CHAPTER EIGHT: SUPER ZERO PART 1
It was another day on the beautiful islet of Destiny Islands. The weather that day was warm, the beaches were bombing and the water was calm and crystal clear. It was the perfect day to lie in the hot sands and go swimming.
That morning Miss Utamori was taking her class on a trip to the local swimming resort at the Cascadian Hotel on the northern side of the island.
So with their duffle bags of swim-clothing and swim-gear in hand, Miss Utamori and her class piled into their school bus and were on their way towards the resort.
While Miss Utamori sat at the front of the bus with the bus-driver, her students were all chatting about the resort they were going to. Sora, Riku, Selphie, Kairi, Tidus and Wakka were having their own conversation about the resort while they sat close to one another. Selphie sat next to Kairi, Wakka sat next to Tidus, Sora sat next to Riku and they all sat behind one another.
"I can't wait until we get to the swimming resort!" Selphie squealed excitedly.
"Me too. I hear it's really nice," Kairi said with the same enthusiasm.
"I heard that it has a giant waterslide and a diving-board as tall as the sky," Tidus said, turning around to talk to the girls. He and Wakka sat infront of Selphie and Kairi.
"Oh I can't wait! It's just too exciting, right Riku?" Selphie said. She glanced behind at Riku. He and Sora were sitting behind Kairi and Selphie.
Riku was busy staring absentmindedly outside the opened bus window, the wind blowing vigorously against his lavender locks, when Selphie's voice brought him back to reality.
"Huh?" Riku turned to Selphie. "Oh yeah. It'll be fun," he answered dully.
"Are you okay Riku? You've been quiet all morning," Kairi asked concernedly.
"I'm fine Kairi. Really," Riku answered in the same monotonous tone.
"Oh ok," Kairi said. Riku merely nodded before returning to staring out the window. Kairi now looked to Sora. The spiky-brunette sat beside the absentminded Riku and was quietly reading a comic book he had brought along for the trip.
"Hey Sora, whatcha reading?" Kairi asked.
Sora looked up at Kairi from the edge of his comic book. "Oh it's a new comic book that my dad sent me," Sora answered showing Kairi the cover of the comic book, "It's called 'The Adventures of Captain Magnificent',"
"What's it about?" Wakka asked.
"It's about this super hero named Captain Magnificent who uses his super powers to save the lives of the citizens of Collinsville from the evil Sharktooth," Sora explained.
"What kind of super powers?" Tidus asked.
"Y'know like super strength, ice breath, X-Ray vision and he can fly!" Sora said with his trademark goofy grin.
"Hah! Just as I thought. Lame," Selphie snorted.
"It's not lame Selphie. Captain Magnificent is cool. Super heroes are cool," Sora said.
"No they're not," Selphie said.
"Well I think that super heroes are cool and Riku does too, right?" Sora turned to Riku. Again Riku was disturbed from looking out the window and slowly turned his head to Sora.
"Uh…yeah. Super heroes are cool, I guess," Riku answered.
"See. Riku agrees with me so……NYAH!" Sora taunted and for extra tease, he stuck his tongue out at Selphie. Selphie's face turned red as she glowered angrily at Sora for teasing her.
"Oh yeah!" Selphie stuck her tongue out at Sora.
"Yeah!" Sora stuck out his tongue again.
Pretty soon an all-out war broke out between Sora and Selphie as the two continued to stick their tongues out at each other. The war would have probably gone on forever if it were not for Miss Utamori whose strident yet cool voice brought their childish bickering to a stop.
"Children we're here!" Miss Utamori said.
The bus came to a halt and the bus door swung open. One by one Miss Utamori and her students piled out of the bus. The children walked onto the hotel premises and were greeted with a lovely sight.
The Cascadian Hotel consisted of three separate quarters.
The first quarter consisted of the main building which was the hotel itself with comfortable seats, air-conditioned rooms and hallways, lovely water fountains, elevators and humble customer-service on the interior.
The second quarter was where the hotel parking lot was located. Many vehicles belonging to the residents staying at the hotel were lined up orderly in the parking area lot including the Destiny Island Preschool School Bus and last the third quarter.
The third quarter was located near the parking lot. It consisted of a beautiful gardened trail leading up to a tiled staircase with a giant water-fountain in the silhouette of a mermaid sprouting water from its mouth at the entrance.
The children gazed in awe at the building, admiring how beautiful it looked. It was so stunning that even Sora and Selphie forgot about their argument for they were both too preoccupied staring at the fountain.
"It's magnificent," Kairi said.
"It's magical," Selphie uttered.
"It's BIG!" Sora said.
"I bet the pool's even bigger, right Riku?" Tidus said nudging Riku's shoulder.
Riku swallowed. "Uh…y—yeah," he said.
Miss Utamori turned to her class. "Now children in an orderly fashion---"Before Miss Utamori could finish the sentence, all the children had stampeded down the gardened trail and were already halfway up the stairs, which lead up to the swimming pool.
Miss Utamori stood transfixed wearing a dead-panned expression on her face with her jaw hanging.
"Chi---Children! Children STOP!" Miss Utamori yelled behind her students.
When none of them bothered to listen to her, Miss Utamori sighed. "Why are they all acting so wild today?" Miss Utamori asked.
"What'd ya expect Sarah?" said Mr. Zeno.
He was the driver of the school's school bus and climbed out of the car to stand next to Miss Utamori. Miss Utamori looked at Mr. Zeno. The old janitor chuckled.
"Today the kiddies are spending the day at a resort with a swimming pool so they have all means to be wild 'cause that's how lil kids are when they're excited about something," Mr. Zeno said.
"I guess…you're right," Miss Utamori said.
"Speaking about excitement. There's a pool seat up there with my name on it. Race ya to the pool Sarah!" Mr. Zeno said. Pulling off the bright blue sweatshirt he was wearing and grabbing the towel and bottle of sun-tan lotion he had inside the school bus, Mr. Zeno raced down the gardened trail wearing nothing but Hawaiian boxers and laughing crazily heading for the pool.
Miss Utamori sweatdropped at this sight.
"And I thought I only had to babysit the children today," she said.
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"Wow!"
The children had reached the top of the staircase. They had arrived at the resort swimming pool and were baffled. The swimming pool was humungous divided by a single net that separated the deep end of the pool from the shallow.
There were chairs placed around the pool and at the deep end of the pool was a diving board which towered over the swimming pool.
There were also two bars: one for the adults and the other for the children. The adult bar was on the left side near the pool with two seats hovering in the water for anyone who wanted to have a drink and still continue to swim.
