Vapors

Story by LeiLani on SoFurry

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#9 of Underwater Fantasies

I mentioned once to someone about the revolting and yet curious fascination with drowning some people have, and he asked me what I thought it was all about. It took me some thought, but what I finally said was, "I can't explain it exactly, but maybe it has something to do with our birth. We are born out of a nearly liquid existence, after all. It completely covers us and holds us while we struggle to escape for a good 9 months. When we finally do, we take our first breath."

When I got home that night, I sat down and thought about drowning - and how I could intertwine sex within it. I was helped when I got a commission inquiry to feature two bi-curious vixens.

I started with a title, "Vapors", and...God's truth, the story just wrote itself, dear readers.

Two innocent vixens visiting a secluded and idyllic pond, seeking some fun and romance, find something much more. I don't expect a lot of love for this story, but I had to prove I could write something without Leilani popping up. ^^


Tanya wheeled the Toyota up to a shuddery stop, felt the tires slide a bit on the gravely terrain and braced a paw on the emergency brake, ready to yank. When it looked like the car wasn't going to go sailing over the small embankment she breathed a sigh, and looked over at her passenger, who had her own paws braced on the dashboard, teeth bared, blue eyes wide open.

"Oh will you relax? I got us here, didn't I?"

Renee didn't respond. Her look said it all.

"Okay, it took two wrong turns, three rest-stops-"

"Nine gallons of gas..." the other vixen muttered, gathering a few small bags behind her in the back-seat and stepping out of the car. "That's twenty-seven dollars, sweets...for a ride that should have taken an hour tops..." The thunk of the slammed door was harder than she wanted it to be.

She was mad, yes, but Tanya HAD gotten them there. She shook out her tail, holding it to her side and pawing through some sticky tufts of fur left over from a spilled Coke. She was a mess. Three hours in the Corolla with nothing to do but window-watch while Tanya prattled on about her newest conquest at the fraternity, or some other sexual deviation, was enough to turn a lot of the other girls towards suicide contemplation - or all-out aggravated murder.

She sighed and looked out towards the center of the pond, spotting the wooden raft immediately. "Well...it's still there...tell me, why are we here again?" She turned from the edge to look at the other vixen while she rummaged around in the back seat.

Tanya came out from the back-seat, a camera slung over her arm, and carrying a small pack. "Because we wanted to get away from the drone of Mr. Sewell's explanation of the French and Indian War, aaaand..." She placed a paw on the girl's tail-base, giving her a pet. "You called in sick at Mario's..."

"Um, you TOLD me to do that..."

Tanya giggled, padding past her carefully, her sandals trying to find purchase on the gravel, wearing jean shorts and a red blouse tied at the waist. "Yes, but you still did it..."

Renee sighed, smiling to herself. Tanya was a paw-full, but they had become the best of friends, ever since finding out they not only shared the same boyfriend six months apart, but shared the same birthday, February 3rd, at the height of Aquarius, the water-born. It wasn't too hard to believe the two girls were active on the swim team together, and the long hours spent training, meeting cute guys, going to parties; all of it had truly been worth the friendship.

She watched Tanya step over more rocks and head down the small embankment. She DID have a swimmer's body, no question. She was very proud of her own body, and sometimes felt that when she looked at Tanya, she was looking at herself. The vixen's fur was bright umber from the tip of black ears down to black-tipped feet, except for the front of her legs, where a creamy white stripe of fur ran along the inside of her thighs up to her crotch, provocatively giving her stark white nether-fur as well. Her breasts were pert, not too much, and not too little, and she had a tone, perky ass the guys longed to squeeze. Her hair was waist-length and silky-smooth, covered partially by a black and white-tipped tail that was always bobbing excitedly. She turned heads, to say the least.

Other swimmers on the team found it impossible to focus on their workouts and trials whenever Tanya hit the water, and that included Renee's attention as well. It wasn't long before their paths crossed, and Renee had her fur specially dyed between the legs to match Tanya's. They were now almost twins in every way, and the swim team referred to them both as "the vapor vixens" - not just for their love for the water, but because they were unquestionably the fastest swimmers of the bunch.

Renee sighed and followed Tanya down to the water's edge, looking up at the sunlight spilling through some wisps of clouds. Beautiful day for a swim, she thought, squinting out over the pond. The water looked incredible. Even in her life of chlorinated, chemical-laden venues, as many pools as she'd been accustomed to, she'd never seen water like this. It sparkled; shafts of diamonds and crystals seemed to scatter across the surface, submerging, then replaced with others. She bent down to undo her sandals and felt Tanya's hip against her, giving her tail a pet again.

