"Ha! Ha! Ibuki's going to win! Eat my dust!" Ibuki shouted as she shot her fist into the air. "You don't need to scream idiot! We're sitting right next to you! Hiyoko huffed as she puffed her cheeks and clutched her controller tightly. Hope's Peak Academy's 78th-B class was currently on spring break, and Sonia had rented out a summer home in the brisk countryside of Osaka, she invited the whole class up there to hang out. The news made Soda very happy, and he was the first to jump on board to the idea, much to Sonia's disdain. But everyone else was delighted by the idea, they all got their bags packed and made their way to Osaka. Sonia's summer home was a home fit for a princess, it was modern but not too over the top, had a lot of rooms, modern amenities, and even a pool to top it all off. To put it bluntly, Sonia and the others were livin it up like 1999.
They were two days into their break when the weather started to warm up, at the time the girls were playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Sonia's 70 inch plasma screen via Chiaki's Nintendo Switch. Chiaki was playing as Mario, Hiyoko was Toad, Ibuki was Larry, and Peko was Isabelle. The course they were playing on was SNES Rainbow Road. "Don't feel bad if I lap your asses!" Ibuki cried as Larry drifted into an item box and evaded a star thwomp, but was quickly passed by Mario. "On your left," Chiaki said. "T-That was a fluke!" Ibuki said, completely caught off guard by Chiaki, she regained her focus and tried to catch up but Isabelle came speeding past Larry with a mushroom. "On your right," Peko said casually. "There's a lot of flukes going on, is all!" Ibuki shouted, knowing very well that she was losing her mojo and falling more and more behind in the race.
The final lap came as it soon turned into a race to the finish, whoever crossed the finish line first would bring home the gold, and the four girls were determined to win that trophy. Isabelle zoomed by Roy and threw a red shell at Bowser, Toad had a golden mushroom and was speeding like no tomorrow as he was passing through the competition, Mario was maintaining his lead with Larry not too far behind. "I'm gaining on you Chiaki! Soon victory will be within Ibuki's hands" Ibuki cheered with a smile, she was getting cocky and she knew it, but didn't care. As the two came upon the final turn Ibuki was about to pass Chiaki… until Toad shot up from behind with a star and rammed into Larry, knocking him off the map.
"W-WHAT!?" Ibuki screeched as her jaw dropped, while Hiyoko giggled softly to herself admiring her handy work. Larry was picked up by Lakitu and placed back on the track, however Ibuki's sadness was dispersed when she saw that she still had a huge lead among the other racers. She figured that she could make it and get third place, that was until Toad, still under the star's effects backed up into Larry sending him over the edge again. "I HATE YOU ALL!" Ibuki wailed as she dropped her controller and fell face first on the floor, all the while Hiyoko smiled evilly as she brought the controller up to her face. Chiaki and Peko placed their controllers down and got up. "Well. I think I've had enough go-karting for one day" the swordswoman said. "Same here, too much game time can hurt my fingers" Added Chiaki as she could feel her hands cramp up.
Ibuki was still on the floor, wallowing in her self pity as Hiyoko got up. "Well I'm bored, I could go and put some cockroaches in Mikan's shampoo, but I don't feel like it," she sulked. The three girls were at a loss of what to do. They spent the last three hours playing Smash Ultimate, Super Mario Party, and Bomberman R. In other words, they were video-gamed out, if their fingers touched another button it might fall out. The guys were in the basement watching Space Jam on the spare tv, and Soda was outside chopping firewood for "Miss Sonia '', or, more like struggling to chop wood. He could barely hold the axe, let alone chop a log in half, so far he was only able to chop three logs out of fifteen that Sonia wanted. The three ladies went and sat on the couch with ideas spiraling in their minds on how to spend the rest of the day.
Their prayers were answered when Mahiru came in bearing a smile on her face. "Hey guys, whatcha up to?" She asked. "Physically drained after three hours of pro gaming" Ibuki mumbled softly. "We're trying to find something else fun to do, and nothing's coming to us!" Hiyoko groaned as she grabbed her pigtails in frustration. "Well, with the weather being nice out, I figured I'd go out and take a walk, you guys wanna join?" Mahiru asked. As one que the other's eyes lit up like stars and immediately nodded their heads. "Alright then, I'm just getting ready, I'll wait up for you all" Mahiru said as she left the room, when she did the others rushed to their rooms to get dressed.
A few minutes later Mahiru was in the living room sitting on the couch waiting for the others. She was dressed in a white short-sleeve button up, with olive green overalls, dark green shoes and forest green socks. Her dark red hair was styled in a short side ponytail. She was scrolling through her phone when the sound of footsteps were picked up by her ears, she looked up from her screen and saw the others were back and fully dressed.
Peko was decked out in a simple gray short sleeve, with black shorts that went to her knees, along with black knee high socks and black flats. Ibuki wore a hot pink shirt with ripped sleeves with a black poison apple on the front, neon blue baggy pants with two black straps around the waist. The pant legs were rolled up to the knee and her legs showing her mismatched blue and pink ripped stockings, and on her feet were white chunky sneakers with pink and blue trim with a plethora of stickers and neon purple laces. The soles of the shoes were bright pink. Hiyoko wore an orange top that read "Troublemaker", with white baggy pants with orange trim that reached her ankles, white slide platform sandals on her feet and her toenails colored in a bright marigold yellow. Chiaki's attire consisted of a red sleeveless crop top with a green triangle on her right breast, loose baggy orange pants with yellow and neon green trim, on her feet were platform sandals in the style of Samus's jet boots. Her toenails were a light pink with little triforces on her big toes along with some neon green sunglasses with red and gray trim resting atop her head, their color scheme was in tune with Samus's helmet on her Power Suit.
"We're ready!" Ibuki said as she saluted at Mahiru, the photographer just sighed happily. "Alright. I told Sonia we were going out beforehand and she said it was okay" she said. The others cheered happily, with that they got their things and made their way outside.
Fifteen minutes later the girls were soon encapsulated in a bright calm forest wilderness. The sun shined down from up above, a gentle breeze blew through the leaves and bushes, flowers were in bloom, and all was well. The girls were together while Ibuki raced ahead. "We're going on a hike! We're going on a hike! Today's the day, hip-hip hooray! We're going on a hike! Whoo!" She cheered happily, her voice scared away a few birds. "Will you shut the hell up, your jump-scaring the birds away before big sis Mahiru can take pictures of them you brain dead rock junkie!" Hissed Hiyoko. Chiaki was paying no mind to the girls and their blabbering, she was admiring the green serene forest around her, she gently hummed Green Greens from Kirby to herself.
Mahiru led the group, but was constantly snapping pics of the scenery with her camera. So far she got a pic of some flowers, a tree, and a few bushes. Hiyoko was close behind with a pack of gummy bears in her left hand, and Peko was admiring the area around them. The group continued walking until they came to a fork in the path and stopped. One path was narrow and seemed to elevate, while the other widened out and was lined with grass. "It appears we've been given a choice," Peko said stoically. "Which way do we go, Big Sis?" Hiyoko answered. Mahiru had her finger resting on her chin as she thought for a bit, but was unable to find an answer.
