Nabiki slowly stood up. When she appeared out of thin air she had hit her head on some metal pole.
"Ooooh, my head;" she groaned. "Feels like Ukyo hit me with her biggest spatula..."
"Fryd ec drec?" Suddenly, a big man wearing some kind of silly mask grabbed Nabiki on the arm. Hard.
"Ow! That hurts! What's the big idea?"
Several other men dressed in strange clothing surrounded her.
"Y fiend!" one of them shouted. "Eh risyh teckieca!"
"Fa gemm ed?" the one holding Nabiki seemed to ask the others. He hold up a sharp-looking knife to her throat.
"Whaah! Be careful where you point that thing!" Nabiki angrily said. But she didn't move. These people didn't look like they could be easily dealt with. How did she get into this mess anyway? She thought only Ranma and his fiancees were going on this journey. And besides, where were the others?
"Fyed!" Suddenly, a blonde girl stepped next to the men. She also was dressed in what looked like a colorful diving-suit and spoke in the same weird language as the others.
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It was strange. This girl just appeared out of thin air. Rikku scratched her head. The young Al Bhed girl knew that the stranger could be a fiend, but what if she was just a human?
She went to the men. "Fryd ev ed ec risyh?" ('What if it is human?')
"Drao yna dra cysa eh taydr." ('They are the same in death'.)The man holding the girl intensified his grip on her arm.
"E vunpet ed!" ('I forbid it!') Rikku said angrily. "Fa pnehk ed fedr ic." ('We bring it with us.')
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Nabiki didn't know what was going on, but after the girl said some words to the others, the man holding her was loosening his grip and put away his knife while grumbling. Nabiki took a quick look around. It seemed like she was on some kind of boat, entirely made of metal, and it was in the middle of the ocean.
Suddenly, a metal door opened behind them. A muscular man wearing some strange goggles stepped outside.
"Caynir ran," he said. The other men seemed to understand him. They began searching around Nabiki's clothes, perhaps for weapons or money. She almost yelled: "Keep your hands to yourself," but they probably wouldn't have understood her.
The new man took a look at her. "Tu oui hud cbayg?" he asked her.
"Don't you get it?" she growled. "I don't understand you!" Why did this happen to her? These things normally only happen to Ranma.
The man then made several funny-looking moves with his arms, like he was swimming. He pointed at the ocean, then at some goggles he was holding.
"You want me to go for a swim?" she asked. "Yeah, right! As if! It's way too dark and way too cold for that." When he continued to make his silly moves, she angrily stomped on the deck. "No way! Forget it!"
"Ehcumahla..." the man muttered and growled.
But the girl stepped next to him. "Fyed!" She looked at Nabiki. "He said you can stay if you make yourself useful!"
Nabiki stared. "So, one of you folks does speak my language after all? Great! Tell this jerk to get his hands away from me!"
The girl shook her head. "The others wanted to just throw you in the water and leave you behind. I guess you better do what they say."
"But... but... Hey, just wait a minute! I don't even know where I am! And who are you people anyway?"
The man behind Nabiki got angry and wanted to push her, but the girl stopped him. "Mad ma dymg du ran imuha," she said. The men angrily mumbled something, but went inside the door. The muscular man with the goggles wanted to say something, but the girl shooed him inside as well.
After the metal door closed with a loud 'clang', the girl sighed. "Look, I'm sorry! My brother doesn't trust strangers. And after you just appeared out of nowhere..."
"I certainly didn't plan to do that," Nabiki grumbled. "I just got caught in some screwed up teleportation spell."
"Really?" the girl asked. "Where are you from?"
"Nerima," Nabiki sighed. "But I'm pretty sure you haven't heard of it before. "By the way, I'm Nabiki. What's your name?"
"Rikku!"
"Okay... Rikku... can you tell me where we are?"
"Um, we are... in the mid ocean! Several day's journeys south from Luca."
"Luca? That doesn't really help me..." Nabiki sighed. "Can't you just bring me to the nearest coast?"
"I'm sorry," Rikku said apologetically. "But we're on a special mission we just cannot abort that easily. And because the others do not seem to trust you that easily, I would suggest that you help us with our work."
Nabiki looked at the ground desperately. She was used to work with her brains, not with her muscles. "But I'm not really a very hard worker," she said. "What am I supposed to do anyway?"
"We're searching for some old ruins," Rikku told her. "And I think we're going to take you with us as additional support. The more we are, the safer it is, understand?"
"Is it dangerous in those ruins?" Nabiki gasped. Rikku nodded. "We probably meet some fiends inside. And according to what we heard about the place, the whole building itself isn't very stable."
"Fiends? What do you mean by that?"
"Don't tell me you haven't met any fiends before," Rikku said. "How did you grow up? As a homely girl that never had to worry about the big bad world outside of her daddy's home?"
"You're not very nice," Nabiki pointed out.
"Sorry about that, but everyone knows about fiends. They're vicious monsters. They exist everywhere!"
"And what am I supposed to do against monsters?" Nabiki asked. "I am no fighter, you know?"
"Actually, that shouldn't be a problem," Rikku said.
"Oh yeah? Why?"
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