Chapter 37: A Day at the Beach
Ah, summer. What a wonderful time for appreciating nature's beauty. The sky is at its bluest. The animals, they run free through the grass. And fields of flowers bloom towards the sun. It is truly, truly beautiful...
Except for one sliiiiiight problem...
"I feel like my skin's going to melt off my bones...!" Joe Dark said, laid out flat on the kitchen floor like a wet towel.
The sweltering, unrelenting heat.
Alura has been collapsed on the couch for the last few minutes, her favorite ebony dress now proving to be her greatest enemy. She was positively drenched and her hair glistened with a oily sheen.
"J-Joe Dark...help me..." She moaned, struggling to move even a finger.
"I wish I could Alura..." Joe Dark grit his teeth and pulled his head up with a scowl, "If SOMEBODY wasn't hogging the fan!"
Mew stood by the kitchen table and adjusted the fan so it blew upon Maria. She closed her eyes with a smile, and resumed drawing with her crayons on the drier pieces of paper.
He then looked over his shoulder and Joe Dark laid into him, "Seriously, give me one good reason why we don't have air conditioning!"
"Well, I never needed it..." And as a matter-of-fact, Mew didn't have a bead of sweat to his name.
"Fix. This. Now." Joe Dark demanded with a kingly tone.
"I wouldn't even know the first thing about installing one!" Mew said, leaning slightly with fists on his hips.
"...Ugh, you're a terrible host." Joe Dark collapsed upon the kitchen floor and laid his limbs out.
"You're right, I only cook, clean and make your beds." Mew rolled his eyes.
"Joe Dark...am I going to...d-die again?" Alura groaned.
"I-If we're going down I'm taking him with us...!" Joe Dark began to lurch upright when Mew swung his hands up defensively and hollered, "Whoa whoa lets not get crazy here!"
He flashed a grin and snapped his fingers at his chest, "I got a wonderful idea!"
He then threw his hands up and exclaimed, "We should all go to the beach!"
Alura's curious eyes perked up immediately, "The beach? What is...the beach?"
Mew's lips slid right into a grin as he rubbed his chin, "Its a wonderful place where you kick back, relax, and gaze into the sparkling sea waters as a cool breeze rubs any sweat off your body. You can play games, lay back, and eat tons of ice cream!"
Alura began to drool, and pulled herself up over the head of the couch, "Joe Dark...I want to go to the beach and try out this 'ice cream'."
"Pah...that doesn't sound too bad honestly..." Joe Dark tried to sit up and weakly wagged a hand beside his head, "Will it just be the four of us then...?"
"I should try and see if the others'll want to come along," He began to walk towards the phone, "If its hot here I can't imagine what its like in Sancturia."
Since Riku was now on the moon they decided to have Saturn set up a hotline between there, here, and Kairi's house for easier communication. To think, in a few minutes he'd be the first person to send a call to the moon.
Ten button taps and three rings later, Mew's heart raced with anticipation as the other line answered with, "Mew? Is that you?"
"Heeeeeey Kairi! Looks like the connection's working!" He paced around the room and subtly pumped a fist up by his side.
"Yeah, it sounds exactly like you over the phone...What's up?" She sounded a little tired.
"Oh nothing much. Say, how's the weather treating you today?"
"God!" She groaned in misery, "Its sweltering up here! Something must be wrong with the weather regulator or something..."
"Huh, that's weird," Mew's lips slightly curled, "But hey it ain't any better for us here which is why I called. How'd yoooooou like to go to the beach?!"
"...The...the beach?"
"A-yep!"
"A-As in the...kind of beach where you wear...s-swimsuits?"
"I don't think there's any other kind of beach..." Mew said with a chuckle.
"Mmmmmrrr, I don't know..." He overheard the sound of stampeding footsteps and a slight struggle in the background.
"THE BEACH? HECK YEAH I'M IN!" Shina enthusiastically proclaimed, and Mew drew the phone away for the time being.
"Shina, give me the phone!" Kairi's voice was fading. A battle was unfolding, and Mew's overeager imagination filled in the blanks.
"Huh? What's that mom?" But when Shina said that Mew's heart skipped a beat and his lips puckered inward like he had sucked on a lemon, "You wanna come too?!"
