Ranma was gliding through the water with strong strokes. He liked it to be surrounded by water without changing into a girl for once. But he also kept his eyes open to find something that would lead him to the pearl...
He was pretty sure Ryoga was getting lost somewhere... Hell, when he returns to the surface the next time, the poor guy probably would even already be next to Hawaii...
Suddenly, Ranma saw something... a wooden chest hidden behind some boulders.
He swum closer and saw a water-proof sign attached to it that read: 'The pearl is in here!'
Ranma grinned. That was too easy!
He was right...
When he opened the box, a grinning skull jumped out of it, giving him the shock of his life... almost!
Because after the Neko-ken, there aren't many things that scare Ranma that much.
He saw that the plastic skull was attached to a spring that came out of the box. He grimaced. Very funny...
Attached to the spring was another badge... He read it:
'Talk to the goldfish, he won't mind to tell you where the pearl is to find.'
'I get it,' Ranma thought. 'I have to follow those riddles to find the pearl... but how can a goldfish tell me? Fishes don't talk, after all...'
----
In a chasm at the bottom of the sea, a pair of eyes was closed as their owner had to sneeze.
His partner shook his head. "Now how did you manage to get a cold?"
The other one shrugged. "I have absolutely no idea..."
----
After resurfacing and taking another breath, Ranma finally found the goldfish... he was made out of plastic as well. And on his back, another clue was written. And so, Ranma continued to follow the lead of clues until he found a clue within a seashell:
'Try as hard as you can the big octopus is your next man.'
Of course, the octopus was another plastic animal with lots of rubber tentacles, as Ranma realized when he found him. And, once again, Ranma could read something on his front:
'If you don't pull the right tentacle...'
Ranma sighed. Well, he just had to find out what happened then...
He took one of the slippery tentacles and pulled with all his might...
He had nearly no time to dodge as a boxing glove shot out of a hidden hatch and nearly smacked into his face.
Ranma grimaced again. 'Again, very very funny...' Those organizers had a weird sense of humor...
After (carefully) trying out several tentacles, a hatch opened with yet another clue inside:
'The next thing around has a big muzzle Now don't dawdle, hurry and hustle.'
Ranma looked around. A thing with a big muzzle? Surely they meant another plastic animal...
He turned around... and grinned. Because nearby, the easy recognizable form of a shark was floating in the water.
'Well, what d'ya say,' he thought. 'There we have our 'big muzzle'.'
He swum to the shark and looked around the muzzle. 'Hmmm, it doesn't budge... Now how do I open it?'
He smacked the big fish several times against its big muzzle until it opened.
He peered inside. 'Well, there is no pearl inside here... Hey, those teeth really look real.' He fingered one of them. 'Pretty sharp, too. Well... actually... EVERYTHING in here looks pretty real...' He blinked. 'Wait a minute...'
He pulled his head out of the confused fish's muzzle and looked into his eyes.
Although fishes are said to be mute, Ranma was sure he heard a deep growl coming from this shark.
He gulped. 'Well, crud...'
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(Posted Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:53)
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