Yo, what's up everyone, I know it's been a few days, a week actually, and school's started up again. So, uh, yeah, back to school. Anyway, to you all from me, Enjoy~!

Chapter 11: Beach Time with Rika and Hanyu pt 2

We all walked along the boardwalk as I observed the large crowd of people around us. It was about seven o'clock or so right now, and the boardwalk was packed, there were little kids playing, adults drinking at the local bars, everyone was just having a good time, and there were even a few police around to make sure everything stayed calm.

Kim had broken away from us a half-hour ago to head over the the casinos, she didn't ask for the rabbit's foot like I thought she would, but I told her if she wanted she could go back to the hotel and get it out of my bag.

After we walked down the boardwalk for a little bit, I thought now would be a good time to get something to eat before we started having fun for the rest of the night.

"So, how about we get something to eat, I'm feeling a little hungry," I said, suddenly.

Hanyu's stomach growled, and she blushed slightly. "Auau~ n-now that you've said something, I-I am feeling a little hungry."

"Well, there's a pizza place over there," Ant' said, pointing across the boardwalk from where we were. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm in the mood for some Italian food."

"Okay, what about you two," I asked, turning to the girls. "Do you want pizza or something else?"

"Mii~ I don't mind having pizza, sir," Rika said.

I nodded. "What about you, Hanyu?"

"If e-everyone else is getting pizza, I guess I'll have some too," she said, shyly.

I clapped my hands together, as a smile formed on my face. "Pizza it is, then. Alright, Let's go everyone," and with that we all walked into the pizza restaurant, with a big light up sign on the front that read 'Italy's Finest'. I couldn't really remember if we had ever eaten pizza here before, maybe me and Ant' did in the past, because there was something about this place that seemed really familiar.

The place was pretty big, and smelled of freshly made pizza and garlic, among other things. It was half full of people, who seemed to be enjoying themselves and having a good time chatting away as they ate. After a moment of standing near the front, I decided that it would be best to sit at one of the booths at the end of the long aisle since it had a decent view of the ocean. We walked over and took a seat in the black, leather covered booth meant to hold four people. I picked up the menu and read some of the dishes, I saw that it wasn't just pizza that they served here.

"Would you look at that," I said as I flipped through the menu. "Looks like there's way more then just pizza to eat here, I guess you guys can choose what you want then."

"Oh, really …?" Ant' said, surprised, picking up the brownish menu in front of him. "Cool ...hey, they have pasta here! Then, again, this place is called 'Italy's Finest'," he turned to the girls and grinned. "What about you two, anything catch your eye?"

Hanyu nodded, as she looked through her own menu. "I think I'll try the cheese pasta surprise, it looks good. But, then there's the chicken Alfredo ...auau, I can't decide on what to get."

"Mii~ I'm getting the shrimp and noodle special, sir," Rika said, cutely.

"Okay, then," I started, leaning back into the black cushions of the booth. "Since we've all decided, now we just have to wait for a someone to come take our orders."

About five minutes past, then a tan skinned waitress in skinny jeans and a dark red shirt with an apron over it came over to take our orders. The three of us told her what we wanted, Hanyu took a few moments to decide, before choosing to try the chicken Alfredo. The waitress wrote it down in the notepad she was holding, then poured us all a glass of ice water, and I thanked her politely before she smiled, walking off to the serving counter.

As we waited for our food, we made small talk, then started on where we should go once we were done here. It was the boardwalk, there wasn't really any bad places to go, since everything on the beach was pretty exciting, even after sunset.

"You know what, I think we should head to the arcade after this," Ant' suggested, taking a sip of his water.

"How come …?" I asked, there wasn't really anything special about the arcade. So, it made me wonder why he'd choose that place of all places to go.

"Well ...I don't really have a reason," Ant' answered, shrugging. "I just felt like playing some arcade game, winning tickets, maybe getting a few prizes, that sort of thing."

I drank my glass of water and thought about it for a moment, then sighed. "I guess we could stop at the arcade. Now, that you mention it, I do feel like playing some House Of The Dead, I can't remember how long it's been since I last played that," I replied, before adding with a smile. "Hey, do you remember that time we played a few years back at that one arcade by the gallery. We got that really high score with, like, no deaths."

