Authors Disclaimer: I do not own Sonic The Hedgehog. Hey everyone sorry for the long wait. Been dealing with stuff as of lately that I couldn't get much writing done. Let alone, when I did started writing and nearly getting the pages done. Had started getting pained in my mouth and whatnot, that it prevented me from finishing the chapters. Especially this one, and the one for Pokemon World adventures.

That and games has been updated too- and got lost with those. But yeah, there was going be a scene with Bunnie getting a full body oil massage, but discarded it on the account how long it took me to get back to this chapter. So decided to make reference about it and the hot springs with Sally and that is it. Decided the focus should be on what Antoine and Nicole discovered of the Emerald rings, alongside a prophecy they managed to uncover.

So yeah, without further adieu, hope you all have fun and enjoy.

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Chapter 5: Final relaxation day, A new development.

It is the last day of their vacation as Sally and Bunnie can be seen sleeping and resting in their VIP room. It was early morning as the girls just wanted to take it easy and laze about for the day- there wasn't much left for them to do. They plan to spend some time in the sauna or other pool areas within the hotel, and take a break from spending time at the waterpark and carnival park as well as the Resort zone. The two girls were just in their undergarments, enjoying the A.C suite and groan lightly when their ears twitched and stirred when they heard Nicole, materializing onto the real world and greeted with a large smile.

"Morning girls! It's the last day of our vacation and time to seize the day!" The lynx exclaimed and saw the two rolling onto their side, with Bunnie's one leg hanging off from the couch and Sally- who was still laying on a pillow- had her eyes open softly and yawned, having her right arm dangling off the sofa. "I had informed Antoine about the emerald Ring and well…" then look to the side and chuckled. "Hand it over to him." She informed, having Sally blinking her eyes widely and then sat upright.

"Really?" Then stretches out her limbs and wiggles her foot around, while Bunnie groggily raises her rear up into the air and wiggle it about as she is trying to wake herself up. "Did he give any reason behind why he wanted to see it?" Sally asked, curious if the warrior/advisor might have clues of what it could be?

Nicole shrugged, "Not really, but considering he figured it might be similar towards the one on your finger. He probably doesn't want anything bad to happen to you." Then wrapped one foot around her right ankle brushing her black hair lightly. "But I understand his reasoning quite well. Considering when you found the Red emerald ring, it was already on your finger and everything we did or tried- it wouldn't come off your finger remember." Nicole said and pointed at the ring.

Having Bunnie sit up and flung her rabbit ears behind her and nodding tiredly, while stretching out her limbs and clothes. "She's right, we did everything we could to pull that ring off from ya." Then slapped her hands onto her lap and giggled. "We even used pliers, magnets and even used butter to see if we could have it slid out."

"Don't remind me of the butter…" Sally shook lightly and sighed. "Was quite the mess in the kitchen when we attempted that." She then look down at the red ring, as it glistened within the sunlight and hummed. She went ahead and tried grabbing it and pulling it out from her finger, but like before and being mentioned. She could not get it to budge or slide off her finger whatsoever, making the princess to huff and groan irritably. "...Did Antoine try wearing it?" Sally then asked.

"He did actually but unlike you girls and what I told him, of what happened when the two of you made contact with the Yellow ring." Then Nicole rubbed the back of her neck. Opening and waving a hand, "nothing happened. Let alone he was able to also take the ring off and on. He even tried using his Ring energy, to get it to react or have it become active. But nothing." Nicole said and laugh. "I made sure to record it all for reference, considering we still don't know anything about these things."

Sally nodded and huffed, "besides them being very powerful from what that conversation happened between Bastion and his unknown caller." The princess said and then got onto her feet and stretched out her limbs, having her bosoms jiggling about within her bra and having her black panties sinking between her cheeks. "Well! No use fussing over it now, we should get something to eat and then get some fun in before our vacation ends." She giggled out and smiled, watching Bunnie hopping onto her feet, having her own bosoms bounce about and rapidly nodded her head.

"YUP! Today we were going to spend time at the indoor pool, the sauna and hot springs. Or at least the Ring springs." Bunnie corrected herself. "Considering much we have recovered from the fight with Bastian. We only recovered our physical injuries, but not our ring energy." She said and began skipping her way towards their bags and bent down to open it up.

Nicole twitched her ears and asks, "Still?" Nicole then looks at Sally, "That's odd, Bunnie I can understand because of her being in the guild." She started saying while raising a hand to her chin, then looked at Sally. Who hummed and then looked to the side when Nicole then said, "But…Sally,I know you don't generally like being reminded. But, your ring energy should've recovered from yesterday on the account you don't have well. A big ring storage unlike Bunnie?"

Sally crossed her arms and thought it over, as Bunnie went and grabbed some new bikinis for them to wear. Sally's being a two piece slightly smaller bikini, but with a skirt for the bottom piece. While for Bunnie, she will be wearing a surprisingly modest looking bikini- that had square patches for the top and slightly bikini-like shorts. Having Sally and Nicole blink her eyes and then nodding when Bunnie grinned, "Public pool, public sauna and no doubt public hot springs. So best to be modest, you know, and since we're not home."

Sally laughed and caught her bikini in the air when Bunnie tossed them. "You can't easily get away with things here other than what you can there." Though turned and began answering Nicole's question. "As for your question Nicole, your guess is as good as mine." Then starts heading to the restroom. "I don't know why it is taking awhile for my ring energy to recover. But, might be the experience we had against Bastian." Sally said and entered the restroom to get change.

