I am starting to realize something... I really need to get a beta or go back over everything every now and then. My spelling and punctuation is terrible. If you would like to beta for me, pm me. I am sorry I am updating so slowly, college is not easy. As always, listen to some heavy rock and metal. I am listening to "wasting my hate" by Metallica. Welcome back and enjoy.
The flight back to the palace was depressing. They had never had to deal with anything like this before. They had never lost anybody close to them before.
Peril was silently crying to herself while raging inside. She just lost her mother to a murderer and she had no idea on who to take her anger out on. Nobody even had the slightest clue on who the murder was. They only knew two sandwings and that was Dune, and Sunny, and they definitely never would kill Kestrel.
Peril's thoughts were broken when she heard Starflight speak "Tsunami, I know right now probably isn't the best time to talk about this but, we think we came up with a plan to end the war."
"What is your idea?" Tsunami asked genuinely curious at what they came up with.
"We were thinking, we were going to try to scout out all the queens to try to get a judge of who would be best queen." Tsunami frowned and was about to say something but was cut off when Starflight continued, "Yes I know that won't solve the bloodshed in the fights going on, but we have a plan to fix that and it partially involves you for the first step." Starflight finished, waiting for a response from Tsunami.
"Let me hear it" Tsunami said shortly, Starflight just nodded, "We were trying to come up with an idea to stop the killing between the tribes, and what better way than to convince them to stop fighting." Starflight paused slightly smiling at the confused look on Tsunami's face, "We were going to ask you to try and talk your mother out of the war."
Tsunami was shocked at what he said, "WHAT, what do you mean try and talk mom out of the war!" Tsunami said very loudly, "How in the three moons would I do that?"
Starflight shrugged his shoulders, "Any way you can, preferably just try to talk her out of it, from what I know the seawings are hardly getting anything out of this war." Starflight paused for a quick second thinking of something, "Actually, I have no idea on why the seawings are even fighting."
Tsunami got a confused look, "Really... I thought I just missed a history lesson from Webs and didn't listen when he was going over about the seawings side in the war."
Starflight shook his head "Nope, I never heard why the seawings fight."
Everybody else shook their heads too when Tsunami looked to them. They had no idea why the seawings fought either.
Tsunami sighed in annoyance, "I guess I will have to ask her."
"Please do that, if you find out why the seawings are even in the war to begin with, you might be able to talk them out of it." Starflight said confidently.
Tsunami nodded agreeing with what Starflight said "What are you guys going to do while I am gone?" She asked while getting up getting ready to leave.
"Going to try to find out who killed Kestrel." Starflight answered sadly.
Tsunami was at the front of the cave now getting ready to launch off, "If you guys find out who the killer is before I get back, please wait before you do anything."
"No promises," Peril said dangerously. Tsunami just nodded once again and dove into the water.
Tsunami was in the water thinking to herself "What in the three moons could have happened to have Mom join the war, besides a straight-out attack on the sea kingdom, there should be no reason to join."
Her thoughts were cut off when she saw the deep palace not too far away. There were two guards at the entrance to the palace, "Who goes there?" one of the guards flashed.
"Thank goodness that Webs taught me how to speak aquatic, I wouldn't have a clue what they were saying if he didn't." Tsunami thought. She looked to the guard that asked her the question "I am princess Tsunami, I am here to talk to my mother."
The guard smiled at her "Ahh, you are the missing princess I have been hearing about." the guard nodded, "I just need you to do one thing, I need you to give me proof of who you are."
"Ehhh... how do I do that?" Tsunami asked sheepishly. The guard gave her a kind smile "Just show us the royal pattern on your wings."
"Ooohhh, ok" Tsunami flared her wings open and lit them up, showing the royal pattern.
The guard nodded in confirmation "Right on in, I hope you enjoy your stay here princess Tsunami."
"Thank you" Tsunami flashed as she swam into the palace. She suddenly became flustered, "I don't know anything about the palace and where mom is".
She quickly spotted a guard that was about to leave the palace. She quickly swam over to the guard, "May I ask you a question?"
"Yes mam!" the guard with sky blue scales flashed quickly. "Do you happen to know where my mother, Queen Coral is at?"
"Yes, your majesty, please follow me." the guard said before starting to deeper into the palace. Tsunami followed him into the palace it didn't take them too long to make it to where the queen was.
The queen was sitting behind a table, writing something with a small smile on her face. Gill was sitting behind her looking bored out of his mind.
Coral lifted her head to see who was there, her smile on her face became even bigger "Tsunami!" she brightly flashed and immediately started quickly swimming over to her. She dove into Tsunami and wrapped her in a tight hug.
"Oh, my little Princess is finally home where she belongs." Coral flashed happily.
Coral let go of Tsunami, "So, what do you think of it?"
