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[[ Beach Bar ]]

Altair chuckled lightheartedly. "Sorry if it felt powerful to you, mate, but this thing's rubbish; it only shoots about 20, 000 volts through you, not even half of what the standard issue copper tasers crank out," he said, grinning at Zayne.

"I'll take care not to hurt anybody, though," he said, embarrased and suddenly feeling regret for his rash action. "Err, sorry for...hurtingyouorwhatever," he quickly muttered, looking away from Zayne. "Got a bag I can put this thing inside of?" He raised the taser up, holding it by a loop in it and twirling it around his finger playfully.

"So there's a pie-eating contest, eh? Anything else worthy of note?" he asked, curiously observing everyone around him on the beach. "We might be on a super secret mission, but let's have fun, yeah?" He circled Zayne boredly. "I'm getting restless, just sitting here. Let's get a move on or something!" He grabbed Zayne's arm and tugged on it playfully.

(( Pie eating contest ))

This experience reminded Lazarus of his first date with Tariel not long ago. When he ate that deathly sweet chocolate cake. Only this strawberry pie was a different type of sweet, one that disgusted him more? He was not sure. He had already come so far, he might as well go on until he couldn't take it anymore. Quickly stuffing the strawberry pie in his mouth, he swallowed it down without much chewing. This is quite unhealthy. Lazarus thought as his stomach got fuller.

(( Sorry, forgot to roll! orz
Tally - 93 + 4 = 97, I think the strawberry killed Laz's appetite, lulz ))

[[ Beach Bar ]]

Altair followed Zayne to a pillar and tossed his taser into the bag. "It's okay, Zayne, you don't have to be macho ALL the time," teased Altair, sticking his tongue out at him and scrunching up his face. He raised his eyebrows in excitement when he heard about Damien.

"Oh? Do I finally get to meet Damien?" he asked excitedly, his speaking speed picking up slightly. "I've heard so much about the boy, I'd love to see him!" And it was faster.

Altair scanned the beach, looking for anybody who could pass as a "Damien." "Come on," he pleaded to Zayne very quickly, "Just show me already! I wanna meet him!" Of course he wanted to meet him; provided the boy had a stomach and legs, he was perfectly glad to be in his company. Altair then grimmaced at the latter half of Zayne's comment. "Uck, mate, how many times do I have to tell you?" His voice was picking up even more speed. "I'm bloody scared of them! Show me one who couldn't possibly be percieved as anything but friendly, and then I'll have a change of heart." His voice was ridiculously fast at his point.

"Justhurryupandshowmedammit!"

.ll Sand N' Sun ll.

Josh seemed to freeze in place as Namini hurdled at him and preformed some awkward flip on the sand before him. Was she trying out some ritual as a last resort? Apparently not, she seemed to mysteriously produce balloons from the pocket on her hoodie and gave one last “kill or be killed” strike on the boy. Josh flinched as she sent out a maelstrom of water balloons at him. He ducked down beside the colossal buckets, containing precious ammunition, as he was assaulted by the chilly and wet rainbow of colors. Of course, he was now soaked to the bone. However, she had made a mistake in letting her guard down and getting so close to the boy. Especially, when he was the only one with access to more soggy balloon “slugs”. He grinned taking one of the smaller buckets in his hands and flinging its contents at the unsuspecting girl. He took one more of the balloons, a pristine and perfect lavender projectile, and tossed it between his hands as he approached Namini. This was Josh's chance! She was practically as defenseless as a washed up fish. He pulled in close to her, a wolfish grin plastered square on his face, making sure to cut her off from getting anymore balloons. “So who did you say things were going to get too tough for?” He blew a soggy tress of hair out of his face, his warm breath tickling and dancing over Namini’s skin.

[[...::Pie Eating Contest::...]]

