Four months later.
"Oh my god" Tai froze in his spot as he looked to Shiva's face only to see the same shocked expression that he felt. The blackish brown muck had devoured their legs already and was working its way up to their waists.
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Griff ran through the woods, trying to follow the origin of two, brief, screams of shock, which echoed throughout the land only moments ago. He looked strait ahead to an open area. Brushing past a few loose branches into the clearance, he covered his eyes from the burst of light that met him. Griff refocused his vision only to see, much to his amusement, Tai and Shiva, suck in a hefty puddle of mud. And that was all it took.
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"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Griff roared with laughter.
Tai and Shiva did not look as happy as Griff about the situation. They struggled to be free from the muck's thick grasp when suddenly.
"MY SHOES!!!" Shiva exclaimed, her voice echoing throughout the area.
"Your what?" Tai inquired.
"My shoes!"
"What about them?"
"They're gone!!!"
"Where?"
"I mean they're not on my feet, as in, they're somewhere in the mud!!"
"Awww, you gotta be kidding' me!"
Tai sludged through the sewage over to a frantic Shiva to help her find her shoes. But he never made it to her.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!" Tai cried in anguish.
Shiva looked up from her bent over position, hands still in the mud. "What?"
"My shoes."
"Aaiiee"
By now Griff couldn't keep himself upright. He was rendered powerlessly onto the ground, clutching his sides painfully from his incessant laughter.
"You guys are sad!" Griff wheezed as he continued laughing. His laughter was cut short as a muddy shoe came flying out of nowhere and bonked him on the head.
"Hey! I found a shoe!"
"Uh, that was my shoe..."
"Oops, sorry."
"Aright, alright, I'll go get Gennai." Griff angrily wiped the mud from the side of his face where the shoe hit.
"And hurry," Tai called after the retreating back of Griff, "I think Shiva's going Titanic on us! Her boobs are weighing her down! HAHA-*SMACK* ow."
"Wish I could say the same to your balls!"
"That was cold."
Shiva sighed and the continued raking the mud for their shoes. After about ten, long, grueling minutes, they retrieved two shoes, one of Tai's (which was thrown at Griff) and one of Shiva's, and were now tugging at another one about three feet into the mud. Without warning, Tai stopped yanking at the shoes and started taking off his shirt.
"What the hell are you doing?" Shiva asked, with lots of dirty thoughts going through her head at the same time.
Tai just flashed her a pearly white smile.
"I take it there's a reason for this sinful act of stripping?"
Tai laughed as he illuminated his actions, "Well, I figure it's too hot right now and the clothing is just slowing us down."
"Oh, so I should take off my shirt too?"
"I wouldn't complain"
"In your dreams."
They went back to digging in the mud after removing their socks and any other articles of clothing or accessories, besides their pants and Shiva's shirt, and throwing them aside.
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T HELP???"
Griff stood there with a look of disbelief lingering across his face as Gennai took another swig from his Corona.
"Just what I said, I'm not helping them."
"Hey! You're the one who sent them out there to find-" Griff countered.
"They got stuck in that mud puddle, now it's their job to get out of it!" Gennai interrupted, "now, you can go back there if you want."
"Grrrrr." Griff turned on his heel and marched back into the forest.
Gennai shrugged and began to guzzle from his beloved beer bottle again.
"Heh- kids."
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Griff stormed back into the grimy area only to stop at a few muddy socks piled up on the ground. He stepped over them to find three shoes. As he walked by those he saw Tai's mud soaked shirt crumpled up by the mud "pond". Griff's unsettling thoughts for not going on farther were cut short by a voice.
"Score! The last one!!"
"Heads up!"
This time Griff ducked in time as a shoe went zooming past his face. Glaring at Tai, who had thrown it, he became aware of something alarming.
"GUYS!! I have bad news! Two!"
"Yeah.?" came the response from both Shiva and Tai.
"Um. first of all, Gennai won't come-"
"WHAT?" Tai cried out in distress.
"Why the hell not?" Shiva retorted.
"He says it's your own problem," Griff replied calmly, "ALSO, you guys are half naked and pretty damn deep in there."
