Usagi looked down at the apple slice in her hands. "This sucks..." she whined. "I really should have listened to you and saved some food for later... now all we have is a slice of this apple for each of us..."
"Here, I also caught some rain water," Ami said and handed Usagi a bowl. "Here, drink, but not too much, okay?"
Usagi drank her water and pouted. "I wanna go home.. I wanna big, juicy pork roast and some goat milk..."
"Well, we have to find our way back home first," Luna sighed. "But I hope we'll find the right direction."
"Let's rest for a while, afterwards we'll try going east. Usagi, you feel up to it?"
Usagi nodded weakly. Ami smiled. "Good! I know you can do it!"
For some time, the three of them were lying down in the small boat, which was swaying gently within the small waves. The warm sun was shining down and made them feel sleepy.
Ami had the feeling her eyes were slowly closing...
CRUNCH!
Ami got startled and was wide awake when a heavy blow made the boat shudder. Usagi shook her head and looked around in confusion.
"Huh? What? Where? How?"
"Ami, what happened?" Luna asked.
Ami looked down at the outside of the boat. "Looks like we hit some cliffs..." she murmured. Then she looked further ahead. Raising above them, a steep, rocky cliff was rising.
Usagi shivered. "That's the end of the world... behind those cliffs, the great nothing is lying..."
Ami shook her head. "Let's worry about that later, Usagi..." She stood up and carefully stepped onto a big rock that rose next to their stranded boat.
She looked their tiny vessel over and frowned. "Doesn't look too good... we have an enormous leak at the right side... without any tools, I doubt we will be able to fix it."
"What will we do now?" Usagi asked. "Now we're stranded at the edge of the world, doomed to stay here for all eternity..." She looked like she was ready to cry.
Ami looked up. "I don't know, Usagi... I don't think that this is the end of the world. Wait here, I wanna go up there and take a look..."
"Ami, that's too dangerous," her blonde friend protested. "What if you fall down into the great nothing?"
Ami smiled. "I'll be fine... but you can come with me if you like."
Luna smirked. "I think Usagi is too afraid to do anything."
That did it. Huffing, Usagi stood up, picked Luna up from the ground and followed Ami over the rocks.
It was a difficult climb, but in the end, the two Gaulic girls reached the top of the cliffs.
"Now let's see..." Ami mumbled and looked over the edge. The sight before her eyes made her speechless for several seconds.
"What's up, Ami?" Usagi asked. "Do you see the sky? The stars? Or a big, black nothing?"
"I see... land!"
"What?" Luna asked. "But how...?"
"See for yourself..."
And Usagi and Luna took a look as well.
In front of them was a big forest of big pine trees, rustling in the soft breeze that swept through the woods. Behind the forest, they could see an enormous range of mountains rising, tipped with white peaks. And in-between the trees... a crystal clear river was flowing.
They pulled themselves up completely and gazed at this new, wondrous country in awe.
"Where are we, Ami?" Usagi wondered.
"I... don't know for sure, Usagi..." her friend answered.
"This is indeed an astounding discovery we made..." Luna mumbled.
----
Shortly afterwards, the two girls and their cat were wandering through the woods of this strange land. The trees rose above their heads as if they were the guardians of the forest, and several times, they heard some wild animals rustling within the bushes.
"I wonder if there are wild pigs living in these woods," Usagi said.
"How typically..." Luna groaned. "The first thing you think about is food..."
Just then, they heard a rustling in the bushes directly in front of them.
"Sshhhh, you two," Ami whispered. "I think there's some animal coming this way..."
Then the bushes parted, and the strangest bird they had ever seen was entering the small clearing in which they were standing.
It had black feathers, a plump body, round, fan-like tail feathers and a strange, red flap of skin hanging from it's neck and beak. It made a strange, gobbling sound as it was striding past the stunned Gauls.
"What... is THAT?" Luna almost shrieked.
"Strange bird..." Ami murmured. "I wonder if we can eat it..."
Luna stared at her. "You TOO? Can you two only think about eating?"
"Well, we obviously need to find some food if we are to stay here... and this bird is big enough to serve as a nice pice of roast for the three of us."
Usagi grinned. "That settles it... C'mere, you big funny gobblegobble, I wanna invite you for lunch!"
She tried grabbing it, but the bird instantly realized the danger it was in and ran away... so Usagi fell down on her nose.
"Ow!"
Luna chuckled. "I'd say that means the score is: Usagi 0, gobblegobble 1."
Usagi rubbed her nose and fumed. "All right, that does it... I'm going to PLUCK that thing!"
Ami grinned. "Catch the bird!"
And the happy hunt begun.
----
Shortly after, the girls had set up a nice fire in the middle of the clearing... and the gobblegobble was roasting over the flames, stuck on a wooden stick.
Ami bit into a haunch. "Mmmmmm, that is great!"
Usagi bit right into the middle of a second gobblegobble they had caught while going after the first. "Dewicious..." she mumbled while munching on the tender meat.
"Okay, I admit... catching those birds was a good idea," Luna said after tasting a wing. She burped. "But let's not forget that we still have to find a way back home."
"Don't worry," Usagi said. "We'll start searching... right after this nice meal."
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