Life's a beach.

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The sound of the waves washing in and out, the warmth of the sun as it shined down upon you, the smell of the ocean in the air. A trip to the Beach could always be fun and relaxing. Maybe you want to join a game of Beach volleyball or head out in the ocean and swim? There is always the option of catching a wave or two if you know how to surf. And if you don’t know how? Maybe you want to learn.

There are quite a few activities you can do while you are at the Beach. Though sometimes nothing beats just laying down and relaxing in the sun. But don’t forget to put on sunscreen to protect your skin! And for those hard to reach places, why not ask for a little helping hand.


[ooc: Open post for all! Set up your post however you want. Put up multiple scenarios, leave it blank, ect. Add a picture of what their swimwear is too if you like. Have fun! Ganked from this spot here.

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[flowingsword]

Umi blinked. "You willed your hair to curl?" For some reason, the possibility that Fuu would make use of the laws of Cephiro to give her appearance an added boost had never occurred to Umi. Then she smiled. "I guess I shouldn't be so surprised. You really do think of everything!"

Besides, could she say that she'd never (perhaps unknowingly) willed a tangle out of her own hair? All that outdoor travel was hard on a high-maintenance cut like Umi's!

"But I guess on the other hand, at least we have each other to talk to. If it hadn't been for you guys..." she trailed off, a little embarrassed. "Well, anyway, I glad you were both there with me."

[monster_san]

"Of course!" said Fuu, a little surprised that Umi hadn't realized it. She had (indeed) figured that Umi was doing the same thing with her very long and unbraided hair, since it had remained so beautiful throughout. "After all, I wasn't going to ask Mokona to try conjuring a curling iron. I don't think he would have known what it was."

She was grateful she hadn't, actually. Asking the Creator of the Universe... how disrespectful!

Fuu nodded earnestly at Umi's statement. She understood the sentiment in that unfinished sentence. "I am too," she said. "I'll always be glad that I met you and Hikaru at Tokyo Tower that day." She smiled, remembering that first day. "Do you remember how mad you got when I suggested Mount Fuji blew up and sent us there?"

[flowingsword]

"Hmm... you're probably right. I wonder how that little puffball's doing, anyway..." Creator or no Creator, Mokona was still... well, a downright nuisance sometimes. Especially the way it had teased them -- it had known exactly where to go and what to do the entire time!

Umi put her hands on her hips. "Well, of course I remember! What a thing to say! Er, but I guess considering all the other stuff we've seen, a mountain blowing up really wouldn't be as surprising any more."

She sighed. "Anyway, do you want to go for a swim? The water looks really nice today."

[monster_san]

"I'm sure he's doing fine, wherever he is," Fuu said. "I wouldn't be surprised if he visited Presea to mess up her study again!" She giggled as she remembered how outraged the blacksmith had been, and that was nothing to the way Umi would react.

She stood up eagerly at Umi's suggestion. "Yes! It looks like everyone who's in the water is enjoying it, without having to spend too much time adjusting to the temperature," she said, shading her eyes to look out at the various swimmers. She ran towards the water quickly, on her tiptoes. Umi had been right, the sand was very hot!

[flowingsword]

Umi ran all the way to the seashore, where the water wet the sand and made it much cooler to walk on. Only then did she slow down to wade into the water.

White seabirds scuttled back and forth, picking at unseen bits of food when the waves were out, and fleeing on their stubby little legs when the water came roaring back in. Their bodies were small, but they apparently had inexhaustible amounts of energy. "Hey, get a load of those guys! Remind you of anyone?"

[monster_san]

Fuu crouched down to get a better look at the birds. Further up the beach, she could see some of them cheekily trying to nab the food that people had brought as well as the things that had been discarded.

She smiled. "I think Sir Mokona put a special effort into creating these creatures!" she said, cupping her cheek in one hand. "You can almost imagine them saying 'pu pu.'"

[flowingsword]

"Ha! Maybe they do, when no one's looking!" She waded deeper into the water, feeling the cool pressure of the water sink up past her waist.

"The temperature's just right!" With a sharp intake of breath, Umi dove beneath the waves, searching the sandy bottom for any stray shells.

[monster_san]

Fuu followed Umi into the water more cautiously. Although she could swim, it wasn't her forte. She had left her glasses up with their other things, too, so everything looked a bit blurry, including Umi's mass of blue hair underwater.

Fuu pinched her nose, took a deep breath, and ducked under the surface. The water roared in her ears--she recalled reading about how water magnified sound--and felt on the sand for anything interesting. Her fingers touched something flat and smooth, not at all like a seashell, and she grabbed it and surfaced.

She wasn't sure, but it looked like a broken bottle that had been smoothed by the ocean. "I think I found a piece of sea-glass!"

[flowingsword]

Umi came up in a splash of water, holding up a mostly-intact pink clamshell. "Looks like there are some nice shells around here... huh? Sea-glass?"

She wrinkled her nose. "Fuu, you can find stuff like that anywhere!"

[monster_san]

"Oh, but it's so interesting!" Fuu protested. "Who knows how long it's been tumbling around in the ocean? Or who it once belonged to? And it is very pretty." Sure, it was probably part of a broken bottle--definitely, considering its green color--but it was a very nice one.

She leaned closer to get a better look at the object that Umi had found. Without her glasses, she couldn't say for sure. "A seashell? I wonder what kind of mollusc it was."

[flowingsword]

"Well, I guess so," said Umi a little doubtfully. "I never knew you were a sea-glass fan."

She handed the shell to Fuu. "I don't know what kind it is, exactly. Probably some kind of clam or... ugh! What's that? There's something gross wrapped around my leg!"

She could feel its sliminess clinging to her ankle, and vehemently kicked with her foot underwater to try and free herself.