Sun and Sweat

[Zephel]

Zeph grunted, silently impressed there exist such a woman in this lifetime...too bad she's old already, or she could rule the world by unleashing bratty little monkey girls to annihilate everyone. The silver-haired shook the image off his head.

At the sight of his dog cornering a certain half-vampire, Zeph slightly snickered. It truly made his day to see all the guard-dog trainings he taught Zi-Fi actually works, and its a female too. And apparently, Zi-Fi shares much of Zeph's opinions on people...as in, when the element-wielder is annoyed at someone, Zi-Fi would bark at them, and if her owner is friends with another someone, then Zi-Fi would be happy to lick that person.

Which is the exact thing the dog did when Kida is on her range of view. The snow-white furry creature literally leaped off the sand and amazingly able to reach its paws onto Kida's shoulders, ultimately weighting her of course, and knocked her to her back.

Zeph couldn't help to yell a quick "ZI-FI...!!" when the last thing he could see is the two women falling over him before he got himself burdened with the load of Syani, Kida, his dog and his fire-lizard on top of him.

"G-gaah..." He so wanted to push everyone off of him, but he restrained himself and tries to be patient for them to roll off on top of each other before anybody sees them. This would be such a pride-shattering picture to look at with Zeph under two women, on the striking sun, at the beach.

"Damn, everyone GET OFF OF ME, please!"

That would be an easy task if the dog would stop licking and slobbering on Kida's face.

[Syani]

"No, no, no, NO, NO!!!" Syani really can see this unfolding in here mind before Kida falls onto her with the dog on top of the woman.

Before she knows it, she's sandwiched between Kida and Zeph. Plus the dog, Syani can't even breath, and plus there's a dude behind her, and this strikes as mushy anytime. This reminds her of the time when she got squished by Sasuke and a few slab of walls that almost squeezed her to death...and that's when she decided to do the exact thing she does to save herself.

Warping.

Since she can now activate her transportation ability without the use of potions, Syani merely closed her eyes, tries her best to focus from the lack of air, and within a moment, she dissappeared...to somewhere she has no idea of, of course. Since she just confirmed minutes earlier that she doesn't have any control of where exactly did she warped herself to sometimes.

And that's when Syani left the whole scene entirely.
Of course, that made Kida falls on top of Zephel instead.

[Kida]

"YUCK! ZI-FI! Zi-fi OFF! DOWN!--BLEEEEECH!" Kida was trying to shield her face from the slobber of the dog and push him off at the same time. Although it proved useless. "I'm TRYING!" she shouted when Zephel shouted at them to get off. "ZI-FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!! HEEL!" she shouted. When did this dog get so damn heavy?!

"Gah!" Kida felt herself fall again, though she wasn't sure how. Trying to get away from Zi-Fi's licks, Kida twisted herself around so that she was facing Syani under her. Thankfully it seemed she had blocked her face in time, so Zi-Fi had really been licking her arms and hands. But now the dog was standing on her back, pushing into Sy--wait, not Syani, Zephel. "What the?!" Kida couldn't help but blush a little as Zi-Fi crushed her into his master.

"T...Tell him to get off us!"

[Zephel]

Zeph was just as surprised of the current event, well of course he is, his dog literally weighted a woman down ONTO him. And that woman happened to be facing him after she twists around...which resulted into a rather awkward position for the both of them.

Zeph can't help but to clench his jaw by how close his and Kida's faces are, so he tried his best to press his head onto the sand as hard as he could to get away from this torture. Zi-Fi however, didn't budge a bit at Kida's order, continuing to happily lick her arms like she's some special dog bone.

'Damn dog...'

Then, his fire lizard, Ryo, who's been awfully silent the whole time on Zi-Fi's back, decided to make its presence known, by literally hopping off of Zi-Fi and landed right on the back of Kida's head, resulting a wild smack of the couple's foreheads onto each other.

'...Damn fire-lizard!'

Zeph dug his fingers into the sand, loosing the thread of patience he's holding onto for the last 2 minutes, and suddenly, his eyes aglow.

"For the sake of the elements, SCRAM!!!!!"

Followed by that ear-busting shout, is the sudden eruption of flames around them. The fire only lasts for a few seconds, but that totally scared the crap out of the dog, the fire-lizard, and also some innocent passer-by. All scattered off like whimpering rats.

His rage didn't stop there, as Zeph strongly pulled himself up with Kida still on top of him, and ultimately resulted Kida to fall on her back right after Zeph sat straight. His fury is well-known in the school, but he rarely snapped like this...except with Xue Fang, but since she left, he always got his anger-issue in check.

Slapping a hand on his forehead, he rubbed onto his temples as an effort to regain back his lost composure. By that continuous inhale, he's definitely attempting to calm himself from this blind rage. No wonder his dorm room always blew up, Fang and Hikaru can switch on that pissy side of him in their will.

