Movie 2, Chapter 1:
Enter the Prince

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Read and review. And don't just say "Great New Chapter", people. My cowriters and I put in a lot of work on these, guys. It's like, come on.

"Who would've thought a 'mere squall' could've turned into Hurricane Kuno so quickly?" asked Nabiki as she glanced over at the wannabe samurai, hammering away at the side of the boat.

"I feel kind of sorry for him…" commented Akane, bowing her head. "D'you think we'll ever get back home?"

"Sure we will," responded Aki. "No point in giving up and losing all hope."

Just then, they overheard Ranko. "GIMME BACK MY SWIMSUIT, YOU GERIATRIC GREMLIN!"

"GET BACK HERE WITH LISANNA'S TOP, YOU UGLY PRUNE-FACED GNOME!" They also overheard Ryu shout as he ran past the group with his tekko-kagi in both hands.

"I don't think so~!" crowed Happosai as he bounced across the beach like a deranged flea, waving Ranko's top behind him like a banner.

Kuno, meanwhile, was hammering away at the side of the hull. "They have brought you to your knees, but you are not beaten," he declared, right before Happosai bounced off his head.

"INCOMING!" he exclaimed before he scurried up the mast like a spider. But as the old geezer laughed to himself, he heard a K-K-KRAK noise, and the mast began to tip over.

"Scatter," Kenma said, his tone flat.

"What?" asked Ranko.

"AM-SCRAY!" Kenma yelled as he picked her up and ran, while the mast fell like a tree in the forest.

"I GOTCHA NOW, YA LOUSY PERVERT!" Ryu exclaimed as he leapt at the falling creep and gave him a slash to his body, reclaiming the stolen clothing from his grasp. "Victory, thy name is Ryu!" Right before the mast fell on top of him as well.

"Uh, Kuno?" asked Ranko, as she pointed. "The mast…"

"What about the mast, pigtailed girl?" inquired Kuno before he saw that the ship was completely decimated. "...I see…it mast be broken…"

"I'd say it's mast-icated!" Kenma chuckled.

Ryu got up and shook the cobwebs out of his head as he saw the yacht.

"Oops, I'm gonna take some blame for this…" he chuckled nervously as he saw his girlfriend approach them as he handed her bikini top back.

"Thank you Ryu," Lisanna smiled as she kissed him on the cheek before putting her top back on.

As Ranko and Kenma stared out towards the water, they both seemed to pick up on a ki most sinister.

"...you felt that too, right?" asked Kenma.

"Bro, I tasted that," replied Ranko. "...but what could it be?"

"I definitely don't know," Kenma said as he looked back, trying to see what it could've been.

"RANMA!" Akane yelled as she stormed in front of the twins, rage plastered on her face.

"YAAAAAAAAGH!" Kenma let out a high-pitched shriek, leaping into Ranko's arms. He then cleared his throat and looked around. "...wonder who could've screamed like that. Because I know I didn't."

"H-hey Akane, wassup?" Ranko panicked as she questioned the rage in the young Tendo, for the umpteenth time.

"What's up?! Oh I don't know," Akane started to throttle and shake Ranko as she grabbed her throat. "Breaking the mast, and damaging the boat further? You should be ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!"

"Time-out!" Ryu pulled Akane away from Ranma with Aki's help. "Look, Happosai was the one who climbed the mast on a damaged and unstable sailboat."

"It's a yacht," Kenma corrected him.

"Really? Looks more like a sailboat to me," Ryu stated as he looked at the boat again before going back to being moderator. "Plus I didn't help by attacking Happosai and added to the damage. So how is Ranma the cause of this?"

A flustered and mad Akane tried to come up with her reason for blaming Ranma this time, and struggled to come up with said reason.

As this happened, no one was aware of a lone shadow coming out of the water and making it to shore…as it slithered towards Kasumi!

"Fine, Mom, I'll fix the mast," groused Ranko.

"Damn right you will!" Akane hissed.

Nabiki glanced up from her sunbathing. "They're still at it, huh?" she asked. "According to Dad, it must be love. Wouldn't you agree, Kasumi?"

But as she looked around, her eldest sister was nowhere to be seen.

"Kasumi?" asked Jinn as he joined her in looking around. "I—I don't see her anywhere!"

"Where could she have gone off to?" Nabiki questioned as they both looked around to try and find the eldest Tendo daughter.

"Okay…I'm beginnin' to get very worried here…!" Jinn stated in a slowly rising, yet panicked voice.