The children's bar was on the right side near the bathroom/changing room and consisted of a young vendor selling sodas and snacks.
There was also a vending machine which was near the children's bar.
The children gawked at this sight.
"It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," Tidus said smiling goofily as he walked near to the pool.
"Am I in heaven?" Wakka said.
"Nope. We're just at the coolest swim resort in the world!" Balthier exclaimed excitedly.
"Right you are my brunette friend," said a voice.
The children turned to their side. A young man around Miss Utamori's age came running up to them. The young man was extremely handsome with brawny muscles and a six-pack chest. He had carroty red hair and emerald green eyes.
He was wearing nothing but fire red boxer-shorts with the exception of matching red burgundy sandals which adorned his feet.
A bronze whistle hung by a black thread was worn around his neck.
The children titled their heads at the mysterious newcomer as he approached them with a humble smile plastered across his face.
"Who are you?" Tidus asked the young man.
"Children this is Mr. Calvin Eido. He is the manager of this swim resort," Miss Utamori said as she and Mr. Zeno appeared behind the kids.
"Hi. You can just call me Calvin," said the young man named Calvin, "Welcome to my resort!" he greeted.
"You say that you're the manager of this resort but…you don't look manager-ish," Kairi said.
"Yeah. Managers are supposed to be grumpy old men who wear tight business suits and ties and carry heavy briefcases everywhere they go," Selphie said. "Even in the potty," she added as-a-matter-of-factly.
Calvin chuckled.
"Is that so? Well I'm a different type of manager lil miss. I like to have fun," Calvin answered winking at Selphie.
Selphie blushed.
"Hey! Watch it lil dude. You're not trying to pull my pants down infront of the dudettes, are you?" Calvin said.
He had just stopped Sora who had walked up to him and grabbed onto his boxers for support as he tiptoed and tried to grab the whistle dangling around his neck. (A/N: The return of Sora's grabby syndrome XD)
Sora shook his head.
"Nope. I was just reaching for the thingy around your neck. It's shiny." Sora replied, rather cutely.
"You mean my whistle," Calvin took off his bronze whistle and held it infront of Sora's face. Sora bobbed his head.
"Yeah! Yeah! Gimme!" Sora snatched Calvin's whistle and looked at it closely. The whistle was shiny and its bronze surface glistened in the morning sun.
"This whistle is SO cool," Sora said grinning broadly.
"What's it for anyway?" Balthier asked.
"Well kids apart from being the manager of this swim resort I'm also the lifeguard of the pool," Calvin answered.
"What's a lifeguard?" Tidus asked.
"The lifeguard is the person who monitors the pool. He makes sure that the people swimming in the pool are doing okay and that they're having a good time," Calvin explained, "and when the people are having trouble in the pool like for example if someone is drowning in the pool then it's up to the lifeguard to save them,"
"Wow! You save people?" Wakka said.
"Yup," Calvin answered.
"So that means that you're a super hero," Sora said.
"You could say that lil dude," Calvin said.
"Awesome! What are your super powers?" Sora asked.
"Well I have the strength of an ox which helps me to carry someone who's been injured," Calvin answered, "I also have super hearing which enables me to hear the screams of frightened civilians near or far and last I have the unique ability of aquatic speed which allows me to swim faster when I'm in the water,"
"Wow! You really are a super hero!" Balthier said with his jaw hanging in awe.
"Lifeguards are super heroes!" Tidus said.
"I want to be a lifeguard!" Wakka said.
"Me too!" said another boy.
"Me three!" said a girl.
Calvin chuckled at this.
"Um…Mr. Calvin?" Sora spoke.
"Yes lil dude," Calvin said.
"Can I be like you? Can I be a super hero?" Sora asked. His blue eyes twinkled with excitement.
"Of course lil dude. You definitely have what it takes," Calvin answered flashing Sora a toothy smile.
Sora gasped and his eyes widened to gleeful stars.
"Did you hear that Riku? He said that I have what it takes to be a super hero, can you believe it?" Sora said.
"Yeah I believe it," Riku answered rather absentmindedly. He barely paid a word of what Sora had said to him for his eyes were fixed on the resort swimming pool. Riku gulped.
"Hey Mr. Calvin can we go swim in the pool now?" Selphie asked.
"Sure lil dudette but first you gotta know the specific rules of the pool and as the lifeguard I'm here to lay out the rules for you," Calvin said. Clearing his throat, Calvin explained the rules of the swimming pool counting each one on his fingers.
Rule No. 1: No running along the edge of the pool. Wouldn't want you kids to badly hurt yourselves.
Rule No. 2: No eating or drinking in the pool even if you are drinking water. The pool is to be kept clean at all times in order for you to enjoy a refreshing swim.
Rule No. 3: No leaving the pool area or the hotel premise if you are below the age of 10.
Rule No. 4: No running naked/half naked around the pool area.
Rule No. 5: The bathrooms are located on the right side of the pool so there is no need for anyone to pee in the pool.
"Even if you have to go really, really, REALLY bad?" Tidus asked.
"Yes," Calvin answered.
"Ok. Can you poop and fart in the pool then?" Mitchell asked. His friends: Butch and Cassidy sniggered at his question as well as a few other children.
"No. You can definitely NOT do that in the pool," Calvin answered.
"Is that all the rules Mr. Calvin or are there more?" Ashe spoke up.
"Yes there is one more rule and it's the most important one of all," Calvin said.
"What is it?" Rikku asked.
"The important rule is TO HAVE FUN!" Calvin said grinning.
All the children cheered. "YAY!"
"Now the changing rooms are in the bathrooms over there," Calvin said pointing to opened door on the right side of the pool, "the girls' side of the changing room is on the right and the boys' is on the left. Another thing if anyone wishes to go to the giant water slide please consult yours truly and I'll let you through. There is also a sand box for anyone who wishes to play in the sand,"
"Why can't we just go down to the beach and play in the sands there?" Butch asked.
"Yeah the beach is just a five-minute walk from here," Cassidy pimped in.
Calvin shook his head.
"No. I got orders from your teacher that neither of you kids are allowed to leave the swimming area, am I right Miss Utamori?" Calvin looked to Miss Utamori. Miss Utamori nodded and smiled at Calvin.
Butch and Cassidy both snorted and crossed their arms over their chests.
"This bites! We can't even go to the beach nearby!" Butch huffed.
"Sorry kids but those are the rules," Calvin said.
Butch mumbled something like 'Well that sucks' to his brother Cassidy and Mitchell but thankfully Calvin didn't hear him.
