Hello and welcome to Chapter 2 of this co-write that has been in the works for many months with Hika-neko-chan.

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Chapter 2

The gummi ship had come to a stop, but the force of the impact had knocked out the two girls temporarily. Not long after, Hikari began to stir, moaning before opening her eyes, blinking a few times to try to coax away the headache caused by the impact. It took her a few seconds to realize that she was upside-down, harnessed to the chair that was bolted to the floor of the gummi ship. At this point, Hikari came to the conclusion that their vessel had flipped over when crashing through the trees before coming to a stop where ever they were.

She turned to face an unconscious Claire, who was also hanging upside-down in her chair, and attempted to rouse her.

"Claire." When Claire didn't respond, Hikari tried again. "Claire!"

"Hmm…" Claire let out a small moan before opening her eyes. Claire slowly looked around, looking only partially awake. Claire turned her attention to Hikari, "What happened? We landed?"

"Not exactly. More like we didn't die in the crash," answered Hikari.

Claire moaned again and blinked a few times before looking more awake. "Well that's good. Now we just need to get down, though hanging like this is kinda relaxing," Claire said as she gave a small chuckle.

Hikari began fiddling with the buckle on the seat harness. When she finally undid it, she dropped to the ground, landing unceremoniously on her front, a pair of silvery-white wings extended from her back in surprise.

"... Ow…"

"Hey, I thought cats were always supposed to land on their feet," Claire laughed in a joking tone.

"Oh ha ha ha, very funny. That's only true above a certain distance proportional to the cat's height."

Claire rolled her eyes, "Yeah….whatever." She then grabbed her seat belt and undid the latch, leaning to the side slightly, causing her to fall and land on her side. Claire moaned, "Ugh...Well at least that wasn't so bad."

"Are you alright, Claire?" asked Hikari.

"No," Claire moaned again."I don't have enough 'padding' like you to break my fall."

Hikari blushed as she stood up, mumbling "It's not my fault I'm top heavy."

Claire laughed as she also stood up and stretched her arms, "Well I guess we might as well figure out where we are."

"If you want to go look around, go ahead, I'm gonna see if I can fix this." Hikari moved so that she could reach the control panel above them.

Claire nodded and carefully walked towards the exit of the gummi ship. She walked up to the door and slowly opened it up and looked outside. "It seems we are in some kind of forest," Claire shouted back at Hikari.

"I kinda got that from the amount of trees we plowed through before impact." Hikari called back.

"I'll be back, I'll get a quick aerial view," Claire said as she crawled out the door and jumped to the ground. Claire stretched one more time before large, red dragon wings stretched out from her back. She spread her wings out and then took to the air. She flew up several feet in the air and flew around the area of the crash, observing her surroundings. From what Claire could see, they were on what looked like a very large island that was covered in trees. In the distance she saw that there was a large mountain farther down on the island. Flying out a little further Claire saw that there was a small beach just a few feet away from the crash site. Claire looked out from the island, all she could see was water, no signs of any other islands or land.

"Hmm.. Just where are we?" Claire mumbled to herself before heading back to the ship.

Prior to Claire leaving the gummi ship, Hikari began to tinker with the control panel, eventually removing the faceplate to access the electronics inside. While nothing seemed damaged at first, she was able to spot a few wires further in that had sheared apart and weren't salvageable. After further inspection, Hikari found a CPU board that was still sparking, the resistors on it smoking from what appeared to be an electrical overload. She then repositioned herself under the communications system and pried open the panels. Hikari was surprised to find that the inductor located in the communicator's motherboard was fluctuating sporadically, which seemed to have caused the interference.

Popping sounds started coming from the navigation controls, causing Hikari to jump. When the noise died down after a few mini explosions, Hikari let out a sigh.

"I don't think we have the parts to replace those." she mumbled before making her way to a bag lying nearby. It was her luggage bag, having tumbled out of the storage compartment during the crash. A similar bag, Claire's, was poking out of the cabinet door. Hikari righted her bag, which was only about the size of a backpack, and opened it, glancing through its contents. When she couldn't see what she was looking for, she reached inside with both arms, and even stuck her head inside as it was was much larger inside than it appeared to be. After conducting a more thorough search, Hikari drew away from the bag, closing it, and grabbed Claire's before heading for the door.

Once Hikari made her way out of the gummi ship, she saw Claire land nearby.

"So what's the damage?" Claire asked as she walked over to Hikari.

"Severed wires, an irreparable CPU board, and a fluctuating magnetic field." answered Hikari. "What's our surroundings like?"

"It seems we are on some large island. We are surrounded by water with no other land in site. So I guess we are stuck here for a while."

"Are there any forms of civilization nearby?" asked Hikari. "I can sense others not far from us."

"I didn't see anything like that, just a bunch of trees and a large mountain." Claire pointed in the direction of where she saw the mountain.

"Hm…" Hikari hummed in thought. "We can either explore now and hopefully find some civilization to stay with, or we can set up camp here and then search for supplies. Which do you think would work out better for us?"

"Uh maybe we should take a little walk around the island? Find out who we are sensing?" Claire suggested.

"I guess we could, but I'm not sure how good of an idea it would be to just leave our bags just lying around. Also, how big is this island? If there's a mountain I'd assume it'd be fairly large." Hikari said uncertainly.

"Well it looks quite large…" Claire crossed her arms and thought for a moment, "If you really want to we can bring our bags with us as we walk around. We wouldn't have to walk around the whole island though, just maybe try to find anyone who seems close by."

"I guess that works then." Hikari answered hesitantly, handing Claire her bag before the two set off to explore their immediate surroundings.

And that was ch2! Hope you all enjoyed.

In chapter 3 the girls go to explore the island, what will they find? Find out next week!