Soon, their search brought them back to the beach towel that the eldest Tendo daughter had been sitting on—although in her place was a small pink peach.

"A peach…?" Jinn pondered, rubbing his head in curiosity. "Now this is getting even stranger than usual!"

LATER THAT DAY…

"She WHAT?!" asked Soun, mortified.

"I told you, she vanished," said Jinn. "Whaddo I gotta do, paint you a picture? She! IS! MISSING!"

"She's been gone since noon," chimed in Nabiki. "And it's been five hours."

"But where would she go?" asked Akane. "It's not like her to vanish without telling anyone beforehand…"

Soun clutched the sides of his skull and sobbed profusely, lamenting this turn of events.

"Akane, there's no need to worry," advised Ryoga. "It's not as though she could leave the island. She'll probably be back any moment."

"Ryoga...just HOW thick is your head?" asked Ranma before he pulled the bandana-headed boy over. "Listen up, dimwit; if Kasumi ain't back by dinnertime, we'll be stuck eating Akane's cooking."

"If we scarf that, we'll blow chunks SO badly we'll be beggin' for the Reaper to come and claim our souls!" Kenma added.

KLONK!

Alas, Kenma had not quite noticed Akane was behind him, and ended up getting clonked over the head with her frying pan.

"How can you joke around at a time like this?" the girl remarked.

"Who's joking?" asked Kenma, rubbing his head. "Your cooking is more repulsive than Happosai's personality! Aki's the only one who could scarf that sludge down without it coming back for an encore! Lucky bastard with the golden stomach."

"It's that bad?" Ryu asked, since he was the lucky person amongst them to never suffer from Akane's cooking.

"He's been helping her improve, but with her luck?" whispered Ranma. "It's probably WORSE."

"Be that as it may, it's not like Kasumi to be out this late," commented Genma. "This can only mean something has happened to her!"

Nabiki glanced over at Soun, who was still in a state of panic-induced grief. "Looks like Dad's lost it, not that he had it from the beginning," she commented. "Look, let's split up and try to find her before it gets too dark."

"Maybe I should go look for Kasumi with Jinn; you know, keep him company," Ryu suggested before whispering, "Before he jumps the canyon and loses his mind."

"I'll go with Nabiki then." Lisanna suggested as the girls walked off to find the elder Tendo female.

As everyone was pairing off on who to search with, Ryoga was mentally chuckling to himself. This is the perfect opportunity. If I show Akane how reliable I can be as a man, then she'll be all over me—showering me with praise and adoration!

"Fear not, Akane, for I shall—" Ryoga stated with confidence, only to realize only he, Genma, and a grief-ridden Soun Tendo were left as everyone else had already paired up.

"Looks like we're partners, then," said Genma.

And so, the groups split up to look for Kasumi.

"Find anything?" asked Kenma.

"Nope," Ranma shook his head.

"KASUMI! KASUMI!" Genma bellowed, with Ryoga repeating after him.

"Oh, where could she be?" queried Ryoga.

"The worst case scenario is that she's been whisked away by a tribe of man-eating octopi…" commented Genma.

"Octopi?!" blurted Ryoga.

"Don't be naive, boy," Genma scoffed. "Don't you know that the South Seas are infested with giant, man-eating octopi?"

Ryoga blanched in terror. "Oh, no! Then Kasumi's been—"

…

As a consortium of smaller octopi danced in a circle, a much, MUCH larger one was holding Kasumi over its head, clutched in one of its tentacles.

"He-e-e-e-lp me!" she called out, as the octopus seemed to be salivating over what would most likely become its dinner.

…

"If we don't save her, Kasumi will be octopus munchies!" Ryoga exclaimed.

"Curse those evil octopi…" groused Genma, in a manner that would make Adam West blush.

Just then, Ukyo ran over to both of them. "Hey, what are you two doing out here?"

"Oh god, Ukyo! It's terrible!" Ryoga panicked.

"What is it, Ryoga?"

"Kasumi is screaming 'HELP ME!' and the octopuses are dancing, and the—!" The bandana-clad boy blurted on and on before Ukyo closed his lips with two of her fingers.

"Okay, sweetie," the spatula-wielder calmly said as she tried to get Ryoga to chill out. "Did you eat Kasumi's special brownies again, or did the sun finally burn that brain of yours?"

"Unfortunately, we're both sober and in dire straights," Genma said to the chef. "Kasumi has been missing since noon and we haven't seen her since."

"We think she may have been captured by a consortium of carnivorous cephalopods!" Ryoga said, sounding like an absolute lunatic.