Calvin continued to give instructions.
"Now that you kids know the rules. It's time to have fun," Calvin said, "Everyone get in their swim gear and GO HAVE FUN!"
"YAY!" cheered everyone.
Miss Utamori clasped their hands together and faced all her students. "Now in an orderly fashion----"
Miss Utamori started but she was cut off by the sounds of stampeding feet as the children made their way towards the changing room/bathroom. Miss Utamori sweatdropped.
"Why did I even try?" she sighed.
"Ha! Ha! The kids are here to have fun and there is no order in fun, right?" Calvin said.
"Heh! Right," Miss Utamori said.
"You look nice today Sarah. Nice suit," Calvin complimented eyeing Miss Utamori from head to toe. She wore a pink two-piece bikini decorated with white flowers and she wore a green towel around her waist like a skirt.
Miss Utamori flushed. "Thank you Calvin," she said.
"Mind if I buy you a drink?" Calvin offered.
"Sure. I'd like that," Miss Utamori answered with a grateful smile.
"How about you old dude? You wanna join us?" Calvin asked glancing at Mr. Zeno.
"No thank you dude. I'm going to work on my tan," Mr. Zeno said. He then placed on a pair of black sunglasses. "Catch you kids later," Mr. Zeno said. He walked across the pool and took a seat on a chair next to an old lady who was reading a magazine.
At one point, the old lady and Mr. Zeno's eyes met and Mr. Zeno winked at her from behind his shades and the old lady giggled like a fourteen-year-old teenager.
Calvin and Mr. Utamori stared at this scene with dead-panned expressions.
"Uh……?" Calvin went to say something but Miss Utamori grabbed his arm.
"Let's just go get our drinks," she said. Calvin nodded, allowing Miss Utamori to lead him off to the adult bar.
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"Come on Sora! When are you gonna come out of there?" Tidus growled.
"In a minute," Sora replied. In the boys' side of the changing room, only four boys remained behind while the rest went outside to the swimming pool. Tidus, Riku and Wakka stood in the changing room, standing next to the closed door of the changing that Sora was in. All three boys were already dressed in their swim-clothing. Tidus wore nothing but red swim-trunks with the Viewtiful Joe logo printed across the back and his usual green and yellow sandals on his feet.
Wakka, like Tidus, only had on blue and white swim-trunks with his green sandals. A navy blue swim-cap adorned his head to protect his hair from the water and Wakka held a pair of green goggles in his hand in case he wanted to go and take a dive in the swimming pool.
Riku, on the other hand, wore a tight blue vest with navy blue swim-trunks and blue slippers.
Tidus huffed impatiently and for the umpteenth time he banged his fist against the door of Sora's changing room.
"What's taking you so long Sora!?" Tidus whined.
"Yeah man Kairi and Selphie have already gone to the swimming pool and we want to go too, eh," Wakka said.
"Come on Sora. How much longer are you gonna be in there?" Tidus asked.
"Hmmm…about a couple more hours," Sora answered.
"SORA!!!"
"Well if you guys wanna go swim so much then go right ahead," Sora said, "I'll meet you outside,"
"Fine," Tidus sighed, "come on guys. Let's go to the pool."
He and Wakka turned and walked off but Riku didn't follow.
"Aren't you coming Riku?" Tidus asked glancing back at Riku.
"Nah! I'll come out with Sora," Riku answered.
"Have it your way then," Tidus said. He nudged Wakka and the two exited the changing room.
"Almost done!" Sora spoke from the vicinity of his changing room.
"Um…Sora?" Riku said.
"Riku? You're still here? Why didn't you go the pool with Tidus and Wakka?" Sora asked.
"That's just it," Riku said. He leaned his back against the door of Sora's changing room. "Sora, I'm nervous about…the pool," Riku said.
"How come? Swimming in the pool is no different than swimming in the ocean at the beach," Sora said.
"I know and that's the problem both ways," Riku said, "Sora, I've never told anyone this but…I…I can't----"
"DONE!"
"What?"
There was a low clicking sound and the door of Sora's changing room swung open. This came as a surprise to Riku whose back was leant against the door so when the door opened, Riku fell backwards on the changing room floor.
Luckily for Riku, the changing room carpet cushioned his fall. Riku rubbed his head, thankful he wasn't bleeding.
"Riku are you alright?" Sora asked.
"It's okay Sora. I'm fi---"Riku trailed off.
He was goggling up at Sora who was standing over him. But it was not Sora himself that shocked Riku; it was what he was wearing.
"What the-----"
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"Hey where are Sora and Riku?" Kairi asked. She and Selphie were swimming in the shallow end of pool with Tidus and Wakka who had just joined them.
Kairi wore a pink bathing-suit with Sakura blossoms decorating the front and a matching pink swim-cap and Selphie wore a yellow bathing-suit with a matching yellow swim-cap.
"Sora's still in the changing room and Riku is waiting for him," Tidus answered. He was swimming on his back, doing a back-glide, and was enjoying his swim all the while.
"When are they gonna come out?" Selphie asked. She was doing the starfish float next to Kairi.
"I bet they'll be out soon. Don't expect them to stay in their forever when there's an awesome pool out here," Wakka answered coming up from underneath the water and breathing in the fresh air.
It was another few seconds when Riku was seen exiting the changing room.
"Oh look there's Riku," Kairi said noticing the familiar lavender-head, "RIKU! OVER HERE!"
Kairi waved to Riku from the pool. When he noticed Kairi waving to him, Riku walked over the pool and sat at the edge of the pool, near the steps. There were three steps for swimmers to go in and out of the pool.
Riku just sat at the pool edge, splashing his feet in the water. Kairi doggy-paddled up to where Riku sat.
"Hey Riku. Where's Sora?" Kairi asked. She climbed out the pool and sat next to Riku, despite being dripping wet.
"Uh……Sora's in the changing room," Riku answered.
"What? What's he still doing in there?" Kairi asked.
"He'll not still changing isn't he?" Tidus asked floating over to Riku and Kairi.
"Uh……well no but……" Riku sighed. "You guys will have to see it to believe it," Riku said.
Tidus, Wakka, Kairi and Selphie looked at Riku strangely.
What did he mean by that? The door of the changing room was flung open and the answer to four children's question stood in the doorway.
"We live in a dangerous society corrupted by evil…where villains reign and the wicked Sharktooth strikes terror into the hearts of all. But there is one man---I mean boy who will stand up the denizens of evil and protect the citizens of Destiny Islands. Villains beware! You're in for a scare! Citizens, no need to fear………SUPER SORA is here!!!"
