Just another regular day...
This was inspired by me and my little brothers playing a game in the pool yesterday. Enjoy!
Ics: Tsubasa (Of course)
Ocs: Mj, Matt, and Mikey
Guest appearances: Tetsuya! Crabby!
There had never been a day so hot as this one, so overladen with air of such a humidity that you could almost feel it draping around your shoulders. Luckily Mj's family had a swimming pool.
Tsubasa opted to sit by the side of it as usual, while Mj followed her little brothers to the water's edge, clothed in a t-shirt, shorts and life jacket. (None of them knew how to properly swim and so they always used for the life jackets, to make themselves feel floaty.)
"I'm borrrred...I'm borrrrrred..." Mikey floated on his back and stared at the sky.
"You're in the water. I thought water was entertainment for little children." Mikey glared at Tsubasa. "I mean...8 year olds."
"Do you know any good water games, Tsubasa?"
"No. I don't like water."
"Heh. Tell that to the fish."
"There's Marco Polo", suggested Matt.
"I'm tired of that game. Mj always wins."
"You can't really WIN, Mikey. It's not that kind of game."
"You've seen her make grape juice from lemons before. Forget that, she could make grape juice from a turkey", commented Tsubasa. "It's nothing for her to win a game that you can't win."
"You're so nice. Look, I'm a pirate!" Mj crouched low in the water and scuttled around.
"Mahahaha. You look more like Tetsuya-san."
"Crabbyyyyy..."
"Don't do that, it's creepy."
"I know!" Matt was struck with a brilliant idea. "We can play pirates. The biggest person is the ship, I'll be the boat, and Mikey can be the little man. The little man has to capture the boat and then they both have to capture the ship."
"I'm not little!"
"Come get me, little man." Matt swam around the swimming pool while Tsubasa watched with mild boredom. Mikey desperately paddled after him with his short little arms and legs until he gave up, lying on his back like a fluorescent orange beetle. Matt swam over to within 5 inches of Mikey and let him get on his back.
"Okay, now GET THE SHIP!" Matt swam furiously towards his older sister, who was doing outdated dance moves underwater. She shrieked when she saw them heading her way. "CRABBYYY!" Then she headed for the opposite shore.
"Ow! HEY! No splashing, sister!" Tsubasa was indignant as he was hit by wave after wave of Mj's violent assault on sanity.
"I ain't your sister. And they ain't splashing. They're guns." Mj was from Texas and tended to take on a Southern accent when she was sassing people.
"Well quit aiming at me."
"Get a life, Tsubachan." Mj aimed her splashes at her little brothers, neglecting to avoid Tsubasa in the process. Then she ducked under the water and out of sight; it remained unbeknownst to the boys how she could disappear in crystal clear swimming pool water.
Her life jacket floated ominously to the surface but a moment later. She was nowhere in sight.
Finally Mj appeared a few feet from the life jacket, floundering helplessly in the 7 foot deep water.
"Honestly? You can conjure pineapple trees from nowhere, but you can't swim?"
"Gablugh." Mj made a sort of gurgling sound and caught the floatie in her fingers. "Phew, almost drowned there."
She ducked beneath the water again, resurfacing just behind Matt the Boat.
"CRABBY!"
"HAAGH! DON'T DO THAT!"
Mikey fell off of Matt. Matt fell beneath the water. Tsubasa fell off the deck chair. Mj laughed.
"Did somebody call me, crabs?"
"Oh no." Mj whirled.
"Tetsuya, buddy! How great to see you!" Her smile was as fake as a Santa Claus.
"Oh, thank you crabs."
"Now...WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" The fury was lost on poor Tetsuya.
"I came because someone said crab, crab."
"Oh...care to leave?"
"NO, I don't, I'll just stay here."
"Okay. Fine." Mj glared at the greasy haired crab.
At that moment she was assaulted from behind. "GET THE SHIIIIPP!"
She floundered out from under her giggling brothers and to the centre of the pool. "Gentlemen, you will always remember this as the day that you almost caught Jack Spar - OUGH!" She fell beneath the water comically.
"GAH! Tsubasa! YOU DIDN'T TELL ME THERE WAS WATER THERE!"
"It's a swimming pool, pinchy. You should expect water."
"Oh thank you sir. Now please vacation the promises."
"I think you mean -"
"Oh Tetsuya, please go find a nice little crab to save or eat or play with or something. I think I hear a crab in distress."
"OH DEAR CRAB I WILL SAVE YOU!" Tetsuya was finally gone. Mj the ship was sunk by Tsubasa being pulled into the water, courtesy of Matt. And they all came into the house wet and were scolded by her mother.
