Author's Notes: First Fanfic here. Ahaha. At first, I was gonna do a Pokemon one-shot, but then I thought that putting a lot of original characters in 'Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness' sounds a lot more fun. I don't own anyone of the Harvest Moon characters, by the way.

"KAT! HURRY UP!"

I ran to the ship dragging my rolling bag down the bumpy sidewalk ground. 'Aw, man. Kimmy's gonna kill me!' Kim was tapping her foot impatiently while Jesse was just staring out to the ocean with a look of complete boredom plastered in his face. I ran up to them and grinned sheepishly.

"I'm here!" I announced throwing my hands in the air childishly.

Kim glared at me. "And you're late."

Before I could explain myself, a man that was wearing a sailor uniform went up to us hold a clipboard and a pen. I assumed he was the guy we should talk to to check in, so I waved at him.

"Hi there!" I greeted with my best smile.

The man looked up from his clipboard and flashed a toothless smile. Kim and I had to elbow Jesse a few times to keep him from laughing. "Hello, there!" The sailor greeted us, "you're quite lucky. We were 'bout to set sail without 'cha!" He laughed, "Now, I gotsa sign you kids in… Now, what're yer names?"

"Jesse." Jesse replied, after inhaling a record-breaking amount of air which I guess is supposed to keep him from laughing.

"You a girl or a boy?" The man asked.

Jesse looked at the man with a look that obviously said, 'are you serious?' When the man didn't reply, Jesse looked down on his body as if checking if he was a girl. "A girl." Jesse answered throwing his voice to imitate a girl's.

The man laughed. "Funny lil' guy, ain't 'cha? But, really, I'm impressed!" He nodded, "to think that you're all going to move t' an island to start a new life! Ah, well, I need t' sign the rest of ya in. Alright, lil' ladies, what're your names?"

Kim and I checked in and answered more of the sailor's questions before he dismissed us and allowed us to go on the boat. I sighed in relief. It felt like he was never gonna let us on the boat. Jesse and I raced to the room we were going to be staying in for the boat ride.

"I WIN!" Jesse and I both cried out in unison as we touched the doorknob. We glared at each other and started to argue over who won. Kim ran a hand through her hair, irritated.

"You guys are really stupid," she commented as she pushed through us and opened the door. My jaw dropped.

"OH MY BALLOON!" I exclaimed as I jumped into a bed, bouncing once or twice, and then sitting up to stare at my cousins, "It's a pretty spacious room, don't 'cha think?"

It really was pretty big from what we expected. There were three beds, one on each corner, and a small TV in the last corner. The walls were very plain, though. They were white. Just plain white. No hint of any other colour. I growled at the purity of the walls.

Jesse sat on the bed opposite to mine. "Hey, Kimmy," he said, turning to watch Kim set her bags down and jump onto the last bed, "when do you think we'll reach the island?"

Kim sighed, and then pulled out a magazine from one of her bags and started flipping through the pages, "I'm not sure. I guess once we sleep and wake up, we'll be there."

I jumped to my feet, startling both of them. I laughed. "I'm gonna go on the deck and meet some people. You guys wanna come?"

Jesse jumped up. "I'll come. I have nothing better to do, anyway."

I beamed at him, and then looked at Kim, "aren't you coming, Kimberleng?"

She stared at us for a few seconds, then waved us off. "Naw. I don't really feel like it. I'll catch up with you guys later, if I feel like."

"Okay," Jesse said slowly, "We'll be back at around sunset. Sounds good?"

"Yeah, yeah," Kim stopped on some random page and started reading, "I'll see you then."

Jesse and I looked at each other, shrugged, and then walked out of the door. We passed by the kitchen on our way. It smelled amazing. Jesse and I had to basically grab onto the opposite wall to keep ourselves from entering. We ran the rest of the way to the deck and were greeted by blinding warmth of the sun's rays. I shielded my eyes to try to let them adjust to the sudden brightness. Jesse did the same.

"Bright, isn't it?" I heard a guy's voice say.

