SDRA2 Redux: Trouble on Jabberwock Island

Chapter 2 - Part 2

Dressed in my usual attire, I was eating some instant ramen, when Kokoro tapped me on the shoulder. "Hey! Let's have some fun!" She said.

"Not really..." I sighed.

"Oh please! Feeling down isn't my style, so don't feel down either, Mikado! Come on, up and at 'em! Let's go pull a prank on Emma!" Kokoro said. "It'll be fun!"

Ugh...

And so, I was dragged against my will into doing a prank with Kokoro.

We arrived at a corner of the themepark, where there was a pit of mud.

Nikei was there, watching as Emma was walking across a rope suspended there.

"I'm doing it, Nikei!" the Ultimate Pianist said.

"Good luck, Emma-chan!" Nikei cheered. "Nikei is glad for you!"

"Hey, Emma!" Kokoro threw a dodgeball. "Fetch!"

It hit Emma square in the chest, and she fell into the mud.

She screamed.

"EMMA CHAN!" Nikei screamed, diving into the mud, too.

Eventually, he found himself in quite the compromising position. Nikei was laying on top of Emma, her fairly sizeable bust pressing right against his own chest, with her covered all over with mud.

The journalist found himself coated in a layer of mud, too.

"Nikei!" Emma said. They tried to get out and ended up coated in even more mud in the process.

"My coat! It's ruined!" Nikei said.

Wait and see Teruya with them now... ha ha... He'll be literally growling.

Eventually, they did get out of the mud, which wasn't really Emma's thing, even if Nikei kind of enjoyed it.

Eventually, Teruya did arrive.

And did he get mad? Nope! He burst out laughing!

What the hell?!

"Emma! Nikei! You two look silly!" He said.

"Teruya. It's not funny!" Nikei said as he tried to clean himself of the mud that was now splattered all over himself and his journalist clothes. He was visibly angered for what seemed like the first time.

"Well, about that." Teruya said. "Off to the showers with you two!"

He then led Emma and Nikei off.

"Two people covered with mud? And with freakin' Teruya?" I asked Kokoro. "Did you think that he wasn't gonna like that?"

"Yes..." Kokoro said.

I then left the area emotionlessly.

Eventually, it was time for Teruya's sleepover.

It took place in this well made hotel room.

Nikei and Emma were there.

Thankfully cleaned of the mud that had soaked them earlier.

I was glad for the slumber party that Teruya had said was a sleepover. Two days ago, we had been forced to vote a fellow student guilty, knowing fully well he would die. We had been forced to watch as he was put in a machine, beaten to death and shredded alive.

It kinda felt catharic.

Teruya then arrived with a DVD called "Grizzly Tales: Message in a Bottle."

That was the episode Nikei recalled watching!

"Ready to get introduced into the World of Grizzly Tales?" Teruya said.

"Yes, we are!" Nikei said.

He inserted the DVD into the DVD player, and turned off the lights.

There was no menu screen, it just cut to the episode.

Everyone looked on in horror as the episode played. I could hardly believe what I was seeing; it looked like a mere performance, a fictional show put on with the help of special effects.

After a good 11 minutes, the episode came to an end.

"What... did I just watch?" Hibiki asked.

"That," Teruya began softly, "Was my favorite TV show. We can watch more movies now! Let's have the Relaxing Sleepover, everyone!"

The best night of our lives then began. It was full of us watching films together, eating snacks, playing video games, and generally having a good time. There was one point where Setsuka asked everyone to play Lasertag.

Let's just say playing Lasertag... was eventful.

After hours of fun, we fell exhausted.

"Tomorrow, we can do very fun things!" Shinji said. "For example, I found this place. It's called the Funhouse!"

The... the Funhouse...?

"We should go to this Funhouse!" Shinji said.

Everyone agreed that they should go to the Funhouse. Teruya was silent, but I took that to mean he agreed as well.

"Tomorrow, we will go to the Funhouse! After all, it will be fun!" Shinji said.

I headed back to my hotel room. A slumber party? A visit to the Funhouse tomorrow? I was excited as I drifted off to unconsciousness...