Kraken

Kraken are a species of gigantic squids and octopuses who are notorious and feared by the sailing community due to their large size and immense strength. These giant cephalopods tend to live deep below the surface of the waters in more darker, shadier areas like caves or forests of reefs. The kraken as a species is divided into two species: the "Octokraken" and the "Squiraken" (pronounce Skra-ken), two large species that are octopus and squid in appearance respectively. The term kraken may also be used for large variants of confirmed and living members of the cephalopod family. There have been many known real and supposed individual-specific members of these fellow Krakeni (plural), such as the Giant Octopus of the Club Island Cove or the Underworld variant of the kraken, but in most ocassions, the kraken can be reported as a larger member of a typical-but-very-real giant squid. Since kraken are such elusive and secretive animals in nature, at times being coined as cryptids, kraken are often sought after for the biggest member, and have even been reports and statements on the flavoring of one of it's tentacles, stating it would be better and tastier then it's smaller kind.

The most dominant range of the kraken are seen around the waters of Penguio, mostly around the northern-eastern coasts. Around this area is where the more famous octopus-like species is said to lurk. The squid-like variant of kraken lives down south of the northern-eastern waters. Kraken sightings originally began in the 1930's in said Penguio, but many other sighting of kraken have appeared since then in surrounding countries around Penguio. The Krakeni are essentially known for their aggresive behavior towards forms of seacraft, wrapping their arms around and attempting to either drown or eat the crew of the seacraft. Other than that, kraken fly through the deep sea, and or rest upon the caves or reefs. The kraken species often eat the usual fish and other sea creatures. Explanations for the kraken size is often linked to deep sea gigantism.

History
The first reports, rather documented cases of the kraken can be traced to reports of sailors and pirates upon the Penguion Sea where giant shapes, and if they are followed by one or another arm-like tentacle before proceeding to dive back into the water. However, the famous reports of krakeni taking down seacraft was documented around the late 1930's to early 1940's, when a large boat was destroyed by a large creature and it's pilot was never seen again, circa 1939, by eyewitnesses around the area where it happened, a semi-popular fishing spot. Another report came a year later, and due to it's first reports and the two sightings where the kraken took down the ships, a member of the then-imperial party reported the event and wrote an article that would later be published by the local news publisher. Widespread panic began around the sea community and many would be afraid of sailing out to sea. However, in the following months, a now deceased zoologist would describe the documented and confirmed wildlife of the area, and mentioned that giant squids are amongst the now reported and confirmed animals to live in their area, and details as to why these squids attack all of a sudden. After this, the scares of the now-dubbed "krakene" as it was called, have died down, as penguins now know of what to do with an encounter with the kraken.

The following two decades, reports of the other "species," the Sqiraken, the squid-like variant of the kraken, would appear down south of the coasts of southern Penguio, and by the following year, the kraken was exposed to other media in the antarctican mainland, resulting in famous zoologist Lawrence Plant, to research and conduct a search under the waters with a pressure-proof submarine, and would go underneath the waters. They would later find a terrifying but fascinating giant squid swimming around, but never managed to find the elusive kraken. He later determined that kraken were rather larger members of octopi and squid that are part of deep-sea gigantism-related cases, where regular sized sea animals grow significantly larger than their regular sized variants, due to ocean temperature or pressure changing in the sea. In 2004, when one of the very first documented and filmed cases of giant squid encounters happened in the Boneen Islands in Japaland, interest in kraken origins started to rise, and today, krakeni are one of the most famous members of cryptids in the cryptid community.

Appearance, behavior and diet
Due to having different sightings about it's actual identity, the kraken species has been divided into two species: the Octokraken, having octopus-like features, and the Squiraken, the more squid-like kraken species. The Octokraken has two appearances, but is commonly seen as having either light green, blue or greyish skin, and has the ability to camoflauge like other cephalopod members, which is described by cryptozoologists as "the impressive and terrifying power of the king of the sea." The Octokraken species can have stripes of coloring that is close to it's coloring, and has a beak. Body features includes large eyes, a large body, eight or ten tentacles, and have been reported to sport a single or a pair of horns. There have been reports of octokraken having two horns on it's front face area where it was probably an illusion of it having a mouth, as reports of the octokraken have been reported as having a "large, did point, guttered mouth." The Squiraken species as mentioned, looks more like a gigantic version of giant squids, albeit having longer tentacles. They range from the typical red or orange color, but can have deep sea colored blue skin, which can blend in with the sea, but it's eyes are yellow, therefore if you see a pair of two flying orbs in deep sea levels, it is probably a blue squiraken. They are thought to act like normal giant cephalopods, but attack seacraft, due to the fact they misinterpet these ships as whales or other larger animals. They eat all kinds of sea animals they could find. They eat mullets, sea snakes, whales and giant crustaceans.

Explanations
As mentioned, there a few explanations of what the kraken species is. These range from:
 * A case of deep-sea gigantism - Deep-sea gigantism refers to species of animals that live in the deep-sea, who have developed a form of exsessive growth hormones, and cephalopods have been documented to have this form of growth problem, and the kraken has been linked to being rather large members of this deep-sea gigantism.
 * New species - Since the ocean is 95% unexplored, kraken as a whole, along with it's purported dual species, can exist, but fellow cryptozoologists and zoologists say not to jump on the "it's real bandwagon," and take into consideration for other possibilities.

Other famous krakeni
Other famous cryptids or giant cephalopods in the past have been documented. These include:
 * The Kraken, an artificial kraken named after the kraken species, made by demon penguins in the Underworld
 * Giant Octopus, a famous globster of a large octopus that washed up on the Cove in Club Penguin Island.