Calming Waters

I keep punching and kicking, but I don’t manage to beat this kraken girl, she’s the last person I have to beat in order to enter the prestigious sea clan “Mistsuru”. I have tried 9 times but I have failed all of them, I have reached the finals 2 times already, this is my third final. There are various ways in entering the clan but because of my very low grades, this is my only hope. I don’t want to be a fighter or a wrestler, just to be a good sailor in the Mitsuru clan. I just beat this girl, and I go home with the price, not anymore as Skadi Umi Redbad, but as Skadi Umi Mitsuru. The girl keeps kicking and punching hard, I feel it in my bones, but I’m motivated. The beating continues, I try , I try but now, I can’t move. “Move, move!” I tell myself. I blackout literally, I realize that I have already lost despite the referee not ringing the bell yet, I can’t stand I feel a very deep darkness that I have never felt before. Please Miss Neptune, please Mitsuru-Sama ,help me stand up, I beg you, please, if it not the Mitsuru clan, anyone! Anyone except Kaiserin , Redbad, Kyubichen or Udagawa, anyone! Help me find my way! I pray and I pray to Mitsuru-Same, Goddess of the Lost Sailors, but nothing. My prayers fall in deaf ears.

“Skadi Umi Redbad once again loses 10 times after reaching the finals for the 3rd time. What a sad final, what will she do next?”

Years later

The waves move like brushing the sand. It’s a wonderful sound. The sea reflects the light of the sun. The sea reminds me of the fun I had with my best friend, who’s not here anymore , a long past, someone that I’m not anymore, an old me, someone who died, I died when I was 16, I’m a Lynxgirl but I managed to control my body temperature in order to enjoy the sea. The sound of the sea and the smell of saline water helps me calm down of ship wrecking my boat. Yes, my boat broke near Rio De Janeiro but I’m originally from Umineko, Friesland, a European city with strong Japanese heritage. 2 years ago I dropped from high school and decided to sail the sea on my own. I wanted to escape everyone and give up on life. Not really give up in a bad way, just sail the sea endlessly without any destination. At this point I have visited almost all countries in just 2 years in just a boat, well I’m from Umineko, it has one of the best sailors and swimmers in the world. At least, compared to the world, that’s the reason why I left my city forever. I was never enough for them. I could never find myself in my own city and country. I don’t have a country , I just have the sea and this boat. I live in this boat. It’s big enough for two people to live. Boat might be an overstatement its very big and its enough for me.

I tried fixing the electronics of the boat myself but I couldn’t do it. I had to ask for help and I have very little money. Asking for help wasn’t my thing, in Umineko we were expected to independent. We were Redbad , not Kaiserin. If I were a Kaiserin, I wouldn’t have problem asking, I remember getting yelled just for asking for help but I have no other choice. Checking on my phone I realized Rio De Janeiro is a city controlled by Kaiserin, so I’m lucky.

If I’m a redhead Lynxgirl, why I don’t join Kaiserin? That would involve joining a very competitive clan and a clan which I have to work in a community with people, and I don’t want that. I have given up on people , I want to be independent and live for myself, I have no desire to have the same goals as Kaiserin. And Kaiserin isn’t perfect, they are hypocrites in fact and by the way, we are way pass the era where Lynxgirls had to join the Kaiserin to be successful, Redbad is honest, they don’t offer me anything and don’t expect anything from me. I get extremely angry as I fail to find someone who can help me and I kick the boat , and throw the wrench. I hate this world, if I could drown them in a tsunami I would! My hatred inside my soul moved the waves in a violent manner , of course I’m water/space type, the water is sensitive to my feelings when then I hear voices.

