As Leon and Sora got aboard the submarine, their thoughts synchronized in wonderment what would the interior look like. This was the first time that either of them had been on a submarine.

Sora would rather swim to her town, rather than take a motorized under the sea bus. She liked how the calm waters just enveloped her form, allowing her to propel through the water. The way that the fish and dolphins that swam beside her would make her mood feel calm.

Leon on the other hand was the type of guy that would rather take a plane to get to his destination. See through the window to see the mountain ridges, lakes, rivers, bays, and forests. He would want to see what climate he was flying through as well as seeing which area has the most growth in natural forests compared to other places that he had either flown over or into.

They both wanted to see for their very own eyes what was going on in the submarine.

When they got into the chamber, there were dials, knobs, buttons flashing, everything that you would see on the dashboard of an airplane. Sora almost laughed at who she saw driving it, the older man was her uncle Sozin!

“Uncle Sozin?” She called to him while he was readjusting one of the buttons on the mainframe. “You drive the under water taxi’s? What happened to the business?” Sozin had been working at the same business that is a combined working place, so basically the top floors are to the clothing design label, and the bottom floors of the building are the same company, just the business that they do in the bottom floors are for some scientific research on some types of foods.

Sozin replied, “Well, I was just instructed to pick you up Sora!” He said rubbing the back of his head.

Leon and Sora were now in a separate part of the room that had a curtain that separated the bunkers.

To break the silence Sora started talking mostly to herself, but a little to Leon too, “Judging by how fast the speed is in this submarine is and by how we just left Cape Mary to a secluded part of Japan, it is going to take 5 hours tops.” She mumbled touching her tips of her fingers together.

“Then we have time to talk before I meet your family?” Leon asked.“Ya.” She said, simply.“I have a few questions for you.” Leon stated.“I’d be happy to answer them.” Sora looked up from her hands and said, “Ask

away.”“First in the list of questions I would like to ask is, why was I invited to come

along?” Leon inquired.Sora looked away and blushed profusely red. “Um…. I-I think that t-that

grandpa would like to tell you for me.” She stuttered.He pulled her chin to look at him, with a mischievous tint in his eyes he

pulled her face so her lips were just inches away from his and he looked at her

straight in the eyes, “I thought that you would answer all my questions.” He said huskily, licking his lips. She squeaked immediately.

As he was about to bring her in for a kiss, that she was expecting, but what she didn’t expect was him nibbling on her ear. He licked the outline of her ear, “Would you mind answering it for me?” He whispered while he slightly blew on the inner-part he had licked.

She gasped at the sudden coldness. He hasn’t done that before. She shuddered at the amazing feeling that was coursing through her veins. Then she remembered the Ritual and got her feelings under control.

She thought that she might lose her control at what was happening, but managed to say, “Leon, you said you have other questions?”

She thought that she heard him sigh and swear in his mother tongue, “Oui,”He decided that he would carry her over to a couch by the side of the windows, as he sat there with her sitting in his lap, he said, “As I said before ‘Why was I invited to some along with you?’ I mean isn’t this a ritual for family only?”

Sora realized that her first answer was not very informative and decided to leave out some parts of the ritual in the next answer, pretty much all of it.

“Well, my grandfather found out that you were my boyfriend and he said that family to Sora is family to us, basically since you are already family he doesn’t mind you coming along, or more he forces you to come along.”

Leon voiced his second question, “What is the ritual?”She had been spaced off in thinking about what information she should give

him that she had not realized he had asked her a question till he had ‘love bit’ her neck. “Ow, oh! Did you ask me a question?”

“Yes, would you like me to repeat it?”“That would best if you could do so.”Leon re-voiced his question, “What is the ritual that you will be

participating?”Sora heard him that time and her face was almost as red as a tomato. She said

her answer in a clear voice, “I am not permitted to tell you, but I will say that you are going to participate it with me. Or rather we are going to be participating. If that makes any sense?”

“I’d like to say no, but if it is mandatory for the grandfather to tell me then I will be ok with that answer for now.”

As the hours passed by one by one, Sora was filling Leon in on the details on what organization her family was, what he should address her grandfather as, and what the order of the day would be when they got there.

This is all that he knew so far:1. A clan that has the mermaid and priest/priestess gene.2. Her grandfather is the elder of the clan and should be addressed as such,

Elder.

3. There would be the greeting of the pair with everyone of the household, minus her parents; the room order; following that it would be a feast; then the ritual.

‘What ever the hell that ritual is I still have no idea what it is, with all that attention and provoking I have been doing, she still hasn’t told me! I think that I just might wait and hear it from the Elder after all.’ Leon sighed as he thought his problems.