In a flash of red, Sora came springing out of the changing room. He was wearing nothing but a white vest and burgundy swim trunks.
Red slippers adorned Sora's tiny feet and……shockingly…he wore a bright red cape on his back. Sora stood in a heroic stance with his hands on his hips, his chest raised and his red cape blowing vigorously in the morning wind.
Wakka, Selphie and Kairi wore blank expressions on their faces as they gaped at Sora.
Riku sweatdropped. Tidus, on the other hand, nearly drowned for at the sight of seeing Sora in a cape he fell backwards laughing scandalously completely forgetting that he was floating in the pool.
"PFFTWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tidus laughed underneath the water and even when he came back up for air, he still continued to laugh.
Tears steamed from Tidus' eyes as he pointed at Sora, having a good guffaw. "PFFTWHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
When he acknowledged his friends by the pool, Sora smiled and walked over to them.
"Hey you guys," Sora said waving to his friends cheerily.
Riku remained silent. Wakka, Kairi and Selphie continued to gawk. Tidus still laughed his butt off.
"Oh…" Wakka said.
"…my," Kairi said.
"GOD!" Selphie finished.
"Told ya," Riku said.
"Sora what are you wearing?" Selphie asked.
"I'm wearing my vest and swim-trunks. I always wear them when I'm going to swim," Sora said.
"Not that. I was talking about your cape," Selphie said.
"Oh this! I got this cape with the Captain Magnificent comic book that my dad sent me. It's the same cape that the real Captain Magnificent wore himself. Pretty nifty don't ya think?" Sora said showing off his cape.
"Not really," Kairi said sweatdropping.
"Sora, Captain Magnificent is a fictional character in a book of fancy colouring therefore he isn't real," Riku stated.
"I know that," Sora said.
"Then why are you dressed like that?" Wakka asked.
"Don't you guys get it? I'm not just Sora anymore. I'm a super hero!" Sora said proudly.
"What? No you're not," Selphie said.
"Yes I am. Calvin said so," Sora said.
"Calvin said that because he was being nice. He didn't really mean it Sora," Selphie said flatly.
"Well I believe him," Sora said, "I am a super hero. CAPTAIN Sora to be more précised."
"I thought you were SUPER SORA," Tidus said. He had finally recovered from his laughing fit.
"I was SUPER SORA but Captain Sora sounds better," Sora answered, "it makes me sound as awesome as Captain Magnificent: the true hero of justice!"
"Oh Sora," Kairi sighed.
"Ok. So Sora's a super hero. Fine! Whatever! Can we please get back to swimming in the pool now?" Tidus said.
"I'm tired of the pool," Selphie said.
"I know. Let's go on the giant water slide," Wakka suggested.
"That sounds like fun. Count me in," Tidus said.
"Me too," Kairi said.
"Me three," Selphie said perkily.
Tidus, Wakka and Selphie climbed out of the pool. After drying themselves with the towels they brought, the three stood at the foot of the pool.
"Come on. Let's go ask Calvin to go on the slide," Selphie said.
"You coming to the water slide Captain Sora?" Tidus said smirking at Sora wryly.
"What! A hero has no time to play! Not when there are citizens to be protected and lives to be saved," Sora said, "now if you will excuse me I'm off too save the day! Ha! HA!"
Extending his arms infront of him, Sora sprinted off, running around the pool area pretending to fly and making 'WHOOSH' noises with his cape flapping behind him.
Tidus, Wakka, Riku, Selphie and Kairi watched this scene from afar and could not help to sweatdrop at the sight of their friend.
"He's really going through with this super hero thing, is he?" Kairi stated.
"Yup," Wakka answered.
"Why do I have the feeling that this is all gonna eventually blow up in his face?" Kairi asked.
"That's because it will……eventually," Selphie said with her hands on her hips.
"URGH! Enough chit-chat. Us. Giant Water Slide. NOW!" Tidus said grabbing Selphie's hand and shaking it anxiously.
"Fine." Selphie said pulling her hand out of Tidus's grasp, "Let's go ask Mr. Calvin,"
Tidus, Wakka and Kairi agreed with Selphie. The four turned on their heels and were about to walk away when they looked back at Riku. He had not budged from his spot by the edge of the pool.
"Aren't you coming Riku?" Selphie asked.
Riku's head jolted upward. He had been staring deeply at the pool water and now turned his head toward Selphie with questioning turquoise blue eyes. "Where?" Riku asked.
"To the giant water slide," Selphie answered.
"I don't know. I've never been on a water slide before. What's it like?" Riku asked.
"Are you kidding me Riku? A waterslide is the best ride in the world!" Tidus shouted excitedly.
"Ya man. Being on a waterslide is like sliding down an ordinary slide only you slide on water and the experience is totally cool," Wakka said, "and at the end of the ride, you go splashing into the deep end of the pool,"
"P---Po---Pool?" Riku stammered.
"You bet!" Tidus said excitedly, "so come on let's go now now NOW!!"
Tidus grabbed hold of Riku's arm and attempted to drag him away from the pool; however Riku pulled his arm away from Tidus and looked away.
"Uh…on second thought, you guys go on to the waterslide without me," Riku said.
"WHAT!?"
"But Riku. This is the waterslide we're talking about here!" Tidus said, gawking at Riku in disbelief.
"I know but---I changed my mind. I'm gonna go hang out with Sora. You guys go on ahead to the waterslide," Riku said.
"I don't believe you. You'd rather play super hero than go on the world's largest waterslide?" Tidus said.
"Yup," Riku answered.
"Ok. Suit yourself," Selphie sighed.
"Let's go guys," Kairi said.
Selphie and Kairi left Riku, stalking off to find Calvin the manager/lifeguard. Wakka followed after them.
"Are you sure you don't want to come on the waterslide?" Tidus asked Riku.
Riku nodded. "Yup," he said. Tidus heaved a sigh.
"Have it your way then," Tidus said.
Shrugging his shoulders, Tidus walked off quickly to catch up with Wakka, Kairi and Selphie.
'Guess it's just me now,' Riku thought as Tidus left him by himself. Riku stood to his feet from his seat by the pool edge and glanced around the pool area.
'Now to find Sora,' Riku thought to himself. After drying his feet with a towel, Riku began his search for Sora and walked around the right side of the pool area near the adult bar, keeping his eye sharp for the slightest sign of a red cape or at least…spiky brown hair.
