Turning Tides

“Shite!” Natalia swore as she was shot for the first time in this event. From behind her cover on the opposite side of the lobby, Chloe spat a similar curse and grimaced. She knew that she lost her opportunity for another point, one that she spent so much wasted effort on too. She sent a glare toward the interloper along with a shot of water, hoping to knock the smirk right off the blonde's face.

“That makes three,” Tori muttered as she hid behind her cover again, avoiding the former bullies' own shot. She was getting lucky and she knew it. First defenseless Maddy, then poor Gabby, and now the overwhelmed Natalia. Three points for basically free, but now she was in a real firefight. She had to wonder: ‘The Bitch has to be running out of water by now, right? She’s already tried shooting me twice and who knows how many shots she’s taken before.’

Unfortunately for Chloe, Tori was right. Having practically been in combat since the start, the former football player was running dangerously low on water.

‘Damnit, I’ve wasted too many shots…’ The brunette let out a breath ‘Calm down… Make use of what you got. What’s the play here?’

Chloe leaned her head out to survey the somewhat empty lobby. She was currently hidden behind a large sofa on the western side of the lobby opposite Tori, who was hidden amongst the art displays to the east. ‘What is that? 20… maybe 25 yards away? Shit, No way I can make that shot. Shooting from here will only waste more water. I need to get close. How do I do that without getting shot though?’

Meanwhile, Tori began making her own move. She started to move from her cover and tried arcing shots at her former classmate. ‘I have plenty of water to spare, so I’ll just spray and pray. Then I can take a detour over to Danny for a refill, no problem.’

As the blonde settled at her new spot behind a sofa, the sound of something slapping on the ground rang out from near the concierge desk. ‘What the hell was that? Sounded kinda like flip flops, but how the hell could she get there so fast?’

Tori sprung her head up and took a shot toward the sound but gasped when all she saw were two discarded flip-flops lying on the tiled floor. “Huh!?”

“You’re mine,” Chloe muttered, a wide grin forming on her face as she silently continued sneaking up on her adversary from the other direction.

“Fuck!” Tori swore as she darted her eyes across the room. She truly started to spray and pray as she held down her trigger and aimed toward whatever cover she thought Chloe could hide behind. Unfortunately for her, it was too late. Water gun at the ready, the tomboy took her shot the second she felt that she was close enough. The brunette’s shot landed successfully, nailing Tori right in the chest. With that, she got her hard-earned point but as it did Chloe felt water splash on her own face.

Although she was satisfied that she pulled one over on the blonde, Chloe couldn’t help but whine as her own vision turned white. ‘Seriously? Lucky Bitch.’

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Sitting out in the shade of one of the resort's many gazebos sat a certain petite woman who seemed to be simply enjoying the resort’s weather. While spinning an exceptionally skimpy yellow bikini top around her finger that is.

“I guess clothes don’t carry over between lives then, huh?” Yui chuckled to herself. She had curiously picked up the “spoils” of her short encounter with Kaylee and chosen to keep it as her own little trophy. Holding it up to the sun again for another look, she laughed louder as she imagined her rather endowed former teacher prancing around topless without any shame. Thinking to herself, she pulled up the side of her own bikini top to get a glimpse of one of her nipples before releasing it. ‘Hmm… Now that I think about it. It’s not like we were instantly given the same sense of embarrassment from showing off our tits that most women have… Heh…. Not like I’d have much to get embarrassed from up here.’

With a sigh, the raven-haired woman continued her vigil on the lawn park that separated the hotel from the beach. Though she didn’t know it, her basic plan of action was reasonably similar to that of Chloe’s: stay in one spot with a decent view of multiple angles to catch as many folks off guard as she could. Granted, her reasoning for this strategy was due to it involving the least amount of effort and running around. After all, transforming into a girl didn’t exactly make her any more athletic than before. Fortunately for the young woman, it seemed that her rather lethargic strategy had some merit.

*Crash*

The loud sound of branches bending and creaking drew Yui’s attention toward a wall of hedges that acted as a central decoration of the lawn park.

‘Oh hey, there’s Sam.’ Sure enough lying in the grass, Yui could see the rather wet, dirty, and out-of-breath co-ed struggling to get up. She stopped spinning the extra bikini and wondered, ‘Did… she just jump through a hedge?’

