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Chapter 14 – Meteor Shower pt 3
"Hayner, Olette!" Roxas yelled over to the duo, waving his arm up in the air. The three had reached the beach in no time after they had stopped at Roxas' house.
The beach was slowly filling up with teenagers from DWHS; The adults usually coming more towards night time with their younger kids. Sora looked over at the water, seeing its clear blue gentle waves tumble over into the warm sand.
Hayner and Olette came running over. "We've been waiting for you guys for about twenty minutes now!" Hayner furrowed his brows.
"We had to walk to Roxas' house after getting Sora." Pence explained.
Olette began to look around. "Guys, we should get a good spot before they're all taken." She advised. They all agreed, heading for a spot in the shade of some palm trees. Kairi placed her duffle bag in the sand, opening it to retrieve their beach blanket. Sora, Roxas, and Olette grabbed the other three of the four corners beginning to spread it out as nice as possible.
"Have any of you guys heard from Axel?" Roxas asked, pulling his side of the blanket down.
"He's probably still on his way here," Olette also pulled down her side. "He does live a while away."
When the blanket was finished being set up they all sat down in the shape of a sloppy circle. Sora lay on his back, hands behind his head.
"How's the bruise on your face?" Hayner snickered, referring to Roxas.
"Would you like to come over here and find out?" Roxas responded with a grin. Hayner put his hands up in front of him, "Hey I was just asking. I'm sure Riku is heavy handed!"
Sora closed his eyes trying to tune out their conversation as best he could, not wanting to think of Riku at all anymore.
"Yeah, how did you even take a -" Hayner covered Pence's mouth and "shh'd" him, letting go.
"Hey, Sora!" Sora opened his eyes, looking up to see Selphie hovering over him. He jumped up to a sitting position, turning back to look at her. "What are you doing here?" He asked.
"Yeah, what are you doing here?" Roxas huffed.
"I thought we could play in the water a bit," Selphie said. She seemingly welcomed herself into the group, sitting down in between Sora and Olette. "Don't worry, Riku is with Wakka and Tidus!"
"Wait, Riku is here?!" Sora was surprised. The last time he saw Riku here was the day the two of them went when he was four.
"Yeah, his dad finally let him come," Selphie grabbed Sora and Olette by the wrist, pulling them up. "Come on, let's go!" She ran then to the water, Sora quickly stripping off his shirt and Olette her cover up before Selphie pulled them into the water with her.
"Let's join them!" Kairi said to the others, taking off her extra clothing.
"Hell yeah!" Hayner said, already out of his shirt and running towards the water.
Roxas took off his shirt as well, about to run but being caught around his waist in familiar arms. "Axel!" He yelled in a sort of happy and sort of 'let go!' kind of way. When Axel let go Roxas turned around to see him as well as the three others. He smiled. "Let's go into the water!"
"Alright, Roxy," Axel said, beginning to get all fiery. He pulled off his shirt and began to run. "WOOHOO!"
"You guys coming?" Roxas asked the trio before running off after Axel.
"We'll stay here." Larxene said, shaking her head.
"Yeah, Zexion's not good with water." Demyx pouted.
"Well, feel free to join us if you change your minds!" Roxas ran to the water, splashing Axel as soon as he got in.
"Looks like Selphie's having fun, ya?" Wakka looked at her playing with the others.
A big smile made its way on Tidus' face. "Maybe we should join?!"
"You guys go. I'll go sit with -" Tidus grabbed Riku by the wrist, trying to pull him.
"Nah bruddah, you're coming!" Wakka grinned.
"You never get to come here, so you can't just flake on us once you get the chance!" Tidus kept pulling, not seeming to get anywhere fast.
Riku was about to conjure up a response but the loud blaring of a speaker phone caught theirs, and everyone else's, attention.
"Hello everyone on the beach," The voice was loudly enthusiastic. "We would like to announce this year's mini volleyball tournament! If you would like to play, please come to the volleyball nets in by the next ten minutes. Rules will be explained when the teams are divvied up."