Tai and Shiva looked down to notice the muck was working up their torsos by now.
Shiva sighed, "Well, there's only one thing we can do now."
The other two grew silent, waiting for her to finish. Instead Shiva just smiled and shoved Tai on his back, causing the already sullied teen to get filthier.
"ACK!" Tai glared daggers into Shiva, but soon his glowering features turned playful as he walloped Shiva with a handful of mud, then smothered in into her hair for a satisfying effect.
"Ok- now this gets personal"
And so the infamous mud wrestle began. It was a fury of boy vs. girl; good vs. evil; pudding vs. jello.you get the point.
Out of nowhere a loud rumbling was heard in the distance.
All three looked up to see a bulky, dark, storm cloud progressing its way through the skies; Plunging anything it passed into darkness. Flashes of light elucidated the heavens.
"Oh this is just great." Griff muttered as he withdrew from his little mud asylum in the shrubbery. "You guys. get your asses' outta there before a tree falls on you."
Without hesitation, Tai and Shiva trekked their way through the mud and onto the safety of the ground. Grabbing the articles of clothing sprawled everywhere, the three of them ran through the forest as the winds picked up and small droplets began to fall from the sky.
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Gennai just drowned his fifth bottle when a low grumble emerged from the heavens above.
"Shit." Gennai turned to face the dark woods as the wind almost knocked him over. He could just make out three figures materialize from the forest. As they came closer he noticed Tai and Shiva were coated in mud, while Griff tagged behind just slightly drenched.
"NO! No, no, and no. there is no way in hell I am letting you two come in my house like that!" Gennai reprimanded Tai and Shiva as they approached the house. All three's jaws practically hit the ground simultaneously.
"You can't be serious!" Cried a bewildered Tai. Shiva murmured something in agreement.
"Storm, Gennai. there's a storm coming," Griff tried to point out to Gennai, obviously on his comrades' side.
"I old but I'm not blind!" Gennai grunted in his defense, "I don't care how you do it, just get cleaned and in the house before the storm reaches here." With that, Gennai turned on his heel, gathered his empty beer bottles, and entered the house leaving the three gaping teens on their own.
"Well, I suppose I'll be leaving now. um. bye!" Griff ran into the house after Gennai. And the next thing they knew Shiva and Tai were standing alone, outside, caked in mud, with a storm on their heels.
"Ok, don't panic, its ok, we're just gunna DIE!" Shiva ranted on, pacing back and fourth, her Italian heritage taking over her actions as she waved her arms wildly in the air, sending specks of mud in every direction. Tai stood there watching her with a bemused look on his face. As he rolled his eyes he caught sight of something on the side of the house. Something that could solve their problem.
"Hose."
Shiva stopped in the midst of her panic, arms dropping to her side, and tilted her head towards Tai.
"Come again?"
"Hose." Tai repeated, a trace of wiliness etched across his features.
"You mean-"
"Yup."
"This could be fun."
"O yeah!"
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Griff lazily flipped though the channels looking for anything but static. "God damn storm."
Gennai walked through the room and looked at Griff by and his activity in amusement. "Why don't u read a book or something?"
Griff looked at Gennai as though he asked him to pick his nose.
"What?"
"Are you mad?? I can't go around reading books! That's for people who are bored! . Really bored. really, really bored. real-"
"I get it!" Gennai stopped him before his urge to throw something at him overpowered him. "Besides, what are you right now?"
Griff paused for a moment, not wanting to give Gennai the satisfaction of being right, and then replied complacently, "I busy wondering how those poor children are outside, ya know, the ones you left to die!"
"Hey its their own fault!" Gennai scowled, "besides, they're probably not doing anything right now but standing there waiting for the rain to rinse them off."
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Shiva shrieked as Tai squeezed the trigger full force at her back.
"DUDE! My clothes are clean enough!!!" Shiva sniggered, lightly shaking her head at Tai's antics. The pair had sprayed their shoes and socks, and taking turns in helping clean each other's clothes.
"Whelp, our clothes are clean. on the outside." Shiva mumbled. Tai nodded in agreement, "Right you are chick, I guess we'll just have to remove the rest of our clothes, which includes your shirt."
