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I do not own Lucky Star or any cruise ship or really any thing for that matter. This is a fan story made not for profit but to merely express my enjoyment of content above.
-Bold is in 'English'.
-Regular is 'Japanese'.
Chapter 3: Costa Rica 's best kept secret.
Soujirou and Yui were busy tying the green wood and dried palm fronds together into a signal pyre.
"Ooh, now that's more of a workout than I've had in a while!" Complained Soujirou loudly, Yui simply looked at him before she took out her handkerchief and dabbed at her forehead.
"So much for the good luck you and i were drinking too huh. First you win these cruise tickets at a large market, than i win all that money in the national lottery." Sighed Yui wistfully as she thought about it.
"Well i guess this is karma's way of evening things out, huh." Replied Soujirou.
"And you using the extra tickets to to bring Konata and Yutaka 's friends wasn't good karma." Deadpanned Yui. Soujirou decided to change the subject.
"So are you sure that this pyre will work for signalling an aircraft?" Yui thought about that for a couple of seconds before replying.
"The survival course the police had me take stated that this is an effective method of survival signalling, and since we have that enclosed life boat we don't need to make a shelter."
"However food and water may pose a problem and we have no idea how large this island is." Soujirou pointed out. He then looked past Yui at the other shipwrecked people, they were all sitting in the increasing shadow of the life boat as the sun was starting to get low in the sky.
"Didn't the pilot say he had a map of this part of the world?" Asked Yui, but when her uncle didn't respond she continued on. "We could possibly find out what island were on... Uncle whats wrong?" Yui questioned when she saw his worried expression.
"Where is that Martin girl?" He proposed quietly. Yui whipped her head around and quickly searched the faces, he was right she wasn't there. Yui and Soujirou went to go and question known friends for the whereabouts of Patricia.
"What's on your mind Kagamin?" Konata questioned gingerly fearing she might prompt another bought of crying. Yutaka and Miyuki had left for out side twenty minutes ago. Fortunately that had been when Kagami had stopped crying, but Konata was unsure if that was due to her calming down or if she was simply worn out. Looking up she replied.
"Sorry Konata i was just thinking about how when we were younger all the trouble Tsukasa and i got into." A small smile twitched at Konata 's lips.
"So you were quite the trouble maker, huh? I just can't imagine you in that light." teased Konata.
"Yeah, but its true Tsukasa and i were constantly pulling pranks on our parents and sisters." Suddenly Kagami started giggling loudly. Konata sweat dropped at the sudden unexpected mirth.
"W-what's so funny Kagamin?" Konata asked slightly confused. Kagami calmed down a little so she could explain.
"When we were in grade school Tsukasa and I had the same hair cut."
"Really!" Konata cut in suddenly. "That's so cute."
"As i was saying, because we looked alike we would often swap clothing or dress exactly the same just to mess with people." Konata smiled at the cuteness of her friends previous escapades.
"So what happened why did you two stop doing that?" Kagami looked at her and sighed.
"Well when we hit middle school our interests started to shift and as our homework load increased i felt we no longer had the time for nonsensical pranks." Kagami looked sadly downward. "I thought we should look towards our future's, deal with the important things life had to offer however that was my point of view. Tsukasa however preferred to live in the moment enjoy life as it came but what now?" Konata thought for a moment then noticed the large tears once again welling up in her eyes' so she said the only wise thing that came to mind.
"Live in the moment." This verse caught the lavender haired girl by surprise.
"What?" Kagami asked. Konata reached up and steadied Kagami, making the other girl look into her large green eye's.
"You asked 'what now' and i said live in the moment."
"Why?"
"Because Kagami, it's what your sister would want. For you to take charge, save us and return back to her." Kagami looked at Konata long and hard tears gently rolling down her cheeks. Finally she lunged forward and enveloped the small bluenette in a deep embrace.
"Oh Konata you are so right, she wouldn't want me to be like this." Kagami held her close and slowly whispered into Konata 's ear. "I know this is horrible for me to say but I'm so glade your here." The two stayed embrace like that for many minutes.
Just out side the door to the boat Yui and Soujirou were trying to find out the location of the lost American. After a few minutes of asking around Hiyori caught on to what they were asking.
"Izumi -San, Patty-Chan said that she wanted to explore the island a little bit." Hiyori fessed up to the elder Izumi. Soujirou furrowed his brow.