"Eenie, meenie, miney, mo! Which path shall the Ultimates go?" Ibuki chanted ecstatically. "Shut the hell up before I bop you on the head!" Hiyoko spat as she pouted. Peko examined both pathways but was unable to determine an optimal route. "We could go back the way we came, and find another trail," Chiaki said. "Orrrr we could go down the right path!" Ibuki cried happily, which got a flood of mixed reactions from her classmates. "Are you sure that's a good idea Ibuki?" Mahiru asked. The SHSL Musician just nodded her head rapidly signaling yes, the redhead photographer let out a small sigh. "Fine. Lead the way" Ibuki's face lit up like a Christmas tree as clapped her hands giddily. She then stretched out her right arm and pointed. "Onwards to adventure!" She yelled as she ran off down the right path. The others just watched and took a collective sigh of frustration, knowing that they were in for a long day.
The others made there way down the right path and soon caught up with their boisterous classmate, who was yelling up a storm. "Oh! Their you guys are! Ibuki was worried that you all abandoned her!" She said sadly. "Some of us wish we did", Hiyoko hissed under her breath only for Mahiru to lightly slap her on the arm. "It's best not to run ahead Ibuki, we need to stay together" Peko said, the musician winked and stuck her tongue out with a happy look on her face. "Okie Dokie!" she cheered proudly as she walked over to Hiyoko and stood beside her, much to the traditional dancer's annoyance. With their loud classmate back with them once again the group continued one with their nature trek. The remainder of the walk was practically unchanged, Mahiru took more pictures of the surrounding plant life, Hiyoko tagged close behind while munching on her gummies. Ibuki was beaming brightly as rock music blared from her headphones.
As the group pressed further along the trail Peko noticed that the surrounding area began to change. The trees lessened, the grass got taller, and the air was getting more and more humid. She was interrupted from her sight when she felt one of her flats sink into the ground, she nearly fell forward but quickly readjusted herself.
Looking down she saw her flat partially mired in a patch of mud, she slid her foot out and bent down to retrieve it. A look of disgust coated her face when she saw all the mud on her shoe, she simply shook it off and placed her shoe back on her foot. "I'd be careful of where you step Koizumi, the ground beneath our feet is starting to soften. One wrong move, and we might get stuck" Peko said.
Hiyoko laughed. "Stuck?! Oh what's wrong, is little miss four-eyes afraid of a little mud" she teased, while sticking her tongue out at the swordswoman. "No. Peko's telling the truth, don't believe me? Just look at Ibuki's shoes!" The musician said as she pointed down. The girls could see the sides of her shoes line with spots of mud. Ibuki sat down on a nearby log and pulled one of her shoes off, and began shaking the mud off. Despite her efforts there were a few splotches left on her shoe.
"Dammit! These were limited editions! Now they're ruined!" Ibuki groaned. "You bought them from a thrift store you dunderhead! Limited edition my ass!" Hiyoko seethed but was given a look by Mahiru, Ibuki chuckled softly to herself but was given a death stare from Peko. The others began walking again and left the musician alone, she quickly put her shoe back on her socked foot and raced to catch up with the others.
Mahiru heeded Peko's advice about the terrain and was walking very carefully along the ground; the others followed suit, except for Saionji. She was walking normally without a care in the world as she continued snaking on her gummy bears. As the group continued along the trail Ibuki saw a small river up ahead, from a distance it was partially dried up, Ibuki went to cross but was stopped by Mahiru. The photographer was being cautious of the terrain like Peko told her, and decided that there was another way to cross. Chiaki looked around and her eyes caught sight of a large branch that was stretched out over the river, judging from its size, it looked stable enough to support their weight.
The girls went and walked across the makeshift bridge and reached the other side no problem, with the only exception being Saionji. The traditional dancer just stared at the partially dried river and glared at the group as they went further down the trail. "That four eyed bitch! Why is she acting so scared of the ground all of a sudden!? Not only that, but she's brainwashing big Sis with her crap!" The dancer pouted, she popped a gummy in her mouth to calm her down. She stomped her foot in anger. "I'll show that four eyed creep!" She yelled, with that she rolled up her bag of gummies and stuffed them into her pocket and stretched her foot out and brought it down. When it touched the ground a faint squish could be heard, and part of her shoe partially sank. She then placed her other foot ahead and was met with it partially sinking into the ground as well.
"Ha! I knew there was nothing dangerous! But noooo, those losers had to listen to miss four eyes. She just had to be a scaredy-cat! Ugh! I swear that four eyed troll's a bigger killjoy than that pigshit Mikan!" Hiyoko grumbled. With each step she took the ground underfoot squished and sucked at her slip on sandals, upon taking another step the cracked dry surface gave way, Hiyoko's left sandal went down to the tip of the insole. The blonde quickly lifted her foot up and could see a heaping glob of thick dark muck on the sides. "I walk through mud puddles all the time! I don't understand what little miss four eyes was so scared about", She wondered. The girl placed her mud-soiled sandal back down on the ground, the semi-soft terrain squelched, sending out small air bubbles that sprayed mud on her sandals and the top of her foot.
Hiyoko looked ahead and saw that she was almost halfway across the river, she also saw that the others were getting further and further away from her. "Shit! They're getting further away, at this rate I'm bound to get left behind in this lameass forest!" She continued her trek across the dry wetened river, each step she took coated her sandals in gritty thick mud, her footprints were still fresh on the surface. With every step the girl could feel herself getting heavier, primarily around her feet, with all the mud build-up on her sandals slowing her walk and turning it into a tedious slog. The ground below became soft and wet, with every step she could feel the ground sag and quake beneath her sandals. On top of that, the ground gurgled and bubbled, letting out foul belches and vicious sucking sounds.
"Ugh! Mph! C-come on! I need to catch up!" She groaned upon lifting her left foot up from the muddy terrain, it was here that the river reverted back to its wet and muddy form, this caused the girl's footwear to begin sticking to the mud. Resulting in her stopping every five minutes to relinquish her foot free from the mud's grasp. Looking at her left foot, the sides were coated a dark color of muck as Hiyoko's face cringed in disgust. She simply shook her foot to get the contents off and kept on going. But upon taking another step with her right foot, it sank into the mud, reaching past the sides and reaching the insole. Hiyoko's body shivered as she felt the cold sludge graze the tip of her toes.
She slowly raised her right foot and was shocked to see the mud stretched up all the while latching onto her shoe. Small globs of mud squirted up around her left foot as it gently plunged deeper into the mud as well, when the girl went to lift her other leg she was also met with resistance, she lifted her right leg again but she was only able to raise it slightly before it got pulled back down into the gumminess of the river mud.
"W-what the hell?! W-why is the ground swallowing me?!" Hiyoko cried, completely puzzled by the event taking place before her eyes. She leaned forward and jerked her legs, but they wouldn't budge, she then grabbed her left leg and pulled hard on it but the mud refused to let go. She placed her hands on her hips and stared at the glistening wet earth entrapping her feet, she let out a frustrated groan and then frantically began to rock side to side, hoping that her movements would loosen up the mud around her feet. But it had the opposite effect, the mud only tightened and held onto her more vigorously in response to her movements. The dancer looked down and saw that her toes had disappeared beneath the mud, actually, the entirety of her feet had sunk beneath the surface leaving her up to her ankles. "Big Sis Mahiru! BIG SIS MAHIRU!" She screamed.
