[scene: behind the Mori, Celly has recently put in a swimming pool. Otaku and Guardians are laying out or swimming]
Kristsi: [laying on floating raft] I'm sure glad Celly had this pool put in.
Susanne: Ditto! [cannonballs off the diving board]
Mercy: [sitting at the edge with her feet dangling in the water] Eek! Watch it there! Quit splashing!
Celly: [laying on a lawn chair next to the pool] What, afraid your hair'll turn green?
Meredith: Let's not even go there!
Eurydice: Come on, Anae! The water's fine!
Anaera: No way!! I'm fine right here!
Remy: [sweatdrop] Anaera, you're still in the kitchen.
Dionysus: We're out of ice cream, by the way!
Anaera: Dammit! [comes back outside, still has the ice cream scoop in her hand] Who finished off the ice cream?
[Susanne quickly ducks under the water]
[Nyx comes out of the Mori, brushing past Anaera. She is still wearing the trench.]
Seth: Aw, c'mon, Vic! Lose the jacket!
Nyx: [clutches tightly at the coat] HELL no!! No way!
Anaera: Well, it seems we have something in common after all...
Roger: [treading water in the middle of the pool] Yeah, people who can't swim even though they've had centuries to learn. Talk about wasted time!
[P-kun walks out, everyone averts their eyes]
Remy: Whoa, check the glare off that blinding white skin!
Roger: I'm blind!!! [sinks under the water]
P-kun: [bristling in affront] Hey, I don't spend a lot of time in my human form! [in a threatening voice] I *could* be wearing speedos.
[everyone shudders, turns back to what they were doing before]
Celly: [walks over to Dion, hands him a bottle] Here. [he starts massaging sunblock on her shoulders] So... who are these people?
Dion: [whispers] Don't worry about it. They're just the crazy people.
Celly: Oh. Ohhh!
Susanne: Sheesh... I don't know what's worse, them mad at each other, or all lovey-dovey like this. Get a room, you two!
Dion & Celly: 'Kay.
Roger: Maybe you should stop encouraging them.
[Zeke cannonballs into the pool with an enormous splash which Anaera and Nyx have to scramble to avoid, then he comes up laughing]
Anaera and Nyx: You have to get out of that pool sometime.
[Zeke gulps and ducks back under the water]
[there is a shriek as Kristsi's raft thingy capsizes and she is thrown into the water]
[Kell comes up laughing]
Kristsi: YOU!!! [shoves his head under the water]
Kell: [gurgling]
[Seth sits down on the edge of the pool and dangles his legs in the water. As he looks at the many bathing suits-clad Otaku, he smiles. His eyes focus on Eurydice, who is in the water, slowly swimming in his direction]
>Target in range<
[Eurydice is swimming very near where Seth is sitting]
>Targeting Sensors locked on<
[Eurydice treads water near Seth and calls to Anaera to jump in]
>Launching first barrage<
Seth: My, that form suits you much better than your last one.
Eurydice: [laughing] Oh, please, is that the best pick up line you can think of?
Seth: [smiling] No, but mere words do not do you justice, my beauty.
Eurydice: Oh... you're *good*. Cute too.
[they smile at each other]
[Anaera and Nyx finally see what is happening and horror crosses their faces]
Anaera: ... no... gods... no...
Nyx: NNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! SOMEBODY SEPERATE THOSE TWO!!!!!!
[everyone in the pool area just smiles. As long as Seth is involved with her, they don't have to worry... as much]
[Orion walks by whistling the Wedding March. Nyx and Anaera glare and punt him into low-Earth orbit]
Anaera: This canNOT be happening...
Meredith: Kristsi, are you going to let Kell up for air?
Kristsi: Kell? Kell who?
Roger: What about the Who?
Zeke: Who's on stage.
Meredith: Who's on first.
Susanne: I don't know.
Meredith & Susanne: THIRD BASE! [simultaneous giggling fit]
Mercy: Oh, look out, here comes Orion...
[Orion falls from the sky, landing in the pool. There is a tremendous splash and Anaera and Nyx nearly crash into each other trying to get out of the way. Everyone else just looks up and glares at Orion]
Remy: Damn! That water is *cold*!!! I was trying to ease in, stupid! [she splashes a wave towards Orion's body, which is floating belly-down in the water]
P-kun: [sighing] Well, now that I'm thoroughly drenched, I might as well swim.
Zeke: [nervous] Uh... minna...?
Mercy: What is it, Zeke?
Zeke: I don't think cold water works on them. [he makes a vague motion towards a lounge chair where Celly and Dion, soaked to the bones, are currently... occupied]
Susanne: [grumbles incoherently]
Nyx: God! Now I *really* know that I didn't need to see that!
[Anaera grabs her by the arm and turns her around so that they are both facing where Eurydice and Seth were flirting... they are obviously not flirting anymore]
Nyx: [going pale] ... I think I'm going to be sick...
Anaera: [crumples into a fetal position, whimpering] ... I think I'll join you...
Kristsi: [her arm is still suspiciously holding something down under the water] Well, look at the bright side! At least no one is trying to kill anyone! [bubbles come up from under the water where her arm is]
Celly: [smiling] What about Kell?
Kristsi: [innocently] Who's Kell? [the bubbles die off]