Here's the eighth chapter. Getting anxious about the storyline? Don't be. Hehe. I got it all covered… well, that's what I think. Hahaha. Happy reading.
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9:51 a.m. – KHA Swimming Pool
"Hello, everybody. Zince Mr. Hercules is buzy fighting off the Lernean Hydra and taking dryads or zomething and iz lozt or zomething like that, I will be your substitute teacher. My name iz Mr. Lekonzky. And today, we're going to have zwimming!" the teacher announces to everyone.
He then gestures to everybody in the pool area to go in the pool. But then the Richardson triplets approach him.
"Yez? What do you zree want?" he asks them.
"Well, sir. We can't go in the pool," Larxene tells him.
"Why not? The pool iz a fun place. Besides, it'z your P.E. clazz."
"Umm… we have a rare condition that prevents us from going into a body of water," Demyx says.
"Yeah. Because if we do, our limbs start to become numb and we'll drown," Marluxia adds.
"But I know how to adminizter CPR."
"The three of us are really heavy. You can't perform CPR on all of us at the same time," Larxene immediately replies.
"You got a point. So what will you zree do?"
"We can be the First Aid!" Larxene exclaims.
"You zree all know CPR?" the man gives them all a questioning look.
The three nod in unison.
"Okay." Mr. Lekonzky sounds convinced. "You zree go over zere." He points to one of the edges of the pool. "Anyone who drownz will be given to you. That okay?"
"Sounds fine," the trio answers.
At once, swimming classes begins. Mr. Lekonzky starts teaching each of them one by one: the freestyle. However, while teaching Kimberly Anne, he doesn't see Riku is starting to drown as a result of having cramps.
"Great! This is what I get for not stretching before coming into the pool," Riku says to himself.
He thrashes wildly about and gives out gurgled screams but no one notices or hears him. This is primarily because the students who aren't being taught by Mr. Lekonzky are all playing in the pool as if they were a bunch of 3rd graders.
Riku then begins to sink. And this is when Larxene's keen eyesight spots the drowning teenager.
"Hey, Mr. Lekonzky! Riku's drowning!" she shouts so loud that her voice echoes multiple times before it finally dies down.
Mr. Lekonzky hears this and goes frantic searching for Riku. Eventually, he finds Riku's unconscious body and retrieves it from the water. He commences on the CPR thing but it doesn't seem to work.
Riku is still not breathing.
Time is ticking. Mr. Lekonzky turns Riku over to Larxene, Marluxia and Demyx. Obviously, the grown-up adult doesn't know what to do. And the whole class gathers around the five.
Being relatively calm in such a situation, Larxene merely gestures for Demyx to do chest compression on Riku. As Demyx compresses Riku's chest, the blonde-haired Richardson uses his power over water to force the water out of Riku's lungs.
Next, after Larxene thinks that Demyx has done enough, she listens for a heartbeat. She hears it but it is weak. She turns to Marluxia who takes a couple of eucalyptus leaves and places it near Riku's nose. She hopes that Riku would wake up just by the scent of the leaves.
But it doesn't work. Larxene places both her hands on Riku's chest and seemingly does another series of chest compression. But actually, she is administering a mild shock to Riku's heart from her hands. By doing that, she acts like a defibrillator.
She listens once again for his heartbeat. This time, it's gone. Larxene starts to sweat. She has to result to mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. She looks at her brothers who only meet her gaze with a look saying "You do it. You're the one who said we should be the First Aid."
Larxene opens Riku's mouth and lowers her lips to his. She starts breathing oxygen into Riku's mouth. But as her lips touch Riku's, his eyes suddenly open.
She instantly jumps back, surprised to see Riku now awake.
Riku who had been unconscious all this time asks, "What just happened?"
"That was a so wrong question to ask. Well, I do know what's going to happen next," both Marluxia and Demyx are thinking at the same time.
"Why you big jokester!" Larxene screams in fury, "You think it was funny?"
"What did I do now?" Riku asks, oblivious of the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation thing.
"Don't play coy with me, you (censored word)!" she screams violently.
She then starts punching, kicking and choking the poor Riku who has just recovered. And the substitute teacher, Mr. Lekonzky, thinks Riku did do that on purpose. So he leaves Larxene beating up Riku and pretends as if nothing ever happened while Demyx and Marluxia just stare and watch their sister's rage being dished out at the poor guy.