Nicole nodded her head, "True- I do know people ring storage increases on adventure experiences and exploration to even battling against another." Nicole said and laughed as Bunnie was changing openly in the main room of the apartment. While Nicole continued, "But it shouldn't be a large amount for Sally though…considering again, her generation skipped and she struggles." Nicole stopped and heard Bunnie laughing, wagging a finger.

"Ah you forget Bunnie, Sally also awakened or activated that ring of hers." Bunnie said and began stuffing and shuffling her breasts into the bikini top. Having her rabbit ears bounce about when doing so as she shifted her green eyes at Nicole. "So, who knows maybe because of activating that ring. It may have enhanced or adapted more Ring storage inside of her, making her ring pool larger than what it used to be."

Nicole hummed and then looked towards the restroom as Sally came out, dusting herself off and adjusting her swimsuit and then hummed, as Nicole's eyes dilated for a brief moment and codes scanning through her eyes as she scanned Sally. Having the princess stand still, so she wouldn't interrupt Nicole's scans and smiled, seeing her blinking her eyes and humming. "Anything wrong?" Sally asked. Then smiled as Bunnie laughed and flicked her wrist up, while pulling up her bikini shorts.

"I told Nicole here that maybe the reason it's taking awhile for you to recover your ring energy. Might be because of you activating the Red Emerald ring powers last week. During our fight against Bastian, and how it may have enhanced your Ring storage when it activated." Bunnie said and then looked to Nicole with a curious look, to both girls blinking their eyes when the lynx nodded her head.

"YUP!" Then giggled and clapped her hands together. "Bunnie guess was on the mark, after doing a quick scan on you Sally, I noticed a 80% increase to your Ring energy and Life Ring storage." Surprising the girls greatly as Bunnie gets up from the sofa and approaches Nicole's handheld computer from the table and opens it up. "Fascinating, maybe this could be the other reason for someone looking for these emerald rings?" Nicole added as Bunnie widened her eyes and let out a whistle.

"Sally girl, she ain't kidding!" Bunnie then showed the device screen and had Sally quickly walk over and lean close to the handheld screen, then softly took the computer from Bunnie eyes bulging wider. "Your ring energy definitely got a large boost."

Although Sally groaned and huffed, "Yeah…great." then lazily tossed the handheld onto the table, getting confused looks on Bunnie and Nicole's faces, only to then fold their ears back when Sally huffed, grabbing a drink from the fridge and then slammed herself down on a chair. "You girls do know that the larger your ring energy is, the harder it is to control your energy manipulation?" She said and slammed her forehead onto the table top, rubbing her hair lightly. "Which means it is going to be impossible for me to master my mother's barrier slash energy shield Ring power."

"Oh…right." Bunnie said softly and shook her head, "but that just means you need to be creative with your new fire powers." Grinned Bunnie, having Sally to hum and lift her head and look at her. "Think about it Sally, you used flames to form a barrier to protect me?" Bunnie giggled, "Just use that as a substitute and you will be good. It still behaves like your mother's powers."

"Actually!" Nicole smiled and raised her ears upwards, having the girls face her. "Bunnie isn't wrong! Sally, combining existing powers with elemental ones or a new one, is actually ways adventurer's and battler's gain mastery over their ring powers. So, hearing you using the Red ring to form a fire shield to protect Bunnie and you from Bastian's attack." Then spread her arms out. "I have to say, your adaptability to switching and using powers you just awakened is quite an amazing feat!"

Bunnie giggled and leaned her head back with a huge smile, "she's not wrong Sal! Using new powers you just acquired and rapidly adapting them into an ongoing battle. Is an amazing feat in itself," then grinned. "You may feel like your powers or energy manipulation skipped your generation. But, it seems like you have an inherent skill of being able to adapt rather quickly than most others who use their Ring power!"

"Okay, okay stop- stop you two." Sally started saying while getting up from the chair and finishing her drink. Grabbing a towel that was hanging off a sofa. "Making…making me blush. I-I don't deserve those praises." Then sighed as she quickly raised a hand. "And please, I know I am being modest. But I ain't doing anything special alright…I…honestly don't think there's anything special about me." She sighed and had Nicole and Bunnie hum softly and decided to end it there. Knowing how Sally gets when she gets praised, but laughs when she gives a small smile. "But I appreciate it- now come on, enough talk about Ring energy, powers or the Emerald rings." Then swung the towel over her shoulder and smiled. "Today is our last day of vacation and I plan to seize it."

"Good attitude and point!" Bunnie exclaimed and hopped onto her feet and grinned. "Let's go! We get some lunch and mingle for a while, then make our way to the pool area." The female rabbit continued and then turned at Nicole. "What about you Nicole? What will you be doing?" She asked with a tilt of her head and saw Nicole waving her off.

"Oh I promise Antoine to help do research and study on the emerald ring." Then grinned. "Since we have one we CAN actually do research on. We can learn more about it!" She exclaimed and placed her hands together and tapped each digit finger. "Especially since we couldn't get the one on Sally's ring off her finger. There's no better chance than now, to do research."

"Then it seems like it's just you and I today Bunnie." Sally said and walked to the door. "Nicole, if you and Antoine find anything of importance. PLEASE, let us know!" She said and grabbed her A.I's handheld computer.

"Yeah!" Bunnie added and waved to Nicole, "we need to know what we're up against or why people might be interested in finding these weird stones." Bunnie said and opened the door, as Sally began walking through and both girls heard Nicole replying back and nodding her head.

"Will do, if we discover anything of importance. I will immediately send you Sally and Bunnie a message through my handheld computer." The female lynx said and brushed her hair, smiling. "Alright girls, go and have fun. If anyone gives you trouble or annoys you, just calmly tell them to leave you alone!"

