Gate Guardian - Tale of the Blazing Heart

Phase 20: Awkward Moments

Phase 20: Awkward Moments

[Myrrh City Beach – Myrrh City]

[10:12 AM]

"They're the Eaglehorn Legion." Mia whispered. "That handsome guy is Felix Hornback, their leader."

"FELIX!!!" Heushac shouted. "It's been a long time!"

"Oh, if it isn't the Sapphire Knight! I wonder if you can beat me in this sport." Felix said.

"I can beat you in any sport if you like! Want to try me!!?"

Mia and Erylle let out a big sigh. I don't know, but this feels like we're going to get embarrassed.

Arthur, Heffy, Heushac, Mia, Erylle, and me... versus six of the Eaglehorn Legion. There is Felix the handsome, a macho man that never speaks, a middle-aged sexy woman, a four-eyed runt, a violet-haired woman in the same age as I, a shy girl, and a noisy young man, kinda like Heushac. Did I describe them right?

First serve. It was a violet haired woman made a blazing fast spike. It came straight to my position that I panicked and I didn't know what to do.

Pak!

The ball collided straight to my face; blurring my eyesight and making my ears hear a long high pitched cricket noise. I fell down into the sand and the next thing I knew was everybody was already laughing. We even got some more audiences because of me, being a laughing stock.

It was not bad either, because Erylle came to help me stand up and comforted me. But she chuckled after that. She tried so hard to hide it but I still noticed.

That Eaglehorn Guardians are outstanding in this kind of sport. All of them made scary attacks that only Erylle, Heushac, and Heffy are the ones who can block them. They found out the weakest links in our volleyball team and forced the ball to go at my direction.

The next thing happened was nothing for me, because I did nothing. I let Erylle block the ball everytime it went to my direction. It will be better if I made a substitution, but no one wanted to do it. I guess I'm gonna kill myself.

Of course we lost. I'm the only burden in the team, I know. Heushac gritted and the other legion went away, celebrating their victory. I approached Heushac and apologized.

"I-I'm sorry... I don't know how to play volleyball in the first place."

There's nothing I could do to change his mood. But Erylle tried to comfort him. She gently tapped shoulder of the frustrated knight.

"It's okay to have loses. We'll win next time~"

<>

We had a little swim on the beach. Amazingly, Heushac recovered from frustration and began acting like a kid again. He would run, jump, and make huge splashes then dive underwater, and then popping air out of Mia's life buoy. Mia never learned how to swim, and afraid of drowning since she's short. Every time Heushac does that, Mia gets mad and blows it up again just to make herself float.

On the other hand, Erylle was being surrounded by boys on the beach. They are saying some obvious things like "You're so pretty!", "Are you a model?" and other things like that. Seriously, these guys are trying to flirt with her.

There was even a man who handed some squidballs to her, trying to convince her to eat with him. Suddenly, another gave a bag of potato chips and asked for the same thing. Then there was another. And another. Finally Erylle made a hilarious idea to ditch those idiots.

"Maybe I'll eat with the quickest person who can swim into the other shore~"

Then there they go. They ran in the speed of light! Those poor morons, the other shore is too far, but they are trying their best for a single date! I did win a date with her effortlessly.

Meanwhile, Erylle enjoyed the squidballs and other snacks she stole from the boys, running into me. She approached me and offered me a stick of squidballs but I rejected. Then she winked at me, and asked.

"You will not compete with them?"

"W-Why?"

"You'll win a date with me~" She smiled maliciously.

"Making them waste their efforts just for you to ditch them...You're so evil..." I muttered to myself.

Then there comes a tragedy. Not really a tragedy, I'll consider it a gift from the heavens.

We started swimming in the water, together with the evil blonde. We ventured to a deeper part where the water is just below are chests. But then, Erylle's face became red, sweating, and worried. She's glancing in every direction, and starting to panic.

"What's the matter?"

"I...It got l-lost..."

She's hardly covering her bulky chest with her arms crossed. Guess what happened.

I first looked at Heushac, since he's the sneaky bastard here. But I know that it's not his doing, since he's a few meters away, pestering Mia. Those two are not aware of what happened. And Heushac is scared of Erylle. Who in the right mind would do that to a person who can beat you up in a few seconds?

It's not the time for that. I have to find that bra. But what makes this hard is that there are a lot of people in this area. I can hardly see anything that looked like a green item with conjoined two hills.

"Wait for here, I'll find it for you."

I stepped a few meters forward trying to make a better view of the surroundings. I can't see it anywhere. Maybe it didn't float. But just when I'm about to dive, I noticed that this particular area is starting to get crowded. Erylle was left surrounded by people, so she dipped her whole body into the water just to hide. I know she's in trouble so I came back to where she is.

"Yohan..."

She started to cry. Tears flowed from her red cheeks. She's kinda cute in this situation, but it's not the time to tease her.

For some reason, a man with a life buoy accidentally pushed Erylle forward right into me. She tripped and unluckily, she grabbed onto my shoulders.

"E-Eh!?"

She hugged me tight. I can feel the soft treasures on her chest. I can't describe it. I'm not in the right mind to do that.

"D-Don't move!!! They will see if you move!!!"

I don't know what to do now. How do I always get in crappy situations like this? I don't even know if I'm happy or angry! And how will I find that thing if I can't even move?!