They don't want to be another victim of Larxene's painful beatings when she gets ticked off. And so does the rest of the class. They all watch in awe as the blonde-haired girl attacks the blue-haired boy.
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1:42 p.m. – Library
"Z, are you serious about looking for whatever you're looking for?" Axel asks. "What are you looking for again?"
"I was supposed to be looking for one of the volumes of 'Another Time, Another Story: Phantasms of A Schizophrenic'. But now, I'm looking for a book about seeing the future."
"What for, Z?"
"I don't know. Just feel like reading it," Zexion lies. He doesn't want Axel to know what he and his cousins found out a night nearly two months ago.
"I see. Can you help me with something?" Axel's question catches Zexion in surprise.
"What do you need my help for, bro? You never asked me for help before," Zexion answers.
"Well, there's this guy. And he has this huge crush on Larxene."
"Yeah, go on." Zexion continues to look in a pile of books.
"I want him to be happy. And I also want Larxene to be happy."
"Why do you say that about dear cousin Larxene? I'm sure she has other concerns on her mind. Not just on some person like Riku."
Axel isn't taken aback by the mention of Riku's name. "Well, I think she's just mixed up. She is full of feelings that confuse her so."
"Axel, where's this conversation going?"
"Just listen, Z."
"Okay. So what were you talking about again?"
"Oh right. And I've been trying to help him. But I don't know Larxene as much as you do."
"Really?"
"Yeah. You're closer to her than I am."
"I see. So what do you want me to do?"
"I want you to tell me everything Larxene likes in a boyfriend."
"Larxene'll kill me if she doesn't know whom the info is going to. Not to mention if she doesn't like the guy you are going to set her up with."
"I'm sure she knows who this certain someone is."
"Okay. But you're going to take the blame if this thing goes wrong."
"Sure. No prob."
"Good. Now I just need to look through thirty-four more shelves. If I don't find what I want, then we can go."
Axel groans. "Oh bother…"
"I'll buy the ice cream. Do not fret, brother."
"Okay. Thanks, Z."
"Sea salt ice cream again?"
"Sure. That's already fine with me."
Then, suddenly, Zexion could not bring himself to believe that Axel will indeed be a cause of his own death. Or his cousins'. In the future.
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5:21 p.m. – Playground (Swing Set)
Marluxia is sitting on the swing along with his siblings, Larxene and Demyx. Thus, the three Richardsons render the swing "occupied" already.
"Larx, I've been wondering." Marluxia suddenly speaks out after several minutes of silence while swinging.
"Remember when we were kids?"
"Yeah, Maru?"
"We used to play on the swing set in our backyard with Axel and Zexion."
"Yeah." Larxene reminisces those childhood moments. "Good times. Sweet innocent times."
"I remember that too," Demyx chimes in, smiling.
"It's like hard to believe Axel is going to be the one who does you-know-what to us in the future," Marluxia says as he looks up at the sky.
"I know. All the fun times we had with cousins Axel and Zexion," Demyx says dreamily.
"Let's just forget about it, Myx and Maru. Just forget the whole game thing… for me," Larxene says half-pleadingly.
"Anyways, I've been thinking… I saw this poster on some walls of the school."
"What do you mean some? It's actually posted all over the school." Larxene looks at her pink-haired triplet inquisitively.
"Fine. Fine. So you interested?"
"Well, yeah. It's not everyday that we can all be superstars… in a way."
"So what are we waiting for? Let's go and sign up." Demyx has already gotten off his swing and is already heading back towards school. "Battle of the Teen Singers, here I come!"
"Wait up, Myx! We still haven't read the rules and conditions whatsoever yet!" Marluxia calls out to him. "Oh, great. He's so caught in being a rock star that he can't hear what I'm saying anymore."
As he gets off his swing, he notices Larxene still on hers, thinking deeply.
"Something wrong, Larx?" Marluxia asks his sister.
"Oh, nothing. Okay, let's go get Demyx before he does something incredibly stupid or disastrous or something." Larxene gets off her swing and runs off after Demyx with Marluxia.
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And that ends chapter 8. Guess who'll be singing with whom. Hahaha
Any guesses? Hahaha. Well, we'll just have to see in the next chapter now, will we?
Anyways, have a good day. Leave a review if you want. I'd very much appreciate if you do. But it's okay if you don't. Thanks!!!