"Where did you get that idea?" Ukyo asked.

"Genma," Ryoga replied, pointing to the older man.

"...squealer," Genma muttered, not quite realizing the double-meaning.

"Riiiight," Ukyo said, very flatly. "Anyways, with Kasumi gone that means I'll have to be the honorary Cook, giving me the perfect opportunity to get close to Ranma!"

And so, off she went—only to suddenly vanish, leaving behind the plate she was carrying...as well as a peach in her place.

"Sh-sh-SHE'S GOOOOOONE!" Ryoga and Genma shrieked in horror.

Meanwhile, back at the cabin…

"NABIKI!" Soun shrieked in horror after witnessing another one of his daughters disappear.

"What?" asked Kenma as he came out of the woods, dripping wet. "What happened to Nabiki?!"

"Nabiki Tendo is gone." Kuno explained, sounding very dire.

"What?!" the monkey boy exclaimed.

"Yes. One moment she was as real as you or I, then the next she was—" The swordsman was suddenly cut off mid-sentence as he suddenly disappeared.

"Kuno!" Ranma gasped, thinking he had been kidnapped as well.

"Relax. The fool tripped, is all!" Cologne said calmly while gesturing at Kuno, who had fallen and face-planted into the sand.

"Why the hell is Kuno on the ground?" Ryu asked as he walked back with a wound-up Jinn.

"We got bad news, Nabiki went missing too!" Kenma yelled in frustration as Ryu froze on the spot.

"W-what? B-but Lisanna was with her. Does this mean—" Ryu stated, getting a nod from Ranma. And then, he became very, very angry. "I'LL KILL THE BASTARD WHO TOOK MY GIRLFRIEND FROM ME!"

"SAVE SOME FOR ME!" Kenma chimed in, his teeth becoming fangs.

"This can't get any worse," Ranma said as he looked at the angry duo. Unfortunately, Murphy's Law heard him utter those words, and Murphy loves a challenge.

"Kenma Saotome! Give back Shampoo!" Mousse shouted in frustration as he leapt to attack the redhead…only to be met with a foot to his face from the Saotome in question.

"You better have a good reason to attack me when I'm mad… What happened to Shampoo?" Kenma growled before he registered what Mousse said.

"Shampoo has gone missing, son-in-law," Cologne stated calmly, as she knew the levels of rage a warrior in love could reach. As she approached the group with a peach of all things, in her hand. "One minute, she's cooking something for you to eat. Next minute, she's gone and a peach is left in her place."

"Wait a minute," Jinn said in surprise as he pulled out the same peach. "When Kasumi went missing, a peach was left where she was last seen."

Kuno got up as he held up two peaches as well. "Same here, where I last saw Nabiki Tendo and that white-haired woman she was with."

"Hmm…five lovely young women have turned up missing," Happosai commented as he rubbed his chin in contemplation. "And all leaving behind a perfect peach in their places. It can only mean one thing!"

"It is a warning," responded Cologne.

"A warning?" asked Ryoga. "But from who?"

"That I don't know," responded Cologne. "But since Kasumi, Lisanna, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Nabiki have all vanished, the next one to be targeted can be none other than…"

At that, everyone turned and looked at Akane.

"...myself, of course!" Cologne finished her sentence, making everyone plotz.

"WHO'D GO AFTER AN ANCIENT BROAD LIKE YOU?!" Ranma snapped. "YOU'RE ALMOST 4,000 YEARS OLD!"

"Am I too not a woman?!" Cologne retorted as she clocked him in the head with her staff.

"Maybe, but I think this guy's going after young, sprightly girls," commented Ryoga. "So the next target is definitely gonna be Akane."

"Akane…" Genma pushed up his glasses. "...and one other."

And then, all eyes were on Ranma. Fortunately, he put two and two together quite quickly.

"H-hey! Wait a minute!" he blurted, putting his hands up. "You're not thinkin'...no way! For-get it!"

ONE HOUR LATER…

Ranko was tied up underneath a pole, with a kettle suspended over her head…but she was definitely not a QUIET lure.

"YOU LOUSY JERKS! HOW COULDJA DO THIS TO ME?!" she screamed as loudly as she could. "LEMME GO RIGHT NOW, OR I'LL SHOVE SEA URCHINS DOWN YOUR THROATS! WHY DOES THIS BULLSHIT ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME?!"

In the bushes, everyone else watched as this played out.

"Do you really think such crude bait is capable of luring the malefactors?" asked Mousse.

