1643/Beach Party!

Beach Party!
Date of Scene:	21 June 2016
Location:	Uminari City - Juuban Avenue - North
Synopsis:	A party is thrown for the magical heroes of Tokyo, and people come to the beach to smash watermelons, chat, and romance!
Cast of Characters:	Madoka Kaname, Nadeshiko Fujisaki, Homura Akemi, Reiko Touyama, Hannah Sharpe, Sora Hisakata, Sayaka Miki, Mara Brando, Jiaying Maki, Eilam Hisakawa, Ano Onna, Naru Osaka, Kukai Souma

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Madoka Kaname has posed:
    It's a bright and sunny day out today with only a few fluffy white clouds visible over the ocean, leaving most of Tokyo bathed in sunlight. It really is summer now and most places that have it have turned their air conditioners on as the common summer long heat wave seems to have started.

    Down by the sea one of the nicer private yellow sand beaches has been cordoned off, rented out in preparation for the party that's just about to begin. Unlike the stretches of beach flanking either side this area is completely devoid of those ubiquitous pink flowers that have been popping up everywhere that most magical people would have discovered by now drained energy. Instead there's a small pile of ash that has been tossed in the large central fire pit, the sand having been raked out neatly after their removal.

    Over one or two of the several picnic tables has been placed under the shade pop up canopies to give people a place to sit out of the sun, while others are out in the open for those that want to soak up the rays. Likewise there are a good number of comfortable lounge chairs with umbrellas that can be opened or closed at the loungers desire, as well as beach towels for those who want to lay in the sand or dry off. None of these require any form of payment; everything is being provided free to the party attendees!

    For the hungry there is a plethora of food available, either from the grill upon which hambegers, fish, and vegetables are being grilled, along with hand fried Takoyaki in a small pot on a side burner, or over the fire pit which has a perfectly sized cooking fire burning in it, several logs off to the side. People can choose to cook their own hot dogs and kebabs, but more importantly to those with sweet tooths are the marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate bars all set up to make the perfect smores. Drinks are also available in the form of chilled cans of soda, juice and bottles of water. Sorry kids, no punchbowl this time! People are going to have to get really inventive if they want to spike something today.

    Off to one side, away from the food, a volleyball net has been set up, strips of cloth attached to stakes marking the boundaries of each side of the court. Nearby several posts stick out of the sand, each with several metal horseshoes set around them, and down by the beach stored in a small shed is a supply of float rings and mats and bodyboards for those that want to go out and splash in the water, as well as arm floats for the swimming impaired.

    Standing near the entrance to the beach just down a short walkway is Madoka, happily waving her arms around and hopping barefoot in the sand to help people find her way. "This way! The party's over heeeeere~!" She's wearing a pink bikini a few shades lighter than her hair, shaped like rounded triangles with ties at her back and neck. The bottoms she wears with it are mostly covered by a pink and white flower print sarong she wears wrapped about her hips and thighs to imitate a skirt and give the swimsuit a cuter overall look.

    She walks over to a nearby table and picks up off of it one of three large watermelons, holding it in both hands and lifting it above her head, waving it around while smiling brightly. "Who wants to smash a watermelon? We have the stick and the blindfold ready to go!" After a short moment she adds, "J-just don't hit it too hard, we'll want to eat it after it's broken open!"

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Nagihiko's sent a text to the Guardians, just in case they haven't heard the news.

Of course, as Nadeshiko, he'd be fashionably late. But Nagihiko's bored and doesn't have to follow those rules!

When he arrives, he gives a wistful sigh at Madoka's bikini. So cute!

And yes, he's jealous. Sometimes he wishes he could go the whole nines when it comes to dressing up!

His shorts are purple, kind of plain, but he did pair it with a loose, off the shoulder white shirt, sunglasses, and a floppy hat! And about a gallon of sunscreen...

And flip-flops, because ow the sand is hot.

Temari perks up! She floats over to Madoka and tries to take the stick. "I want to! Nrg! NRG! It's too heavy..."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura Akemi is here, because of course she'd come along to help Madoka. She's wandering around the beach, looking at the ground with a flamethrower resting upon her shoulder, wearing a purple two-piece bathing suit. Fierce purple eyes scour the landscape for any unwanted plant intrusions, and, when she doesn't find any remaining, she calls out. "Looks like we're clear, Madoka-chan!"

    Well, she had been scouring for quite a while, but Homura likes to make sure.

    Homura's henshin doesn't appear, but her shield does, and she places the flamethrower inside it. The relatively large flamethrower vanishes into the comparatively small buckler, and then the shield itself vanishes in purple sparkles.

    The veteran Puella starts trudging through the sand towards Madoka, watching the partygoers as they come in. If she spots any of them looking her way, she'll wave, but mostly she's taking mental note of who's here.

    And, of course, adoring Madoka from a distance as she starts talking about smashing watermelons.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama has obtained an orange, one piece bathing suit and is finishing it off with a pair of blue baggy shorts. She is now DRESSED FOR THE BEACH! This is a party. She loved magical parties. They were the BEST parties. She'd had gotten 'princessed up' but that wasn't appropiate for a beach party.

Also. She sent Eilam a text.

Reiko: Hey, I'm uh. Going to a party. Magical party. With magical folks. Like the other day. Wanna come along? Maybe you'll learn something! ><'>

She has arrived ahead of time and is wearing sandals because the sand can be hot!

She walks on over to Madoka and bows. "Hello again, Madoka-san~ Another nice party." she smiles. She looks over to the watermelon and blinks a bit with a furrowed brow. Eilam has that big weird sword staff thing. Maybe he can slice the watermelon like that and be all badass about it.

This emits a wistful ssiiiggghhh from her, but nah that won't happen.

Instead she looks around..

"I'm expecting a friend..."

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Really, Hannah's relationship with Puella right now feels a little bit awkward. But that's not going to stop her from showing up to a beach party with free food! She's been hogging the grill, cooking away happily. She's got a chef's apron over her swimsuit: a simple two-piece that's more built for athletics than showing off.

Still, she's not bashful at all. Boris is here too! He's the first one to say hi! Suddenly, doggie nose towards Madoka! Liiiiick woof! Wag wag wag tail! The husky offers Doggie Begging Eyes to Madoka.

Sizzle sizzle flip. She yanks off the apron, walking away with her burger and towards Madoka. "Piiiiinkball! Nice party, kiddo. You could make a mint doing catering, you know."

Oh, hey, it's Homura! "Heya Homura! How's the salvage busine...was that a flamethrower?" Grin.

"I missed you, you crazy Puella you. Don't go trying to cook with that thing."

Pause. She listens to the sounds of people trying to smash a watermelon. "Save some for me! Hitting things and watermelon, truly these are the best things in life!"

Sora Hisakata has posed:
Sora may be wearing a swimsuit, but it's hard to tell because she's put on clothes. A short black skirt and a simple dark red top. Her belly button shows in between, and she's also wearing black beach slippers that seem to tie down a little more firmly than most.

She glances towards the friend she's brought along, "I'm pretty sure you'll hear people talk about magic at some point around here. Now, I need to go do something." She surreptitiously adds a few more bottles of 'water'

The volleyball ace is headed for the volleyball net with a competitive smirk on her face, she looks towards the other people gathered, and without ever getting less of that grin on her face she calls out, "Does anyone feel like a game of volleyball?"

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    Sayaka's been keeping a low profile lately, mostly due to Puella shenanigans. However, she couldn't miss a chance to enjoy a happy fun lazy beach party, and perhaps she might find some interesting information while she's there!

    She comes dressed in a practical yet stylish one-piece pale blue swimsuit with white stripes down the sides. it's hot enough outside that she doesnt need any sort of beach cover either.

    Naturally, Sayaka's headed for the cool water, although she pauses as she spies familiar pink hair and not too far from her, Homura, as expected. However, it is Miss White that she heads towards, having meaning to talk to her a bout something.

    "Miss White! How've you been?" she also smiles and nods at Madoka and Homura as she comes towards them. "Hey you two lovebirds!" she teases with an impish grin. "Was this party your idea, Mado-chan?" Sayaka keeps an eye out for Kyouko but hasn't seen her yet.

Mara Brando has posed:
    Mara was only going to the beach to provide a little bit of music to people. Then again, she is in her bathing suit. It is a black, two piece swimming suit, and the bottoms are mostly a skirt to hide her upper thighs, keeping prying eyes away from her. Her top is also not very revealing as it hides most of her chest area and seems to be like a really high-cut shirt more than anything. Also with her, she is carrying her acoustic guitar as there is hardly any electrical outlets around the beach. She has a small sack tied to her bathing suit that carries extra strings, a guitar tuner and some picks.

    Mara's ears perk up as she hears her boss's name, then sighs a little bit as she turns her head to look where the noise is coming from, "Who are all those people?" The only one she remembers is Miss White. She huffs lightly as she was hoping to have a day off, but she walks over to where Miss white is first, and sees all what is going on. Then the food hits her nostrils as her mouth hangs open just slightly, but she catches herself and closes her mouth. "Oh! Miss White!" She holds up her guitar, but not in a threatening manner!

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki makes her way alongside Sora through the sand, completely barefoot and seemingly not too bothered by the hot sand yet. She does dance around from foot to foot if they stand still though. She herself is wearing a simple one-piece swimsuit in a very dark green, but over it she's wearing a t-shirt and she's carrying her towel with her over her shoulder. She's got sandals in her other hand. At the mention of magic, she lets out a playful gasp and says, "Magic? Really, I've got to see this!" With.. her usual poor lies. She's actually enthusiastic though and there is that!

She doesn't really recognize everyone right away, but that doesn't stop her from waving in general before looking over to Sora and seeming to contemplate playing volleyball before holding both hands up and saying somewhat embarrassedly, "I've never played it, would probably be really bad at it too. I can try though?" Talking herself out of avoiding it quickly enough.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka smiles and waves to Nagihiko as he arrives, having some passing knowledge of the Guardians. "Welcome!" she calls, "Come join the fun! Smash a watermelon, toss some horseshoes or roast a marshmallow!" The fact that two of these three things are food might be telling. She's very lucky to have such a fast metabolism. When Temari has trouble with the stick she makes a confused sound, "Maybe if you find some others to help? I don't know if we have any blindfolds that small, but I bet I could trust you to keep your eyes shut!"

