A Dip and a dupe

"First, I want you to join me." Umara said as she moved a hand through the water.

"Join you? As in... As in right now?" Chloe asked in shock, her face heating up. "I... I didn't bring my swimsuit."

"You don't need one." Umara said with a shrug before she floated on her back, exposing her large breasts.

"I don't really want to walk around in wet underwear, though." Chloe stated. "And if a carry them around, my schoolmates might get the wrong idea if I -"

"So don't swim in your underwear, either." Umara said as she sat up again, wringing her hair out. "The water feels so refreshing on your skin."

"Y-you mean 'skinny dipping'?!" Chloe asked in shock, her face scarlet. "I... I don't -"

"Well, I guess you don't want that interview, now do you?"

"... Well..." Chloe whimpered, looking around nervously as she tugged on the hem of her shirt. "I... Suppose it wouldn't hurt."

"MEOW!"

"What?!" Chloe asked nervously.

"Meow!"

"I remember that water nymphs love to play tricks, Conrad." Chloe said in annoyance as she kicked off her shoes and began to disrobe. "Have some faith in my intelligence."

"Meow!"

"Ah, but that's where you are mistaken, my friend." Chloe said as she folded up her uniform blouse, shirt and pants and placed them on her shoes before picking them up and carrying them towards a tree. "I thought ahead. According to my notes, water nymphs can't be more than five feet away from any body of water. Therefore," she placed her clothes down at the foot of a tree with a grin, "I'm sitting them down six feet away from the river. Pretty clever, eh?"

"Meow!"

"Oh, what do you know?" Chloe asked as she began to remove her pony print panties and flower print bra. "You're a cat."

Soon enough, Chloe was completely naked as she steadied her nerves and walked the six feet back to the river where Umara looked up at her with a grin.

"Excuse me, Little Girl, but I'm waiting for a student of Mumblefrump University to come back. Is she your big sister by any chance?"

"Very funny." Chloe said flatly, rolling her eyes. "You wouldn't believe how many times I heard that one."

Chloe stepped a toe into the river, shivering slightly before taking a deep breath and walking in until she was waist deep in the water, hugging her chest tightly. "C-cold! Y-you never said it was c-cold!"

"I never said it was warm either." Umara said as she walked over. "You should get used to it in a little bit."

"O-okay." Chloe said as she shivered. Sure enough, after a minute, the witch began to get used to the cold water as she took a deep breath. "Okay, so, I think my first question is -"

"Meow?"

"Not now, Conrad." Chloe said as she cleared her throat. "Anyway, my first question would have to be how many are you left? I read that water nymphs are the most endangered of the nymphs."

"Meow?!"

"Conrad! Not now!"

"Oh, we're here and there if you know where to look." Umara said with a shrug, keeping her voice low as she looked around. "However, I think there might be more of us in zoos than in the wild. That's why we developed a perfect defense mechanism to fool trappers into plucking us from our homes and carrying us off to your zoos."

"A defense mechanism?" Chloe asked, sounding very interested.

"MEOW!"

"Conrad! Stop it!" Chloe snapped before turning back to Umara. "What's the defense mechanism? How does it go?!"

"It's a very simple one." Umara replied softly, "Whenever we see a would be trapper in our territory, we simply find another woman, get her to strip naked, and then yell," Umara then looked behind Chloe as she pointed at the redhead and shouted, "SHE'S OVER HERE, MA'AM! I FOUND YOUR WATER NYMPH!"

"Huh?" Chloe asked... Before a net was brought down onto her head. "Hey! What the?!"

"A little on the scrawny side, but she'll be worth a few gold pieces." The Trapper said as she scooped the surprised Chloe out of the water and into a large glass box of water on the back of her cart. The Trapper turned to Umara and said, "Thank you for your help, Miss."

Chloe broke the surface of the water and coughed and sputtered before addressing The Trapper. "Wait! You got this all wrong! I'm not the water nymph! She is!"

"Nice try." The Trapper said as she climbed onto the front and grabbed a hold of the reigns. "But I know all your little tricks, Nymph. Yah!"

The horse whinnied and galloped off, dragging the cart along with it as Chloe looked back and shouted, "Conrad! Do something!"

"Meow!" Conrad mewled as he raced after the cart as fast as his little furry legs could carry him.

"Poor little sap." Umara chuckled mockingly as she came out of the water and headed towards where Chloe hid her clothes. "And she still believed that old wives tale about us needing to be five feet near water at all times."