroom and got some things, put them in a little bag, and took a deep breath. "Hmm…a nap wouldn't hurt," I knew that if we were going to some underwater cavern, I wasn't going to get any sleep at all, so I changed and fell back into my bed. I hadn't had one of these in a while. "Now for some rest…" I closed my eyes and went to sleep. I should've set my alarm clock…

"We could leave him…"

"Are you kidding? He'd ground me for a year."

I took the pillow and covered my ears. It was as if someone was standing directly over my head and trying their hardest to annoy me with their conversation.

"Maybe we should leave him," That sounded like Molly's voice.

"No way I could've—" I jumped up, and read the clock. It was 10:30 at night. I could've sworn that that was only five minutes. I guess I really needed one of these naps.

I quickly got redressed, grabbed my bag and threw it over my back. I accidentally tripped over Millie, who woke up and wanted to know where I was going. It would've been hard trying to explain this to her, so I decided to bring her along. Then we ran downstairs to join Mesprit, Molly, and Latias at the door.

"Thanks for waking me up," I said. "Latias…what are you doing here?"

'I'm coming along too!' What started as a group of two now increased to the five of us. I rubbed my head, and picked the Archaic Sword up off of its stand.

We made it down to the docks and found my neighbor's boat. It was a nice medium-sized vessel meant to hold a group of people. I untied the boat from the dock and jumped down into it, Molly shortly following, and started it up. How hard was it to drive a boat?

"Okay," I slowly backed out of the dock. From there, it was just open sea. Latias took to the sky and Millie took to the water while Mesprit joined me and Molly at the wheel. "Mesprit, where is this underwater cavern?"

"Cavern?" She asked, confused. "We're not going to a cavern."

I took my hands off the wheel and looked at her. "What?"

"Lugia didn't want his daughter to be born in a cavern," She said. "He was thinking of a place better suited for her, obviously underwater and out of plain sight, so he chose the Samiya."

"What's the…Samiya?"

"It's an underwater temple," She continued, and I returned to the wheel. "I visit sometimes to see Manaphy. She's the one who agreed to Cornelia being born there."

I don't have much information on Manaphy yet, since I only barely spotted her at some of the meetings that concerned the sea, but she sounded very peaceful and considerate to offer her home to Cornelia's birth. Really, it's a special thing.

"Okay Mesprit, lead the way," She nodded, pointed eastward, and I altered course.

We continued on for the next two hours; night slowly drifting into morning and spotting the first bit of sunrise. Millie jumped out of the water just to look at it. I should've brought along a camera, because these were fascinating views.

"We're here."

"We are?" I stopped the boat, and looked around "Are you sure? We're in the middle of nowhere."

"Look underwater," I woke Molly up and called Millie in, and asked her to scout around for this great underwater temple. She dove for a few minutes, and then came back up, looking very excited.

"Underwater…wait, Mesprit," I called. "Does this mean we have to dive down under?"

"To get there, yes," If I had known this, I would've rented some underwater suits from the fishing store across the street from the restaurant. I dropped anchor and stood by the edge of the boat. I tightened the straps on my bag and the sword, and looked down at the water.

"I really wish we could've teleported."

Since Latias hadn't been there before and Mesprit couldn't carry all of us, I dove into the water. It was bitter cold from the weather, and even wrapping myself up in my coat didn't help. Molly followed, soon grabbing a hold of me for warmth. Millie came over to ferry us down, with Latias and Mesprit soon following.

'Whoa…' The Samiya was an ancient underwater temple. Many people would've considered the temple to be an ancient Greek palace, but its aquatic culture said otherwise. It brought together both worlds, from both the surface world and the sea. The temple was covered in a spherical veil, which when we entered, turned out to be one giant bubble. Millie climbed up out of the water, and we got up.

"Look at this place!" I walked around. There were fountains lining the entrance, made out of sculptures of large water pokémon, including a Milotic, which Millie took notice to. "How come I've never heard of this place?"

"It's always on the move," Mesprit said. "The current pulls this temple endlessly around the world, so it is hard to pinpoint."

"Oh, wow…" I scratched my head. "Where's Manaphy?"