Mew's eyes widened, straightening out when he heard a terrible fall in the background. Then, after some familiar pants, Kairi had resumed control.
"Huff...Unbelievable..."
Mew snickered and said, "Sounds like its been decided for you!"
"Yeah whatever...a-anything's better than dying in my own sweat..." She grumbled for a bit, "So where are we going to meet up at?"
"There's a place called Pacific Shores on the west part of the state. Whaddya say we meet up there about...noon?"
"Fine by me. Oh, and Mew?"
"Yeah?"
"Y-You better not...Better not..."
"Yesssssss?" Mew playfully egged her on.
"GAH! Don't play ignorant!" She hung up right after.
Joe Dark had gotten up finally and limped to the corner of the kitchen, "So are those women coming along?"
"Yep!" Mew said leaning over his shoulder. He could see the life fading from his brother's eyes as he groaned longer than a cow in heat.
"Now for..." Mew dialed in the next number and paced towards the front door.
"Hello! Lunar Residence speaking!" The delightfully lovely Lunis answered, "Heehee, just kidding, I know its you Mew! This technology is so convenient! So, how's it going?"
"Oh hi Lunis I wasn't expecting you to pick up the phone. Is Riku busy?" He got his answer in the form of some explosions going off in the background.
"Him and brother are sparring. Again." She said with a punctuating sigh.
"Well I hope you all aren't too busy, cause I was hoping you'd join us for a trip to the beach!"
"Really?!" Was not the kind of response he expected, "I'd love to! Absolutely!"
She stuffed her hand over the phone but he could still hear what she was saying, "Riku! Brother! Mew's inviting us to the beach! Uh huh. Yeah! You do?! Oh come on brother it'll be fun...Pleeeeeeeeease? Hooray! Thank you thank you!"
"We'll be there!"
"Excellent! The plan's to meet up at Pacific Shores at noon. Riku ought to know how to get there."
"Alright! See you then!"
She hung up, leaving Mew hovering the phone before his chest. He squeezed his hand, and his cheeks began to stretch.
"Heh..." If anyone could see his face, they'd describe it as something truly sinister. A scheming, wicked, abnormal grin crossed his face, and his eyes stared forth with staggering confidence.
"I've won..." He was hard-pressed not to snicker, "Exactly as planned."
One day ago...
It started with what seemed like a normal visit to check out his brother's new home. But he wasn't there for him. He was there for a certain sun god.
"Hey Solaris," He singled him out by waving his hands towards himself, "C'mere for a moment."
"What?" Naturally Solaris resisted with his usual gruff, "Whaddya want?"
Once he had gotten the sun god out of Riku's hearing range he leaned in close to whisper, "I have a question. How well can you control the sun's effect on a planet?"
"Are you really asking a god that?" Solaris answered with a scoff.
Mew loftily shrugged his shoulders and told him, "I dunno man, you and 'control' ain't exactly a perfect union."
"Oh yeah?! I can prove otherwise!"
"Really?" Mew softly smirked and put on a facade of curiosity as he pointed outside at the bright blue planet, "Tomorrow morning, make it so its extra hot at my place and Sancturia but nowhere else. If you do that, I'll take back everything I said."
"Yeah I'll make you eat those words...!" Solaris turned around and grumbled aloud, "Doubting my control, where does he get off..."
Unaware, that Mew was smiling wider than his face should be able to.
Present day...
"This was too easy. Solaris set the stage, and Shina and Lunis helped put everyone else in place for my greatest show of all!"
THE BEACH!
What Mew had "neglected" to mention is that there was one very, very beautiful, wonderful and splendid tradition associated with beach trips:
SWIMSUITS!
"The God of Tailor's gracious gift to manly men alike...! Where bountiful bosoms and bubbly butts are shown off for all to see, unrestrained by the woeful shackles of everyday clothing!"
Mew imagined himself drifting through a heavenly, arms stretched out as visions of nearly bare-naked beauties danced in his head.
"This will be the day where I die, surrounded in a sea of long, luscious legs and firm, thick thighs...!" And as he saw his body and head enveloped in a sea of God's blessings to women, his face melted with the utmost bliss, "Heaven IS a place on Earth, and I shall claim my rightful throne in PA-RA-DISE!"
