All this time, meanwhile, Girona had been quietly fixing up his undersea domain. He'd been busy, in spite of all the commotion going on abovewater; the water was now teeming with life, fish of every color, stripe, and polka dot, plus corals and seaweeds and every other thing one can think of that belongs underwater. Yes, yes, things were shaping up nicely. Now that the basics were in place he would be able to do some more complicated things...

Suddenly, there was a great upheaval! He felt the oceans flowing into new shapes as an entire chain of islands twisted itself up! This in itself might not have bother Girona so much, if not for the influence of the newly formed island on the surrounding waters.

He took a closer look at it all. The influence of this newly reformed island was such that it was causing strange changes in his creations. The fish and foliage were mutated beyond recognizability in most cases. This would not do!

And so it was that Manic and Lucid now came face to face with a rather peeved God of the Ocean.

"You two!" he roared at them. "Your higher self has intruded on my domain! And messed with all my stuff!" Before anyone else could get a word in edgewise, Girona had produced what looked to be some sort of two-headed eel. With seven crab legs; clearly the result of a clash between the Ocean God's domain and the Spiral's.

"What even is this??" he said, shaking it around. "It's like a... it's just weird. What am I supposed to do with this, huh?" He started to squeeze the thing, intending to watch it really squirm in his grasp... and then it squeaked. "...Huh."

He squeezed it a few more times. It squeaked a few more times. "...Well I suppose it is kind of cute," Girona said, examining it a bit more thoroughly.