Tai grinned, winked, and dropped his pants, leaving him in just his blue boxers. Shiva feigned a face of shock.
"You have no shame do you?" Shiva queried as she began to take off her pants as well.
"Well, should I be? I mean, come on, you don't get much better than this." Tai boasted as he flexed his muscles. And it was true; Tai was tan, lean, handsome, muscular, and undoubtedly well endowed ;). Not to mention owning one hell of an ass. Shiva just snorted from within her shirt as she tried to pull it over her head. Tai grinned as he watched her lithe form dance around in just black panties and a blue army bra. He secretly wished that her bra would inadvertently break while her hands and head were being held captive by her top.
"Uh, you ok over there?" Tai only got another snort from Shiva as she finally freed herself form the evil fabric and threw it to the ground, emitting a string of curses along with it. In her ferocity, Shiva grabbed the hose from Tai's hands and sprayed the clothes madly as her revenge.
"Well, now that our clothes are clean.SHOWER TIME!" Tai yipped.
Shiva coughed slightly due to the winds picking up and the light rain beating on her face, "A shower in our underwear?"
"Drastic measures call for drastic actions!"
"Woooohooo!" Shiva howled.
Shiva stood on the front porch step to that she could be considerably higher than Tai. Then she sprayed the hose downward, creating a shower for him. After a few seconds, Tai started to sing their favorite song, soon joined by Shiva.
"War! Huh... yeah." "What is it good for?" "Absolutely-" "Nothing!" "Sing it again ya'll!!!"
Neither of the two were very good singers, but both believed singing was what they did best. As Tai began took the lead roll, Shiva hopped off the step and started rinsing off his shoulders and back.
"War! I despise. cause it means destruction. of innocent liiiiaaaaaaahhhh!" Tai's solo was cut short when Shiva randomly decided Tai wasn't clean enough and sprayed the hose in his boxers. Shiva burst out laughing, seeing the expression of violation on Tai's face.
"Oh no you didn't!" Tai said with a menacing gleam in his chocolate eyes.
"I'm sorry," Shiva, pleaded, "I couldn't help it! It was a feminine urge!"
But before she had any time to defend herself, Tai snapped her bra (A/N: which was inspired by Kuby.) just for kicks, causing her to yelp in pain. Shiva grabbed for the hose. Once in her hand, she squeezed the nozzle, soaking Tai. Tai backed off for a moment, and then attempted to snatch the hose from her grasp. Fortunately for him he did manage to grab a hold of it. But as expected, Shiva didn't let go. Each struggled to gain control of the water source; knocking each other away with their elbows and tripping each other. Everything surrounding them was soaked, not only from the hose, but the storm was just about on top of them. The now heavy rains pelted down on them as they wrestled for the authority of the hose.
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The clocked ticked away in the silent house. In the corner of the room, sitting his is favorite, worn-out, burgundy recliner; Gennai sighed and folded up the newspaper. He walked into the kitchen where Griff had his head stuck in the fridge, groping around for something decent to eat. An evil grin came to Gennai's face. Rolling up his newspaper, he inched closer and closer to the unfortunate, oblivious boy. Just behind him, Gennai slowly raised the newspaper above his head when-
"AAIIEE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Griff jumped back from the refrigerator, smacking Gennai in the face by accident. Griff turned to see Gennai gruffly rubbing his sore face, "uh. oops?"
Gennai bestowed one last fierce gaze at Griff and then turned his attention to the laughter that was going on outside. "What the hell are they doing?"
Griff gave him one of those 'do you really want my opinion' looks.
Gennai rolled his eyes and headed for the side door. Outside, along with the laughter, a raging storm could be heard. He twisted the knob and took one step into the brutal outdoors before he was hit full force in the face by water.
Both Tai and Shiva froze, immediately dropping the hose. Gennai stood before them, half soaked, with a glare that could wet Satan. Griff's maddening laughter could be heard from inside the house. They were just about to explain when Gennai put his hand up to silence them.
"I DON'T CARE! Just get inside now."
Gathering their soaked clothes, Shiva and Tai ran past Gennai, giggling like crazy into the house.
