The Seducer of the Lake ((open))

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Vazer'eth watched from the edge of the island in the middle of the lake, bemused, as two fishermen kept guessing why the water was acting so strange. She had isolated a small part of the lake, about one foot in width and three inches deep extending all the way to the mainland's shoreline and just stopped the water from moving. They poked it and splashed it, swearing and refusing to step even one toe into the lake. One of them finally gave up trying to understand and grabbed his pole. He was apparently going to try and catch some more inland fish. She chuckled and slipped into the water. She dissipated into the isolated part of the lake and shot straight for where the fishermen were. When she was only a few feet away from the shoreline, she stopped and sent a small jettison of water up into the air. The fishermen stopped what they were doing and stared at where the water had seemingly jumped straight into the air.


"W-who's there?" one asked nervously, holding onto something wrapped around his neck. She laughed to herself, then started using her unique ability. She separated the water on the top of the lake into molecules and condensed them simultaneously, making a light mist form. She hurried the process along, making the mist as thick as a heavy fog and just as blinding. She used the water from the lake to do so, and made sure that the mist only surrounded herself and the two men. "What the hell," one of them exclaimed. The second fisherman coughed from the density of the mist, still holding onto whatever was wrapped around his neck. 

"We gotta run for it!" the second man said. He turned and went to run, but managed to trip over his own fishing pole and fall flat on his face. "Dammit!" He hollered. Vazer'eth finally made a sound that the two men could hear as she openly chuckled to herself over his clumsiness. She formed the top half of herself out of the lake, leaving her legs in the water and then dispersed the top half of her body into the dense mist.

"You're going to leave me already? But you just got here!" She protested to the two men. They spun around wildly, trying to find the source of the voice. But the mist was too thick to even really see two feet in front of them. "I don't think you should go anywhere fellas. I mean, don't even know where the other is, let alone which way is out." she teased. Just to mess with the two men even more, she made her face solidify into water right in front of the first man with a flirtatious smile on her lips. She only formed it for a second, dispersing it back into mist almost immediately.

"Almora save us, it's the Seducer! Don't listen to her voice, she just wants us to feed her evil pets!" The man said, dropping down and fumbling along the ground for something. Vazer'eth openly laughed at what he said, imagining herself crying tears of laughter if she was in her normal form. Her laughter came from all sides of the mist, making the men look around frantically.

"I just wanna be friends, guys. I don't wanna hurt you at all!" She said through giggles. It didn't come across like that from the way she said it, even she had to admit that. But it was true. The first man stopped fumbling for whatever object and then stood. In his hands he had a very blunt ax.

"Get away, demon! I'm not afraid to kill you!" he exclaimed. Vazer'eth stifled another laugh and then started to solidify the top half of her body, while simultaneously dissipating her lower half. She brought it through the mist and connected her two halves directly behind the first man. She didn't make a single sound as she did so, and the man stayed oblivious to her presence even though she was only a couple feet behind him.

She laid a hand on his shoulder, soaking the cloth shirt he was wearing instantly. He turned and forced the ax down on her shoulder as hard as he could, only to be met with shock as the ax passed harmlessly through her entire body and dug itself into the ground. "Oops." she said with a smile as she started to regain her appearance. "You know, my elemental race is unique in that it's members can actually keep their appearance when they become an element if they choose." she said randomly. The man fell backwards, his mouth gaping in shock at Vazer'eth. "That's why I like being a water elemental. I don't look like a cluster fuck of big rocks when I wanna have some fun." she said, sticking her lip out to mimic pouting. She didn't do that much in reality; pouting, that is. She smiled and laughed a bit, then allowed the mist to finally start to go away. It took a few seconds, but the men could finally see and breathe normally again even if the air was now really thick moisture wise. The men both got up and ran for their lives back to their homes, leaving every piece of their fishing gear on the shoreline. 

"Geez, can't take a bit of a joke huh?" she whispered to herself. She sighed, then solidified back into her normal form. She felt a small lump form in her throat. "I just wanna have some fun..." she said as she sulked back to the lake and sat down when she was a foot or so into the water. Small fish swam past her feet, drawn to the purity of her elemental form that she was in not too long ago. She wished she had the Aquaspeak ability, like some of the people back in her old home did. They were insane, but talking to fish made it look kinda normal to her now. "Just some friendly fun is all..."

