Kisame was all for carting them around if it kept everyone all bubbly like this.
No.
Really.
Kisame kept the extra forward momentum of gravity all the way to the river edge, where he stopped so hard he had to adjust his grip on Duo.
Deep breath in. "There," He pointed with his chin, started walking at a normal pace across the choppy water. "That's it. Don't get closer than the altar."
***
It looked different in daylight. That's not to say simply that it's appearance was different in the stark daylight, it literally LOOKED at things differently. Different cameras, and so forth.
It eyed the new figures, tossed them through the recognition programs, and got ready to go back to sleep with the gun on auto once it had done it's ten thousand negative returns.
Something deep inside it beeped. Electrons started to flare up.
For the first time in almost fifty thousand years, it woke up.