......... Picture day.......

On Pirate Isle, there was a yearly ritual done at the island's school. It was a horror of unspeakable horror...... Well, at least for two kids......

Yes. It was the fable and dreaded 'Picture Day'. All children from ages 6 to 12 had to get a picture taken. Although all the kids hated this so much, two stood out from the crowd. They were the most determined to NOT dress up.

It was at the Dyne household. A small boy was running away from his father.

"Get back here, Vyse!" called Captain Dyne. "It's just a tie, a button down shirt and dress shoes!"

"NO WAY!" yelled the frantic 11 year old.

In the living room of the house, Mrs. Dyne was having the same amount of luck.

"Aika? Please come out now," She called. No response.

"Aika! Come out now!" She tried again. That time, she heard a small noise. Mrs. Dyne turned to the couch.

'Ah HAH!'

She slowly walked over to the end of the couch. She peered behind it and called out....

"I found you-"She started, "What the....?"

Pow jumped out and licked her face. Then Mrs. Dyne heard footsteps behind her and giggling. She turned to see Aika, half-way across the room.

Then she sped off.

"Great!" Complained Vyse's mom.

Back to the other two, Captain Dyne was becoming desperate.

'Maybe blackmail can work...' He thought evilly.

Vyse had run to his room and locked himself in his closet. Captain Dyne thought about what he could use..... then he saw it. It was Vyse's new cutlass that took him 5 months allowance to buy.

"Perfect," He said.

"Hey Vyse?" He said. "You know your new sword?"

He heard a bit of motion in the closet.

"Well, do you think a sword like that can fly over the edge of the island?"

More motion could be heard in the closet.

Then the Captain said, "Let's just go see...." He was interrupted by Vyse coming out of the closet.

"Please Dad! Don't!" He literally cried.

"Okay!" His dad said. "Now get changed." He ordered and stepped out of the room.

'Does he really think I am going to get changed? HAH!' thought Vyse as an escape plan was forming in his head. 'Just got to climb out the window, run over to Aika's house, hide under her table and...'

"Hey, Vyse?" came his father's voice. "Just so you know, your mom and I locked all the windows on the outside. We could tell that you two would try to slip out again."

"Dang it..." Vyse said under his breath.

Downstairs, in another part of the house, Aika had been cornered. Mrs. Dyne took her by the wrist's and tied her to a chair while applying make-up.

She let her hair down from the silly pig-tails. Mrs. Dyne then put four pink ribbons in her straight hair.

"Now I need you to go and change into this dress," Vyse's mother said.

"Noooooooooooo!" wined Aika.

"But dear, you already wear dresses so what's the problem?"

"It's PINK and FRILLY!"

"So? It's only for one day..."

"Yeah, and that's bad enough. But, it gets worse cause there's going to be a picture that proves I wore this, too!" Aika cried out.

About an hour later, the Dyne house was finally quiet. The house door opened. Everyone, who was out at that time, looked to see what the two mini rouges had to wear that year.

Vyse and Aika stepped out with crimson red faces. Luke the Raider was in the back of the crowd laughing his head off.

Though it seemed like forever, finally, it was their turn for the picture.....

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"Bet you can't catch me!!" Called Vyse to a mud covered Aika.

"Oh, yeah?" She yelled while running after him.

Two tired adults stood watching them.

"All that work for one picture?" sighed Vyse's mother.

"Don't worry," said a very worn out Captain. "Just one more year of these pictures...."

A.N: I live on reviews! Please tell me what you thought. I really had fun thinking these stories up and I hope you liked reading them.