As Yui had observed, young Samantha Whitaker was currently picking leaves out of her hair as she sat up from her prone position. What Yui couldn’t see, however, was just how upset the dejected brunette really was. ‘Uuuuhg, this sucks… I’m wet, it’s hot out, and I'm covered in leaves. Bro… I wanna go home…’

After being tragically taken away from her beloved mimosa, Sam found herself in the middle of a small hedge maze behind the resort. Then, after going in literal circles for the past ten minutes, she finally had enough of getting lost and decided to “brute ****” it. Hence the dirt and leaves that now marred her miserable visage.

Suddenly, as if hope descended from the heavens above, an epiphany struck Sam. “Maybe Mr. Bartender still has my drink!? If… I get back there I can still have it! Yeah, totally!”

Meanwhile, Yui cocked her head as she watched the miserable girl be renewed with life as she lept up to her feet and started to pump her fist in the air, meanwhile shouting about a drink or something. ‘Dan… your sister is losing it, man.’

The petite woman continued to eye the younger woman with worry when a flash of light appeared from a gazebo just beyond where the oblivious Sam was hyping herself up.

“Uh, oh.” Yui hid when the bodacious form of Natalia materialized. The severe scowl on the redhead's face indicated just what kind of mood she was in. ‘Welp. Sam’s fucked.’

The Irish woman’s eyes narrowed as she captured the shapely form of her boss's sister hooting and hollering about some nonsense. With her half-filled water gun at the ready, the hunt was on.

Yui poked her head up from behind her cover to watch the entire spectacle that would surely end with Sam’s “demise.” The raven-haired woman humored herself by pretending to be a narrator watching two animals in the wild. ‘Here we have the fierce lioness stalking her oblivious prey. Her red mane flutters in the afternoon wind as she cautiously approaches the unaware gazelle, who up until now has been crying out. A mating cry perhaps? Oh! Suddenly, the gazelle stops her cry to look around, and what do her eyes see but a predator, here to claim her life. A new cry escapes her lips that sounds remarkably like “Oh fuck, please not again!” as she breaks into a rather pathetic sprint. The lioness, however, roars out her battle cry of “Git back ‘ere, ya fuckwit!” as she moves to take down her prey once and for all. The chase was short-lived as the Lioness bore down on the younger prey and used a tool for spraying water to finalize her capture. The sound of whimpering could be heard from the gazelle as she vanished with a final flash of light, denoting the lioness's successful hunt.’

“Rest in peace, little gazelle.” Yui muttered as she feigned a sort of prayer for her fallen competitor. The hunt, however, left Natalia somewhat winded after having to chase down her prey. Not to mention the chase itself brought the huntress very close to where a certain observer was hiding in her gazebo. Something that the “wildlife narrator” quickly took note of.

Catching her breath, Natalia refocused and began to make for the hotel’s terrace entrance. ‘If I get back there quick enough, maybe I can take out those two if they’re fighting still…’

Unfortunately for Natalia, her plans would be delayed as she felt water hit her back and let out a yelp. “Ah! What the..!?”

“Gotcha.” Yui smirked as she revealed herself from her cover in the gazebo. Natalia could only wonder why the hell the small woman was wearing a much larger yellow bikini over her own smaller orange one as she faded away in a flash.

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A white flash shone through The Oceana, the hotel's attached upscale restaurant, revealing the busty and topless form of Kaylee Malone. It is here where any of the hotel's esteemed guests could enjoy a variety of foods at their leisure… if they could ignore the copious amount of water that flooded the floor at this time. The “firefight” between Chloe and Maddy that took place just a handful of minutes earlier left the area in quite a damp condition, though the latest guest couldn’t care less about that fact. She was on a mission.

‘Okay, I think this is the restaurant I saw on the map of the resort. If that’s the case, then from what I remember I’m now on the opposite side of the hotel from where I left Gabriella.’ The endowed woman began to make her way toward the entrance of the venue, trudging through puddles along the way. ‘I just need to meet back up with her and we can win this.’

A short trip down the hall and up a flight of stairs later, Kaylee emerged back on the ground floor of the lobby of the resort. As she arrived, she could hear the sounds of water splashing along with the squeaking of flip-flops indicating to her that a skirmish was taking place between her and her destination. Out of reflex, the army vet dove toward the small hallway that contained bathrooms and began to formulate her plan.