"Right, alright good luck Nicole!" Sally and Bunnie both said and closed the door behind them, with Nicole disappearing in a flash of green and electricity shot through to one of the ports and heading towards Antoine's room.

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The public indoor pool was massive and quite roomy, having a lot of types of mobians and people walking about and enjoying their day at the pool. Children happily giggling and laughing about, screaming or shouting. Splashing the pool waters and playing with pool toys, enjoying themselves and just having a blast. While the parents and adults were just mingling with one another, speaking to each other or just enjoying the food stalls and eating area that was on the far right of the entrance leading into the pool. With some table-top games in a more dryer part of the pool room.

There were even a playground slash jungle-gym nearby to even a large water slide that is about two floors high, and even going outside for a brief moment before coming back in. A hot tub couple distance away from the pool area, followed by a sauna in a separate room that leads into a salon. It is definitely an incredible place to be as Sally and Bunnie enter into the pool area, carrying their towels and bags, both whistling at the sight before them and chuckling with how crowded it is. "Wow, the receptionist was not kidding, it is packed today." Sally mentioned.

"Indeed," Bunnie then smiled, "I can see some of the children we rescued too- no doubt because of what we did. Everyone, including friends and families, are going to try and make up for lost times." Laugh the female rabbit, as Sally nodded and then began heading over to the food stalls. "How about we grab something to eat and drink first, then enjoy ourselves." Bunnie said.

"But we just had breakfast ten minutes ago?" Stated Sally while following her friend and then laughed softly, when Bunnie leaned her head back and snicker towards the princess.

"Oh please Sally, we're not going to eat." Then raised a finger when Sally took a couple skips forward having her breasts bouncing about and coming to a stop when she got next to Bunnie. "Drinks yes, but food nuh-huh." Then waggled a finger as she adjusted her shorts for a brief moment. "We're going to be listening in on conversations and figure out how things are going and everything is doing alright."

"Ah," Sally hummed out and nodded her head. "One of many rules of adventurers. Gather intel even if things have been settled and the matter has passed. Still be good to know how things are going right?" Sally asks while stretching her bikini panties down as to get her cheeks not to be exposed and watch Bunnie nodding her head.

"Yup," Then the two of them squeezed through some people and managed to reach the first food stall and bar- with the hefty but nice looking human man smiled and waved towards the girls and watched them hopping onto the stools, waving back to the man. "Hey there Gregory, how are things going!" Bunnie said, almost having Sally ready to ask how she knew his name…only to see the tag and kept quiet.

"Hey Bunnie, Sally-" The man chuckled out and happily crossed one arm over the counter-top and leaned forward. "You two are quite the adventurers and are quite the talk within the resort zone." He snickered. "I personally am amazed how you two girls were able to figure out where the children disappeared too and even revealed who was doing it too!" He exclaimed and stood upright. "So what drinks do you two want?"

"Chaos cola for me," Bunnie said and Sally smiled happily.

"And just a soda pop for me." Sally added and saw the man nodding his head and bending down to grab some glasses and cups for the two girls, then placing them onto the countertop and heading over to the drinks. "So, and…hope I am not intruding." Sally this time began speaking and asked. "But…were all the kids okay and safe? Some of them didn't…"

"If you're asking if the children need to go to the hospital. Some of them had too, considering their conditions." Gregory sighs, but still has a smile as he pours their drinks. "It's very kind of you to ask." Then look at Sally and Bunnie. "But no worries their a-okay, minor scrapes and bruises but other than that. They're just dehydrated."

"Phew…that's good to hear they're okay." Sally sighed in relief and relaxed some more as Gregory put a couple ice cubes into their cups. "Just…got worried cause some of them look like they haven't eaten or slept at all." She murmured and shook her cup lightly to make the ice make the drinks cold.

Gregory nodded his head and chuckled, "Well either way- you girls are always welcome and need anything, don't hesitate to ask." Then playfully raised his arm and flexed his muscle lightly. "I may be a bartender, but I can still keep up with you youngsters." He joked and got the girls to giggle and then waved bye to him, as he went and prepared more food and drinks for other customers Leaving Sally and Bunnie to themselves, as they relaxed and placed an arm onto the counter-top. Facing towards the pool areas and people running about.

The two girls sighed and just listened to everything that was going on and watched the scenery in front of them. Having soft smiles on their faces watching the kids having fun and such, Bunnie went ahead and crossed one leg over her lap. "It feels good doesn't it?" Bunnie suddenly asked, feeling her right ear flopping forward and lightly covering her right eye. "Seeing them happy and playing about without a care in the world."

"Yeah," Sally smiled back and managed to cross both her legs onto the stool and folded her hands onto her lap, having her cheeks exposed once more and pushing and pressing her breasts against one another. "I don't think I would be able to face myself if we just ignored everything that was happening, and then left without helping them…" she said and softened her expression. Having Bunnie to look at her and humming, while nodding her head.

"Thinking back about those bullies?" Bunnie asked and saw Sally nodding her head, while then faintly resting a finger on top of the red emerald ring. Having Bunnie soften her expression and then look back to the children playing in and around the pool. "Yeah- don't think I could live with myself if we didn't help them out." Then grabs her drink and takes a sip of it. "IT was adorable yesterday though, how many times we ran into them and then thanked us." Then giggled, "I even had some of the boy's approaching and asking if I had any boyfriends and such." She teased out, getting Sally to laugh and spin her stool around and face the counter.

"Really?" Sally then jokingly said. "Let me guess, you teased them and told them if they were older you might think about it?" Then widened her eyes when Bunnie winked and teasingly and joked back.