In reality however, he was still wearing that same plotting face and only just now noticed Alura standing near him out of the corner of his eyes.
"..." She tilted her head with a blank, unassuming stare and then turned back to Joe Dark only a few feet away, "Joe Dark, I think Mew's broken his face."
"Maybe the heat's gotten to him after all..." Joe Dark replied with a snicker.
"Ahem...!" Mew forced a cough and turned around with a normal smile, "The Lunar Crew said they're coming too! So we're all set!"
"This'll be my first time at the beach," Maria chimed in with all her child-like enthusiasm bubbling to the surface, "I can't wait! Can we go now papa? Please?"
"Aaahh..." Mew's defenses were quickly folding over. Joe Dark, however, had something to say.
"Aren't you forgetting something?" He impatiently tapped his fingers on his hip, "We don't have any bathing gear."
"..." Mew froze up and his brain made a dial-tone noise.
"OH CRAP YOU'RE RIGHT!" He said while in recoil and then quickly tapped redial on the phone.
"Pickuppickuppickup!" Three seconds felt like they lasted an hour.
"Hello again!" Lunis chimed in.
"Heeeeeeey Lunis I just remembered something..." Mew's attempt at being casual only worked cause of the socially inept company he kept, "All of us need to go buy swimsuits before we go to the beach."
"Oh? A-Alright?" He could feel the fluttering of her eyelashes from here.
"I'll explain later. Just tell Riku to meet us at the mall in South Center."
Later...
Mew and his strange little family had arrived at the front of a big mall. The weather isn't as hot here but he wasn't worried about it foiling his plans.
Now they just stood around and waited for the others to show up. And it was not by their hand that they became aware...at least not intentionally. Murmurs and curious gazes began popping up in the crowd and Mew immediately turned right to see Riku, Lunis and Solaris approaching on the sidewalk.
Lunis and Solaris' normal attire stuck out like a sore thumb, not to mention their shiny hair and statuesque appearances.
As Mew walked to greet his brother he waved out to the crowd for some quick damage control, "Its ok guys, we're just going to a cosplay convention!"
And in one fell swoop he halved the amount of people interested. Riku chuckled at the crowd and then turned to his brother, "Maybe its time to shop for some new clothes."
"Yeah you're right..." Mew reached into his pocket and wagged around a debit card, "Go ahead and buy a few, it'll be my treat."
He swung back and hollered, "Same goes for you guys! I bet you're sick of those old clothes Joe."
"And maybe you should buy something different for yourself too." Joe Dark snarked back.
"Nah this one's a classic," Mew tugged at the chest of his shirt, "It'll outlive me for sure."
"So...how do we do this?" Lunis softly inquired, "I've never shopped for clothes before."
"Neither have I." Alura said, while Maria shook her head.
"I'll show you how its done," Mew waved his arms out as he passed his gathered crowd, and then with a showman's grace he stood before the entrance of the mall and exclaimed, "Come on! Lets go!"
This ragtag group stuck together against the restless tides of hundreds gathered here today. Sales aplenty in every store. Capitalism was working its summer magic on the hot and the horny.
But with time ticking down to noon Mew had to get them go to the closest clothes store they could. Joe Dark kept having to peel Alura away from other distractions and making promises that they'd visit them another day. Lunis took in all the sights and had Riku answering her book's worth of questions. Solaris wondered what the point of all this was, but nobody cared.
Finally they arrived at the clothes store, and Mew was pleased by the gasps of awe from his peers. There were plenty of clothes to go around, ranging from tight shorts and long, slender leggings to low-cut shirts and cupped bras.
"Alright, here's the most important thing you need to know," Mew faced his crowd of watchful eyes and stretched his arms to the sides of the store, "The clothes are divided by gender and types of clothes. Swimsuits get their own section. If you have further questions just ask the employees, or come to me."
He then looked back at the clock near the cashier and remarked, "We've got a little over an hour to burn but otherwise..."
He clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Go wild!"
