Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-4598697-20160715204710/@comment-26897541-20160728162622

Venetia grinned. "Water fight!" she yelled as she splashed her new friend.

Meanwhile.......

Arion and Rose floated in the water for a solid 10-15 minutes, just relaxing and enjoying the warm sunlight on their faces. Eventually, though, they awoke from their drowsy state. Rose was first, slowly blinking herself back to life and slipping from her friend's embrace into the water with a sigh. Arion startled a bit at the change, waking him from where he'd been nearly unconscious. From his floating position he rolled over and flipped underwater, coming back up with his hair soaking wet and his face not much better. He grinned at Rose and was about to speak when he heard voices coming from the water near the beach. He turned to find two heads above the water, a girl and a boy, laughing and having fun just like he and Rose had been. He was puzzled, and looked to his friend.

Rose broke the silence first. "Who do you think they are? I'm not sure I recognize them from anywhere..."

Arion shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe they're students like us?"

Rose thought for a moment, then grinned. "Well, the only way to find out is to go talk to them! Come on!" With that she took off swimming with a semi-shaky backstroke. Arion laughed and shook his head at his friend's antics, then took off himself, ducking under and jetting through the water, his tail providing all the propulsion he needed. He quickly overtook his backstroking friend and continued on, knowing she would be fine with being a bit slower than he.

As Arion grew closer to the pair of unknown swimmers, something gave him pause. It almost looked like... they had... '.... TAILS?!?!' Arion came to a sudden stop, very confused by the pair of mertails he was seeing on the people in the water. He hadn't recognized them as fellow merpeople, a strange occurance indeed seeing as he was crown prince among the ocean's merpeople! Shaking himself out of his reverie, he continued on, eventually reaching the two people who were now conversing underwater, somehow not noticing the boy approaching them.

Now that Arion was closer, he could see that the tails on the people in front of him matched their torsos well. The girl's tail was as icily colored as she, while the boy's matched his vibrant, almost electric presence. Arion still didn't recognize them, though, so he spoke.

"Those are some interesting tails you guys have there."

Meanwhile, above water Rose was backstroking as quickly as she could, but she knew it would still take a few minutes to reach the newcomers.