"Nah, told them I appreciate it and agreed- but." Bunnie then laughed while waving her right hand about. "I then told them how it won't work out because of how, it be embarrassing for boys ot fall in love with a girl who just saved their lives." She joked and had Sally laughing slightly loud- doing her best to control herself and began shaking her head. "Yup, hey just because we saved them, doesn't mean I can't have fun teasing."

Sally nodded and agreed as she just enjoyed her time with the girl as they continued listening and relaxing. "So, shall we go and enjoy ourselves in the pool?" Sally asked and Bunnie nodded, figuring they relaxed enough and there wasn't much happening right now. So best to go and seize the day. "Alright, go on ahead I will be right there." Sally then hops off the stool. "I want to go and put my hair into a ponytail."

"Alright, I will be at the hot tub then and meet you there!" Bunnie hops off too and then says. "If you have any trouble, do you shout alright? I will rush over and help with anything." She said and had a worried expression, making Sally hummed. "Much as we might be heroes, no doubt there will be some people who might say some bad things, or cause a bit of trouble for us.

Sally nods and they both went ahead and did what they wanted, as Bunnie went ahead and made her way towards the hot tub. While Sally went and headed towards a restroom or probably a locker room where she can go and use a hair tie, to tie her hair into a ponytail. When she did find one and came back out, the girl felt a little insecure all the sudden and her fur was beginning to stand up. Wondering what was going on and why her senses were in overdrive all the sudden?

She then looked around to see if anything was amidst or out of place, but saw no danger or anything that looked threatening and hummed. "I mean it's only been a few days since we fought Bastian…wow I really do need to relax." Sally thought to herself and began walking about as she was beginning to walk and head towards where the hot tub was. Her blue eyes shifted towards a couple of tall looking male Mobians, making their way over towards her- one looking to be a very tough and rough looking Gorilla mobian, a messy hair and sleek looking reptile snake mobian who was hissing and sticking their tongue out. With the last one being a muscle bound looking raccoon mobian, as they rapidly approached her and the gorilla slamming a hand against the wall and blocking her path. Making Sally take a step back and then jump slightly forward when the snake got behind her.

"Hey there cutie, we heard what you did for everyone here." Said the muscle bound raccoon Mobian, as he got close and Sally being pinned in place and stared at him. "Amazing that you and your rabbit friend were able to find the children but also defeat the one who was behind it too. Impressive," He said with a bit of a suave tone.

"Oh um…" Sally began chuckling softly while brushing a hand over her bang. "Th…Thanks, but it…it wasn't all that impressive." Sally said and gulped lightly as the men chuckled and the gorilla happily raised his other hand and tried flexing his muscles towards Sally.

"Gotta be pretty strong ladies to handle a wolverine like that." Then grinned at her and got close to Sally who gently took a step back, feeling a little overwhelmed and worried about their intentions. "Much as I don't mind powerful women, beautiful ladies like you shouldn't handle guys like them." Then Sally shivered and tried breaking free of the snake's hands grabbing onto her shoulder, to then causing Sally to spin around and bumped into the gorilla mobian chest.

"Yess, pretty ladies like you shouldn't be running around liek that and getting hurt." Snickered the snake mobian as the Raccoon also stepped closer, causing Sally to throw herself from the gorilla and then being pinned towards the wall. "If anything we should probably show you can let anyone handle dangers.

"That…That's quite alright, don't need it." Then squeaked and felt the raccoon mobian stepping close and into her comfort zone. "Please get away, you're bothering me." Sally barely said in an audible tone and shook when she felt the guy's hands beginning to touch and comb along her fur and skin.

"Now come on, that's no way to be rude to us, we just want to show our appreciation." He chuckled out as his hands were now resting on Sally's right face cheek, having her shut her eyes tight and balling her hands into fists. "How about it, little lady, shall we go somewhere and show you our appreciation?" Though the raccoon let out a loud grunt when Sally eyes shot wide open and managed to knee him between the legs, forcing him to stagger back and slam his hands down there.

However as Sally was about to make a break for it, the snake quickly acted and quickly threw his tail forward and coiled around Sally by the legs, slipping his snake tail between her inner thighs and roughly grinded up against her bikini panties roughly, causing her to let out a exhale of breath and then get slammed into the wall- while feeling massive hands grabbing and squeezing her breasts from the gorilla.

Sally tried to scream for help, but felt the snake's coils wrapping up to her mouth and silencing her as her eyes were wide and fearful. Thrashing and struggling against their holds, feeling her hands grabbing and pinching against the snake's coils, but doesn't seem to be doing anything.

"Little witch, is this how you accept people's appreciation!" The Gorilla mobian growled out and pulled her away from the wall and then slammed her hard against it. Causing the snake to hiss out in pain.

"Hey dumbshit, easy! My coils are still around her and getting hurt by the wall!" He shouted and caused the mobian to look angry but nodded when the snake said, "pain causes unnecessary words."

"Right, right, sorry about that." The gorilla said and had the snake apologizing back. Having Sally to roll her eyes and shake her head. Well…at least they're not arguing against one another. Sally did her best to break free despite the dizziness she felt right now and saw the raccoon in front of her slammed a palm near the wall next to her and had her eyes shaking and staring as she glanced down at her. Towering her and looking very menacing.

"Listen here you little brat, just because you think you're high and mighty- denying to accept our appreciation and reward of saving those kids. Doesn't make you special!" He growled out and roughly grabbed her left breast, causing Sally to blush and turn red as she felt the roughness of his hands twisting and squeezing her breast like that. Even shivering and legs trembling when she felt the snake's tail, beginning to rub and grind up against her womanhood. "I think we should teach you a lesson and show what happens when you anger us." He chuckled out, as Sally felt their hands roaming and groping her body, while even daring to start taking her bikini off.

