Fun in the Sun part 2

Abandoning the sandcastle's following Zack's hissy fit, Cloud went back to where Tifa and Aerith were sunbathing

Squinting his eyes in the sun, he swiveled his head around, searching for his raven haired friend.

Fearing the worst, he asked suspiciously, "Tifa? Where's Zack?"

The girls were stretched out on the chairs tanning. Turning their heads to face him, stopping short of their giggle filled conversation to see Cloud with a worried expression.

Normally, Cloud would have halted dead in his tracks and gawked at Tifa wearing nothing but a fluorescent pink bikini, her already slightly tanned skin shimmering from the tanning oil.

Aerith spoke nonchalantly, "He said something about a bandaid for a 'war wound', flipped out when we didn't have any and he took the car keys to go to the drug store and get a box."

That calmed Cloud down and with a worry-free 'oh' he sat down under the umbrella away from the sun and cracked open the cooler.

"Do we still have some sandwhich's left?" Cloud inquired while roughly shaking the cooler with both hands to shift things out of the way.

Stopping his cooler-quake, Tifa scolded him. "Don't shake that, Cloud! The beer bottles will shatter like that and the food will get squished." Cloud mockingly mouthed out her words as she spoke leading Tifa to bop him on the head lightly and smiled.

Pulling the cooler closer to her she pulled out a plastic baggy and handed it to Cloud, "Here. Turkey." she also tossed him a snack sized bag of chips.

"There's an extra turkey sandwhich in there, right?" Cloud asked warily while eyeing the cooler. Zack would definetly kill him if he ate the only turkey sandwhich. He learned from that mistake already. Tifa laughed loudly while Aerith was confused, not knowing what they were talking about.

"Don't worry, got it covered." Cloud sighed in relief and took a chunk out of his sandwhich ravenously. You can always count on Tifa. "Actually, I made three extra sandwhich's specially reserved for him." Tifa added with a slight chuckle, still talking about Zack. It was Aerith's turn to laugh out loudly. Whenever Aerith invited her boyfriend over to her house and cooked for him, it was like cooking for an army of starved BAHAMUT'S! She swore, that man had a tape worm inside of him!

Shortly after Cloud ate his food, Aerith and Tifa did the same once their now tanned stomachs started to growl.

Still no sign of Zack.

"Are you sure Zack didn't drive all the way back to Edge just to abandon us here? He's been gone for a while." the blonde nervously said while scratching his temple. Aerith just rolled her eyes good-naturely

"Cloud" she spoke comfortingly,"don't worry about it. Gosh, I'M his girlfriend and i'm not even all that worried! Unless. . .there's something important you need to tell me and Tifa." She raised her eyebrow questioningly at Cloud. Tifa mimicked her expression, but with a smug grin thrown in. Cloud's mouth hung agape at what Aerith was inferring.

"Wh-what? You're sick for thinking like that!" Cloud screeched in protest. Aerith just winked at him and the girls broke out in giggles.

"Oh? You think that's funny Tifa?" Cloud said with a smirk as he saw her hunched over laughing. He went after her and chased her into the ocean.

"Hey, wait up! You can't forget me!" And with that Aerith fled to the sea to help Tifa from losing in a splash-fight.

Slamming the car door forcefully-the lingering remnants of his earlier agitation- Zack stalked down to the sandy beach, with a little something something in his now crudely-and overly dramatic-bandaged hand for Cloud.

Zack smirked deviously. Oh yes, Cloud. I'm after you. Zack squeezed the 'gift' for Cloud in his hand.

Before proceeding on with his plan, Zack fueled up with a sandwhich that Tifa thoughtfully left out and on top of the coolers lid, thinking he would come back soon, before running into the ocean.

He still had other buisness to take care of before Cloud became his victim.

Chomping forcefully on the bits and pieces of sandwich in his mouth, he began to scare and chase away a couple of stray seagulls dilly-dally-ing around on the sand. This was done by moo-ing and frog-hopping at the innocent birds.

All pumped up and ready to go, Zack sprinted into the ocean with a yell reminicent of, 'This is SPARTA!'

Wading into the now waist deep water, Zack went on down his knee's and started to creep up behind the three bodies in the water that were facing the other way. All was silent, as if others on the beach were holding their breaths waiting for the totally epic Zack-Attack. Even the waters around him were now calm compared to their earlier crashing waves

The salty water got deeper, and the crystal blue of the water got slightly darker. Slithering like one of the swimming snakes him and Cloud saw a show about one lazy weekend on Animal Planet, with his head slightly ducked, water coming up to his lips, he started to near his blonde target. He began to hum the Jaws theme mentally.