"Oh my god" Tai froze in his spot as he looked to Shiva's face only to see the same shocked expression that he felt. The blackish brown muck had devoured their legs already and was working its way up to their waists.
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Griff ran through the woods, trying to follow the origin of two, brief, screams of shock, which echoed throughout the land only moments ago. He looked strait ahead to an open area. Brushing past a few loose branches into the clearance, he covered his eyes from the burst of light that met him. Griff refocused his vision only to see, much to his amusement, Tai and Shiva, suck in a hefty puddle of mud. And that was all it took.
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"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Griff roared with laughter.
Tai and Shiva did not look as happy as Griff about the situation. They struggled to be free from the muck's thick grasp when suddenly.
"MY SHOES!!!" Shiva exclaimed, her voice echoing throughout the area.
"Your what?" Tai inquired.
"My shoes!"
"What about them?"
"They're gone!!!"
"Where?"
"I mean they're not on my feet, as in, they're somewhere in the mud!!"
"Awww, you gotta be kidding' me!"
Tai sludged through the sewage over to a frantic Shiva to help her find her shoes. But he never made it to her.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!" Tai cried in anguish.
Shiva looked up from her bent over position, hands still in the mud. "What?"
"My shoes."
"Aaiiee"
By now Griff couldn't keep himself upright. He was rendered powerlessly onto the ground, clutching his sides painfully from his incessant laughter.
"You guys are sad!" Griff wheezed as he continued laughing. His laughter was cut short as a muddy shoe came flying out of nowhere and bonked him on the head.
"Hey! I found a shoe!"
"Uh, that was my shoe..."
"Oops, sorry."
"Aright, alright, I'll go get Gennai." Griff angrily wiped the mud from the side of his face where the shoe hit.
"And hurry," Tai called after the retreating back of Griff, "I think Shiva's going Titanic on us! Her boobs are weighing her down! HAHA-*SMACK* ow."
"Wish I could say the same to your balls!"
"That was cold."
Shiva sighed and the continued raking the mud for their shoes. After about ten, long, grueling minutes, they retrieved two shoes, one of Tai's (which was thrown at Griff) and one of Shiva's, and were now tugging at another one about three feet into the mud. Without warning, Tai stopped yanking at the shoes and started taking off his shirt.
"What the hell are you doing?" Shiva asked, with lots of dirty thoughts going through her head at the same time.
Tai just flashed her a pearly white smile.
"I take it there's a reason for this sinful act of stripping?"
Tai laughed as he illuminated his actions, "Well, I figure it's too hot right now and the clothing is just slowing us down."
"Oh, so I should take off my shirt too?"
"I wouldn't complain"
"In your dreams."
They went back to digging in the mud after removing their socks and any other articles of clothing or accessories, besides their pants and Shiva's shirt, and throwing them aside.
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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T HELP???"
Griff stood there with a look of disbelief lingering across his face as Gennai took another swig from his Corona.
"Just what I said, I'm not helping them."
"Hey! You're the one who sent them out there to find-" Griff countered.
"They got stuck in that mud puddle, now it's their job to get out of it!" Gennai interrupted, "now, you can go back there if you want."
"Grrrrr." Griff turned on his heel and marched back into the forest.
Gennai shrugged and began to guzzle from his beloved beer bottle again.
"Heh- kids."
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Griff stormed back into the grimy area only to stop at a few muddy socks piled up on the ground. He stepped over them to find three shoes. As he walked by those he saw Tai's mud soaked shirt crumpled up by the mud "pond". Griff's unsettling thoughts for not going on farther were cut short by a voice.
"Score! The last one!!"
"Heads up!"
This time Griff ducked in time as a shoe went zooming past his face. Glaring at Tai, who had thrown it, he became aware of something alarming.
"GUYS!! I have bad news! Two!"
"Yeah.?" came the response from both Shiva and Tai.
"Um. first of all, Gennai won't come-"
"WHAT?" Tai cried out in distress.
"Why the hell not?" Shiva retorted.
"He says it's your own problem," Griff replied calmly, "ALSO, you guys are half naked and pretty damn deep in there."