"Great! now we have to find her too." He said mildly irked.
"Now, now uncle how far could she be, right?" Yui stated cheerfully.
"If i know Patty-Chan she'll lose interest soon enough." Hiyori said with a half smile. Soujirou stood thinking for a minute or two, both Hiyori and Yui were gonna ask if he was alright when he suddenly broke the silence.
"OK, Tamura -Chan and Yui you both come with me to find Patricia." Both of them agreed to help, so Soujirou and the two women where about to leave, when they heard a load crashing through the under growth. With that everybody outside on the beach stood up and looked in the direction of the noise. Soujirou, Yui and Hiyori where about to backpedal from the tree line when Patty came crashing out of the woods.
"NO. NO. NO. NO. NOT HERE, NOT HERE!" She screamed as she ran past them and in a full sprint flung herself Underneath the life boats catamaran hull and quickly squirmed her way underneath into the darkness. All the commotion had of course caused everybody to crowd around the location Patty had hid herself. Hiyori edged her way forward through the crowd and tentatively asked the unseen figure hiding in the darkness.
"Um, Patty are, are you all right?" She asked slowly. However she received no reply. "Patty can you possibly come out and tell us what happened?" The response she received both surprised and confused her.
"NO. I'm not coming out! Not here!" Hiyori blinked when her friend responded in English, a language she wasn't very good with. Hiyori was going to ask again when she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked over and saw Miyuki.
"Tamura -San please give her some time and space. When she wants to come out she'll come out." Hiyori looked into her calm blue eye's.
"Okay Miyuki -Sempai." Suddenly the boat pilot approached them all.
"Well unless we can find some fibreglass epoxy we will be unable to use this boat." All the passengers looked at the crewman waiting for him to continue. "Um if any of you people have a knowledge of navigation or tidal events that would be helpful as I'm going to try and locate our location."
The only person who volunteered to help was Miyuki. The crewman returned with a chart of the ocean.
"Okay so our cruise was going to Cruise Ship Pier in Puntarenas." Stated the crewman to the crowd as he pointed the map. "And this is approximately where the shipwrecked, 60 miles west of the Golfo de Nicoya." he stopped and thought momentarily before continuing. "And given the ocean currants and the time we drifted i think were about here." He pointed to a small island a mere speck and it appeared to be halfway between Costa Rica and a small island chain made of five islands. Its most curious geographical traits were its odd Inverted tear drop shape and the Mountain on the northern edge. Miyuki glanced up from the map and over the tree line and saw a dense forest covered mountain rising lazily above their heads.
"Well we have a large mountain although i don't know if it's in the right direction."
"That's okay Miss, we'll just have to make our best guess, It's supposed to be uninhabited and owned by the government of Costa Rica. So if were right, then were about 120 miles off the coast of Costa Rica and the island is..."
"Isla Nublar." Patty interrupted from under the boat. Every body turned and looked at the super serious face that was looking out at them from underneath the boats hull.
"Hey i was supposed to say that!" The crewman pouted. Miyuki tilted her head.
"How did you Know that Patrica -San, you are unable to see the map." Miyuki quizzically asked.
"I am bound by a generously large sum of American green backs and a totally binding nondisclosure agreement that i can't let anybody who doesn't know what happened, know." Patty said as if it had been rehearsed extensively. Only Miyuki and the crewman were able to understand what patty said everybody else just kinda stared at the hidden Teen girl.
"What did she say Yui -Nee -San?" Asked Yutaka with wide eye's.
"I'm not sure Yu -Chan but possibly something about our Mama!" Yui answered quietly. suddenly from the far side of the boat a voice answered.
"Isn't it obvious? She can't or won't answer why she knows this information." Every body's heads snapped over to the speakers face. There with Konata escorting her was Kagami.
"Oh Kagami -San are you all right?" Miyuki asked politely. A dark shadow past over her face but a friendly shoulder squeeze from Konata snapped her back.
"I could be better, but time is not a luxury i believe we have." Kagami stated matter of factually, however her hands unseen by most were quivering uncontrollably. she moved over to the pile of dried wood they had gathered, this pile very much different then the green branches used by Yui and Soujirou for a signal.
"Does any body have matches or a lighter!" she asked. "Cause its starting to get dark and we could really use a fire." naturally the majority of the people shook there heads, what with being under age and all. However the boat pilot reluctantly gave forward his silver plated Zippo lighter.