"I'm not sure. It always takes me a while to find her."

"Okay, then here's what we do," We gathered in a group. "Since you're the only one who's been here, you'll lead the way. First, we have to find Manaphy. Then we work out finding Lugia and Cornelia. Hopefully they're all in the same place."

We all agreed, and walked along the corridor directly ahead of us. The corridor itself was lined with elegant stone arches on each side, spanning over and across to the windows. I looked out of them. The morning sun was starting to bring light down into the temple, and as Mesprit stated, we were moving, slowly through the water. I could see water pokémon swimming by.

"Oh no, the boat," I couldn't spot it, nor the anchor line. "Mesprit, shouldn't I have done something with the—guys?" The entire group had vanished. I spotted a hallway on the adjacent wall and ran into it, but I ended up at a forked path. Quickly choosing the hall to the left, I came out into another corridor. Now I was completely lost.

"Great," I continued walking. "Well, I'll catch up to them sooner or later. This place can't be that big."

"He was right here," We searched around for dad, but eventually came to a forked path. We chose the hall to the right, which led down a set of stairs into a massive pool. There were tunnels spewing water out in every direction, and before I could turn around to head back, I spotted something silver, lying in a patch of grass across from us. "Wait, is that…Cornelia?"

I walked over to her. Yes, it had to be her. She was laying by the water, swirling the tip of her wing around in it. She looked miserable, and I started to wonder where her father was. She spotted me, and looked up.

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm a friend," She didn't seem too afraid. Instead, she looked curious, probably because she hadn't seen a human yet. I knelt down next to her. "See?"

She smiled and hugged me.

'Friends already!' Latias said.

'Tell you what,' Mesprit added on. 'We'll look for your dad, Molly. You can stay here with her if you like.'

"I will," Mesprit and Latias went back to the entrance leaving me and Millie with Cornelia. "I guess I get to call you Connie now, right?"

She liked her nickname. I felt the water she continued swirling her wing in. It was incredibly warm, and I couldn't resist going for a swim. Millie took the first dive while I changed into my bathing suit—a little something I put on just in case we ever stopped for a break.

"Care to join me, Connie?" She backed up away from the water. "What? No?" She shook her head. "I'll have to show you what you're missing out on!" I jumped into the water. Where it was coming from started to interest me, and I looked up to one of the tunnels, then turned to Millie. "You think that could be a slide?"

"This place is amazing," Completely forgetting that I was lost, I walked through the corridors of this magnificent temple. The people who built this temple, like the ones who did Alto Mare, really had respect for the environment they worked in. Alto Mare was built on water. This one was built in it. "Now I really wish I had a camera!"

I heard a soft voice. I looked around until I found the source of the voice, spotting Manaphy looking at me, from down the hallway. "Manaphy! Finally I found you," She looked scared all of a sudden. Wait, that's right…She never met me. "Manaphy, I'm a friend. My name's—"

"Manaa!" She cried, emitting a wave of psychic energy. It brushed past me, and the next moment a wave of water came crashing down the corridor. I tried jumping out of the way, but it caught my foot and I was swept up, and spun around before I landed on the floor. I got back up. "Manaa!"

"Wait, I'm not an—" I held my head and looked up. A Crawdaunt and an Empoleon were getting ready to attack me. "Oh come on!" I ran down the hall in the opposite direction.

I landed in the pool of water, and opened my eyes. Millie looked back at me and smiled. I rubbed her forehead.

'This isn't a visit, this is a vacation!' I pointed up, and she carried me to the surface to where Cornelia was. She looked at the water with interest, but did not join us.

"Come on, Connie," I said. "The water's great!"

She whined and lay her head down on the ground.

"Scared?" I climbed out of the water and sat next to her. "It's okay, really…I know I can't stand it sometimes."

She looked at me, confused.

"But it's a really cool experience, especially for you…you'll love it, I promise."

She looked at the water for a moment, and then looked back at me, then she dipped her nose into the water, and before I knew it, she jumped in, splashing me with water. I laughed, and jumped back in. She swam further into the pool. Millie and I followed. Dad and the others were missing out on this.

