Ceto Greek goddess of dangers of the sea and sea monsters and daughter of Gaea and Pontus startled awake she sensed a great catastrophe headed to the world one that would change the sea forever. Somewhere in the eastern waters, a great power was going on a rampage for some unknown reason she felt that only she could stop it. She left everything without hesitation and raced towards the storm.
When she arrived at the small Sea in Japan (called the Sagami-nada sea today) she found two mighty beings fighting. One was a man clad in lightning wielding a spear that felt could cause typhoons white just a wave. While the other was shining white, quietly and gently wielding a sword with a gradual curve looking very elegant. She could see the battle was going to destroy everything she held dear so she gathered all her courage and threw herself between them taking on the full force of both attacks head on trying to save her beloved waters. She channeled all of her divine power to try and push the energy into the sky, but what was left was too much for her to take and she was nearly destroyed herself.
The two stopped fighting when they noticed this and quickly came to her sides one hoping to help her the other to see who was foolish enough to stand in the way of he and his brother's fight. Tsukuyomi and Susanoo competed with each other in everything since young and neither would just let the other win especially the younger and brasher Susanoo. When they arrived they saw a beautiful woman with the body of a shark starting from her hips. Tsukuyomi could see how terrible her injuries were and that he couldn't save her with the power he held currently. He turned to his brother.
T: “Can you save her?”
S: “Why? She was foolish enough to try and stop our power with only herself she deserves her suffering.”
Ceto: “I was only trying to stop you from destroying the sea and all the creatures in it. You would have destroyed it all had I not been ‘foolish’ as you put it.”
S: …
T: … “Is that so?” “Didn’t we agree when you proposed this challenge that we wouldn’t damage or destroy this place brother? Should I tell our lovely sister about this?”
S: “What would you have me do? Lose?! To you?! I’d destroy everything before that!”
?: “Is that so?”
T: …..
C: …..
S: ……..”N-n-nee-Chan to what do we owe the pleasure?”
A: “You’ve caused the death of a young goddess from the west her mother going to want your head.” she said pointing to the still bleeding Ceto.
A: “Her father is the sea and her mother is the earth two beings that stand on an even plane as our father.”
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S: “WHAT?!”
T: “WHAT?!”
A: Going over to the dying goddess “Your injuries are too severe and there is nothing we can do to heal you. My name is Amaterasu I’m sorry for my foolish brothers. Would you like me to end your suffering quickly?”
S&T: *sweats*
C: “No! My parents will come and my mother can heal me.”
A: “You will have long past before they could arrive here. What would you have me do when they arrive to be greeted by a corpse?”
S: “Couldn’t we just seal her soul into something until we can find a vessel for it?”
A: “Not a bad idea coming from an idiot.”
S: “HEY!”
C: “Seal my soul... won't that kill me?”
A: “If you were mortal, yes because your soul would shatter but you are a goddess and although you would be put to sleep for an unknown period of time it would allow you to live on.”
C: “Truly?”
A: “I would not lie to a dying light.”
C: “If I can live on then do it.”
Amaterasu called upon her brothers to create a statue of a water Kirin the size of a human carriage at the bottom of the sea where they then sealed her soul into it. There she will sleep until a suitable vessel was either found or born into the world. At that time regaining her body and her diving strength.
S: “Are you sure the mortals wouldn’t find it here out in the open?”
T: “I control the tides also how would they reach the bottom of the sea?”
S: “You never know what those annoying ants are going to do.”
Just then a massive wave of water came with two figures of Gaia and Pontus riding at the crest.
G: “What have you done with my daughter you rodents?!” Gaia’s maternal instincts to protect her children were in full swing.
P: “Calm yourself Gaia our home is not here although we could easily deal with these children their father is not worth offending for your daughter.”
G: “She’s your daughter as well why are you not angry?!”
P: “Because unlike you I can see they’ve sealed her soul into this hideous statue of some inferior creature.”
G: “She lives? Truly?!”
A: “Yes, although she is currently sleeping in the statue. Once we can find a suitable vessel we can merge her soul with it and she’ll walk this plane again.”
G: “Find a vessel? We can just create one! Why does my daughter slumber while I her mother am standing before you?!”
A: “She foolishly got into the middle of a fight between my idiot brothers trying to stop them… which she did I suppose, but the damage to her body and soul were too severe and we sealed her into this water Kirin statue to wait for the other part of her soul to meet Samsara and return to this plane.”
G: “Samsara?! You said she was alive!”
A: “She is, but more than half of her soul was destroyed in the clash and it was the only thing we could do. Even if you made it here in time and we moved her soul into a vessel you created she would be but a husk compared to her former self.”
P: “How long?”
T: “We don’t know…”
G: “So which head am I taking back to Olympus with me to wait for the return of my daughter?!!!!?!”
P: “It's not that serious we’re gods she’ll wake when it’s time and I’m sure she’ll come straight back to us when she does. Out of curiosity why did she come here in the first place?”
A: “According to her the fight between my brothers would have destroyed the seas as we know them killing all within.”
P: “Oh trying to destroy my domain and my daughter tried to protect it… maybe she takes after me after all.”
S: …
T: … “That was not our intention I can assure you.”
G: “Leave is with her I want to stay with her for a while before we head back and you must come to us with any news or signs that she will awaken soon or I’ll come for your heads I promise you.”
A: “You have our word.”
Ceto had no clue that her mother was so close to her and threatening three of the high gods of Japan or that her action made her father have a higher opinion of his daughter. She just slept and slept for years, then decades, then centuries, then a millennium past than two then three. Sleeping all along until a large earthquake in 2011. The following tsunami killed many people and displaced thousands of pounds of land and water along with a large water Kirin made of stone was swept into the Tama river in Tokyo near a place called Tachibana HS.