"Told you it was amazing..." she whispered, seemingly just as entranced with the sight. "I noticed this place when I was driving by the other day, and I'd been dying to swim here. I don't know much about this place. All I know is some otter family had taken it over and wouldn't let anyone near it." She stooped over to loosen her sandals, untying her shirt.

Renee nodded, watching her friend undress, before she too started unbuttoning her blouse. She looked around them a little nervously.

"No one's here for miles around, hon...the family moved out at least three years ago, maybe more. Their teen sons died in an accident and they left..."

"That's really sad..."

"I know...I think they went to our old high school," Tanya had undressed fully and was stepping naked into the water, a bit at a time. She looked back at Renee and moaned. "Oh my God...you have GOT to get in here...it's like a heated pool, it has to be ninety degrees in here!" She kicked at the water, sending a splash across the other vixen's legs.

"Okay, okay..." Renee laughed, wiggled out of her shorts and panties, balling everything up into a pile near Tanya's, and waded out to her. Tanya immediately grabbed at her paws and laughed, pitching them both forward into the water. Renee squealed with delight and took a breath, diving down.

It was like heaven. Renee opened her eyes under the surface and nearly gasped in water as she took in how clear everything was. She dove a little deeper, finding the shallow rocky bottom, and followed it along a few yards, picking up some rocks and watching tiny fishes scatter away from her. She felt a tug at her tail and looked over her shoulder at Tanya, smiling at her. Renee parted her lips and blew a few bubbles sexily at her, then turned around and started swimming faster.

The two girls explored the bottom for some moments, pointing out large rocks, and using both their strengths to lift them up and peek underneath. As they swam along, Tanya's ears popped a little, and she realized they were dropping further down. She motioned to Renee, and pushed off, swimming up some twenty feet to the surface with a gasp, Renee surfacing beside her.

"It's...a bit deeper than I thought..." Tanya caught her breath, treading water and brushing her legs against Renee. "Doesn't the water look fantastic?"

"Totally," Renee sighed, and felt a warmth spreading through her. She wanted to go back down again. She sucked in a breath and rolled forward and under, Tanya close behind. The two girls kicked and glided to the bottom again and kneeled, waving their paws upwards, scattering their hair from their eyes, and exploring the area a bit more. Renee looked up above them and saw the raft, a large set of wooden planks, ballasted by several plastic jugs around the sides. She trained her eyes to look harder and followed a faint hemp rope trailing down and into darkness ahead of them.

She turned and pointed to Tanya, spreading her legs and kicking hard towards the darkness, the other vixen following close to her back. The two girls stopped and blinked in surprise, seeing what appeared to be a massive hole in the bottom of the pond, about five yards across, and gods knew how deep dead ahead. They looked at each other, and then swam towards the hole, clinging to the edge and looking down, kicking their feet slowly. Tanya pushed herself forwards briefly into the hole and started to dive deeper, but Renee grabbed at her foot, trying to pull her back, making a cutting sound at her throat before squirming and pushing off the bottom, scissoring her legs quickly, heading for the surface.

Tanya stayed at the hole several seconds more, peering into the crystal blue water. She could not see the bottom, though now and then a fish would come up from out of the strange gap. So life did exist down there.

But how far, Tanya thought, then shook her head, clearing her mind, and pushed off the bottom, kicking hard for the surface. She inhaled deeply as her head broke through, and felt her ears return to normal. She spotted Renee treading water, holding onto the raft and swam up to her, clinging to one of the planks and resting against her.

"Mmm...that looked sooo amazing!" Tanya breathed, wiping water from her eyes.

"That looked dangerous..." Renee smirked, shaking her hair. "Tan, if you're going to play free-diver on me, at least give me a heads-up?" She splashed at the girl and smiled, reaching over and pushing her down by her shoulders in a dunking.

Tanya burbled and dived away, swimming up and around Renee from behind and launching out of the water, pushing her down as well. Renee yelped underwater and reached down, grabbing around Tanya's foot and yanking her back down to her chest, getting her into a bear-hug. The other vixen bubbled and struggled against her, working her ass hard against Renee's bare crotch, and the vixen trembled, feeling her sexual desire kick up a notch. She giggled a few bubbles again, trying to keep Tanya in the hug, until the other girl reached behind with her tail and started tickling along her belly. Renee burbled in laughter and let go of the vixen, starting to the surface again - until Tanya clamped her paws around Renee's foot and dragged her back down.

"Mmmph!" Renee lost some breath in a grunt, and tried kicking at Tanya to let go, but Tanya was already dragging her deeper. She looked up and saw they were pretty far from the surface. She spun around and dived with Tanya to the bottom again, not in too much need of air just yet, and watched as the vixen led her to the strange gap again.

