Chapter 16 and counting. (Really long chapter.)

"Russia?" The other three repeated.

"Russia." Momo conformed. "I mean it's the only place in the world that has changing climates. 'Feelings changes' is talking about the climate."

Tobiume fell as the ship crashed into the land. "You may be right…" She groaned as she stood. "Unabara really wants this 'Warrior' of some sort."

The four made their way towards the side of the ship. They were going to have to be repelled down. Hyorinmaru looked down towards the beach. "Anyone want to slide?" The other three looked at him strangely. "I've got an idea." Few seconds later the four of them were sliding down an ice slide. They reached the land with their asses cold, all except Hyorinmaru who was used to the cold.

"Thank you Hyorinmaru." Torshiro told the dog.

"It's what I do."

Momo started walking into the wooded area. "Come on you guys!" The others proceeded after her, all talking about who this 'Warrior' might be.

"I'm telling you, it must be some powerful being. Who else would it be?" Tobiume threw out there.

"Ah yes Tobiume." Hyorinmaru sarcastically said. "That narrows things down."

"… Well why don't you think of something?"

"Fine, I will."

"… Now Hyorinmaru. Now would be a good time."

"Alright! Must be some god or something."

The spaniel scoffed. "That's pretty much a powerful being Hyorinmaru."

"Oh whatever."

Torshiro shook his head. "Instead of trying to figure out who this guy can be, use you senses or something to find him." Both dog demons nodded as they placed their noses to the ground.

About an hour later:

"This is useless!" Momo yelled out. "Russia is fucking huge! How in the hell are we supposed to find one person?!"

"Calm down Momo." Torshiro calmly stated. "Don't need to blow a gasket."

Hyorinmaru was in the front of the group, leading them towards so far a few deer, a Siberian tiger and to some rabbits. Tobiume was in the back, mostly protecting the two humans but also sniffing around the place. There were times where she had a different yet sort of familiar scent but she quickly ignored it. Then there it was again, and this time it's uncomfortable close. She stopped and looked up towards a small mound. It was right there. Hyorinmaru caught the scent too. He stopped and turned around to face the mound as well. The humans who practically ran into him also turned towards the mound, only because that was where the two dogs are looking at. Then it happened.

An almost shadow like figure jumped out and landed on Tobiume. She whined as she was pushed onto the ground. She clawed at the creature but could not get it off. Hyorinmaru threw himself into the creature, throwing the thing into a tree. Hyorinmaru stopped right before Tobiume and took the defensive pose; a tooth bared, paws slightly apart, ears back and head low to the ground. Tobiume stood and bared her teeth at the thing while standing behind Hyorinmaru. The creature on the other hand shook its head and stood to face the two dogs.

Momo and Torshiro stood behind the Hyorinmaru and Tobiume. They watched as the creature slowly walked towards them and the two dogs slowly start getting agitated. Momo quickly warned the two. "Be careful you two."

Torshiro just cheered them on. "Come on Hyorinmaru you can kill this thing! Tobiume kick his ass!"

The creature stopped walking suddenly. It stood up straight and the feeling of danger slowly dissipated. It spoke soon after. "Hyorinmaru and Tobiume?" The voice was deep but sounded shocked. The creature shook out its body and walked into the sunlight to reveal a Swiss mountain dog. "What are you two doing here?"

"…"

"… Ah!!!" Tobiume squeaked. "Deòrsa!" She ran over to him and tackled him. "Oh my sweat powers! How have you been old friend?"

Deòrsa groaned. "Right now I'm in pain."

"Oops." She got off him. "Sorry, got over excited."

"That's quite alright Tobiume." Deòrsa stood onto his feet. "But you didn't answer my question, why are you here?"

"Oh we're just here to…"

Hyorinmaru and Tobiume both had the same thought run through their head, in their minds their dog heads were replaced by donkey heads. "We're looking for you." They both said.

"Me?"

Hyorinmaru replied. "We are looking for the 'Warrior where the land is large,' which would be you."

"…"

"Hold up!" Momo walked up between Hyorinmaru and Tobiume. "In Greek his name does not mean 'warrior,' it means 'Earth Worker.'"

"We know." Tobiume stated. "But Deòrsa's nickname was always 'Warrior' since he got really defensive when it came to his land and since he is an earth demon, the Earth is his land, at least the part that's not covered by water."

