Author's Note: I'm glad you guys like the idea of the rainbow monkeys, I wasn't sure of it.
KNDnumbuh007: No! Chicca can't get me! I'm updating! I'm updating!
Alapso: Haha, dream come true for Kuki, hell for Wally.
KNDFANGIRL: I love just putting the odd fluff in.
FrankandJoe3: Have no fear, writing this story has become an obsession. Haha, I'm glad it made you laugh, parts where you shouldn't? Which ones? X-D
Laurie43: Hehe, yeah, poor Wally
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While the team set up camp, Kuki spoke with some rainbow gorillas when she came back she pitched up her tent.
"What did they say?" Hoagie asked.
Kuki looked up, "They said that the gods became jealous of the rainbow gorillas and their happy, loving lives and banished them here. Chicca said that there was a bright star that took his mother up into the sky and he never saw her again. He said that he remembers this huge flood, a forcefield just formed around the city, no-one could get in or out. He said the next thing he knew, their city was going down, further and further into the sea, soon, they were completely underwater."
She wiped a tear from her eye.
"Wait, I thought this happened hundreds of years ago." Larry said, looking at the forcefield as a fish swam by outside it.
"Yeah." Kuki replied.
Nigel understood what Larry meant. "That would make Chicca over 100."
Kuki nodded.
"Jeez this place is freaky, surrounded by cruddy rainbow monkeys."
Kuki turned around to see Wally leant against the wall.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you, the last human they saw that insulted them, they pulled off all of his toes and then cooked him for dinner." Kuki smiled as she stood up and walked past him.
"What?" Wally gulped in fear, looking around nervously.
Kuki giggled. And he always said that she was gullible.
"Where are you going?" Wally asked.
Kuki turned to check that the others hadn't noticed that she was wandering off, else Nigel would give her a lecture.
"Exploring." She replied. Wally decided to follow her.
He walked next to her silently as they walked around the city. He kept looking at any passing gorillas in fear, Kuki snickered.
"Cool." She said as they came up to a huge rainbow gorilla statue. Kuki decided to climb it, she grabbed onto the vines and hauled herself up and Wally followed her. It took them about five minutes to get to the top, when they did, they both gasped in awe at the view. They could see the whole city and the forcefield around it.
"Most of it's water." Wally said.
Kuki nodded. "When they had the flood, it still covered quite a lot of the city before the forcefield covered it, most of their lands been covered.
Wally sighed.
Kuki turned to him, noticing that he had a tear in his eye.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Oh, n...nothing." He replied, rubbing his eye. "I've just got something in my eye."
They both sat down and stared at the view.
"My grandfather would have given anything to see this. He was such a great explorer." Wally sighed. "I wish he could see it, be standing here with me."
Kuki smiled. "You really miss him don't you?"
Wally looked back at her and nodded.
"Sorry." He chuckled, wiping another tear from his eye.
Kuki gave a kind toothy smile and wrapped her arms around him.
"I've never seen you cry before."
"I told ya, I've got something in my eye!" Wally replied, making Kuki giggle.
She released him and stared at him, he looked up at her and they locked eyes, smiling at one another.
Kuki beamed as he placed a hand on her arm. Then screamed when he made a jerking motion, making her feel like she was going to fall.
"Saved your life!" Wally yelled, pulling her back, she fell into his arms, making them both blush.
"Numbuh 4!" Kuki scolded, Wally laughed as he let her go. Kuki tutted and stood up, holding onto the vine that she used to climb up the statue. "Come on."
It was growing dusk when they got to the bottom, rainbow gorillas were out catching fireflies and putting them into closed bowls to make lights.
Kuki beamed and ran to help them, Wally walked behind, following her.
He picked one up and let it run on his hand.
He gave a chuckle.
"It's weird." He said for Kuki to hear. "I thought that if we found anything, it'd be some old buildings, stuff like that. But we found like, a total empire...These guys are kind of cute when they're not setting fire to stuff."
"Muccha said that they've got writing that they don't understand. They want us to have a look at it." Kuki said as she walked over to him.
Wally shrugged. "Okay, where is it...Kuki? What are you doing?"
He ran his fingers through his hair in embarrassment as he saw Kuki stand by the water, pulling off her sweater and undoing her skirt, revealing an electric blue bikini.
"He says it's down here." Kuki said, wading into the water. "Can you swim okay now?"
Wally nodded, gawk eyed as he stared at Kuki. "Yeah, I swim pretty girl...I mean, pretty good, I swim pretty good."