Further down the trail Ibuki's ears picked up the sounds of someone crying out for help, she stopped walking and looked around the area. "Ibuki, why did you stop?" Peko asked. The others also stopped in their tracks and looked at the musician as well. "Ibuki's ears are picking up a distress signal, coming from the way we came" Ibuki said as she pointed backwards down the trail, then ran back down the path. The others stood and looked at one another before shrugging their shoulders in confusion and ran after her.
"Ungh! Mhmph! Let go of me! I said let go!" Hiyoko cried in between grunts, she tugged viciously at her trapped legs, but the mud's relentless suction held onto them like a vice. It was almost like she had bricks tied around her feet, everytime she raised one the other would be pressed deeper into the warm soft mud. Her situation wasn't made any better from the disgusting slurps and farts from the mud underfoot. Her frantic movements rocked the riverbed like a plate of gelatin, but move as she could the muck still held onto her feet and ankles. "Gotta get out of here, I can't let anyone find me like this. Let alone Big Sis and those other idiots! Maybe I cou-"
"HIYOKO!" Cried a voice that made the dancer dread her very existence, she knew who the voice belonged to, and she wasn't happy one bit. Soon Ibuki and the others came up and stopped at the river's edge, the musician was beaming from ear to ear. "Ha ha! Ibuki swore she could hear the cries of little Hiyoko, with ears like hers you can hear pretty much anything" Ibuki smiled. Hiyoko wanted nothing more than to shrivel up and die at the moment, she couldn't believe that her friends had to witness her being in the same situation again.
"Are you okay Saionji?" Mahiru asked, concerned and worried for the latter's safety. "I-I'm fine" Hiyoko squeaked, too embarrassed to even speak. "Are you stuck?" Ibuki said, looking smug. Hiyoko jerked her left leg again but it didn't budge, then tried her right, only to get the same result. "N-no!... Ungh! I'm not... Mhmph! Stuck!.. Just a little-" Hiyoko began but stopped herself mid sentence when she could feel the mud loosening up around her left foot when she went to lift her right leg again. "Wait! Wait! I've got it! Ungh! Ah!" Her foot shot loose from the muck with a loud sickening schlorp, it was raised slightly above the ground coated in a layer of dark mud. She then looked at the others from the river with an evil smile on her face.
"Ha! You losers actually thought I was stuck? Geez! You're all a bunch of babies! I can take care of myself! Hmph!" Hiyoko sniffed. She went and placed her muddy left foot back down on the soggy ground to walk, her foot broke through once again and was brought down to her upper calf. The dancer tugged and writhed about trying to free her leg but her attempts did very little. She looked back at the group with a puppy-eyed look. "Help" she squeaked.
Mahiru sighed and rolled her eyes, as her and the others went and looked around the area to try and find something that could be used to pull Hiyoko out. Ibuki found a branch along the riverbank and picked it up, she ran back to the others with it in tow. Mahiru took it and stretched it out over the bank towards Saionji. "Grab on!" Mahiru said. The latter complied and took hold of the branch, from there the others got behind Mahiru and grabbed the branch as well. "Ok. One, two, three, pull!" On command the four of them tugged on the branch to pull Hiyoko out, for the first few minutes the dancer still remained trapped in the river mud and she could feel herself inch deeper. She looked up at Mahiru with a frightened look. "Keep pulling!" Chiaki called. "Ow! Ow! The branch is giving me splinters!" Ibuki cried, Peko held on tightly as she and the rest tugged on the life branch, while Ibuki was trying to fight off the feeling of splinters digging into her skin.
The trapped Hiyoko felt herself being pushed back and forth as her friends worked to get her out, but even so she could still feel herself getting shorter and shorter. When she looked down she saw that she was to her lower thighs, she looked up at Mahiru with a worried look on her face. The photographer tightened her grip on the branch and her along with the others pulled harder, nearly straining their muscles to their limits. After a few more minutes of tug of war, Hiyoko's feet came free and she was pulled back onto solid ground. The girls laid on the ground tired and out of breath.
"Are you okay?" Chiaki asked. "Yeah" Hiyoko replied as she got up and dusted herself off, her pant legs were coated in black mud and she was barefoot, her shoes were lost during the rescue. Looking to the river she saw the tips of her sandals poking up from the mud before they were sucked under. "Ow! Ow! Why do splinters have to be so… Splintery?" Ibuki grumbled as she picked a few wooden thorns from her palms, winching slightly everytime one came out. "Now do you understand why it's best not to question my warnings?" Peko said coldly as she gave a stare to the traditional dancer. "Yessss" said Hiyoko in a sarcastic tone as she silently pouted. "We should probably get a move on, it'll be dark soon and I still wanna keep the hike going" Mahiru said. "Indeed, I'd hate to waste such a perfectly good day like this," Peko said in agreement. Ibuki was also in favor of continuing the hike, so she shot her hand up to let Mahiru know that she wanted to continue their hike.
In the end Mahiru made up her mind and decided to continue onward with the hike, much to the other's excitement. The remainder of the hike played out practically the same Mahiru taking photos, Ibuki vining out to rock music, Hiyoko snaking on gummy bears, almost like the incident at the river never happened. Hiyoko cringed with every step, due to her being barefoot, and that she was only dirtying up her feet even further since they were already caked in mud.
"Consider that a consequence for not listening to me" Peko said as she walked by, Hiyoko blew a raspberry at her when her back was turned before popping a gummy bear in her mouth. Chiaki was lingering behind the group as they walked, she was still immersing herself in the lush forest scenery surrounding her. It was almost like she was on Route 2 looking for Pokémon. As she continued walking a white butterfly flew by her face and landed on her nose, she stopped and the insect flew off and landed again on her hand. "Hey there little guy, are you lost?" He asked with a smile. The insect didn't reply as it looked at her before flying off to the right of her. "Wait, come back!" Chiaki cried, but the insect didn't comply as it flew further away from her.
Chiaki looked at the butterfly then at her group, then back at the butterfly. "If I bought back that butterfly it would make a great photo for Mahiru" she thought before chasing after it in a blind hurry. The others didn't even notice that she had left, they were only focused on the hike.
The white butterfly flew down a secluded trail that ventured deeper into the forest, with Chiaki in hot pursuit of the flying bug as if she were Sonic the Hedgehog. Her sandaled feet slapped against the ground crunching twigs and branches underfoot as she ran, all the while the white winged insect got further away everytime she got close. "Please come back mr. butterfly" She mopped. As the gamer ventured further down the trail more bushes and ferns littered the sides of the path, along with more trees blotting out the sun, but she didn't notice as she was too focused on catching the butterfly and bringing it back to Mahiru. Chiaki pushed her way past branches and bushes as she continued her chase for the white insect.