"I can't believe I have to put up with this crap!" I panted.

I ran down the endless corridors of the Samiya, hoping to find the others and this whole situation would be explained. They must've been trying their hardest to avoid me, because I couldn't find them. I spun around the corner into a dead end. "Damn it!" I ran back into the corridor to have the razor sharp fin of the Empoleon swing at my head. I ducked, and backed up. The Crawdaunt cornered me.

"This is one hell of a day."

He continued trying to cut me with his fins, and I barely dodged, blocking with the sword and eventually backing up out of the way. He managed to land a few hits, cutting up my shirt. Then something heavy and solid hit me in the back, sending me to the ground. Damn, crab hammer. The Empoleon made an attempt to strike me, but I rolled out of the way, and jumped back onto my feet. I continued down the corridor.

"Were the hell are the girls?"

I poked my head out of the water. Mesprit and Latias were levitating above me, with arms crossed and looking a little irritated.

"Sorry!"

'You went swimming,' She said. 'And you didn't even consult us.'

"I'm sorry!" I repeated. "But after you left Connie was a little scared, so I just had to get her in the water!"

'You could've at least invited us,' Latias developed an evil smile on her face. 'Now face the wrath of my cannon ball!'

"No, wait!" She flew up, and fell down into the water, creating a tidal wave that pulled me under and pushed me back. I swam to the surface, and brushed the hair out of my eyes. Latias floated to the surface, resting upside-down on the water. We all started laughing.

'We couldn't physically find Calvin, so maybe…?'

'Hold on, I'll check,' Latias sunk beneath the water, before coming back up, looking shocked. 'Uh oh.'

"What?"

'It turns out that Manaphy doesn't know who Calvin is!' She shrieked. 'So she sent pokémon after him because she thinks he's an intruder!'

"Playtime's over!" I climbed out of the pool and grabbed my clothes.

"Oh no…" The corridor ended. I felt at the wall and looked around. There was no exit. "No, no, no…I'm screwed."

I turned around. Though panting, the Empoleon and Crawdaunt caught up with me, and they looked really annoyed. I backed up to the wall as they drew closer.

"Take your best shot," It wasn't like they were going to kill me…right? I thought otherwise as their fins and claws started to glow.

"Wait!" They turned around. A little late, but Molly and the others came rushing this way. "Wait! He's not an intruder!"

"Neither are they!" I said, stopping the two from launching their attacks.

"Manaa?" Manaphy revealed herself from a puddle of water on the floor, and then she started talking to the two of them in their own speech. Mesprit glided over to me, and started pointing at me and Molly and continued the talk, hopefully explaining and describing us. Manaphy looked at me for a minute, but when she looked at Molly, her eyes widened and she gasped. Mesprit joined in her stare.

"What's wrong?" I whispered.

'Unbelievable' She turned to me. 'I never noticed it before, but Molly has all the characteristics of The People of the Water.'

'The People of the Water?'

When everything settled down and we got to know each other, Manaphy led us on a brief tour of the Samiya. Apparently The People of the Water built this temple, and Molly retained all their characteristics—being dark-skinned and blue-haired. Me? I was quietly listening and admiring one fact: Morgan discolored her hair. That was supposed to be mentally scarring in the long run, but looking at what these people built made Molly admire the color of her hair even more. That sucks for you, Morgan. Manaphy took to Molly very fast, nestling herself in her arms.

"This is so weird," She said. "So—"

"Ironic?" I mumbled. She nudged me in the chest. "So uh…where's Lugia?"

"In the hall, in the levels below," Manaphy said. There was a hall here too? That could come in handy.

"Well, I'm going to see him," I said, leaving the group. I wished I could've asked for directions…

"Calvin, wait! Don't step on that—"

I walked across a bridge. But it didn't turn out to be a bridge, but a raft of some sort, and it immediately pulled me down into a tunnel.