"Treat that nicely it's very special to me." He groused as he handed it to Kagami.
half an hour later they had a small efficient fire crackling within its cozy pit ten yards from the jungle on the higher reaches of the beach. Being the natural leader she is Kagami had all the other rummage through their pockets and produce as much useful materials as they could find. Then they searched the boat for more supplies. They eventually came up with:
-4 flash lights.
-2 battery changes for each.
-3 weeks worth of survival meals (one week if the bout had been at full capacity but three since it wasn't).
-1 lighter.
-2 flare guns with 6 shots each.
-lots of survival blankets.
a large first aid kit.
1 small water filtrating system complete with chlorine tablets.
Kagami looked over all the stuff they had, most of it from the boat. The food however thy had left on the boat.
"Well it looks like we can survive here for quite a while, hopefully we can leave here before the food run's out." Kagami then thought for a long second before she turned to the crewman/pilot.
"I'm sorry but what is your name"? He smiled wide before he responded.
"Your the first person to ask me that, it's Kentaro Sakata." Kagami sweat dropped at the sudden show of exuberance.
"OK, so what's the name of this island?" He thought for a second then replied.
"Well we aren't quite sure but we think it's Isla Nublar but no guarantee's." Kagami glanced around the at the faces around the fire. They had even coaxed Patty out of hiding however even now her eye's were darting as if she was trying to pierce the lengthening shadows of the forest.
"Aside from the obvious does anybody other than Patty-Chan know any thing about this island." Kagami asked how ever the face's all nodded a definite 'no' until she reached the bluenette beside her.
" Actually Kagami i might have." Konata responded with a half smile. "Well you know how i like to look up strange things now and then. Well i came upon this conspiracy theory site when i was surfing the Webb, so i clicked to it and checked it out. It had stuff like 'i married an alien' or 'Dwarves of Dusseldorf exist'. Well i was about to leave by that point it all seemed silly even to me." She giggled before continuing. "Until i spotted one called Isla Nublar and the 5 deaths, and i had to read it, ya know. The article said there has been many local deaths on these islands, ya know locals disappearing when they venture onto them." She was about to continue until Yutaka interrupted.
"What's the five deaths like did five people die here?" She asked kinda scared. But Konata decided to explain.
"No, no. Yutaka the five deaths are another island chain to the west of here." Konata bent over from where she was sitting and drew a diagram in the sand. "This lonely line here is Isla Nublar." Konata explained and pointed to a single mark in the sand. "And these are the five deaths." She said as she pointed to five marks to the 'east' of the lonely one.
"Oh OK.." Yutaka confirmed.
"So as i was saying, all this trouble supposedly began when an American company called INGEN or INREN rented this island. But 7 years later when they had a tour of executives or investors or something they mysteriously abandoned the island."
"Why! Hiyori bust in suddenly." Konata smiled mischievously.
"No official explanation was ever give all that's known is less than half the people made it off alive when the island was abandoned. Bwahahahahahahah!" Konata laughed suddenly as she finished telling the tale. Causing many of the girls and even Kentaro to Yelp. Kagami however was unconvinced.
"That sounds more like a horror story than facts." She remarked dryly. "Are you sure your not embellishing."
"No Kagamin that's the story i read, more legend than fact i presume but it's better than nothing." Kagami crossed her arms and huffed.
"Was there anything else?"
"Sure the page also had a link to another article entitled Jura..." suddenly Konata was distracted by Patty who now sat across from her, who was subtly trying to quiet her. Curiosity more than anything made Konata stop.
"Titled what?" Kagami pressed, but Konata just shrugged.
"It's not important." Kagami sighed as it was almost pitch black out.
"Well we should probably go into the boat and shut the door and sleep." The others agreed with this as it had been a very long day filled with many ups and downs.
They were all snugly lying down somewhere within the boat just as Kentaro finally shut the crafts door before climbing into a makeshift bed himself. Not everybody was able to sleep so easily, patty tossed and turned all night but worst of all Kagami silently sobbed wide awake. Her friends however could hear her and knew night was going to be difficult because there was nothing to do but think.
End of day 1
I don't normlly leave a message but i will today because i wanted to have a longer chapter than normal and give a special thanks to Gigarot for reading and a special thanks to whoever reads this also.
-Ingenman