The white butterfly flew over a bush and entered an area that looked like another portion of the river the girls encountered earlier, only here, the river was dry and partially still wet. The surface was coated in lily pads and small reeds along the sides, the butterfly circled about in the air before it landed on one of the reeds to rest for a few minutes. Chiaki soon came upon the scene as she pushed past a cluster of bushes and found herself on the barron river. "Alright, now where's that butterfly?" She wondered. She looked around the area until she saw it resting on a reed. "Yes! Alright, just stay there" Chiaki spoke as she slowly walked from the bushes and towards the riverbed, creeping slowly to make sure not to scare the insect away. She quietly stepped out onto the mud flat exposed by the low water level, a faint squish was heard when her sandals made contact with the soggy ground, and another squish was made when she brought down her other foot.
She took a quick glance up and saw that the sounds didn't alert the butterfly. "Good" she sighed happily, she continued to slowly inch closer to the insect. Each step taken was greeted with more squishes and sucks, but the gamer girl didn't seem to mind, her main concern was the butterfly and butterfly alone. Upon taking another step her right foot plunged down and partially sank into the gooey ground, the mud confined around the base of her sandal and was near the insole. "Huh what's going on?" She questioned, looking down she saw that her left foot was semi-mired in the mud.
"Oh, I thought the river would be drier further up, looks like I was wrong" Sighed Chiaki. She pumped her foot but it didn't budge, she tried again only to get the same result. She switched tactics and pulled on her left leg, her foot rose slightly but was quickly pulled back down, as well she noticed that whenever she tried raising her foot up the mud surrounding it would partially raise up along with it. The mud clung to her footwear and it wasn't going to let her go anytime soon.
She pulled on her leg again but to no avail, as the river muck kept its hold on the girl's foot and shoe. "C-come on! Ungh! Hmph! I need to reach that butterfly!" Chiaki grunted as she fumbled about trying to free herself, pulling and pumping her foot didn't seem to work in her favor of getting her foot out. She leaned forward and shifted her weight to make herself lighter, then placed her right leg in front of her left for support and proceeded to slowly rock back and forth, the ground around her ruptured slightly but Chiaki didn't notice.
The girl rocked her entire body and wiggled her left leg within the mud, to help loosen up the suction around it. So far, nothing happened, the movements Chiaki made seemed to thicken the mud around her foot as well as increase its hold. "Come on! Ungh!" She grunted. As Chiaki struggled her right leg began to sag down into the mud due to all the pressure she was putting on it, the girl could feel the damp wet mud seep through the fabric of her pant legs. As if that wasn't bad enough her hands also began to slowly sink into the soft ground as well. "I've gotta hurry!"
Chiaki leaned forward as far as she could and jerked her body forward in conjunction with wiggling her leg and foot, hoping that all the movement she was making would loosen up the mud's grip. After ten minutes of struggling and moving around, her left foot came out with a wet "SHLORP!" Leaving behind a hole where her foot originally was, her entire foot was lined in a sickly black coating of mud. "Wait, where's my shoe?" She wondered, she looked back at the hole where her foot was trapped and reached in and felt around. She winced as the cold slimy mud pricked her hands and fingers, she kept searching until she felt something solid, she pulled it up out of the mud hole.
Chiaki was then greeted with a mud covered jet boot sandal in her hand causing her to frown, she shook the contents off best she could but the shoe was still dirty despite her attempt. "I might as well take off the other one and wash them off when I get back" She told herself, with that she threw her muddy sandal back to the river's edge and took off her other sandal and threw it over to the edge where it joined the other. Chiaki got herself up and wiped her hands on her pants, causing them to get smeared in traces of more mud, but leftover stains of it were still on her hands. Looking ahead she saw that the butterfly didn't move from its spot, even after the excursion she had to go through to free her foot.
"Good, it didn't move, now to grab it" Chiaki said bravely, with that, she pressed on to retrieve her prize. When she took a step with her right foot, the ground underneath gently sagged down. She stopped and looked down and saw that her foot was gently penetrating the muddy surface. "If I keep walking like this I'll just end up getting stuck again, tip toeing might work since I won't have to apply a lot of pressure" Chiaki thought. She stretched out her right leg further and set it down, then proceeded to do the same with her left leg. With every step she took she was getting closer and closer to the butterfly resting on the reed, her feet left footprints on the wet ground but they started getting deeper and deeper the further she got away from shore. The mud underfoot was getting more soft and loose the closer she got to the butterfly, the muck began to suckle and cling lightly to her feet, but Chiaki powered through, determined to get the butterfly at any cost.
Rancid squelches and burps came from the mud below as her walking speed began to slow dramatically, each step that further taken made the girl feel like she had weights tied around her ankles. It also didn't help that the mud slowly transitioned from soft to loose real quick, along with more sounds from the disgusting muck below. Glancing ahead the reed with the butterfly was almost within her grasp. "Yes! Just a little bit closer!" Chiaki cried happily, the sooner she got that butterfly the sooner she could get back to the others. She inched closer and closer to the reed, the butterfly stood as it opened and closed its wings, completely unaware of the presence of someone creeping up on it. Chiaki remained silent as a mouse as got in close, her footprints squished and squashed in muddy bank with each sound grew vigorous and louder with each step, signaling that something was wrong but the determined gamer girl didn't hear the monstrous sounds from her ears.
She was only three inches away from her prize when trouble reared its ugly head once more. Upon taking another step with her right foot plunged into the mud up to the ankle, the thick wet sludge squished and bulged in between her toes. "This again?! If I this was the Great Marsh I wouldn't have a problem with getting a little dirty" Chiaki mumbled quietly, she bent down and grabbed her ankle and pulled on it as hard as she could. Her leg went up for a split second before it was yanked back down by the mud, if she was playing Diamond and Pearl and encountered a marsh tile in the Great Marsh all she had to do was mash the D-pad in different directions. But Chiaki wasn't in Pastoria City, and her current situation didn't rely on game physics.
She twisted her legs and torso in conjunction with pumping her legs as the pale haired dame worked to extract herself from the large mud pit she stumbled into, the mud held onto her ankle and foot vigorously as it bubbled and growled greedly at it's captor's pathetic attempts to free itself. Each time Chiaki pulled her ankle up, it would go up 2 inches before it sank back into the confines of the mud, her right leg continuously bobbed up and down as she struggled to relinquish her right foot. Looking down she saw that her left foot was slowly beginning to melt into the muck as well, thick rings and folds of mud lined around her foot and globs of mud oozed in between her toes making her blush slightly. Chiaki quickly pulled her left foot out, letting out a loud "SHLORP" when her foot came loose, leaving behind a small hole where it was originally.
Chiaki thrusted her body forward and wiggled her left leg in rapid succession, hoping that all the movement she was making would loosen the mud's hold on her right ankle. Trapped bubbles of air form below the muck rose the the surface and burst, spraying small splats of mud on the girls's pants, but she was unfazed by it, she could just throw them in the washer when she got back to Sonia's. She was only focused on getting out and nobbing that butterfly for Mahiru. "UNGH!... UMMPPHHH!... I don't understand why this isn't working!?... UNGH!... If I were in the Great Marsh and walked on a marsh tile, all I'd have to do was mash the D-pad!.. UNGH!" Chiaki grunted as she tugged harder and harder at her ankle, nearly straining her arm muscles to free it from the sticky clinging goop.
