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Chapter V
"Anyway… since you're up now, would you like to help us prepare for our trip?" Kairi asked, smiling.
"Sure! What do I do?" Agreed Luna happily.
"I need you to go and collect some fresh water from the big waterfall at the other end of the island." Kairi answered as she gave a box full of empty bottles to Luna.
"Mkay." Luna replied smiling.
As she walked across the broken bridge, she tried to remember where the waterfall was. Absentmindedly jumping the gaps she didn't notice the loose platform until she jumped onto it, soon falling a short way into the shallow water. SPLASH…*blink blink*
"Wow that was scary…didn't expect that to happen…" she stammered as she sat in the water. Looking to her right, from hearing a rushing sound, she found a mini waterfall splashing into the sea around her.
"Aw! How cute it's so tiny…" she smiled as she got up and started to walk to the door that led to the other side of the island.
Upon reaching the little pool that the waterfall poured into, pulled off her blue socks and boots, as to not get them wet. As she waded into the water, towards the waterfall, she didn't notice the pair of turquoise eyes that were secretly watching her.
As she finished filling up the last of the bottles, she didn't notice the two tiny splashes, over the roar of the waterfall that came up behind her. Finishing the last bottle and picking up the box, she turned around and was surprised to see the silver-haired boy that she had watched earlier that day. The sudden surprise of seeing him, made her fall back into the waterfall, soaking all of her clothes and spilling the bottles all around.
"Hi I'm Riku," smiled the silver haired youth, as he held out his hand to help her up. Chase, seeing an opportunity to help someone instead of standing around, decided to go over and see if his help was needed.
"Hey guys! Need any help with anything?" Chase asked, as he stood at the edge of the pool.
"No, thank you though…Um, shouldn't you be helping Gizmo take coconuts to Kairi right about now?" questioned Luna with a confused look on her face.
"Its okay, we finished it already." He replied with a wave of his hand.
"That was fast. Maybe you could help Raven them. They seem to be really struggling there," suggested Luna, as she waved in the direction of the group's trio, seeing them struggling to pull a net of flopping fish onto shore.
"Alright, I'll see you guys later then." He replied as he waved and turned to go help the others.
"Wait!" cried Luna.
"What happened to Gizmo? He was with you wasn't he?" she continued as he turned back around.
Chase closed his eyes and placed a finger to his temple.
"Hmm…I'm not too sure. He disappeared somewhere…" he trailed off, once again turning and heading towards the others.
"Shall we go?" I asked as I picked up the crate of bottles. Watching Luna turn around, one arm in front of her chest and the other placed on her cheek, as if she were thinking of something. She nodded then and we walked on in companionable silence, with Luna walking a bit behind in her thinking pose.
"Oh!" she had exclaimed as she ran up next to my side. She started talking to me then, as I took notice of her attire. She had on a strange looking, I'm guessing, rabbit hat. It had long floppy ears. It stopped about mid back and had five points on each end, with a crescent moon on the left side. Her eyes were a nice shade of sky blue. Dark black hair with blue streaks poked out from underneath, reaching about her neck, while the rest swung around as she walked, wrapped in some kind of material and tied at the end. It kind of reminded me of a tail.
Despite the warm weather, she wore a dark blue scarf, with silver stars sewn into it, wrapped around her neck securely. Her arms were left bare, due to her strange dress. It was strapless and had ribbons crisscrossing each other on the front. It looked like it ended about waist length, but actually extended to about her knees, crescents and stars were woven in, also. It opened at the middle revealing a smaller skirt on the inside, in the shape of the sun. Underneath that, she wore dark blue loose shorts. It was designed for free movement. Her sky blue boots reached a few inches above her ankle and had wings on the outer side. A lone blue ribbon was tied on her arm looking quite out of place.
" -it's one of my favorite things to do when we come to the beach!. Have you ever buried one of your friends before?" she had asked as I turned my attention back to what she was saying.
"Hmm…not that I know of. Is it really that fun?" I asked, curious as to why it would be so entertaining.
"Aww! You're missing out then!" she said, her eyes shining brighter for some reason.
"My brothers and I, and our dad, would pick a nice spot to dig and we would make these really big holes in the sand. Well, big enough to sit comfortably, anyway. And then, one of us would sit in it, and the others would push all the sand back in. and after that was done, we'd pile even more sand on top and start creating something!" she exclaimed excited. Was it me…? Or was she starting to speak faster…? And did her voice get a little higher as well?