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Meanwhile on the left side of the pool, a flicker of a red cape was seen running around the area. It was Sora. The spiky brunette continued his patrol around the pool area with his arms still out in front of him. Sora still pretended to be a super hero and was still pretending to fly, make whooshing sounds and also humming the Powerpuff Girl theme song.
"Evil doers beware! CAPTAIN SORA is here!" Sora yelled. He whooshed past the children's bar and now headed to the sandlot where the resort sandbox was located. Sora ran along the box, the warm sands tickling underneath his feet (he had taken off his slippers by now or more so…lost it in his sprint)
"Hey Sora!" A voice called.
Sora stopped his tracks and faced east where the sound had come from. Turns out the voice belonged to Rikku. Rikku stood waving to Sora. She was sporting a bright yellow bikini-bra with the string tied behind her neck with matching yellow shorts and bright yellow sunglasses. Rikku was not alone on the sands. She was in the company of her two best friends: Yuna and Paine as well as Penelo and Ashe.
Yuna wore a white bathing suit with a blue wave on the front with a blue swim-cap covering her chocolate brown hair. Yuna was building a giant sand castle with the help of Paine who was wearing a two piece black bikini and black shades. Penelo wore a lava orange blended with red bathing suit with a red swim-cap. She was helping Rikku bury Ashe in the sand and was molding it to look like a mermaid tail. Though her lower body was covered with the sand, Sora made out that Ashe had on a green bikini-vest which showed off her stomach with matching lime green sunglasses. The girls appeared to be having a lot of fun in the sand and Sora waved back at Rikku and made his way over to her and her friends.
"Hey Sora. Wanna join us playing in the sands?" Rikku asked looking up at Sora.
"Yeah it'll be fun you can help us make Ashe's fins," Penelo said.
"I'm a mermaid," Ashe said smiling brightly against the sun.
"Or you can help Yuna and I build our stupid sandcastle," Paine said dully.
"We could use all the help we can get," Yuna said sighing. She had molded another clump of sand into a bridge but the sand only dispersed in her hands.
"No thanks ladies but I have to patrol the pool area for any signs of the evil Sharktooth. A super hero's work is never done," Sora said standing in a heroic stance. His cape blowing in the wind for a more valiant effect.
Rikku, Paine, Yuna, Penelo and Ashe looked at one another and then back at Sora with blank expressions on their faces.
"O……kay," Rikku said.
"HEY! What are GIRLS doing in OUR sandbox!" came a harsh voice. Sora winced. Such a voice could have only belonged to none other than Mitchell.
Mitchell came stomping across the sandbox, followed by his two friends/lackeys: Butch and Cassidy. Mitchell was wearing nothing but a black swim-trunk and as for Butch and Cassidy, the two twins were wearing identical blue swim-trunks with white tiger-stripes at the edges and bright cobalt blue swim-caps. Mitchell approached Rikku, Paine, Yuna, Ashe and Penelo and stood infront of them with his hands on his hips and his eyes, glaring.
"Why are you GIRLY GIRLS here? Get out of OUR sandbox!" Mitchell snarled.
"It's not your sandbox Mitchell," Rikku retorted angrily.
"Yeah. The sandbox is open to everyone," Yuna said.
"Oh yeah!" Mitchell growled. He picked up a handful of sand in his hand. Mitchell glanced back at Cassidy and Butch and the two bobbed their heads, mimicking Mitchell's actions.
"LET'S GET 'EM BOYS!" Mitchell shouted. Mitchell aimed and fired sand at the girls. Butch and Cassidy did the same.
Paine, Yuna, Ashe, Rikku and Penelo screamed as they were pelted with sand.
"Q-QUIT IT MITCHELL!!" Rikku screamed, shielding her face from being hit with sand.
"STOP!!" screamed Penelo, Ashe and Yuna, turning away so their backs could take the hit instead of their faces.
"SORA HELP!" Paine growled. While shielding her face, Paine opened one eye to look at Sora seriously. Though Mitchell and his goons were pummeling them with sand, Sora stood watching the entire thing without the slightest intention of stopping it. In truth, Sora was busy eyeing a kid eating an ice-cream cone and was drooling hungrily.
"SORA!!!!!" Paine yelled. She grabbed a handful of sand and hurled it at Sora. The sand stuck a direct hit to Sora's back. This caught Sora's attention and Sora spun around and finally noticed what was going on.
"HEY! STOP THAT!" Sora yelled. He stood infront of the girls with his hands out to shield them which in turn caused Mitchell, Butch and Cassidy to cease their sand-pelting and glare at Sora.
"OUT OF THE WAY PORCUPINE HEAD!" Mitchell yelled.
Sora shook his head. "No way!" Sora said. He then got into his heroic pose with his hands on his hips. "Get back evil-doers or else?" Sora said.
"Or else what porcupine-head?!" Mitchell said.
"Or else I'll huff and puff and FREEZE you to death with my ICE BREATH!" Sora said.
Sora inhaled deeply before blowing in Mitchell's face. However the only thing that came out of Sora's mouth was hot air.
This of course did not stop Sora from continuing to blow in Mitchell's face. Mitchell stared at Sora with a dead-panned expression plastered on his face.
"Uh……"
"UHHH……" The girls imitated Mitchell with blank faces, all goggling at Sora with sweatdrops at their temples.
"FREEZE VILLAIN! FREEZE!" Sora said through pursed lips.
His pales cheeks were turning blue from the continuous blowing of hot air. Mitchell continued to stare at Sora until he became irritated.
"Hey Sora?" Mitchell said.
"Yeah?" Sora stopped blowing to look at Mitchell.
"Think fast!" Mitchell threw sand in Sora's eyes. Sora screamed and staggered backwards, trying desperately to dust the sand out of his eyes. Mitchell sniggered at this.
"Hey guys, let's finish this," Mitchell said to Butch and Cassidy.
Butch and Cassidy nodded. Together Mitchell, Butch and Cassidy pelted Sora with sand and even took a chance to pummel the girls with the sand some more too. Mitchell and his goons then stopped their pelting and admired their mischievous work. Sora was covered with sand and so were the girls.
"Ha! Ha! That was fun," Butch said dusting the sand off his hands.
"Let's do it again AFTER we go on the water-slide," Mitchell said.
"Maybe we'll find some more dorks to torture," Cassidy said.
"Speaking of dorks," Mitchell looked at Sora who was spitting sand out of his mouth.
"Hey Sora?" Mitchell said.
"Yeah?" Sora looked at Mitchell.
"Nice cape," Mitchell said.
"Wow! Really?" Sora said with a smile.