    When Homura calls to her she looks back over her shoulder, smiling brightly to the bikini clad Puella. Something about wearing a bikini and wielding a flamethrower strikes her as amusing... and hot. In multiple ways. "Thanks, Homura-chan! You did a great job! Make sure you take the time to enjoy yourself since you've been working so hard~." A playful wink is added to the end of the sentence.

    Madoka returns the bow to Reiko, looking silly as she keeps holding the watermelon up high, "Hi, Reiko-chan!" The compliment to the party gets a giggle from her, "Thanks! I'm glad you like them. I think it's really important to take the time to have fun, even with everything happening." A small nod and she ads, "Hopefully they show up soon. I'm hoping this one gets big!"

    She walks a bit further away from the entrance as more people start to show up, figuring the flow of people and sound of conversation and fun can help draw them to the right spot, setting down the watermelon and scooping up a small burm for it before setting it there. This gives Boris a perfect chance to nose her, and she laughs and pets him with both hands, ruffling his ears and giving him lots of glorious petting. "How could I charge for it when you're the one doing the cooking?" she calls back with a grin on her face. "Thanks for working the barbeque, now I know everything will be perfect!" Yep, there's no time for worrying about potential stressors today. She knows Kyubey and Eclipse are up to no good, and she has some minor beefs with Hannah herself, but this isn't the time for it. This is the time for having fun!

    Madoka is completely oblivious to Sora's naughty vodka as she sets them down, though she looks excited when she heads to the volleyball court. "Me! Me me! But I have to do the watermelons first!"

    When she hears Sayaka's voice the blue haired Puella will suddenly find herself pounced upon playfully, Madoka hugging her from behind, "Sayaka-chaaaan! I'm glad you could make it." She's certainly in very high spirits today! When asked about the party she nods, "Yep! I thought it'd be a good idea to give people a chance to relax and have fun. Besides, it's finally summer! I bet you're all ready to jump in the water." Pause, "Or maybe go and kick some butt at volleyball?"

    She doesn't really know who Mara is, but considering she calls out to Miss White it doesn't take much guessing how she learned about the party. Which is great! The more's the merrier, especially since the girl seems to have brought a guitar. Now she won't have to worry about music! Excellent. An acoustic guitar will help set the mood perfectly.

    Jiaying is another face she hasn't seen before that likewise gets a happy wave, "Welcome to the party, I hope you have lots of fun!" The fact that the party is getting fairly well populated puts a bright smile on her face.

    Right about now she notices that Temari is the only one who really went for the watermelon stick, so she slips back over to Reiko, "Reiko-chan, do you think you could get some of your koi to help her out," A little head and hand motion towards the small chara. "I have no idea if it's possible, but she really wants to try!"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama peeks volleyball? She thinks about this a moment. She nods matter of factly and jogs over away from that as she beams and then stops because Jiaying. She frowns a bit. The last meeting the two had was tense from her angle. With a disagreement about how to handle threats, but she does her best to aquire to gather herself and smiles. "Hello Jiaying. Um. Volleyball?" she then asks to Sora.

She smiles. "I don't do sports often but maybe it'll be fun!" she says.

Two koi appear next to her. Both are wearing sweatbands and now look pumped up for volleyball. Psyche up psyche up!

She then turns to Madoka however, blinks looks over to Temari and blinks. "OH! um..."

She squitns a bit. "Hey you two..." she asks to the two sweatband koi can you go help her...?" she asks meekly.

The two look between themselves, sigggggggh (because they were so psyched up for volleyball) then go and help Temari lift the big stick!

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura notices Hannah Sharpe, because how could she not? She shrugs at her question and says, "It's going. It's stabilizing at least. It's a learning experience, but at least it's better than hearing the same lecture 90 timelines in a row.

    If there's anything she could say about Eclipse and Kyubey, she decides not to say it. This is a party, right?

    Sayaka comes along, and Homura nods to her. Cordially, really, at least until the word 'lovebirds' is brought up. That does actually make Homura smile.

    Homura continues watching the people come in, mostly just making note of them. None of them seem to be particularly set on causing trouble.

    Madoka tells her to enjoy herself, and she winks at her saying, "You too, angel-chan."

    Homura wanders off towards the refreshments, opens a water bottle, and tastes something a little stronger than water. She covers her mouth, runs to some grass at the edge of the beach, and spits it out. Poor Homura. She can barely hold her beer, let alone something as strong as vodka. She frowns at the bottle. "Alcohol finds a way," she mutters.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Gasp! It's Sayaka and Mara! Hannah offers a big grin! Suddenly, there's more burgers being shoved to her two employees of the Puella variety.

"Saya! Mara! Hey kids! Here, eat up, you two are too darn skinny as Dad would say. ...Can Puella get fat? Mental note, study effects of diet on Puella magi." She whips out a notepad, jots stuff down for later.

Sora gets a wave. "Gimme a few! I'll come dunk on you after people are nice and fed!" She calls out.

Madoka gets a big thumbs up! "Any time! Haven't done a good barbeque in /ages/. Now get out there and have some fun, huh? You two.." she points at both Homura and Madoka.

"Need a break." Just a /slight/ understatement there.

Back to the grill, then! "Hot dogs, burgers, come and get 'em while they're hot! Hey Mara! Bring your guitar? Could use some music!"

Homura gets a swat on the back. "You'll get used to it. Just remember, startups are always rough in the beginning. You'll screw up, many times. Learn from it, and hire people who cover your weaknesses. Hang in there, huh?" Grin! Boris, post madoka pettings, is over trying to steal a burger.

"Don't even think about it."

Sayaka Miki has posed:
    Sayaka chuckles as she's hugged by Madoka, glad to see she is doing well. "Haha, glad to see you're doing well, 'Angel-chan!'" she teases, as Homura calls her that, taking a friendly jab at the pair of them. "But it's good to be out and about. I kept falling behind in my studies, and it took a lot of hard work to catch up to the point where I feel like my head's about to explode!"

    Sayaka makes a face as she continues to look around for Kyouko, but still not seeing her, she sighs a little. She's probably busy with her little sister or something. Well, hopefully she'll come soon!

    When Miss White pipes up, she smiles and nods to her, arching a brow as Mara, a girl she doesn't know but has probably seen around school somewhere, refers to Miss White as 'Boss'. "Oh? You work for her, huh? I guess I can say I'm a part time 'honorary' member as well! Hi! I'm Sayaka Miki!" with a warm smile she offers Mara a hand. "Ooh, and you're a musician too? That's pretty cool!"

    Glancing at the beachside where a net is set up, her eyes widen, "Ooh, volleyball sounds awesome! Who else is joining?"

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    When Homura calls her 'angel-chan' Madoka's cheeks flush, though lucky for her it's somewhat hard to see in the bright summer sunlight, "Hehehe, don't worry, I will." The look she gives Homura is a promise that they will be spending some time together at this party. As if that was ever in doubt.

    Hannah gets a bright smile of her own as she replies to Madoka, "I plan on having lots and lots of fun tonight! Don't worry about me." She notices Borris and goes over and picks up a burger for herself, taking a bite out of it only to trip on nothing and send it plummoting to the sand. "Oh, no! I just dropped my hamburger. What a terrible waste of food! Somebody better do something about it before Kyouko-san shows up!" Reeeeeeaaaal subtle there.

    She gives Sayaka a small grin as she's teased about her pet name, poking her long time friend in the side a few times in response. At the mention of having a hard time with studies her eyes widen and she nods, "Yes! You should have seen me when I was trying to catch up from America. It was almost impossible." She deflates, but only for a tiny moment. As Sayaka wanders over to the volleyball group she smiles, feeling all warm and happy that people are mingling and making new friends.

    When Reiko sends over her koi she offers a grateful, "Thanks!" The next couple of minutes are spent coordinating a Chara and a pair of magical koi to swing a stick around at the watermelon sitting on the ground to dubious levels of success. That doesn't mean she can't pay attention when people talk to her, though!

Mara Brando has posed:
    Mara tilts her head to the side a little bit, and sighs a little bit as Hannah announces it out loud. She shrugs a little bit, as a burger is passed her way, "No thanks, I will get some later. I ate before I came here.. I didn't know anything was going on. I will play, and probably eat later."

    "Oh? I'm Mara Brando. It is nice to meet you, Sayaka Miki." Mara looks down to Sayaka's hand then takes it before looking back up into Sayaka's eyes, shaking firmly. "Part timer? Oh.. Why only part time?" She tilts her head to the side, then looks to her guitar. "Yeah, it's a hobby." Her face is slowly turning red, but no one would know why at this point. "I like playing in front of people, and it helps me relax so I don't do anything too stupid... You know how us... Um... Puella can be, right?" She gives a shy grin.

    Mara turns her head to look at the falling Madoka, and the hamburger going onto the sand. "What a waste of food..." She frowns, looking disappointed..

Sora Hisakata has posed:
Sora smirks as Homura grabs one of the bottles she's brought along, but she doesn't say anything about. That'd ruin the whole thing. "It's easy, Maki-san. Don't worry about it." She's already picked up the ball and started keeping it in the air through repeated motion, she's got pretty good control.

Then more people start to show up, including lots of people don't know. "Hello. I'm Sora Hisakata, it's nice to meet you." She doesn't bow, she just keeps doing what she does with the ball, waiting for enough people to show up that they can have a game, which seems to be getting close. "Do I need to go over the rules before we begin?"

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura's swatted on the back. Hire people who cover her weaknesses? Homura glances towards Madoka as she answers Hannah. "I think I have..." With an affirmative nod, the black haired Puella turns back to Hannah. "Well if there's anyone who can learn from her mistakes, it's me. Have fun, Hannah-chan."