Vigorous "SPLCHs" and "SSUCKs" came from the mud's suction as it's grip tightened around her feet, making it harder for Chiaki to pull them out. After five more minutes of tedious struggling Chiaki felt the goop loosen up around her foot, her face beamed brightly as she leaned forward and continued to jerk and pump at her leg in rapid succession, growing more and more ecstatic with each passing second. After one final jerk of her leg, her ankle and right foot came out with a loud wet "SLSHH!" and was coated in a heavy layer of shiny black mud. "F-finally... I-Im free!" Chiaki said, partially tired, she nearly drained all of her breath to free herself. She was breathing hard and light traces of sweat ran down her milky white skin. Looking forward she saw that the butterfly was still resting on the reed, but it started to open and close its wings, in a few minutes it was about to take off again.
"Oh no you don't! Your not getting away from me this time!" Chiaki cried as she began to inch towards the insect, her footsteps were greeted with loud "SLOPs" and "SLUPs" as her feet smacked down against the muddy ground, each step taken the sounds grew louder and louder. Almost as if they were trying to alert the poor girl of the danger ahead, but Chiaki was only focused on getting that butterfly and that was it, she wasn't going to let herself get distracted anymore. The mud suckled and clung harder to her feet, causing her to stop every few minutes to relinquish her feet, each time she was greeted with an eerily gross squelch from the mud. She ignored the noises as she was almost within grabbing distance of the butterfly, when trouble stuck again. After taking two more steps her left foot plunged into the wet slurry, her right foot followed suit due to her coming in to fast and was unable to stop herself. As a result she was brought down to the lower portion of her shins. "Huh? Oh great! Just when I was about grab it!" She pouted, she wiggled her legs but they didn't budge, she grabbed her right leg and gave a few hearty tugs at it, but even that didn't do much to free her leg. She tried tugging at her other leg, but like her left, it was stuck tight in the mud. It also didn't help that the mud's suction had began to form around the girth of her legs, she could feel the fabric of her pants mold into her skin. "Ungh!... Mhmph!... Let go of me! Ungh! I-I need to get that butterfly… Ungh!... Before… UNGH!... It flies away!" She said in between grunts. The girl continued to pull and tug at her legs, but no matter what she did, they remained stuck. Each time she lifted them up, thick gooey mounds of muck rose up and clung around her ankles and lower calves, she pulled on her right leg with all her might to free it from the mud's suction… but she couldn't. The mud stretched up, clinging tightly to the orange fabric of her pant leg, meanwhile, her left leg is pressed deeper into the mud by her efforts, and was now sunk to the upper portion of her left calf.
"UUMMMPPH!.. UNGH!.. I… Can't… UUMMMPPH! ...Move!" Chiaki grunted, she leaned forward and found that her left leg was plunged deeper alongside her right. She pulled hard on her right leg, the ground around her leg rose up in a small tent-like glob, the mud thickened around her leg and the suction increased making it harder for her to move. "In 2-D sidescrollers… UNGH!... Like SMB Wii, If you walk into a pit of quicksand… Mhmph! You can… UNGH!... get out by… Mhmph!... Mashing the jump button!" She cried, her eyes were shut tight and her teeth gritted as she jerked and yanked at her mired legs, with every tug the mud stretches up like taffy or caramel, clinging tightly to her legs and continue to lock her in place. By now, Chiaki was up to her knees in the dreaded river mud, and her chances of escaping the trap were slowly diminishing. She grabbed her thigh and pulled on her leg again, but the mud on her hands made it hard for her to get a proper grip on her legs which resulted in them slipping in and out of her hands. "Ah! No! No! No!" She panicked, Chiaki leaned to her left and violently twisted and jerked her left leg in rapid movements. Hasty thrashing movements didn't seem to work in her favor as more and more of her form continued to inch downwards, determined not to give up Chiaki rocked herself back and forth thinking that her additional movement might aid in her escaping the foul trap. Unfortunately for her, it had the exact opposite as her decent sped up.
"I-I don't understand?! M-maybe I could try jumping out? I mean, I worked in the New Super Mario Bros games" Chiaki thought to herself. The girl calmed down and took a few deep breaths, then she tried to jump upwards but found that nothing happened, she tried again but found that she didn't go up at all. Her legs were as good as sealed within the mud, and it's vicious muddy suction reinforced it's tight waterlogged seal around the curves of her legs and feet, making her even more stuck than before. "Oh no! Now I'm trapped even worse than before!" Pouted Chiaki as she angrily slammed her fist down in the mud. Looking down Chiaki noticed some odd changes in the mud's appearance, the once glistening wet surface was slowly fading into a dull black semi-thick watery liquid as water gurgled and surged first from the exterior layer then from the subsurface level around her legs. Chiaki saw bubbles rush to the surface in clusters at a time, getting worried she tired lifting her right leg up again, only this time she found it much harder to accomplish. The mud felt more compact and firmer than before as it tightened immensely around her feet, calves, and kneecaps, imprisoning them further in the interlocking matrix of the mud. Chiaki lifted her left leg and found that it wouldn't even budge, she leaned forward and pumped her legs in vain, but it was no use, the super heavy iron suction gripped her tightly with no means of letting her go anytime soon.
"O-oh my god, I-I can't get out!" She cried in panic, thinking frantically she pressed her hands down on the mud's surface and violently rocked her body from left to right, sending out massive ripples along the mud's surface, beneath the surface her legs were twisting and thrashing like mad. Chiaki lifted at her legs, first with her left leg then her right. Her legs didn't move, the mud encasing them noticeably thicker and considerably heavier than ever before. Clenching her fists, she pulled harder, jerking at her thighs to dislodge them from the mud, but neither budged at all. To compound the issue, the mud residue on her pants made her heavier which made her plummet faster in the disgusting filth. On top of that, said mud was filling into her pockets, adding more additional weight making her feel like a box of cinderblocks. By now the girl was past her kneecaps and was to her lower thighs in the sucking mud, looking up Chiaki saw that the sun began to dip down signaling that the day was almost at an end, soon it would be night time. "Okay Nanami, don't panic, just stay calm. The others are bound to notice your gone and come find you, right? RIGHT!?' she wondered to herself as she looked around the vacant river.
Meanwhile the other girls were taking a rest by the stream, Hiyoko was soaking her feet and cleaning the mud off them along with her pants. Mahiru was browsing through her photo album on her camera admiring all the glorious pics she took. Peko was leaning against a tree, staying out of the shade and keeping an eye on the others. As for Ibuki, she was off to the side vibing out to some rockin tunes from her Ipod, she was in her own little world. "I've got that summertime summertime sadness, S-S-Summertime, Summertime sadness, got that summertime, summertime sadness oh, oh oh oh oh. I'm feelin' electric tonight cruisin down the coast goin' 'bout 99" Peko looked up from her thoughts and noticed that one of there members was missing. "Where's Chiaki?" she asked, her question caught the other's attention in an instant. "pffh , what are ya talkin about Peko? She's right here! Isn't that right Chiaki!" Ibuki said as she turned to the right of her hoping that the gamer girl would be at her side, only to find that she wasn't. "Chiaki! Chiaki!" Ibuki cried, Mahiru and the others began to get worried. "She was with us when we were at the river, maybe she ran off?" Mahiru wondered. "How did we lose a gamer girl!?" Ibuki shrieked. "You forgot to take her off the Xbox you dumbass!" Hiyoko yelled. "I just hope she's not in any danger" Mahiru said as she looked up at the sky to see it was nearing sunset.
