Thankfully, eventually, the girls washed up on shore together, and their Planetary Symbols woke them up! "Is everyone OK?" Chibiusa asked while wringing out her hair.
"That was refreshing!" Gracie joked as she tilted her head to drain the water from her ears.
"I know water is my element, but that's too much." Crystal shook her head to clear water out of her ears too.
"Talk about water logged...I got water in places I'd be better off not knowing I have." Christen sputtered and coughed.
"I'm fine," Ariel replied, wringing out her clothes.
"Look!" Holly points to a palace, which looks like a dagger with a wiry handle stabbed through a piece of paper. "That's Triton Castle! Neptune's castle! ALEXIS!"
Holly called out as she ran towards the royal stronghold. Though the others tried to tell her shouting was not a good idea, she was too eager to listen! So, sadly, Holly disappeared into the fortress, leaving Chibiusa and her Inner Senshi alone! As they reached the place, they called for Holly, but she could be anywhere and not hear them! So, they had no choice but to go in and look for Holly themselves...
"I can't believe she ran off on us! Some teammate and friend she is! I fret about what'll happen when she becomes Queen of Uranus!" Christen raved.
"If we don't keep our emotions in check, we may not live to see ourselves as queens!" Chibiusa yelled back, which shut Christen up as she had not heard Chibiusa talk about death.
Elsewhere, Holly needed to find out which room Alexis was in. So, she just decided to take a tiny peek inside each room. If she did not see Alexis, she would move on. Luckily, it did not take Holly long to find Alexis sitting in bed talking to a woman with neon blue hair and blue eyes.
"Holly!" Alexis yelled in happiness.
Holly rushed to hug her, "Are you OK?"
"Of course. You don't have to worry about me as much anymore. I'm a Sailor Senshi, too, remember?" Alexis smiled.
"I know, but you'll always be my sister, and I would never forgive myself if you got seriously injured." Holly reasoned.
"Queen Marina Habor, my grandmother, would never let anything bad happen to me, " Alexis introduced the woman she had been talking to.
"So, YOU'RE Holly? It's wonderful to meet the sister Alexis talked so fondly of. She wasn't kidding when she said you are loving and strong." Queen Harbor admired Holly's dedication to Alexis.
"Yes. Thank you for caring for her; I'm glad I fit Alexis's description. She's artistic and always had an eye for detail." Holly ruffled Alexis's hair playfully.
"Gracie taught me detail is important." Alexis giggled.
"I wish I could meet her too. Did you come alone, Holly?" Queen Harbor asked.
Holly blushed in embarrassment as she realized she had left the others in the dust, "I...I'm not. I mean, I wasn't. I mean...I ran off on them..."
"We need to find them!" Alexis scrambled out of bed.
"We will, but let's not run around shouting our heads off." Queen Harbor and Alexis looked accusing at Holly.
"Oh, you must have heard me before..." Holly flushed crimson.
"Hard not to." Alexis laughed.
As the three walked down the hallways, they called out the five girls' names. Soon enough, found them, and they had some harsh words for Holly! However, Alexis defused all that by introducing her grandmother to them.
"Nice hair," Christen commented to the queen, who looked shocked at her impoliteness.
"Just...ignore her," Ariel grumbled.
"Consider it done." Queen Harbor gave Christen a sharp look before picking out which girl was which, based on Alexis's descriptions.
"You got us all right! But, wait, if this is grandmother, then where is your grandfather, Alexis?" Chibiusa questioned.
"Well..." Alexis looked sheepishly at her grandmother.
"Let's discuss this on the beach," Queen Harbor suggested, to which no one disagreed. Once seated, she began her tale, " the reason I wanted to tell you this story here is so I can show you the truth."
Kneeling by the where she calls out, "Poseidon!" and a giant, blue catfish swims swiftly into her hands. Christen can not handle it. She flops onto the sand, laughing hysterically, her eyes tearing up.
"Don't tell me her grandfather is a fish!" Christen said through stitches of laughter.
"Not exactly," as Queen Harbor said this, the catfish began to glow and became a formidable man.
Though only named after a God, this man did have white hair, a wild beard, and stormy eyes, which now were piercing into a stunned Christen! Stomping the ground with a foot, a small earthquake opened a pit under Christen, and this man controlled seawater to flow into it, just enough to cover the girl's mouth!
"As you can see, Alexis got her powers from my husband. Honey, please, don't drown Sailor Mars's daughter." Queen Harbor smiled sweetly.
"Sailor Mars, daughter?! I'm just teaching her some manners, like what happens when you insult me." King Poseidon kept Christen in the pit but drained it just before she passed out.
Everyone was so amazed by how ill-tempered, and cruel King Poseidon was. Even if Christen was utterly rotten, that was not an excuse to nearly drown her! Alexis ran up to help Christen out of the pit.
"Granddaughter, why would you help this 'rotten apple?'" King Poseidon asked in a thundering voice.
"Christen is my teammate and my friend. Yes, she can be mean, but I've grown to accept that she sees the world in a darker light." Alexis whimpered but would not stand someone, even her grandfather, hurting her friends.
"Well, she's not using her tongue now." King Poseidon gestured toward the panting girl.
"MY LUNGS ARE ON FIRE! The one thing on me that shouldn't be! I had my first and hopefully last experience of being drowned! You almost killed me!" Christen ranted.
"I didn't intend to kill you. Just keep you underwater until you pass out." King Poseidon cruelly joked.
"That's drowning!" Christen argued though she was right.
"You were both in the wrong! Christen, you need to pick some poise and polish. And Poseidon? YOU need to control your temper." Queen Harbor snapped.
"Fine. I'm sorry." King Poseidon was not sorry.
"Me too. Apology accepted." Christen was not either.
King Poseidon was just as loving to his wife and Alexis as the other royals. He just had a very sour attitude toward others.
"He loved me from the very first moment we met. I'm not sure how, but his desire to be with me became so strong this transformation happened." Queen Harbor concluded her re-account.
"This is a much more interesting love story than Twilight." Christen did not mean this as an insult, so she was not punished for it.
"King Poseidon, Queen Harbor, we need Alexis to come with us to help save my friends." Chibiusa prayed they understood.
"Very well. Alexis, since I might not see you again for a while, I want you to promise me you'll stick close to your friends, especially the Moon Princess, but you'll be strong on tour, too." King Poseidon knelt to his daughter.
"I'm YOUR granddaughter, so I'm already strong, and, of course, my duty is to Chibiusa," Alexis promised.
"Should we look for Emily next?" Crystal turned to Chibiusa.
"We'll have a better chance if we re-group with Trisha first." So Chibiusa decided and, once again, utilized Sailor Teleport.
Queen Marina: Erica Schroeder (Bridget Verdant (Japanese: Retasu/Lettuce Midorikawa) from Mew Mew Power)
King Poseidon: Cam Clarke (He-Man from He-Man 2002)
Side notes: In Charles Christen Anderson's "The Little Mermaid" movie version, the mermaid's name is Marina.
In Greek mythology, Poseidon is the God of the Sea and the brother of Zeus and Hades. Poseidon's name also means "husband of land" or "father of land."
Also, Namazu/Onamazu is a giant catfish from Japanese mythology, said to swim in rivers under the earth and, due to that, it causes earthquakes.