[Luella Vaettir]

Elle walked along her way, being ever so silent. She naturally walked quietly, being a hunter, but she wasn’t actively tracking any specific prey today. Not following trails or scat or anything. But she did walk silently in case something turned up. You can’t hunt if you stomp through the woods and fields like a giant now could you? She had stopped actively observing for prey about ten minutes ago, her hunger getting to her. She now searched for a good place to sit and eat her little lunch, and she heard from some locals there was a lake somewhere around here. Elle was excited by the idea. She liked to swim, though many told her the lake wasn’t safe. If nothing else maybe it’d attract something good to hunt. She’d need to sell off something soon.

She hopped over a fallen tree, landing gracefully and quietly, and when she landed she paused, hearing a shout not too far ahead.

“We gotta run for it!”

Elle tilted her head. Who was shouting, and why were they running? She stepped forward a few feet and smiled, seeing blue sparkling through the trees ahead. She found it! She found the lake! She wished she could bring Aerin here, but his limp would make the trek impossible, and besides, he wouldn’t be able to enjoy the beauty of the scenery anyways. Elle walked forward, slipping past the trees and stepping into the open. The lake was huge! Big enough to have a little island in it! She wished very much to go to that island.

“Dammit!” Elle turned her head to the voices, and was shocked to see a random cloud of mist hovering by the shore. She heard some scuffling. People were in the mist. She frowned and drew her bow from behind, it already strung and ready for use, and notched an arrow. A chuckle floated over to Elle, it sounded female. What was going on? She didn’t approach though. Whatever was in that mist was occupied with the men, and Elle might be able to jump it from the outside, where visibility was good. Elle stood by as the voice spoke, teasing the men. Then one of the men shouted something about a seducer. Elle tilted her head. Seducer? What, or who, was that? A demon? A water demon? She stepped forward, pausing when the voice contradicted what the men believed.

There was a shout and she heard a very soft, muffled thud. Did something just fall? The woman’s voice spoke again, mentioning people of her race keeping their shape. Elle felt horribly confused, but whatever was messing with the men, it wasn’t alone. She lifted her bow higher, arrow pointed, but she didn’t pull back the arrow on the string, not yet. A water elemental? What was that? Aerin would know. Elle would have to ask him later if they were demons or not.

The mist began to melt away, and Elle could finally see figures. Two men, and what looked like a solidifying woman. Elle drew her arrow back, aiming at the feminine figure. One wrong move and Elle’s arrow would fly. But she realized she wouldn’t have to bother since the men quickly turned and ran off like scared bunnies. The water elemental thing let them go. Elle slowly lowered her bow again. Well…that was interesting. She watched the woman turn and sit at the shore, and Elle was struck by how lonely the figure looked all of a sudden. After a moment’s deliberation, she put the arrow back into its place and returned her bow on her back. She walked forward, drawing a small snack, some dried meat, from a little bag on her side. She managed to just hear the last sentence the woman said.

“Well, you know men. They tend to get scared around us womenfolk. They call all girls demons, you can’t be horribly offended.” She said, biting into her jerky. She paused a few feet from the aqua woman, keeping her distance until she was sure that the being before her was friendly. Judging from what she saw, Elle would guess that the figure was only teasing the men for fun, something Elle did on a daily basis. But Aerin always said she was a bad judge of character. Elle never put much merit on that observation, but it was good to be cautious. Especially with a water elemental who was nearly surrounded by her own element. Elle wasn’t sure about what this woman could do, but she made those men scared enough.

“I’d suggest keeping that form of yours you have now rather than being all misty. If you can’t win ‘em over with words, these always help.” She said cheerily, gripping her own breasts with her hands.

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Vazer'eth turned slowly towards the sound of the woman's voice. She didn't really think she was in danger, being in water and all, and she sounded friendly enough. She gave a deceivingly sweet smile in return to her first sentence, but the second thing the woman said almost made Vazer'eth choke on her own sudden laughter.

"Well, uh, you may have that area covered but I'm a little out of luck." she said, chuckling through the sentence. She grabbed her own breasts, her petite hands almost covering them completely. "I just have to rely on the face." she said, still smiling. The woman was staying back a bit, making Vazer'eth curious about what she witnessed. She decided to see if the woman knew anything about elementals before continuing the conversation.

Vazer'eth let go of her breasts and leaned back on her hands. "My body isn't fully developed yet. You see, my people's women don't mature fully until a male chooses to mix his water with ours. This labels us attractive to them, and our bodies undergo a viciously fast maturity that usually lasts only two to four days. From what I can see, I'm roughly the equivalent of a thirteen year old human girl in terms of body figure." she explained. If you knew about elementals, then you knew about a water elemental's specific mating process. It'd be too easy to populate quickly and kill everything around you like humans do. Ages ago, her people evolved to allow rapid breeding but only in a controlled environment.

