Hiya Mr. Book! Lena here!

Big bro is still sleeping off the party from last night, so I snuck you out of his bag. Now its time for me to tell you about the adventures I've had!

First story! The burst bubble, and the sunken city!

By Lena.

I was petting Julius and playing with my new backpack when the bubble we had made out of all our super special wood got smashed. My backpack looks like a kitty, big sis Onica made it for me. She is suuuuper good with needles! The ocean came in to say hello, but it came too quickly. All my friends where swept away before I could do anything.

I made my Ripples protect me and Julius, and went down looking for my friends. But I couldn't find them.

I did find a cool city on the ocean floor. It was all dark and gunky, so I bet it's been down there for a long time. It was sitting right next to a huge canyon thingy. It was super dark down there, so I didn't go in.

THE END!!!

Second story, The chained Lady, and the glacial graveyard.

By Lena, afterword by Julius (He wants to say hi too)

When we headed back to the surface, because there isn't a lot of air on the bottom of the ocean, we saw something weird. 

A whole bunch of people where diving down towards us. We passed them on the way up, and thats when we noticed they were all chained up. Kind of like big sis was when we first found her, except Onica had way more chains than these people did. They weren't diving, they were sinking.

So I froze a bunch of water below us, which is hard to do with ocean water, and the new slab of ice drifted towards the surface. Scooping up and carrying all the people with chains. There were only five or six of them, so it wasn't a huge ice slab.

Anywaysers, when we popped up they all started gasping and puking water. There were a bunch of ships in the area, and they really didn't like seeing the people they had thrown overboard again. So they started shooting at us with their cannons. 

Cannons are awesome, by the way, they push a heavy metal ball really hard, and then it explodes!

I froze the ships, and as far as I know they're still bobbing about the ocean somewhere. 

And thats how I met Ardiea! She was one of the people in chains.

*****

Greetings Thing-that-is-not-food.

It is I Julius. I have traveled far, and destroyed much. 

It pleases me that you and the Food-giver were unharmed in my absence.

Never leave without my permission again.

*****

Awwww, Julius missed you too! 

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Next story!

Making friends and enemies!

By Lena.

Lady Ardiea Su, former Shoto Mistress of Ships became my friend! She was being riatu- ritau- ceremonially sacrificed for some dumb reason. She made some kind of blood oath thing to me. I asked her if she had seen any sign of my friends, but she hadn't. She said that the first to hear something like strange people appearing in the ocean would be the rulers of the ocean. Or more accurately, their spymasters. But you can't really find spymasters if they're good at their jobs, and if they aren't good at their jobs then you wouldn't want to find them in the first place. So I'd have to talk to the rulers instead.

She didn't want to go back to Fukai, the Shoto capital, because the Emperor was the one who was having her killed. But I promised to protect her, so we unfroze one of the ships and sailed away. I can make my own currents now, so we moved really quickly!

Fukai is amazing! It's underwater, but instead of being all dark and gross its bright and colorful! There are five mountains, with just the tips of them peeking out of the sea, and around each of those mountains are giant bubbles of bright blue energy. 

The mountains are really close to each other, and the bubbles overlap, and thats Fukai! There are trees and cool buildings, and lots of people, mostly elves though. It's one of the best things I ever saw!

But their Emperor is awful. He's fat, and lazy, and talks to much, and smells funny, and has this weird mustache that's super long, but really thin. It makes him look like he has whiskers or something. The Emperor tried pushing us around, until Julius set his creepy little brother on fire.

Then he got all weird and told us he had our friends, and that they were all in really bad shape. So if we didn't do as he said he would kill them all. Julius wanted to burn the whole palace down looking for our friends, but Ardiea convinced us to let her look into it before we killed everybody. Well, she convinced me, and then I convinced Julius.

Oh yeah, and the Emperor, whos name was Long Pu or something, was really unhappy to see Ardiea back from her trip to the ocean floor. But he couldn't kill her in the open without crossing some line in their laws, and after we killed his seventh assassin they stopped accepting his jobs.

THE END.

Erm, fourth story?

War.

After that we, Ardiea, Julius, and me, set off. I was given a ship, and put in a fleet. Then we just floated about smashing things. Fleets, islands, cities, stuff like that. I have gotten really good at using my flute and mist combo at blinding, separating, and destroying fleets. 

I hated it though.

I missed big bro, and all the fun he made. I missed big sis, and her lessons on cool animals and weapons. I missed Fen and all the pranks we used to plan out together. I'm so glad I had Julius with me, I don't know what I'd have done without him and Ardiea helping me.

I got through it thanks to them.

THE END

Fifth story, this is taking sooooooooooo looooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnggggggg!

The truth will set you free.

By Lena (Ardiea and Julius are helping with the titles)

Finally, Adrieas agents couldn't find any trace of our friends in the Shoto palace. In fact, they instead found descriptions of Onica, and maybe even Fen, in Iceni waters. So I took over the fleet I was in, and headed towards the rumors.

Stuff happened, my fleet grew. I found more friends. Connor for example. My fleet got so big, in fact, that I had to split it up. There aren't many ports that can supply that many ships all at once. So I now have three fleets, Ardiea is in charge of all the fleets, with Connor and two others in charge of their individual fleet.

So it goes, me, then Ardiea handles all the details of maintaining and manuveuring the fleets as a group, then the fleet commanders, like Connor, in charge of the individual details of each fleet, then the captains are each in charge of their ships. It works out alright.

We started combing the waves looking and listening for any sign of my friends. Robbing any supplies we could get our hands on. Which is how we stumbled across them yesterday.

THE END!

Now that we are all back together, I'd like to show them all Fukai, and have a word with that dumb Emperor.

I think I hear big bro waking up. I need to go and bang some pots and pans next to his head with Fen now.

Lena, out!