This is just a simple one-shot featuring the main characters from not only my War Chronicles series, but also from my 2 revised spin-offs: Tales of Emblems, Meisters and Kings and Genshin of the Poké-Blue Skies; all simply having a little fun in a real world pool location.
"CANNONBALL~!"
Loud splashing went all around, hitting some people that weren't lucky to escape.
Some bubbles were emerging from the water before a figure bursted out of the water, revealing to be Natsu Dragneel, in his swim wear, pumping his fists in the air.
"Wahoo! First one to dive!" Natsu chirped.
"Don't be so sure, pyro!" Natsu turned to see the source of the voice calling out to him to be a dashing Naruto Uzumaki, Pegasus Kouga and Shoyo Hinata in their swimwear, jumped at the same time near Natsu, splashing the pool hard enough to force him back.
They emerged at the same time and did the exact same thing Natsu did.
"I'm still first though!" Natsu hollered.
"Only because you got a head start, man!" Hinata argued.
"I had the head start first!" Kouga bragged.
"No way, kid! I did!" Naruto retorted.
"Well I still won!" Natsu hollered.
The bickering between the four didn't go unnoticed by the rest of the people arriving at their own pace to get everything set up (despite some people being impatient to join the fun but were pulled back).
The later arrivals to be Monkey D. Luffy, Blizzard, Happy, Ichigo Kurosaki, Korra, Soma Yukihira, Yoh Asakura and Manta Oyamada, Ruby Rose, Izuku Midoriya, Tatsumi, Nagisa Shiota, Tetsuya Kuroko, Alear, Aether and Paimon, Alphen, Maka Albarn and Soul Evans, Kasel and his pet wolf Luke, Gran, Lyria and Vyrn, and Ash Ketchum and his Pikachu.
Today, these 21 heroes and the sidekicks/pets are having a fun day at an outdoor pool at Camp Greenknoll in Brookfield. They made sure to schedule it on a Saturday as a private party for the afternoon so long as they follow the rules and clean up afterwards.
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Several minutes later, everyone were stationed either in the pool or sitting in chairs to relax and have a pleasant conversation.
Because no pets were allowed in the pool area, Happy, Blizzard, Luke, Vyrn and Pikachu were hanging outside the pool area near the playground to play their own games.
Around the deep end of the pool, a game of Marco Polo was played by Naruto, Kouga, Natsu, Hinata, Soma, Gran, Lyria and Ash. The shallow end is being occupied by Korra, Ruby, Yoh, Tatsumi, Kuroko and Aether playing with a beach ball, practicing underhand passes. Near tables and chairs were the rest of the gang.
All except for one gone unnoticed.
"This feels nice, guys." Ichigo said.
"Wish we could invite all of our friends to this place. But it would be completely overkill." Alphen explained.
"Well, everyone wanted to spent time with their respective friends from each world with a different plan to spend their day." Maka explained.
"And that's fine with us." Paimon said, enjoying a sip of fresh lemonade tea.
"Hey… quick question." Soul called out.
"What's that, Soul?" Kasel asked.
"Where's Luffy?" Soul questioned, causing the people at the table to freeze up.
What they don't realize that Luffy was already at the top roof of the changing rooms using Gum-Gum Balloon several times to bounce up and down before the next downward bounce flung him high into the air.
Giving off a cheeky grin, Luffy prepared to do something crazy.
"Third Gear…!" Luffy hollered, putting his right thumb into his mouth to inflate his body to a larger proportion.
"… Bone Ballon!" Luffy shouted, using the inflation to only his belly to make it bigger.
Naruto, Kouga, Natsu, Korra, Hinata, Soma, Yoh, Ruby, Tatsumi, Kuroko, Aether, Gran, Lyria and Ash all immediately stopped their pool activates when they saw Luffy in the air and became horrified at what he's planning. Well, Kuroko didn't show a horrified face and more of his usual poker face.
The table group of Ichigo, Manta, Izuku, Nagisa, Alear, Paimon, Alphen, Maka, Soul and Kasel became horrified upon looking up in the air.
