[7.13.2707] Water Fun (Cheriss/Demariss)

[sorra]

Calyssa and Sertex had decided to spend a bit of their free time down by the lake. Since becoming candidates they hadn't had much time with each other, so they thought it would be fun to spend the day together. They had both worn shorts and Calyssa wore a tank top while Sertex was shirtless.

"Race you, Cal!" Sertex challenged.

"You're on!" she laughed, running after her brother.

The siblings splashed into the lake at the exact same time. Storm chittered at them before diving into the lake and splashing around, getting them both wet in the process.

"Hey!" they both cried amid laughter.

[Jammi]

They were finally free! Quarantine had been lifted on the twins and they could do as they pleased. Well outside of lessons that is. But this afternoon was blissfully free as they were. Grinning ear to ear, Cheriss suggested they visit the lake she had over heard a drudge mention. As hot as it was, Demariss agreed. So after finding their shortest pants and a decent top for Cheriss, they were water bound!

As they neared the lake, they realized someone or rather someones had the same idea. Demariss was a bit shy around the new people, but his twin had no problems finding new friends. So typical Cheriss fashion dictated that she jump in the water in the most outlandish way possible. Casting her brother an impish grin, Cheriss took off running to the lakeshore.

Not long after the flitter made his dive, the short haired teen made her own. A neat dive with little slash to indicate she had been there at all. Moving quickly under water, Cheriss made her way to the two figures she could see in the murky water. Tugging on first on leg then another, a grin stole over her face as she wondered what reaction she would receive from her impish acts.

Back on shore, Demariss just shook his head at his sister. So like her to make friends from doing something silly. As he waded in the cool water, Demariss worked on his apology for his twin's actions.

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Sertex and Calyssa hadn't noticed the other two to begin with. They were too busy splashing each other, so they didn't even hear Cheriss jump into the water. Storm turned his head though and watched curiously.

Calyssa cried out in surprise when something grabbed her leg. "Cal..." Sertex started, but didn't make it past that as he too jumped.

"What as that?" Calyssa asked, looking around.

"I don't know," her brother answered.

They both looked around and caught sight of Demariss on the shoreline. They waved to him as they still tried to figure out who or what had grabbed both of them. Storm on the other hand seemed to be laughing as he had seen Cheriss dive under.

[Jammi]

One bad thing about being under water was the lack of sound. One could not hear most of what happened on the surface. But even below the water line a jump is a jump. So when Cheriss saw the pairs of legs jump, she knew their reaction. Pushing from the muddy bottom, Cheriss jumped out of the water herself. Only to find her face inches away from the laughing flitter. Grinning she giggled along with him.

Demariss knew the second his sister pulled her stunt. The two in the water jumped as if pinched. Shaking his head, he made his way through the cool water. As his sister giggled, he knew it was time to introduce themselves, "Hi there. My name is Demariss. The prankster over there is my twin Cheriss. We just got out of quarantine and decided to enjoy the sunshine. May I ask your names?" 

While De was being polite, Cheriss was giggling even harder. Not exactly sure what was funny, the candle maker reached one dripping hand out towards the new flit. Life at the weyr was certainly looking up! 

[sorra]

Storm continued to "laugh" as he watched Calyssa and Sertex. The twins were slowly calming down and actually smiled a little themselves when Cheriss emerged from the water. That would explain what had grabbed them.

They looked over when Demariss spoke up. They really should have been paying closer attention to who was around them, but they couldn't change that now. Storm nuzzled Cheriss' hand as the twins introduced themselves.

"Hi," Sertex said cheerily. "I'm Sertex and this is my younger sister Calyssa."

"Only by a few minutes," she shot back at her brother. She wished he would stop that. "It's a pleasure to meet both of you. Wasn't quarantine just awful?" she asked.

[Jammi]

Cheriss giggled, "De does the same with me, Calyssa. He's a quarter mark older, but you would think it's years instead by the way he protects me. But I give him all sorts of trouble to worry about." Suiting words to actions, Cheriss sent a wave of murky water at her twin. It had been too long since they had time to play. If either or both of them Impressed, like Eli said they might, well then that play time would dissapear all together. Determined to wring every possible moment to it's fullest amount of fun, Cheriss decided to pull her new friends into the game.

As his sister slashed everyone, Demariss had a moment of impishness himself. Cheriss needed to be dunked. Moving quietly he ducked under water and swam behind his twin. Pulling hard on her legs, he felt her give and be swallowed by the murk. Bobbing back to the surface he waited to see what his twin would do.