"NO. Your cape is DORKY just like you," Mitchell said. He and his friends had a good laugh at Sora as they left the sandbox, heading for the waterslide. Sora pouted at Mitchell's remark and dusted sand off his cape.
"Way to go Sora," Rikku said.
"Yeah thanks for helping us," Paine said dryly. Rikku, Paine, Yuna, Ashe and Penelo stood behind Sora. They were all covered in sand and were glowering daggers at Sora. Despite feeling embarrassed about previously being pelted with sand, Sora smiled toothily.
"All in a day's work ladies," Sora said heroically.
"Whatever," Paine said rolling her eyes at Sora.
"Come on girls let's go to the bathroom so we can wash the sand off," Yuna said. The other girls nodded. Grabbing up their stuff and kicking down their sandcastle/mermaid tail, Penelo, Yuna, Rikku, Ashe and Paine left the sandbox. But as she walked past Sora, Paine poked Sora in the back.
"Thanks for the help super hero." Paine said sarcastically.
"You're welcome," Sora said cheerfully with his trademark goofy smile. Paine's mouth twitched uneasily and she snorted at Sora before leaving him to catch up with her friends.
Once Paine was gone, Sora breathed a short breath and wiped his forehead. "Man who knew that being a super hero was so tiring," Sora said fanning himself with his hand, "time for a break!"
Sora exited the sandbox in the sandlot and went to the children's bar on the left side of the pool. Sitting himself upon a stool by the children's bar Sora faced the bartender of the bar which was a young dark-skinned man with curly black hair wearing green sunglasses and a green Hawaiian T-shirt.
The young man was wiping down the bar counter when he noticed Sora sitting there and smiled at him.
"Hey lil dude. The name's TJ and I'll be your bartender for this morning," the young man greeted.
"Hi TJ. I'm Sora," Sora greeted perkily.
"Ok Sora. What'll you be having?" TJ asked.
Sora placed a finger to his chin and thought for a second. "I dunno. What drink do you have for a growing super hero?" Sora asked.
"Hmm. That's a tough one. How about a Bubble-Gum berry snow-cone?" TJ said.
"That'll be great," Sora said.
TJ smiled. "One Bubble-Gum berry snow-cone coming right up," he said. TJ turned his back to Sora and two seconds later he faced Sora again holding a styrotex cup of bubble gum pink shaved ice mixed with strawberry swirls.
"Here you go Sora. One Bubble-Gum berry snow-cone," TJ said handing Sora the snow-cone.
"YAY! Thanks TJ," Sora said taking his snow-cone.
"You're welcome lil dude," TJ said.
He held out a bendy straw for Sora to use to drink his snow-cone and Sora took it. Planting the straw in his snow-cone, Sora sucked on the straw enjoying the fruity liquid that came to his mouth. "Yum! Fruity," Sora said, his cheeks flushing from the delicious taste of his snow-cone.
"There you are Sora. I've been looking everywhere for you," came the low voice of Riku. The lavender-head appeared before Sora and was relieved that he had finally found him. Sora grinned at Riku as he drank from his snow-cone. "Hey Riku. What's up?" Sora said.
"Nothing much," Riku said climbing onto another stool to sit next to Sora.
"Hello purple-head dude. What'll you be having?" TJ asked.
Riku turned to TJ with wide turquoise eyes. "Who are you?" he asked.
"This is TJ, Riku," Sora said, "He's the cool bartender of the children's bar. Ask him for whatever snack or drink you want. He has anything for any type of person even super heroes,"
"Uh okay," Riku said. He turned to TJ. "What do you have for someone who may be a teensy weensy scared?" Riku asked.
"Hmm. How about a sea-salt ice cream?" TJ suggested, "That always helped me when I had the jitters,"
Riku smiled. "Okay," he said.
"One sea-salt ice cream coming right up," TJ said. He opened a freezer near the counter and took out a rectangular-shaped ice cream bar on a brown stick.
"Here's your ice-cream. Enjoy," TJ said handing Riku his sea-salt ice cream.
"Thank you," Riku said taking his sea-salt ice cream and licking it, the tang of the sugary saltiness savoring his tastes buds.
"Mmm salty. No…SWEET!" Riku said smiling as he took another lick of his ice-cream bar.
"Has it helped you with your jitters yet?" Sora asked.
The smile on Riku's face disappeared. "No." he answered sadly.
"Riku what are you scared for?" Sora asked. He finished up his snow-cone and threw the cup in the nearby bin.
Riku groaned. "The water," he said, "I'm scared of the water,"
"Why? Water is fun. I mean how else do you bathe if you're afraid of water?" Sora asked.
"No. I'm not afraid of water when it comes to taking a bathe. I'm afraid of the water when it comes to……swimming in it," Riku said.
"Why? Everyone else is doing it," Sora said.
"That's because everyone else can do it," Riku said.
"What?" Sora looked at Riku confusedly.
"Sora don't you get it," Riku said, "I'm the only one in our class who can't……"
Riku trailed off when he noticed that Sora wasn't exactly paying attention to him. Instead his attention was more keenly focused on something swimming in the pool.
"What's wrong Sora?" Riku asked.
"Shark," Sora said.
"Shark?" It took a while for what Sora said to sink in and that's when Riku's eyes widened. "SHARK! WHERE?!" Riku asked,
"In the pool," Sora replied. He pointed to the swimming pool. A floating grey shark fin was moving along the surface of the water and was swimming at a fast speed.
"Now that's something you don't see everyday," Riku said, "what's a shark doing in the pool?"
"Don't you see Riku? That's no ordinary shark. It's him," Sora said.
"Him who?" Riku asked.
"Sharktooth," Sora answered, "He's Captain Magnificent's evil nemesis in my comic book,"
"So?" Riku said.
"So…if Sharktooth is Captain Magnificent's nemesis then he's Captain Sora's nemesis too!" Sora said.
"And?"
"And…it's up to me to stop him!" Sora said. He jumped off his stool and stood in his trademark heroic stance once again.
"I don't know Sora. Captain Magnificent is a fictional character and if he's a fictional character then his nemesis is also----HEY WAIT!" Riku stopped when Sora suddenly dashed off for the pool.
"SORA WAIT!" Riku yelled.
Too late. Sora had already plunged into the pool and was swimming toward the shark fin at full speed. Riku jumped off his stool and ran to the edge of the pool, watching Sora from afar.
To Riku's horror, Sora had tackled the floating shark fin and was wrestling with it underneath the water.
