The Ecchi Adventures of Reanna and Akio
Episode Six: "Virgin? Reanna Versus the Volcano!"
By Reanna King
Notes: I can't believe I'm already writing part six of this crazy fic. I think the last one was good, and I think this one will prove to be good too! I'd like to thank Caro-chan for the idea about Miki's stopwatch being the equivalent of Wilson in "Castaway." For those of you wondering, Seiko is a brand of watch. It may seem like I'm making fun of Miki in this, but really, I just love Miki to pieces. So don't worry. Anyway, in this fic, I take the ecchi adventures to a new level of excitement! And what's a chapter of TEAORAA without a little sexual exploitation? I thought of all the stories and movies that involved being stranded on an island… and I think I've managed to put together something rather amusing (at least to me, but I'm extremely perverted). Again, to my readers: this story is a lime. Read it at your own risk, and most importantly: Enjoy!
What can my faithful readers expect next? Even I'm not sure yet, but if it's what I have in mind, it'll be this saga's wildest chapter yet!
When I regained consciousness (from what?), I was aware that I was lying down. I also was aware that I was wet. No, not in the dirty way, but wet as in saturated with water. The other thing that I was aware of was a pair of lips upon my own. Who could this be? Perhaps some incredible bishounen with long flowing hair and gentle eyes? I opened my eyes and saw… Akio.
"Ewww!! What do you think you were doing?!" I yelled, bolting up.
Akio shrugged. "Well, actually, I was just… saving your life."
I suddenly remembered what had happened. The student council had been chasing us in the Seitokai Car on the docks, and we stopped paying attention and went off one of the piers into the water. I looked around me. The scenery implied that we had somehow washed up on a desert island, and, true to its nature, the Akio Car had managed to survive this, and was sitting not far away on the beach, half-buried in sand. "Since when is kissing a survival technique?"
Akio smiled smugly. "I was giving you mouth-to-mouth."
"Like hell you were. Now, where are the others?"
Akio shrugged. "I don't know. They must have ended up somewhere else."
"Well then, we have to go look for them and make sure they're all right!" I got up dizzily and looked around. The beach stretched on for a ways before curving off. Not far away, the beach melted into jungle, and at where I figured the center of the island was, stood a massive cone volcano. "This island doesn't look all that big. It shouldn't take us long to find at least some sign of them. We'll split up. You go that way, and I'll go this way." I pointed in two different directions that would send us in separate ways along the beach.
"But—" Akio started.
"See you later!" I shouted, and ran off. I was free! I was finally free of Akio! Sure I was on a deserted island, but I was still free! I ran off into the jungle. My whoop of joy turned into a shriek of fear as I suddenly felt myself falling.
I landed with a thud at the bottom of a manmade pitfall and a big net fashioned out of grass fell on top of me. "What's going on here?" I yelled. Team Rocket couldn't possibly be on this island, could they? "Hello? Somebody help me out of here!"
Suddenly I heard a voice. "Hey! I caught something! I told you this would work!"
I heard another voice. "Well, I'm starved. Hurry and get it out."
"Cannibals!" I moaned. "Dareka, tasukete!"
Then I finally saw the face of my captor… Miki! "Reanna-chan! What are you doing down there? Seiko, look!"
"Miki-chan!" I cried joyously. "… … Who's Seiko?"
"Oh, of course!" Miki held up his stopwatch. "Seiko, this is Reanna. Reanna, this is Seiko!" Miki paused and looked at his stopwatch for a moment, before saying, "No, we're not going to eat her."
Juri's face appeared next to Miki's. "Miki… uh…" Her face twisted into an incredulous one. "Seiko is just a watch. It can't speak. It is not capable of being your friend."
Miki's eyes welled up with tears, and he began sniffling. "Sniff… sniff… oh, Seiko… no one believes in you…"
Juri slapped her forehead. "Oh, I was just kidding. Don't worry, Miki, I believe in Seiko! Now come on, let's get Reanna out of that hole."
Meanwhile, somewhere else on the island, Akio walked along the beach, enjoying the scenery, and, every once in a while, looking for some sign of the Seitokai. Finally, he heard voices.
"Moron…" one voice said weakly.
"Halfwit…" the other said equally weakly.
"Acid head…"
"Mutation…"
"Touga? Saionji? Is that you?" Akio said, running up to the two bodies, lying still in the sand, except for their jabbering mouths.
