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Love Hina: Myriad Adventures
Chapter 4: Archaeological Fiasco
The sun shown from the Pararakelse sun shown from the Pararakelse Airport. A wisp of smoke came from a tall mid-aged smoker.
"Wow my dream is about to come true." The man sighed
"What are babbling about Seta?" came Haruka's fist.
"Nothing Haruka, by the way that outfit makes you look stunning and slimming." Seta laughed
Haruka struck a nerve.
"Don't try to soften me up I'm still pissed at you."
"Come on Nyamo found something important. It could lead us to finding Paralantis."
Sara sighed
"But did you need to bring us with us?"
"Well…" Seta sighed rubbing his head
"Most of my workers are on vacation or missing. So I know for sure I have you, me, Haruka, Nyamo and Gidget."
He laughed
"My team!"
Haruka punched him again.
"Seta sometimes words just shouldn't come out of your mouth."
She dragged him into the Van before the three drove off towards the capital.
After ten minutes Haruka sighed
"Do you even know where Nyamo is meeting us?"
"No clue."
Seta continued to look around until Haruka began to strangle him.
"You could have at least called her to ask where she would be meeting us."
"Sor…ry…I thought…she might call…us"
"You baka!" She threw Seta into a shop which now had a large hole in it. Sarah hurried and helped him up.
"Papa sometimes your brain doesn't work."
She looked up and yelled
"Hey guys look its Nyamo."
Haruka let go of Seta to see Nyamo and Gidget coming towards them.
Nyamo was wearing a tank top with a tight plaid skirt.
"Seta…Haruka it is nice to see you both. You as well Sara."
"Myah." Gidget said mournfully because the love of her life Tama was not there.
Seta smiled
"Hey Nyamo let's go back to the hotel and. We can talk about you're discovery better.
Nyamo nodded as the five drove off towards the Para-five Inn.
"So what did you find?" Seta asked a questioned tone in his voice.
"………" Nyamo couldn't find the words to describe the place.
"Could you show us on a map where the ruins are?"
Sara handed Nyamo a map of the island. Looking at it for a while Nyamo pointed to an area in the desert of death.
Seta nodded.
"Oh is that where it is?"
Haruka smacked Seta's head
"Oh course that's where it is you just asked her."
"Yo people there's more." Sara pointed
Nyamo pointed to another spot on an island towards the northern coast.
"There too."
Seta smiled his eyes twinkling.
"Finally my dream…"
Haruka kicked his face
"You seriously have to stop doing that."
"Yeah Papa it's embarrassing." Sara piped in.
Seta got up. Reaching into his pocket he pulled out his packet of cigarettes. He began to light his second one.
"Fine let's get some sleep we've got a big day ahead of us.
After a good night's sleep the five were ready for their trip through the desert of death. The group watched the sand go by.
"Wow isn't this great."
"No it's not who wants to watch sand go by. Sometimes I think you and Mutsumi are somehow related." Haruka growled.
She calmed down and said
"Nyamo are we almost there?"
"We still have a ways to go. Going to slow." Nyamo sighed.
Haruka roared as she lunged over to the driver's side.
"Seta this is all your fault."
Seta gave a small chuckle
"Don't you blame me for everything?"
"No just the problems you cause."
After an hour and a half the van was almost out of gas.
"Yo, go fill the van up with the extra gas can."
"Oh now I remember what I forgot."
Haruka drop kicked him.
"You idiot, now we're stuck out here because of you."
"Haruka did you make sure we packed everything?"
Haruka punched Sara's head
"You're not helping."
Nyamo yelled
"There!"
In the distance no more than fifty feet from where they stood were the ruins.
"Finally," Sara started to run towards the ruins. Haruka quickly grabbed her shirt.
"Think again Sara, that isn't the ruins."
She pulled Sara's hand and pulled her a couple feet to the side revealing that it was actually a mirage.
"No…" Sara whimpered as she fell to the ground.
"Don't worry," Seta smiled as Haruka glared at him.
"The ruins are right over there."
Sara dried her eyes.
"Where?"
"That little hut fifty miles away."
The two ganged up on Seta.
"Now ladies let's be reasonable."
"Papa you are in so much trouble." Sara yelled
"Dead meat Seta." Haruka lunged forward
Luckily for Seta Nyamo found the gas can.
"I found it."
She pointed to where it had been misplaced behind some of the excavation equipment. Haruka's eyes filled with rage.
"How could you not look behind the tools!"
"I don't know?"
She threw him into the sand. Filling up the tank she got in the Van and began to start it up, yelling.
"Come on girls, we'll leave this fool to get there on his own."
But Seta was too quick. He got into the van and smiled.
"Let's go."
Within twenty minutes the group got to the ruins.
The five soon began to explore the ruins.
"Wow," Seta said his eyes taking in the murals,
"This is so cool."
Haruka sighed
"Seta do you have to over dramatize everything."
Suddenly desert marauders attacked the group. Seta laughed.
"Just like old times, eh Haruka?"
"Shut up let's just kick their ass."
"I'll help." Sara smiled fiendishly.
Seta attacked first he ran forward preparing his punch.
"Take this."
With a fast crescent arch he broke the jaws of several of the marauders. Haruka ran to the side and struck two marauders stomachs sending them wheeling to the ground.
"God how many more people do I have to kick the crap out of?"
Haruka sighed while kneeing a marauder's face. Sara pulled out a grenade launcher while Nyamo had a shovel prepared to hit anyone who came too close.
"Later suckas!" Sara laughed as she blasted the remaining marauders away. The five piled into van as they went off towards the part of the ruins they were meant to go along with running over any stragglers. Haruka punched seta's face.
"You dumbass how could you put us in all this danger."