Hyorinmaru continued. "Also in the riddle it said that 'Find him and you've found a friend,' even if he's an old friend he is still a friend."

Torshiro walked up then. "Well alright. We found the 'Warrior.'"

"Hold on!" Deòrsa quickly yelled. "Why are you looking for me?"

"Well Deòrsa," Tobiume started. "We have to get the Book of Peace for Momo here." Tobiume pointed with her nose to Momo. "She's a princess that needs the book to save her fiancé from going on the chopping block. Torshiro the pirate is pretty much the taxi in this thing. Turns out that Unabara has it so we had to go to her, and you know that she wouldn't just give us the book so we had to find two things, one of which is you."

"Now all we have to do is find the other, with your help." Hyorinmaru finished off.

Deòrsa sighed. "Alright, do you have an insight on what the other thing is?"

"No." Momo told him. "Even Unabara didn't know where it is located."

"The only thing we do know," Torshiro said, "Was that we need to find this other thing before her fiancé gets killed."

Deòrsa groaned. "I hate these types of things." He laid down and closed his eyes. He started thinking about the two demons in front of him and about himself. Besides Hyorinmaru, he was the smartest out of all of the Demons of the Elements. He was actually supposed to be the leader but because he is one of the two demons that have too much work to do, Deòrsa passed on the title to Hyorinmaru to be leader. The other demon that had a lot of work was Anemone... Deòrsa immediately opened his eyes and practically shot up to his feet. "I'm not helping you."

"What?!" The four yelled.

"I'm not helping you." He repeated. "This is too much for me."Deòrsa turned away.

"Deòrsa." Tobiume called out. "Why won't you help us?"

The Swiss mountain dog turned to face her. "Look around you Tobiume. How many demons are here?"

"Three."

"How many demons were in the old group?"

"Four."

"Who's missing?"

"… Anemone!"

Deòrsa turned around once more and started walking away. "I am not going to get caught up with neither Unabara nor Anemone. Never again."

"Deòrsa! Stop!" Tobiume panicked when he continued walking. She looked towards Hyorinmaru. "Tell him! Tell him the truth!"

Deòrsa stopped and turned around again. "What truth?"

Hyorinmaru looked between the two other demons, his eyes landing on Tobiume. "Tell him!" She repeated. "Please Hyorinmaru, we need his help." Hyorinmaru looked over to his old friend Deòrsa who was now back in his original spot.

"What truth Hyorinmaru?" He repeated with angst behind his voice.

Momo whispered to Torshiro. "This is going to get dramatic quick."

The retriever took a deep breath and started explaining. "Remember the day we escaped and the whole group split including you and Anemone." Receiving a sharp glare from him, Hyorinmaru continued. "She wasn't really going to erode all your mountains and land down… I told you that—and I told her that you were going to cover the world in mountains to block her wind—so that your elements wouldn't clash with each other. That was the only reason and I didn't do anything to break Tobiume and me up. I know that it was selfish and stupid and I understand that, I quickly did." Hyorinmaru closed his eyes for a moment and then reopened them. "The point is that I messed up everything, don't be mad at her, be mad at me. I'm sorry."

"… You ruined Anemone and I because of that petty excuse?" A slow nod from Hyorinmaru. A growl came up from Deòrsa's throat. "How dare you?! What did we ever do to you?!" He took a step forward, his fur started to blend in into the environment, one of Deòrsa's many powers.

"Look I know I messed up! No need to overreact!"

"Overreact!!!!" The earth started trembling. "Damn you Hyorinmaru!!" He lunged forward but was thrown back when a water model of Unabara came up and slapped him. (An: Not literally, it just came out of nowhere.)

The model of Unabara clicked as if the real Unabara was clicking her tongue. "Now Deòrsa calm your pretty head down. Would you rather fight Hyorinmaru for his mistake—"She looked at the ice demon. "Which by the way, two thumbs up on the entertainment meter—"Hyorinmaru growled at her but she waved it off and continued talking towards Deòrsa. "Or would you rather help them, find Anemone and tell her the truth?" The ground stopped trembling at the fake Unabara simply smiled. "I do know a demon's heart." The model then laughed and then disappeared into the ground, the laugh echoing away.

