Disclaimer: No, I don't own anybody in this fic, except for my own character. I have almost everybody who is in this fic's permission to have them in it and, um, Viz and Rikudo Koshi, please don't sue me.

Chapter 3: Dinnertime!

Excel is in the steering room, ringing a bell and shouting in a megaphone, which goes through the PA system "Hey, it's almost dinnertime! Plus, the sun is setting! Eat, you anorexic freaks!"

Hyatt and Watanabe walk over to the Delphina Restaurant and sits down at a table. Hyatt decided to put on a short plum evening dress for dinner and Watanabe is wearing the black and white tuxedo look.

Watanabe looks at the menu "Um…what should we order…."

Hyatt smiles slightly. "Let's get a bottle of red wine and some angel hair with the sauce…" she says as she reads it off her menu.

Watanabe starts to sweat, trying to hide his nervousness but failing to do so "S-sounds…g-great…"

As they wait for their dinner, the rest of the Excel cast starts flowing into the restaurant. Excel, Illpalazzo, Key and Menchi sit with Edward, Med, Ropponmatsu the Second, Malitia and Sasuke, who already have there food. Malitia is shoving Edward in her food and Edward keeps kicking Malitia in the shin. This goes on for a little while until Sasuke gets bored. He gets up and pimp walks to Malitia and injects a sedative into her arm and pimp walks back over to his food where he pimp sits in his chair and starts eating like a pimp. Edward wipes off her face in the table cloth and eats Malitia's food instead. She thanks her dad and digs into the roasted peacock. Med keeps poking her hamburger, consently saying "Is it dead yet?" Ropponmatsu starts chugging some oil as Excel contemplates what to eat.

"Um….Great Lord Illpala, I'm really hungry, can I eat something filling for a change? Like, maybe a possum or a gay rat?" Excel asks while pouring some Naked™.

Illpalazzo sighs "As long as it's free…then yes…"

Excel eyes light up and flicker like a broken spotlight "THANK YOU LORD ILLPALAZZO!" she praises as she flips through the menu. "LET'S GET EVERYTHING, RIGHT DOWN TO THE LAST YELLOW SPOTTED LIZARD!"

Menchi eyes light up as well but for different reasons.all right… she thinks I won't be eaten today…

Key puts his hand on Excel's shoulder "Anything for you my sweet, sweet angel"

Excel's heart starts pounding really fast and her eyes turn into, what seems to be, candy hearts as she goes on her rant which goes something like this… "GAH, I LOVE MY GREAT LORD ILLPALAZZO AND KEY did I just say that out loud NO MATTER, I LOVE THEM BOTH SOOOOOOOO MUCH! I'D DIE FOR THEM IF I COULD, BUT THAT YAOI DREAM WAS WAY TOO MUCH FOR ME TO HANDLE, GAH!"

Illpalazzo eats one of the candy heart eyes and Excel screams "THAT WAS MY RETINA!"

Rinoa runs out onto the deck, with Force, rea-rea and Zero not far behind. She runs over to the railing and almost falls over, trying to look at the sunset.

Rea walks next to Rinoa and looks at the sunset too "Pretty…"

"I know, let me take a picture of this, to remember the trip with a souvenir!" Rinoa thinks aloud and smiles.

Force, Zero and Rea are then pushed over to the rail by Rinoa and are put in nice arrangement with the light and backround used to it fullest. Zero and Force are in the back and Rinoa has Zero put his hand on Rea's shoulder and has Rea lean her head on Zero's upper arm. Rinoa sets up a timer on the camera for twenty seconds and then hurries over to her place infront of Force, picking up his arms and draping them over her shoulders.

A big red five shows up on the camera's countdown "Everybody smile!" Rinoa says cheerfully.

The picture is taken with ALMOST everybody smiling. Before it took, Rea put some bunny ears on the back of Zero's head and she stuck her tongue out in triumph. She ended up giggling after the picture was taken.

Zero looks at Rea, asking her what was so funny and she said
"Nothing…nothing at all..." and then she bursts out laughing again, right after she suppressed it.

Force and Rinoa look to her in surprise, wondering what was so funny too. Rea walks over to Rinoa and whispers in her ear "I want copies, lots of 'em"

"Done and done" Rinoa replies as she walks over to grab the camera, even though she has no idea what Rea wants them for, she just goes with it.

Force looks at a pamphlet "So, where are we eating?"

Rea starts jumping up and down "Let's go to Lover's Lane!"

"How about this Rea, we go to Rendezvous Lounge tonight and go to Lover's Lane in the morning. Okay with you?" Rinoa suggests.

Rea smiles and grabs Zero's hand "I'll live with that but you owe me"

The group walks into the Grand Hall, which is drowned in mixes of reds and takes a transparent glass elevator up to the 12th deck, where the lounge is. As they step off the elevator, they are greeted by a large group of people that, even in one million years, look like that is not related when, in fact, they are. This certain group of people just happens to be part of Rinoa's and Zero's fairly messed up family.

Where to start…hm...Well, you met Void and Kitty earlier. They used to be married but that didn't work out quite well…They are on opposite sides of the group but when they see Zero and Rinoa, they run over to hug them. Void gets there first and hugs them then he backs off, letting Kitty hug them.