[Kida]

Today just was not her day. Kida toppled onto the sand, head and now back aching. Not to mention Zeph had popped a gear and was all pissed off now. Kida had always had trouble dealing with him when he got angry, but her first instinct was to get pissed right back which she knew wouldn't help. "Thanks a lot!" Asshole! she kept in her head, but still threw out at him.

Kida groaned as she sat up. Sand was sticking to her again, Syani was no where in sight and Zi-Fi and Ryo had just gotten the fright of their lives. But Kida was still irritated with them for what they had done. "Chill, Zephel....you're just gonna make things worse and then you'll only get more pissed off." There was definitely some snap to her voice, but truly it was in his best interest to calm down.

[Zephel]

Zeph sat there, clenching his jaw tight in order not to snap right back at Kida. True, that sudden outbreak was beyond his control, but he was literally keeping his patience for the last 5 minutes...and that broke his last record. Plus, he's at a freaking beach with such a temperature, he's actually proud of himself that he's able to even think properly after the fury-fest.
Since nothing died now, and there's no quaking of the earth, Zeph decided that this is one of his most decent rage-burst in the history of his peace being interrupted.

"Yea, yeah. I got my head back now." He replied after a long silence, his voice now soother despite the humid condition. The silver-haired look around after that, searching for his familliars, and creased his brows a bit after spotting them cowering behind a random snack shack a bit far away from where he and Kida is.

"Was I...that pissed?"

[Kida]

"Yes." Asshole she repeated with a snap in her head. Rubbing her aching forehead, Kida lifted herself up to her feet and proceeded to rid herself of more sand. With a huff she glanced back at the fire-lizard and dog. "Maybe we should take you to an ice cream stand or something... frozen yogurt." The heat was getting to him.

"Looks like our aquaintence has bailed, so..."

[Zephel]

"...If that's the case, I'm proud I didn't destroyed something." He replied in such a casual manner, he didn't seem like he regretted at all. "And stop cussing, I can hear you thinking." The silver-haired added, standing up himself and dusting the sand off himself to the best of his ability.

His eyes lit up by the mention of ice cream, but tries to hide that hidden joy from radiating much. As cold and aloof Zeph is, ice cream is actually his favourite snack by far...and one of the few people who knows of this is that crazy sister of Kida, if he can remember that day right. "Ice cream stand...sounds great." Zeph looked around after that, for the said acquaintance, confused at first before slowly growing into annoyance. "Where the hell did she transported herself into... I'll make sure she received her part of my fury after this.."

Shaking his head, Zeph then walks his way towards the shack...but more of walking right at his dog and fire-lizard actually. The two pets, upon seeing their owner advancing towards them, cowered and sped off.

"Hey, hey! Come on. Zi-Fi, Ryo... Come here. Come here..." Again for someone as cold and aloof as Zeph, its a hard image to swallow when the silver-haired bent down with one of his knees touching the sand, and gently calls over his familliar like some dad trying to calm a crying son.

"Come here, guys... I'm sorry about that, alright?"

The blue fire-lizard was the first to scurry its way towards Zephel, kyuu-ing and rubbing its tiny head to his owner's leg. Zi-Fi took a moment longer than Ryo before it launches straight into Zeph and rammed the element-wielder, having its paws on Zeph's torso as it licked the silver-haired man.

"Ahah! Hahahah! St...stop that, Zi-Fi! Stop!!" It tickles him...and he didn't like when he has no control of his laughter. Zeph tries to contain his bursting chuckles, even when asking Kida for help. "K-Kida! Pull her off of me...!"

[Kida]

"Hey!" Kida snapped. "You get the hell outta my head! I can swear all I want to, verbal or otherwise!" And since she hadn't forgiven him yet she let loose a string of wild and colorful swears in her head. Just for his benefit. No one, no one, had any right to tell her what to do. Nor did they have the right to poke their damn noses in her head. Only pervy freaks like Reinhardt do that. she spat in her head in case Zeph was still listening.

It was his own damn fault if he turned into something he hated so much since he was blind to the similarity. While Zephel was busy trying to lure his pets out of hiding. Kida had turned her attention to getting the beach off of her. It was disgusting and she wasn't going to be able to get it all without a shower, but she would remove what she could. Pulling out her hair band that had resricted her hair into a pony tail, she combed her fingers through the tresses. That was definitely better. At least the pony tail had saved her from having sand caked onto her scalp.

Twitch. Did Zephel just...laugh? Turning, Kida saw that Zi-Fi was doing exactly what she had been to make him pissed off just a few minutes ago. Except, of course, now the dog was licking him and not her. "Now you want me to save you?" she sighed. "C'mere, Zi-Fi." She pulled the dog back from it's master and gave it a pat on the head.

"Better?" she asked, irritation at him still a little evident.

[Zephel]

The blue fire-lizard crawled its way onto Zeph's shoulder, kyuu-ing right after its owner had sat himself up from being attacked by Zi-Fi's licks. Brushing off the sands from his back as best as he could, the silver-haired had gained back his usual deadpan composure.