    Homura smiles back at Madoka. She'll be waiting, is what she means but doesn't say. Then she overhears talk about schoolwork and falling behind. She could relate a story of how bad it was for her during her first timeline, but she decides not to.

    Instead she wanders back over to the food, grabs a kebab, and munches on it while heading towards the water. She doesn't go for a swim, but what she does do is finish her kebab quickly, and then start using the stick to draw a square in the sand. Wet sand is grabbed and then piled up, shaped neatly into straight walls and round turrets, the whole time her kebab stick as a reference tool and to add details.

    She's building herself a sandcastle, because why not?

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki looks torn when she hears about the food and.. you know, smells it. She's not completely hopeless! About her sense of smell that is. She is hopeless in regards to the offer of food and all. Glancing back to Sora she says, "Uh.. uhhh. I'm going to eat first! I'll play after!" She then starts to pick her way over the sand, having finally somewhat gotten used to the heat in the best way possible. By cheating blatantly and actually putting her sandles on first. She returns the waves she receives and says cheerily, "Hiya!" and to Reiko she even grins and says, "Do they turn fizzy when wet?" while watching the soap tasting fish.

She kind of lingers after asking, shifting from foot to foot still before the lure of food turns out to be too great and she steps up to the grill, looking for napkins, plates or at least buns to store delicious food on. She does at stop to think briefly and introduces herself to the one running the grill, "Hi! I'm Jiaying and could I have..." She almost says everything, stops and says, "One of each please?" She'll come back for more later when no one's paying attention hopefully.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama beams at Sora. "I do need a little primer. I don't do much sports. More of an artist~" she says. She beams a bit. She looks over to her koi that are trying to do thier darndest to help with tiny adorable fins.

She looks at Jiaying. "Nope. They like water." she says softly. "Cuz you know. Fish." she says.

One pops out of a nearby wave lapping up on the beach. It has a snorkel on. Why does a koi need a snorkel? Who knows? It swimmmmms back out to sea. Snorkel koi seems to be enjoying itself.

She decides to go grab a bottle of water a moment however and opens it and----

Oh god she sort of moves the water away instantly. "I think the water's bad or someone is trying to posion us with paint thinner." she says with pursed lips as she looks around for a place to dump the Water(?).

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
rNagihiko hasn't really done much. Food's been gathered, nibbled on, and all sorts of other lurking lurknesses.

But it's a bit awkward, because while normally he'd be happy to quietly mingle, he keeps looking.

Over at the watermelon, Temari has the help of two koi! But even with them...

And it's frustrating...

Eye Glint.

The boy who was calm just moments ago lets out a warcry as he brandishes a naginata and a bunch of cherry blossoms in his hair. "YA STUPID DAMN BASTARD I'LL SHOW YOU!"

STAB!

"THINK YOU CAN GET THE BEST OF ME YA DAMN MELON?!"

Shakeshakeshake!

Then he freezes, the blossom disappears, and he hangs his head. "Temari..."

Temari cheers and hugs the koi! "See! I told you we could do it!"

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka imagines Borris will come over and snap up the slightly sandy burger. That dog's a familiar and plenty smart enough to pick up on her obvious hinting. Maybe Mara will consider the doggy getting hamburger a waste, but it's definitely not going uneaten!

    Madoka smiles happily at Jiaying as she goes and gets herself some food. "Have as much as you like," she calls out across the beach, hopefully not overwhelming Mara's playing too much. "We brought enough for twice this many people!" She's not lying either; parties like this one can suddenly explode in population. The lucky thing is when you're cooking it as it goes anything unused stays uncooked and won't be wasted! That's actually become a legitimate party concern, of late.

    Madoka's about to look into this 'rancid water' when suddenly she hears a loud cry and a light stream of cursing, only to see Nagihiko charging with a very real weapon. "Ohmygosh!" she gasps, rushing over herself. "I only took my eyes off them for a minute, I'm sorry!" Maybe asking for koi help was too much.

    But wait, what's this?! All of a sudden the watermelon cracks open and falls apart, opened up into perfectly even slices. Her eyes widen and sparkle, "Wow, that was amazing! How did you do that?! Can you do it again?" Both Temari and Nagihiko are recipients of very bright Madoka smiles, and the melon slices are scooped up carefully and brought over to a picnic table. "Watermelon everyone!" she calls.

    Two pieces are taken away by herself, and her steps are decidedly playful as she walks down towards the water. She watches Homura build her sandcastle for a few moments, only to giggle happily when surprising her won't result in a breaching of the walls, stepping up and holding out one of the melon slices to her girlfriend, "Here you go, Homura-chan!" It's ripe, fresh, and oozing with delicious juice. "It isn't Madokaloupe, but I'm right here if you want some of me, too~."

    It's her party, she can be as mushy as she wants!

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    Having been invited to... something that was described as a 'magical party' with 'magical folks' was rather strange for Eilam. He was... aware of his own curse, but not in the context that it was a) a curse and b) magical in any way. Then there was the Shade attack that happened where he saw Reiko and Ayana among others doing magically things and just... well, suffice it to say as old as he was, he was fairly confused by such things. So, why not, worst that happens is he learns something, and others were as of yet still unaware of /his/... condition.

    Just the way he preferred it.

    Eilams attire today was by and far 'hipster beachbum'. An almost stylish straw hat with a pink ribbon band, his long pink hair lightly braided and resting behind him. He was wearing a yellow Pikachu-themed loose tank top and a somewhat long pair of yellow cargo shorts as well. Not really beach attire so much as summer relaxing attire. In addition he had his standard walking aid in the form of his stave with him, a satchel attached to the stave with a spare set of clothes and shoes to go with the sandals he was wearing at the moment.

    Once he got to the location, Eilam stopped and dug around in his stuff for his cell phone to text Reiko back and let her know where he was, while trying to avoid simply snooping around and finding out for himself. After all, he still wasn't entirely sure what to think of things.

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki takes the offered food and was about to say something when the dog makes it's way over. She starts getting kind of shifty looking about it, watching the dog closely before quickly taking the food, offering her thanks to Hannah as she quickly hurries back over towards Sora. Maybe even putting her between the dog and herself. There is the appeal to grab watermelon and depending on how well she can skirt along what she considers safe distance from the dog she might even risk getting a piece. But first! She outright devours the hotdog she had grabbed so she's got a free hand. There was no dignity involved, but it was over quick.

There's an easy enough excuse luckily! That is, to hide behind Sora, back to that. "I do need the rules I think since I bet there's more to it than just hitting it with your hands and not kicking it right?" From there, she takes a bottle of water herself and after having heard the water being off, she sniffs at it curiously before trying a sip. A small one at that. Whether it's spiked or not she screws the cap back on, stuffs it under her arm and takes a big bite out of her hamburger while she waits for the explanation of the rules. The watermelon can wait!

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Kois are hugged by tiny dancer charas and all is right with the world. The koi makes an attempt to hug back with it's tiny adorable fins. It works. Somehow.

Then he phone rings and she digs into her shorts to pull it out and her eyes light up. "Ah! Eilam-san~" she sings out as she looks around and then spots the boy with the cane. She walks on over through the sand. "I'll back in a moment!" she says to Sora and Jiaying as she approaches Eilam. She smiles.

"Hey Eilam-san! Welcome here!" she says as she stands on the tip toes of her sandals. "This is just a small get together." she beams.

"Nothing super crazy." she says as she looks down at the bottle of water. Then she throws it into a nearby trash can. No vodka being drunk by eleven year olds today!

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Nagihiko's really wishing the sand beneath his feet qere quick when Madoka comes over. He gives her an uncertain smile and rubs the back of his head. "Actually, I'm not even sure how I did that in the first place..."

Still, he takes a piece of melon and just tries to disappear.

It's hard when you have long purple hair, though.

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura hears a commotion and turns her head in time to see Nagihiko slice a watermelon in half. She raises an eyebrow and shrugs. She's seen him before, somewhere, she knows it. Something about a fight over a girl?

    Oh right. She was stalking that time. Well, it didn't break out into a fight back then, and Homura's not terribly concerned about it right now. She turns back to her sand castle, building it up to a tower which gets taller and taller, until she eventually has to stand up in order to add new sand. It's then that she hears Madoka's giggle behind her and she turns around with a bright smile. "Madoka-chan."

    She accepts the slice of watermelon, taking a bite into it before throwing an arm around Madoka's shoulder. "Oh? I can have you? That's my favorite!"

    She leans in close and whispers, "Watch out for the 'water'." She gestures to the water bottle that she has next to her feet, embedded in the sand. "Some of it is apparently a bit... stronger... than water. If you catch my meaning." She looks down at the bottle and wonders if something should be discreetly done about it, but then again it almost seems like it's inevitable. They've been doing that kind of thing for a year now.

    She gives Madoka a tight squeeze while looking at the other partygoers. The stick from her kebab gets planted into the sand tower like a flag, and she leans her head on Madoka's shoulder. "Lively crowd. I remember some of these people from previous parties."

    Cold purple eyes focus on the volleyball game being set up, mostly because it seems to be a thing happening.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka gives Nagihiko a reassuring smile as he seems to get a bit shy, "It was amazing anyhow, maybe you should learn how?" She doesn't press further after that, letting him slink away and hide from her, at least. She's glad he gets himself a nice piece of watermelon though- he did a great job of carving it up!

    She then hears Reiko calling a newly familiar name, looking around a little before lifting a hand and waving to the pink-haired boy, "Welcome to the party, Hisakawa-kun! I hope you enjoy yourself!" She doesn't seem surprised to see him at a party arranged for magical people for some reason, and she's obviously not shy about attending herself.

    "This is incredible," she tells Homura once she gets a good look at the tower up close, giggling when the kebab stick is stuck in the top as a flag post. When the arm goes around her she leans against Homura, slipping her own arm around her girlfriend and resting her hand on her hip. A mildly nervous look is given towards the water bottles, "Thanks for warning me. People really do want to have their fun with it, don't they?" A mischievous smile, "Though... the last dance was really fun, wasn't it? Hehehehe." She turns her head and nuzzles her face and nose against the side of Homura's neck, teasing her lightly while showing affection.