"...UUNNNNNGGGHHHHH!... MHMPH!... Let… Me… Go!" Chiaki grunted as she clutched her fists and leaned hard to the left, pulling up on her left leg, the leaned right and pulled hard on her right. The gamer girl's luck continued to run out as she continued to fumble and wraith about in the muddy goo, completely oblivious to the fact that her rash hasty movements only drove her deeper into its clutches. Chiaki's legs didn't budge an inch, the mud glued to the damp sweaty fabric of her pant legs, the near escapable vacuum of the mud's powerful suction tightly formed around the girth of her thighs. Determined, she tried lifting her legs again, even HARDER, but the gummy weighty black goop rose up in thick globular masses that grasped her thighs like warm melted butterscotch on a hot day. No matter how hard she tried or pulled at her legs, no matter how strong willed her spirit, she couldn't simply break free from the suction or adhesion entrapping her legs and feet. She was STUCK! Heavy beads of sweat trickled down her forehead and arms with the sun shining down for high above, there was a large amount of sweat perspiration on her top, the girl took herself a breather to regain her strength. A frustrated sigh escaped the gamer's lips as she stood there resting, her hands upon her hips staring at the mud surrounding her as more and more of her legs sank further into its grasp, she was slowly starting to get frustrated at her situation.
"This is absolutely RIDICULOUS! I've been stuck in this stuff for HOURS!" Chiaki exclaimed in defiant anger and exaggeration, though there were traces of distress and concern in her voice. The girl brought both hands to her face and took a long deep breath. "Okay, just breathe Chiaki, your just a little stressed out is all. Just stay calm and keep a level head an- hold on, why is the river getting bigger?" She was brought out of her thoughts when she noticed the vast area around her suddenly got bigger, when she looked down she nearly screamed, she was halfway past her thighs and was partially close to the upper thigh and more importantly her butt. "Oh my god I'm still sinking, whenever I move I only go down. It's almost like I'm in…" Chiaki's body froze and her blood ran cold as she looked down at the mud in pure terror. "Q-Quicksand, Oh my God I'm sinking in quicksand" she half shrieked.
Now fully aware of the danger she was in, her breathing quickened and her pupils shrank in terror upon realizing the true terror of her current quandary. Being the Pro-Gamer she was, Chiaki was knowledgeable of the existence of quicksand in some of the games she played, but she never expected to encounter the stuff in real life. In the game, escaping the stuff was as simple of mashing the jump button or running across as fast as you can. But here, nothing seemed to work for her, every action she did only made her sink faster and faster. The soft thick quick-mud caressed and massaged her legs beneath the surface, her toes were pointed down with no chance of touching solid ground anytime soon as she was sucked deeper into the moor. As well, her pants ensured that she remained tightly sealed within the mud, because the whole morass adhered well to the material and added extra weight to the already heavy Chiaki. Looking up, the day was at sunset, the bright hot sun was slowly slipping below the tree line while the edge of night followed closely behind. Glancing down Chiaki saw that her thighs were nearly devoured by the hungry ravenous muck. "…UMMMGH! …UUNNGGGGGHHHHH!" she grunted and growled, trying with all her might to pull her legs loose of their muddy bonds.
But they barely moved, the grip of the suction around her legs was unbelievable while the rubbery plasticity of the heavy clay gripped her feet, calves, and thighs like thick organic glue. Sweat flew from her writhing body and whipping hair, showering upon the mud like summer rain. Flies began to buzz around her filthy sinking body as she continued to shrink, it seemed like they were attracted to the lavender scented perfume she was wearing. Combined with her sweat, pretty much turning her into a human bug buffet. "I'm starting to regret using some of Sonia's perfume, had I'd known it would turn me into into a bug magnet I wouldn't have put it on" Chiaki said to herself. The mud was sliding further up the thrashing sweatiness of her perfumed pant-clad thighs, the adhesive clay encased her legs like thick, warm cement. Chiaki struggled, grunted, pulling in earnest at her legs, yet no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't pull them free. "...I CAN'T ...GET ...OUT! ... UUUUUNNNNNNGGGGGHHHHHHH!" her thighs bobbed up and down as she tugged madly at them, only making herself sinking faster and deeper into the slimy thick gluey mud. "Alright… how about this?" She leaned her body forward and tried to climb out, she hoped that her plan would reduce the suction's strength. She wiggled and thrashed her lower body within the mud, doing everything she could to loosen to sticky grip the quagmire had on her. "Come… UNGH!.. On!... MHMPH!... Let… UUMMMPH!.. ME GO!" She cried. The heavy thick sludge bubbled and gurgled sending out air bubbles to the surface, the suction only increased as she continued to move around, tightened vigorously around her thighs and legs.
The butterfly flew off it's reed and circled about in the air above the sinking Chiaki before coming down and landed on her mud covered arm, the girl pouted as she angrily stared at it. "This is your fault you know, if I hadn't followed you, I wouldn't have end up in this quicksand!" The butterfly just flapped its wings as it's human perch continued to thrash and wiggle about within her muddy imprisonment, it took off once more and circled around Chiaki before landing again, this time on her nose. "I hate you" she quietly scoffed as her face blushed slightly. With a loud gurgling sound she finally sank to her crotch and the soft wet mud clung softly to her groin and femininity. She twisted and strained at her hips as her sweaty pant legs and crotch gouged deep into the thickness of the mire, the glueyness of the clay mud eagerly adhering to the curves of her hips. Her pants became soaked with water from under the mud and gave a sucking sound, whenever the girl moved, small sprays of mud gushed upwards as she continued to squirm. "I-I have t-to get out of here!", with her strength she placed her hands down on the mud's surface and tried to push herself out of the devouring mouth of the quicksand, at the same time trying to fend off the sudden sexual arousal that began to manifest. "N… no! I mustn't let it… aaah~! Chiaki gasphed, the warm wet earth clinging and caressing her womanhood through the fabric of her pants made her face blush immensely.
Determined to escape the death trap, she pushed, pulled, and struggled like hell but all it did was further loosen the quicksand up allowing it to swallow more and more of her body. The muck lustfully sucked at her legs with loud gurgles and smacking sounds, with each passing sound she was slowly growing more aroused "Ah...aaaaah! It keeps pulling me in! UNGH!... MHMPH!.. But at the same time it… it feels so r...Relaxing" her voice began to trail off as she brought one of her muddy hands to her chest, but broke out of the trance before she fondled herself. "Snap out of it Nanami! What were you thinking!? You have to get out of here and not get distra-" Her voice began to trail off again as more smacking sounds began to gush from the mud as she pumped and twisted her hips, her breathing began to harden, her body got warm, and her heart beat increased. She leaned back and madly thrashed her hips from side to side causing the jelly sand to rock and quake like a waterbed as a small moan escaped her mouth. "Aaaaaah~Why does this stuff feel so good but dangerous at the same time? HNNNGHH!" She leaned forward a little and rocked her body front and back, from a distance it looked like she was trying to escape, but in reality she was rubbing her femininity on the soft quicksand in hopes to quell the arousal that was overtaking her body, so she could regain her focus on her escape.