"Yeah…" Touga murmured, barely audible. "It was all Saionji's fault that we got separated…"
"No, I believe it was Touga's fault…" Saionji muttered, not bothering to move or to look at either Touga or Akio.
"All right, get up, we have to find the others."
Somewhere else on the island, Utena and Anshi were thinking about other things than finding the others.
"Look, Utena-sama, there's some fruit up in that tree!"
"Ahem!" Utena coughed. "I thought we agreed that I am to be called…?"
"**sigh…** Look, Prince Utena, there's some fruit up in that tree!"
"Really?" Utena gasped. "Where! Ooh, that looks good! Let's see if we can get it down!" Utena approached the tree and began shaking it back and forth.
"That's it, Miss—er… Prince Utena!"
Utena kept shaking until two things fell out of the tree.
"Wait, those aren't fruits…" Utena said.
"Chi-Chi! Cha-Cha! What are you doing here?" Anshi asked.
"Chi-Chi!"
"Cha-Cha!"
"That's great, but we have to find the others! Come on!" Anshi said.
"So what were you doing digging a hole in the first place, Miki?" I asked as we walked, trying to find sign of the other members of the Seitokai, Utena or Anshi.
"We were trying to catch something to eat," Juri said.
"Well, even if you had caught some animal, how would you have killed it? How would you have made the fire to cook it? What would you done about the vegetarian in this group? What would you have done about—THEM???!!!!"
"Utena! Anshi!" Miki cried.
"Hi, Miki-kun!" Utena replied.
"Chi…" Chi-Chi smirked.
"Cha…" Cha-Cha grinned.
"Oh nooooooooo!!!!" I shrieked, turning to run. Unfortunately, with a leaping bound, the evil little monkey mice managed to jump into my clothes. "YEEEEEEEEKKKK!!! Get them ooouuuuut!"
Anshi smiled. "Oh, I think they like you, Reanna-sempai!"
"Help… meeeee… Oh! Whoooaaaaa!! Ehhhhh… &#$*@%&#$%WOW!!! … eep…" THUD. I crumpled to the ground.
"They seem to be getting along very well, don't they?" Anshi smiled to Utena.
"Chi-Chi! Cha-Cha! That's enough!" Akio's voice called.
From my comfy spot on the forest floor, I observed Akio, Touga and Saionji approaching. I felt the pernicious little critters scamper out of my underclothes and watched them perch on each of Akio's shoulders. "Good job." He smiled at me. "I figured that if I let them go at you, then I could find you by following the sound of your screams."
"Oh, brilliant…" I moaned, still tingling.
"It's your fault Reanna got molested," Touga hissed to Saionji. "You disgusting green freak of nature!"
"It's definitely all your fault," Saionji spat back. "Baka!"
"Are we all together now?" Juri asked. "Because," she continued, "I suggest that we take care of the following: Food, shelter, water, and whether we're all really on an island or not."
"Yeesh," Saionji scoffed. "Who died and made her the empress?"
"Shut up!" Touga whispered.
"Okay," Akio said. "Touga and Saionji, you scout the island's perimeter and determine if this is truly an island. Juri and Miki, I want you to find us some fresh water. Utena and Anshi can search for some food. And Ri-chan and I…" he smirked. "Will concentrate on fashioning a shelter."
"Right!" Utena and Anshi said simultaneously, and ran off into the jungle.
"You've got it!" Miki and Juri said, and ran off in another direction.
"I bet I can find civilization!" Saionji said.
"I bet I can prove we're on an island before you do!" Touga retorted, and they both ran away.
"Wait… don't leave me here with… him!" I called. "Wait… take me with you… please…"
"Hey, Ri-chan, do you hear that sound?" Akio asked.
"If you say it's voices calling out from the Ends of the World, you lose it," I muttered.
"No, listen…"
I quieted down and listened. Once I did, I heard what sounding like the beating of drums. "Let's follow them!"
We ran off in the direction of the drums and followed the sound for about a quarter of a mile until we finally stopped hearing them.
"Where'd the sound go?" I asked.
"I'm not sure… but I think we just found our shelter!" Akio pointed to a cave lying less than twenty feet from the edge of the water with plenty of space and a wide opening.
"You don't suppose the drums… led us to them, do you?"
Akio shrugged. "But… now that we've completed our objective…" He smirked.
"CHI!"
"CHA!"
"YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!"
"Where do you think we should look next, Seiko-chan?" Miki asked.
Juri sighed. "This isn't getting us anywhere."