    She takes several bites out of her watermelon as she looks back to the small crowd, nodding her head. Once she finishes her bites she replies, "It seems like it was a good idea after all." Her eyes follow over to the volleyball court, feeling a small urge to go join them again. On the other hand... "Wanna go splash around in the water, Homura-chan?" she invites, trying to contain her enthusiasm a little as she leans against the slightly taller girl.

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    When Reiko finally sees him and makes her way over, Eilam waves. Once she was close enough, he smiled at her and offered a simple nod. "Nothing too crazy. So no foxes turning into girls and no you doing anything especially... odd by flying around or having floating magical fish?"

    It was all still a little bit odd to him. Though there was a bit of a cringe as he looked up and suddenly there was Madoka. "..." she gets a tiny wave from him only for a sigh to come out. Why was she here? She had something to do with Reiko? ...with this magic stuff? Well, she did say he might learn something, but still. This would mean Reiko might see him acting a bit nervous about Madoka! Why, well, she'll have to find out perhaps!

    "So, what made you think to invite me? Need someone to show off, or something else?" Still no qualm teasing Reiko for everything he can.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama blinks once. Wait, what!?

Reiko gets all flustered which can't be good in this heat as she blushes. "Wha!? No--I--i just thought it'd be a good idea for you to meet some people! and-- and I'm not the only one-- like that. There's lots of others! Um---! Yeah!" she says with wide eyes and a swallow.

Why is she blushing!? Did he see through some clever charade to show up with a cute boy!? Or maybe Reiko is jus easy to fluster over boys.

MAYBE a little of both as she turns to the others.

"Um... That's the girl from the other day, Jiaying. Oh. Right. She was acting weird towards me that night because she can see my fish." she admits sheepishly. "I was telling her to shut up about it... cuz you couldn't see them."

A koi in a snorkel is still wave riding. The others are all still pumped up for volleyball. One swims over by Reiko's head and blinks up at Eilam and then it ALSO blushes. What!?

"Um. Would you like some water? Or some food? Um. Be care of the water."

"I think someone's spiked it." she says as an aside. "That happens lots at these kind of parties because someone's always up to mischief!" she huffs a bit and crosses her arms.

She looks over to Madoka and Homura and bites her lip a bit. Ugh. lucky. Have a date and a girlfriend and everything. Stupid..Haru moving away grumble kick sand with sandal a bit off to the side meekly.

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura continues to much on her slice of watermelon. It doesn't take her long to finish it off and, with Grief Seeds being rare as they are, her body could use the alternative energy source. Which... is actually the default energy source for humans. Whatever.

    At the compliment on the tower, Homura giggles. "Thanks, Madoka-chan. It was just something to do, but I'm glad you like it."

    Homura shrugs and ignores the water bottles. "It has ended up in every party I've been to in the past year, and I've been to almost all of them. Some things will never die." She closes her eyes as she rests her head on Madoka's shoulder. "It was a lot of fun, wasn't it? I remember it being very kissy. Kissy kissy kissy kissy."

    Homura covers her mouth with her watermelon-holding hand and clears her throat. "Honestly I'm glad you were there, since it caught me off guard. It's nice having someone around I can trust, so I don't embarrass myself too much. I think avoided imbibing too much this time."

    She watches the volleyball game startup until Madoka mentions the water, and Homura side-looks over at the waves that constantly approach but never quite reach her feet. With a smile, she says, "I'd love to. Would it be proper to say, 'May I have this swim?'"

    They probably can't actually dance in there, but there is music playing, which is nice.

    Homura gives Madoka a tight squeeze, sets the finished watermelon skin down next to the 'water' bottle, and turns to face her girlfriend.

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
As the evening wears on, he's pretty certain that people he's said more than a 'hello' to aren't going to show up.

Well, there's Sora, but he's pretty sure they aren't exactly on speaking terms.

How would he break the ice, anyway? 'Yeah remember that time when we both kissed the same guy? Good times, good times.'

Speaking of.

Phone scowl.

"Join the party!"

Nagihiko doesn't really pay her much mind until she steals his hat and flies away from it.

"Hey, you twerp!" Said, of course, with affection.

He chases after her for a moment, but apparently a chara cheats when playing keep away. They keep...floating up.

Finally, with a grumble, he stomps toward people.

Reiko's talking about spiked water. "Is all the water spiked or am I not that lucky?"

He turns and stink-eyes his chara. "Hi, I'm Nagihiko, and I'm here to socialize because my chara stole my hat."

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka giggles softly as Eilam gets visibly perturbed by her presence. Well, he'll find out about all kinds of magical things if he's hanging out with Reiko. She could hardly get away from them herself once she moved back from America, though there were special circumstances surrounding that.

    "I was really shocked the first time it happened but I'm really not anymore," she comments about the spiked drinks. All the kissy kissying is mentioned and Madoka can't help but giggle more herself, "It really was! And I didn't mind it a bit. I'm glad you have fun; it was all for you, after all." She then gives a playful grin, "If we're going to embarrass ourselves it might as well about being snuggly with each other! My darling sweet Homura-chan~."

    "Yes, you may," Madoka replies playfully, finishing her watermelon before dropping the rind in the sand next to Homura's. She takes her arm out from around Homura, carefully so as to remain in the other girl's embrace, and unwraps her sarong and pulls it off, leaving her in just the pink bikini. Next her hands go to her hair and pull out the ribbons holding her twintails, shaking her head as her soft, fluffy hair falls to her shoulders. These are wrapped up in the larger cloth of the sarong, which is dropped down before Madoka carefully pushes the water bottle on top of it with her foot. There! Now even a sudden wind blowing will keep her ribbons safe; she'd hate to lose them.

    With that she wraps her arms around Homura gently, turning to face her and shimmying her hips to the rhythm of the music. Slow steps are taken towards the water, with Madoka very much in the lead of this 'dance'. They get to the waterline, and a few small waves wash over their bare feet. That's when Madoka gives Homura a very bright, very mischievous smile.

    Magic suddenly begins to build around her, a pink glow surrounding the two of them before pinging and flashing in bright sparkles. Homura has seen this enough to know exactly what's coming by now. Her hair suddenly begins extend to incredible length, flowing out behind her in waving locks, and her bright pink magic suddenly covers most of her form. Ethereal wings sprout out from behind her and spread just as a very long pink and white begins to form on her. In that moment their feet lift off the ground and with a sudden flash the transformation completes, Madoka carrying Homura up into the sky over the ocean, turning and swaying in the air to the music that is still clearly visible while a feeling of hopefulness and well being washes over the entire area, emanating from her.

    She doesn't lift too high, only thirty feet or so, and holds Homura close to her as she goes, keeping her girlfriend nice and safe in her arms, dancing in the air and taking them out over moderately deep water over the span of a few minutes. Once there she looks at Homura and grins, "Ready..?" she asks, looking pointedly downward to the sparkling water below.

    If anyone wasn't expecting magic to be openly flaunted here they're quickly proven incorrect!

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    "..."

    That was largely Eilams reaction as he listened to things and kind of processed things. He didn't really speak for the moment, just following along as taken by Reiko, not really resisting. Looking here or there at all the people. Then, of course, Madoka just... does her thing, leaving him staring again. There was an almost audible gear cog squeaking in his head as he tried to process that before looking at Reiko as if thinking about something, back towards Madoka, then her again, "...I know you did something the other day to look different, but my advice? If your hair grows out like that you will just wind up stepping on it." A joke? Hard to say. Maybe a joke. He said it in a straight-faced fashion and then added, "Also, do not expect me to carry you like that. You have to at least buy me ice cream first before you get that far." Though the talk of water has him look towards the water bottles curiously. "If it worries you, I could taste the water and see what it is? I am... fairly good at telling things apart by taste." If only because he's tasted a fair bit of things before!

Ano Onna has posed:
    Parties and the nameless girl are a very weird mix. So often engrossed in her training lately, the push to go be social actually came from the strangers source: her sensei. The aged, old, master of Ikken Hissatsu: Goryukenma, kicked her (quite literally) out of the dojo onto her hiney and said to go hang out with her friends. This is a problem.
    That Girl has a very awkward, very stunted idea of 'friend'
    Yet still, somehow, Ano Onna ended up with an invitation to a private beach for a party. A beach... A beach presents problems...
    EARLIER:
    "Okay grasshopper, the path to the perfect swimsuit is a long and arduous one, but we will help you."
    "Yeah you're gonna look smokin' it's gonna be great!"
    "I am not listening to a pair of mismatched yakuza tattoos on how to pick a swimsui--
    "True swimsuit enlightenment comes in the form of one piece. Conservative but cute at the same time." Ten-ken interrupts her.
    "What? No way don't be a prude! Bikini, show off as much as-" Tsuchi-ken interrupts, leaving the poor nameless girl caught between her magical mascots in a bitter fued over beachwear.
    "I'm not showing off. --How about this one?"
    "YOU STAY OUT OF THIS I KNOW WHAT IS BEST!"
    "YOU STAY OUT OF THIS I KNOW WHAT'S BEST!"
    With a sweatdrop, Ano Onna is suitably stricken into chastened silence and lets the twin dragons battle it out.
    NOW:
    Now the nameless girl is here. At the beach. In a swimsuit. It's a one piece... Scuba suit. Dark red and... Covers her whole body from neck down. The twin dragons muffle irate and furious from beneath the sleeves. It is a small victory for That Girl as she awkwardly stands somewhat off to the side. Some of these people she knows; has fought alongside, and has even shed blood with, and for. That's why she actually came, even if she's kind of being a wallflower right this second.
    Also she has acquired a piece of watermelon somehow along the way.

Mara Brando has posed:
    Mara hasn't ate yet, but she had moved off to the side, strumming away at her guitar. Her fingers might be sore, but she probably doesn't really know that at the moment. She glances around to people, but then notices Madoka henshin. "...." She bites her bottom lip, takes in a deep breath, and keeps playing the guitar.. "Must... resist urges to beat up other people..." She says quietly... If anyone is close by her, well... they probably can hear her. She is a little crazy by the way, and working for WPS kind of says that as well.