Deòrsa shook his body and went back to normal. The wind slipped through the group and disappeared into the sky but that wind went unnoticed as the five of them remained silent. Torshiro broke the silence almost instantly. "So what do you say Deòrsa? Live and move on?"

The earth demon's eyes looked far off and distant but were quickly replaced by determination. "Live and move on."

The ship:

The five looked at the still stuck ship. Momo's hands clapped together. "How are we going to get the ship back out?"

Tobiume looked at Deòrsa. "Would you do the honors?" He nodded and lifted his front right paw. Stomping it into the ground the earth trembled in a line towards the ship. Suddenly the land around the ship jutted out and the ship slipped backwards into the water. "Thank you Deòrsa." He nodded again and in a few moments they would be on the ship.

On the ocean:

Kira examined the new demon. "You're pretty cool." He mused as he petted the dog. Deòrsa's eye twitched, this was one dog demon that did not liked being petted. He turned his head and almost bit Kira's hand. Kira jumped back and rubbed his hand to make sure it wasn't bit. "I feel you need some time alone…" The pirate then ran from the dog. Hyorinmaru then walked over to him.

"Hey."

The Swiss mountain dog looked at him. "I forgive you if you're asking. Right now I just want to make things right with her and get the Book of Peace for Momo over there."

Hyorinmaru sighed. "You and me both." The retriever sat down and looked in the direction of Tobiume. "We're very off. Sometimes we can't stand each other but sometimes it's like we are back to normal."

"Hopefully it's not the same way with Anemone and I. That would suck."

Hyorinmaru chuckled slightly. "It does but don't let that pull you down Deòrsa. We'll get it right." Tobiume's voice called them over. "Well time to get cracking." He stood. Deòrsa stood too and the two male demons proceeded towards the upper deck.

"What is it?" Deòrsa asked the other three.

"We need to try to find Anemone ourselves." Torshiro stated. "Is there anywhere the girl likes?"

"If I remember correctly," Tobiume started. "She loves places that are really windy."

Momo's hand went to her chin. "Where are the windiest places though?"

"Islands." Deòrsa simply said. "And her favorite ocean is the Pacific."

"So we got that down. How many islands are in the Pacific?" Hyorinmaru asked him.

Deòrsa shrugged. "Anywhere between 20,000 and 30,000."

"…"

"…"

"…"

"… Whoa…" Tobiume said. "That helps."

"Well if it helps she actually doesn't like to live alone so it has to be an island that has tribal clans or something like that." Deòrsa added. "That narrows it down to about 10,000, actually about 7,000 since the others are actually 'atoll islands' (1) so that doesn't really count."

"… That's still a lot." Torshiro remarked.

"But at least it's getting somewhere." Momo said.

Tobiume looked at Deòrsa. "Anything else?"

Deòrsa closed his eyes and tried to remember her favorite island which is hard because when the two were together she said she loved all the islands because they are all his islands. He mentally sighed. Well… she loves—or loved, he doesn't quite know—islands with mountains on them, not because that are his mountains but the girl always had a fascination to mountains. "I narrowed it down to about 1,000 islands."

"Good job buddy." Hyorinmaru told him. "Now try to narrow it down to one."

"It's not as easy as I make it look." He said before he started thinking again. Well let us see here. She loves beaches- knocks it down to 723 islands; loves any type of forests- knocks it down to 571. He sighs. He could name every characteristics of an island and still be left with over 100 islands. It's no use. Suddenly he slips into a flashback.

Deòrsa's flashback:

Anemone was sitting on a very small island, just big enough for her to sit on it. "Deòrsa, what are you doing? Why did you bring me out here?"

"So many questions Anemone."

"Well you usually don't bring me out to make new islands."

"Which is very wrong of me."

Anemone shook her head. "No it is not Deòrsa. It is completely fine."

He smiled at her. "I brought you out here to witness your very own island."

"Really?" She stands, her excitement too much too just sit. He only nods at her as he then starts to create the new island. She is in awe as she sees every characteristic that she loves in an island unfold before her. "Oh Deòrsa!" In just a few moments there it was. Her own island.

"What are you going to call it?"

"I'll leave it to the clans I'll place there."

A year later (still in flashback):

Deòrsa walked up to Anemone. "What did they call it?"

"Atuona (2)."

