"We'd better get some rest," Tommy suggested. "We'll leave at first light."

Kim nodded. "Zordon and Earth are counting on us."

The six of them spread themselves around the Ninjetti temple ruins, finding comfortable places to sleep. Adam found himself unable to rest, or to get the image of Dulcea's sleek, warrior-trained body out of his mind. _I have got to stop this. We're fighting Ooze, I've got to keep my mind on business!_

"Adam," the voice was gentle, familiar. He looked up to see Dulcea crouching in front of him. "Adam, I know you're awake."

"Dulcea, is something wrong?" he said.

She shushed him with a finger on his lips. "No, nothing's wrong," she whispered. "Come with me."

He stayed where he was, unable to believe the view he was getting of her breasts as she leaned closer to him. He suddenly became very aware of just how excited her presence was causing him to get, with an uncomfortable tightness in his crotch. "Ummmm," was all he managed to say.

"Oh, this will never do," she muttered to herself. Before Adam could move an inch or say a word, she reached down and pulled him to his feet by his wrist. In complete silence, she took him away from the others and down into a small cave.

"What do you want, Dulcea?" he managed to stammer out, barely able to speak due to the sight he'd have of her flexing buttocks as they'd walked. Her answer surprised, flattered, and almost scared him.

"You."

"M-me?" he stammered, cursing himself as he did so. _Oh, great, I get the invitation of a lifetime, and I'm going to blow it because I stutter when I'm nervous!_

"Yes, you," she told him. "I haven't seen a man like you on Phaedos in over six thousand years. I want to make love to you."

"What?" he didn't stammer that time: he squeaked. He was seventeen, he'd only just turned seventeen the previous month, what did he know about things like this, he was still a virgin! Dulcea sighed a little, then said it again, this time a bit slower. "Why me?"

"I like you, Adam," she smiled at him, and he felt his knees weakening: along with another body part stiffening. "I could've picked any of your friends, but I like you most of all. Part of it is your virginity; neither Rocky, Tommy, or Billy are virgins, you know."

"What?" _Now I sound like a moron, not an idiot, if I get any worse, I'm gonna be a vegetable!_

"Kimberly and Tommy have been lovers for a while," Dulcea had seen into all their minds and memories when she had given them their Ninjetti powers, it was the only way she could be certain they were truly worthy of them. "Rocky had a very romantic evening with one of his girlfriends when he still lived in Stone Canyon. Billy hasn't been a virgin for almost a year now; due to a young lady named Marge."

_Billy never told me that! I guess there are some secrets that you can't share even with your best friend!_

Adam was about to say something else, when Dulcea stood up suddenly and removed first the top of her green bikini, then the bottom. As he took in the entire glistening beauty of her, every thought to his brain ceased completely and utterly. He found his Ninjetti uniform had melted away, revealing how much she had aroused him.

Dulcea smiled; he truly was every bit as magnificent as she had suspected he was capable of becoming. She ran her hands gently over his chest, feeling his heart pounding beneath her fingertips. She would have to be careful not to excite him too much; human males were prone to heart attacks, she'd heard, and that was not what she wanted tonight.

She pushed him down onto the smooth stone floor and lay on top of him, running her fingers delicately from the base of his throat to his navel, then back again. He shivered in delight, then found his hands reached up to run through her mane of bronze hair and down her spine to her buttocks.

"Dulcea," he managed to whisper. "Dulcea."

"Adam," she pushed his legs apart, straddling him.

This was a night unlike any other for her, and for him alike. His first time, her first in a long time. The entire cave seemed suddenly filled with magic and light as the age-old warrior and the young Ninjetti made love with their hearts, souls, minds, and bodies.

Passion beyond description burst into both of them as they came to the ultimate moment of love. In the aftermath, laying in each other's arms, Dulcea whispered in his ear, "You must return to your friends, Adam. They will never know of this. But you will never forget."

"I know," he whispered. "I could never forget you, Dulcea. I love you."

"And I love you," she told him. "Farewell, Adam Park, Black Frog of the Ninjetti."

"Farewell, Dulcea, Master Warrior of Phaedos."