Making the girl ready to scream and howl but widened her eyes and heard the raccoon leaning close whispering out, "Don't bother trying to scream- we're near the waterslides and under it. The water is loud enough to drown out any attempts you make, along with nobody bothers looking in this direction either." He chuckled out and began trailing his hands and finger down her stomach and towards her pelvis. "Heh, wonder how fun you…" then blink his eyes and even had the other two staring confusingly too as her eyes were glaring and even looking a little red? "Err..what are you?"

"Fire…burst!" Sally managed to muffle out and shut her eyes tightly and clenched her fists tighter- having the red ring glow brightly surprising the three males as they look down and then flames started swirling around them and freaking the men out and then before they could run or even figure out what was happening, a small burst of flames erupted around them and sending the three mobians flying backwards and away from Sally! Causing everyone there to turn and face the direction it came from, even alerting Bunnie who was playing with some of the kids- whip her head and shouted.

"Sally!" Then got her head bonked by a ball and she immediately began swimming and heading towards the edge of the pool, leaping out of it with her ring power! And followed right behind some security guards and even Gregory from the food bar.

Sally hisses and collapses to her hands and knees, considering the flames also hurt her but too badly. Coughing and hacking up some air, the girl opened her eyes and saw the three men on the ground- swirly eyes and slightly burnt. The girl huff and then wobbly stands up, panting lightly and then look down at the ring, seeing it dimming back to normal and had Sally smiling softly and gently place a hand over it-"Thanks…" she said and then grunted when she felt a yellow blur slamming right into her and spinning Sally around.

"Sally, Sally, Sally! You alright, you alright?!" Bunnie rapidly asked and checked over the princess and saw some burnt fur here and there, to then quickly look at the men. "Did they do anything bad!" She growled out and flexed her fingers and turned her hand into fists. As security came over and began lifting the mobians up, as when they got their conscious back- they quickly looked to Sally who was glaring at them.

Before they could even say anything or possibly make it that Sally was the one assaulting them, Gregory came over and began growling. "Well, well, well! I had a feeling I recognized you three!" The hefty human man said, having the tiger mobian and female security guards look to him and at the trio. "They're notorious around here, they tend to sneak around and start molesting some of the females or even steal money and cash from some of the venues around here."

"Well not only that but they were about to do very…bad things." Sally huffed and almost said, "But thanks to the red…err…" then quickly recovered. "But managed to use my ring power of flames to protect myself." Sally corrected herself. Getting the males to stare dumbly and then groaned as they were caught, even flinched when Sally even had proof. "I mean, you can tell I was struggling." Sally pointed to her bikini as it definitely looked like it was being pulled and tugged on, and thus the security went ahead and took them away.

Gregory even made sure to check on Sally once more and let him know she was fine and told him to go and help security out. With Bunnie watching this and then looking at Sally, who huffed- then raised a finger. "Before you ask…they were covering my mouth."

"...I was more wondering how the hell you didn't get hurt with that flame burst?" Bunnie asked with worry in her eyes, making Sally laugh. "No…I'm serious." Then crossed her arms and had Sally chuckling slowly and now giving a sheepish laugh. "Sally, I have confidence you can take care of yourself, which is why I am not fretting…even though I am worried about that." Bunnie then shakes her head and points at the security. "But, what the hell!? I had no doubt they thought something bad to you but-" then froze as Sally then asked.

"I take it you had the same thing happen?" Sally asked curiously and saw Bunnie blushing and turning slightly red. Then hung her head down and nodded her head, whispering out how she had very strong arm boar mobians bothering her and tried to do 'things' to her in the pool. But threw them and punched their guts while using her Ring power. Then both chuckled and laughed softly, "Bunnie much…I want to speak or say things about what just happened." Then smiled and stood upright. "But I think it's to be expected." Which had Bunnie humming and then giggling when Sally then said, "Cause of our feats here- I think we might get attention from that kind of group. But also some who will be genuine."

"Understandable." Bunnie nods and then laughs, "alright but from now on- we don't separate alright?" Laughed the female rabbit and then held onto Sally's arm. "Shall we go to the hot tub, I think you will need it."

"Yeah, let's…try and get some relaxation." Sally replied back and followed Bunnie towards the hot tub.

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After a while and calming down from the situation Sally got into. The two girls went ahead and enjoyed themselves in the hot tub, being joined by other humans and mobians. Who were very nice and asking if the girls were okay, or if Sally was doing alright. In which the princess assured them that she's fine. She just got caught off guard and just wanted to relax, which they agreed and stay silent on the topic. But they made sure to do some small talk with the two girls, in order to help ease Sally's nerves and what she just went through.

And it was a very nice relaxing discussion with everyone, with some of the people asking the girls where they came from. Or what made them decide to help out the parents and family members of the Resort zone? In which Bunnie responded by saying how they're a part of an adventurer's guild in South island. When they saw the missing people board, along with meeting up or seeing how upset the parents were. They decided to go ahead and help them out and figure out where the kids went missing.

The tale and story was intriguing for everyone, especially the kids who are in the tub with their parents. Listening intently and great focus, as Sally and Bunnie told them what transpired and what happened. They didn't go into full detail however, considering they wanted to be sure to leave out some of the messy details or the fight they had with Bastian. Even more so with Sally awakening the Red Emerald rings powers. As they don't want people knowing what these gems do, or begin asking why Sally has a ring on her finger- in which did get asked why she has a ring on her, in which Sally easily disputed and said that it belongs to her mother. A keepsake of sorts and that she gave her the ring on her eighteenth birthday.