"Nice name."

She nods. "And the tribe has made me their goddess can you believe that?"

"Anemone, you were always a goddess to me."

End of flashback:

Deòrsa slowly opens his eyes. They are far off again but they quickly go to normal. "Atuona. That's the island."

"I only have two questions." Torshiro spoke. "Where is it and how are we going to get there?"

30 seconds later:

The ship appeared out of nowhere on the water's surface near the island. Torshiro currently was holding on to the wheel for dear life, Tobiume fell on Hyorinmaru, Deòrsa fell down the stairs and Momo was on the floor with her hand on her heart and in her hand was a note. She pulled her hand away and read the note. 'Do I have to help you every step of the way. Ugh… useless. Love Unabara.' "We're here." Momo told them.

Torshiro groaned but was able to walk over to Momo and lift her up onto her feet. "Never again am I going to ask those questions." He told her.

Tobiume regained herself and then pulled Hyorinmaru onto his feet. "Thanks." He told her before they both ran to Deòrsa. "You alright?"

"No but we're here and I'm not going to waste time." He stood up quickly.

Torshiro came up behind the three with Momo at his side. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's get a boat and paddle on."

Atuona:

The five stepped onto the beaches of Atuona. Deòrsa had a big wave of memories flash before his eyes. That soon was interrupted when the tribal people came charging at them with spears. The other four prepared themselves but was stopped by Deòrsa. "Don't. I'll handle it."

"Like you know their language." Torshiro sated with disbelief. The tribe stopped before them and started poking the air in front of the group. Deòrsa stepped forward and started speaking their tongue. "Maybe I was wrong." The tribe put their weapons down and bowed down to Deòrsa. He then continued to talk to them. The tribe's war leader stood and stepped forward. He pointed to the mountain behind him and said something in his tongue. Deòrsa bowed his head and dismissed the tribe—who followed his command without question. Deòrsa then started running towards the mountain.

"Wait up Deòrsa!" Momo called behind him. The four were forced to try to catch up to him.

On top of the mountain:

Deòrsa panted when he reached the top of Temetiu (3). He saw immediately that the peak was eroded down to create this sort of round plateau but right now he's not worrying about it. He spots Anemone laying down on her side on the ground. His heart starts thumping in his chest. He hasn't seen her since that fateful day and looking at her now, still unchanged, fills him with great joy. He runs over to her and yet she still doesn't move. He looms over her. Worried that she might have died up here he smells her for any signs of life, she's still alive. He nudges her with his muzzle hopping that she might come too. It works.

Anemone godlily lays down on her legs. She looks at Deòrsa, with shocked, sadden and scared eyes. "Deòrsa…" She says softly. At that point Deòrsa couldn't control himself. He nudged her again, this time in a sort of hug. He rubbed his face into her neck and then he started telling her the truth but when the word 'truth' escaped from his mouth she stopped him. "I know the truth Deòrsa. I was there when Unabara's water model appeared. I was the wind and you completely ignored me."Deòrsa's happy expression turned into first a shocked and then a sadden one. She continued speaking. "Am I really that unnoticeable Deòrsa? Is this love of your that you're still portraying, is it real or is it just the remembrance of what used to be? You used to recognize me whenever I passed by as the wind but did you notice me that time? No. Have you really forgotten what it was like to run with the Wind (4)?"

"…" He couldn't speak. Those were some good questions, some that he didn't seem to have an answer for. Maybe he did have an answer but he could not place them into a compatible question. She would always do this. Ask too many good questions.

"That's what I thought."

The other four appeared at the top of the mountain, all panting heavily. Tobiume was the first to spot Anemone and she freaked out just like when she first saw Deòrsa. "Anemone!" She yelled out as she ran over to her. Upon reaching her she had the feeling that something happened. "What's wrong?" She looked at the two. The others caught up then, Hyorinmaru felt the sadness, Torshiro was mad because all these dogs are just running and leaving them and Momo was too tired to think.

Anemone twitched slightly. "There's nothing wrong Tobiume." She started to push herself up. "I'm just broken that's all."

"Broken?" Everyone else said.

Anemone had a smile on her face but was replaced by pain. "Yes, just broken." At this time Anemone stood up.