“Hoi, it’s one thing wrong dear lady wae kann ye helpen?” It was a very beautiful woman like straight from a fairy tale and she spoke a very old dialect of Frisian, she must be very old despite her looks, here people don’t age one bit. She was a cowgirl, you know humanoid cow hybrids. She had her horns and ears. “Yes, my boat just broke.” “Wat een beautiful dress ye hebben.” The lady just stared at me, I would never have thought a woman like her would have this reaction to me. “Ik kann ye helppen, in days of yore Ik sailed de zees. But ik hast Tailenis bring en, sie’s meer knowledgeable wit de modern engines. Wait, I didn’t tell ye myn names, I’m Lady Anna Redbad frae Koewarden , Friesland but je just kann call me Anna. “ When suddenly a dark skinned redhead comes. It was like the time stopped, I knew who Tailenis was, she fought in Kurison Puroresu, a Wrestling promotion in the 3rd Division. She was a beautiful serval catgirl, that sleek crimson red hair mixed with her black skin and sharp eyes was a sight to behold and that body, those muscles , those arms , those tattoos it was like I could be protected by her all my life. I’m usually nervous at the sight of beautiful women but I was so comfortable around her. “Hey, my name is Tailenis.” That’s it. She didn’t talked that much, just like her in ring persona. “Channing talked me about you, I knew you were Skadi because of your green and blue eyes.” Huh? Does she likes them? Hehehe. Channing was my assigned mentor by the way. Tailenis then left to investigate what’s wrong with my boat. “I feel a lot of hate in your soul, like someone hurt you, I saw you being angry and the waves moved in a violent form, you are Kaiserin right?” Anna now spoke in a more neutral Frisian “I’m Redbad, no intention to change clans.” “Huh? Why? You would be perfect” Kaiserin. Violent women who are always bugging you, trying to help you, they seem so fake, fighting, smoking, doing acid they think they are the last Electric Moonshine in the world. “Kaiserin is the perfect clan because you have the exact passion and desire as one, a person doesn’t belongs in a clan because they are born in it or they have the stereotypical personality, its because they have the same desire.” “Same desire as Kaiserin? Winning fighting tournaments? Wrestling? Engineering ? Architecture? Music? None of that. I’m a sailor and that’s it.” “No no, my Lady Skadi, in Kaiserin everyone has different desires, its how much they wish for them. With your skills, you would could help a lot of people.” “ Nobody listens to me, when I left, nobody cried or said goodbye.” I said with pain in my chest. Anna held my face “In Kaiserin, everybody has a voice, everybody is heard, in Redbad, you are are on your own, try it, please.” I don’t understand why a Redbad wants so bad to join Kaiserin. “Anna has trained for centuries people of other clans, specially Kaiserin and Redbad, she knows more than anyone. When Lynxette, formed Kaiserin, Anna formed Redbad as mean to support Kaiserin since around that time, Kaiserin weren’t accepted into society but Redbad was.” Anna is that old? Lynxette was born 1,000 years ago! Tailenis faced me “You are a coward Skadi, you use that boat to hide yourself, you don’t even try, you don’t even want to get close to anyone because you are afraid of getting hurt? That’s nothing compared to the flaming tables I have been put through. You need to face your fears. I will not hurt you Skadi, here in Kaiserin we try for anyone to have a place and you are rejecting it? Not knowing what awaits you? Think about it, think about what you can do if we help you.” We just met and they want to help me, but why? Why they want to help me? “Why do you want to help me so bad?” Tailenis was in deep thought “Because you are very dangerous Skadi, people with crimson souls are naturally dangerous and they must be trained to control themselves, the way to pushed those waves were terrifying. Look your eyes, you have the Eyes of Neptune and the Eyes of The Sun, that combination of eyes are dangerous plus I really feel compassion for you. Let’s eat, forget what we said.

“Oh wow so you have travelled almost all the world by yourself?” We were talking like good friends at evening in the beach around the bonfire. I have never had this feeling in the world. Tailenis opened herself more telling me stuff that happened during backstage. Wrestlers are really crazy! Did Athena and Thorja really did that? “Haha yeah, those two are a blast to have around. You never get bored with them.” Hmm, maybe, just maybe I should become a wrestler, I mean, in Kaiserin you can do anything as long you work really for it. “It would be cool to be. A wrestler but I don’t have a body or image for that.” “Oh don’t worry about it, you can easily be a model if you work on yourself a bit and be a valet, the wrestlers that accompany the other wrestlers or even a cruiser weight that takes a lot of bumps, even they lose, they entertain a lot the audience.” “Huh, a cruiserweight taking bumps like the Dudley Sisters , I don’t want to be that.” “ Something is something, look at the Dudley Sisters, they are proud of their work, they are known everywhere!” Hmm, maybe my standards were high and unrealistic, they only won the tag team Championships but they were still famous and besides, now I have someone who really supports me unlike Channing, that lazy polar bear. “Skadi, tomorrow I will teach you how to make a very special spell, good night.” We slept there on the beach , like a small sleepover.

The next day, I woke up refreshed and ready for a new day. I have never woken up like this. Anna prepared us breakfast and we had a good meal. I wonder what’s the spell Tailenis will teach me. “Skadi, this spell I will teach you is also a drug so you need to be careful only using it in special occasions, this spell is has similar effects to Amphetamines, you know, those that make you concentrate better , you need be soaked in water or underwater. Come, take your clothes off…. “Umm what?!” “Ah, I mean except your bikini of course.” Tailenis instructed me to dive very deep upside down and do the spell. “You need to think in a drop of water , listen to it and say the name of the spell ‘Calming Waters’ .” Tailenis dropped me. While diving down I thought how Amphetamines make you think of stuff you would never do, I need to think clearly if I want to join Kaiserin, after all, with my hair I immediately join and it would be taking a decision as if I were drunk. This is the time, I will start again. Think things slowly, take things slowly, start again and learn slowly. I said it: “Calming Waters!” I listened to the drop and I felt a blue energy flowing through me, a new beginning , I swam very fast to the shore and I felt like having new eyes. This spell is indeed a drug. “Are you feeling better? What do you want to do?” “I want to join Kaiserin!”