Which is believable as mother's would give their most precious item or heirloom to their daughters when they reach a certain age. So not out of the norm for Sally to go and say that her mother gave it to her. If anything, royal families usually do this for their children once they hit eighteen years old.

The rest of their time spent in the hot tub went smoothly and nothing bad or weird happened while inside. Although it could also be because of the parents being in there with their children , such as Sally and Bunnie went ahead and got out. Figuring they spent a pretty good amount of time in the hot tub and said their goodbyes towards the people and began heading to the locker rooms, to go and grab their towels and dry off. Not completely removing their bikinis yet, as their next destination will be the Sauna- but first thing first, they need to go and eat some lunch.

They found a seating area and table after getting their lunch from Gregory's food bar and sat down to eat. Sally went ahead and grabbed Nicole's handheld computer and opened it up, seeing the blue light flashing on the side of the device. Indicating that Nicole wanted to speak to them or have an update for them. "Hey Nicole, what's up?" Sally asked and saw her AI companion appearing on the screen and waved.

"Hey girls, hope everything is going well there." Nicole asked and saw them nodding but made sure to tell Nicole, there were slight problems but got resolved quickly. Having the lynx to fold her ears down and hummed, but decided to ask later and shook her head. "Well glad to hear your alright, but I do have news and some discoveries were made about the Emerald ring I brought to Antoine." She said and had both girls widening their eyes and Bunnie, grabbing her chair and scooting it over towards Sally so she can hear better.

Nicole then raised a finger and opened up some images of the ring. "It definitely shares the same wavelength as the Red emerald ring. And no doubt it also contains some incredible ring power inside of it too- the element we were able to deduce is the Lightning element." She informed Sally and Bunnie to look at each other and back to the screen. "Apparently, it allows whoever bonds with the ring. The innate ability to use and control electricity- in ways you were able to do so with those flames from the Red ring, Sally."

This had Sally humming while lifting a hand to her chin and thought it over. "Then…if that is true, does that mean there are other emerald rings out there?" She asked Nicole, who nodded her head and brought up some old ancient looking images with murals and text written in hard to read language.

"Antoine mentioned to me how this all seemed familiar, or that he noticed the ring's hieroglyphs from somewhere etched onto it and the Red ring. So he had me look up in our library sections and look to see if there was anything about these in ancient textbooks or not." Then disappears and showcasing more text books and dialogues from the ancient books they discovered. "The only problem is…that one of the texts depicts the emerald rings being destroyed or banished for thousands of years. On the account of some 'Ancients' believed they were too powerful for mortals to have in the near future and discarded them in some…'void'."

"The Void? Like…the one that banishes very dangerous criminals and such?" Bunnie asked, having Sally look at her and tilt her head confusingly. Wondering how she knows about that? Having Bunnie laugh softly and shrug her shoulders, "Mom and Dad will usually mention it during dinner time after a very long and hard day at work. Especially when the said criminals are either too powerful to handle, or are sentenced to the void."

"Ah, huh…if the rings were banished to the void, or presumingly destroyed? Then…" Sally then lifted her hand and stared at the emerald ring. "Did someone in the void discover them or possibly found a way to release them back to our realm?" Then she looks back to Nicole, who closed out the windows and menus, as she proceeds to say.

"We don't know, considering later chapters of the text books and legends. They also kind of contradict themselves and say the rings were never destroyed, nor were they ever banished into the void." Then crossed her arms and raised one hand. "If anything- the old language may or might be mistranslated into saying they were sent to the void. While these textbooks relays that the Emerald rings never vanished or banished into the Void, but actually discarded and separated across the globe for generations, never to be rediscovered…except."

"The red emerald ring." Sally repeated and saw Nicole nodding her head. "Nicole, do you still have that information? Maybe I could deduce and figure out how and why the rings suddenly appeared." Sally asked, watching her AI friend nodding her head and opening up three different pop up windows of the text that spoke of the legend of the rings and the ancients.

"What are you trying to figure out, Sal?" Bunnie asked as Sally began scrolling and reading through the information on screen.

"I am curious if this legend might make mentions of what or who the ancients were- or at least. What kind of species they were who made these emerald rings. Let alone why I was chosen to become a protector of them." She said and continued scrolling through the mountain of information on the handheld as Bunnie nodded and did her best to understand what was on the screen, but was having a hard time figuring out what was what,

"Err…you can understand all this?" Bunnie asked while standing upright and crossing her arms under her breasts, having them be pushed up. "Looks all a jumble mess to me?" Bunnie remark and saw Sally just nodding her head, then stops on one of the paragraphs. Having Bunnie's ears go upwards and lean forward, "oh…found something?"

"I…think so?" Then says, "Nicole, can you upscale the text and clean it up for me." She asked her AI partner who nodded her head and did so. Cleaning up the image and making it easier to read and enhancing the size of the text. Having Sally to hum and guiding her eyes across the screen. "Hmm…this is interesting?"

"What is?" Bunnie asked and saw Sally placing a finger onto the paragraph she read.

"It is a little hard to read or understand but, if I am not mistaken, the ancient text I researched when we discovered the red ring." Sally then looks at Bunnie. "It says here that…the ancients before passing away or dying out, had passed down their technology and utensils and tools to those living on our planet." Then faced forward. "Where the mutation of their research and creation of the emerald rings, created and made new life be born into our world. Handing down each species of the emerald ring."

"Each species?" Bunnie repeated and crossed her arms, "like…humans and mobians?"

"Sort of, but some of the text is too garbled up. As it then says they decided on making 1 true species as their protectors and ever since then. They watched over the rings like guardians- and scattered across the world."

