Chapter 20: Day at the Beach
Season(s): Heartcatch, Kirakira a la Mode
Characters: Cures from these season, Olivier, Rio K.
Summary: All for the sake that they can have fun
"WHEEEEEEE!" Ichika and Erika both shouted as they leapt into the sea, the huge wave they created make the girls on land all wet.
"Oh you're on, Ichika!" Aoi yelled.
"Me too!" Itsuki said.
"Me three!" Ciel also jumped in and they started splashing each another. The water fight was so intense that Tsubomi and Himari chose to immerse themselves in the water and only come out to breathe from time to time.
"It has gone crazy," Rio stated.
"I thought this beach day was for the senior high-schoolers to have fun for once," Olivier paused and looked back, "but that's not happening."
Rio jumped in to find Ichika and pulled her away from the fight, "Hey, did you girls completely forget why we all come here for?"
"Oh, right!" Ichika clapped her hands together, "No problem!" She walked back to the land, "Yuri-san, Yukari-san, Akira-san! Come play with us!"
"I'll pass," Yuri announced coolly, "we'll just stay here and look after our belongings."
"This is a Tategami private beach, there are no thieves, SHS!" Aoi declared proudly, then she, Erika and Ciel followed Ichika out of the water and pushed and pulled the three older Cures into the water.
"SHS?" Akira inquired in the middle of the pushing and pulling.
"Senior High-Schoolers," Aoi answered like it was the most obvious thing ever, "Thus, S.H.S."
"Okay, enough exposition. Let the splashing continue!" Itsuki announced and everybody splashed the SHS.
"Okay then," Akira grinned, "since you declared battle, we're not gonna give way!"
Her wave knocked Ciel down, who took the chance to call out to Rio, "Pikario! We need reinforcements!"
"Fine..."
"Oh, Rio-kun is joining?" Yukari clearly seemed interested now (you know, cuz they're rivals), "Come on, Yuri, we can't lose to them!"
Before Yuri could reply, Ciel and Rio splashed her right in the face, making her bangs stick to her forehead.
"Argh! As you wish then!"
It was clearly a very bad timing to breathe because Himari ended up with a mouth full of water instead of air.
"Himarin, you look like a pufferfish!" Ichika laughed.
"I'll avenge you, Himari!" Erika exclaimed as Tsubomi tried to persuade her out of it, "Oh no Erika please don't..."
But we all know Erika never listens, she jumped high towards the two purple haired girl and shouted, "INCOMING!" She created a massive wave (again) and caused Yuri and Yukari to yelp and fall.
"Whoa... was that the first time Yukari-san ever lost her cool?" Himari blinked.
"Probably yes..."
Erika crossed her arms with pride, "I'll call that one Marine Divebomb! Mwhhahahahahahahahahha!"
"Beach volleyball! Itsuki, Olivier and Yuri-san versus Yukari-san, Akira-san and Rio, who will win?" Aoi took out a microphone from absolutely nowhere at all and started being a sports reporter.
"Do your best, Olivier!" Tsubomi cheered and blushed when everyone looked at her, while Olivier felt very awkward because he didn't have his scarf with him.
"Olivier, focus!" Itsuki commanded as she refrained from giggling.
"Let the showdown begin!"
Throughout the match, being the typical Tsubomi, she constantly yelled, "Olivier, yes, nice moves, no, jump, yes, do the overhead strike, yes!"
And Olivier was, of course, pretty fed up. He turned around during the match to demand, "Will you quit it?!"
While at the same time, Rio passed the ball to Akira and she hurled it to the Heartcatch's side. "Olivier, watch out!" Yuri exclaimed.
Just as Olivier reacted, the ball hit him right in the forehead and left a bleeding graze, "Wah!"
"Olivier!" Tsubomi almost screamed and rushed to Olivier. Everyone followed her and crowded around Olivier.
"Oh, I'm so sorry, Olivier," Akira apologised.
"Nah, this is nothing," Olivier assured.
"Are you sure?" Tsubomi said, "Do you need bandage? Will it get infected? Do you need us to escort you back to the villa?"
"Tsubomi-san," Himari said, "It's just a scratch, he's fine. I'll go get the first aid kit."
"Okay..." Tsubomi said, but kept on bugging Olivier.
"She's at it again, did you know that she..." Erika snickered while going around and trying to tell everybody everything that has ever happened between Tsubomi and Olivier.
"Lunchtime!" Aoi exclaimed excitedly, "We have seaweed onigiri made by Tsubomi and Yuri-san, sandwiches by Yukari-san and Akira-san, and milkshakes by Ciel and Rio-kun, fresh from the kitchen! But of course, we need a watermelon!" She carried a watermelon and a wooden rod out from the villa.
"Yukari-san, would you do the honours?" Ichika handed the rod to Yukari.
"Eh? Why me?"
"No reason."
They blindfolded her and had her smash the watermelon.
"Left!"
"A little more left!"
"No! Go right!" Rio pranked.
"Seriously?" Olivier said, "That's so pointless."
Not listening to Rio, Yukari successfully smashed the watermelon. But she didn't take off the blindfold. Instead, she followed Rio's voice and hit him on the head.
"Ouch! What did you do that for?"
Yukari took the blindfold off and grinned mischievously, "What did I do what for?"
"Serves you right, Rio," Olivier muttered and chortled beside him.