"So you want me to apologize to you now?" At least that's what he can catch up after reading her...again. At that, Ryo, who's perching on Zeph's shoulder, bit the man on the ear slightly, startling Zeph. "Okay, okay! Fine."

Zi-Fi wags her tail as Kida's pat, fully happy by the attention she's receiving, then lets out a happy bark before circling around Kida twice and back to her owner. "Look. That idiot STILL haven't taught me on where the hell is the on-off button yet, and seeing as how I have no control of this curse, much less having any interest of it, figuring it out myself would be impossible." He reasoned. Being Zeph, he would never admit his faults...at least while its this early.

The silver-haired then brings up his hands in defence, trying to be as calm as he can manage through this. "And don't compare me with Reinhardt. Do you think I enjoy being in that predicament earlier?!" And he's loosing it. It's a good thing Ryo's been keeping tabs on that hotheaded owner of his, by again, biting Zeph in the ear.

Zeph fought the urge to just pull that damn fire-lizard off of his shoulder and toss it in a great distance towards the ocean. Taking a deep inhale while closing his (twitching)eyes, the silver-haired pulled his head up to face Kida and then open his red eyes as he gazed at her, seeming to choose his words carefully.

"Cheh.. I apologize you have to go through that phase of mine. You have the right to be angry at me, so I don't mind if you want to slap me back to my senses the next time I snapped."

...That came out rather quickly, possibly by purpose. It almost looks like as if he blurted it all out. "And thank you."

[Kida]

"So...Does that mean I get to slap you next time?" That sounded really good to Kida. In fact she was sort of looking forward to it already, as bad as that might be. Part of it she could blame on her small (tiny really) thirst for violence and yet again she knew it was really from a sense of revenge. Kida wasn't about to accept the apology before hearing this delightful answer. Of course, she would accept it, she sort of had to.

After all it wasn't like Zephel had killed someone. Kida walked over to give Zi-Fi another affection pat. It seemed the more attention she was given the less she misbehaved. Perhaps the poor dog was just starved for attention. "You play with your dog often?" she asked. As random as it might sound, it might solve his problem.

[Zephel]

Zeph shot Kida an annoyed glance, with his eyes half-closed as he glowered. "That was supposed to be sarcastic. ...But if it makes you feel better next time, then do as you wish." That last line was quickly added as soon as he heard the blue fire-lizard perching on his shoulder growling.

The element-wielder truly had no real opinion of women slapping him, since no matter how angry he could be, he can't bring himself to physically harm women...even if they slapped him. Zi-Fi is obviously contented by the amount of attention she's receiving, and upon hearing Kida's reference of her, the snow white dog barked happily.

"When I have time to." That reply came out fast, as if he's been asked that sort of question often. He turned to Zi-Fi after that, trying to recall if he ever forgets to play with her. "Actually, she would force me to play with her the moment I came home from work or something. Hell, I came home bleeding myself out one time, and she would STILL want to play with me."

[Kida]

"Maybe she's so hyper because you don't play with her enough." she shrugged. It was just a theory, as some dogs just didn't mellow out until they were older. Kida glanced back at the fire-lizard's growl. "Protective of you, huh?" It was a cute reminder than Bec was at home, curled up on her bed snoring peacefully.

"I'll remember to bring him a treat if I plan on slapping you then. Come to think of it...we've never sparred, huh?" Kida chose to believe that that was not because she was becoming rusty, just that she liked to train alone most of the time. "What would you call your style?" she asked, not intrigued.

[Zephel]

"Not enough attention?!" Zeph could hear his voice peaking up into that loud tone just now. At that, he closed his jaws tight, glaring down at the snow-white dog barking happily at him. His glare proves not to work though, since Zi-Fi's tail wagging made it apparent that she's enjoying the flaming wrath he's currently trying to burn her in.

Zeph let out a slight 'tch' sound at Kida's comment of Ryo. "Nah. He just likes to bite people." That was his automatic response. Zeph's eyes only lit up at the sparring word. "Oh, I've been meaning to ask you about that. You're able to do hydrokinesis, right?"

[Kida]

"Not like I've ever really called it that." she shrugged. "But yeah." Personally, she'd always felt like the term hydrokinesis made it sound like she was sick with a really strange flu or something. "But I've also been training in a mixture of martial arts since I was little." Kida continued to give the white dog absence strokes and pats. She might have even reached out to do the same to Ryo if Zeph hadn't said he liked to bite people. Kida thought better of it, considering she didn't want to get pissed off again today.

"No weapons for me. Just fists and a bottle of water." Or a pond, or a river, or the ocean... Since Kida had started to really focus her energy on her water wielding she had made improvements by leaps and bounds. It wasn't as difficult as it used to be for her to manipulate the water with grace and accuracy. But a bit of temper didn't hurt for getting it going.