     "Why would someone henshin like that in front of everyone...?" Mara says curiously as she continues to play that acoustic guitar. If anyone tries to make conversation with her while she is playing, she will likely just give them a strange look, as she plays as that is what she is focused on at the moment, trying to keep her head clear of ill intent.

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki has wandered off towards the water, sitting there at the tide line, letting the water wash over her feet as she uses it as an excuse to be lazy with everyone all distracted. Besides, laying back, she can watch everyone upside down. The henshin gets her attention for a bit, but the whole lazy thing limits her actual input towards it for now.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama blinks and blushes. "W..wah!?" she says with a huffs as Madoka does her thing with the transformation and carring Homura up and skyward. She huffs. "I only have the one change. I mean. In the story we wrote. There's more but... I can't do that for whatever reason." she says softly.

She frowns. "That's Madoka-chan! I--- um. Didn't even know she could do something like that now!" she beams. "It's really pretty though..." she taps her chin a bit as sshe looks back to Eilam.

"Ice cream. Eh? Is that all it takes?" she asks innocently- she grins and walks over to the water and grabs ones and hands it up at Eilam. "Here..."

She looks over to Nagihiko. "Nagihiko.. where have. I heard that name before..." she taps her chin a bit thoughtfully.

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura makes a wistful, happy noise as Madoka leads her on a dance towards the water. She watches her girlfriend with admiration and adoration in her eyes, and a tiny smile on her lips. Homura is as graceful a follower as she is a leader when it comes to dancing, and Madoka has always been her favorite partner. And yes, these two have many things for each other, including buying ice cream.

    She's careful to step around the things they've left in the sand as she's guided towards the water, the tower acting as both a protector to them from the wind and a marker to their location. She built it sturdy. She owns a construction company, after all.

    Water kisses her feet, and her beloved starts to have a noticeable glint in her eyes. Homura raises an eyebrow, and then watches in anticipation magic begins to glow around Madoka. Madoka is so pretty even in normal clothes, but in this form she's overpoweringly beautiful. Homura is helpless in the face of her gorgeous angel, and for the moment it's a good thing that Madoka is leading this dance.

    Homura already feels like she's floating on air, and then Madokami lifts her into the air. Homura sways with her, as much as she can, and though Homura could probably fly on her own power there's something nice about just being carried.

    Even after everything, Homura can still blush.

    'Ready..?'

    Homura nods. "I am."

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Nagihiko shrugs. "Probably from the Guardians? Maybe my sister, if you know Nadeshiko?" Though he doesn't quite recall!

"I've been out of the loop lately..."

He decides to test some water for himself.

Mmmm. Not sake, but it will do.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Seeing that look in Homura's eyes is everything Madoka wanted as she carries the beautiful dark haired girl through the air, pulling her nice and close so that she's both comfy and secure. As she sways and turns, hair waving as it stretches out behind her, she looks into Homura's eyes, and can't help leaning in to give her a gentle angelic kiss to her girlfriends lips. Not too much though; she doesn't want her too lightheaded for what's coming next!

    She waits until there's a lull in the music or a change in songs, loosening her grip on Homura. "Three! Two! One!" All of a sudden the magical aura of hopefulness vanishes, and her henshin vanishes in a flash of light, leaving the two of them hanging thirty feet in the air above the water. Gravity takes hold and Madoka releases Homura, twisting in the air so she's pointing down and letting out a long peal of laughter and a playful squeal. "Hehehehehe! Eeeeeeeeee!" She hits the water with a large splash, diving under several meters before swimming around and kicking back to the surface.

    Once there she'll look around for Homura and swim over to her, a very bright grin on her face, "That was FUN!"

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    "Yes, I have met her before. Briefly. She goes to one of the clubs I do at Infinity." His attention turned towards Jiaying, given Reiko had mentioned her earlier, looking her over briefly before turning towards Nagihiko to nod at him despite not knowing anything about him. "I would offer a higher price than just ice cream, but I am feeling a bit too lazy today to think up something appropriate. Plus I'm not the strongest of men and I would probably have a hard time carrying you."

    Cough.

    "Not like I can fly or anything while holding you." Even if he thinks she would probably just enjoy being held. At the remark of water and being offered food, he shook his head, though he did reach over to pick up a bottle of water from nearby and opened it to sniff, taking a sip. "...if someone was going to bother putting Vodka in the water, they could have at least used the good stuff. ...but then again, I suppose not many here can /afford/ the good stuff." and then towards Reiko, "Besides, I would rather you not get drunk around me and I get blamed for it. You already have enough blood running to your cheeks as it is, add drunk to the mix and you would tip over the moment I embarrassed you." He did notice the blushey fish. ...it was strange. He didn't know how to respond, and thus he didn't!

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki doesn't realize she's being watched. She barely reacts to the people splashing into the water other than sitting up to make sure they come back up to the surface. Once that happens, she flops back, pulls her towel behind her head as a pillow and closes her eyes.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
There is now a tiny blushing koi following Eilam like a lovesick puppy. Reiko doesn't actually see it until Eilam talks about the not-water-at-all, as she /blinks/ and then well continues to blush as she jumps out and lashes out at the fish with two hands, catching it between two hands and yanking it back to her body. She huffs!

"Stupid fish..." she mutters.

Her hand sort of wiggles, suggesting the koi is trying to escape her hands. She keeps them closed nice and tight. Yup. No blushing koi following Eilam nope. Didn't happen at all even though Eilam saw it.

She shakes her head. "I know you're not very well, so it's okay Eilam-san." she smiles. But yeah she would totally go for being princess carried. It's like her thing.

She sort of blushes at Madoka and Homura.

"Yeah... that looks like fun." she admits softly. She purses her lips a moment as she peeks back to Nagihiko. "Ah! That'd be it, yeah! I think Tadase mentioned you one time!" she smiles. "I'm Reiko Touyama! Or um. Prism Keeper Orange. Or just. Orange. Orange works." she says softly with a smile at Nagi.

Naru Osaka has posed:
The festivities are in full swing. With food and people and goofing off and swimming and sand and sunshine. Naru has made it to the edge of the cordoned off area of the beach and linters there, watching. Listening too, and perhaps, just maybe, trying to see if there's anyone she knows.

Lots of new people is so much easier when Usagi is there to hide behind!

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Nagihiko's eyebrows raise in recognition. "Well, hey! Niced to finally meet you." He gives her a grin, nice and friendly!

Suddenly, Temari floats down and teases him with his hat before flying off again!

"Hey, you little..."

Apologetically, he turns to Reiko. "I have to get my hat. It was very nice meeting you, hope to see you again soon."

Off he goes!

Temari had noticed another wallflower!

With a giggle, she sets the hat on Naru's head and floats to her shoulder. "Hello!"

Nagihiko's out of breath when he catches up. "Hi, sorry about her. She's...a handful."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Between the joy of being close to Madoka, and the literal aura of Hope emanating from her, Homura could very well go to sleep like this if she wanted to. Fortunately she's well aware that they are roughly thirty feet in the air and about to fall into the water. The kiss is accepted with a happy sigh, and it's a good thing that Madoka has so much experience kissing Homura, and knows not to go so far that the black-haired girl really does get light-headed.

    The countdown is enough to warn her, and she giggles as the Madokami henshin vanishes. The two of them fall together, into the water, and Homura yelps gleefully as they hit the surface with a huge splash.

    When Homura's head resurfaces, her hair is soaking wet. She brushes her dripping bangs away from her eyes and blinks a couple of times before she finds her pink-haired partner again, leisurely swimming up to her. "That was great, Madoka-chan!"

    Homura keeps her eyes on Madoka while swimming in rings around her, looping around her while the waves gently lift them up and then smoothly let them down.

Kukai Souma has posed:
It's been a long, annoying day for Kukai. He'd promised his brothers a week ago that he'd spend today cleaning the apartment, and only halfway through had he seen Nagihiko's text about there being a thing on the beach. So, he had spent the past two hours rapidly running through the chores he'd been assigned, then a sprint through the shower, throwing on a light shirt, shorts, and sneakers, then another 20 minutes on a bus to get across town to the beach through traffic.

When he finally arrives at the beach, he fully expects the party to have ended. Still seeing people there helps. But... does he know any of them? He peers back and forth and rubs his chin. Huh. He actually knows a lot of them. So, he approaches the group, waving at them as he walks across the sand. "Heeey!"

Naru Osaka has posed:
And suddenly Naru has a hat.

Out of nowhere.

She blinks and then turns as she hears a voice on her shoulder. "Oh! Oh hello. Is this your hat?" She reaches up to the hat she's acquired, to be able to remove it from her head and offer it to Temari. "Little bit big for you, isn't it?"

Naru watches Kukai roam past and she waves in his direction, someone she recognizes!

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    "It is strange to me seeing people so... open." What he MEANT was he didn't expect people who were so openly... anything. Magical, sexuality, happy. ...anything. Everyone here seemed so happy. It was strange. Even he felt a little more hopeful than usual. Perhaps Madoka's hope stuffs was trickling his way. Maybe he should... share a bit more with those here he already knows, or trusts, about his condition. He hated having to live how he did, but it was for his own protection. But throughout it all...

    Strange. He did feel a little hopeful about those here. Maybe they were just all good types?

    Still, cynical as Eilam was, he watched as Reiko started talking to others and leaned down to whisper next to her ear, "Likewise, I do not have to be terribly strong to make you weak in the knees, right? All I have to do is treat you well and you are like a little dog, your whole body shaking your tail wags so hard." Though he did raise and reach a hand to lightly pat her shoulder, "I am going to have a seat somewhere and enjoy the sun, do not let me keep you from associating with your friends? I am not going anywhere, but I would like to sit regardless." And he does walk over towards a clean area and start to pull out a beach towel from his satchel, laying it out to sit on it.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka might be a tiny bit sad when she finds out she wasn't around to greet further newcomers, or she would if she wasn't having so much fun skydiving into the sea with her girlfriend. She giggles as Homura swims circles around her. She starts playing a small game of keepaway, swimming away from Homura and elongating her rings into ellipses. "You can't catch me," she teases, suddenly grinning and giggling as she splashes water at Homura, intentionally missing a few times to prepare her for it before actually aiming a few at her face, only to duck under the water and dive away, popping up a few moments later closer to shore.