The appearingly ignorant, happy-go-lucky blonde was having the time of his life without Zack there. Or so he thought. Cloud threaded his fingers on the water's surface and flung trickles of water up into the sky while laughing and doing his best at twirling while keeping afloat.

Zack smirked. Easy target.

All too suddenly and overcome with the taste of excitement, Zack lurched forward making a loud splash. He froze as he saw Cloud's shoulders stiffen. A nano-second before Cloud whipped around to investigate the sound, fright quickly etching his features, Zack took a breath and ducked down under the water, making sure to completely submurge his spikes.

"Cloud? You look like you saw a ghost." Zack faintly heard Tifa's voice.

Aerith's higher pitched, but still muffled voice came next,"Yeah, what's wrong?"

Zack had to strain his ears under the water to hear Cloud's soft, distressed whisper. "I-I don't know! I think there's a shark in here!"

Zack opened his eyes slowly underwater and blinked a couple of times. He was close enough to see the pale outline of Cloud's frantically kicking legs as he treaded water. Quickly, but carefully, Zack swam towards it.

If he weren't under water he would have been chuckling at how evil he was.

Reaching out with his hand, he brushed a trail from Cloud's toes to mid-calf with his fingers.

Darting away, Zack got behind a nearby rock, emerged from the water and peeked around it to watch.

Cloud went BERSERK.

The blonde was thrashing around madly. "TIFA! TIFA! IT WAS THE SHARK! IT FELT ME UP!" Zack snickered quietly at the blondes choice of words.

Tifa and Aerith, who were astounded and lost at the same time because of the sudden outburst just stared at Cloud like he was crazy.

"Cloud. . ." Tifa said slowly as if she were talking to a mental institution patient who just snapped, "There's no sharks. Trust me." Aerith nodded and rubbed the blonde's back soothingly.

"A-are you s-s-sure?" Cloud asked shakily. Tifa nodded with a sincere look in her dark brown-garnet eyes.

Believing in her, he settled down and swam next to Tifa to be closer. If there WAS a shark, Tifa would roundhouse kick it before it turned Cloud into Blonde a'La Filett. Either that or simply throw Tifa in front of him and swim as fast as his short legs could carry him. Whichever the situation called for.

Being patient and waiting for the dorky blonde to continue his splashing around like a child, Zack started to approach him again, extra slowly.

At a suitable distance, Zack brought his right hand out of the water, carrying The Object.

Cocking his arm back in a ready-to-throw position, Zack called out, "HEY, CLOUD!"

As soon as the blonde turned to face whoever it was calling out his name with a clueless, "Huh?" Zack launched the item out of his hand. The thing flew in the air. As it got closer, and closer to hitting Cloud, the blondes face started to slowly contort to horror. And ten feet of flying through the air later, it smacked Cloud squarely in the face.

The blonde froze, as did the ravenette. Why wasn't he freaking out? That was the whole point!

Slowly coming back to life, Cloud really started to freak. He let loose a blood curdling scream that sounded right out of the movies. It alerted lifeguards all the way out on the shore.

As the scream ended, he started to shout panickly, "SQUID! SQUID!"

Bingo. Just the reaction he was looking for.

While Zack was at the drugstore looking for a box of bandaids and other supplies that a hospital would have and use on patients with amputated limbs, he had a feeling in his gut that he was being called. The call directed him to the mini toy aisle that the store had.

Once he saw the little purple and green plastic toy squid with the dopey face-tenticles and all- Zack instantly knew the meaning of life.

Grinning mischeviously, he snatched the rubbery childrens toy off the shelf and sprinted to the check out.

Wildly thrashing throughout the water, Cloud made a bee-line for the shore while continually chanting "Squid! Squid!"
Tifa an Aerith, who were also frozen stffl until that point in time turned in the direction the squid flew from. They noticed Zack for the first time.

With the furious glare he recieved from Tifa, he broke the number one rule of the beach, and peed in the water.

Here it is! The second and final part of Fun in the Sun! I'd like to thank HazzaTLC3 again for the beach prompt!

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I'm planning to do another Tidbits of Randomness (ToR) after this chapter. If you plays your cards, (and reviews) right, it'll be up someime later tomorrow ;D

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~Sabby-Sama