"Mystic ruins being one of them." Bunnie said softly, having Sally turn her head and then nodded. "And who appeared before you when you touched the ring Sally?"

"Sigh, I wish I knew- I couldn't see them clearly. But after touching the yellow ring, I was able to get a better look at them." She said and went silent for a while, having Bunnie and Nicole stare at her for a brief moment and wondering what was stopping her from speaking? Sally then sighed and said, "It's going to sound weird…but-" then looked at Bunnie over her shoulders. "It…looked like me?"

"You!?" Bunnie exclaimed and took a couple steps back, but made sure to be quiet and look around and quickly sit onto the chair she scooted over. "How…how is that possible?! How would they look like you?"

"I mean…you could have mistaken me to be my grandmother when she was young. As we look almost identical in the age department." Sally joked out, getting Bunnie to laugh and nodding her head as Bunnie herself whispered out how, she herself looks like her mother when she was young. "So…my family 'could have ancestors' tied to the ancients. So that's a possibility." Sally thought out loud, having Bunnie nodding her head and thinking it through. "But…that in itself is hard to say considering the situation and how the text is being translated."

Bunnie then stood upright and waved her hand around a bit, "that and we don't know the true translation either. Nicole," Bunnie then asked the AI lynx, who hummed. "How long will it take to translate?" Bunnie asked. "Or at least ones that might be very important to translate? So, we can probably be prepared for any bad effects or possible traps when dealing with the rings." This had Sally and Nicole looking at Bunnie confusingly, then let out low 'ah' as Bunnie then smiled.

"Knowing how powerful these things are and with adventurers' intuition. You can't tell me there will be some kind of backlash or some sort of trap, these things might happen if we were to discover every single one of them." Then spread her arms, causingher bosoms to bounce. "Think about it, with how powerful the flames were in the red ring. Imagine how dangerous it would be if others awakened the other elements that are in these jewels."

"Bunnie is right," Nicole said with a smile. "We should definitely try and translate the rest of the pages. To see if there are any negative effects with these Emerald rings." Then smiled. "As for the question, it will probably take about a couple months to translate the text and words in the books Bunnie. Even if I try focusing on the important ones, it will still take a while for me to discern what is written in them."

"Thanks Nicole, you go and get a head start on it alright?" Sally said and saw Nicole nodding and disappearing. As Sally closes the handheld computer and then faces Bunnie. "Well…much I want to keep reading and discussing what I saw, I would rather say it when we get back home."

"Good idea," Bunnie giggled and clapped her hands. "We are on vacation and won't do any good, if we're stressed out over thinking things with the emerald rings." The female rabbit said and then thumbs behind her. "Come on, let's head to the sauna and massage place. I want to try and give their full oil body massage a shot and see how good it feels."

"Sure, then we can go and find a Power spring to relax in and recover all our strength and ring powers, plus our ring energy." She said and gathered up her things and began heading out with Bunnie as they went and exited out of the pool area. With curious eyes spotting them in the distance and lightly humming, as they hop off one of the beams and fly towards the door and follow the girls.

Xxx

The rest of the day went relatively well minus a few hiccups here and there, that the girls deeds and action of finding and saving the children has definitely garnered a lot of reputation and exposure to themselves. That it was difficult for them to enjoy themselves and get some relaxation. Bunnie, who went to the spa with Sally and wanted to try out a full oil massage, had gotten a new employee who just started to be the one giving her the masseuse, had well…experienced odd sensations and felt the young mobian hands touching places that she didn't like. But knew she shouldn't complain, considering the full body massage meant everything- but she could've sworn the mobian was making the massage a little…how she say? Sexual tensions.

But she didn't complain, it did feel good and now has a good understanding of what Sally feels whenever she herself messes with the Princess. After their spa day was done and over with, to then finish things off at the Power springs- the girls alongside Nicole and Antoine will be finishing their final day of vacation and get ready for their trip back home.

The next day arrived and the group was seen at the lobby of the hotel speaking to the receptionist who was taking their keys and VIP's tickets, and when he stood up from placing the items away he said, "Glad you all had fun. I do apologize for the last two days of your visit." The mobian chuckled. "It was bound to happen when you girls went and saved everyone's children.. Or finding the missing kids."

Sally raised a hand and chuckled out sheepishly,, "It is quite alright, we only did what was right and I couldn't stand by and see so many parents upset and sad. To not be able to see their children again." Informed the Princess Chipmunk, as Bunnie nodded and smiled widely.

"Yeah! We knew the risks and the attention we might get, but overall." Then turned to the side and smiled while placing a hand on her hip. "Glad to see everyone happy and having fun again. Without needing to worry about being kidnapped or forced to dig out special ores." Informed the rabbit, as Antoine nodded and finished up with paperwork and steps away from the desk.

"Right, well then - everything is set and signed." The coyote then bows politely. "We are greatly welcome for your hospitality!"

"It's our pleasure to have you all and Thank you again for helping us solve the mystery behind the disappearances." The receptionist then bows and waves goodbye to them. "We hope you visit again in the future, and we will make sure that nobody bothers you." He joked and had everyone laughing, as they got their bags and began heading out of the hotel. Bunnie happily skips about and bouncing in her step, having her breasts bouncing about within her everyday clothes, as she goes grabbing the bag of rings that's tied to her waist and grabs a ring.

