The second challenge

“Okay Ladies, are you ready for the next challenge?” Pepper asked with a cheerful glee in her voice. The pledges nervously nodded, waiting for the humiliating task in front of them. Pepper signalled to Grace who released a bag hooked up to the catwalk, suddenly the thundering crash of water sounded as over a hundred weighted rings descended into the pool.

“Unlike the last challenge, where you all went one at a time, this challenge you will all be completing together.” She waved her hand towards the pool in a showmanistic flare, “Inside the water we have just dropped one hundred and fifty weighted rings, your challenge is to collect as many rings as possible. There are three different weights to the rings, the white ones weigh 1lbs, the blue ones weigh 2lbs, and the red ones weigh a whopping 5lbs, you are being assessed over the total weight you are able to collect, the pledge with the lowest total weight will be disqualified from pledging.”

Yukio was excited for this challenge, this was playing heavily to her strengths, she was in terrific shape, she was fast and a great swimmer, and her competitive nature would drive her to outshine the others.

“But as I’m sure you expected, there is a catch.” Dismay filled the pledges as they waited for the catch that would make this challenge harder for them all. “You are only allowed to collect one ring at a time, this means that when you swim to the bottom of the pool you can only pick one ring up, you will then sit on the side of the pool and untie the strap on your bikini tops where you will drop the ring through the strap before retying, adding more weight and tension to the material the more you collect.”

“On one final note before I send you in,” Pepper added, “Emma, seeing as you won with the best time in the last challenge you will have an added advantage over the others,” Emma’s eyes grew hopeful that she was going to have an easier time in this challenge, “the rings are large enough to comfortably sit on your wrist like a bracelet, so we will allow you to wear three rings of any weight on each wrist, you must first sit on the edge of the pool before you put them on though.” Emma gleamed with joy, a quick run of the maths in her head summed up that she would save a lot of time without needing to untie and retie her bikini top after each ring.

Pepper looked at the pledges as they understood the rules for this challenge, feeling like she didn’t need to say much more she mentioned the 5 minute timer on the wall and then using a whistle signalled them to start the challenge.

The nine pledges all had a running start, Yukio the first in the water with an efficient dive that sent her to the bottom of the pool quickly snatching a blue ring and emerging from the water before some of the girls had even touched the bottom yet, Molly was close behind with an inelegant cannon ball that hindered her as she worked to correct her body position in the water.

Emma and Alisha were a few seconds apart from one another dropping into the water feet first they had to spin under the water to be able to reach the rings. Alisha was only focussed on staying in the running for becoming a sister, and knowing the disadvantages other pledges had she didn’t bother to make a mad rush for a lot of rings. As soon as Emma hit the water her mind was already workout out every variable. She had thought about their current attire and how the rings had to hang off of them and made the choice to make an easy thirty points from the red rings on her wrists and only put white rings on her bikini strap because too much weight and the strap will either snap or become untied, losing all the progress she had made.

Lee’s run to the water already showed off her struggles for this challenge, Pepper said these suits were one size fits all, but Lee’s large rack made that statement very lenient as the fabric covering her massive mounds had already fallen away exposing her perky pair. She crashed into the water with a cannon ball and struggled to reach the bottom as the buoyancy of her large chest fought to bring her to the surface.

Coralline had the opposite issue, her slim body, average sized rack, and metal piercings all helped to bring her to the floor of the pool, she quickly grabbed a white ring and rose to the surface.

Jade and Jess had a serious issue with this challenge, neither girl knew how to swim and were **** to run to a more shallow end of the pool. Jade jumped in first, the water rising up to her underbust where she then dropped to her knees to grab one of the few rings that floated to the shallow end, and unfortunately they were only the lighter white and blue ones. Jess had a much harder time, she jumped in at the most shallow end of the pool, which also made it to her underbust, and there were no rings near her. She braved to step further into the pool until the water was at her neck, she moved her feet around until she finally felt a ring and took a deep breath to go under and pick it up. All of the rings she had access to were the white ones.

Michelle was not a strong swimmer, she was able to float just fine, but going under the water and then back up with a challenge for her, she also had a fear of opening her eyes underwater so finding rings was extra challenging for her. To play to her strengths she kicked off the side of the pool for extra propulsion and made it roughly halfway to the other side before making an attempt for the rings.

*3 minutes remaining*

Yukio was in and out of the water faster than any other pledges; she had developed an efficient system where she would eye her next ring as she was tying her bikini strap behind her neck, the weight on her top now so high it was struggling to hold up and her right nipple was peaking out.

Jess was struggling to keep up, walking with the water at her next was very difficult, her height also making it hard for her to climb onto the side of the pool, Pepper loved watching her struggle like a toddler trying to get onto a sofa every time she managed to grab a ring. The threat of white rings pulling at the strap, but there were so few of them that it barely even made a different.

Alisha was very comfortably managing to stay in the race, not playing to win just to survive, her dark wet skin glistening as she left the water, her jet black hair looking like actual silk. Her top was decorated with rings of every colour, she had about 9lbs of extra weight from the rings, she aimed to get another 2lbs and then just relax in the water until time ran out, expecting a few of the pledges to not be able to get that far.