    "The water's great, everyone!" she calls out to those still on shore. If Homura's still chasing her she'll let herself get caught, otherwise she'll swim up to the dark haired girl and wrap her arms around her neck, kicking with her feet to tread water while cozying right up in the water. She lets loose with one arm, reaching behind her to run her fingers through Homura's long hair, the parts floating in the water parting more easily for her fingers. Her own hair is not near so fluffy as it normally is now that it's completely soaked, hanging straight down behind her. Like this it's a lot easier to tell she's been letting it grow out in the last year, trimming the ends rather than keeping it an even length.

    "My love," she whispers as they bob up and down in the calm ocean waves, finding purple eyes with her own soft pink. "Your little angel has been brought down to Earth to meet you," she teases good-naturedly, "Or should I say brought down to sea?"

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Temari giggles and shakes her head. "It's not mine!" She takes it with a thank you and a bow.

She's almost ready to return it to Nagihiko when--

"Eeeee!" Away flies the hat as Temari zooms toward Kukai and Daichi!

"Hey, you brat, what ar--Kukai!" Okay, maybe he looks a touch too happy at seeing the other boy!

Very happy!

And maybe the soft nice expression he's been wearing is pretty much gone for a more genuinely happy one.

Hey waves back! "Heeey!"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama blushes at Eilam. "W..what! I'm not a puppy. I just like attention." pause. "From handsome boys!" she huffs! She crosses her arms. "Go sit down. I wanna go bug Kukai and Nagihiko." she escapes a moment and goes run over to Kukai as she beams. "Kukaiiiii~" she sings out. "Hi!" she says.

"Did you see the video I made?" she asks with wide eyes. "That's what I was trying to talk to you about last time n' stuff." she says with a soft smile.

"It's a super informative video! Important even!" she says matter of factly as she crosses her arms.

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki hears familiar voices and sits up, patting herself off to make her way over to Naru, offering her a cheerful wave and calling out, "Heya! Didn't think anyone else was coming out here." She doesn't say anything else for a moment as she turns to wave to Kukai as well, though she doesn't call out the same thing because she sort of yelled the first time. She's still keeping a safe distance from the dog if it's even still around, it's sort of disappeared and that worries her. Though as many magical people as are around, maybe it was an illusion. Though why would an illusion eat a hamburger and why a dog? If they're going for that wouldn't they have shouted boo? She gets kind of paranoid and starts looking around again before settling down and hurrying towards Naru and the other newcomers, leaving the others to.. whatever it was they're up to.

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura's circling of Madoka is slow and even. Skilled, as if water were her natural element, as if she were a predator circling prey. It almost seems to be a good time for the Jaws theme to start playing. Madoka tries to play keepaway, and Homura follows, not going as fast as she can, but instead slowly inching closer, never quite closing the distance but applying a playful amount of pressure. She lowers herself in the water so that only the top of her head peeks out.

    Then Madoka splashes at her, and Homura's grin is occasionally visible between the waves. One of the splashes gets her and she giggles, temporarily closing her eyes until she wipes the water away, only to open them and notice that her darling has escaped! Where did she go?

    Homura looks behind her, and finds Madoka once again. She sneakily swims up behind her, the unheard Jaws theme reaching its crescendo, and when she's close enough she wraps her arms around Madoka, burying her head in her shoulders and whispering, "Gotcha~!"

    Homura keeps afloat by treading the water right along with Madoka, keeping her arms around her girlfriend while the two of them float together. If Madoka wants to turn around in order to play with Homura's hair, she'll loosen her embrace to allow it, only to cozy right back up to her.

    Her hair is a lot straighter when wet, probably pulled down by the weight of the absorbed water. Homura has a lot of hair, and it floats along in the water, much of it keeping to the surface while several locks are suspended underneath.

    In a low voice that isn't quite a whisper, Homura responds, "Did it hurt, my little angel, when you fell from heaven?"

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    It would seem that when Eilam went over to lay down in the sun and relax, resting his head on his satchel with his eyes closed had led to him just... falling asleep. Right there in the sun. It's probably not a good thing around those who seemingly enjoy pranking, but it would seem that he was actually quite asleep, hand only loosely held onto the stave he kept with him as a walking aid. Yes, quite quickly.

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru watches Temari and the hat go flying off, and there's a warm little smile as she watches Nagihiko get all warm fuzzy towards Kukai. D'aww.

She heads further onto the beach, the hold she's got on her beach bag still a little overtight, perhaps, but she waves to Jiaying as she hears the girl call to her. "Hi! I wasn't sure it would still be going on. Or if I'd know /anyone/." She looks around, and numbers are still solidly on the side of not knowing many.

"Are you enjoying yourself?" Naru asks of Jiaying Maki, turning her attention back there and smiling. "Have you been in swimming yet?"

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai looks over to hear voices. One of them is Naru, so she gets a wave. Another is Nagihiko, so that's where he moves towards, catching Temari and hugging her for a moment before letting her go just in time for Daichi to tackle her and hug her even more!

He looks over at Reiko and then blinks. "Video? Sorry, I'm super tired... Oh, about the love is not a pie thing? Yeah you and I talked about that at one point before, I think." Another wave for Jiaying because oh yes, he does know her, and finally he's parked in front of Nagi. "Hi. I hate my brothers. I love them, but I hate them. They woke me up at unholy o'clock to do housework. What have I missed?" The purple haired dancer gets a hug from the sleepy looking brown haired boy.

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Temari snuggles against Daichi! Yay Daichi!

Nagihiko blinks at Reiko. "Love and pie?" It sounds familiar. "Both are very nice."

"Oh no, poor Kukai." He hugs Kukai back, a touch longer, perhaps, than is 'proper.'

He remembers himself, though, and pulls back to look around.

"Well, apparently Temari and I can cut a watermelon into perfect pieces, someone spiked some water with vodka, those two are probably being mushy," He points off the shore toward Madoka and Homura. "There was a volleyball game, and apparently Temari decided I wasn't being social enough and stole my hat. And I don't what else is going on because I'm not being social."

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka isn't quite as graceful in the water as she is on land, which means that Homura has an advantage over her here. It would be seriously disconcerting to Madoka, the way she's able to maintain that distance and close on her just the slightest amount with clear nigh-perfect control of the situation, if she didn't completely trust the other girl. Actually, Homura being so graceful and controlled has the opposite effect since they're partners; it makes her feel all the safer. And really if Homura is pursuing her it's likely a romantic pursuit, which sets Madoka's heart all aflutter!

    She giggles underwater when she manages to escape, a stream of bubbles rising to the surface to give her away to the keenly observant. She never manages her sudden course reversal either, because Homura catches her and wraps about her! "Eeee~!" comes the playful squeal, Madoka leaning back in the water and kicking her feet to press into the hug from behind, only to turn around and hug close as they tread water together.

    Soft and silky hair made straight by water is fun to play with, and Homura can likely feel her curling a few of the floating locks around her finger, letting it twirl off as she spins it slowly.

    And then, suddenly, sweet romantic words are spoken and Madoka's face blushes to a warm pink, the pink-haired girl shifting about in Homura's arms as a pleasant fluster sets in. Oh, Homura, you do know how to make her blush and feel special.

    It takes her a moment to figure out how to respond, and the way she visibly composes herself gives it away. She gives a little pout, wrapping both arms around her girlfriend to draw closer, one arm hooking all the way around with her elbow behind Homura's neck. The reason why soon becomes clear.

    Madoka pouts, though her eyes sparkle, "Yes," she says in a pitiable voice. "It hurts a lot right here." Her finger points to her mouth, and she gently taps her lips. "Do you think you could kiss it and make it better..?" Spoken so innocently, too!

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki watches Naru for a moment and offers her something of a shrug and says, "I haven't been swimming yet, no one else was and it's not safe after eating for a bit right?" she shrugs a touch and tilts her head curiously, "Do you swim a lot? I'm okay at it." She leans to he side and calls out to Kukai, "How about you, do you swim?" trying to get people together to do non-lazy things now that she's gotten her lazy streak out of the way.

Naru Osaka has posed:
"I.. well I know how. I wouldn't say that I swim a /lot/." Naru hedges a little, at least confirming that she's not about to drown out in the water. "It's nice on a hot day though, to go out spashing about."

There's a bit of a giggle as Naru turns towards Kukai, and by extension Nagihiko. "If I was going to have to guess, I'd expect that Kukai will tell us that he's on the swim team or something. I don't know about his friends, though."

Naru does manage to dodge actively watching the love birds being adorable, which cuts down on the blush potential.

Kukai Souma has posed:
That is definitely a hug that lasts well past the 'good friends and fellow Guardians' meter, and Kukai nods. "Yeah. It's a concept Reiko's been trying to spread - basically love is an endless supply, not a limited item. I'll let you watch the - well you've got a Virtue phone, I think, you can watch it. Or I can let you watch it."

He leans back, listening. "Watermelon? That sounds awesome. Where is it? The spiked water, not so much. Who does that at every party? You'd think we were drunken sots." He thinks. "I mean there's a couple, sure. And a volleyball game?" He looks around at the party participants, then coughs. "whoof. Also aren't... Temari! Bring Nagi's hat back, he'll scorch!"

He looks out into the water. "Are people swimming? Is that..." He leans over, peering. "Huh. They're having fun, at least." One eye peers over at Nagihiko, as Kukai gets a cocky, wicked grin on his face. "I'm surprised you weren't all over me like that when I got here."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Making Madoka blush and feel special is one of Homura's specialties, and she's quite proud of it! Especially if she can do that while holding her close. The way the two of them hold each other and tread water together is like a dance in of itself, and the purple eyed Puella can't help but settle into the romance of the moment as Madoka twirls Homura's hair around her finger.

