{“You know you have gills.”}

  Nerice offered and stopped another incoming attack that was in the form of thousands of coral needles.

  {“But I can’t breathe in…how the hell are gills going to help that?”}

  {“Leave me alone a min-”}

  Nerice started to reply when she sensed another spell incoming from the staff, that was nearly identical to the one that held Ruby firmly. Spotting the water slinking its way over to her like a spotted olive green moray eel, Nerice maintained her netting-shield spell and twisted her two smaller fingers so that they curled and sent another orange beam from her palm and into the staff that was causing all of their current issues. Ignoring Ruby’s grumpy screams for assistance, Nerice forced her magical ray through all the porous holes in the pumice, then opened her hand. Bits of stone and gss flew through the air and nded on the floor with a little twinkle, and the smooth eye-like blue kyanite ball rolled to a stop at Nerice’s feet. Watching as Ruby instantly got to her feet and shook off the slimy water, Nerice smiled and pointed to Ruby once more.

  Waiting for the frog slime water to pass between the frogmages feet, Nerice squatted and pressed her hand to the floor and then sent out a shockwave of fring orange electricity through the water that had puddled on the floor. “Got you slime bitch.” Nerice confidently spoke as she watched her spell weave its way through the water.

  Initially shocked when her staff disintegrated, the frogmage recovered in record time. A line of green went out from her hand and crawled like an evil mist across the floor, consuming the orange-blue lines of lightning and turned its kinetic energy into something that the mist used to move faster and get thicker as it encompassed Nerice. Satisfied that she’d neutralized Nerice for the time being, the frog turned and caught Ruby trying to once again fnk her. Swiftly bringing her hand around, the frogwoman sent out another putrid green beam of slime and it wrapped itself around Ruby, holding her firmly in pce.

  {“Look at that, two birds, one trap. How marvelous, I will be a hero among the other cns when they hear how I fed you to my little kraken out there.”}

  Giddy in watching Ruby struggle against the spell that held her in pce, the frogmage turned back to where Nerice was in the green fog, just in time to see a handful of red hot pearls flying towards it in a square pattern. Unable to react in time, the pearls smmed with force across its body hard enough for the frog to be pushed back and lose concentration on her active spells.

  Instantly free from the slime hold on her, Ruby jumped onto the back of her opponent and wrapped her legs tightly around the frog’s hips before she repeatedly stabbed mercilessly into the turtle pte with her ruby-cd dagger, breaking chunks off the frog's armor with every swing. “I’m about to choke those words down your throat you bilge-sucking slime bucket.” With a final stab, Ruby shattered the turtle shell and then heard her dymate’s calm voice in her head.

  {“Tanya, I’ve got her.”}

  More than willing to allow Nerice to accomplish her task Ruby unlocked herself from around the frogmage and danced off to the side still ready to react should Nerice need the assistance.

  A contemptuous and reprehensible smile crossed over Neirce’s lips as she summoned her final spell. Glowing bright orange, Nerice sent a beam that had a mixture of deep orange with bck tendrils smming into her opponent. Nerice fshed her teeth, and pushed as much magic as she could through her palm, until her scales went from a bright blue to a light gray and ultimately to a shiny onyx. “Burn and boil. You are judged unworthy. Tonight we feast on your flesh, frog.” Nerice ughed and relished the screams of the mage helplessly trapped in the vile beam, boiling off the water in her skin and subsequently cooking its arms and legs. A few torturous minutes ter, nothing remained of the other caster except for its arms and legs as Nerice promised.

  Taking a deep breath, Nerice lowered her hand and felt the magic subside. She then clicked her tongue a couple of times to be sure nothing else was close and faced Ruby. “In fact, bck scales. She wasn’t wrong about the kyanite, Tanya.” Nerice walked past the well-cooked frog,picked up one of its legs and then took a bite. “It is an addiction really, that is why I need kyanite. Spells and my own sanity. Does this change your mind about me? Knowing that I am more of an illusion than I let on?” Nerice shifted her weight and flipped her jet-bck hair behind her while munching on her dinner.

  “You know, I should be really upset about this, it’s the second lie you’ve told me and this time it nearly got me killed.” Ruby jerked the frog leg from Nerice and took a bite, then handed it back while she chewed. “No, I am not upset. Though I do like the blue scales…I think the bck ones will certainly grow on me, love.” Ruby reached down and grabbed the kelp headdress and handed it to Nerice. “Whenever you wish to have your blue scales back, this should help.”

  Her heart aflutter, Nerice ughed and plucked one of the kyanite teardrops from the headpiece and swallowed it whole. “So it is true, nothing can separate us, even our combined vileness?” Nerice asked while offering the frog leg back to Ruby.

  “Why would I be upset that you have a raging bck pirate heart within that bck-scaled gorgeous chest of yours, Ner-Ner?” Ruby wrapped her arms around her partner’s waist, “I match a certain moral flexibility myself.” She lifted one of her hands and pced it softly on Nerice’s cheek. “I expect that you will not give me grief when I want to stab something again.”

  “I’m always going to give you grief, now kiss me..you bck and vile pirate woman.”

  Covered in sweat and breathing heavily, Ruby rolled from atop Nerice and hit the floor with a light thud, ughing as she did so. Pulses of her orgasm still shook the young pirate and with each little jerk of her body, Ruby kissed Nerice’s hip. Her mind lost in a frenzy of ecstasy, it took Ruby a few minutes to let the adrenaline wear off and her pussy to stop its orgasmic flow. Taking the time to open and close her legs in an effort to dry the sex that was still lingering, Ruby heard Nerice giggling as well. Slipping her elbow under her head, Ruby took the time to give Nerice’s wet mound another kiss before she looked up at her dymate. “That was…” Ruby sighed and flopped onto her back, trying to get the dizzying stars out of her head.

  “How very dylike, you devil pirate.” Nerice ughed and felt her way along Ruby’s bare thigh until she found the apex of Ruby’s legs and swirled her finger around Ruby’s clit until she heard her lover make a few strange strangled noises and went completely limp. “Careful, my love. I am still within tongue reach.”

  A sinfully low and sultry voice came out of Ruby, “Go on and do it, I’ll attack you just as hard.” Ruby purred and pressed her finger into Nerice’s damp petals of womanhood, being sure to keep her thumb heavily against her pearl. “How’s that, my bck-scaled beauty?”

  “Mmmmm…wh–what?” Nerice shivered and blinked out of the warm feeling sloshing around in her head. “None of that bck scaled shit, You say that at the wrong time and the other sisters will know.”