"LET'S GO!" Hayner jumped, running out of the water. Roxas grabbed Axel's hand, pulling him out of the water with him.
"I'll see you guys on the court!" Selphie chimed, wading to the sand.
Sora got out of the water running over to their blanket to get a towel to dry off, Olette, Kairi, and Pence right behind him. "Oh hey," he smiled as he say Demyx, Larxene, and Zexion sitting. "It's you guys! When did you get here?"
"We came with Axel." Larxene stuck her tongue out.
"You guys live near him?" Olette asked as she was handed an orange towel from Sora.
"Sort of." Demyx leaned back, his arms supporting him upright.
"Come and play volleyball with us," Kairi bubbled. "It'll be fun!"
Demyx jumped up to his feet. "Let's go play guys!" He seemed very energetic grabbing his friends arms and pulling them up and over to the large net, Zexion dropping his book into the sand.
"Uhh Kairi, Are you sure you can play with your hand like that?" Sora asked, referring to her bandaged hand.
"Oh! Mmm," She began to curl her hand in and out of a fist. "It doesn't seem to hurt much. I'll be fine." She smiled.
"We should go before the ten minutes are up," Pence hurried them. "Before we get disqualified!"
"Right." Sora nodded, jogging over to the net. The others followed.
"Riku," Sora huffed. He held a piece of paper up in the boy's face at the sandbox. "You have to sign this!"
Riku stood up from his squat, taking the piece of paper from Sora's hand, reading it he read: 'I, Rikku Satochee, sware to B fourever Sora Heebaree's best friend' in blue crayon. "You spelled my name wrong," He frowned. "You spelled your name wrong."
"I don't care, I'm only four," Sora flailed. "But you must sign it!" He held out a green crayon to Riku.
"Why do I have to sign it?" Riku said. He rested it down on the wooden outline of the sandbox, signing it anyway before Sora could answer.
"Because, last night I made a wish to be with you forever," Sora pouted. "And it won't come true unless you signed this."
Riku stood up, laughing. "Sora," he said, putting a hand in the boy's hair. "I'll be with you forever, even if this paper gets ruined."
"Really?" Sora smiled, getting all giddy inside.
"Really."
All the teens stood at the volleyball net, waiting for their directions from the events director. "Everyone please line up," the director came, speaking through a smaller and less noisy hand megaphone. All the participants lines up beside the side as they were counted. "There are thirty-two of you! We two team leaders, if anyone would like to be a leader please step out!"
A bunch of whispering began, everyone urging their friends to step out. In the end, Zack decided to be the first. He moved out of the line and over to the director. "Here's one! We just need one more!"
"Heh, I guess I'll take the other lead then." Cloud said, coming out of the line and standing on the other side of the director from Zack.
"Alright~!" Zack gave a big smile, feeling some competition.
The director took a coin out of his pocket and took a step back from Zack and Cloud. They turned to face the coin that was held out in his hand. "Take your pick, heads or tails! Whoever wins gets first alternating choice!"
"Heads!" Zack said, taking first initiative.
Cloud crossed his arms, grinning. "Tails."
"Here we go!" The director flipped the coin up in the air, catching it with a closed fist. He opened it to reveal which side of the coin came up. "It's tails," he pointed at Cloud. "Blondie will be team one and the other will be team two! Choose your team mates wisely! Each team gets sixteen players!" He backed away from the boys, who then turned back to face the line.
"Tifa." Cloud called out. Tifa ran out to his side, holding his hand.
"Aerith!"
Sora looked down the line, looking at everyone who was getting called out before him.
"Riku!"
"Roxas." Roxas ran from Axel's side and over to Cloud's team. Cloud raised an eyebrow, looking at Roxas' patched cheek. 'I'll tell you about it later' Roxas whispered.
"Sora!" Zack grinned.