‘Two tangos at twelve, one by the art displays and one in the cluster of furniture. I could sneak up on the closer one and take her from behind but that would just leave me open for the other. Or… I could wait for one to take out the other and perform the cleanup.’ She leaned her head back out to see the brunette take off her footwear and throw them across the room then blonde wildly shooting at the location of the sound in response. The older woman grinned, ‘Clever move young lady. Now, what will you do?’

As if to answer the unspoken question, the former football player executed her plan of sneaking up on her opponent while the blonde was very apparently panicking. Moments later, the two would come in contact with each other but Kaylee could not have predicted that they would shoot each other at the same time. She sighed as she left her hiding spot and cautiously walked toward the center of the lobby. ‘I guess I’m getting neither. Gosh, darn it.’

“God damn it, asshole got me. I better have got her too…” Kaylee lept in her skin as she heard the sudden expletives come from the direction she came. Water gun at the ready, she quickly took to the walls and skirted her way around the bamboo divider that contained the hotel's lobby bar. From in between the bamboo the older woman could make out the same blonde hair that occupied the lobby just moments ago.

Tori huffed as she leaned back on the bar top, “Whatever, quick trip to Danny, and I’ll be set.”

The mention of Dan set off an alarm in Kaylee’s head. ‘She’s out of water, she has to be! Why else would she need to see him if she’s not out of water?’

With urgency, the professor darted to the opening of the bar to see the unsuspecting blonde standing there completely taken by surprise by not only the sight of her boyfriend's former professor but the two massive breasts that accompanied her out in the fresh air. The extra moment of surprise was all Kaylee needed to secure her first point.

“Seriously!? What the fuck! I just spawned!” Tori complained while fighting off a blush and avoiding eye contact with the motherly mammaries.

Finally, it was Kaylee’s turn for a witty one-liner. “Tough tuchus, sugar.”

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“Oh. My. Goodness.” Vanessa squealed, “Tough tuchus… I can’t believe she just said that... Darlin’ did ya hear that? Holy moly that’s precious. And with her bazoonga’s out too. I can’t right now.”

Dan smiled wryly toward his companion after having to tear his eyes away from their glorious feast. No doubt that that line would have sounded much more different had his former professor still been capable of cursing. He felt bad for his girlfriend though, “Sucky spawn point for Tori. Are the spawn points static or completely random?”

“Hmmm, I’d say that they are mostly random. Though it’s more like there are certain places on the resort that they pop up somewhat near.” The ginger-haired host answered before adding, “Don’t want them starting somewhere dangerous after all.”

“Makes sense.”

A couple of moments passed in rare silence as the two went back to watching the game unfold. The master stealing a few extra peeks at a certain pair of glorious globes that defied physics. At least until his attention was directed once more.

“Ooo, speaking of spawning. Looks like your little bluenette might get her first point!” Vanessa pointed out toward his “second” girlfriend's screen.

Dan hadn’t seen where Maddy spawned thanks to the lobby fight that drew his attention away but that should have been minutes ago at this point. So what did Maddy have to do with spawning? ‘Oh no.’

Looking up at the screen following Maddy he saw exactly what his companion was talking about. There Maddy was, chipper as can be, on the patio terrace looking down on his recently respawned sister. That very same sister was currently wading in the resort's pool. “Random, huh?”

Maddy’s voice played through the monitor as she questioned, “So… Uh… Do I still get a point if you’re already in the water?”

Sam nervously smiled at the older girl. “Uhh… Mercy?”

“Sorry Sam” Maddy couldn’t help but feel a little bad pulling the trigger on the helpless girl. “I need some points too, ya know.”

“Oof. Well her shot actually connected for once. Though shooting the poor girl in the face was kinda mean.” Vanessa commented.

Dan massaged his temple as he addressed Vanessa. “Has Sam even shot her water gun yet…?”

“Nope!”

Dan facepalmed. ‘Sam… We’re going to have to talk…’

A cry from the screen broke Dan from his sibling disappointment. One moment Maddy was shooting Sam, the next she was starting to vanish. “What the hell happened?”