"You say we should look over there, Seiko-chan? Okay, let's go!" Miki jogged off in a random direction.
"Miki-kun! Wait! Do you hear that?"
"What?"
"Listen!"
Miki paused. "Seiko-chan, be quiet, so we can hear!… … Jungle drums?"
"Come on, Miki-kun, let's follow them!"
"Come on, Seiko-chan!!"
They followed the drums for some time until they came to a spring brimming with fresh water. There, the sound of the drums stopped.
"Hey… the drums stopped, Seiko-chan! What do you think about that?"
"Hmm… it almost seems as if the drums led us to the water…"
"Utena, I hear drums!"
"**Ahem!**"
"… … Prince Utena, I hear drums!"
"… Hey, I hear them too! Let's follow them!"
Utena and Anshi followed the drums until they came to a sunny clearing where, in numerous crudely made wicker baskets, they found freshly caught fish, fresh fruits and vegetables and warm bread.
"This… doesn't seem possible!" Utena marveled.
"And yet, here it is… … Prince Utena."
"Do you think the drums could have…?" Utena wondered aloud.
"Whatever you think, Miss… Prince Utena!"
"Come on, let's go get this stuff back to the others!"
"It's your fault we got lost, you piece of pond scum!"
"No, I believe it is completely your fault, you piece of dirty chewing gum that's been ground into the pavement and walked over hundreds of times over with filthy shoes!"
"Wait a minute, you pesky parasite! Do you hear that?"
"Yes, I do, you flirtatious freeloader!"
The two turned to each other with murderous glares in their eyes. "IT'S THE SOUND OF YOUR TINY, LILLIPUTIAN BRAIN RATTLING AROUND IN YOUR THICK SKULL!!" they both screamed simultaneously.
"Come on," Touga said. "I think if we walk around this fuming, active volcano, we'll make it back to the beach…"
About an hour later, all eight of us were back at the beach at our cave, and just in time, as it was almost nightfall.
"Well. Shall we set about building a fire?" Miki asked.
"No need," Akio said. "I used the cigarette lighter from my car to start a little campfire. See?" He pointed to a spot just outside the cave a few yards away, where a small fire was blazing.
"Yay! Let's get some dinner cooking!" Utena said.
KABOOOOOOMMM!! Before we knew it, sheets of rain came pouring down on all of us.
Akio looked at me and smirked. "Ri-chan, you're… wet."
"Oh shut up."
"It's all your fault it started to rain."
"No, it's YOUR fault!"
BBZZZZZZTT!
"It's entirely YOUR fault I got struck by … lightnin….ng…" THUD!
"Come on, everyone, let's go inside," Juri sighed.
So we all brought the food and water inside the cave, which suddenly seemed much darker and colder once night had come and it had started raining.
Miki sat alone with Seiko-chan, talking to it…. er… him. The conversation went something like this:
MIKI: So what do you think about those drums, Seiko-chan?
SEIKO: … …
MIKI: Come on! Speak up!
SEIKO: … …
MIKI: Oh, the silent treatment, huh?
SEIKO: … …
MIKI: Seiko-chan, please speak to me!
SEIKO: … …
MIKI: Fine! Who needs you anyway?!
Miki tossed Seiko-chan out of the cave into the rain. He sat there for a few minutes… then ran out into the rain. "SEIKOOO-CHAAAAAANN I'M SORRRYYYYY!!"
"It's your fault Miki went postal."
"Nope. It's yours."
"Shut up."
"You shut up first."
I yawned. "I'm just about ready to go to sleep…" I gathered up
some old palm leaves and lay down on them.
"Want me to keep you company?"
"No way."
"Want Chi-Chi and Cha-Cha to keep you company?"
"How about when hell freezes over?" I had responsibly set up our bed arrangements so that Juri and Miki were between Akio and I, and Utena and Anshi were between Touga and Saionji.
Miki came rushing back into the cave, soaking wet and holding Seiko-chan tenderly. "Seiko-chan… I'm so sorry…" he sobbed. "I'll never spurn or reject you ever again!!"
SEIKO-CHAN: … …
"I love you too, Seiko-chan!!" Miki wept joyfully.
I felt my eyelids growing heavy. Finally, I let myself drift off to sleep.
When morning came…
"The girls are gone!!" Akio cried.
"It's your fault," Touga and Saionji said to each other.
"Seiko-chan, did you see what happened to them?" Miki asked.
