Wind: (cough) --

Le: Wind has a cold.

Wind: --

Le: She doesn't like being sick.

Wind: -- (sniffle)

Le: Sorry to say but no new chapter for this story yet, Wind needs to get reacquainted with the characters. But we will give you a side story so that you don't feel left out any JoT fans still out there. Review and make her happy in her misery.

It was a glorious day. The birds were chirping, the bees were buzzing, and the sun was burning bright in the sapphire sky. Yes it was summer in Tokyo and everyone was happy to see it. Well almost everyone.

"NOOOO! I DON'T WANNA GO!"

"Vash-san you are being stupid. Come on!"

"NOOOOO!"

In the Cherry Hill temple a great commotion was going on. The girls had thought that it would be a great idea if they all went to the beach. Everyone was all packed and ready except for the fact that when they went to collect Vash he refused to go. In fact Lita was currently pulling the blond man's feet while Vash held onto a beam for dear life.

Why was Vash the Stampede so against the beach? Was it that he had never seen a real ocean? Was it the fact that most of his body was covered with horrible scars, thus could not were a swimsuit? Was it because he could not swim? All good reasons but the real fact was,

"I'M NOT WEIRING THAT!"

That, in question, was a speedo. Yes a speedo; a small, black, skimpy speedo.

"Come on Vash, I know it's bad but it is all we have. Chad is wearing his trunks already and this is all he had left." Mina tried to persuade her fellow blond ditz.

"There's lots of things to do at the beach," Serena went on, "like food, and swimming, and food, and melon races, and food, and lots of hot guys, and most of all lots of yummy food!"

'Hm, food or speedo', Vash thought to himself, I like food but, "NOOOOO!" he cried out again.

"Well what else will you weir?" Raye asked in exasperation.

Lita finally gave up trying to rip the Humanoid Typhoon off the beam and let the man fall into the floor face first.

"I have something," Vash said as he pushed the girls out of his room.

An hour later we find the scouts and Vash at the beach. It had taken a small argument but the girls finally caved in and let him weir the thin, long sleeved shirt and thin slacks he had come out in. They had all piled into the bus, with Vash carrying most of their stuff and had reached their destination at last.

After setting up the umbrellas and towls where Raye and Lita laid to sun bath; Amy set out for the ocean, Mina for the volley ball game and Serena for the food stands leaving Vash to take in the sites. The ocean amazed him since he was from a desert planet but what he liked the best was, of course, all the girls in swimsuits and bikini's.

"Hello nurse!"

But little did they know villains were near by.

"Uh Amethyst I don't know if this is a good idea." Talon said folding his arms around his chest self-consciously. He was dressed in just a pair of light blue swimming trunks.

"Come on this is the life," the general said, scrawled out on a blanket sunbathing.

"Well at least my brother having fun for once." He looks over at his shape of his brother swimming in the water.

"Yeah, yeah that's great. Can you get me a Root Beer while your up, thanks."

Talon stood with his mouth open for a few minutes before trudging off, muttering about lazy women.

Vash sat down on one of the blankets with a pile of food. Four different hand prints still throbbing on his cheeks and three lipstick marks. He was about to dig into the donut holes when three little missiles plowed into him.

"VASH!" cried two girls while the third went, "CHIBI"

"Hey there Hotaru, Rini, Chibi Chibi," the blond smiled at his fan club's top three members. "What are you doing here?"

"Mom and dad brought us!" Hotaru said with more vigor then normal as her cheeks reddened.

"We decided to come after Serena called and told us about your trip," this came from Amara who had walked up with Setsuna and Michelle at a more normal speed.

"COOL!" Serena cried as she ran up, "Now we have anough people!"

Big question marks appeared over everyone's heads.

"There is a watermelon race that is going to start soon, and Serena thinks that if we have more people we have a better chance of winning the prize," Amy offered looking over her book.

"What's the prize?"

Serena's eyes went wide and stary, "A whole basket of Donuts and a full collection of Sailor Scout plush dolls. WE HAVE TO WIN!"

Vash's eyes went wide as well at the 'D' word, "YES WE MUST" he agreed. And thus the two hyper blonds dragged the others to the sign in sheet.

"A contest?"

"Yep, apparently it is an Earth tradition for the season. You have to carry and protect a melon while smashing other peoples melons so you are the only one to reach the finish first." Fang told his brother and the general, "The winner gets some sort of highly sought after prize of some sort."

Talon shrugged, "Sounds fun, want to enter?"

Amethyst shrugged and got up, "Why not, I haven't had any fun in a while. Lets do it."

Everyone stood at the starting line, mallets and melons on hand. Everyone was setting up alliances that no one was going to follow and stretching. Finally the starting gun blasted and they were off. It was a vicious display of violence with juicy bits of watermelon raining everywhere. Not surprisingly Serena dropped her melon and cried when it smashed on the sand.

It was farther along that we find Vash and the other scouts. They had ducked away from the starting line melee and were making their way forward, watching out for the stronger racers who came along and promptly smashing the fruit in their arms.

Not to far from the finish line they ran into the three generals. Everyone stopped and gasped. The girls because of the sudden appearance of the enemy and a few because of how hot the twins looked in swimsuits, the enemies because of the appearance of Vash and Vash because Amethyst was wearing a very skimpy bikini.

The two groups stood in a silent staring contest. Finally as a Sea gull cried overhead the two groups clashed. Despite being out numbered they took out Amy, Mina, Michelle, Raye and Rini's melons. Fang struck out and sent Lita's melon sailing for Setuna's, making both break but was unable to stop Amara's mallet from claiming his. Now it was down to Vash, Hataru, and Amara left against Talon and Amethyst. The teams raced for each other, mallets raised. When they met a cloud of dust formed around them as arms, legs and mallets could be seen sometimes.

"AND WE HAVE A WINNER!" the announcer cried over all the noise. The fighting stopped to see that Chibi Chibi was at the finish line. Her chubby little arms waved in victory as she cuddled her Sailor Plushies and ate donuts at the same time.

And everyone promptly fell over in shock.

Dumb I know, but with summer not far away and the fact that they said we will have snow this week up here I wanted to do a warm chapter. I'll work on the actual next chapter as soon as possible. PLEASE REVIEW AND MAKE ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT THIS DARN COLD!