Solaris immediately rushed off to inflict unknown degrees of misery upon the poor employees. Riku followed soon after, while Joe Dark, Alura and Maria went in their own group. Lunis stayed behind, bobbing her head back and forth. She then settled on a gentle lean towards Mew with a smile as bright as her skin.
"Mew...can you help me?"
"What's up?" He said, crossing his arms to still his eagerness.
"Could you...help me pick out a swimsuit?" She said with a humbling blush in her cheeks.
Mew's ecstasy was about to burst out of his mouth despite his sucked in lips hardening his defenses, "Breast. Day. EVER!"
He gently held out his arms for this princessly presence and murmured, "Right this way milady."
The two made a short trip to the swimsuit section and Lunis' eyes immediately frozen in a stiff bulging glare, "O-Oh my...!"
A pale gasp passed her lips and landed on her fingertips as she tried not to blush at the scandalous selection of clothes lied out before her.
"I...didn't think swimsuits would be so... so...revealing." She was more surprised than concerned, fortunately.
"Of course!" Mew happily pranced into the magical aisle of bikini tops and bottoms, "Its so you'll get the most cool air on your skin!"
He hung his head and smirked when Lunis replied, "Oh! That makes sense."
He swung right up and peppered his little white lie with the perfect piece de resistance, "Plus...I bet Riku'll think you look lovely in one of these."
She had been ensnared, and her brittle resistance turned into ravenous interest. She hurried into the aisle with a big smile and started fiddling through the many swimsuits. Mew watched on, gifted with a smile worthy of an imp's envy.
"Hmmm...I wonder if any of these'll even fit me." She began to murmur.
"You want them to be a light tight for em-" Mew sucked his lips in and quickly came up with an alternative, "Eeeeempowerment! Yep! A good swimsuit'll make you feel super strong!"
She lifted up a two-piece swimsuit with frills on the bra strings and remarked, "Like this?"
Mew's face turned red and he had to pull himself away before his imagination went wild too early, "Y-Yeah like that..."
He then closed his eyes and gestured over his shoulder, "If you need to be sure they do have private rooms back there where you can try on clothes."
"Oh! Thanks for letting me know!" She then put that swimsuit back and started in other ones.
"You're welcome," Mew gazed over her body for a moment and foul thoughts polluted his usually innocent mind, "What you're doing is thanks enough for me..."
Deciding to leave at least something to look forward to, Mew rounded out of the aisle she was on and happened to catch Joe Dark and his small group taking care of their shopping.
Joe Dark bent down at a row of swim trunks and had tossed a few onto the ground, "Do they really not have any with skulls...?"
Alura and Maria stood together behind them with a wandering look in their eyes.
"Need any help?" Mew's approach got their attention, and Maria nodded.
"Hmmm, lemme see here..." The kid's section was close by. Right away Mew saw the perfect thing hung on a rack.
"Hey here we go," He pulled out a light-green one-piece swimsuit with a leaf green flowery pattern over it and hints of pink around the flowers, "How's this?"
He handed it off to Maria and she cuddled it against her chest while giving him a smile, "Thanks papa."
"Well hold on," Mew playfully rubbed her head, "Go try it on first, see if it fits you."
He gestured at the fitting rooms and she hustled on over. Mew followed along.
Alura stared at the two and then tapped Joe Dark a dozen times on the back while he turned to look at her, "What?"
"What should I wear, Joe Dark?"
"Mmrrrrgh I don't know," He looked at her funny and then brushed his hand out, "Just...try a few of them on until you find one you like."
She blinked a couple times and then showed gratitude with a nod, "Ok, I will. Your help is appreciated, Joe Dark."
She wandered off. A few seconds later, Joe Dark turned back around and muttered, "Wait what?"
It seemed as though all of them, sans Joe Dark, would soon convene upon the fitting rooms. But one of their group had been held up in there way before the rest, causing the exact kind of trouble Mew had expected him to get wrapped up in.
"SHRRRIPPP!" Became a sound of heart-stopping dread for the young lady manning the fitting rooms at the moment.
"Ah damn it not again!" Solaris hollered behind closed doors.
The lady's face was a mix of white and red as she swallowed deep and faced the door, a torn pair of flame patterned boxers being dangled above the frame.
"Hey woman, why do you keep handing me all these weak shorts?!"
