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Chapter 2: B is for Bottle Rocket
"I need you to drink this for me!"
Kisshu nearly stumbled when the heavy bottle hit his chest. After he regained his balance, he looked at her questioningly before popping the lid off of the plastic drink bottle and taking a tentative sip. A little sweet, but the carbonation was kind of interesting.
"This won't kill me will it?" Ichigo shook her head spastically, fumbling with several small items that she'd unearthed from her satchel.
"Not unless you drink a lot of them every day for the rest of your life. I'm not even sure Cyniclons can get sick from sugar anyway," She mumbled before continuing to fiddle with whatever was inside of her bag.
Kisshu opened his mouth to speak but was suddenly interrupted by a loud explosion in the sky. Colorful lights lit up across the night in radiant blues and greens before fading back into the darkness. Instantly, the alien panicked and covered his ears, ducking his head and diving to the ground. Ichigo dropped her bag and ran over to him with a loud cry of his name, trying to be heard over the continuous streams of loud explosions.
"Kisshu! Hey, Kisshu! It's all right, it's not dangerous. You can get up!" She knelt down next to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. When he looked up at her, she smiled at him and helped him to his feet. "I suppose I should've warned you about that." She grinned sheepishly at him.
"It's so loud!" He covered his ears with a cringe when another multicolored explosion went off a few hundred feet to his left. Ichigo hurried back over to her bag, dragging him by the collar of his baggy shirt. She dug around inside it for a few seconds before standing to tie something around his head. Instantly, the obnoxious bangs were muffled to the point that it became tolerable. "Much better."
"It wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have superhuman hearing, ya know."
Ichigo saw her friends, Pai and Taruto among the mix, lined up on the bank of the lake nearby. That seemed to be the source of the larger fireworks. It had likely been Pudding's idea. A rapid-fire succession of fireworks continued to explode over the water in a myriad of amazing colors. She smiled warmly, thoroughly excited to join them.
"It's just fireworks, humans use them to celebrate." A pink and red flower bloomed in the air above them, illuminating them momentarily. "I have some smaller ones too if you'd like to see how they work. My dad gave them to me a few days ago so I could set them off with everybody, but I figured you might be a little curious about them." Ichigo took the mostly empty bottle from him and finished the rest of the drink before picking up one of the sticks she'd dropped earlier.
She handed the bottle rocket to Kisshu, who took it nervously, perfectly aware that the device was likely designed to blow up. After he'd inspected it thoroughly, he handed it back to Ichigo, who set it into the empty bottle on the ground. She lit the wicker cord and then backed away.
"You may want to move!"
Kisshu hurried over to where she was, standing partially behind her. In only a few seconds, the bottle rocket shot off into the air where it promptly joined the other explosions in the sky. He smiled at the sight.
"Earth has all of the best stuff." He glanced at her out of the corner of his eye. She was watching the concussive light show in front of them delightedly, practically jumping with excitement.
"Do you want to go try and set off one of the big ones?" She asked with a grin, obviously excited. He nodded and allowed her to tug him towards the group where he could hear the children whining and laughing, respectively, and see several sparkling sticks in the hands of the girls. Just then another firework went off, this time an oversized, cheesy heart that illuminated the strawberry-haired girl that was running a few steps ahead of him.
That one was his favorite.
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End Chapter 2.
1. I did say this was gonna be a drabble fic. Short chapters. I hope to try to update at least every day since they are so short.
2. Can you guess what C will be?
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