I Want To Lay the Very Best!
322 – Chews’day Innit

"I won! I won! Stop biting me!"

Danièle didn't even muffle her laugh at Sparky's protests as she flailed about with Chew, trying to grab the slinky woman with one of her many arms. The Galvantula had been teasing the Barraskewda for their entire fight, saying she was the tastiest bug to ever sail the seas. Chew was enjoying making her pay for her bragging. Both of them having Agility made a close-up fight really fun to watch. Chew was thin enough to worm out of any grab Sparky got her in, but Sparky was quick enough to soon have her in another. It was like watching someone try to grab a greased-up pool noodle, and it was funny as heck.

"I will tie you into a knot!" Sparky squeaked as Chew got her teeth into a wrist, and Sparky finally caught her by using some of her webbing to stick her hands around Chew's shoulders. Chew looked up at her with big innocent 'Who me?' eyes and then shuddered pleasantly as the webs crackled with electricity and gave her a quick zap.

"Dominance established," Sparky said proudly. Chew took her moment of triumph to bite one of her fingers. Sparky started using swear words that Danièle had never heard of before, her voice crackling with static as she flicked Chew on the nose to try to get her off.

"I can't believe I'm on a team with you."

The witch-hat lady was back! Walking across the deck as the rain cascaded back off the brim of her hat. She was wearing Bitty like a cloak, the pale Corsola handing off her shoulders, white coral spread out from her body in thick lines across Morgan's chest to cup her breasts and wind around her hip like a belt. Danièle gave Bitty a wave, and the Corsola smiled back and blew Danièle a kiss. Two smiles from Bitty in one day and an air kiss! This really was all turning out to be the best day ever.

"What's the matter, Morgan? Can't stand looking at a real victory?" Sparky snorted as she lay on her back, fur-soaked and grappling with Chew. The colorful red frills along the noodle of a woman's arms and legs were flapping excitedly as she kept getting zapped repeatedly by crackling Electroweb. She might be biting the everloving heck out of Sparky, but it was affectionate. Danièle had seen Chew when she was fighting; her flurry of lightning-fast bites quickly wore a lady down. This was just biting for fun, getting the Galvantula giggling and frustrated in equal parts as she tried to get Chew in a four-armed bearhug.

Morgan shook her head back and forth and raised a leg. "I'm stepping on one of you if you don't both stop that, and I don't mind which."

Chew and Sparky froze, staring up at Morgan. Then they both began wrestling frantically in a tangled ball together. Danièle was pretty sure neither of them had even the faintest clue how to actually wrestle, and the pair of them were laughing their asses off while trying to get the other one in a headlock. Morgan made good on her threat, stomping on the pair of them a few times and getting her shoes soaked in the process.

"I think they like it," Danièle said, nearly swallowing her own tongue when Morgan gave her a glare with her blood-red eyes. Then the Murkrow's look softened, and she stepped back, reaching up to stroke Bitty under the chin. The Corsola gave her fingertip a light kiss before nuzzling up to her neck.

"You're right." Morgan said, "They're both hopeless. But I wasn't having them catch me in a bluff."

"This day is turning out great," Sparky said, letting Chew gnaw on one arm as she lay back on the rain-soaked deck. "Morgan! We finally bonded."

"You're not even worthy of being dirt on my shoe."

"Fuck yeah, hear that Chew? She's sweet-talking us."

Chew looked up at Morgan and opened her mouth, ready to leap and bite, but she lost the battle of the stares against those blood-red eyes and backed off to gnawing on Sparky's shoulder. Chew did whatever she wanted, so Morgan being able to cow her with a look made her a little spooky. Not that Danièle minded that; Bitty was one of her best friends, and she was very spooky. Danièle wiggled her fingers for attention and then flashed Chew a quick flurry of hand signs.

'She was nice to me. The Unovian bird isn't scary.'

Chew grinned and flicked a quick one back, curling her fingers in for emphasis.

'Might get scarier. I'm good. Sexy voice. All yours.'