Tai and Shiva looked down to notice the muck was working up their torsos by now.
Shiva sighed, "Well, there's only one thing we can do now."
The other two grew silent, waiting for her to finish. Instead Shiva just smiled and shoved Tai on his back, causing the already sullied teen to get filthier.
"ACK!" Tai glared daggers into Shiva, but soon his glowering features turned playful as he walloped Shiva with a handful of mud, then smothered in into her hair for a satisfying effect.
"Ok- now this gets personal"
And so the infamous mud wrestle began. It was a fury of boy vs. girl; good vs. evil; pudding vs. jello.you get the point.
Out of nowhere a loud rumbling was heard in the distance.
All three looked up to see a bulky, dark, storm cloud progressing its way through the skies; Plunging anything it passed into darkness. Flashes of light elucidated the heavens.
"Oh this is just great." Griff muttered as he withdrew from his little mud asylum in the shrubbery. "You guys. get your asses' outta there before a tree falls on you."
Without hesitation, Tai and Shiva trekked their way through the mud and onto the safety of the ground. Grabbing the articles of clothing sprawled everywhere, the three of them ran through the forest as the winds picked up and small droplets began to fall from the sky.
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Gennai just drowned his fifth bottle when a low grumble emerged from the heavens above.
"Shit." Gennai turned to face the dark woods as the wind almost knocked him over. He could just make out three figures materialize from the forest. As they came closer he noticed Tai and Shiva were coated in mud, while Griff tagged behind just slightly drenched.
"NO! No, no, and no. there is no way in hell I am letting you two come in my house like that!" Gennai reprimanded Tai and Shiva as they approached the house. All three's jaws practically hit the ground simultaneously.
"You can't be serious!" Cried a bewildered Tai. Shiva murmured something in agreement.
"Storm, Gennai. there's a storm coming," Griff tried to point out to Gennai, obviously on his comrades' side.
"I old but I'm not blind!" Gennai grunted in his defense, "I don't care how you do it, just get cleaned and in the house before the storm reaches here." With that, Gennai turned on his heel, gathered his empty beer bottles, and entered the house leaving the three gaping teens on their own.
"Well, I suppose I'll be leaving now. um. bye!" Griff ran into the house after Gennai. And the next thing they knew Shiva and Tai were standing alone, outside, caked in mud, with a storm on their heels.
"Ok, don't panic, its ok, we're just gunna DIE!" Shiva ranted on, pacing back and fourth, her Italian heritage taking over her actions as she waved her arms wildly in the air, sending specks of mud in every direction. Tai stood there watching her with a bemused look on his face. As he rolled his eyes he caught sight of something on the side of the house. Something that could solve their problem.
"Hose."
Shiva stopped in the midst of her panic, arms dropping to her side, and tilted her head towards Tai.
"Come again?"
"Hose." Tai repeated, a trace of wiliness etched across his features.
"You mean-"
"Yup."
"This could be fun."
"O yeah!"
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Griff lazily flipped though the channels looking for anything but static. "God damn storm."
Gennai walked through the room and looked at Griff by and his activity in amusement. "Why don't u read a book or something?"
Griff looked at Gennai as though he asked him to pick his nose.
"What?"
"Are you mad?? I can't go around reading books! That's for people who are bored! . Really bored. really, really bored. real-"
"I get it!" Gennai stopped him before his urge to throw something at him overpowered him. "Besides, what are you right now?"
Griff paused for a moment, not wanting to give Gennai the satisfaction of being right, and then replied complacently, "I busy wondering how those poor children are outside, ya know, the ones you left to die!"
"Hey its their own fault!" Gennai scowled, "besides, they're probably not doing anything right now but standing there waiting for the rain to rinse them off."
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Shiva shrieked as Tai squeezed the trigger full force at her back.
"DUDE! My clothes are clean enough!!!" Shiva sniggered, lightly shaking her head at Tai's antics. The pair had sprayed their shoes and socks, and taking turns in helping clean each other's clothes.
"Whelp, our clothes are clean. on the outside." Shiva mumbled. Tai nodded in agreement, "Right you are chick, I guess we'll just have to remove the rest of our clothes, which includes your shirt."