"Couldn't tell you…but it's our best chance outside of using Akane," replied Cologne. "And that girl kicks like a donkey, so I don't want any of that smoke."

Suddenly, a rather ominous aura filled the air as a shadow slithered through the sand, approaching Akane like a hungry shark.

Ryoga's head was only turned for a few seconds before he heard her scream, and as quickly as he dashed to help, Akimitsu had also joined him in taking her hand and tugging as hard as he could.

"Ryoga! Strike the shadow!" instructed Cologne.

"...okay! BAKUSAI TENKETSU!" Ryoga exclaimed as he jabbed two fingers down towards the shadow, sending a tremendous sand wave into the air, and knocking the shadow from its hiding spot.

As Akane fell, she was caught by Aki, who glanced at the mysterious shadow perched in the tree. As the shadow faded, its mysterious form gave way to a human-looking figure, who looked like a bizarre mix of Lupin III and Sun Wukong.

"So, you've seen through my illusion!" he crowed in an oily voice. "Bra-vo! There aren't many who can, y'know~!"

Ryoga blinked. "...a talking monkey?"

"No way…" murmured Akane.

"Why does he sound like he's hosting a bad game show?" asked Aki.

"Oh my God, now I can't unhear that!" Ryu realized and got what Aki was saying.

The sideburn-bearing man glowered. "Who are you calling a monkey?!" he sputtered.

"HEY! WHAT ABOUT ME?!" Ranko yelled, as she was still tied to the wooden pole.

"RANMA!" Kenma exclaimed as he ran over to his brother, who was now being attacked by another shadow creature. Grabbing the rope, he yanked as hard as he could, spilling water all over Ranko, turning her back into a him.

"Heh-heh…now it's my turn," Ranma grinned as he sprang to his feet and broke free of the ropes.

He then gave chase to the other shadows, saying "Hey! Get back here!" right before they BURST through the sand.

"Is this better?" asked a juvenile-sounding voice before the smoke cleared, showing 3 figures. A young boy with regal-looking clothes, a rotund blank-eyed man, and a tall, masked individual.

"Allow me to introduce myself. I am Toma, Master of Illusions, and Ruler of Togenkyo Island," the boy smirked.

"I'll only ask you once," Kenma declared. "Where are the girls? What have you done with them?"

"Why, they've all been invited to Togenkyo as possible bridal candidates." Toma stated like it was common knowledge to him.

"Invited? Last time I checked, kidnapping doesn't exactly constitute an invitation." Jinn replied with a mixture of confusion and disgust.

"Well, that is one way to put it. Oh, I see we missed another woman," Toma said as he noticed Akane, still in Aki's arms. "How about it, Miss? Would you like to come with us and be considered a candidate for marriage?"

"Like hell I'd ever agree to that!" Akane barked back at the young prince.

"Yeah. So you better just hand over Ukyo and the others before I get really mad, ya little twerp!" Ranma chimed in.

"Take it from the fat man here," Ryu stated, pointing at Genma. "I can get dangerous if someone keeps me from Lisanna!"

Genma nodded to that, the memories of everything that he went through at Ryu's hands haunted the poor excuse of a father's dreams.

Toma sighed hearing this; he always encountered some that would flat-out refuse his generous offers. "Just so you're aware, should you refuse to come along peacefully, I shall be forced to use the sacred water of Togenkyo Island and change you into a man forever," he informed them. "You would never again be able to love a man as a female."

"What did you just say?" Ryoga asked, wondering if he heard that right.

"A demonstration is in order, I see…Sarutoru!" Toma ordered his monkey-like minion. Sarutoru leapt down from a palm tree and brought a coconut crab onto the sand.

"Here you are, Milord," Sarutoru bowed before Toma.

The young prince uncorked his canteen and emptied its contents all over the crab…and before the eyes of his surprised audience, the crab transformed into a short, squat little man!

"Was that an illusion, or did that crab really turn into a guy?" Ranma asked.

"If it was an illusion, then I must be tripping out, too!" Kenma responded.

"That was no mere illusion… that was the real thing!" Mousse shouted in shock.

"If that was real, then that means…" Genma began putting the pieces together.

"We could be cured for good!" Ranma said, excited at the chance of a permanent cure.

"Now, young woman, you best do as I say," Toma stated in a cocky tone. "Unless you want to become a man forever, then—"

Prince Toma was interrupted mid-sentence as Ranma, Kenma, Ryoga, Mousse and Genma rushed him. As a shadow began to grow around the Prince, making him look up to see Ryu flying towards him with his Tekko-kagi in his possession.

