Akazukin Chacha EP28 - Phoenix Pond Explorers

Chacha, Seravy, Shiine, and Riiya are eating breakfast and discussing what happened at Mount Bōbō. Seravy, after being reminded by Elizabeth, mentions that he has heard of a bird which resurrects itself every thousand years in an area call the Three Ponds. Chacha and her two friends discuss how to get there while ignoring Seravy's speech about how there are many dangers and it won't be easy.

Meanwhile, Haideyansu and Yordas volunteer to stop Chacha and her friends in order to be accepted by the Daimaō. Chacha, Riiya, and Shiine are on their way toward the Three Ponds when they find a dango and tea house run by Mr. Rascal and Principal Urara. Since everyone graduated, they've been running the small business until more students enroll. It turns out that Marin, Yakko, and Orin are also working there, each for their own reasons. Haideyansu and Yordas are also working there, and they try to slip something into Chacha's water, but Mr. Rascal inadvertently prevents them from giving her the water and demands that they only serve tea as they are in a tea house.

After receiving their tea, the trio explains they are on the way to the Three Ponds to try finding the phoenix. Mr. Rascal and the Principal tell them of the legend: that when the three ponds turn black, green, and red, the bird resurrects, but that the forest around the ponds is dangerous and apparently no one who goes there ever returns. Marin and Orin volunteer to go with them, but Yakko stays behind to try to get Seravy while Chacha is gone. Haideyansu and Yordas also sneak off after Chacha.

After walking through a creepy forest, the group finds the three ponds. Marin turns one of the ponds black by summoning an octopus and having it spray ink into the pond. Orin uses her ninja skills to known a tree top into one of the ponds, using the leaves to turn it green. Chacha tries a few times to turn the pond red, but only succeeds accidentally when Haideyansu and Yordas try to pull her into the third pond but grab Marine instead. Everyone works together to pull Marine out of the pond (thanks to Riiya's great strength), and Haideyansu and Yordas are thrown into a tree, knocking it down and letting the sunset through the trees, coloring the pond red.

The large stone marker in the middle of the three ponds begins glowing and cracking, then crumbling to the ground. A large frog rises from the dust, asking who summoned it. It turns out to be a frog that can read minds (this is a play on words with the pronunciation of "phoenix resurrection" in Japanese). It turns out it is the Evil Frog King, Tori, from the demon world, and he begins attacking the group. He easily defeats everyone as he can read their minds. He has trouble reading Chacha's mind, though, and begins attacking her.

The Frog King reads their minds while Chacha transforms, and he recites all the words they say during the transformation. Even so, the Magical Princess is able to seal him back inside the stone marker. Haideyansu and Yordas escape after seeing their plans foiled. They did not find the Phoenix Sword, though.