"This is awful!" Akio said, looking all around the cave and just outside the cave, checking to see if maybe we had just stepped out for a moment.
"There must be a logical reason for the fact that only the girls are gone!" Miki said.
"I bet you five thousand yen they went off in search of another cave!" Touga said to Saionji.
"I bet you TEN thousand yen they were eaten by cannibals!" Saionji countered.
"Don't talk like that!" Miki wailed. "… … Seiko-chan is very sensitive…"
Later that day, elsewhere on the island…
"Hey!" I yelled. "When are you guys gonna untie us?"
"Utena-sama, I don't think these natives mean well…"
"I kinda got that idea when they kidnapped us from our cave last night," Juri said.
"Do you think they're going to eat us?" Anshi whispered.
"I hope not," I shuddered. "That's no fun…"
A man in a loincloth who looked to be the chief of these natives walked up to us, chewing on a stick of pocky. "Now," he said. "how many virgins do we have here?"
"Eehhhh??" we all asked at the same time, rather confused.
The chief shrugged. "You see, our volcano god is very picky. He only wants the purest virgins thrown into our mighty volcano. So? Who's a virgin?"
Utena and Anshi shrugged and shook their heads.
He looked to Juri.
"You touch me and you'll have to deal with something worse than a volcanic eruption!" she growled.
He looked to me.
I laughed nervously. "Me? A virgin?… Haha… what a funny idea… uh…"
Anshi smiled cheerfully. "Don't be silly, Reanna-sempai! We all know that you're still a virgin!"
**gulp…**
"Uh, Anshi? Remember? I'm not a virgin anymore, right?"
"Yes, I do believe you are!"
"No I'm not?"
"Reanna-sempai, you're such a kidder!"
"Do you WANT me to die?!"
The chief sighed. "Well… there's only one way to find out."
"Find out what?" I asked.
"If you're a virgin." He snapped his fingers and a couple other natives came to his side.
"You mean…" I shuddered.
The chief turned to the two men. "Take the girl and go find out if she's a virgin for me, okay?"
"YEEK! PUT ME DOWN! NOOO!! DON'T YOU DARE!!"
"Don't worry, Reanna-sempai! It'll all be over in a minute!" Utena called.
"Have fun, Reanna-sempai!" Anshi called cheerfully.
"HEELLLP MEEE!! IF YOU TOUCH ME, I'LL…"
As the screaming sounds faded out, Utena turned to Juri. "Say, how do they find out if she's a virgin, anyway?"
Juri rolled her eyes and whispered to Utena. "Well, they'll probably whisper whisper whisper whisper whisper…"
"They'll WHAT?!"
"EEEEEYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!"
"I think we're too late."
"She is a virgin!"
"No thanks to you, you perverts!!" I screamed. "What's the deal, using a sharp stick anyway, eh?! It probably had bugs crawling on it and I'm surprised I didn't get splinters…"
"Reanna?" Juri said.
"Yes, Juri?" I asked.
"We don't want to hear about it."
"Excuse me?" I shouted to the natives that were carrying me. "I can walk! You can untie me now!"
One of the men smiled cheerfully. "Oh, there's no need for that, since we've confirmed your virginity! Now you have the privilege of being the sacrifice that will satisfy our great volcano god!"
"Tell your volcano god to eat it!"
"I'm afraid," said an old man with a long beard, "that our volcano has been more active than usual lately. Just yesterday, it shook the entire island, demanding sacrifice. We found you and your friends upon the island, and so we provided you with food and shelter, and, during the night, brought the four of you to our village."
"In other words, kidnapped," I corrected.
"The drums…" Juri realized.
"Why be so hospitable," Utena asked, "if you're planning on sacrificing one of us?"
The old man smiled kindly. "Ma'am, we welcome all visitors to our island. Is one measly little virgin so much to ask for our hospitality. After the sacrifice, the remaining seven of you are perfectly welcome to join in our ritual festivities."
"Where does that leave me?" I demanded. "Can't you use something other than a virgin?"
"That's right! We don't subscribe to your religion!" a voice said.
"Religion?" the chief asked. "Who said anything about religion? We just do this for fun every once in a while!"
I looked to the voice that spoke. "Miki-chan!" I cried, seeing that the man had finally arrived to save us.
Akio shook his head. "Tisk, tisk, Ri-chan. If you had just listened to me in the first place, you wouldn't be in this predicament."
"What do you mean?"
