For @fefreziweek day 2! I’m very late but this week has been actual, absolute hell and this is the first time I’ve been calm enough to do any writing.
Terezi had it all planned out, absolutely foolproof. Her fishmesis was going to feel confident- on her own turf, anyone would be. But Terezi only wanted her to feel that the ball was in her court. In reality, it was Terezi that would have the upper hand.
Feferi rose out of the water, and Terezi knew she probably smelled as beautiful as the stars, but ha! Terezi would not be starstruck tonight! She had moonblock on, both to protect her skin from light burns on the beach and to muffle her nose juuuuust enough to blur Feferi’s gorgeous figure! Even so, Terezi cast her a grin and cackled.
“Hey there fishface!” she hollered, “Thought you might back down!”
Feferi flipped her hair over her shoulder, making a wet splat noise as it hit her back. Sand stuck to her wet feet and ankles, blurring the grey of her skin to a pleasant smelling, warm, yellowy scent. Like corn muffins fresh out of the pyrohull.
Feferi threw her head back and laughed, sharp and self-assured. “As if!” She sauntered up close to Terezi, grinning with all her fishy fangs, and asked, “So water these supporpoisely amaaaazing plans you have for us tonight?”
Terezi held up the beach roundcircle and spun it on her finger. “Me, kicking your ass into next week with an inflatable sport poundsphere.”
“Arrogant arrogant!” Feferi tutted with a waggle of her finger, pouting (she might have thought she looked stern) briefly before brightening again. “Though I’d pike to sea you try!”
Terezi and Feferi played for many volleys, each keeping meticulous count of the score. Neither managed to get more than a two point lead on the other. While Feferi was utterly superior in terms of raw strength, Terezi was phenomenal at making feints and detecting Feferi’s.
Eventually the two came to the begrudgingly mutual agreement of needing to take a break and drink something. Neither one actually said she needed a break, that would mean losing, but they both wandered off their makeshift court together and pulled drinks from Terezi’s cooler. Terezi waited for Feferi to open a can of Tab, selected specifically to appeal to her kismesis’s tastes, and cackled when she got a facefull of soda.
“Oh, we’ve been here for ages! How’d you manage to keep them shaken this long?” Feferi asked, appalled, brown liquid glistening on her powerful muscles and making her smell tastier than a twelfth perigee’s gobblefowl in gravy. She looked around accusingly, searching for Terezi’s accomplice.
“I have my ways,” Terezi said, opening her can as well, pointing it at Feferi. She got hit with another blast of soda and then it was on. The two pelted each other with Tab and laughed uproariously, chasing each other down the beach, and finally they had to stop, panting, when the Tab ran out.
“I also brought water bottles,” Terezi mentioned, and Feferi laughed.
“A legislacerator never goes anywhere unprepared!”
They drank deeply from the chilled water and then Feferi whipped Terezi with a toss of her hair.
“I’m sticky as shell,” Feferi said simply, “I’m gonna go wash off.”
“Me too,” Terezi said, licking at the back of her hands and her forearms.
Feferi turned and waltzed backwards into the waves. “Careful little land dweller. There are sea dwellers out and aboat.” She grinned viciously. “They might try to drag you down.”
“I’m sure I’ll find a way to handle it,” Terezi countered, also grinning, picking up her pace a little so she could walk with her face very close to Feferi’s.
“Oh you’re shore are you?” Feferi asked, arching an eyebrow but never displacing her grin.
Terezi tossed her horns, just a little, just enough of a threat of clashing, headbutting, aggressing. “Very sure.”
Terezi then lunged and kissed Feferi, tossing the two of them down into the waves. Terezi was on top, and Feferi was the swimmer, which meant it was Feferi’s job to keep their heads above water. Unless she wanted to back down, of course.
The beach and sea might have been Feferi’s turf, but Terezi felt pretty victorious just then, enjoying the taste of skin and salt.