"Think of what?" Tsunami flashed confused what her mother was talking about.
"The palace of course, what do you think of it?" Coral asked with the smile never leaving her face.
"Ohh" Tsunami started with a blush to her face, "Its very beautiful... and big"
Coral giggled a little bit "That it is, when I was first able to wander around on my own when I was little, I would get lost every now and then." her gaze then landed on the guard and her smile disappeared.
"What is he doing here" Coral flashed with her teeth gnashed together.
"The guard?" Tsunami started, "I didn't know where you were so I asked him and he led me to you."
"Well, he can leave now!" Coral brightly flashed. The guard just nodded his head and turned around and left.
To say Tsunami was a little bothered by that would be an understatement, "Mom, why did you do that, he seemed pretty kind to me?"
"Because he deserves the hate he gets, Tsunami, I don't want to see you around him, ok" Coral flashed to her.
"Sure" was what came out of her mouth, but she was actually thinking "Not unless you give me a reason."
Corla nodded her head happy at Tsunami's response "Good", the smile on Coral's face came back in earnest. "Come over here, I have something to show you."
Tsunami walked over to where her mother was leading her and looked down at the table they stopped at. There was a bunch of scrolls with writing on them. "What are they?"
"They are my stories." Coral said giddy, hoping that at least one of her children would take a liking to her stories.
"Ohh cool, I didn't know you were an author" Tsunami said honestly surprised at this. "Once Starflight learns about this, he won't ever shut up till I ask mom some questions on the stories she writes."
"What are you writing right now?" Tsunami flashed.
"I am writing a story on how me and your father meant." Coral answered reminiscing over the time she got to meet Gill.
"Cool" Was all that Tsunami flashed to the answer that she was given.
Tsunami then remembered what she came there for. "Mom, as much as I would love to talk about the stories that you have written, I have a few things that we have to talk about."
Corals giddy smile faltered a little bit at this, "Ohh... ok."
Tsunami sighed at the conversation she was about to have "Ok... do you have any idea on who killed that skywing that was killed on that island close to here, this is quite important, she was a pretty good friend to me and my friends, she was also Peril's mother, and she is pissed." Tsunami frowned again remembering something, "We do know that it was a sandwing that killed her."
Coral then frowned after Tsunami finished talking, "I am sorry Tsunami, but we have not spotted any sandwings in the area, the only sandwing that I even know that is even remotely close to here is Blister, and she isn't due her next visit till a couple more days."
Tsunami sighed not very happy at the answer she was given, "Ok, that's fine, but Peril would like an answer on who murdered her mother pretty soon."
"Sorry I cant give an answer." Coral said a little sadly, understanding how Peril feels. That is how she came into power, somebody murdered her mother after all.
"It's fine, it's not your fault that we don't know who the killer is." Tsunami flashed. "I have one last question."
Coral just nodded her head waiting for the question.
"Why did you join the war?" Tsunami asked carefully, knowing this could a rude question.
Coral sighed, "That is a question with a long answer."
"This is a very important one, this is going to have a big deal on how we deal with the war." Tsunami flashed. "Also, none of my friends even have an idea why you are in the war."
"Of course, only the people on the high council even have a clue why we are fighting." Coral said grimly.
"Not many people outside of the sea kingdom know this besides Blister, but the Sea kingom is in a hard spot right now."
"Why is that?" Tsunami asked now genuinely curios.
"Do you know what the sea kingdom's main exports are in trade?'
Tsunami scrunched up her face trying to remember "If I remember right, its palm wood, perils, fish, tropical fruit, and ink."
"You are correct, what most people don't know, is it is actually illegal to even try and export metal out of here." Coral flashed to Tsunami.
"Wait, really?" Tsunami asked surprised.
"Yep, that has actually been a law before even my mother was alive" Coral said remembering the important law. "the thing that Seawings have always struggled the most in is obtaining metal materials, it doesn't help that if certain metals are not painted right, they will just rust away." Coral paused before she continued.
"But the worst part of it is we have no good way to even get any mines" almost all the islands we have here in the sea kingdom are either to tiny to mine or are always under attack by other tribes." Coral finally stoped waiting to see what Tsunami's reaction would be.
"So I am going to guess Blister offered you some land if you helped her in the war?" Tsunami guessed.
Coral nodded "Precisely, we were offered, if we win we would get some of the Sky kingdoms land, thus ending an issue that the Sea Kingdom has been suffering for hundreds of years."
"Now that you say it, I just now noticed almost every guard has some type of natural weapon on them, like narwhal spears, and weapons made out of shark teeth." Tsunami flashed.
"Yep, only the higher ups even get armor or metal weapons." Coral flashed while nodding.