Eiry easily phased out of Aphismet's grip, giggling all throughout the reprimanding he was receiving for the evil deed. He wasn't so much worried about being berated because he was too busy enjoying Isi's reaction and belly-laughing with amusement. He did listen to one thing that Aphismet said, so with an eerie laughter, he made himself intangible and pressed his way through the crowd, not even bother to move out of the way. He simply passed through them all and finally made it into an uncrowded area. He didn't leave on Aphismet's command more than he left to find something interesting that he had seen on his way over here to sign-up for events. Ah, there it is!

...Water balloons.

A mischievous grin enveloped Eiry's face as a dark thought took root in his mind. From there, Eiry's eyes scanned the area around him and locked his red orbs on a pair of raevans he was talking with earlier...

((Sand n' Stuff))

Namini let out a pained yip as a swarm of watery bees stung her skin, the iciness of them piercing straight to the bone. Her hoodie was soaked and weighing her down now, and for a moment she contemplated removing it but she hesitated. Looking down at her gloved hands, Namini remained oblivious to the approaching danger snickering sinisterly but playfully at her. That is, until the plop-plop-plopping of palm meeting balloon echoed loudly in her ears, a glimpse of purple just barely escaping her dazed line of sight. By the time she looked up, Josh was already looming over her, and Namini couldn't help but widen her eyes in fear. Though it was just another water balloon she would have to endure, the brunette treated it as upcoming death sentence. Quickly, she had to think. Think!! Closing her eyes tightly for a minute, perfecting some mask, Namini quickly reopened her large, doe-like eyes and furrowed her brow in a pathetic manner. Her lower lip began to quiver and she stumbled across her words, hoping that the other teen was foolish enough to fall for her pitiful act, "W-would you..really be so.. Tsk, you'd be so unbearably cruel to me? ...Josh?"

She made sure to say the boy's name in a wispy but frail tone, as if to add the cherry to the top of her performance. Ah, the times she had fooled her brother with this trick. Namini knew it wouldn't hold for long, if it did. She just needed time. Her cerulean eyes glanced momentarily at the pile of shining balloons behind Josh. Think!!

{{Beach Bar}}

Zayne laughed and then softened his voice to a submissive-sounding and almost girlish extent, "oh really, would you rather me not be?" He fully opened his large eyes, stepped closer and invading his space, let his hand linger on Altair's arm, giving the inventor a taste of his femininity.

Of course, that lasted for less than a minute before Zayne regained his composure and grinned. "Of course you'll meet him eventually, you know. I can only guess that you'll need a ride back to the city, and since I brought him along, he'll be in the car as well. By the way... when I saw Damien a second ago, he seemed to be trying to converse with one of the Raevans, and since he probably still is in the crowd of people, there will be Raevans around. I'm sure you'll see one or two that you wont be afraid of."

With that, the silver-haired "agent" plunged his hand into the bag, withdrew a blue, soft, water-holding ball and stuck it into Altair's mouth. "Yes, I get the point that they are frightening, but there is no need to yell it out to them and perhaps offend one of them; you dont know what they're capable of.." He smirked darkly, his tone one of jest.

Tugging Altair's arm lightly Zayne jerked his head to the side, toward the location of the event sign-up sheets. "Oh, I think there are going to be events later on... I was thinking of signing up for one or two; why don't you come check it out?"


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{{Beach Bar}}

The cat-eared raevan had apparently not noticed his rude intrusion, nor his nervous attempt to apologize. With a breath of relief and a twinge of a longing to talk to her, He backed away to a safe distance between the raven he had bumped and closer to a familiar person that he had met earlier, currently eating pies.

Looking up and observing his surroundings, he realized that Zayne had found him. He smiled deviantly at his guardian before noticing that Zayne had company. He wondered who it could be, especially since his guardian seemed less reserved with the other guy... He'd have to go investigate this later.
His mind wandering, he vaguely thought about how it might have been a better idea just to have stayed in the sand, maybe building sand castles or exploring. But, his mind quickly cleared from the thoughts; he had all day to do things on the beach, why not enjoy the scene of the pie-stuffing people? Looking around and spotting a familiar face, he shouted out, rooting for his pie-covered friend.

"Wooo! You can do it Isi!!'