Sebs jaw dragged along the gangplank as the trio walked up the steep slope towards the cruise ships entry way.

He had never been on a boat this large, he doubted he had ever been on anything this large ever.

He looked down to the water below and felt his vision spin and laughed rocking back nearly crashing into Bryony whose knuckles were white on the handles.

Harri was behind her dragging a large suitcase that she refused to let the stewards down below take. Seb looked behind them at the annoyed faces of other boat goers waiting for their holiday.

“Sorry!” Seb called down. Grabbing Harri’s suitcase as well as Bryony, throwing them both over his shoulders and marched up the gangway. He laughed placing the two down on the shiny wooden deck.

“If I didn’t feel so violently ill I would smack you up and down this deck. It looks smooth enough you should only get a dozen splinters.” Bryony warned, her legs shaking as she rose to her feet.

“Thanks Seb.” Harri added giving him a gentle tap on the back before pulling up the handle of the suitcase. The sight making Seb chuckle, the suitcase was almost as large as Harri and with the handle up it came up to her shoulder.

“Right.” Seb clapped his hands. “To the room then to the buffet!”

Seb had never been on a cruise before. He had never actually even been on a boat before. Now here with his two favourite people in the world they would finally be able to relax for a while and just enjoy some time together. And hopefully get a tan as well.

The ship was absolutely massive and Seb couldn’t quite believe how it stayed afloat. On the main deck there was a wave pool, a regular pool, a bar, another bar, three hot tubs and a snack vendor. Walking past all that the trio ascended up the stairs towards their room.

Through either luck or good graces the trio had been offered the trip now that the war had ended and the bulk of the fighting afterwards was over. There team was one of the luckiest having not lost a member through the course of all the fighting. Not that it hadn’t been close, Seb, Bry and Harri all had scars to remind them of that fact.

Half dragging Bry along Seb opened the door to their suite and bruised his jaw as it hit the floor. The room was massive, with sectioned areas that would serve as a living room and a designated changing area.

Doors led to bedrooms as big as Seb’s Appartment with beds as fluffy as a cloud. Leaping across the room with the strength of an Olympian and the grace of a man falling from the sky Seb slammed into the pillows like a WWE wrestler and groaned in comfort.

“Uhhhh Seb.” Bry said from the doorway “we might have a problem.”

“Nope. No problems allowed” Seb replied his voice muffled by pillows.

“This is the only bed.” Harri said, leaning against Bry in the doorway.

“It’s the only what?” Seb shot up from the bed. Looking at his friends, both shared the same disappointed look.

He waited. Surely they were going to say this was a joke any second now.

“Only one bed?” Seb murmured.

“Sound familiar?” Bry asked, fighting a smile.

“You little fan fiction freak.” Harri laughed.

Seb laughed falling back on the bed. The two girls broke out in laughter and leapt onto him the three all holding eachother tight. A feeling they had come do to more often over the last few years, over the war there had been times that it felt like they would never be able to do this again. So now any chance they got they let the others know how much they mattered.

After disentangling themselves the three donned swim suits and made for the massive pool deck. Seb wearing trunks with cartoon watermelons on them that made the girls cringe, both claiming he was giving off “dad energy” making him only laugh more.

Harri wore a black bikini with frills and a large black lace sun hat. Bry wore a blue and white one piece with a beige sun hat.

“Now begins the toughest and biggest adventure of our whole career.” Seb began. “Not only must we conquer all of the pools, but activities are common place and we must master several of them while also attending the dozens of buffets with food from around the world.”

“Not to mention the shows that are on nightly.” Harri added.

“Oh and there are some clubs and apparently they stop at some island!” Bry excitedly said.

Seb was happy to see her now adjusting to being on the boat.

The three deserved this nice trip. It was time to relax, they had saved the world and helped clean up the mess afterwards. Now it was time for their reward, not that they did all they did for a reward. But it was nice none the less.

And then a giant sea monster attacked

Nah just kidding.