Sally, who was distracted right now, looks down to her handheld computer that houses Nicole, looking through all the information she had her and Antoine look through- to then yelp when she accidentally bumps into Bunnie- who swung and flailed her hands to grab the ring and sighed. Then chuckled, "Sorry Bunnie, " the princess said and smiled, "Just…"

"Looking over the information about the rings right? I gotcha," Bunnie giggled out and had Antoine approaching the two ladies and saw them looking at him, as his ears perked up and tilted his head. "By the way Antoine, while you and Nicole studied over the emerald rings? Was there anything relating to taking the rings off?" Bunnie asked, making Sally yelp as she grabbed her hand and lifted it up. Having Sally wince lightly.

"Ease the grip." Sally whispered to Bunnie, having Bunnie giggling and easing her grip.

Antoine hummed and eyed the ring as he then went moving a hand into his jacket pocket and pulled out notes he wrote down to share with the king and queen. Looking through it and seeing if he noticed it, "No- nothing," he said and looked at Bunnie and Sally. "From what we gathered however- is that it should've come off normally, as it doesn't exactly link themselves to the bearer." He said and chuckled as the girls hummed, with Sally's hand being freed from Bunnie's grasp and tried taking it off.

But like before it wouldn't come off and seemed to be glued on Sally's finger, with the girl even gently biting down on the ring and trying pulling it that way. However nothing- not even budging at all, as she huffed and rested her hand to her side. Having Antoine hum, "It is peculiar though to say the least." He then crossed his arms. "Whatever link you made or connection, to those who have created these emerald rings. As no doubt Nicole had informed you and Bunnie, about how it could be part of your ancestors Princess." He began saying and folded his arms behind his back. "And what vision you saw when touching the ring back at Mystic ruins. Has chosen you to be the bearer of the Fire Emerald ring." And raised his hand from his back and rubbed under his chin. "But…after figuring out there was a second one and what we researched through ancient text that is still being translated." Then sighed. "There may be seven emerald Rings in the world."

"SEVEN!?" Both Sally and Bunnie nearly exclaimed but quickly covered their mouths so nobody would be interested in their conversation or listening in by unknown forces. Sally cleared her throat and leaned forward ever slightly, "Are you sure Antoine? There's seven of these emerald rings?" She asked.

The squirrel mobian who had lost them yesterday and last night, had finally found them and began listening in on their conversations. Widening his eyes as he heard the girls exclaim the word seven. "There's seven…is that, is that what's going on in the Mystic cave zone?" He thought to himself and leaned closer against the corner of the hotel.

"Indeed," Antoine continued as Bunnie went ahead and tossed the warp ring forward and watched it expand and open up a portal back to Mobotropolis. "From what is written and I quote." He then cleared his throat as the girls listened carefully as he said. "Seven Emerald rings containing the seven elements of the world. With it comes great power, Power to create, power to destroy, power to even be beyond the imagination. When all seven of these rings combined- a wonder of immense energy will form and create a miracle.. Positive and Negative properties are held within these emerald rings. The protectors watch over these seven gems, to prevent a prophecy of destruction befallen onto the world."

"Prophecy?" Sally and Bunnie repeated, "Do…" but sighed when Antoine shook his head and sighed irritably.

"Sadly, everything else is still being processed and all I know is from my own experience." He then looked to the side. "Is that the final sentence conflicts with the half prophecy…" Antoine then looks back to the girls. "Seven in hand, brings chaos, seven in hand brings peace, but divided shall they prevent the chaos from awakening."

Bunnie scoffed and lowered one eyelid halfway and crossed her arms. "What kind of asinine sentence is that? It sounds so cryptic and vague." Said the female rabbit, with Sally nodding her head- but the princess will keep it in mind for when and how this prophecy might proceed or hopefully not be true.

"Your guess is as good as mine, Bunnie," Antoine informed. "It is confusing what it means, but considering prophecies usually come true in unique ways or happening. It is never set in stone, let alone do they ever come true." Antoine then relaxes and smiles, "but we shouldn't worry about it- even though we have found a second one. I believe we have nothing to worry about anyone else finding these or if the other rings even existed."

Sally nodded, "True, we're talking about thousands and thousands of years worth of history here. If nobody in the world knows about them or they exist, we shouldn't really worry about them." Sally said and sighed. "But…it doesn't mean we shouldn't be careless either."

"Indeed, now!" Antoine then clapped his hands, "Let us go girls- princess you still have the orientation to be prepared for- especially for the fight against Elias your brother." He chuckled as Sally sighed in irritation and hung her body down slightly and began walking to the warp ring, "Qui princess, I know it is annoying- but if we want the high councils see and know you are fit for the role of ruling our kingdom. We must go and prepare for your orientation."

"Ya know Antoine, could give Sally girl some leeway with the training. I know the two need to fight, but why do they need to battle one another in order to even have a test to see who is trustworthy?" Bunnie asked as they began entering the warp ring.

"Sigh- honestly I am against it but the reasoning behind it is so-" Antoine began saying before his voice disappeared within the warp ring. Having the Flying squirrel mobian to run across the sidewalk and reach over to the warp ring. Seeing where it will lead and take him, if he were to step inside and head to wherever the group went too. He took a couple of deep breaths and then looked towards the ocean.

"Don't worry Mighty, I will be sure you will get rescued…help is on the way." The squirrel whispers out and then hops into the warp ring, as the ring then shrinks down and disappears in a flash of light and out of existence.

What kind of help does this Mobian need from Bunnie and Sally? As well, what kind of troubles await for them at the Mystic cave zone as the squirrel Mobian seeks them out and hopefully gets an audience with the two girls and prays that they will help him rescue his best friend Mighty! Along with those who are also in the same situation as he is. As well, what does the Prophecy mean by Seven in hand brings chaos, seven in hand bring peace, but divided shall they stop the chaos from awakening? Time will only tell as the girl's adventures continue!

To be continued…