But her method soon proved to be her undoing, she began to rock her body more frantically which caused her to slip deeper into the unruly mud. Finally she got so overwhelmed by these strong feelings, that she lost control of her body. She madly rocked left and right within the slop, she slipped her hand down her pants and furiously rubbed her womanhood. The innocent gamer girl had been placed in a lust spell as she let the arousal of the mud take over. "Mash X! MASH X! MASH X! MASH X! MASH X! MASH X!" She chanted ecstatically as more and more air bubbles rose and popped on the mud's surface. The ravenous quicksand hugged at her hips and formed around her buttocks which only made her gasp and moaned more and more, she quickly realized that the bottomless mud, excited her more intensively and she became horny a lot more faster. "Yeeesss! Aaaaaah~! Just a little more~... Gotta reach the flagpole at the end of the level~" Chiaki was almost nearing a climax when she felt herself shoot downwards, knocked out of her trance she looked down and saw that she was past her hips and up to her bellybutton, touching the knot inside. "I think I made things worse, she leaned forward and pressed her hands down and moved her hips back and forth and shook them like crazy, hoping that her actions would make up for her arousal lusty craze from before and relinquish herself from the fast sucking mire. But the only good that did was pulling her pants down to the point where her galiga panties, not only did she lose her pants but the mud had formed and clung around her bare legs and groin with an unbreakable suction. As of now, her problem went from bad, to WORSE!
"CHIAKI! WHERE ARE YOU!" Ibuki yelled, scaring away a flock of birds that were resting on a nearby tree. "Are you trying to make us go deaf?!' Hiyoko seethed. "Children, focus, we're trying to find Nanami and fighting among ourselves isn't going to make the search easier" Peko scolded, causing the two to stop their bickering. "Chiaki! Chiaki!" Mahiru called, she waited a few seconds but there was no answer. Mahiru sighed sadly. "Where is she?" she spoke. "I do not know, but don't worry, we will find her Koizumi" Peko said as she placed a hand on the photographer's shoulder. The redhead's face lightened up and her along with the others continued there search for their missing friend.
"Hnnnngh!.. Ummhmph!.. All that moving around… UNGH!.. Made the mud… UNGH!.. Thicker!... MHMPH!" Chiaki groaned, by now the mud had sucked her down to her abdomen and further movement only caused her to plunge deeper and deeper into the sucking mire. By now, her chances of escape were looking slim, by Chiaki still held onto hope that she could get out despite her situation. She pressed her hands down on the mud again and pushed, wiggling her trapped lower half and upper torso in rapid succession as she pushed herself up. The girl could slowly feel herself rising up, looking down she saw her bellybutton and hips come up. "It's working! It's working!" she cried, happy to see that her efforts were finally paying off, she kept the pressure going and pumped her legs within the deep thick dense mud which aided in her ploy. Soon her buttocks and crotch rose up as well. If she kept going she would be able to extract her legs in no time. However, that didn't happen. She shot down deeper and was now to her stomach, the girl was both perplexed and frightened as her situation continued to worsen with every passing minute. "Oh god, I'm still sinking! Now I'm even deeper than I was before! I-I have to get out of here" Chiaki said. She went to push up on the mud again but found that something was wrong with her hands, for some odd reason they refused to rise up, it wasn't until Chiaki looked down that she was given her answer. Her hands began to sink and merge with the mud, thick sloppy globs of wet earth seeped between her fingers and folded over the tops of her hands. "Y-you've gotta be kidding me" Chiaki sighed, she pulled and lifted at her hands and arms, completely shocked by how strong the mud's grip got at this point. She noticed the thick, warm stickiness of the ooze individually surrounding and entangling each and every finger. Clenching and opening her submerged hands proved laborious as the tacky cohesiveness of the encompassing ooze restricted the movement of her fingers and thumbs. With her hands ONLY a few inches below the mud's surface, SURELY, she'd be able to pull them free. "…UNGH! …UUMMMPHHH! COME!... ON!.. LET ME GO! …NNNNNNGGGGHHHHHH!" she grunted, her shoulders undulating as she STRAINED to lift her hands out of the mud, the thick clay adhering to her lower forearms and stretching up like tar, refusing to let go. It felt like she was in Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2 and was trapped in a pool of very thick mega muck, it cling and held onto the bareness of her skin watching evilly as she thrash and twisted about.
By now her entire body was coated in a heavy layer of sweat and a large amount of perspiration soiled her red top marking the outline of her breasts and rest of her upper torso. Chiaki's eyes were shut tight and her teeth gritted as twisted her upper body and thrusted her shoulders upwards to relinquish her stuck arms, but the mud refused to do so, her efforts were only working her body deeper and deeper into the filthy swamp. "Hnnng, come... on!" Then at long last, she FELT it…. A weakening in the mud's resolve. The viscosity of the ooze began to thin and became streachier due to the constant assault of thrashing and pulling of the girl's arms and shoulders. "YES! YES! YES! YES!" Chiaki thought, her face grimacing as she arched her back all the way and strained her arm muscles. The mud made some absinthe gulping noises until finally… her right arm slipped out of the quicksand's clutches with a sharp loud "SCHLORP!" A hug sigh of relief escaped her lips upon seeing her right arm again, even if it was coated in a layer of heavy sticky black mud. "Thank god, that's one arm, now I to get the other one… huh?" Her relief quickly vanished when she was about to wipe the muck of her arm, the looked at her side and saw that her left arm was plunged deeper to her elbow. "No! No! Noooo!" Chiaki frantically looked at her surroundings hoping to find something of use that could aid her, but there was nothing in the vicinity for her to grab onto. Upon looking to her right she was the reed that the butterfly was resting on earlier, it wasn't to far away from her so she grabbed it with ease.