    May as well live life to the fullest, right?

    Homura giggles as Madoka is flustered. Her line was, partially, a joke and a terrible one, since they literally did just fall from heaven. Though as bad as it was as a joke, it seems to have been quite effective in other ways.

    Homura coos as Madoka pouts. "Awww." She reaches up to push a few strands away from Madoka's face. Is there anything this little Homura can do to help? Why, it seems, yes there is. "Well, I just so happen to have many kisses in stock, though if they're going to help I'll have to apply them amply~."

    Homura moves just a bit closer, pressing lips with Madoka and, as promised, applying ample amounts of amorous affections. The soft crashing of the waves mixes with the occasional smacking of the lips, and a soothing calm passes over Homura as the two of them embrace in the water.

    The fact that others can see them and are commenting doesn't seem to faze her, and it certainly isn't slowing her down at all. She knows they're there, she just simply isn't looking in their direction.

    When their lips finally part, Homura whispers, "How's that? Feeling better?" If not, Homura certainly has more kisses where those came from!

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Nagihiko gives a little shrug. "I could claim it's been dropped in the ocean and I could just watch it with you."

Subtle. That's Nagihiko's MO!

So is that devious grin!

"There may be some left on the table. And I don't know." He takes a sip of his very much not water. "I spiked the last dance. Not sure who got this shindig."

Temari sighs and floats over and drops Nagihiko's hat back on his head. "I was keeping track of time!"

And then he's blushing, and trying not to grin, and almost bites his lip but manages not to, barely, and is very much flustered! His eyes widen as he leans forward. "I wasn't sure...you know. Public."

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki glances over to Naru and then out over to the water and nods quickly, "Yeah yeah! Let's go swimming should be fun!" She points out to the water, then back at Kukai and hesitates, debating on if she wants to tease him or not. She shrugs and eventually settles on not and asks, "You two want to go swimming two or are you joining the others?" gesturing to the others doing.. things!

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Maybe it was a terrible joke but they did just fall from the sky. That and Madoka's mind may be in an a romantically inclined place after the last few days.

    Homura's cooing puts a sweet smile onto her pouting lips, and her head tilts down just enough so that she's peeking slightly upward as she looks into her girlfriends eyes. "I'm sure they'll help. Kisses make everything feel better, don't they?" In this Madoka considers herself somewhat of an expert, even if she's being silly.

    She tilts her head back up as Homura moves closer, melting into her arms as their lips meet, happily and eagerly accepting and returning as many sweet kisses as Homura is inclined to give her. They may not have actually been hurting, but no one could ever convince Madoka that her lips don't feel a hundred times better right now.

    She rubs a hand soothingly up and down Homura's back as they stay close, bobbing up and down as the waves crest and fall, slowly pushing the pair in towards shore until she can feel sand against her toes.

    She would be a bit sad if her affection made others feel bad, but any complaints at their romantic antics would be swiftly dismissed! This is her party after all, and really they're being much more discreet about the kissing than the last dance they attended.

    "Much better," she whispers back, letting out a long and happy sigh afterwards, tip-toeing a bit closer to shore so she can comfortably slip her head over Homura's shoulder and hug her close without worries of drowning. "I may have fallen for you, but I feel like I'm still on cloud nine."

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai rolls his eyes. "For as much hell as I've given people about not losing those phones I would be legally required to have a hissy fit if you did drop it in the ocean. And then hide it because you're you." He grins back, though.

Kukai looks over at the table, then splutters. "Oh. So you were the reason I was half-pasted walking home with Amu that night? Geez." The hat covers the fair-skinned Nagi and Kukai grins at Temari. "I know, I know, but thank you."

This last comment, though, elicits a quizzical look from Kukai. "You know what, public? Public what?" He looks around, then shrugs. "Public... what? I mean, if..." He rolls his eyes and then leans in, giving Nagihiko a little peck on the lips. "See? There. Public or not."

Naru Osaka has posed:
Naru looks out to the water and there's a bright smile and a nod. "A swim sounds fantastic!" She reaches towards putting her bag down, when the bing of her phone inturrupts. There's a little frown from Naru as she goes digging in her bag to find it.

A moment of reading, and a quick text message back and a heavy sigh from Naru.

"Swim will have to wait, unfortunately." Naru's voice is apologetic as she wrinkles her nose at her phone. "I have to get going. Good to see you again, Maki! We'll have to catch up and have a sketch-fest over ice cream soon!"

A quick wave and she's making her way back up the beach, to head back towards the city proper.

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki watches Naru go, glances around at all of the people rather distracted, shrugs with some annoyance and brushes herself up before gathering her things. Kukai's given a raspberry in annoyance as she calls out to no one in particular, "Have fun."

Homura Akemi has posed:
    "Well they've always made me feel better." Homura winks, holding close to Madoka. The other girl might remember from experience that they usually did. The times when Homura hasn't wanted cuddles and kisses have been few and far between... if they even existed?!

    As the two of them drift towards shore, Homura feels her own toes close around sand, and as Madoka wants to move close enough to stand, Homura allows herself to be taken along. Madoka rests her head on Homura's shoulder, and Homura rests her cheek on Madoka's. She adjusts her arms and closes her eyes, enjoying the moment of closeness. After a moment, she giggles.

    "And to think, back when we started, we were ice skating. Now we're swimming." A purple-nailed finger softly traces curved lines across Madoka's back as Homura reminisces. "I still remember the time we were cuddling on the rooftop of my old apartment. You were miffed when I wanted to go inside! It was so cold out there I was worried about you."

    Homura can't help but giggle, thinking back to those days. She nuzzles up to Madoka, whispering, "Well... for now, we can cuddle as much as you want, Madoka-chan. Maybe the sun might be a concern, but we can probably get over that one way or another."

    Though, she thinks, it'd be pretty bad if they got sunburnt and couldn't cuddle.

    Homura adjusts her feet against the underwater sand for more stability, then softly holds Madoka while lazily drawing on her back. It's nice, being this warm and close to the one she will always love. She lets out a happy sigh, as a relaxing feeling of contentment bubbles through her veins and tickles her skin.

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Nagihiko blinks.

And just looks at Kukai.

It's weird how things just sort of click into place. And when.

He went from one set of strict rules to another, thinking that's how it was supposed to be.

But...he doesn't want that. He wants to find his own path.

He wants to move to his own rhythm.

So, in spite of being in public, and in spite of what people may think, he realizes he doesn't really care as he leans back in and kisses Kukai. And it's a bit more than a peck.

His satchel wiggles.

*CRACK!*

Nagihiko's not really paying any attention, though. His focus is on Kukai.

However, a newly hatched chara leaps out from the satchel. "YAY!"

Rhythm flies over to Temari and Daichi. "You guys are amazing, yay!"

He flies over to Naru's retreating back. "You're awesome, yay!"

He flies over to Madoka and Homura! "Your lovey-lovey doki doki is amazing YAY!"

To Jiaying! "You're awesome, YAY!"

Reiko and Eilam! "Oh my gosh! You're both amazing! YAY!"

Rhythm floats up and spins around. "Everyone is just so amazing! You all move to your own beat! YAY!"

So many thumbs up!

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama blinks at a new tiny chara, coming out from the staring she was doing at sleepign Eilam, a wry smile on her face. She huhs and head tilts...

"Huh.. that's... a new one...." she says with a little blink.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Why yes, Homura's wink does make Madoka blush a little bit more, but no, that doesn't make her shy away. She's learned to be rather comfortable with the embarrassment that comes from heart fluttering romance. Homura had her convinced of the joys of kissing right from their very first, though she'd already been fond of snuggling, though platonic.

    The ice skating is mentioned and Madoka smiles fondly, "That was really fun. I can't wait to do it again once it gets cold! But for now swimming with you and cuddling in the water is very nice." A tiny pout is made at the mention of the rooftop cuddling, "Of course not, I wanted to stay close to you no matter how cold it was." Her expression softens, "But I understand; you're protective of me, and I appreciate that now more than ever. It tells me how much you must care about me."

    As Homura nuzzles her Madoka leans her head against the other girl's, pressing the side of her head and cheek fondly to hers, "Good, because I want to cuddle you so so much. But you already knew that didn't you?" She smiles playfully, only to pause, making a slight face. "It's been a few hours since I put my sunscreen on. It's waterproof, but this is salt water..." Siiiiiigh.

    A little shiver runs through her as the designs are traced on her back, and she presses her hand a bit more firmly against Homura's, feeling her shoulder blades and the divot of her spine, rubbing her back in a slow circle before indulging herself in running her fingers through Homura's long hair again.

    Her eyes close, the sound of those on the beach mingling with the wash of the surf, low waves crashing in a continual rhythm on the sandy shore. "Everything is so peaceful," she whispers, a small content smile set upon her face. "This is so nice. I'm really happy, Homura-chan."

    Peacefulness is broken with the arrival of a tiny little man flying above and proclaiming their lovey actions amazing, and she giggles happily. She pulls away, taking Homura by the hand and leaning in to give her a quick kiss, looking her in the eyes after it's parted before walking back towards shore, water sheeting and then dripping off her as she climbs out of the water.

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai blinks back at Nagihiko for a second. "...What?" And then there is purple haired dancer kisses all up in his business. It's all he can do to not fall backwards under the intensity and desire. But it is very, very good.

Somewhere in the background Kukai can hear cracking and talking but he is for the most part distracted. Daichi, however, is watching, mystified, as the bag wiggles and then cracks, loudly. "Temari! It's the Egg! It's the new Chara!" And then RHYTHM, hyper and giving thumbs up and looking incredibly cheerful to be awake! Daichi blinks at Temari, then grins. "Well I wasn't expecting that." Time to give the newcomer a hug, though!

It takes a minute for Kukai to get his head back about him, and grins at Nagihiko. ".... Hi. Um." He laughs. "Did we do that?"