"GIVE US THE WATER/THE GIRLS/MY LISANNA!"

"Be silent, you brutes!" Prince Toma shouted as his eyes glowed and held out his hand to emit an invisible force that stopped the men from charging at him.

The prince then unsheathed his sword and held it up in the air, with the light of the moon glinting off of the blade.

"I have no time for your insolence…so I shall show you my greatest attack: MIRAGE BARRAGE!" he bellowed.

At that, the ground beneath the guys started to shake violently before a pillar of fire burst out right at their feet, sending them flying back.

The boys all screamed in agony as they were all seemingly engulfed in flames.

As the energy wave spread over the group, Aki was knocked away while Sarutoru grabbed Akane and rejoined his master. "I have the woman, my liege," he informed Toma.

"Excellent work, Sarutoru," said Toma. "Now we shall abscond with our prizes!"

The last thing they all saw were Toma and his cronies taking off into the night sky with Akane…then everything went black.

"A-Akane…" Akimitsu weakly cried, before he passed out…

THE NEXT MORNING…

One by one, the guys reawakened with help from Soun and Cologne. Each one checked themselves and they all realized that they were somehow unharmed, despite being engulfed in flames the previous night. All that was left was to wake Ranma, who was out like a light.

"Ranma, Ranma, wake up sonny-boy," Cologne tried waking him up gently.

Genma meanwhile, had other ways. "Wake up, you slacker!" he shouted as he dumped a bucket of cold water on Ranma, turning him into Ranko and waking him up.

"GAH! COLD!" Ranko shouted in shock as she looked around to see everyone looking at her. "What happened, was last night all a dream?"

"Nope," Kenma bluntly stated as he looked at Ranko. "Some punk Prince and his group of misfit morons got the drop on us and kidnapped the girls to be married off."

"How can you be sure?" Ranko asked, before her brother pointed up to the coconut crab who got turned into a man up a palm tree. "Yeah, last night was real."

"Yes, those flames you encountered were mere illusions," Cologne informed them as she had seen everything from a safe distance away.

"Sure as hell felt real to me, almost like I was hit by actual fire," Ryu confirmed as he clenched his hands into fists.

"Yeah, definitely stung like the real deal. I'm just dyin' to get some payback on those creeps!" Ranko said with the usual amount of gumption—but then she found Soun glaring right into her face.

"Ranma! It's bad enough that Kasumi, Ukyo, Nabiki and Shampoo got taken…" he began.

"Also Lisanna!" Ryu spoke up.

"But how could you let them take Akane away as well?!" Soun spat, before Kenma jammed a finger in his direction.

"BACK OFF, MUSTACHE!" he shouted. "Ranma didn't LET anyone get taken! He fought with all his might, which is more than I can say for a blubbering crybaby like you! You call yourself a martial artist, puff yourself up with all your talk of honor and pride as a warrior…but you're happily willing to let teenagers do all the fighting while YOU sit back and do NOTHING! If anyone ought to have done something to save Akane, it should have at least been her own father…oh, wait! Her so-called father was too busy bawling his eyes out like the pathetic little baby that he truly is! You are no martial artist…YOU, SOUN TENDO, ARE A SNIVELING COWARD!"

Everyone at the beach was silent as Kenma finished his rant at the Tendo Patriarch, unsure of how to address such a vicious, and honest, verbal lashing.

"Damn, remind me not to make you angry," Ryu was the one to break the silence as he said that.

Soun just stood there, eyes wide open and mouth agape

"Great Granny," Mousse spoke up as he…grabbed Genma by the shoulders. "We have to save the girls, especially Shampoo!"

"Who are you talking to? YOU'RE WEARING YOUR DAMN GLASSES!" Genma shouted at the male Amazon in annoyance, as this gave Kenma a good chuckle seeing that. (That was such a random moment to see, I mean he had his glasses on too. What would his excuse have been?)

"The responsibility to rescue Shampoo and the others rests on you, son-in-law," Cologne stated as it undermined Mousse's determination.

"I know, but where the hell is this Togenkyo Island anyway?" Kenma growled as something stuck out and caught them by surprise.

A new island popping up out of the blue, clearly not there before or else they would've seen it yesterday.

"Gonna take a shot in the dark and say that's Togenkyo Island?" Ranko guessed.

"Indeed, that is the legendary Togenkyo Island, where that Toma fellow resides." Cologne informed.

"That's also where the water to turn me back into a guy permanently is," Ranko added. It was good to have the ability to change into his cursed form on command, but to know that he had an honest to god real cure so close was too good to pass up.