Everyone lost their breath at the sight of Anemone. Deòrsa felt his breath escape and his sadness replaced by a low anger. Anemone's left back leg was completely gone. "Who did that?" He asked her.

"Just some ice monster. I was passing through one year—a long time ago—and he caught me. Nearly tore me in half if he already hadn't gotten my leg."

Hyorinmaru stepped forward. "I'm sorry that one of my kind tormented you."

"It is quite alright Hyorinmaru." She hopped in a circle until she faced Tobiume. "How have you been?"

"I'm fine but what I don't understand how you can be like this. All 'I don't care about what happens to me.' You never were like this."

Anemone shrugged and looked on towards the humans. "I will help you Momo; to retrieve the Book of Piece."

"Thank you Anemone but how do you know my name?"

"That isn't important."

Torshiro nodded. "She's right. What is important know is to get over back to Unabara's castle before it's too late."

Anemone hopped forward. "I will assist you in that matter."

The ship:

Torshiro looked out from the upper deck to the shore. Anemone stood on the shore as she waited for his signal. Torshiro signaled Hyorinmaru and the ice demon shot up ice shards into the sky. Anemone disappeared from the shore, at that moment the ship was moving away from the island really quickly. Momo looked into the sails and saw the ship of a dog run into the sails over and over again. "That is cool."

Deòrsa sighed as he laid his head down onto his paws. "In just a matter of moments we will be at the atoll and we'll enter Unabara's underwater fortress."

Tobiume yawned as she sat down next to Deòrsa. The two was then accompanied by Hyorinmaru who stood right in front of them. "This is really boring come to think of it." Tobiume stated.

Deòrsa's ears perked up, his head was lifted up from his paws. "Are you saying that Anemone is boring?"

"No not that Deòrsa. Only that this 'saving the book' thing is boring. I can't see how Unabara can think of this as fun."

The white retriever yawned. "Who knows? But you know what? I don't want to know?"

"You just said 'know' three times." Tobiume told him.

"I don't care and frankly you shouldn't either."

"So you're saying I can't care about what you say or do?"

"No I'm saying not to be so involved in things that doesn't concern you."

"This does concern me."

"Me saying 'know' three times concern you in what way?"

"…"

"Exactly."

"You two should learn to get along again." Deòrsa placed his head back on his paws and closed his eyes. "I remember that you two were mortal enemies when you guys found out you'd be in a team with each other." Tobiume and Hyorinmaru looked at each other and then at Deòrsa who continued talking. "It took you almost three decades to get used to each other, one decade to be best friends and five years to become an item in the group."

"…"

"…" Tobiume looked up at Anemone. "It took two years for you and Anemone to become an item." The mountain dog opened his eyes again. "You still love her." Deòrsa closed his eyes again. "Do you think she still loves you back?"

"I don't know." He stood and walked away from them.

"…"

"Tobiume how many times do I have to tell you? Don't be so involved in things that doesn't concern you."

The atoll:

Anemone pushed the ship into alignment, the night was just appearing once more. The star shining brightly above the atoll. She slipped down onto the main deck. The ship slipped into the light. The ship once again floated to the undersea castle. Once inside the castle's air bubble, the ship floated to a stop in the small lake, it was time to get off.

"Alright, so we'll just go in and that's it?" Momo asked.

"Not quite." Hyorinmaru replied.

Deòrsa blinked his eyes a few times to wake them up. He actually got a few moments of sleep. "I would say there's more to this thing."

"Torshiro you might want to stay near Momo just in case. Who knows what she might have in store for us." Anemone stated.

Tobiume came over with Momo's sword in her mouth. Momo took the sword away. "Take it with you. I might help."

"Thank you Tobiume." Momo slipped the sword on her belt.

"We're all set?" Torshiro asked the group. After receiving nods from all of them, the group made their way into the castle once more.

End of chapter. 12 pages in word, 3 days to write (because I had to leave the comp. so many freaking times). Review please.

1: Atoll island- (My own term, not real.) is practically a new atoll, one that the coral is now forming on the island and is just now starting to eat away the land of the island.

2: Atuona- A real island in the Marquesas Islands. Is part of the larger island called Hiva Oa.

3: Temetiu has a height of 3,980 feet above sea level. At this point you would have about 95% of oxygen. The peak in real life is not eroded.

4: Remember that Anemone's name means Wind in Greek.