Rinoa tells Void he should have let Kitty go first because she is a lady. He tells her that she's right, ladies should go first but then again, Kitty isn't a lady. This really pisses Kitty off and she pulls out a butcher knife, saying "Come here Void…" in a fairly creepy tone. Void starts circling the group, trying to lose Kitty.

Xenobia, otherwise known as Xen, is Zero's mother and Rinoa's aunt. Her step father is Sasuke (you know, the guy who had the word pimp in one of his sentences). She places a bet of 85 dollars on Kitty, yelling "Get'em!" Xenobia is one of the fighting spirits in the family and can be totally unpredictable.

Flame, Cassie (often called Cass by many members of the family) and Kikyo, three of their many sisters, all have different characteristics. Flame tends to keep to herself and happens to be smoking at the moment. Cass likes to purposely kill herself because she thinks everyone hates her, and is rooting for Void to win because she is fighting with Kitty over something stupid once again. Kikyo, as all gothic vampire/priestess/undead/soul-sucking/first-class modding/fire controlling demons do, likes to drink blood (lots of it) and throwing herself of high places like cliffs and mountains. (Her current favorite is Mt. Everest.) She is ignoring the mini-battle and instead hugs Rinoa and Zero.

Aoshi Shinomori, one of their many brothers, takes out his katana and holds it in its sheath between Kitty and Void, saving them from much bloodshed. He upholds justice, like another certain person Rinoa knows…but anyway, he hates it when the family fights and trys to stop it.

Inu Kagome, sister of Zero and Rinoa, is called Inu by most of the family who isn't too formal, takes out a whip and whips her bish Aoshi with it "I was enjoying the fight…You had to go and ruin it…"

Dante, who can get angered easily and lives to fight people, reason or not, is another of the billion brothers this family holds, gets poked in the back by AlBhed Rikku, his cousin "Huh?"

"Don't tell anybody this but I stole all of Zero's gil with the other Rikku."

Dante falls to the floor, laughing "He's such a sucker!" he barely get out, laughing.

Zero speeds over to Dante. "WHO is a sucker, dear brother?" he asks in a fairly pissed tone.

Rikku smiles "You are!" she exclaims while pointing her finger at him before collapsing on the floor, giggling.

Pyro, a great Majin who, along with many people in this massive family, upholds justice, sees this fight brewing and he stops the spark before it causes a fire. He's another brother of Zero's and Rinoa's. He often gets possessed by various spirits, demons and anything else that has evil backrounds, which really prevents him from doing his job. He holds his sheathed sword in between Zero and Dante "No fighting during a vacation, can you both handle that?"

Dante gets up, muttering "Barely…"

kuramas lil fox, called Fox by just about everybody, family or not, jumps on her husband Pyro's head. Pyro looks up and smiles as Fox looks down and smiles. Fox is Zero's and Rinoa's aunt/sister. She is a very cheery person and is proud to be.

Someguy, Zero and Rinoa's uncle of Kitty's side, hugs his niece's and nephews. He also hugs his sister Cass. He likes to be called uncle JohnJohn, so that's what Rinoa calls him.

Rea looks over and sees Shuyin kissing his love of his life Lenne, who he just married five minutes ago in the chapel on the 6th deck. Somebody tried to assassinate them but failed. Shuyin is yet another one of Zero and Rinoa's brothers and that makes Lenne their sister-in-law. Shuyin is also Cass's nephew. Are you confused yet?

There are some more family member's like Excel and Yuna that are on the ship along with another group six times bigger then this one which is about everybody in the family, if you combine the two.

As planned, they all dine at the Rendezvous Lounge. Many fight and quarrels break out but we're only going to look at one particular one…

Rikku is counting her gil out that she stole from Zero, right in front of him. That pisses him off so much; Rea has to restrain him with a spell to stop him from killing Rikku. Zero demands Force to pass him the salt and pepper for his steak. Force is too busy trying to stay out of the conflict and ignores him.

"Damnit Keebler elf, pass the salt and pepper!" Zero rages as he slams him fist on the table, almost knocking over the glasses on the table.

"…" Force decides to take it and eat his rice balls.

"HE'S NOT A KEEBLER ELF!HE'S CAN BARELY COOK LET ALONE MAKE CRACKERS! HE DOESN'T LIVE IN A TREE, PLUS FORCE IS TALLER THEN YOU ZERO!" Rinoa stands up shouting at Zero, getting red in the face.

"Zero, calm down…" Rea trys to help keep Zero calmed down but he can't hear her over his raging.

Zero looks to his sister "THEN YOU PASS THEM, MRS.ANGELFORCE!"

Rinoa gets redder. "WE'RE NOT MARRIED!" She screams for the whole room to hear her as she throws the salt and pepper shakers, along with her wine glass at Zero before she sits back down to eat her curry.

Kitty shakes her head "And I thought I was bad…"

Force whispers to Rinoa "Nice way of handling the situation…"

Rinoa sighs "This is why family can be stupid…"

Zero ducks the glass and hears it smash right above him, glares at Rinoa menacingly and puts the salt and pepper on his steak.

Rea sighs and pokes at her stir-fry with her spork.

Kikyo comes running over, with what seems to be a bloody marshmallow in her mouth that she swallows whole before she whispers to Rinoa "Lethal, what happened?"

Rinoa sweatdrops for she can hear the rest of the family whispering around her about the incident "Um…small battle, nothing big…"

As these disputes are finally settled, more things are just waiting to happen later in the night…