"B-But those are large...!" She tenderly bit her lower lip, her tongue moist with a growing thirst.
"Come on there has to be bigger ones! Hurry up!" Solaris let the shorts fall like a leaf and she ran to clasp them in her arms.
"O-Oooh..." Her heart melted and she spun around, avoiding the gaze of the other customers as she scurried off to find an even bigger pair of shorts.
Mew and Maria walked up and he tapped Solaris' door a few times, "Hey don't go harassing the employees we don't want to spend the day in a cold prison."
Solaris pulled his probably naked body on top of the door and the joints began to creak, "What? She didn't seem to have a problem being bossed around."
"That's..." Mew came to be dreadfully reminded that underneath all those layers of mean Solaris was 99% muscle, and tragically, some women didn't mind that "beef jerk-y" combo.
"...Just...get down from there, you look like a gorilla." Mew left it at that and directed Maria to the nearest open room before she became negatively influenced.
A few seconds later Alura came wandering up to the room to the right of Mew carrying a few different swimsuits and headed inside. The room was pretty small and had just enough room to fit her, a seat, and a large mirror.
"...Ummm..." She slowly laid what she picked up on the seat but kept one in her hands. It had a single black rectangular cloth up top and some sort of triangular shaped object at the bottom.
Holding it up in front of the mirror she saw it laid over her body and figured that's where they'd need to go. She fiddled around with the hanger until she heard a click, which unlocked the cloth from it.
She then dropped the triangular piece and took the rectangular cloth over her head and shoulders. The cloth wrapped around her arms and chest and looked like it was stretching.
She stared at herself in the mirror and a bit of pink went in her cheeks, "This doesn't feel right."
As she wiggled the cloth off she heard grunts coming from the right room. She hovered off the ground to peek over into the other room, and stalled stiff at the sight of Lunis, having lost nearly all of her clothes.
She had a lot of skin to show, all silky and smooth. Alura's heartbeat quickened and she found her breathing increasing.
Lunis was struggling to put one of those cloth tops on. It pressed against her giant chest spheres and they began to bounce. After a minute of trying she managed to tie a knot on her back and began to swerve, gazing at herself in the mirror, particularly towards the legs.
"I wish I wasn't so tall..." She whispered with a down look in her eyes.
Alura hadn't noticed her face was bright red until she plopped back down and looked in the mirror. Then her hands began to gravitate towards her chest, where she began rubbing in circles.
"If I take off my clothes...will I look like that too?" She paused on a pair of tiny bumps poking out of her dress and shivered.
She then heard a giggle coming from the left and her curiosity made her peek over there was well. Maria was spinning around in the swimsuit Mew had picked out. SHE didn't have big chest spheres like Lunis. But her suit...looked right on her.
"..." Alura descended and looked at her selection of clothes, plucking out one that looked a lot like Maria's. When she held it against her and looked at the mirror, she felt...odd. Like, this didn't fit her.
She dropped the suit and looked at her dress. This was the garment of her life for the last thousand years. Her mind was thinking things she didn't understand.
She didn't want to look like this anymore. But she didn't want to look like Maria. She wanted to look, and feel, like Lunis. And somehow, an appearance of Joe Dark in her thoughts connected it all together.
She murmured a gentle moan and stared at herself in the mirror. Then, she took another look at the two-pieced garment she discarded before and felt like she had an idea...
The preparations for the beach trip were going rather swimmingly for Mew's merry group. But this is just one side to this story...
Up in Sancturia...
"C'mon Gabriel come with us? Pleeeeeease? Please please please please pleeeeeease?" Shina grinned her teeth and bore down on the stalwart samurai with tender eyes.
"Hahaha," He chuckled and wagged his hand at her and Kairi, "You had me at the first 'Please'. I'd be delighted."
Shina turned around and pumped her fist hard before her chest, "YES!"
He rubbed his chin with a warm hum, "The sound of gentle waves caressing the sand, as the wind glides its hand along your face..."
Shina spun around and thrust her pointer finger towards his forehead, "Not ta mention all the delicious food ya can eat!"
"...That gives me an idea," Gabriel put his hand on his sword and nodded, "I'll meet up with you at that beach later."