"He wouldn't!" Ichigo, Tatsumi and Nagisa all thought of the same dreadful thing the Straw Hat captain is planning do to.
"Gum-Gum… GIANT CANNONBALL~!" Luffy shouted, falling down at an extremely high speed with his inflated body, causing everyone to scream as they ran for their lives.
But it was too late as Luffy crashed into the pool so hard the ground erupted, leaving a massive crater. All the water of the pool came splashing out and hitting every corner both inside the pool area and outside several feet away.
Happy, Blizzard, Luke, Vyrn and Pikachu all stopped playing to see the devastation and were totally flabbergasted.
"Of course he would do that." Happy muttered.
"Pika…" Pikachu said, having a sweat drop on his forehead.
Blizzard, Luke and Vyrn growled in annoyance.
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Luffy was laughing so hard he could barely see what he has done.
"Man, that was awesome!" Luffy hollered, before he realized he is sitting in the damaged pool with no idea what happened.
"Hey, where did everybody go?" Luffy questioned, only to get a cold shiver down his spine and slowly turned to soon enough become frightened by what he saw.
It was none other than Naruto, Kouga, Natsu, Korra, Hinata, Soma, Ruby, Ichigo, Tatsumi, Nagisa, Kasel, Maka (and Soul), Aether and Ash (who called out Charizard) not totally happy with their respective powers activated or weapons drawn out.
Yoh, Manta, Izuku, Kuroko, Alear, Alphen, Paimon, Gran and Lyria were disappointed, but choose to let those who looked forward for their day in the pool deliver the punishment.
"S-Sorry…" Luffy weakly said. But the apology was on deaf ears.
Lots of screaming was heard in a massive dust cloud as Luffy was getting punished by Naruto, Kouga, Natsu, Korra, Hinata, Soma, Ruby, Ichigo, Tatsumi, Nagisa, Kasel, Maka (and Soul), Aether, Ash and Charizard all at once.
Happy, Blizzard, Luke, Vyrn and Pikachu sighed at the chaos and chose to stay out of it.
It didn't go the way it was supposed to, but hey, having fun is what matters.
Typical Luffy. I did wanted to make this more fun, but made the choice of Luffy doing something crazy and ruin it with his usual antics. But hey, can't have some form of mayhem every now and then.
Aside from more planning and maybe some Aether one-shots until I resume activities in September, I will also be working on revising the prologues to the new Tales of Emblems, Meisters and Kings, and Genshin of the Poké-Blue Skies now that I've changed the titles.
There is still issues with the FanFiction email notifications, so I recommend you not only check your profiles and all related posted updates or new stories 24/7, but check your PMs for any messages you did not get. Do the same thing on your FanFiction app if you have one. If not, download the app as a backup if the mobile or computer one doesn't work. Still working out the app myself since it is more complicated to work with on the phone, but getting notifications on their is a little easier to have.
I got an Archive of Our Own invite and luckily by August 4, I can get my own A03 account which is my back-up plan in case FanFiction is not working properly with the emails. Also plan to post some of my old FanFiction stories on there and only the ones (including this one you all see) that made the most important, which will be in order:
1. Assassin's Journey
2. Assassin's Journey Prompts
3. Black Ghost Arc
4. Attack on Vampire
5. Tales of Heroes
6. Under the Stars
7. Haikyuu! Ninjas
8. A New Family
9. The Mysterious Outlaw
10. Kuroko's World Adventure
11. A Sunny Day for Assassination
12. Meaning of Life and Death
13. Party Time
14. Happy Valentine's Day, Shinonon!
15. Food Wars! Warriors
16. A Simple Day to Relax
17-20. My 3 main War Chronicles Stories (Super War Chronicles, Omega War Chronicles and Grand War Chronicles)
21. Tales of Emblems, Meisters and Kings
22. Genshin of the Poké-Blue Skies
And all my Aether x Female Character one-shots
Note 1: Those that I wanna post on A03 once I get my account so long as I follow their guidelines.
Note 2: Next chapter is an important announcement.