Vazer'eth looked the woman up and down as she said this, jealous of how she could look so beautiful and attractive without a man in her life. Of course, maybe she did and he wasn't with her right now. The only thing that didn't suit her was the choppy bangs. They just didn't seem right. "However, you seem to be able to make men do whatever you want and more." she finished, smiling. She had learned not to let jealously get to her nearly as easily, as being around other beautiful women her entire life gave her a tolerance human women would envy.

[Luella Vaettir]

Elle relaxed a bit as the water woman before her became amused by the elf’s words. Ah, breasts. The best ice breaker to any conversation. She stepped forward once more, biting into her meat. She tilted her head as the woman described her people’s type of mating. Elle chewed over that a moment before she looked down at her feet, kicked off her boots, and sat down next to the water woman, dipping her own feet into the water. She hoped no baby sea monsters or whatever would eat her toes. This lake was supposed to be dangerous after all.

“Maybe you do have a small figure, but it’s all about how you work it. I knew a girl who was flatter than you and she had guys kissing her feet in worship!” Elle giggled. She glanced at the other woman when she mentioned having men do whatever she wanted. Well…yes. Pretty much.

“I could…but the trick isn’t necessarily the boobs, or the ass. The trick is up here.” She said, pointing to her mind. “You don’t have to be smart. Just know what the guy you’re after wants, and be confident about yourself. Then he’ll melt in your hands.” She said, shrugging. Wait, why was she giving love advice? And it wasn’t like the girl asked her anyways.

“I’m Luella. Elle for short. Want some?” She asked, holding out a bit of jerky to the water woman. She supposed it was dangerous, talking casually to the Seducer demon and sticking her feet into the water and all, but Elle believed in the good in people before the bad. And if there was bad, she had been able to get out of the situations before. Besides, Elle desperately needed a female friend to chat with. She loved male company but you couldn’t really have the same conversations with men that you could women. Plus, it seemed fitting if Elle made a friend out of a seducing demon from the lake. They apparently had the same hobbies.

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This woman was making her slightly uncomfortable. But Vazer'eth forgave her, knowing she probably couldn't imagine an existence without men in some way. "W- well, I'm sure that woman had a very nice life then!" she said enthusiastically. The Vazer'eth noticed something different about the woman. She had pointy ears, like the sea leopards at her old temple! It was strange, to be honest, but fascinating nonetheless. "But I was never really around men... not for that reason, anyways." Vazer'eth said, finding herself reaching for Luella's ears unconsciously. When she offered the jerky, though, Vazer'eth changed course and snatched it out of her hand on accident. Her face got a bit red from it, not accustomed to being rude to gracious people.

"S-sorry!" she said. Vazer'eth took a small bite of the jerky, having never eaten it before. It was tough and a bit salty, but strangely satisfying. Vazer'eth kept staring at Luella's ears through her chewing. "And my name's Vazer'eth. Just call me Vaz for short if you want. Can I touch your ears?" Vazer'eth asked without hesitating again.

[Luella Vaettir]

Elle sat by and sat nothing when the water being stated the girl Elle knew must have had a nice life. Mostly because Elle knew the girl was actually quite miserable. If she said that that’d seem to make her argument invalid wouldn’t it? So she’d keep that little tidbit to herself. She splashed her feet in the water a bit, enjoying the cool feeling between her toes. She wanted to go swimming suddenly, but if she did that she’d strip off her clothes. She wasn’t sure if this new person she met would be comfortable with that. Elle did usually try to contain herself when meeting a new person she wanted to befriend.

Elle blinked in confusion when the girl started apologizing. It took her a moment to realize the girl was apologizing for snatching the jerky Elle offered. Honestly Elle hardly noticed, but this girl seemed to need to apologize for it.

“It’s okay. I have more to share if you’d like. I packed enough of this stuff to last for days.” She said, exaggerating greatly about the amount. She did have a lot though. She finished off her piece sucking on her fingers a bit for the last bit of salt. He paused, looking at her companion, who was named Vaz it seemed, when Vaz asked to touch her ears. Odd request. But people asked weirder things of Elle. It was on the low end of strange requests.

“Sure. Have you never seen an elf before?” She asked, tilting her head towards Vaz so the girl had better access to her ears.

“I heard one rude man say we elves were as prevalent as viruses.” Elle said randomly, digging into her pouch for another strip of jerky. “Though he said that to my brother and I broke his nose for it. I think humans are more virus-like than elves honestly.” She said, biting into her jerky, pulling her feet from the water and watching how the sun glittered off her toes.