"Guys, just eat your lunch peacefully, okay?" Akira suggested.
"That's right," Erika agreed, "Don't waste such a delicious time of day! Itadakimasu!"
She opened her mouth wide to take a bite of her sandwich, but...
"Erika! That seagull just..." Itsuki called to Erika, making her take a look at the patch of white on her sandwich now.
"My sandwich!" Erika yelled, fuming, "Come back here, you evil bird!"
Erika threw her sandwich on the ground and chased after the seagull, while Itsuki facepalmed, Aoi and Ichika laughed, and Yuri sighed, "Great... now we'll never hear the end of it..."
"After lunch, sandcastle building is the most suitable," Himari suggested.
"Alright! Let the contest begin!" Aoi became a competition reporter again.
One hour later
"Time's up!" Aoi announced, "What do we have? First, Team SHS!"
"We built Kirapati out of sand," Akira introduced while Yuri and Yukari fist-bumped.
Aoi continued, "Okay, Team Twins?"
"We built ourselves," Ciel said with pride, showing everyone the sand sculpture of Kirarin hugging Pikario, "in fairy form though."
"Nice job, Ciel, Rio-kun," Yukari went over to comment.
"Really?" Ciel asked gleefully.
"Yes, sand Pikario looks cuter than the real thing," Yukari quipped.
"It's not like I need to be called cute by you," Rio rolled his eyes.
"Finally, Team Erika," (because of course Erika would name the team after herself) Aoi ignored the ongoing tension between Yukari and Rio and moved on to the last sand sculpture, "Okay, let me guess what it is. A tree?"
"No!" Erika yelled, offended; her teammates however... it seemed that Tsubomi and Itsuki weren't so surprised that Aoi couldn't guess it.
"A snowman?" Aoi continued, "Ummm... a gourd! Definitely a gourd!"
"No! This is Coupe-sama!" Erika flared.
Everyone stared at the sand sculpture with their heads tilted, and they all started giggling, especially Olivier, eventually.
"Yes, he looks absolutely ridiculous, I know," Tsubomi pulled with a facepalm.
"We don't even know what went wrong..." Itsuki added.
Yuri put her hands on their shoulders and remarked, "You're lucky that Chypre, Coffret and Potpourri didn't come."
"PILLOW FIGHT!"
Nighttime befell quickly, but apparently, rest wasn't on the top of anyone's nighttime priority list (no surprise there :P).
Olivier commented, "Here comes the pillow pandemoni..." His sentence was cut off with a front hit from Erika and a back hit from Rio simultaneously.
"Olivier is gonna unleash his inner wolf!" Itsuki laughed as Olivier grabbed the pillows and hurled both at Rio, Rio caught them and throw them at Yukari, yelling, "Payback time!"
Yukari ducked them skilfully, which was bad news for Yuri, who was standing behind her. When Yukari stood back up thinking she was out of danger, Yuri threw the pillows back at her. Completely oblivious, Yukari yelped and fell.
"Sorry, no mercy in war," Yuri giggled.
Meanwhile, Himari landed a hit on Ciel, and then she peeped, "Ah, Ciel-chan... I'm so sorry."
Aoi pulled a facepam, "You're in a fight, Himari! Be aggressive! Like this!" She had at least a dozen of pillows behind her, she went, "PILLOW BARRAGE!"
Everyone yapped as they all got hit, but Ciel briskly turned into Kirarin on purpose and flew over all the pillows.
"Hey, no fair!" Tsubomi noticed Ciel's tactic, "Everyone aimed for Kirarin!"
Soon, Kirarin was buried under a mountain of pillows. "You're all so cruel-kira..."
Akira saw her chance in the mountain of pillows, she kicked away the top half, and everybody in that direction dodged, except Ichika, who was too busy laughing.
"I got beaten!" Ichika declared then faked death, while still giggling.
The intense pillow battle came to eventual end as soon everyone laid on the ground just like Ichika did and laughed.
The day was fun, but as the time went on, slumber started to appeal to everyone. They said their "goodnight"s and retreated to their chambers.
Unfortunately, the largest room in the villa could only accommodate 9 people, so the SHS were settled into a separate room.
"It's been such a long time since I've had so much fun," Yukari said as she combed her hair, "It's always like this, Ichika..."
"Ichika-chan and the other never cease to add joy to your lives?" Yuri asked.
"Yup."
"Completely understandable," Yuri smiled, "What would I be without Erika, Itsuki and Tsubomi?"
"Do you sometimes feel an obligation to take care of them, and only find out that they took care of you more?" Akira questioned.
"Sometimes, I would find myself relying on them before I knew it," Yukari said, "And then I'd think that I would be heading to Confetto Kingdom in no time and I feel... apprehensive."
"That's true," Akira lamented, "and when next March comes, we'll be all graduating too."
There was a moment of silence. All three of them suddenly realized just how much their team meant to them.
"Those girls are the best definition of busybodies, aren't they?" Yuri laughed lightly.
"Well, if they're not like that, I can't imagine what they'd be," Akira said.
The three of them smiled to themselves. They worried that thinking about how much longer could everyone stay together would keep them awake, but as they held the memories they made with their dearest friends close by, repose came to their hearts as they drifted off to dreamland.
End of Chapter 20
A/N: I've been wanting to do a chapter with all the 17 year olds for a long time already and I've finally done it! Oh, and the next chapter should be out in a few days because there is some continuity.