"Oh, yeah, I totally remember that," Ant' said with a nod. "That was also the day I kicked your sorry ass in Street Fighter 3, and with Dan of all fighters."

"That was just one time. Besides, I was going easy on you!"

"Sure you were, bro. Sure you were."

"Mii~ so we're going to the arcade, then?" Rika asked after me and Ant' finished talking.

I gave a nod. "Yep, we can go somewhere else afterward if it's not too late. Maybe, the amusement park or something. Who knows."

Almost fifteen minutes later, the waitress came back with our food, taking the plates off the tray she was holding. She put each plate in front of us, I got my ground beef pizza, and the other three got what they ordered. She quickly turned and left again, only to come back a few moments later with four glass cups and a pitcher of iced tea.

We all thanked her as she left to wait another table and dug into our meals, talking about different stuff while we ate. I told them about my favorite TV shows and Animes, along with the latest information on some video game titles that I knew were coming out during the summer and next school year.

After we were done eating, I stood up and put a five dollar tip under the salt shaker, "you guys ready to head out?" I asked.

Antoine nodded, gulping down his last bit of iced tea. Rika and Hanyu stood up and pushed their plates into the center of the table with the others. I checked to make sure that I had everything important, my cellphone and money. Then, we walked and left out the front door, the bells ringing as the door closed behind us.

"Well, lets get this show on the road," Ant' said excitedly, half skipping and half dancing down the wooden walkway like he was on The Wiz humming Ease On Down The Road. I snickered, and we started walking after him ourselves.

~ ~(Part2)~ ~

The double doors behind us closed as we stepped into the arcade called 'Atomic Games'. The place was loud, sound effects from the games and music blasted all over the large two story building, there were flashing lights from the gaming console screens and a large flat screen TV over by the bar, that was strictly for adults only, if the sign was anything to go by.

"Wow~ this place is so big," Hanyu said in awe, looking around. That was until something at the far side of the entertainment area caught her attention. "Oh, look, they have Sonic The Hedgehog!" She was about to run over there in her excitement, until I stopped her by grabbing her shoulder.

"Whoa! Stop right there, Hanyu," I said, chuckling. "As excited as you are, we need to get tokens first before we do anything."

"Auau~ how come," She asked in honest curiosity.

I let go of her shoulder and smiled. "Because, tokens are how you play the games, without them, you'll just be standing around watching other people play. That, or just getting in the way," I answered, before adding. "Plus, we have plenty of time, so there's no need to rush."

Hanyu blushed slightly, feeling embarrassed. "Oh ...auauau, sorry."

"There's no need to be sorry, hon," Ant' said, coming up next to her, grinning. "We're all pretty excited to be here, so let's get the tokens so we can play."

"Mii~ so how do we get the tokens to play the games, anyway …?" Rika asked.

I started walking and motioned for everyone to follow me, as we walked towards a small line full of people, I explained how to get the tokens. "To get the tokens, we need to go to the token machine over there," I said, pointing at the small line of other gamers. "The tokens can only be used in this arcade, some games take three tokens, and others take one or two. It all depends on what you're playing, though."

"Yeah, like the racing booths," Ant' added. "Those cost four tokens, the fighting games are three, and so are the first-person shooters. Some games even give you tickets so you can buy stuff from the prize counter."

"D-did you ever win a prize here before, Antoine?" Hanyu asked, shyly from beside him.

He nodded. "Yeah, once. But, it wasn't anything big, just a red Pokemon wrist watch. I wasn't very good at playing games back then, so my dad help me win the tickets, that was fun," he answered, smiling a little.

We waited in line behind a few people in front of the token machine, after a minute or so, it was finally our turn. I dug in my pocket and pulled out my wallet, on the machine it had a list of how much tokens you got for what amount of cash you put in. Eight tokens were five dollars, for sixteen tokens, it was ten dollars and so on, I decided it was best to get thirty-three tokens, which came up to twenty-two dollars, and split them equally amongst everyone.

I took out a twenty and two dollar bills, and put them into the machine. A moment later, a river of gold tokens with a controller engraved on it came poring out into the coin catcher. I tore off one of the small, blue plastic bags on the side of the machine, putting every last token into it, then turned to the girls and Ant', smiling.

