Note: This is while they are still on the island and before they meet Adam (just thought I'd point that out).

If you can't understand the Japanese words I don't blame you, you can just ask me and I'll PM you. ^o^

BTW, I don't know how to say "why" or "wait" in Japanese, so I just spelled it "doschte" and
"mate". It is something like that… ne?

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Luna sat at the fire, watching the flames crack as she thought back to the times that her father was still alive. She barely noticed Bell calling her name.

"Luna, are you there?" he asked. She woke up suddenly and put on a fake smile.

"Gomenasai. I'm fine." Luna replied, and drifted away once more.

"Mina, look up!" Shingo called out eagerly, as they saw a meteor-like item flash through the sky. "Hey! Down here!"

Unfortunately, they noticed shortly after that the meteor-like object was actually crashing. It flew past them, blowing out their fire, and broke off a piece of the mountain as it flew by. The explosion was, thankfully, on the other side of the island.

"We should go check it out." Howard said as he lay on his lounging chair. "And by 'we' I mean 'you'. Tell me what you find later!"

"Say what!?" Chako complained. "You're coming too, you know!"

"We should go in the morning." Kaoru explained. "It's too dangerous now."

"Eh, look at Mr. Smarty-Pants go on about his intelligence!" Howard argued. "Oh, wait, I thought that was Shingo…"

"Why do I have to get involved in this!?" Shingo yelled, getting up.

"Mina, let's just go to sleep." Luna interrupted. "Tomorrow, we can go check that out, okay? We'll decide then who is coming or not."

"Hai." All agreed, and went back to sleep, observing the faint light that the object caused.

This is strange… Kaoru thought. Too strange… I'm just way too sure that we're not alone here on this island.

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Daylight hours came and Luna prepared her backpack with whatever Kaoru, Menori, Howard and she would need.

"Mina, ikimashou!" Luna called out to her partners, as they began walking towards the mountain.

As you can expect, Howard wanted to stop about every five minutes or so. The trip was long, and even though Luna always tried to start a conversation, Kaoru wouldn't speak, Howard would say he is too tired to talk and Menori would cut her off with short responses.

The atmosphere became a bit tense, as they started to trail up the mountain. Kaoru took the lead, throwing a rope with a handcrafted hook as high as he could, followed by Menori, Howard, and Luna, who wanted to make sure that Howard didn't fall.

As they reached the top, they were greatly astonished to find a great crater on the other side. You couldn't see the bottom of it, for the smoke of what seemed to be a previous fire still roamed like fog around it.

"Okay, we checked it out. Ikimashou!" Howard said quickly, trying to escape, but Kaoru grabbed his collar and pulled him back.

"Hai, ikimashou. But we're going down." Kaoru said coldly, as Howard began whining in fear.

"Doschte?" he mumbled, as they all stepped down the steep mountainside carefully. "This is too slippery!"

Howard was the first one to fall, obviously, and as he slip down, he kicked Menori's legs, making them both slide down the mountainside. Kaoru jumped out of their way with grace and speed, impressing Luna quite a bit because of his skill.

"Ladies first!" Kaoru chuckled (something he hadn't done in awhile), as he watched the two slide down. He smirked as he heard Luna's laugh from behind him. Menori and Howard somewhat crashed into a plant below.

"Howard, I'll kill you!" Menori growled as she pushed him from her belly. "And get off of me! Baka, baka, baka!" As Menori got up (leaving Howard on the floor), she only saw Kaoru sliding down as if on a skateboard and Luna cautiously running lightly behind him.

"Mina, are you okay?" Luna asked, and everyone knew she meant Howard.

"No, we should go back, ne, mina?" Howard protested, yet everyone was already in front of him. "Mate!"

They traveled long ways through the forest, speeding up every time they heard an animal and slowing down everytime they got tired. After about an hour or so, the four only heard Howard's yell.

"Papa!!" he screamed, as he slid down the side of the crater.

"Howard!" Luna yelled, as he reached the bottom. "Is it safe to go down?"

"Haii…!" he mumbled. Menori, Kaoru and Luna slid down and met up with Howard.

"So, let's see what all this is about! Ikimashou!" Luna said happily, as she marched towards the middle of the crater. Howard shook in fear as he thought of the worst.

"Mina… onegai… let's return!" Howard whimpered. Menori suddenly stopped and hit Howard across the face. He held his cheek, unable to speak or react.

"Get yourself together, Howard!" Menori snapped. "This isn't a little game where we can just return home whenever we want to!"

"Menori…" Howard whispered soothingly, still cupping his cheek in his hand.

"We're going to go down there, okay?" Menori continued. "And we're only going to return when we find out what's going on, even if it costs our lives! Understood?" Howard nodded as all continued walking in silence. All the way, Howard kept on looking down at the hand that had been holding his cheek.

Kaoru and Luna suddenly stopped, and looked at some object with wide open eyes.

"Mina, what is it?" Menori asked. She suddenly gasped in an extremely exaggerated tone and held her mouth.

"It's a…" Luna began, but she couldn't finish her sentence.

"Person?" Kaoru finished.

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