I nodded. "I'm not really an 'outdoors' person, so I'm not really used to the sun." I laughed at myself, "I guess, that'd have to change if I'm gonna live on an island. Oh! I'm Katrina, by the way."

The guy chuckled. "I'm Patrick." Once my eyes adjusted, I glanced at my new friend and smiled. Patrick was pretty tall and had black hair. He smiled back and was about to extend his hand to shake mine, but I shook my head. "I don't like shaking hands with people around my age. It feels weird." I stuck my tongue out.

Patrick thought for a moment about my statement, and then nodded. "That's true. It does feel weird." He chuckled, and then gestured towards Jesse. "Who's he?"

I spun around to face Jesse, who was walking like a zombie from a bad horror movie. "That's my cousin," I pointed at Jesse, "Kim, my other cousin, is in our room. She didn't really feel like going out."

"KATRINA!" I flinched when I heard the familiar voice yell my name.

"Ian…" I laughed, "Hi."

Ian started softly slapping my arm with the back of his hands. "Oktrina! Oktrina! Oktrina!" I sighed at the nickname, and looked apologetically at Patrick, who seemed quite amused.

After a few more minutes of chanting my nickname as if his life depended on it, Ian realized that there was another presence other than us. "Who's this guy?" He asked, jerking his head towards Patrick.

Patrick laughed. "I'm Patrick."

Ian grinned at him. "Ian."

Out of habit, I scratched my arm and looked at Patrick. "Ian's kind of related to me. Keywords being 'kind of'." I glanced back at Ian. "So, Yan," Ian cringed at his nickname and I chuckled, "Does that mean Mae is here, too?"

"Yeah." Ian stuck out his tongue. "Leon, too."

I laughed hard. "Leon's here? Wow. I can just imagine you guys calling each other names all day." I looked at Patrick and gasped. "Aw, man. Patrick doesn't know what we're talking about!"

I glanced at Jesse to make sure he wasn't doing anything stupid. 'Huh. It seems like Jesse made a new friend, too. I'll have to introduce myself later.' Patrick, Ian, and I conversed for a little while longer until it was time to head back to the room. I walked over to Jesse, tapped his shoulder, and then told him that we were going back. My eyes fell onto his friend, and I smiled.

"Hey." I greeted, "I'm Katrina. I'm sorry for stealing him away from you."

The boy grinned, "It's alright. I'm Lucas, by the way."

Jesse and I bid Lucas goodbye, and started on our way back to the room. When we passed by the kitchen, we looked in to see what we were going to have for dinner. I became ecstatic.

"BEEF RAVIOLI!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Apparently, I had temporarily killed Jesse's ears when I did that, 'cuz he had his eyes shut and his ears tightly covered by his hands. I laughed a bit and kicked his leg softly to signal that I was leaving. He quickly regained his posture and ran towards the room.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I sighed happily as I sunk into my bed. "I'm so full!" I hummed.

Kim laughed slightly and walked over to her bed. "I'm glad. That means you can sleep easily, now."

Jesse walked over to my bed and sat down. "Is there anything on TV?" He yawned.

I grabbed the remote and started flipping through the channels. There seemed to be nothing decent on TV for the first minutes of channel surfing. We settled for cartoons, and then…

Black.

There was no light whatsoever. The ship started to turn and whip around on the water. We heard the storm outside. We froze for a good five minutes, and then we frantically found each other and huddled up into a small ball on the ground.

"Get the safety boats ready!" A sailor cried.

"We need to get all the passengers to safety! Hurry!" Another yelled.

"What's happening?" I whispered, terrified.

Just then, a sailor barged in our room. "You have to get out! Quickly!" We all nodded and started to run towards the door. We saw everyone else running and screaming towards the life boats. We saw a family – a woman, two teenagers and their grandpa – run towards us. Just when we were about to get on a life boat, we heard a loud crackling sound. There was a great amount of light that flooded from the windows. The loud crackling sound came back, and then I passed out.

PiPo: Okay! So, if you haven't played 'Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness', basically, the boat was hit by lightning. Or thunder. I can't really tell the difference. xD
-LE GASP!- I know! When I first played it, I was like: 'Aw, crap! I died already?'