"Now that that's done, lets hit the games, shall we," I said, nodding towards the gaming area.

Rika and Hanyu looked at each other and smiled, while Ant' replied. "Yeah! Lets get this show on the road! I already know what I'm playing first," he said, happily, marching farther into the arcade.

The rest of us followed.

The first game we started off with was Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 and Street Fighter 3, which was chosen by Ant', we played a few fights against each other. Hanyu and Rika played pretty well, though they were less one sided matches when they played against each other. The funny thing was that Antoine's wrapped up, braised, hand kept getting in the way when it was our turn to play, if anything I tried to show a little bit of mercy and go easy on him, but that only lasted for a moment before I pick Sakura and M. Bison, beating him a few good times. After our little private tournament of sorts, we got off the coin operated system to let a couple of younger kids play.

The next game we ended up playing by vote, was Sonic The Hedgehog 2. Our cream puff loving goddess couldn't get enough of that game, so after a while we left some tokens with her and left Hanyu there to go play some of the other games.

A few games later, and here I was with Rika and Antoine playing House Of The Dead 3, it was a good thing it had two machine gun-controllers. Every time one of us died, we passed it on to the next person, me and Ant' played first. Then, he died, so he hopped off and let Rika start playing, which was right in the middle of the level-one boss battle.

"Rika, go for the head! It's killing us," I said, reloading the gun-controller, as we continuing to fire at the huge, zombified security guard chasing us called Death. He had a club made out of flesh and skulls, though I bet Mr. X could kick his ass with little to no trouble, and don't even get me started on Nemesis.

"I trying, I'm not used to using this type of controller," Rika replied back in her adult voice.

"Well, welcome to the arcade," I said smugly. "Most of the first-person shooter controllers are like this, I've been coming to the arcade since I was in kindergarten, I'm used to it."

"Yeah, well I'd be doing better I had a controller like the one to your Xbox," she muttered back, reloading and shooting.

I laughed. "Ah ha ha~ considering how good you are playing Left4Dead, I have no doubts about that," I said with glee.

We continued the game, shooting Death and countless other zombies that appeared whenever we got to a certain point in the battle. We almost won, almost ...that was until the fast moving army zombies with knives showed up, along with the chainsaw zombies, we died pretty fast after that.

The bold, bloody words Game Over appeared on the screen, followed by the count down from ten to continue or quit. The ten second countdown ended and the game restart from the beginning, playing a preview of what the game looked like as the computer played. I would've put more coins in to play again, only there were no more tokens.

"Man, well, this sucks," I muttered, tossing the empty token bag into the crash can near the coin operated system, before turning to Rika. "But, we had fun, I can say that much."

"That was intense. I really enjoyed that game. It was almost as if I was inside of it thanks to the controller," Rika said, putting the gun-controller back in the hard plastic holder.

I smiled at her, doing the same. "Well, it is for entertainment, if you don't have fun, what's the point. Am I right?"

"That's very true."

Rika nodded, smirking. We were about to walk over to get Hanyu so we could leave to do other things on the boardwalk, only she ended up coming to us, with a sad look on her face.

"Oh, hey, we were just about to come get you," Ant' said, smiling. Before he asked, starring at her expression. "What's with the sad face …?"

"I ran out of tokens, so I couldn't play anything else," Hanyu answered, sadly. "Auau~ I was about to play Pacman,too."

I chuckled at her, even when sad, she still somehow found a way to make it cute. "Don't worry, Hanyu. We ran out of tokens, too," I said, patting her on the head between her horns. "We're actually about to leave to do some other stuff, but, I bet we might be able to come back tomorrow before we head home."

Hanyu gave me a hopeful look. "Really …?"

I shrugged. "Who knows, that's all up to Kim," I answered. "But, if you give her your best puppy dog face I'm sure she'll give in and let us stop here, again."

When we all left out the air conditioned arcade, back into the cool moist air of the shore, the place we decide to go next was the amusement park. It wasn't as big as, let's say, Six Flags, but it was still fun. They had a roller coaster, a lot of game stands, some food places and a ride called The Slingshot. It was one of my favorite on the boardwalk, once you got into one of the seats it shot you up into the sky so high you could almost see every casino in the air, and your stomach literally dropped when you came back down, almost like bungee jumping.