"What…?!" Sora became wide eyed, freezing in his place. Usually he would end up on the same team as his other friends, or at least never on a team with a Blitzball player.
"Sora?" Zack said again, wondering if he got the brunettes name wrong.
Larxene pushed Sora out of the line, taking him out of his shocked state. He quickly made his way towards Zack. Riku glared down at him. Feeling the unwantedness Sora looked down at his toes in the sand, trying his hardest not to look up.
After a couple names of people Sora didn't recognize, the names began to be called out faster.
"Axel."
"Selphie!" Selphie put her arm around Sora's shoulder, giggling.
"Hayner." "Wakka!" "Olette." "Tidus!" "Kairi." "Rai!" "Fuu." "Seifer!" "Pence."
"Uhm," Zack struggled. "You, boy with the blonde hair!" He pointed over at Demyx who came running over.
"Zexion."
"Other blonde!" Zack nervously smiled, seeing Larxene's face began angry by him not knowing her name.
"Now that we have the teams, each team get on your side of the court!" The director said through his megaphone. The teams maneuvered themselves on the court, setting up their positions. The lines on each team went five in the front, seven in the center, and four in the back. Realizing Riku was in the front row, Sora went to the back with Demyx, Larxene, and the girl he heard to be Aerith who was in the spot of the server. In the front row stood, from left to right, Wakka, Selphie, Zack, Riku, and Tidus. The middle held some guy named Rai and another named Seifer, Sora recognizing both of them to be on the Blitzball team. The rest of the others in the middle he didn't know the names of but recognized them from his school.
The front line of the other team was Axel, Roxas, Cloud, Tifa, and Hayner. Sora saw Kairi and Olette in the middle section, and Pence and Zexion in the back.
"Since Team One got first choice, Team Two gets the ball first!" The director said. He threw the ball over to the team, Zack catching it and passing it back towards Aerith. "The rules are simple volleyball rules but altered due to the amount of players per team! Five hits per team! The server gets three tries to get it over the net, no one from the servers team can hit it over if the serve is too short! When the other team gets hold of the ball, they must rotate their spots! A ball is out when it gets hit over the line or is hit more than five times from the team! If the ball hits the white line, it is in! First team to reach a score of twenty wins! Everyone ready?!"
The teams began to cheer.
"Let's play some volleyball!" The director yelled.
"Serve it, Aerith!" Zack yelled. Aerith nodded and hit it up into the air, passing it over to the other side successfully.
"Got it!" Olette yelled, hitting the ball up in the hair towards the front line.
"Cloud, set me up!" Tifa ordered. Cloud nodded, hitting the ball straight up in the air for Tifa. She spiked the ball over the net as hard as she could, which was pretty hard considering the amount of strength she has.
"Don't even think about it!" Tidus yelled, diving for the ball with his hands together. He got it up the air, but mistakingly making it travel far backwards. "Oops…" Tidus nervously scratched the back of his head.
"I got it!" Sora yelled, running for the ball. If the ball were to hit out of the lines after his team hitting it they would be the ones out, and having to give the ball to the other team. Everyone watched as the brunette lifted his foot up in the air, jumping into a scissor kick and hitting the ball perfectly back to the front of the team, falling to his back in the sand. Selphie quickly set the ball up for Wakka who spiked it down in front of Hayner.
"WOOHOO!" Zack cheered as his team earned a point. "Go, Sora!" He lifted his fist up in the air, looking back at Sora with a large smile. Sora blushed, smiling back at Zack. "That kids got some talent!" Zack said to Riku, who grinned as a response getting the volleyball from Cloud and beginning to pass it back to Aerith.
"Yeah," Tidus looked to the back of the line. "How did you do that, Sora?!"
"Uhm…I used to play soccer when I was in middle school!" Sora yelled back.
"Looks like you shouldn't have stopped!" Aerith giggled sweetly, retrieving the ball from the middle row.
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