Eventually, the fire was started and a pot heating up slowly over it, its contents provided by the younger girl, as expected. Without any warning, a hole opened up in the ground right below the fire the duo had been sitting next to, swallowing it. Ranma and Kurumi looked at each other, and blinked in confusion. The latter approached the hole cautiously, and was about to peak inside, when a fierce explosion occurred underground, reverberating through the soil and sending a geyser of fire through the recently-formed gap in the ground. Recoiling, Kurumi backtracked and hid behind Ranma, clutching onto the red-head's shirt.
The pigtailed girl flinched at the contact, but didn't have the heart to push the frightened girl away. Thus, she endured until the secondary explosions subsided, before attempting to approach the unnatural opening in the ground herself, exercising extreme caution. "Hey, anyone there?" she called out, though thinking that futile. She certainly never expected an answer, so upon hearing a weak "Yes", Ranma slipped and fell through the hole.
There wasn't much light, but she could make out the outline of a girl wearing a sailor uniform from some school she didn't recognize -- not a wonder, since she hadn't spent the past few months in Japan at all, and hasn't been in this part of the country in years. "You okay over there?" Ranma asked, moving towards the girl, and scrunching her face in a frown as she stepped over unidentifiable gooey chunks of something she decided to consider their now-ruined food.
"I... don't know," the other girl replied, looking around in a daze. "I... who am I?"
"Beats me." Ranma shrugged. "Let's get you out of here, before this cave collapses." The pigtailed girl made her way over to the apparent amnesiac, trying not to think about how the girl ended up in that cave or how such a large cave was under a campsite in the middle of a forest in the first place.
With Ranma's help, reaching the surface was a matter of seconds. Once both were outside, greeted by a fretting Kurumi, Ranma noticed that the dim light underground had been playing tricks with her. The girl, whose long blonde hair was gathered in twin long ponytails, was wearing pajamas. Pink pajamas, with pictures of various bunnies covering every inch on them.
"Do you... do you know me?" the girl asked, looking around the campsite in befuddlement. "Do I know you?"
"You do now!" Kurumi chirped, her fears assuaged due to a lack of further explosions and her new red-headed friend returning safely to the surface. "Those bunnies are super cute! I like that one especially!" she went on, pointing at a super-deformed picture of a silvery rabbit swinging on a golden crescent.
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