"I'm getting too old for this CRAP!" The raft plunged downwards, like some kind of underwater roller coaster. I held on for dear life, as the raft twisted and turned through these tunnels. Eventually the tunnel became transparent, and I could see the ocean around me. Hundreds of water pokémon were swimming around this grand temple now, and from the looks of it, they were enjoying themselves. "Wow…" The fascinating moment was blocked out by the roar of water from ahead. I looked, and saw a waterfall. "They always end with waterfalls, huh?"

The raft suddenly picked up speed and before I could react, I started to drop, and fell into a pool. I swam to the surface, and coughed up water, now completely drenched…again.

The Hall was a short walk from where I was. When I entered, I was met by a long table, made from stone. The hall's ceiling was arched like the rest of the temple, as if it was a chapel, and the windows gave grand views to the underwater world."This place is truly incredible!" I spotted Lugia resting on the ground across the table, staring at the ceiling. I walked up to him.

"Need some company?" I asked.

He turned to me "Thank you for coming…you're soaked."

"Yeah, I took a short-cut," He chuckled. "Wasn't very reliable, as you can see."

He got up, and walked to the window. "Have you seen Cornelia?"

"Yes, I have," I said. "She's very beautiful. You should be proud."

"Then why don't I feel like it?" He asked. I joined him at the window.

"It takes time," I said. "Being a father doesn't start off with excitement. You have to watch over them 24/7," Lugia nodded. "When Molly was born, trust me, she was a handful. But it's not a decision I regret having. 17 years later she's grown into a fine young woman, and I don't have to worry about her as much."

"Well she is half-pokémon," He pointed out.

"That too," I smiled. "But your daughter's a Lugia. She's walking in your footsteps. All I'm saying is…the hard part comes first. As long as you fulfill that part and she's old enough to fend for herself, your job is done."

"How long until that happens?"

"It depends on how long you dedicate yourself to doing it. Once you do that, it will be over in a snap," I snapped my finger. "Once she starts raising herself she'll have you to thank for it."

He smiled. "Thanks for the advice."

"No problem."

"…we should get back," He knelt down. "Care for a ride?"

"Does it involve a shortcut?" He nodded. "Then I'm good."

He frowned and grabbed me by the collar of my coat. "You don't have a choice," He swung me up onto his back.

"No, I don't want to!" He took flight and was preparing to dive into the water again. "I just started drying off again, come on!"

Cornelia was swimming around in the pool. She basically loved the water now. I sat on the edge of the pool and watched her. She was quickly becoming a fast swimmer. Manaphy started to sing; her voice echoing throughout the room and attracting water pokémon from mysterious parts of the temple. They all gathered around us.

'What a beautiful voice,' I thought. Just then, the surface of the water started to ripple, and Connie, her father, and my father, all emerged, all attracted to the voice. "Hi, dad."

"We're back," He whispered. "I'm going to go dry off."

Lugia looked at me with appreciation. I took that as 'thank you' and smiled. Connie followed him back into the water, and they swam in the pool for a while before eventually disappearing.

"Where are they going?" I asked Latias.

'Home,' She said. 'Her mother must want to see her after all this time.'

I looked at my watch. I guess it was just about time for us to head home as well. I didn't want to say goodbye yet, it just felt like everything happened so fast.

When dad finished drying himself off we said our goodbyes to Manaphy, she gave me a departing gift—a bracelet made of a peculiar crystal, and said that I was always welcome here. I could feel tears forming in my eyes just thinking about it. Dad came to hug me, giving his thanks to Manaphy as well. I could understand her now that I was in close contact with the sword.

"I apologize about earlier," She said. "I hope that doesn't ruin our friendship."

"Not at all," He said. "I haven't had a good run for my life in a few years, anyway," We all broke into laughter. "But thanks for the hospitality."

She nodded, and waved us goodbye. Latias, with help from Mesprit, teleported us back to the boat. Dad started it up and reeled in the anchor.

"So the Samiya catches a current," Dad said, spinning the wheel. "And it drifts underwater, anywhere on the planet…very interesting…"

"Just imagine if it was found," I said. "That would be devastating."

"Well, all that put aside," He continued. "It was nice seeing Cornelia for the first time."

"I second that," I fell back into the sofa, and closed my eyes, as the ship sailed through the evening, on a direct course back to Alto Mare.