Jade was struggling a little to get many rings, on her top was a random assortment of blue and white rings, clearly putting her ahead of Jess so she wasn’t too worried, but she was still working hard to get more rings just to be sure she didn’t lose.

Michelle was doing much better than suspected, despite the slow start she was sporting enough red rings to put her in the top three in this challenge, the extra weight on her top completely exposing her bare pale chest with no chance of coverage, but the strap was holding.

Emma was doing fantastic, she wasn’t strong enough to have 30lbs of weight on her wrists for the whole challenge, so she had instead moved a small pile of them underwater so she could grab them in the final 60 seconds. Otherwise her top was decorated with 10lbs of white and blue rings, evenly distributed at either side to keep herself balanced and limit the risk of the strap being pulled free.

Coralline and Molly were doing just fine, keeping a good pace with the others and had a fine display of rings on their chests.

Lee was having a very difficult time that was only going to get worse. Fighting her titanic tits which kept trying to pull her to the surface made her one of the slowest pledges in the water, the added weight the rings had on her top as well as the weight from her ample chest finally grew to be too much. As she kicked off the bottom on the pool the water resistance on her top was the straw that broke the camels back and the trap on her hot pink bikini top broke, sending all of her rings plummeting back to the bottom of the pool.

“Uh-oh,” shouted Pepper with glee, “looks like our resident bimbo broke the top we gave her.” Lee brushed in shame, very sorry to have broken the ‘gift’ they gave her. “Don’t worry Lee,” Pepper reassured her, “this happens sometimes in this challenge, just loop the rings into your bottoms.” Lee smiled at the sorority president, not realizing the physics problem this would cause and after looping a ring into the bikini bottoms the ditzy topless bimbo found them constantly falling down every time she swam back to the surface.

Yukio was clearly winning at this point in the challenge, her top was held down like an anchor was attached, her perky chest completely uncovered and jiggling nicely every time she lifted herself out of the water. With over 30lbs on her strained top she prepared to jump back into the water, only for the tortured strap to give way and the knot untied to spill her winnings all over the side of the pool, many landing back into the water.

The competitive Japanese girl screamed out obscenities in her native tongue, Pepper didn’t know what she said exactly, but enraged despair was universal no matter what language you are speaking in. Quickly tying the strap behind her neck back in place the Asian athlete dove back into the water.

*60 seconds remaining*

Emma put her plan into motion and systematically dove beneath her under the water to wear the 30lbs of red rings at her wrists to ensure her victory in this challenge.

Jess, after realizing what happened with Lee, was much more calm about collecting rings, she had amassed a heft weight on her bikini top and was confident that she was not going to come in last place.

Jade was similar, knowing that she definitely had more rings than Jess allowed her to relax and only hunted down white rings from this point onwards.

Molly, Michelle and Coralline were still keeping pace with the vast majority of the other pledges, all in comfortable spots to pass over into the next challenge.

Alisha had stopped hunting for rings, seeing the 11lbs on her top being enough to allow her to pass into the next challenge, and now she just floated in the water to gain some tranquillity before the next round of humiliation began.

Lee was seriously struggling to get any rings. Every time she sprang to the surface the water resistance pulled her weighed down bikini bottoms down, she caught them most of the time but every so often they would fall free from her legs and leave her completely naked in the water, she was allowed to put them back on without losing the rings which she was thankful for, but she was fearful that she was going to lose.

Yukio was panicking, she had an incredible lead on all of the other pledges, she was a shoe in to come in first. But then her top had to untie itself and send her right back to the start. “No,” she thought (in Japanese), “don’t think about it. Just dive, grab a red ring, put it on and repeat. Dive. Red ring. Put it on. Again. Dive. Red ring. Put it on. Again. Dive. Red ring. Put it on. Again. Dive. Red ring. Put it on. Again.” She repeated this statement in her mind over an over, trying to get as many red rings as she could to somehow come in first. Her speed an efficiency proved successful, using her method of scanning the pool while she sat on the ledge to locate a red ring.

After so long she had done an amazing job in getting a thread of red rings weighing her top down again, exposing her hard nipples to the room. She stood to dive back into the pool when the whistle sounded signalling that time was up. Yukio looked over at Pepper and like a scene from a bad sit com her strap completely snapped this time, spilling the red rings weighing her down all across her feet, only a few landing back in the pool.

The topless exchange student looked to Pepper in fear that she might have lost, Pepper walked over to her and after a moment of though allowed her to keep the rings that didn’t fall back into the water. Yukio could have cried she was so happy with Pepper’s judgment.

The pledges lined up back at the wall at the deep end of the pool. Many of the pledges were using their hands to add extra support to their bikini straps holding the rings, Lee holding her bikini bottoms up with her hands instead and Yukio having piled her rings up at her feet was stood with her hands at her side, not allowed to use them to cover to perky chest.

One by one Mary went to each pledge and recorded the rings they had obtained and noted down their weight total until finally handing Pepper her clip board to announce the totals.