"This does not look good," Riku said. The underwater battle continued until Sora surfaced from the water. He held the shark fin in his hand and was scratching the back of his head nervously. Riku found out why. Twenty seconds later Balthier surfaced from the water and was glaring daggers at Sora. His hair had been ruffled. It appeared that it had been Balthier who was swimming in the water with the shark fin strapped to his back and unfortunately for Sora, it had been Balthier he had tackled.
Balthier huffed and squirted water from his mouth. "Sora! What's the big idea!" Balthier growled.
"Whoops! Sorry Balthier. I thought you were Sharktooth my nemesis," Sora said.
"Huh? What are you talking about? Is it such a crime for me to swim with my Sharkboy swim-set?" Balthier said.
"Sharkboy…swim-set?" Sora said.
"Ya. I got it from my uncle. It comes equipped with shark-gloves, shark-flippers and a SHARK FIN!" Balthier shouted.
He raised his hands and feet to show Sora that he was wearing grey shark-flippers and gloves.
Sora sweatdropped. "Oh. Heh! Heh! Sorry Balthier," Sora apologized.
"Yeah well…don't do it again okay?" Balthier said.
"Ok," Sora said. Sora swam to the steps and climbed out of the pool.
"Hey! What about my shark fin Sora?" Balthier called.
"Oh!" Sora tossed back the shark fin to Balthier who caught it quickly. But when Balthier looked closely at the shark fin he realized that it had been dented from the scuffle with Sora.
"My shark fin!!" Balthier said. "SORA!!!!!" Balthier bellowed angrily. Sora met back with Riku who stood by the pool edge. He had witnessed what had just happened and gave Sora a look.
"Well that went smooth," Riku spoke wryly.
"I don't get it. I was certain that that was Sharktooth?" Sora said.
"Yeah right," Riku half chuckled.
"Man that was fun!" one voice said.
"Let's do it again after we get some chow!" said another voice.
The voices belonged to Tidus and Wakka. The two boys were walking back from the waterslide with Selphie and Kairi trailing behind. The four of them had towels draped around their shoulders despite being soaking wet from the slide.
"Sora! Riku!" Kairi called waving to Riku and Sora.
"Hey guys!" Sora shouted waving back.
"You guys MISSED it!" Tidus exclaimed excitedly.
"You won't believe what happened at the waterslide," Wakka said.
"What? What happened?" Riku asked.
"Mitchell and Cassidy tried to push Kairi and Selphie down the waterslide but not after Wakka and I pulled a prank of our own," Tidus said grinning mischievously.
"Ya man. Me and Tidus jumped on them and ended up surfing down the waterslide on their backs," Wakka said, "It was totally WICKED!!"
"Wicked is right. What you guys did was mean," Selphie said.
"Not as mean as what you and Kairi did," Tidus said grinning.
"So we pushed down Butch and rode on his back on the waterslide. So what? He was asking for it," Selphie said grinning herself.
"Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun on the waterslide," Sora said.
"We did! But it wasn't nearly as fun without you two," Kairi said.
"Where were you guys anyway?" Tidus asked.
"I was hanging by the pool edge while Sora nearly drowned Balthier in the pool," Riku said.
"WHAT!" The others looked at Sora in disbelief.
"I didn't mean to," Sora said defensively, "I thought Balthier was Sharktooth my evil nemesis but he was just playing with a swim-set,"
"Huh?"
"Wait a second. You're still pretending to be a stupid super hero," Selphie said with her hands on her hips.
"What do you mean pretend? I am a super hero," Sora said.
"Sora you are not a real super hero when are you gonna realize that," Selphie said.
"I am a real super hero," Sora said flatly.
"No you're not," Selphie argued.
"Yes I am," Sora retorted.
"No you're not!"
"Yes I am!"
"No you're not!"
"Yes I am!"
"NO YOU'RE NOT!!"
"YES I AM!!!"
Fire blazed between Selphie and Sora as the two glared daggers at each other.
"I am a real super hero Selphie! I AM!" Sora shouted. "…and I'll prove it," Sora added before stomping off to whom knows where.
"SORA!" Kairi shouted behind Sora but he was already gone.
"Ah who needs him! If Sora wants to play dumb dumb super hero then let him! I'm not his momma," Selphie snorted.
"I don't know Selph. He sounded mighty serious," Riku said.
"Ah phooey on Sora! Let's go get ourselves snacks and drinks from the children's bar," Selphie said.
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After getting their snacks and drinks from the children's bar, Selphie, Kairi, Wakka, Tidus and Riku sat comfortably in the seats near the pool and relaxed in the sun, enjoying their snacks as they did.
Wakka slurped a banana-swirl slurpie. Tidus drank a Raspberry-Rush snow-cone. Kairi drank ice-cold coconut water in a Tiki-shaped mug with an umbrella straw.
Selphie didn't have anything to drink but instead had a slice of coconut cake with whip cream and as for Riku. He had another sea-salt ice-cream bar, courtesy of TJ the bartender.
"I wonder where Sora is," Kairi said. It had been fifteen minutes and the spiky-haired brunette/super hero had not returned.
"He's probably flying around somewhere. Sorry…pretending to fly," Selphie snorted.
"I dunno Selph. He sounded pretty angry when he left," Riku said licking his sea-salt ice-cream.
"All thanks to you Selphish. You made him mad," Tidus said.
"Shut up and drink your snow cone Tidy," Selphie said irately, "besides what's the worst that Sora can do when he's angry?"
"You'd be surprised," Riku said remembering that one occasion when Sora had thrown a short tantrum when they had first met and he had fallen on his favorite toy. Riku stifled a laugh remembering how amusing Sora looked at that time.
"HELLO EVERYONE! MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!" a booming voice yelled out. All eyes looked up at the high diving board. Someone was standing ontop of it and Selphie choked on his cake when she saw who it was.
"SORA!" Selphie shouted coughing cake out of her mouth. Sure enough it was Sora. Sora waved to the people down below from his elevated ground ontop of the high diving board.
"HELLO EVERYONE!" Sora shouted, "DUE TO THE FACT THAT ONE OF MY BESTEST FRIENDS THINKS THAT I'M A PRETENDER I AM HERE TO PROVE A POINT! A POINT THAT I, SORA, AM A REAL SUPER HERO!"
Tidus, who was draining the last of his snow-cone drink, gagged and sprayed juice down his front as he burst out laughing at Sora. "PTTWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! NOT AGAIN! THIS IS TOO FUNNY!! PFFTWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Tidus laughed.
"Tidus you're NOT helping!" Kairi shouted.