"Good." Kuki smiled, "It's a pretty big swim."
Wally pulled off his hoodie, then slipped off his shoes and socks, he entered the water in just his jeans.
"Well, then let's go." Wally said, diving underwater to hide his red face. He then shot back up and looked up at Kuki. "Why don't you lead the way? I've got no idea where I'm going."
Kuki giggled then took a deep breath and dived down, Wally followed her.
They swam down the steps and along the path underneath, it was amazing, seeing underwater ruins.
Wally reached forward and tapped Kuki's leg, indicating that he needed to go up for air.
He swam up and took a sharp breath as he reached the surface. Kuki soon appeared too and took another deep breath, they were in a small cave, the stone walls nearly touched their heads.
"Are you okay?" Kuki panted.
Wally nodded and gasped. "Well, I'm not drowned so..."
"Good." Kuki giggled, again diving underwater. Wally did the same.
They came to a large mosaic floor, it had patterns with writing. They examined it.
When Kuki needed air, they both swam to the surface.
"I can't read it, it's some weird language." Kuki panted.
"It's old aboriginal." Wally coughed. "My grandfather taught me some when he was alive."
Kuki looked at him in amazement. "Could you read it?"
Wally nodded. "It's talking about the history of rainbowtopia."
"What about the star that Chicca saw? Did it say anything about that?" Kuki asked.
Wally shrugged then dived down again to have another look.
After a few seconds of reading, Wally and Kuki resurfaced.
"It wasn't a star, it was like a crystal." Wally said.
"Huh?" Kuki asked in confusion.
"It was the 'heart of rainbowtopia' a crystal, it keeps the rainbow monkeys, this whole place alive." Wally explained.
Kuki asked. "Where is it now?"
Wally shrugged. "I don't know...come on, let's get back."
They swam back to the steps where Wally surfaced first, he panted as he crawled up the last few steps, noticing shoes in front of him, he looked up. It was Chad, in his hand he held a S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. The teens were behind him, holding his three friends hostage.
"Have a nice swim?" Chad asked with an evil smile, he aimed the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R at Wally.
Wally looked around at each of the teens. "What's going on? What are doing?...Wait! This is just a treasure hunt for you teens isn't it! You're after the crystal!"
"Oh!" Chad said, pulling out a large book and flicking through pages, then showing Wally a picture. "You mean this?"
"The heart of rainbowtopia." Wally thought aloud.
Chad nodded. "Yeah, about that, I would have told you sooner but it was a real need-to-know basis, well now you know, I had to be sure that you were one of us...welcome to the club kid!"
He held out a hand to help Wally up, Wally pulled away. "I'm not joining any teens! I'm not here for the money of it!"
Kuki then came up from the water, Nathan then grabbed her by her hair and pulled her out of the water.
"Hey! Get your cruddy hands off her!" Wally growled, about to rush to her rescue, but Chad held the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R closer to his head. He glared up at the blonde teen who he always used to adore.
Nathan held Kuki in a neck lock, making Wally snarl.
"We've got you to thank for it Beatles, your grandfather's friend got us interested in this place, after a little research of friends of old Australian ancestors, we found this brilliant journal, apparently your grandfather found it...anyway, we thought we'd go look for this treasure, knowing that you'd lead the way." Chad told him.
Wally shook his head furiously as he jumped out of the water. "You can't mess with it Chad!"
"Why not? It's big, it's shiny and it'll make us all rich!" Chad smirked.
Wally shook hos head again. "It's their life force! That is the only thing keeping these animals alive! Take it away and they'll die!"
Chad put on a serious, thoughtful face. "Well that changes things. Cree what do you think?"
Cree shrugged. "Knowing that, I'll double the price!"
They both laughed then Chad looked back at Wally. "Since when did you care about rainbow monkeys anyway tough guy?"
Wally glared at him. "These aren't just some cruddy dolls! They're living things!"
"Think about it, these things were supposed to die anyway! If the place flooded, they weren't expected to live. Bringing the crystal back will prove to people that this place is real, Plum said that your grandfather always wanted them to believe in it!" Chad told Wally.
Wally stared at him with eyes of stone. "Not interested."
Chad sighed, "Fine, we'll have to do it the hard way!"
He snapped his finger and Kuki was thrown to the floor.
"Let's try this again!" Chad said cheerfully, holding the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R to Kuki.
Wally sighed in defeat. "Fine!"
"Good." Chad smiled.