Tai grinned, winked, and dropped his pants, leaving him in just his blue boxers. Shiva feigned a face of shock.
"You have no shame do you?" Shiva queried as she began to take off her pants as well.
"Well, should I be? I mean, come on, you don't get much better than this." Tai boasted as he flexed his muscles. And it was true; Tai was tan, lean, handsome, muscular, and undoubtedly well endowed ;). Not to mention owning one hell of an ass. Shiva just snorted from within her shirt as she tried to pull it over her head. Tai grinned as he watched her lithe form dance around in just black panties and a blue army bra. He secretly wished that her bra would inadvertently break while her hands and head were being held captive by her top.
"Uh, you ok over there?" Tai only got another snort from Shiva as she finally freed herself form the evil fabric and threw it to the ground, emitting a string of curses along with it. In her ferocity, Shiva grabbed the hose from Tai's hands and sprayed the clothes madly as her revenge.
"Well, now that our clothes are clean.SHOWER TIME!" Tai yipped.
Shiva coughed slightly due to the winds picking up and the light rain beating on her face, "A shower in our underwear?"
"Drastic measures call for drastic actions!"
"Woooohooo!" Shiva howled.
Shiva stood on the front porch step to that she could be considerably higher than Tai. Then she sprayed the hose downward, creating a shower for him. After a few seconds, Tai started to sing their favorite song, soon joined by Shiva.
"War! Huh... yeah." "What is it good for?" "Absolutely-" "Nothing!" "Sing it again ya'll!!!"
Neither of the two were very good singers, but both believed singing was what they did best. As Tai began took the lead roll, Shiva hopped off the step and started rinsing off his shoulders and back.
"War! I despise. cause it means destruction. of innocent liiiiaaaaaaahhhh!" Tai's solo was cut short when Shiva randomly decided Tai wasn't clean enough and sprayed the hose in his boxers. Shiva burst out laughing, seeing the expression of violation on Tai's face.
"Oh no you didn't!" Tai said with a menacing gleam in his chocolate eyes.
"I'm sorry," Shiva, pleaded, "I couldn't help it! It was a feminine urge!"
But before she had any time to defend herself, Tai snapped her bra (A/N: which was inspired by Kuby.) just for kicks, causing her to yelp in pain. Shiva grabbed for the hose. Once in her hand, she squeezed the nozzle, soaking Tai. Tai backed off for a moment, and then attempted to snatch the hose from her grasp. Fortunately for him he did manage to grab a hold of it. But as expected, Shiva didn't let go. Each struggled to gain control of the water source; knocking each other away with their elbows and tripping each other. Everything surrounding them was soaked, not only from the hose, but the storm was just about on top of them. The now heavy rains pelted down on them as they wrestled for the authority of the hose.
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The clocked ticked away in the silent house. In the corner of the room, sitting his is favorite, worn-out, burgundy recliner; Gennai sighed and folded up the newspaper. He walked into the kitchen where Griff had his head stuck in the fridge, groping around for something decent to eat. An evil grin came to Gennai's face. Rolling up his newspaper, he inched closer and closer to the unfortunate, oblivious boy. Just behind him, Gennai slowly raised the newspaper above his head when-
"AAIIEE!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
Griff jumped back from the refrigerator, smacking Gennai in the face by accident. Griff turned to see Gennai gruffly rubbing his sore face, "uh. oops?"
Gennai bestowed one last fierce gaze at Griff and then turned his attention to the laughter that was going on outside. "What the hell are they doing?"
Griff gave him one of those 'do you really want my opinion' looks.
Gennai rolled his eyes and headed for the side door. Outside, along with the laughter, a raging storm could be heard. He twisted the knob and took one step into the brutal outdoors before he was hit full force in the face by water.
Both Tai and Shiva froze, immediately dropping the hose. Gennai stood before them, half soaked, with a glare that could wet Satan. Griff's maddening laughter could be heard from inside the house. They were just about to explain when Gennai put his hand up to silence them.
"I DON'T CARE! Just get inside now."
Gathering their soaked clothes, Shiva and Tai ran past Gennai, giggling like crazy into the house.