"Hmm, I see... so if me and my friends were able to solve this issue, would you quit the war and stop fighting?"
Coral started to laugh, not that you could tell unless you seen her with the water muting her laugh, "Would I quit the war, my gosh if you could find out how to fix that issue, I would kick Blister to the curb while laughing the whole time, we have been losing more in this war so far than gaining."
Tsunami sighed in relief "Ohh thank the moons, that helps out a whole lot with our plans to end the war"
"You still have to solve the issue first." Coral said sternly.
"Me and my friends will work on it, and I am sure we will find a way to fix your problem." Tsunami said confidently.
"I hope you do." Coral said, "Of course it won't matter pretty soon, Anemone is working on a sure-fire way to fix the same problem." Coral flashed with a confident look on her face.
"Really... how?" Tsunami asked shocked that her little sister would be able to fix the complicated problem.
"Go ask her yourself, tell her that I gave her permission to tell you her secret, she will know what I am talking about." Coral finished while turning back to her work. "She is in her room, which is down the hall second room on the right."
Tsunami nodded while turning to leave "Thanks mom, you have no idea how much this helps."
Tsunami quickly swam over to her sister's room and knocked on the door. It wasn't even a moment when she heard Anemone say "Come in".
She opened up the door and Anemone was laying down in her bead. Anemones room wasn't the cleanest but not the most dirty room either, there were a few scrolls scattered on the desk. "Hey Anemone, how you doing?"
"Ohh, pretty good, its still nice to know that I have a living sister."
"Yeah, same, ohh hey I was asking mom on why she joined the war, so I asked her If we solved that issue if she would quit the war which she agreed, but she said that you were already working on it." Tsunami paused before she remembered what to tell Anemone, "She told me that you could tell me her secret."
Anemone just nodded, "Ok, do you want me to be blunt or try to explain it to you?"
Tsunami got a smile on her face liking her options "Blunt please"
"Ok... I'm an animus." Anemone flashed.
"You're a what?" Tsunami said confused
Anemone started to giggle "I knew I was going to have to explain it to you"
Tsunami just started to grumble "Fine, explain it to me"
(Look, I am way to lazy to write downt all the specifics of how animus magic works, and you allready know, so we are going to skip this part) thank you.
"Wow..." Was all that Tsunami could flash.
"Ya, wow." Anemone said back.
"If you didn't have that one drawback on your soul, you would be invincible." Tsunami flashed lightly.
"Yep." is all that Anemone flashed.
"Its crazy to think that the one person in this world that is more powerful than me and my friends would be you, my little sister" Tsunami flashed amazed at her little sister.
"What do you mean?" Anemone flashed with curios look on her face.
"Ohh yeah, I never showed you did I" Tsunami flashed with a slight grin on her face. Tsunami slightly flared her wings abit and all the water in Anemone's room started to leave via the door. "This is what I can do." Tsunami said while slightly focusing on keeping the sea water out of her room.
"Holy-" Anemone was cut off when Tsunami let all the water rush back into her room.
"Cool right?" Tsunami flashed with a cocky grin on her face.
"Yes, that's cool" Then Anemone got a look on her face "And there is no draw backs?"
"None, that I am aware." Tsunami said while still grinning "Just makes me a little bit tired if I do it all day with large amounts of water."
"Freaking awesome" Anemone said awed at her sister's power. "Are you the only one that can do that?"
"Too my knowledge yes" Tsunami said. "My friends also have control over some type of power, I'll have to show you some time."
"Why not know?" Anemone said while getting up.
"Really? Mom is just going to let you leave like that?" Tsunami said surprised.
"Ohhh, trust me, she used to not even let me leave her sight." Anemone said while frowning. "I gained some independence when I solved a mystery in the palace."
"What was that?" Tsunami asked curios.
"A long time ago, we had an older sister who was also a animus, she enchanted a statue in the hatchery that would kill all of our sisters right before they hatched."
Tsunami paled realizing that if she wasn't kidnaped, she would be dead. "Holy crap, I need to thank Webs when I see him again"
Tsunami then regained her composer "Do you know why she did that?"
"Not a clue, probably to get rid of any successors" Anemone paused remembering the grim story her mom told her "All I know is that Orca challenged mom and was killed during the challenge."
"Jeez" Was all that Tsunami said before shaking her head remembering what they were about to do. "Let's go, I want to introduce you to all my friends." Tsunami said while dashing out the bedroom door with Anemone behind her.
Guys I am so sorry that this took this much time to update, college has been rough on me with a really tough class, also its fall now and I am always busiest during the fall with how much stuff I do as an outdoorsman. I hope you liked my reasoning why Anemone had a bit more freedom. Also, if you are wondering why Coral isn't as umm crazy, it's because I would think with her husband around, it would keep her kind of grounded.