Screeching in painfully high tones, Cheriss came up sputtering and looked around for her twin. She had an impishly mad look in her eyes. Woe to any one who got in her way now!!

[sorra]

"Brothers," Calyssa laughed. "They just don't think we can take care of ourselves." She grinned at Sertex. The boy just rolled his eyes. The two had a great relationship and always picked on each other like that. Which it seemed like Cheriss and Demariss did the same thing.

"Well, not like you don't give me reason to," Sertex shot back playfully. He chuckled as Demarris managed to dunk Cheriss. He had no doubt that Calyssa would be on alert now, so he wouldn't get the chance to dunk her just yet.

The twins backed up a bit when they saw the look on Cheriss' face. They had feeling they were all going to be drenched and dunked before long. But oh well. That would be fun. And they had made some new friends too.

Storm chittered excitedly when they all started splashing. The little bronze joined in and tried his best to splash all of them.

[Jammi]

"Demariss! Oh! You are going to get it now!" Cheriss screeched. It was one thing for her to prank someone, but for her calm protective brother to do so? It made her spitting mad. But she cooled off quite literally when the flit splashed her face. A full belly laugh escaped her lips as she splashed back. Cheriss loved flitters. One of her deepest secrets was that she wanted a whole brood of them.

Demariss was certain that he as in for a good dunking himself when his baby sister began to screech. Slowly he began backing up towards the shore. With a sigh of relief he noticed her giggle. That was a signal of all clear from turns of teasing. Knowing she was distracted by her splashing, Demariss grinned at the other twin pair. With a big sweep of his arms, Demariss sent a huge wave after his sister.

[sorra]

Storm continued to happily splash the four around him. This was great fun to him. More then just when Sertex and Calyssa picked on each other.

Calyssa giggled as Demariss managed to splash Cheriss once again. She felt bad for the other girl. She knew exactly how she felt. Calyssa was too busy watching them to notice her brother.

Sertex grinned as he realized his sister was preoccupied. "Attack!" he shouted, dunking Calyssa.

"Sertex!" Calyssa shouted after she came back up, coughing and spluttering. "You're going to pay for that!"

Sertex grinned over at Demariss. "They have no sense of humor," he said cheerily, keeping far away from his baby sister. Calyssa glared at him as she tried to catch him to dunk him back.

[Jammi]

Demariss laughed deeply as the wave splashed over his sister's head. Then he nodded at Sertex, "Or if they do it's too girly to count!" Laughing harder he waited to see what his twin would do now. She didn't disappoint him. Screeching she spun around to tackle her brother. They both went under giggling like fools. This was definatly a good day. Sun, water, new friends, all combined in the best ways possible.

When Cheriss finally made it out from the tangle of twin limbs, she coughed up the water she had swallowed as she went under. A grin took over once more. Seeing Calyssa needing help, she silently went under again. Grabbing a pair of legs, she prayed it was the right set.

[sorra]

Sertex a laughed at that. "Very true!" he agreed, watching Calyssa. His sister didn't seem very happy, but he somehow managed to stay out of her reach. Although Storm managed to splash him a few times which he guessed he deserved. They both looked over when Cheriss managed to dunk Demariss and burst out laughing.

The boy suddenly cried out as Cheriss caught his legs and managed to knock him off balance. Calyssa burst out laughing and tackled him.

"That's what you get for picking on us!" she exclaimed, pushing him under, but not before he pulled her with him. The twins were cracking up and coughing when they finally came back up for air.

[Jammi]

Since everyone was soaked by now, Cheriss had no qualms about splashing as big as she could. Using all of the upper arm strength her craft awarded her, Cheriss spun in a circle keeping her arms locked in front of her. A large wave formed around the short teen. Cackling like a crazed crone, Cheriss kept it up until she grew dizzy.

Demariss knew something was up when Cheriss dissapeared. Then his fellow man went down. Instead of helping the situation, De just laughed. Soon he was bent over clutching his sides. Boy did it feel good to laugh. As his head neared the water line, his twin's circlular wave stuck his bare head. A surprised yelp escaped before he could figure out where th water came from. A playful snarl crossed his face as he began to retaliate.

[sorra]

Sertex was still trying to get his breath back as Cheriss started to create her wave. Calyssa was grinning at her brother. It had been a while since the two of them had had so much fun. And Cheriss and Demariss seemed like great fun.

Sertex shouted in surprise as he was splashed once again by the giant wave. Calyssa giggled, but was soon hit by a wave herself. The twins looked at each and grinned. They soon started splashing Cheriss and Demariss.

"Every man for himself!" Sertex shouted.