Previously on Oranges to Grapes...

After reeling from a... less than successful attempt to gain info about the crystal domes, the Hell-Sent Cures are told they have a new team power, and use it to look for their potential 4th member. But when their change wears off, they use the break in powers to settle down...

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The hug lasted for ten Mississippis, then the arms unraveled so the girls could separate. "Okay, now that we've got the emotions out of our systems, one thing is clear," Rosita stated. "Without our partners, we can't climb walls, cross water or jump high, nor can we transform to keep gliding. So until our Sealing Balls let the spirits of the Treasures of Ruin come back, we'll be stuck here for a while."

"Right," Eartha said as her Girl Scout training kicked in. "Then I'll scan the area to see what we have to work with."

"Go ahead."

As the fennec fox scampered away to survey, Rosita told Jessica, "Note: I could've checked my Rotom Phone's map to see where we were, but I wanted to give Eartha a fair shake at her skills."

"You're a good friend, Rosita," the snow leopard said as she stroked the caracal's head, making her purr. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise."

After a few seconds, Eartha returned to the group. "Scouting report!" she said. "Currently, we are on a slanted ledge where we can't set up any picnics, but I have located an alcove down the ramp where a flat surface may be inside."

"Anything up the ramp?" Jessica asked.

"Just another ledge with a tree," Eartha answered, "but it's separated from our ledge by a wide gap that we can't cross without Anton."

"I see," Rosita said. "Good work, Eartha."

Deciding that their first priority was set up a picnic, the girls set off down the ramp to the cave that Eartha found. But halfway there, something happened between the three; the water they drank between the rose quartz and tanzanite domes finally caught up to their bladders, but not enough that they had to address it immediately. Still, they slowed their pace a little until they reached the entrance to the cave, then stopped for a few seconds to clench.

"Okay, we're at the cave," Rosita said, wincing a little. "Now let's go inside."

The group stepped through the hole in the mountain wall... with somewhat stilted steps. As they looked around the empty chamber of air, they found that Eartha's scouting report was correct; the floor of the cave was nice and level!

"Son of a gun," Jessica said with a little strain. "You were right, Eartha, a flat surface was inside the cave."

"They don't give merit patches for land surveying to just anyone, you know," Eartha said as she fidgeted a bit.

But there was no hiding what was happening. Footpaws were tapping, tails were squiggling, sweat was forming on brows... until finally, all three girls couldn't stop what was about to come out of their mouths...

"I HAVE TO PISS!" they said simultaneously without realizing it. "...JINX LATER!"

There was no time to think as they looked around, but they were surrounded by walls on two sides and open space on two other sides. Ultimately they decided that the best place to let loose... was over the cliff. After they positioned themselves near the edge, they lowered their bottomwear down to their knees, crouched down into a crabwalk stance, spread their vulvas open with one hand, and...

"Aahhhhhh...."

Three streams of urine silently shot out of their urethral openings and arched over the edge of the cliff, finally bringing the girls at peace. For a major part of a minute, all that was in the world were them, exposed from the waist down to the knees, releasing the flow of liquid that they were holding onto for too long.

Eventually the flow eased up, allowing the arch to crawl back and patter softly into the grass. At last, the dribbles of urine ran dry, and the finger-beans holding the lips open let go, letting them close back up.

"Hah... hah..." Eartha panted with her tongue lolling out. "Whew, glad that's over."

"Agreed," Jessica said afterward. "Now let's get back inside before someone looks up and gets the wrong idea."

"But first," Rosita interjected, "we should get our pants back on. I'm starting to get a draft."

After crabwalking back a little so they wouldn't tumble off the cliff, the girls stood back up carefully and redressed their waists, not caring if there was leftover runoff soaking into their unders because it would evaporate quickly anyway.

"Okay, here's the deal," Rosita said as they walked back into the cave. "What happened back there was us acting on emergency, so once our partners come back, we keep going forward, we never look back, we NEVER talk about this again!"

"No arguement here," Jessica said.

"Don't have to tell me twice," Eartha concurred.

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Meanwhile, back in the Crown Tundra.

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A gray wolf ear twitched as Zander, the former Wolfen Knight of Galar, was sitting at a table at the Freeze Inn, where Wufu, the former Ursine Retainer of Galar, was making dinner on the stovetop. "Huh?"

That sudden sound caught the cinnamon-furred bear's attention. "Yeah, Zander? What's up?"

"I don't know how, Wufu," Zander said to his inn-mate, "but I've got this wierd feeling that somewhere in the world, three girls just went through the same ordeal that me, you and Calvin did while we were stopping the Miniasma project... and one of them said the same thing I did afterwards!"

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To be continued.