"Sorry."
Haruka folded her arms
"You are so lucky you're cute."
"What!" Sara yelled
Haruka flailed
"Th-th-that's not what I meant."
"So you do love me?"
Seta laughed as he stopped the van.
"Shut up you idiot." Haruka kicked seta out of the van and into a rock. After Haruka calmed down the group camped out for the night. Seta was tied to a tree.
"Uh…guys is this really necessary."
Haruka yelled from the tent
"Yes it is."
"But what is you need me to protect you?" Seta yelled
Haruka growled
"The only thing we need protection from is you."
After another good night's sleep the group trekked the desert of death. Haruka yelled
"Come on Seta the least you can do is keep up.
Seta was only moving at all because he was holding onto Gidget.
"I can't move my arms and legs are cramped."
Haruka dragged him the rest of the way to the ruins. She yelled.
"We're here dumbass."
Seta got up and started jumping around.
"Yippee! I'm so close to my dream!"
Seta wiped away a tear. Haruka smacked her head.
"Come on you can have your moment later."
The five walked through the ruins, Sara asked as she looked around.
"So what the hell am I supposed to be looking for?"
Haruka mouthed her face filled with anguish
'No Sara now he'll never shut up.'
Seta cleared his throat
"Well…"
After three hours of discussion and explanation Seta finally concluded.
"……And we will be looking for a stone turtle amulet."
Sara sighed
"Papa couldn't you have just given use the condensed version."
Haruka huffed under her breath.
"Yeah right. He's too stubborn to do that."
The group noticed that Nyamo was missing. Sara yelled
Nyamo where'd you go?"
Gidget yelled from a turtle shaped statue.
"Myah."
As the rest moved closer they noticed that in the turtle statue's hands was the stone amulet. Sara and Haruka glared at Seta.
"You could have told us it was right there." They yelled in unison.
Seta laughed feebly.
"S-Sorry."
The earth shook as the desert guardian rose from the sands and rushed towards Nyamo who had the amulet in her hands.
"No." Sara cried as a figure wearing a tank top and shorts ran forward and struck the guardian with a katana yelling.
"Divine Blade."
The strike knocking the giant turtle out. The group went up to thank the person.
"Thank you stranger."
"What are you talking about Seta?"
The swordsman took off her hat and said
"It's me Motoko."
Behind her was her fiancée Morgan.
Seta fainted
"How..?"
Motoko answered matter of factly.
"Haruka Called yesterday. We were done with Kyoto and it sounded like she needed our help here."
She smiled.
"Plus Morgan asked me to marry him."
She coughed.
"Wedding's in April."
The seven piled into the van as it cruised off towards the coast.
"So," Morgan began,
"What's going on?"
As they neared their destination. Seta explained in more detail of their adventures. After an hour they were at the beach.
"Ok everyone close up your windows."
"Why?"
Morgan asked.
"Because my boy we're going under."
The van drove into the spray of the ocean. Seta then pressed a button on the van as it transformed for sub-marine capabilities. Seta laughed.
"Everyone good? We're almost there. The temple of Paralantis."
His eyes twinkled.
Morgan whispered to Haruka
"Is he always like this?"
"You have no idea."
The group reached the reef, most of them suited up in diving gear. Gidget wished to stay behind.
"We have to swim past the fire coral."
So the explorers minus Gidget swam past the coral to the island on the other side. Seta quickly changed into his normal clothes, he had to wait while the others changed.
"Ok guys let's go." He ran towards the entrance to the temple amulet in hand.
The group hurried behind him. Looking Sara yelled
"There it is."
They saw twenty feet away was a wall panel that had three spots for amulets. The first and third spot were occupied by to opposite facing dolphins. The middle spot would fit the turtle amulet perfectly. Seta ran forward completely ignoring Haruka yelling.
"No you idiot you might set off the booby traps."
This fact became apparent as the floor began to fall apart. Seta easily out ran the falling floor panels. With his last thirty seconds he pushed the amulet into place. The floor stopped falling two feet from where he stood. Next to him to his surprise were Nyamo and Sara.
"How'd you get here?"
Sara smiled.
"We ran next to you but you were too busy running to notice."
The three waved to the others who were unfortunately stuck on the other side of the chamber.
"You guys wait there while we go investigate." Seta yelled as he, Sara and Nyamo turned towards the panel. Turning the amulet the wall created a passageway. They began to walk through it as their forms were engulfed in darkness. Seta walked into a room that had many ancient artifact of Paralantian origin.
"Wow this is…the chamber."
Seta walked over to one of the walls.
"This manuscript, it shows the way to get to Paralantis."
"Are you sure papa?" Sara said looking over his shoulder.
Seat began reading the Hieroglyphics.
"It says, 'The ocean amulet will show you the way.'"
Nyamo said
"There." She pointed to a Turtle statue holding a moon amulet. In the center was a sapphire. Seta goes over and grabs it.
"Of course the Moon controls the sea."
He thought for a while.
"This isn't right. I should be happy but I can't not without Naru and the others. Let's go back Paralantis can wait."
"But…" Sara started to say but she continued.
"You're right papa that dork needs to be here too, so you can go together."
"Yes because this amulet will show the way but everyone at the Hinata house should join in the discovery."
Seta and the other two fell down a slide that dropped them off at the other side of the chamber. Haruka said helping them up.
"So what'd you find?"
Seta held up the Amulet.
"The way to Paralantis. Let's go we'll come back later."
After everyone was together and back on the road. Seta smiled.
"Let's go home we've got our friends to see." The seven soon got to the Airport and boarded their plane Seta smiled.
"Keitaro, Keisuke, Naru, we're coming home, hope all is well."