"You got it!" She proclaimed as Gabriel wandered into the streets of Sancturia. She then spun around and pumped her fist into the sky, "Alright sis! Lets go swimsuit shopping!"
Kairi had her arms curled under her chest and a reluctant vibe all over her body, "I don't know about this Shina..."
Shina wrapped her arm over her back and squeezed their cheeks together, "Ah ya gotta relax! This'll be a ton of fun!"
She squinted with a grunt of hesitation, "Something fishy's going on here..."
"Why do ya say that?"
"Isn't it odd how its suddenly not very hot in Sancturia anymore?"
"Awww," Shina patted her on the back a few times before pulling away, "The weather system musta stopped glitching!"
Kairi ruffled her nose and muttered, "This reeks of Mew."
Then Shina snagged her by the wrist and pulled her along through the streets, "Quit worrying about it and lets go!"
Once at the mall they headed to the nearest swimsuit store. Yes, they do in fact have one in Sancturia. There's a few pools in town, including in the schools.
Kairi would rather be dead than seen in one of these stores. Nothing but flaunting harpies and thirsty men as far as the eye can see. She was better than this. She didn't have to prove nothing! She could totally wear a bikini better than most of these girls. She's just choosing not to!
But choice hardly seemed to matter when Shina was involved. After dragging her all the way into this store she left no room for escape without suffering public humility.
"Alright here we are! I wonder what kinda stuff they got in stock today..." Shina started rubbing her hands mischievously, "Only the finest for my little sis!"
"STOP!" Kairi threw her right hand out and hung her head. When Shina turned around and started blinking, Kairi squeezed her fist and stood her ground with a firm, unshaken voice, "I...am an adult!"
She raised her head and glared, "I don't need you buying clothes for me anymore!"
Shina was shook. A look of immediate guilt lurked in her eyes as she laid her hand beside her face and muttered, "Gosh sis, I didn't know you felt that way..."
"..." She snapped her fingers beside her face and smiled, "I got an idea! How about you...pick out a swimsuit...for me?"
"Huh?" Kairi stammered.
"But!" Shina hung her pointer finger forward, "On one condition...! You still gotta let me choose yours!"
"I get to pick Shina's swimsuit?" Kairi smiled and chuckled internally, "Hehehe! This is perfect! I'll pick the skimpiest one they got! Then Shina'll be totally embarrassed!"
"Ok you got a deal!" Kairi shook her sister's hand firmly.
"Great! We'll buy separately and meet up back at the house!" And with the conditions set Shina ran off to do her job. Kairi stayed behind and milked her mischievous thoughts for all they were worth.
She rubbed her hands together like a little gremlin and chuckled, "Shina'll buy me something cute with minimal exposure. You made a big mistake challenging your sis to a battle of smarts!"
Her lips began to curl. Into a sinister, wicked, almost sublime smile. And her eyes stared forward with utmost confidence.
"I've already won," She tried not to chuckle, "Exactly as planned."
It was easy to pick out the kind of scandalous outfit that would leave Shina's face red as a radish. Never had Kairi walked home with such confidence in her stride. Her grin left onlookers afraid. Good. Let them know fear.
Soon she had arrived back home with bag in hand, and found her sister waiting by the couch with their mom packing a large cooler and bags full of stuff nearby.
"Alright Shina, here you go!" Kairi pumped the bag into her sister's chest and raised her head high.
"O-Oh! You're excited..." Shina gently plucked the bag from her hand and opened it up. Her eyes widened and Kairi did a terrible job hiding her sneer.
"Weeeeeell, what do you think?"
"Sniff..." Shina's lips puckered in a whimper and she hung her head, "Oh sis..."
She lowered the bag to her waist and laid a hand on her face, "W-Why did you pick this one...? Do...do you really think your lovely big sis is a...is a...slut?"
She squeezed her eyes and tears began to trickle out and Kairi staggered back, "N-No...I-I wasn't..."
Their mother look at her and slowly shook her head. Shina stood up and wiped a finger under her eyes, "Its fine its fine...Its like you said. W-We're adults...I should be a little more grown-up about the clothes I wear..."
She put the bag down and picked up the other one beside her, dangling it out without having the courage to look her sister in the eyes.