Danièle snorted. Yeah, as if! Morgan was a million leagues out of Danièle's paddle pool.

"What's so funny?" Morgan said as she offered a wing for Sparky to get up. "Sparky, why is she still following you about?"

"The Magikarp? She's cool, been really helpful. Brandy said I had to look after her."

"Sparky threw an Electroball at me." Danièle said, "But it was a trick! She was just baiting out Chew. I only got a little electrocuted, and it felt like I was getting a thousand little kisses, so it was actually a nice way of taking care of me if you think about it!"

"Honestly, that's far better than I'd have guessed it would go," Morgan smiled and leaned down to kiss Bitty. The Corsola's coral had curled up to tease at Morgan's chin, and it retreated when she got the kiss she was after, with Bitty kicking her legs happily in the air behind Morgan. "How is Brandy doing anyway?"

"She went to solo the Mareanie," Sparky said, sinking her fangs into Chew, making her twitch wildly in her grasp as her Bug Bite made her squeal. That's how Sparky had clinched the fight, but it was only two bites to about fifty at this point. The bits of Sparky without fur were just rife with the circular red pinpricks of Chew's teeth. She might not talk, but Chew always made really good use of her mouth.

"Solo a Mareanie. Of course she did." Morgan sighed. "This wave is wrapping up. Holly was playing boxing with a Clobbopus, and Mahi was talking with a Clawitzer when I left her."

"And you came to find me instead of staying with the hot fish lady and the thickest bunny on the seas?"

"It was all the Water-ranged shop talk, and Mahi and the Clawitzer were really getting into it. I checked out once they got on to laminar and turbulent flows."

Sparky looked up, eyes shining.

"If you tell her I'm interested in that stuff, I will set my Corsola on you."

Bitty looked up, her sunken red eyes looking at Sparky. The air between them crackled and warped, distorting Morgan and Bitty's forms like they were in a cracked mirror. The decking warped between them, planks breaking and decaying and the sea water bubbling as it went a pitch black.

"I'll be good," Sparky gulped. "Unless you want to fight for my honor, Chew?"

Chew flicked her fingers. 'Good luck, I'm not biting someone with Grudge.'

"She says she'll fight her." Sparky said, trying to hide behind one of Chew's fins, "I'm working out her hand signals."

Then she yelped when, inevitably, Chew bit her again. A tickle under the chin from Morgan and Bitty let her Curse drop, the planks smoothing back out and reality repairing itself.

"Is Brandy in trouble?"

"Oh yeah, she's losing last I saw," Sparky said. "But slowly, and I wasn't finished with Chew here, you can probably swoop in and rescue her. You deserve a win."

"Thank you," Morgan flicked out her wings, spreading herself out against the sky. "You're alright sometimes, Sparky."

"I'm a peach," Sparky smirked. "Good luck."

Danièle watched Morgan walk-off between the ice spears, finally seeing all the scratch marks on Bitty's back. They'd gone at each other, but Bitty seemed happy, and she had Life Dew to fix herself up. If she had scars, she wore them with pride and good for her; she deserved to be happy.

Sparky was just letting Chew nip at her, listening carefully. Eventually, there was a loud squawk and a sound of hissing steam.

"Brandy was winning last time we took a peek at her." Danièle said, "She had this excited look in her eyes, and I think they were burning. Nibbles was just a big tangle of hair."

Sparky giggled. "Yeah, our girl was horny as hell."

"You said she needed help."

"I did say that," Sparky said, her giggle turning into a very distinctive evil snigger. "That'll teach her to sick a Ghost on me."

'I don't want to be mean, but I think this Galvantula is trouble,' Danièle signed.

'Just the kind of lady I like biting' Chew flashed back.

"What's she saying?" Sparky said. "I haven't actually worked it out."

"She says she really likes you."

"Awwww. That's sweet. Does that mean she's going to stop biting my beautiful yellow body?"

With perfect comic timing, Chew then bit her right on the boob.

Danièle truly didn't want to be mean, but honestly, Sparky kind of deserved that one.