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Vazer'eth touched Luella's ears slowly and carefully. They weren't sharp, but they were actually flexible much like her ear. What a strange characteristic. "Elf? What's an elf" Vazer'eth asked Luella. The only intelligent creatures she knew about were humans and elementals. She had never heard of an elf before now, but whatever they were they looked like much more attractive humans that apparently liked water. Vazer'eth had only seem humans in boats trying to stay out of the water as much as possible, so this 'elf' piqued her interest with her being unafraid. "No, I wouldn't like anymore. This is fine, thank you." she said. Vazer'eth finished her jerky in one bite, swallowing the entire thing after only a few chews. She felt it slide painfully down her throat until it got to her stomach.

"Do you like the water, too?" Vazer'eth asked, going into her elemental form but staying solid at the same time. Her feet disappeared, lettng them meld with the lake water. Her body composition adjusted itself to the lake's composition, making her a part of the lake until she didn't want to be. "I love it. It's the only home I know, and it has playmates!" she exclaimed, a bit more excited than she intended to be.

[Luella Vaettir]

Elle was a bit stunned to learn that Vaz never heard of an elf before. Elves were so well known! So well known that many elves themselves thought they were better than all the other races. Elle could have been the same way herself had her very own twin not been crippled in an accident and showed her that elves were no better than others. They were subject to the whims of life like every other creature out there.

“Elves are sort of like humans. We just have pointy ears and humans say we are beautiful by their standards. We have better skills with magic and some weapons. Plus some of us can live to be really, really old. Some elves out there are hundreds and hundreds of years old!” She said, watching with amusement as Vaz choked down the last bit of her jerky. Poor girl didn’t seem to realize you needed to chew the food thoroughly. That or she didn’t actually like the stuff and she was only being polite in eating it. It didn’t much matter anyways. A great way to make friends was to break bread, so her mother said.

“I love the water! I swim as often as I can. When I was little I used to wish I was a mermaid and live and breathe under water.” Elle said. She pulled her bow and quiver off her back, laying it to the side. When she turned back she was startled to see Vaz shifted into her elemental form. Elle looked down to see the girl’s feet were gone, like the melted into the lake.

“Oh wow! That is amazing!” She said, dipping her hand in the water where Vaz’s feet should be. “I bet you love the water. You pretty much are water. Do you swim or do you just become water and flow wherever you want?” Elle asked, withdrawing her hands from the lake.

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Vazer'eth was surprised to learn how old an elf could live for. They lived longer than even elementals could! "Well, I'd say you're beautiful as well. And growing up with women, I think I'm a good judge." she said with a wink. "But I find myself curious as to how elves live so long. Earth and Metal elementals live for a long time, with water and ice right behind them. But even earthies don't live past one-thousand, if they're lucky." she explained.

When the elf put her hand in the water where Vazer'eth's feet were and started asking questions, she just smiled and chuckled a bit. "It honestly depends on my mood. I can swim if I want or become one with the water. Swimming and Being are two of the best things in the world, two of the best feelings anyways. And, I'm glad to know you share my opinion on one of those!" she said. Then a thought arose in her mind. She could try a little prank on Luella, see if she could take a joke. "I can do this, too."

Vazer'eth sent her will through the lake water towards Luella's hand. The water crept up onto her forearm and Vazer'eth focused hard. She wasn't as skilled at icemaking as other elementals, but she could do it. The water started to freeze. The salt from the water made it more challenging, but not impossible. She waited to see if the elf would pull away while also standing and moving waste deep into the lake. "Come on, I won't hurt you!" she called out, waving for Luella.

[Luella Vaettir]

“Thank you.” Elle said, smiling to Vaz as the girl complimented her beauty. Elle was showered with compliments on a daily basis, but she always treated one like it was the first. Elle may be pretty and an elf, but she never wanted to be stuck up. She looked amused when Vaz called a type of her kin an “earthy” and shrugged.

“I don’t know why we live so long. Some of the best human scholars are hard at work trying to figure it out. They want our long life span too.” She said, smirking. Silly humans. They should be grateful for life they had instead of obsessing over that of others.

Elle looked back to her hands in the water just in time to see the water creeping up her arm and beginning to freeze. She gasped, withdrawing her hands quickly, disrupting Vaz’s freezing process. After a moment Elle grinned.

“That was amazing! I didn’t know you could freeze water too!” She said, watching the last bit of slush melt away in the water before looking up. Vaz was offering a swim. Hell yes! Elle was on her feet in a flash, stripping off her gear and, without warning to Vaz, or any other soul that happened to be in eye sight, her clothes as well. She dropped her clothing, what scanty few there was, into a messy pile and waded into the water, arms covering her bare breasts a moment.