I swear I've never heard Hanyu scream so much, while with the rest of us it was a little between excitement and scariness, for her it was pure terror fulled screams. But, as she was shot up into the air, it was hard to tell the difference at the time. Hopefully, she'd think it was fun, afterward, at least.

~ ~(Part3)~ ~

"That was not fun! That was terrifying, I felt like I was about to fall out my seat," Hanyu said, sounding kind of upset. Maybe it was because we laughed at her. "Auau~ I don't understand how you three could enjoy that so much."

"Awe, come on, Hanyu, it wasn't that bad," Rika said, giving a small shrug. "And you were just fine, I was right there next to you. Stop being such a baby."

"Auau~ I'm not being a baby," Hanyu retorted, pouting. "...But, that ride was really scary."

"You were okay when you rode on the roller coaster, the slingshot's not that different," I said.

"Yes it is, the roller coaster didn't go that high, or spin around in the air."

Ant' sighed and shook his head, patting Hanyu on the shoulder. "Hon, you may not have liked the ride as much as the rest of us. But, you've got to admit," he smiled before continuing. "What that lady said was pretty nice, though, someone outside of us finally likes your horns. She even said they were cute."

As we sat on the couch in our hotel room living space, watching Underworld on the average sized TV, I smiled, thinking back to that quick moment after we'd left the amusement park. Hanyu had just gotten off the Slingshot, still pretty shaken up over the whole thing, a few minutes later a woman came up to us and started gushing over Hanyu telling her that she liked her horns. It was obvious that she was a cosplayer, she was dressed up like Chun-Li from Street Fighter, along with having a set of cat ears on her head, she looked Asian, but I don't think she was Chinese. Korean, maybe.

She talked to us for a while, asking what Hanyu horns were made of since they looked so real. I made up a quick lie, telling her it was made out of hard plastic, metal and spray paint. The woman smiled happily, waving goodbye to us before she turned to leave, it made me wonder if she was planning on making something similar to Hanyu's horns herself. She seemed like the type to try.

"She was really nice, though," I added, smiling at her. "See, not everyone thinks you're horns are weird. That lady was a good example of that."

Hanyu couldn't help but smile at my words. What the woman said was true, though, Hanyu's horns did make her standout, in a good way, though.

As the movie got closed to it's ending point, where Victor dies, three small knocks came from the front door. I got up, not bothering to pause the movie since I'd seen it so many times, and went over to the door, looking out the peephole. It was Kim, I unlocked and opened the door to let her in and she came stumbling into the hotel room, crashing right into me.

"Oh, are you okay, sis …?" I asked concerned as I caught her to stop her from falling. She giggled and nodded. That was when the strong smell of alcohol hit my nose.

...Wait, was Kim drunk.

"It's good to see you too, Kev'! Ah ha~ you won't believe the fun I had, I won, so much money! I'm so glad I came back for that rabbit's foot. Damn thing got me free drink," she exclaimed.

Yep, she was defiantly drunk.

"Kim, you're drunk," I said, stating the obvious, carrying her towards her and the girls bedroom. "You should sleep this off, how much did you drink ...?"

"I-I'm only had five or six shots, and I'm not drunk, I'm just a little tipsy, that's all," she said. Great, now she was trying to make it like she wasn't drunk, can someone say denial. "There's a difference, you'll understand that some day, little brother."

"Right, sure I will."

I sighed. Rika opened the room door for me, and I laid her on the bed and put a sheet over top of her. Kim snuggled into them, not even bothering to change her clothes and Rika smiled.

"Mii~ goodnight, sir, I hope you feel better by morning," she said, cutely.

Kim glanced over at the clock. "I had no idea it was this late yet," she muttered into the pillow. "Nighty, night, guys."

She dozed off pretty fast after that, and from the loud snoring coming from the room, I could tell she'd be sleep for a good while, maybe past morning, with one hell of a hangover I'd like to add. I just couldn't wait to get back to Philly to tell Erika about this fun trip, she'll have a good laugh about this.

And that's it for now, the next chapter will be out soon, remember to review and all that, until next time.

Peace~!