Jet Coaster
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of MAZICA PARTY.
Pairing: Pre-slash Kezuru x Cratch.
Summary:
A ride worth staying on.
"Here it comes!"
One benefit of falling for the enemy's "100% it's a trap" trap, beyond not having to pony up money to ride the ride the number of rides he rode it, was that Kezuru got to experience his favourite memory many times.
Too many times.
Many time too many times!
Granted, this was set against the backdrop of Ryuma trashing the amusement park and therefore Kezuru's happy memories, but once Kezuru was on the other side of the destruction, the absolute blast from his childhood resonated surer than ever.
As he and his Mazin looped round and round and round and round, he remembered the pure cheer of that day with Cratch when they came to the amusement park as kids. The world whizzing by faster than he could keep his eyes open. The volume of their pumped laughter and the so-over-it scream of the guy pretending to be brave for his girlfriend in the car behind them.
Kezuru with a missing tooth.
Cratch with cotton-stuffed cheeks that hadn't lost their baby fat yet.
Unlike that guy behind them in his memory, Kezuru didn't have a girlfriend then. He still doesn't have one now.
But he has Cratch, who's a boy and his best friend.
Ryuma ordering for Kezuru and Balnya to be tossed aboard the jet coaster was both underhanded and a hidden gift. Anya may have stolen the excuse to explain being on the Ferris wheel during the battle, but Kezuru ultimately picked out the light in the dark of the situation.
He didn't come to his friends' aid when the wizards of Dragohelm ambushed them. He couldn't. He was locked into his seat on the jet coaster, circling round and round, up, down, and upside-down!
Kezuru felt guilty he wasn't there to stop Ryuma, but riding the jet coaster was also a guilty pleasure. And no one embodied guilty pleasures better than his best friend, Cratch!
The fun times never ending. Each click along the track rising toward a finger-clutching apex and exciting drop!
Cratch was unpredictable, though Kezuru knew him like he knew the twists of the jet coaster.
The coaster always followed the same laps.
Kezuru's always took him into Cratch's lap.