"If you hadn't been so stubborn… you wouldn't even be eligible for this sacrifice. Ironic, isn't it?"
"It's your fault Reanna's still a virgin," Saionji growled.
"No, it's totally your—"
"Shut up!"
"You know, one of you could be rescuing me right now!" I reminded them.
"How could it have taken you all day to find us, anyway?" Utena asked. Had it already been a day since we were kidnapped. It was already late afternoon!
Later that night…
"Are you enjoying your stay in our sacrificial suite?" I heard one of the guards outside my hut say.
"Oh, yeah, I'm having the time of my life," I muttered sarcastically. "I absolutely adore being tied to stakes sticking out of the ground in a cold little hut with possibly poisonous insects crawling all over me, all the while not being able to think about anything but the inevitable, impending doom in my future."
The guard smiled. "Oh, that's good to hear. Just call if you need anything."
"Oh, great…"
I decided to just lay down and try to sleep. The fact that I was tied up (if I didn't know I would die the next day, I could have enjoyed it, but noooooo…) prevented my escape, and the guards outside prevented anyone from rescuing me…
I suddenly felt a hand over my mouth. "Mmm??"
"Shh…" said Akio. "You'll wake up the guards."
"Sorry."
"You know," he said. "There's only one way out of this for you, isn't there?"
"Are you insane?"
"Reanna. What I'm about to do is for your own good…"
I woke up with a start. What an awful dream! I opened my eyes and screamed, before Akio clapped his hand over my mouth. "MMMM…"
"Shh. You'll wake everyone up." He lifted his hand off my mouth.
"How did you get in here?" I whispered.
"Touga and Saionji took care of the guards. I have a plan."
I was expecting what he was about to say. "Akio… please… don't…"
Akio looked at me with a puzzled expression. "You mean?… Please! You didn't honestly think that I would--?"
"Uh… sorry…" I said, extremely embarrassed, but feeling a new respect for him. "Then… what's your plan?"
"We're going to fake it!"
My new respect for Akio fell to the floor and shattered into a million pieces. "Are you insane? That'll never work!"
"Just pretend! It's to save your own life! Make some convincing noises for a few minutes, then I'll run out and no one will ever know the truth!"
"You must be joking!"
Akio sighed and shook his head. "Then I'll have to take matters into my own hands." He pulled out Chi-Chi and Cha-Cha.
I gasped. "Don't you dare!… … At least… untie me first… no wait…"
"It's for your own good." Then, to Chi-Chi and Cha-Cha, "Make it really convincing. Remember, Ri-chan's life is on the line! Touga! Saionji! Guard the entrance until they're done!"
"Why me…"
Utena woke up to the sound of screaming.
"AAHHOHHHEEEEYYAAAAAHHHH…"
"What's going on in here?" the chief asked, barging into my hut.
I could only pant. My answer came out thus: "Akio… hentai… monkeys… tied up… came… too much… tired…"
Akio, however, proved more articulate. "You've just lost your sacrificial virgin!" he lied.
"Did you do this?" the chief asked, horrified.
"Yes, it was me!" Akio admitted proudly.
The chief paused. "This is a most serious crime. You shall be executed."
Akio screamed.
Meanwhile, back at Ohtori…
"Did you hear? Did you hear? Did you hear Akio squeal?"
"I did! I did! Like a little girl!"
That evening…
"I'm gonna die!" I moaned as I stood at the brink of the volcano.
"You're the one who decided to tell the chief the truth about last night," Akio reminded.
"It's your fault—"
"Shut up!"
Then there came a loud rumbling, and a shaking from the volcano that shook the entire island.
"It's time," said the old man with the beard.
"No… please…" I pleaded, just before I was shoved in. "NOOOOOO!!!"
"Oh…" Anshi murmured. "How horrible…"
"That's it?" Touga asked. "No ceremony, no ritual, you just… shove her in?!"
"You don't think a party afterwards is enough?"
Suddenly, with a blast of hot air, I found myself back at the edge of the volcano, lying on the ground.
"It spat her out?!" Saionji asked.
"It's a miracle!" Miki cried.
"There are no such things as miracles!!" Juri roared.
"Oh. That's right…" Miki sighed.
"Let's try it again," the chief said.
"NOOOO!!" I cried just before I went over again.
A pause…
"Oh…" Anshi murmured. "How horrible…"
"YAAAAHHH!!" I was back outside the volcano again. The ground quaked, and the volcano rumbled and shook for about thirty seconds.