"This should buy me some time, if I had a hookshot on me I could latch onto one of the trees from the shore and grapple my way out" Chiaki thought. By now she was past her stomach and ribcage, and was almost to her breasts, her body tensed up with fear once more. Then her ears picked up the sounds of a fain tearing sound, before she knew it the reed she was holding onto snapped, plunging her breast deep in the carnivorous mud. "Aaaah! No, No, Nooo!" Chiaki shrieked, she blushed madly as her C-cup breasts were gently hugged and caressed by the warm, she began clawing at the surface with her free arm trying to find solid ground, but her muddy fingers were only met with more thick dark clay. "I… UNNNGGGHHH…. Need to UUMMMPHHH!... Get out of this stuff!" She groaned while she squirmed in the thickness of the mire. Clawing at the mud proved to be a bad idea, since the mud on her right arm made it heavy and hard for her to keep it above the surface, it landed back down with a wet "SPLUT!" and slowly began to fuse with the mud once again. Thinking quickly, she yanked it up from the sticky goo and kept her right arm high above her head, meanwhile the mud was slowly consuming her ample breasts. "Ah..aaaah! It's still pulling me in!" Chiaki moaned a bit when she felt her breasts being more and more engulfed by the squishy embrace of the mud, which continued to tug her downwards. She was trying everything in her power to resist the arousal once again, the mud caressing and massaging her whole body underneath didn't help. "Snap out of it Nanami! You have to do something!" She mumbled to herself. She looked around again, hoping to find an outstretched branch, reed, or even a tuff of grass to grab onto and pull herself out. But found nothing of use, her breasts were half consumed by the mud, with no other option she took a deep breath and yelled. "Help! Help, somebody help me!" She cried. No one responded, the only sounds she heard were the gnats swarming above her and the chirps of crickets from the surrounding area. "Help me! I'm sinking! Please help!" she yelled again.
Elsewhere in the forest, the other girls were continuing their search for Chiaki. The sun was bordering on the edge of the horizon, night was close at hand. Ibuki stood atop a rock and put a hand over her eyes and looked around. Peko was providing light from her phone's flashlight to aid the others, while Hiyoko just sat on a log watching the others while she finished the last of her gummy bears. "Help me! Help!" came a voice from the area, which caught all of their attention. Ibuki turned her head and put a hand to her ear. "It's Chiaki! Ibuki recognizes that half tired voice anywhere! ^-^" Ibuki smiled, Mahiru put a hand to her ear and could also make out Chiaki's voice. "She's right, I hear it to! It came from that direction" She pointed. With that her and the others ran towards the location of Chiaki.
"Help! I'm in quicksand! Please help me!" Chiaki cried again, at this point her breasts were engulfed and she was to her armpits in the quickening mud. "HELLLLP! ANYONE?!" she took a rest to catch her breath, but the thick goop loosened up under the surface, and she dropped down past her shoulders and was up to her neck. The girl's eyes went wide with panic as the cold chill of death prickled her skin. "HELP! HELP ME! PLEASE!... MAHIRU! IBUKI! PEKO!... SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, HELP ME!' she screamed, she violently squirmed and writhed within the sticky grippy mud, which only brought her down faster and faster as her neck was quickly swallowed by the inescapable mud. "Guh!.. I-it's no use, n-no one can hear me" Chiaki sulched as the mud bubbled and gurgled viciously as it got closer and closer to her head. Tears began to form in her eyes and slowly ran down her face. "P-please help m-me" she sniffled. Despite the fear she was in now, she just now realized how wonderfully silky soft the mud was, as every inch of it caressed and massaged her body underneath the surface. Her face blushed slightly from embarrassment. "I-I shouldn't be getting aroused again over this stuff, I've gotta get out of here an-" she was interrupted when she felt the mud ooze in between her cleavage causing her to moan. "Aaaaah~ This i-isn't funny, I need to… aaaaah~" Chiaki closed her eyes and tilted her head back. Deep within the mud she grabbed her left breast and squeezed it, causing her blush to intensify. "Mash X! Mash X! Mash X! Aaaaah~" she moaned, by now she was stuck fast and couldn't move, so she decided to enjoy her last minutes. The mud cupped her chin as she continued to sink, she had stopped sinking screaming for help and instead enjoyed her slow descending slog into the morass. The mud came over her chin and sealed off her mouth, the gamer's body relaxed as her face. "Mmmmh! Mmmmmmhhhhh!" She moaned lustfully, those were the only sounds she made at this point, since her mouth was covered due to her mouth being sealed off by the mud. Looking around she saw the mud blanket around her face and her hair started to fan out, she still had her arm still raised and covered in muck just incase someone came looking for her, even though her chances of being rescued were below zero. Slowly the mud began to close over her head, which was indicated by loud vicious "GLURPSs", "SSUCKs", and "SPLCHHs". But she didn't care, she was in a peaceful bliss and was completely fine with the events that were transpiring around her. The only sounds she could hear, were dull bubbling and gurgling sounds. The last trace of her face was pulled under the the thick doughy mud, as the hole entrapping it was filled and re-covered with thick wet mud followed by a spray of thick bubbles rupturing from the surface. A few strands of her pale mauve hair were poking through the mud until they were dragged under as well. Chiaki's entire world went black, once the mud closed over her head. Complete utter silence, she didn't even feel the painful experience of suffocation throughout the course of it. "Goodbye everyone….."
Then Chiaki suddenly felt a warm gentle blow through her hair, and she slowly began to open her eyes. When she did she could she saw the girls standing around her. "MORNING SLEEPING BEAUTY!' Ibuki cried. "You don't have to give her an earbleed dumbass!" Hiyoko retorted. Chiaki looked up and saw that Mahiru, Peko, Ibuki, and Hiyoko were present. The girl then looked at her reflection from a puddle of water from the river and saw that she was covered in head to toe in thick shiny black mud, from her hair all the way down to her toes. "H-how... did you all find me?" Chiaki asked, completely baffled. "You know how in horror movies the victim screams before they're killed by the slasher, we used that to find you. In other words we followed the sound of your screams" Ibuki smiled. "Good thing we weren't to late, we could have lost you forever Nanami" Peko said, sounding worried and concerned for the latter's safety. "Yeah. Who else would we have to play video games with? Poke fun at Teruteru? Or bully Mikan into submission?" Hiyoko said with the others giving her mixed reactions. Chiaki smiled as she wiped some mud off her face, then noticed that the others were dirty as well. "Why are you all covered in mud?" She asked.
"Well. When your friend's in danger, you've gotta be willing to put yourself in danger too! Besides, Friendship is Magic afterall" Ibuki beamed. Chiaki looked past Ibuki and saw hers and Mahiru's shoes lined up alongside her sandals Mahiru was barefoot and her feet were covered in mud, along with her pants semi past the knee, along with her hands. Ibuki was also barefoot and her legs were laced with mud all the way up to her waist, along with the lower part of her shirt and hands. Along with a few traces on her face. Hiyoko had mud from the foot up all the way to her upper thighs and her arms and hands were also covered. "A little mud never killed anyone" Mahiru joked, causing the others to laugh. "Except for today!" Ibuki said as she pointed at Chiaki which brought about more laughs. "Well at least I got a free mudbath" Chiaki added, which caused another round of laughs from the rest of the girls. Peko looked up at the sky and saw that it night began to fall and looked at Mahiru, the photographer new that it was time to go. "Alright guys, let start heading back" she said. "Wait till the others hear about this! They'll be like, "no way!", and we'll be like "oh yeah!".." Ibuki cried ecstatically. "The only thing I'm looking forward too when we get back is a shower, and if any of you losers tell anyone I got stuck again Imma boop all of you on the head!" Hiyoko pouted. Chiaki smiled as she, Mahiru, and Ibuki went and retrieved their footwear and joined up with the others. The girls began their trek home reflecting on the day's events, Chiaki especially. It seemed like as of today, she found herself a new found hobby, other than video games.
The End.