Sora and Leon take a submarine ride to visit Sora's family in Japan. Sora is surprised to find that her Uncle Sozin is driving the submarine. She explains to Leon that her grandfather invited him to participate in a family ritual, but she is not allowed to provide details about the ritual itself. As they near their destination, Sora briefs Leon on customs like addressing her grandfather as "Elder" and the planned greeting, meal, and ritual activities for the visit. Leon is still uncertain about the nature of the ritual they will participate in.

1. 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

2. 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. 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.