“Gah! It’s cold!” She said, smiling widely. She forgot that water wasn’t so warm in the spring. She waded in about as far as Vaz was, rubbing her arms and working up the courage to dunk under completely. She already lost feeling in her toes, so soon she’d lose feeling in her legs and maybe swimming wouldn’t be so bad.

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Vazer'eth was amused at how quick the woman was to get naked. She was much better built that she was, or any woman she had seen before for that matter. She thought to herself if it was possible to take a bit of extra water and make her figure curvier. Smiling a bit, she pushed that thought aside, still interested in it however. She noticed how the elf seemed to be cold in the water, something Vazer'eth had never had to endure. She just became one with the water, so temperature was never an issue. She remembered her old priestess friends saying something about water elementals being able to control the innate temperature of water as well as manipulate the shape, but that it could be difficult to do if you weren't trained.

"Well, I can, but not nearly as well as an Ice elemental can. But at the same time, they can't control actual water nearly as well as us, which makes our kind fighting a giant stalemate essentially." Vazer'eth floated over to the elf, stopping about two feet away from her. "And I'm sorry you're so cold, I didn't even notice. I could, well, try to warm it up for you. But I've never actually tried." she said. Then a thought hit her. "Actually, have you ever been to the bottom of a body of water before?"

[Luella Vaettir]

Elle gave Vaz a sweet smile. This elemental was so nice! Not many people ever offered to raise water temperature for her when swimming. Men ordinarily promised her the moon.

“That’s nice but don’t exert yourself. I’ll get numb to it soon enough.” She said, nodding to herself and shivering right after. The water was cold. With it being spring it wouldn’t warm up for another many weeks. She paused, ceasing rubbing her arms for warmth, when Vaz asked if Elle ever went to the bottom of a lake before.

“The bottom? No never. I don’t really care to drown myself to get there either.” Elle said, chuckling. She did wonder about it though. What was at the bottom of a lake? Vaz would probably know!

“You’ve been right? What is at the bottom of the scary, dark, lake?” She asked, tilting her head. She decided not to drag the torture out much longer, and she quickly dropped down into the water, submerging everything up to her shoulders. The cold was shocking and made her gasp. Her hair floated around her like golden seaweed.

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Vazer'eth was a bit worried about the woman, especially since she was naked in the chilly water. Vazer'eth herself had never really tried to swim naked in her normal form before, but even then she didn't know if the water would affect her the same way as it did the elfish woman. "What's it like? Well, it isn't really dark for me. Since I become one with the water, I know exactly what's going on at all times within one-hundred yards of myself. Very handy, but I'm weak in that regard. I barely passed the test to see if I could even be aware while underwater." she said, shrugging. "But, I suppose it would be dark for you. And it's actually quite neat, to be honest. There's a whole bunch of fish that don't even have eyes because they never see the sunlight, and ones with lights on their head so they can see and-: she cut herself off there as an idea popped into her head.

"If you want to go to the bottom, I can get you there no problem! But, in order for you to see, I'd need to go get one of those fish real fast. Do you wanna go?" she asked, a bit excitedly. She had never given a flesh and blood person a tour before, mostly because they were all too frightened to come anywhere near her for the most part.

[Luella Vaettir]

Elle’s eyes slowly grew wider and wider as Vaz explained what the bottom of the lake was like. Dark, Elle guessed, but there was life down there too! Elle had always figured there’d be life, but she had guessed there was a giant monster or something. Dark things normally lived in dark places after all. Aerin tried arguing with her about that, saying murderers and rapists lived in broad daylight with the rest of us. Elle retorted by saying that they may walk in the light but they lived in dark places in their minds. That had silenced Aerin, which was rare. The biggest rarity was that Elle won an argument with her brother. And he was much smarter than she was.

“Wow! Eyeless fish? And they have lights on their heads? Do they use magic or something? How do they have a light on their head?” She asked, placing a finger in between her eyebrows, figuring if a fish had a forehead that was where the light would be. She pictured a big white light just glowing from that spot. She would guess they’d use the light to see, but if they had no eyes what was the point? Interesting! She’d have to tell Aerin about the eyeless fish.

Then Vaz offered to take Elle to the bottom of the lake. Elle fell silent a moment, feeling both excited and unnerved, and it showed on her face.

“Well, yeah! But how could I go? I can’t turn into water, and I can drown. How would you get me down there without killing me?” She asked, picturing being dragged to the bottom, in the dark, and drowning. Yuck. That’d be a terrible end. Elle once met another elf who said they’d want to die by drowning, cause then they’d stay beautiful forever. Aerin pointed out that things that drowned normally became bloated and their flesh fell off in clumps. The girl asked Aerin how he’d know, since he was a blind freak. Elle finished all discussion by slapping the girl across the face.