"SORA what are you doing up there!" Selphie shouted.
Sora looked down at Selphie. "YOU SAID THAT I'M NOT A REAL SUPER HERO SELPHIE SO I'M GONNA PROVE IT!!" Sora yelled down.
"He's gonna get himself killed," Selphie muttered.
"Or worst EMBARASSED!" Tidus said falling on the ground and roaring with laughter with tears streaming from his eyes. "BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Wakka and Kairi both sweatdropped at Tidus.
"Sora whatever you do DON'T JUMP!" Riku shouted.
"I'M NOT GONNA JUMP RIKU!" Sora yelled.
Riku sighed in relief. "Phew!"
"I'M GONNA FLY!" Sora said in his heroic stance.
"WHAT!!" Riku bellowed.
"OY VEY!" Selphie said slapping her forehead.
Sora stood to the edge of the diving board now.
"He wouldn't," Wakka said.
"He couldn't," Kairi said.
Sora jumped off the diving board.
"He did," Tidus said once again recovering from his laughing fit. Sora had his hands out infront of him as if to fly but instead of flying, Sora went plummeting towards the pool.
"SORA!" Selphie screamed.
Sora fell towards the pool but before his body touched the surface of the water, Sora hugged his knees to his chest and did a canon ball.
SPLASH! Sora hit the pool and the sudden contact his body made with the water caused a giant tidal wave to sweep across the pool area. Innocent people were wetted and Selphie's precious coconut cake got SOAKED!
"My…My CAKE!!!" Selphie said whining sadly as her once luscious coconut cake melted muddily in her hands.
But Selphie's misery changed to rage and an infernal fire burned in her eyes as she turned and shouted the one name that came to her mind. "SORA!!!!!!!!!"
At that one moment, Sora surfaced from the water and climbed out of the pool. His red cape was drenched and so was he but Sora's spiky hair still defied gravity.
"I don't understand. Captain Magnificent did it. How come I didn't fly?" Sora mumbled to himself.
"I'll tell you why," Selphie said. She stomped over to Sora and stood glaring him straight in the eye. "When are you going to realize that you're NOT a real super hero!" Selphie bellowed.
"But I am a real super hero. Calvin said so," Sora said.
"CALVIN LIED!" Selphie shouted despite herself, "Get it through your head Sora you are NOT a super hero! You CAN'T fly and you DON'T HAVE SUPER POWERS!!!"
"But……what about the people I helped? Like Paine and the others," Sora said.
"Helped? Sora you didn't help us! You made the situation worst," Paine said angrily.
She, Yuna, Rikku, Ashe and Penelo had overheard the racket between Selphie and Sora and had come over to glare at Sora.
"And you crushed my shark fin," Balthier said. He too overhead the racket and came out of the pool to flash his dented shark fin in Sora's face.
"And you soaked my coconut cake and you know how much I like coconut cake," Selphie growled poking Sora in the chest.
Sora flinched. "Face it Sora you're NOT a super hero," Selphie said.
Sora looked at Selphie closely. He was about to say something back when Mitchell, Butch and Cassidy entered the conversation which on the other hand made the situation worst.
"Yeah porcupine-head. You're DEFINITELY NOT a super hero," Mitchell said coldly. Suddenly everyone became silent and all eyes fell between Mitchell and Sora. Mitchell looked at Sora squarely and Sora returned the stare.
"We saw that stunt you pulled at the sandbox and it was PATHETIC!" Mitchell said.
"And that trick by the pool," Butch said.
"It was embarrassing!" Cassidy said.
"Face it porcupine-head! You're not a super hero! You're a SUPER ZERO!!!" Mitchell said.
Sora' eyes widened. "Super Z—Zero?" Sora stuttered.
"Yeah SUPER ZERO! A heroless hero who's nothing but a pathetic dork!" Mitchell said. He pushed Sora down. This caused Sora's cape to tear. Sora jumped to his feet holding his torn cape to his face.
"See? SUPER ZERO! HA! HA!" Mitchell said laughing at Sora.
"SUPER ZERO! SUPER ZERO!" Butch and Cassidy chanted.
Sora looked from Mitchell, Butch and Cassidy and to his friends (Wakka, Tidus, Selphie, Kairi, Ashe, Penelo, Yuna, Rikku and Paine) who had said nothing to defend him. Sorrowful tears welded up in Sora's eyes and he began to cry. Though Riku and Kairi tried to comfort him, Sora pushed them out of his way and he ran off away from everyone.
Mitchell, Butch and Cassidy laughed behind Sora's back.
"What a baby," Mitchell snorted.
"Aw poor porcupine-head started to cry," said Cassidy babyishly.
"You mean Super Zero," Butch hooted.
Riku narrowed his eyes and frowned at Mitchell and his goons.
"That was mean Mitchell! Take back what you said about Sora!" Riku growled.
"What are you fighting about Riku?" Mitchell said, "You shouldn't say anything since you can't swim!"
"You can't swim Riku?" Kairi said. She looked at Riku questionably and so did everyone else.
"N---No! That's not true. I can swim," Riku said.
"Wanna bet?" Mitchell said. He pushed Riku in an attempt to force him into the pool. Riku staggered backwards but he didn't fall in the pool instead he stood at the edge of it staring nervously at the water.
"What's the matter Riku? Afraid of the water?" Mitchell teased.
"N—No," Riku lied.
"You're just as big of a dork as Super Zero," Butch said.
"Sora is not a Super Zero and I CAN swim," Riku shouted. "I'll prove it," Riku added seriously.
With determination in his eyes Riku shoved past Mitchell, Butch and Cassidy and ran away.
"RIKU!" Kairi yelled behind the lavender-head however Riku kept on running.
"Riku…" Kairi muttered sadly.
"Aw boy. Now we've lost both Sora and Riku," Tidus said.
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To be continued……
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Next time on KH: CoM: The continuation of 'Super Zero'. Sora gets a chance to show just how much of a true hero he can be and you won't believe what Riku will do to prove that he can swim……
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Me: Due to the fact that this chapter was TOO long in Microsoft Word, this chapter has been cut in half (y'know part 1 +part 2). I know I know. Another two-parter. Sorry about that but still you have to admit that this chapter was funny. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter……especially writing the parts with Sora and Tidus D
To PS2games-lady: Sorry I had to cut your request in half Sol. I hope you enjoyed the first part of the chapter. I hope the rest of the fans of this story enjoyed this chapter too. Part II will be up on 8/4/2007.
Happy Easter and now……click the pretty purple button at the bottom of the page and review please 8D
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