Welcome to paradise.
Max turned and strode back up the stairs followed by Xigbar, who left as soon as they were back in the room. Max quickly changed into her bathing suit and pulled on her wet suit and went back into the hallway. She almost ran into Lilia who was also in her wetsuit. "Surfs up?" Max asked.
Lilia smiled. "You know it!" She said without even thinking.
"It is summer now…" Max said.
"I know." Lilia replied.
"And the waves are calling!" They said in unison.
They quickly hugged and skipped down the hall to the garage. "Where are you going?" Reno asked as they passed the Living room.
"Surfing, wanna tag along?" Max asked.
"Sure." Reno said, he got off the couch and followed them into the garage. Max grabbed a large, blue foam padded surfboard, and Lilia took a matching pink one.
"Here." Max grabbed a grey surf board of a similar nature and offered it to Reno. "That should work." Then she pulled a pair of swim trunks from a footlocker on the ground. "go change into these, we'll wait."
Reno went to the bath room and came back a few minutes in the swim trunks. Max had to physically keep herself from drooling, he had abs, and a hot body. "it'll work, lets go." He said.
"Ok." Max said she opened the garage door and ducked under, Lilia and Reno followed.
"You two surf a lot then?"
"Yeah, if you have a beach house you are required to play in the beach."
"A requirement? Really?"
"Well if you pay as much as I did for your own personal stretch of beach, you'd think so too." Max said.
"Think what?"
"That it's a requirement." Lilia said, Max nodded in agreement.
"So how much does a place like this go for here?"
"I paid 4.5 million just for the place, that's not including the interior alterations."
"Holy crap!" Reno exclaimed. "But how does a 21 year old come by so much money anyway?"
While they talked, they led Reno through the backyard and down a concrete ramp to the beach.
"Well, I do a bunch of different stuff, like I was in the military for a while, then I guess Hollywood just sucked me in…"
"You were in the military?" Reno asked rather shocked at this new development.
"Mm-hmm." Max nodded.
"What did you do?"
"I was a special forces sniper, weapons specialist, linguist, and pilot."
"No way. I know that you couldn't have majored in all of those, you barely qualify to join the army now."
"If you want proof I'll show you my uniform when we get back up there."
"You do that."
They arrived on the beach, the waves were large and looked picture perfect. "Surfs up!" Max and Lilia said in unison, they gave high fives each other and dashed off into the surf. Reno quickly followed, they all caught up and sat on their boards waiting for a wave, jus right outside the breakers.
"Ahhh, this is why rich people by beach front properties…" Reno started, he was cut short by a wave coming at them.
"Hold that thought." Max said, she and Lilia lied down on their boards and began paddling away from the wave. Max stood up on her board when she was certain that she had caught it. Lilia and Reno followed the suit. Max surfed down the wave then turned sharply once it began to crest. She rode right out the side of the wave then turned and somehow jumped up the top of the wave like a half pipe. Then she rode another wave in and met Lilia and Reno on the beach. "So Reno you were saying something about why people buy beach front property?"
"Oh yeah, I was about to say that beach houses are fun and I was thinking about getting one." They could barely hear him over the crashing of the surf.
Max and Lilia began laughing. "What?" Reno asked.
"I'll will donate toward that cause Reno!" Max said still laughing.
"I'll hold you to that!" Reno replied.
"Feel free." They dashed back to the water. They spent the rest of the day surfing, it was sundown before any of them realized where the day had gone. They all arrived at the shore, Rufus and the rest of the Turks were standing there looking rather cross.
"And who gave you permission to abandon your duties?" Rufus asked.
"I did." Max said. "You're all on vacation so just try to relax and have fun."
"I wasn't aware that this was a vacation, or that I was speaking to you." Rufus said dangerously.
"Well by bringing this issue up, you immediately addressed me, but think about it this way Rufus, you are now, for the time being, trapped on a world where your are just a fictitious animated character from a Japanese video game. None of you really exist, so you have no responsibilities, no jobs to worry about, and no reputations to uphold, so just relax, and have fun… Welcome to paradise."
As she was speaking, she noticed all their faces lighten and begin to smile. "Paradise, hmmm…" Rufus said he looked out toward the beach and the magnificent orange-ish red sun set. "This place, is nice…" He said slowly. He turned to his Turks. "Feel free to take a vacation while here." He said they all shouted exclamations of joy and scattered off to enjoy themselves.
Max could hear Reno behind her. "Yessss." He hissed. Max turned and gave him a high five.
"Go have fun." She said he ran back into the water. "I'm going to make dinner. You might wanna come in soon, the tide's coming in."
Max grabbed her board and ran off back up the ramp after Rufus and the Turks. Lilia decided to ride one more wave and then follow her, and she did. "Wait MAX!" She shouted, max was already at the top of the ramp, but stopped and waited for her.
"One last ride eh?" Max put her arm around her sister. Lilia did the same.
"Had to. By the way, I'll help with cooking."
"Hmm, parents still don't know how to cook?" Max asked.
"I think mom tried, and failed… Miserably."
"Yeah that sounds about right." Max said a hint of anger in her words.
"What's up with you and them anyway?" Lilia asked.
"What?"
"Nothing, never mind." Lilia said putting it out of her mind.
"Ok, so what should we do for dinner? We have…ummm, seventy, close to eighty people here?" Max said.
Lilia thought for a moment. "How's this sound, I'll make some pasta salad really quick, and you see about some pizza and maybe some chicken, and tables…"
Max put her arm around Lilia and pulled her close. "Lilia you are genius. But do we have that many foldable tables?"
"What about the ones you used for the fourth of July?"
"We'll need to get someone to help us set them up, or even better, get them to do it for us… Any ideas?" Max dropped her arm and looked at Lilia.
"I don't know, are you friends with any of the Organizations somebodies?"
Max looked a her with her Are-you-serious-? Look. "I'm bff's with all of them, yes, even Even."
"wow, you're good."
"I try. And usually succeed, they're actually really a cool bunch of guys, they get along like cats and dogs usually, but they're cool."
"How long have they been here?" Lilia asked as she put her surfboard back in the garage.
"About a week. Why?"
"Hmm, my guys showed up yesterday…"
"It's possible, we haven't really fixed the problem yet, but we're working on it. Ok it was really funny, here." Max paused and opened the door and let them both inside. "It was funny, when they showed up, I was reading twilight, and it was weird, I finished reading it, and it felt like my world was turned upside down. I thought that a were wolf, or something would just walk right into my living room. So I was just there expecting something weird to happen and I look over and Ansem and Xehanort were just standing there."
"Really?"
"Really. So I was thinking to myself 'ok max, no more reading vampire stories late at night.' Then Xehanort was just like, 'Can you tell us where we are?' And at this point I'm freaking out thinking I had just gone crazy and was not gonna be going to wonderland after all."
"Which scared you more, the fact that you had gone crazy, or the fact that now that you're crazy, you shan't be having tea with the mad hatter?"
"Well duh, that I was crazy and still wouldn't get to have a tea party with the crazy Disney F-s."
"Max!"
"What? It's true."
"Yeah I guess if I lost my sanity, I'd rather go to wonderland than anywhere else…" Lilia said, she looked at Max who burst out laughing.
Max departed to the living room and lilia went to the kitchen to get dinner going.
short! I know, sorry.