"Sis, I-"
"Its ok," Shina interrupted, "I'll...I'll feel better...Once you see yours."
Kairi was weighed by guilt as she slowly took the bag from her sister's hand and looked inside...And then all that guilt was shoved out and replaced with bitter outrage.
"W-WHAT?!" Her face turned bright pink and she looked up to see Shina rubbing her eyes dry, while purposefully raising her palm to show off her smirk.
"C-Crocodile tears?!" She'd fallen for the easiest guilt trip in the world and was now left holding one of the most obscene pieces of fabric known to man.
"Ok! Nuh-uh! I am NOT wearing this!" She dropped the back and staggered back, then clamped in place by her mother's firm grip on her shoulders.
"Now dear, I didn't raise someone who breaks promises." She said with a warm but frightening smile.
She pushed her ahead with her amazonian strength and try as she might, Kairi's feet could not hold her back. She grit her teeth down at the bag and grunted, "Damn you both to Hell! You'll pay for this one day!"
Shina put her fingertips over her lower lip and whispered with a haze in her eyes, "How cute..."
She then grew a sinister, most wicked of smirks and thought to herself, "Shoulda known better than to outsmart ya big sis! Keikaku doori..."
And thus the fated noon arrived...
At the edge of the beach Mew, Riku, Joe Dark and Solaris were gathered under the shade of some trees. Mew brushed his hands off and said, "Alright, the others went to join up with the Kairi's family."
All of them had gotten into their swim trunks. Mew was wearing black with flame streaks down from his pockets. He wasn't overly muscular but he had no fat to speak of. Just some nice pecs, a bit of abs, the perfect eye candy for the lovely ladies that'll be joining them today.
"So brother, why are you having them come to the beach after us?" Said Riku, adorned in a pair of black and white striped swim trunks of his own. As a mirror reflection his bod was a chip off the old Adonis block, but his new short hair should dissuade a lot of the more hungry gazes...Or turn them on even more. Either way he wasn't concerned. Lunis would hopefully act as a deterrent.
"I'm not complaining, I'd rather not see the kind of low-brow swim wear they chose to put on..." Joe Dark groaned, having somehow found a gray pair of swim trunks covered in skulls, and a pair of sunglasses strapped to his neck. He had that "bad boy" image going on, but with his almost pasty white skin and lean, muscle-less frame he'd probably be better off getting a tan than embarrassing himself. All said for his sake of course.
"Lunis seemed pretty happy with hers but I don't know...I don't like it..." Solaris was the most defensive of the bunch, but his body protruded the greatest offense. Muscles upon muscles, biceps within biceps. That his flaming swim trunks could contain his thick, firm glutes was a miracle and a curse. He was biggest threat of all. Even his offensively bad attitude could make ladies swoon. But if there was one saving grace, Solaris seemed purely "fightsexual".
"Relax," Mew swung an empty bag over his shoulder, "We're here to enjoy ourselves. Who cares what the girls wear?"
"I mean besides me of course." Mew snickered out the side of his mouth.
Solaris then nudged him in the shoulder and said, "Oh yeah I almost forgot! Told you I could do it!"
Joe Dark ruffled his brows and murmured, "Told him that you could do...what?"
Mew hastily blinked and in that moment used enough concentration to fill his bag full of charcoal, which he swung over to a puzzled Solaris.
"BBQ! Yeah. Solaris said he's been practicing in secret and wants to show off tonight!" Mew nudged the bag into Solaris' chest and the sun god's need to impress did the rest for him.
"Hmph, I'll make you eat those words!" He snagged the bag out of his hand and Mew breathed a subtle sigh of relief. Except Joe Dark still had his eyes on him.
"That...ought to be interesting..." Riku murmured.
"Whatever..." Joe Dark brushed his hand up and turned away.
"Heh, it always works to think ahead." Mew bragged.
They faced the sunny seas and sandy lands and Mew pumped his fist towards the bright golden orb in the sky. It may sound arrogant, despicable, even downright villainous in his head, but for once he was going to pursue his goals without any restraint.
"Onward! My grand paradise awaits me!" And so they began their march, into what would be a long and crazy day...
Next Time: Hot Dames and Summer Games