“Your favorite tomboy happened.” Vanessa pointed out. Sure enough, on a different screen, Chloe was lowering her water gun from taking her final shot of water at the blue-haired streamer. Vanessa cheered, “Oooh, with that Chloe and Tori are both tied for first with four points each!”

Dan watched on as the muscular girl began cursing under her breath, a certain feeling of agitation present on her features. ‘Why the hell is she so pissed off?’

He could hear his companion giggle from her spot next to him. “Looks like we might have another visit soon.”

“Huh?” His eyes widened as he watched Chloe look back toward the beach, where he was. “No way. No way in hell would she come here willingly.”

“She might not have that luxury.” As Vanessa spoke, the sliding doors to the back of the hotel opened up to reveal a grimacing Natalia. From a distance the two competitors locked eyes, forcing the brunette to come to her conclusion. Chloe wanted to turn and run toward the stairs down to the beach but she’d be quickly intercepted by her opponent who stood much closer.

Natalia grinned as if she realized what the brunette was trying to do. Then like a predator cornering her prey, she began to cut off Chloe’s exit to the stairs all the while making sure she couldn’t escape back into the hotel as well.

The situation was dire for the former football player. No water and no escape. At least, no conventional one. Suddenly, Chloe darted toward the ledge of the terrace and jumped off, shocking everyone who was spectating. “Holy shit, Stewart.”

Fortunately, it was only about a ten-foot drop, but taking that leap meant that the brunette had a substantial lead on the redhead. Chloe landed on her bare feet and broke into a sprint as she made for the sandy beach and the stage that housed her target. Natalia pursued her defenseless target but being **** to use the stairs hampered her ability to catch up.

“That was badass, Sweetie!” Vanessa hollered out to the oncoming competitor. Said competitor stayed quiet as she finally arrived on the stage and took a moment to catch her breath. “Darlin’s all warmed up for you, Sweetie.”

The Master couldn’t help but truly appreciate just how the water and sweat glistened across Chloe’s toned muscles. He was sure that he already had a thing for in-shape women, but holy shit was Chloe hot as hell. At least, until he remembered just who this person actually was. Dan stood up from his seat and shook his head in denial. “No way. Seriously I-”

“Whitaker. Shut up for a moment…” Chloe interrupted as she stomped over to him. “Just… turn your head and close your eyes or whatever. I don’t want to do this shit either but I have to. Fuck!”

Resigned to his fate, Dan conceded and turned his head, then closed his eyes. He could hear the petite host giggling from the side, “That’s the spirit Darlin’!”

Moment’s passed in silence as the anticipation was starting to kill the man. He shot open his eyes and began to vent his frustration. “Will you j-”

Wide open eyes met wide open eyes as the two former classmates shared their first kiss on the lips.

Chloe: +7VP (+5+1 for First Kiss(1.2 Adversary Bonus) and +1 for Bonus Point)

Chloe’s face went atomic red as she lept back and began spitting. “What the fuck Whitaker!? I was going for your cheek! Why did you turn your head?!”

Dan's blush also deepened as the realization kicked in that he actually just kissed his former bully. “Why were you taking so long?! I don’t know, I thought you like chickened out or something.”

“Chickened out!” Chloe barked as began to fade away in a flash. “You go try to kiss the dude you hate!”

“I just did!” Dan shouted back. “Well, technically.”

A scowl was all he got in return as Chloe finally vanished from the stage. While Vanessa beamed at him all he could think of was how surprisingly soft Chloe’s lips were.

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AN: Oh hey, uh... Long time no see. First and foremost, thank you all so much for sticking with this story. Secondly, I'm sorry I've failed upload anything recently. a mixture of writers block and a whole host of distractions kept me away from writing. That said, I'm here again with another chapter for y'all along with a gift. Back in October I found the joy of another AI Image creation tool, this one in a more "Anime" style though just bear in mind that there can be "some" wonkiness here and there. With it I've made some new designs for the characters that I've come to love, though if you prefer to keep on using the more "realistic" versions of each character please feel free to do so. So without further ado, here are the Anime Style Character References: Beach Edition!

Future Weebvious here. I have moved the Beach photos to a better place timeline wise. You can now find them in the Round One Start! Chapter.

Thanks for sticking with me <3