"That's where my daughters are!" Soun said, finally getting enough nerve to speak again

"That's where Shampoo is!" Mousse and Kenma stated as they stared at the island intensely.

"That's where Kasumi's being held!" Jinn growled in frustration, ready to show these fools why you should never anger a genie.

"That's where Akane is—" Ryoga began before he was interrupted and pushed back into Akimitsu.

"I'M COMING, LISANNA!" Ryu shouted as he rushed to the water and shoved Genma away too. Taking a leaping dive into the water, he changed into his cursed dragon-man form and shot off like a torpedo towards Togenkyo.

Unintentionally, Ryu's action splashed everyone on the shore and activated several of their cursed forms—along with a new one.

"HEY! DON'T GO RUNNING OFF HALF-COCKED!" shouted Kenma, now sopping wet, and much hairier than he had been previously. "IF YOU RUSH OUT WITH NO PLAN, THEN YOU'RE LIABLE TO GET YOUR BUTT KICKED! SO CALM DOWN AND THINK!"

Ryu stopped and stayed in the water when Kenma shouted at him. He glared at the Island that his lovely angel was on and wanted to rescue so badly. But he knew Kenma was right, as much as he would want to save Lisanna and hurt anyone dumb enough to get in his way… he had to think this through. So with that in mind, Ryu reluctantly swam back to shore, calmly and walked onto the sand.

"Okay, we better come up with something soon. Or else I'm going in and crushing anyone who gets in my way!" Ryu told them all.

Wilbur was about ready to attack Ryu for getting him wet, before the piglet went pale at seeing Ryu's cursed form for the first time.

Cologne was surprised by this as she had heard rumors about a Spring of Drowned Dragon and Man, and thought of it to be a myth. "Well, it seems like your friend fell into a very lucky cursed spring," she commented.

"Yeah, made me jealous seeing it for the first— Kenma, you look hairier than normal." Ranko stated as she turned to her brother and saw he was hairier than usual, and drenched in cold sea water, and seemed more primal than usual.

"Whoa, really?" Kenma asked as a long, furry brown tail lifted up from behind and scratched his head.

Ranko flinched seeing a tail of all things pop out of Kenma's back. "Kenma, I don't want to alarm you, so I'm gonna let Aki say it instead."

"DUDE, YOU HAVE A TAIL STICKING OUT OF YOUR BACK!" Akimitsu shouted as he grabbed his mask and bat, ready for action.

Kenma glanced back and his eyes widened in amazement. "Whoa…this is AWESOME!" he laughed giddily. "I got a tail like Goku!"

"Oh! I wonder if you've got any cool new abilities like increased agility." Ranko wondered.

"Hey, maybe I can bounce on it like a Tigger!" Kenma beamed. "I wouldn't mind giving it a try…"

"Uh fellas, I don't know if you forgot but the girls need our help!" Jinn said to the Saotome twins, anxious to save Kasumi.

"Right! Sorry, Jinn. Yoo-hoo, Kuno~!" Ranko beckoned.

"Yes, my red-haired Venus?" the swordsman said as he ran up to the red-haired girl and groped her breasts, before having his face planted into the sand. [Hah! Venus]

"There is one teensy little favor you can do for me~" cooed Ranko as she held Kuno's chin up.

"Anything for you, my dearest lady." said the hopeless lovestruck swordsman.

"Say, about Binsense. Would she happen to be equipped with any emergency lifeboats?" Ranko asked in a voice that was as smooth as silk.

"Oh, but of course. Any sailor worth their salt has at least one! And the one in question would be on the rear" Kuno replied.

"There's using your noodle," Kenma gave a thumbs-up. "You guys go by boat, and I'll go by Nimbus!"

"10-4! Roger that! Aye aye!" Ranko said, with Jinn and Akimistu chiming in.

They all got the boat inflated and ready to ship out.

"FLYING NIMBUS! TO ME…!" Kenma bellowed, as the cloud flew in and came right up to him. He hopped onboard. "We're going to Togenkyo, buddy!" he pointed across the water at the island in view.

The Nimbus moved a part of itself up and down, as if it was nodding.

"Attaboy!" Kenma replied. "So let's go!"

The cloud sped off in the direction of the island, with Ranko and co. following behind in the motorized lifeboat

Just you wait, Toma. I'm gonna get that water and make you pay for kidnapping Ukyo. The whole nine yards! Ranko thought as she looked towards the giant landmass that was Togenkyo.

To Be Continued...