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Of Sand And Swordfights


The day was bright and glorious, not a cloud in the sky, and the settlers of the Silent Island of Crow were enjoying an ancient Egyptian game that Yanna had introduced everyone to.

Much to her chagrin, it was a game Ivanova seemed to be very adept at.

"Yeah baby!" The Hell Queen shouted, dancing a little dance as she won her seventh game in a row.

Pouting, Yanna chucked dirt clods at the dancing nut ball while Syrenna laughed hysterically. Tossing her hair over her shoulder, Yanna snuck away and hid.

Ivanova retaliated by chucking rocks at where Yanna was hiding, while Syrenna sent vines in to tickle the Empress of Caves out of her hiding spot.

"You dare to tickle me?!" Yanna growled, crawling out of her hideaway like a feral beast. With a flap of her wings, she hovered in the air, and the sky became dark and stormy. "I am the empress of the dark realm! You shall be punished! Quake with fear, mortals! I shall make you wish you were never born!" She then giggled, and the sky returned to normal, "Oh that's right, you're not mortal. Oh well, this will have to do!"

And with that, she threw a ball of mud at Lady Syrenna's head before running away, giggling.

"Ahhh, but you forget, Yanna, I LOVE MUD FIGHTS!!!" Syrenna cackled before hucking a huge ball of mud back at Yanna.

Ivanova laughed as the mud ball caught Yanna in the back, sending her sprawling. But then it was Yanna's turn to laugh, as Syrenna tossed an armful of mud into Ivanova's arms, forcefully making her join in on the dirty fun.

"Yanna! YOU'RE AN ASS!" The Emperor screeched, trying to protect himself from all the mud now being slung about, "How dare you begin this shenaniganry!"

"What?!" Yanna shouted back, unable to hear him over Ivanova's cackling.

Unnoticed by her, Syrenna was giggling as she crawled through the mud before hitting the unsuspecting Yanna with a mud ball. In turn, Yanna pelted Syrenna with moss clods, which gave her a swamp-beast appearance. Yanna scampered away giggling to find another hiding spot.

Syrenna was more than happy with her new swamp look, and using it as camouflage, she followed Yanna's muddy footprints, quickly finding her with a scream of, "FOUND YOU!!!"

Yanna screamed, smacking Syrenna in the head with a big stick and running for it. The stick got caught in Syrenna's hair, and she hastily untangled it before tossing the stick to Ivanova and chasing after Yanna with a growl. Seeing this, Yanna frantically climbed a tree and began throwing pinecones down at Syrenna.

"That wasn't smart climbing a tree, you know!" Syrenna yelled up at the Yanna, who was still throwing pinecones. Syrenna used her powers and the tree suddenly threw Yanna out of its branches.

"HA!" Syrenna laughed triumphantly at that.

Yanna scrambled up an ocean side cliff, shouting, "Ha to you too!" Before she began pelting Syrenna with rocks. Syrenna sent vines slithering up the rocks.

Just then, the Emperor's head popped out of the water. He then lifted a strange looking gun up out of the waves, took aim, and shot poison darts into Lady Syrenna's and Yanna's necks. He submerged with a chuckle as Yanna and Syrenna both fell down.

The pair of them were quick to pick themselves back up (both of them had been working with poisonous plants and materials for so long that they were all but immune to poisons at this point). Plucking the darts from their necks, they shared a look, before they both dove into the water with the intent of strangling the Emperor.

"This is icy water! You won't have the stamina to stay in here! You will soon have HYPOTHERMIA!" He shouted as he resurfaced in the shallows, blowing them a kiss as he floated away on a beluga whale, giggling all the while.

Yanna and Syrenna looked at each other, then started to laugh at Beluga's words. He then turned over so he could slap his ass at them.

Yanna almost choked to death from laughing at the Emperor, while Syrenna picked up a handful of sand and hucked it at the Emperor. Yanna and Ivanova were quick to join in the sand flinging.

Wanting to see what all the splashing in her sea was about, Maris suddenly popped up and was hit between the eyes with sand. All laughed at her.

Maris wiped the sand off and glared at the Islanders, who were laughing and rolling in the sand.

Yanna, calming her laughter momentarily, called for Treega, a bat she had made friends with in her caves, to drop mushy fruit on the retreating Emperor. Letting go of the beluga, the Emperor wiped the mushy fruit off his face, and then jumped at Yanna and tried to strangle her.

Yanna kicked him and ran only to trip a few feet away. An innocent-looking Ivanova hid the tripping stick behind her back. Yanna glared and grabbed a stick of her own, shouting, "En garde!"

The two began to 'sword' fight and the others watched, giggling like crazy. Syrenna then used her magic and made the sticks explode with vines and tie the two Royals up. Yanna snarled and tried to bite. Ivanova giggled before flipping herself into a standing position and began skipping around the snarling Yanna, rhyming all the way.

Yanna wriggled free of the vines and poked Syrenna with her Anubis sword while growling threateningly. Syrenna growled and poked Yanna back with her Sylver Vyne Sword. Ivanova continued to bounce and giggle. Yanna growled back at Syrenna and tripped the bouncing nut-ball.

Ivanova fell, giggling, to the ground and tripped Syrenna and Yanna with her legs. Yanna glared at Ivanova. Ivanova giggled harder. Ivanova then broke free of the vines and began chanting for Yanna and Syrenna to fight. Yanna pointed her blade at her and growled, and so Ivanova whipped out her own sword to point it back at Yanna.

"You wanna go bitch? Right now! Let's take this outside!" Yanna shouted. She then looked around and shrugged before saying, "Okay, we are outside. Let's go!"

With twin cackles, the two of them began to sword fight.

Syrenna plopped herself down on a stump, taking out a whetstone to sharpen her blade, enjoying the show. Sloshing up from the beach, Maris hunkered down by Syrenna, asking, "What's going on?"

"It's a duel, duh!" Syrenna replied, shushing her.

Just then, Yanna made a wild swing, hacking off some of Ivanova's hair by mistake.

"You BITCH!" Ivanova screamed, and then giggled and continued on with the fight as if she never had an outburst.

Soon most of the Islanders were gathered around, watching the duel, which continued on long into the night, long enough that the spectators all fell asleep.

Finally Yanna proposes a truce, "This is obviously going to take a long, long time. Why don't we call it quits? For now."

Ivanova pondered a while before saying, "Ok, but just for now."

The sleeping Islanders awoke to find that they were all in a pile in the sand. Ivanova and Yanna were sitting around a fire with some nice roasting fishes.

"HEY! Whoever's hand is on my ass, REMOVE IT!!!" Syrenna said, picking herself out of the pile of sleepers. Windy grinned and blushed, pulling her hand out from beneath Syrenna's bum. She gave Syrenna an apologetic shrug while the others made their way over to the madly giggling Ivanova and Yanna.

Maris the roped Windy into singing a song that the others thought was rather Twinky. Rocks and sand wads began to fly in their direction. The two of them screamed and promised to stop singing, and the sandy barrage stopped.

With that noise out of the way, the Islanders gathered around to enjoy Yanna and Ivanova's seafood breakfast.

The End

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