Eilam Hisakawa has posed:
    That was a nice nap! At least, it seemed that way. Eilam didn't often just... sleep in the sun/warmth. Thus, when he woke up after the 'power nap' that was 'condition-laden exhaustion', Eilam mostly just opened his eyes and tried to recall where he was, then realized where he was and looked around. It was then he saw Reiko who was nearby, but not quite looking at him, instead at something else. "Ah, it seems I let the moment come over me and I fell asleep. Hope you did not feel the need to sit guard while I was so?"

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Homura has always enjoyed Madocuddles whether they were platonic or not. Nothing makes her happier than being close to Madoka, though romance and kisses certainly make things even better! Homura does remember their days of just being friends fondly, even if she's also glad to be Madoka's partner romantically.

    Madoka pouts, and Homura lets out a soft 'awww'. "Well next time we'll both be able to stay out longer. We'll bring plenty of hot chocolate and if you catch a cold I'll just have to nurse you back to health." The thought of Homura feeding warm soup to Madoka, putting an ice pack on her forehead and taking her temperature crosses her mind. She squeals internally.

    Sunscreen is mentioned, and Homura 'hmms'. It has been a while for both of them, hasn't it? That stuff only claims to last for 90 minutes. It wouldn't do to be careless.

    Homura grins as Madoka shivers in her arms and begins to run fingers through her sopping wet hair. She doesn't stray, continuing to trace her finger across Madoka's back, evenly and calmly while enjoying Madoka's reaction. "You like that?" She closes her eyes as her back is rubbed, taking in a deep breath and slowly letting it out.

    "I'm happy too, Madoka-chan. You always manage to do that to me, don't you?"

    She looks up to see Rhythm, giggles, and waves her fingers at the tiny chara. "Why thank you!" The distraction pulls her attention away enough that Madoka's kiss is a (pleasant) surprise, and she giggles as she's led towards the shore by her beloved, watching as the water falls away from Madoka even as it cascades off of Homura.

Jiaying Maki has posed:
Jiaying Maki looks at the new egg-thing with some curiousity, but not really understanding what it is, she offers something of a shrug, says half-heartedly, "Thanks?" She turns to head out again after

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Rythm hears a call for hugs! "Yay!"

He practically divebombs Daichi, hugging the stuffing out of him before giving him a noogie! And then he hugs Temari the same way! But she growls when he goes for a noogie, and he doesn't noogie her! He does gather them both up for a hug, though!

And then zoom!

And Nagihiko's face is finally free! Divebomb!

Before impact, though, Nagihiko just sort of blinks as he tries to gather his wits back.

"I think so, ye--"

SPLAT!

"Nagihiko! Yay! Don't worry, Rhythm will help you find your own rhythm even more!"

Nagihiko blinks. It's hard to hug a chara back anyway, but when they hug your face its even more awkward. Still, he tries! "Rhythm! I'm sorry I made you wait so long."

Rhythm pulls back, all thumbs up. "I'm not late! I hatched right when we needed to!"

Kukai's the next victim of the face hug. "Yay! Boyfriend-kun!"

Nagihiko's face turns bright red! "R-Rhythm!"

Kukai Souma has posed:
Daichi acks, and then laughs, hugging Rhythm back!

It's a bit disturbing when a newly born Chara comes between you and the person you were just kissing. Kukai leans back, letting out a little ack. "Uh. Rhythm, huh? OK." He grins at Nagihiko hugging the new little Chara, but then gets a face-splat himself. "Mrph." He may be a -bit- red at the comment, but hey, it's all good. The little Chara gets a hug back and then a careful prying off his face, as Kukai offers him back to Nagihiko. "...Soooo. Watermelon?"

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
It's almost like peeling off a bandaid!

But Rhythm's happy to return to Nagihiko and is content to just ride along on his shoulder!

Temari sighs. "I'm going to have to monitor his sugar intake."

Nagihiko, still blushing, grabs Kukai by the hand and leads him. "This way, last time I saw."

Hey, he may have just had that revelation, but it'll be awhile before he can completely accept it!

Baby steps.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    "I wouldn't want to catch a cold, but I would want to stay snuggled up to you for warmth. We did have a blanket with us, right?" She looks upwards for a moment, trying to remember that particular point. A giggle as she thinks about being nursed back to health, "I'm sure you'd take extra good care of me, Homura-chan."

    Her head nods up and down slowly as she's asked if she likes the finger tracing, "Mmhm. It's also fun, trying to see if you're drawing anything specific. Like a shivery kind of pictionary." As to always making Homura happy Madoka smiles warmly, "I try to. It doesn't hurt that I'm so happy just to be around you and with you all the time."

    She wanders out of the water with Homura behind her, some distance between them except for their held hands. She does look very happy, with the sun shining on her giving her skin a healthy glow. She resists the urge to pull Homura to her and fall onto the sand, mostly because if she was going to do that they may as well have stayed in the shade. Instead she goes over and gets a towel, smiling playfully before opening it up and wrapping it around Homura's upper body, hugging against her as she traps the other girl's arms to her sides for a few moments.

    She snags a second one for herself after letting go and pulling away, drying herself off lightly so any newly applied sunscreen will actually stick. The a tube of the lotion is then produced, and she starts rubbing it in, starting with the delicate areas on her face, which she dried a extra well, and then working on her arms, legs, and body. "I don't think I'd forgive myself if I was so lax that I made it hurt to hug you. That would be a real tragedy!" She giggles, "And probably painful, because I'd hug you anyway!"

Kukai Souma has posed:
Kukai picks up a couple of pieces of watermelon from the table, then eyes the 'water'. "And make sure he doesn't get into the vodka water, either." He hmms, then hugs Nagihiko for a moment. "Y'know, this is nice and all, but I think maybe we could go find our own spot in the sun, yeah? Do you have any ideas?"

Nadeshiko Fujisaki has posed:
Temari gives a little sniff. "Of course. 'Or' the sake."

Nagihiko hums.

Rhythm pipes up. "Of course he does!"

A set of earphones appear around Nagihiko's neck and he sweeps Kukai off his feet.

Literally.

As he leaps them away, he calls out: "Good bye, awesome people!"

Homura Akemi has posed:
    Did they have a blanket? Homura remembers something about that. She tilts her head and looks towards the sky to think it over. "Yes, that's right. We did. Hot chocolate, coffee, and a blanket." She giggles. "I remember that night, because it was the first time you told you loved me. I mean, it wasn't romantic, but it was still sweet."

    With a toothy grin, she affirms, "You bet I would take good care of you. Keep you all comfy and warm, and tend to your every need." Especially if any of those needs involved cuddles, but, well... that goes without saying, and isn't limited to Madoka being sick, either.

    Homura glances towards Kukai and Nagi, not saying anything but noting them. "We aren't the only ones with kissing on the mind it seems." Nosey? Maybe. Or maybe just aware of her surroundings.

    "Well if that's how you feel about it, maybe next time I'll be sure to draw something more specific!" Since there will, probably, be a next time. Especially considering these two. "Seeing you happy makes me happy too, Madoka-chan. Especially if I can make you happy by doing something I'd want to do anyways, such as be around you."

    She holds Madoka's hand as they come out of the water. A towel is thrown around her shoulders and she's somewhat surprised at first, but it doesn't take her long to figure out what it's for. Her arms may be trapped to her sides, but her lips aren't, and she kisses the top of Madoka's forehead.

    Once free, she begins to dry herself off, starting with the top of her hair and then working down the rest of herself, needing to spend a little bit longer because long, thick hair is great at retaining water. She giggles at Madoka's statement. "You know, I was thinking the same thing. We would be better off if we could cuddle without worrying about sunburnt skin."

    Homura takes a bit of suntan lotion, dabbing it on her hand. She waves at Kukai and Nagi as they jump off to do their own thing. "Thanks for coming!" Then she sneaks up behind Madoka and starts to apply the sunscreen to her back.

Madoka Kaname has posed:
    Madoka looks down and smiles at the memory. "I did love you. I realized what a good friend you were to me, and how much I cared about you and would miss you so much if anything ever happened to you. I didn't think for a second loving you might be a tease, but now I have plenty of chances to make it up to you by loving you romantically as well." Which naturally means she peeks back over her shoulder and says sweetly, "I love you, Homura-chan."

    She can't help but giggle at Homura's grin, "Don't hope I get sick too badly! If you want I can pretend to be sick so you can nurse me to health?" Half joke, half serious. She loves being cute and romantic and silly with Homura, and nursing your beloved back to health is certainly romantic. "I'll make sure to look after you if you get sick, too." Of course it begs the question if Puella Magi actually can get the common cold or the like, or if they could just use magic to purge the infection if they did.

    Madoka makes the mistake of not drying her hair first, which means water starts to drip down her and prompts her to go back and rectify the situation. Luckily this mistake is easy to fix! "We're lucky, being able to find happiness so easily with each other. It really is amazing, isn't it?" She lets out a wistful sigh, "Falling in love with your best friend is the best ever."

    She isn't quite as observant as Homura is, but when she brings up the other lovebirds she giggles, waving to the pair as Nagihiko literally sweeps Kukai off his feet, "Have fun you two! Thanks for coming to the party!"

    A sweet, semi shy look is given to Homura as her forehead is kissed, peeking up through her eyelashes at her girlfriend. Afterwards she works on rubbing the sunscreen in good to make sure it will last as long as it's intended, eeping at the sudden cool on her back only to let out a nice, "Ohhh," as Homura helps her by covering those hard to reach places with sunscreen. "Mmm, that feels nice. Let me get your back for you too, once you're done."

    Her pace slows a fair bit because she wasn't kidding about what's effectively a backrub is given to her, and she makes another happy sigh, her high spirits not seeming to cease as the party itself appears to be winding down. "After we're covered what do you say we find a lounge chair and snuggle in the sun? The water was nice but the sun is too, and I can't help but want to rest and relax in your arms." After another moment she adds, "We might as well use the beach too; it's ours until tomorrow morning." A playful giggle.