"! I remember this one time when we made my little brother into a mermaid~ we gave him one of those tail thingies, and some female… 'assets,'" she said embarrassed.
"We also gave him some curly female hair too! When we finished we waited to see if he would get out. And after a while we would dig a moat around him and make like, this tunnel thing that lead to where the water came in. And after we dug a hole going straight to his feet! It helped a bit cause it loosened the sand around his butt and stuff. He would complain that it felt like things were crawling all over his legs, and we would just make the hole bigger. Eventually he did come out, and he looked funny! It looked like he had on this full bodied sand suit or something!" she laughed.
It was so strange, the more she got excited, the faster she talked. It came to a point where I almost couldn't understand her. Thank goodness she was still human, and needed to breathe.
"Hehe. That really does sound like fun," I replied. I couldn't believe how fast a person could get excited in a short amount of time.
"It was..." the sparkle in her eyes dimmed. Even though the bright fire in her eyes dimmed I noticed the fond smile on her face.
"But, ya know, memories are the best things ever! You can live a moment in time over and over again~ Like this one time when Chase and Gizmo-"she continued. I laughed as she told me different stories of her and her friends.
"NNNGH~!" cried out a girl, with dark, rich purple colored wavy hair, held up in a bun, as she struggled to help the other two pull up a somewhat huge net full of fish onto shore.
"Why does the FISH have to fight back for?" grunted out the only boy there at the moment, as his dirty blonde hair covering his right eye stuck to his face due to sweat.
"Maybe…it's because we're taking them out of their habitat, Dyne?" muttered the girl with long, lime green hair, as she answered the boy now known as Dyne.
"Heh Heh, I knew that Alya." He replied as he looked up to give her a small exhausted smile.
"But you know…they are going to a better place now, right Raven?" he said as he looked over to the other girl with the purple locks. The girl now known as Raven gave a small nod and with a determined face continued to help heft their load onto shore.
The 'Trio' momentarily pause what they were doing as they heard soft muffled crunches of the sand beneath shoes. Looking up they found that some help had finally arrived, although it was a bit uncalled for, it was greatly appreciated.
"Hey, you guys need help?" questioned a breathless Chase, as he placed his hands on his knees and bent a bit to catch his breath.
"Yeah!" "Hecks yes" and "Sure" came the sarcastic remarks from the three as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. Nodding his head, Chase walked up to Dyne and grasped one of his corners. Together the four slowly trekked across the beach towards the area where the others were most likely waiting.
Upon reaching the other part of the island, and crossing through the shallow water they came upon a slightly raised part of the island, where a tall wooden structure rest. Peeking over the edge, Chase's expression turned slightly mischievous as he spotted, right at the bottom of the structure, a sleeping Gizmo, completely knocked out. Temporarily stopping the others for a moment, he picked up a particularly medium sized fish, he took aim and…
SPLECK! Something slightly slimy and smelling of fish hit him squarely in the face, and was currently flopping around on his stomach, obviously looking for escape. Short spiky dark grey, almost black, hair, playfully tossed around on the breeze as dark grey-blue eyes looked around sleepily, trying to find out who had thrown the fish at him. As he looked toward the area with the wooden bridge he couldn't help but notice the four pairs of laughing eyes staring up at him.
"Come and help us Gizmo~!" cried Raven as she held up the corner she had been pulling. Nodding, I brush the rest of the drowsiness out of my eyes and stand up bringing the fish along with me.
As they neared the area that held the hand crafted raft, they came upon Luna and Riku sprawled out on the sand with water bottles littered around. One looking surprised with her hair messy from the fall, while the other had a silly smile upon his face. The others around just stared as they stilled their previous actions of stacking the pile of coconuts and just relaxing.
"Hahaha~!" burst out the laughter of Luna as she ran her fingers through her loose hair, to put it back in place.
"You should've listened to me when I said it was my turn, Riku! Now look what happened…" She said happily as she got up into a kneeling position, and started to pick up bottles around her.
"Mhmm, I can hardly understand it being your turn when we were already here." He chuckled, as he too started to pick up bottles around them.
"I…I wanted to give them to Kairi…!" she stated, with an embarrassed pout on her face.
Everyone laughed softly. It was just like Luna to want to argue over something silly.