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Nami (NSFW)

There are often strange varieties of different stories that radiate of various creatures and characters that come from Japan. Among one of them is the Unagi Hime but what are they and what do they do? The fact is not much is actually really known about them. The only known story that comes from Japan tells of a story of a warrior by the name of Genbē that walked by a pond. As he neared it, a beautiful woman came out to address him. Startled, he spoke to the woman and learned that she was a shape-shifting eel that lived and protected the pond from harm. In Japan, the eel (which is more closer to a freshwater eel) were the guardians and protectors of lakes and waters against creatures such as spiders or crabs and it was considered an act of misfortune to harm an eel in turn. She would be called Unagi Hime or the eel princess. For Genbē, he was not exactly the brave sort. He agreed to help out the Unagi Hime, but when the day arrived, he fled the battle. Hopeless in her fight, the eel would lose the battle. The stories which often sound beautiful at first usually somehow just turns into a story where the man fails to accomplish something and ends as it started. It becomes a tragedy in which nothing is resolved. Genbē grief stricken, would drown himself in the pond that belonged to the eel. In Tales of Heroes, there was one of these legendary Unagi Hime. Mythics since they are able to live forever, often travel around the world. It is not uncommon for Middle Eastern/European mythical characters to travel to places like Asia and the Asian mythics in turn, travel to other places such as even the United States. Doing things like this is often recommended for the immortal mythics since they get to learn of different cultures, languages, and traditions that other cultures have. The story of the sole surviving Unagi Hime would occur in North America near Lake Erie. A lone fisherman by the name of William, made a living fishing in Lake Erie sometime in the 1960s. He would live his life normally but alone. One day while fishing, an eel would leap onto his boat but it was no ordinary eel that he ever saw before. William was the character that always returned something to the lake if it wasn't what he was hunting for. He took the eel and placed back into the water and resumed his fishing normally. The next day while fishing again, the same eel leapt back into his boat. The eel this time shifted her form and stood before him as an anthro like eel in a kimono. She would confess that she was an Unagi Hime and had made her home in Lake Erie. Happy to see the fact that she had put her back into the water before, she believed that William was a good man. She told him of the news that had befallen her home. A company had decided to do illegal dumping of toxic waste into the water near her home. While the toxic waste couldn't hurt her, she did care for the life around her. She pleaded to William to bring this information out onto the public about what the company was doing and stop them once and for all. Determined, Wiiliam went and got the evidence to show that some of the staff of the company were indeed dumping waste into the lake illegally. The company quickly apologized, cleaned up the mess, and William became a little bit of a hero in the town for his actions. The Unagi Hime would tell him that her name was Nami and thanked him for his actions before she leapt back into the water to leave him be. About a month later, William would get a knock at his door. A Japanese woman in a similar kimono he had seen once, was standing before him. Upon entering his home, the woman would shift her form to what he had seen a month ago. Nami had returned and told him how grateful she was of his actions. The Unagi Hime had seen William as her knight in shining armor and offered her hand in marriage as a reward to him. William graciously accepted the eel's request and they would live happily together by Lake Erie as lovers. As seen in the picture, Nami and William enjoy a romantic night after a day of fishing. Nami is the only Unagi Hime after Cataclysm wiped out most of the mythics from existence. Her shape-shifting abilities allow her to be fully eel, human, or even in-between both forms. Typically she favors her in between form to allow herself to operate in a human home without being fully human at the same time. While she is not as powerful as the other water mythics, she has the ability to use a little bit of water magic here and there. The aquatic mythics of the Coalition of Deities play just as important roles as the other land based mythics do in scouting the ocean waters for anything important. Nami is just one of the many aquatic mythics that serve in the ranks of the unity of mythics.