"The volcano has spoken!" the old man said, raising his arms dramatically.
"SPOKEN?!" we all cried.
"The volcano says that it does not want the girl!"
"Well, why the hell not? Aren't I good enough?" I asked indignantly.
The old man sighed and shook his head solemnly. "It's because the girl… she is… … … not a virgin!"
"WHAATT?!" everyone (even me) cried out.
"The volcano says that she is not a virgin, so she is not a virgin!"
"Then," Miki asked, "what does it want?"
"It says that it does not know what to call it. But it describes it as a shiny red rock that washed up on the beach two days ago."
Akio's knees got weak. "M-my car?!"
"That must be it!" Utena agreed. "Akio, you'll have to go back down to the beach and drive the Akio Car up here to the volcano!"
"I can't shove my car into a volcano…" Akio sniveled.
"Then," the chief said quietly, "it will erupt and kill us all."
I turned to the old man. "How long do we have?"
"Twenty minutes at the most," the old man replied.
"Come on, Akio, let's get the lead out!" I grabbed hold of Akio's wrist and began running down the slope, the rumbling of the volcano never getting quieter, even when we reached the beach.
"Start it up, Akio!" I said as I hopped in.
Akio got in the car. "I've had some great times in this car…"
"I don't care about your car's sex life, Akio…"
"Ri-chan, now is not the time!" … … … "Ri-chan… the car won't start!"
"Well, no wonder, it's been sitting on the beach for two days!"
Akio pounded on the dash. "Start! Come on!!"
Akio leaped out of the car and opened up the hood. "Ri-chan, you keep trying to start the car while I mess around under the hood here!"
"Do you even know what you're doing?"
"Not at all! But we're running out of time! How much longer do we have?"
"Ten minutes! Go to it!"
I heard clanking and various other sounds, some of them swear words… until Akio called, "Try it now!"
I turned the key. Vrrvrrvrrvrrvrrvrrrrrrr……click. "Nothing!!" I called back. "Try something else! We have five minutes! Oh, God, Akio, go faster!"
"I've been waiting for you to say that to me…"
"You dork! Work on the car, not your libido!"
The metallic clanking and clanging resumed. "I can't figure it… I found it!" The hood slammed down and I saw what Akio was holding—my chastity belt. (see episode four)
"How did that get in there?" I wondered.
"I don't know! But try it now!"
I turned the key, and the car purred and growled beautifully. "It works! Get in, Akio!" I moved over into the passenger's seat.
Akio hopped back in, and soon we were zooming up the slope of the volcano.
About halfway up, Akio turned to me. "Hey Ri-chan! How much time do we have left?"
I glanced at my watch. "Three minutes! Step on it!"
Akio floored the pedal, and we were at the top before we knew it. "We have one minute to dump that thing in!" I cried as we got out! "Okay, everyone! Everybody join in and help us push the car in!"
Everyone lined up behind the car: Me, Akio, Miki, Juri, Utena, Anshi, Touga, and Saionji.
"Okay! Everyone push!" Akio commanded. "I can't believe I'm doing this…"
We all pushed together, and somehow nudged the car forward inch by inch.
"One minute left!" I cried.
Suddenly, the car stopped moving.
"What's going on?" Touga asked. "Why isn't it going anywhere?"
"It's all YOUR fault!" Saionji hissed.
From nearer the front of the car, Utena called, "There's a bit of rock sticking out of the ground up here! I can't move it!"
"Push harder!" With a final effort, we shoved the Akio Car into the volcano—just in time.
"There is goes…" Akio said dismally, and as it did, I could swear that I could hear the Akio Car theme playing from somewhere inside the volcano, which suddenly grew quiet and still again.
"We did it," I sighed.
Suddenly, a shower of bright red sparks shot out of the volcano and exploded in the night sky.
"How beautiful!" Anshi said. "I didn't know there would be fireworks!"
"They're nice," Juri said, "But it's kind of boring, since they're all red."
"Except for that green one, up there…" Utena said, pointing into the sky at a dot of bright green.
"Wait…" I murmured. "That's—"
All eight of us were suddenly engulfed in a shaft of bright green light.
"What's happening now?"
"I don't kno—"
TO BE CONTINUED…
Next episode: Can Akio deal with his loss?
Even more importantly, where are we going now?
And can Nylc the Plutonian finish his science project in time?
Find out in episode seven: "Space Probed! They're From Uranus?"