Together they clung to the sides and peered down. Tanya looked at Renee and motioned to her to follow, and with a few strong kicks and arm-sweeps, started down the hole. Renee looked worriedly up at the surface, and then followed Tanya down a few feet at a time, her heart pounding. The vixens swam down another twenty feet and then paused, trying to peer down into the depths.

God, how deep does it go, Renee thought fearfully, and was suddenly startled by a large shape close to her head. She opened her mouth to yelp in a glub of bubbles, as a huge grouper fish looked at them both, opened its mouth and swam away again. Renee poked Tanya, and started swimming back up, needing air. Tanya watched her go, then tried to look down. Her lungs were telling her enough was enough, but she felt strangely at peace in these waters. It was incredibly warm down here, and the water was so...good.

Unconsciously, a paw wandered to her breast, tracing furrows through her trim fur, touching her nipples, which had become huge erect points. Gods, how did I get so horny, she asked herself. Tanya floated suspended in at least fifty feet of water or more, and touched herself, murring a stream of bubbles from her parted lips as her paw continued its intimate exploration of her body. From her breasts, she traced down to her bare belly, and lower still, finding the heat between her thighs suddenly too hard to resist.

"Ohhh..." she brought her head up, closing her eyes, air pouring from her mouth as she started a slow, rhythmic stroking along her sex, the folds suddenly open, full, swollen and pink beneath white nether-fur. Her clit had bulged, pushing between her folds like a pretty button, and her fingers eagerly played with it, rolling and rubbing the hot flesh around with her finger-pads.

"Uhhhnn..." Another trickle of bubbles scattered from around her lips, and she could feel a sensation unlike nothing she'd experienced. God, what was happening to her? She thrust her fingers into her aching sex, and felt a torrent of lust flow from her as she climaxed around her digits, clenching them tightly, rhythmically, crying out the last of her air.

She hung there in the water, too weak to move, still fingering herself, and started sinking down - and then a strong arm caught around her waist. She grunted weakly as she looked at Renee, her eyes glazed, and the other vixen quickly pressed her mouth to the girl's, sealing her lips around the other's to share a bit of air with her, before getting her arms around Tanya and swimming back up towards the surface.

Renee kicked her legs hard, feeling the warm rush of water around her sex, and begin to feel incredibly warm as well as she followed the hole up. She shook her head as a barrage of erotic thoughts streamed into her mind, and pumped her legs quickly, finding the end of the rope. She grabbed on tightly and used it to pull herself, helping Tanya finally to the surface, gasping and coughing water. She immediately clung to the edge of the raft and shook her head hard.

"What the hell....were you doing down there...so long?!"

Tanya panted, laying her head on the raft, treading water. "How long...was I..."

"I have no idea, but I came up, waited for you... and when a few minutes came by I got scared... and dove after you!" Renee was near tears. They'd been in this situation once before, when Tanya and she had played together after-hours, in private, at the school pool.

For what seemed like minutes, they had stayed on the bottom of the pool, their one-piece swimsuits pulled down around their feet, enjoying one another's sex with first slow, and then faster licks and nibbles. Renee had started to climax wildly, and her legs had scissored around Tanya's head to trap her. She didn't realize how badly the other girl was struggling and kicking, how desperately she needed air, and Tanya's bubbling gasps were unheard in her own screams of pleasure.

At the last second, Tanya had kicked her legs hard, slamming her paw down against Renee's belly, knocking the last of her breath from her own lungs. The two wiggled and squirmed, clawing at one another and pushing off the bottom, surfacing and coughing hard, gripping onto the ladder rung. It had been a close call. Renee could not look at Tanya for days afterwards, having felt so guilty, so terrible about nearly drowning her best friend in the world. It wasn't until a few weeks later, when Tanya approached her again, wanting to tell her about a secluded pond she wanted them to visit...

Tanya nuzzled Renee as she drew closer to her, and gave her a kiss. "I'm sorry, babe...I...I don't know what happened to me down there, I..." she swallowed, and a paw came down between her legs, still feeling herself quite swollen and hot. "I...it was... amazing, the water...hhhuh..." Her fingers started to tease her sex again, tracing along the hood, brushing her fingerpads across her mons. "It...God... it was just..."

Renee murred gently, taking a breath, slipping under the water in front of Tanya, nuzzling against her paw, trying to move it away from between her thighs, before pushing her forehead against her lower belly, starting to lick tenderly at her lover's outer folds. Tanya's eyes widened, and she swallowed, trembling, her paws covering Renee's head, massaging her ears and stroking through her floating hair. The beautiful vixen got her off eventually, ending with a furious scream of ecstasy as Renee's tongue dipped deep into her folds, nibbling and tugging at her aroused clit over and over.

Renee came up gasping, trembling, hugging around Tanya and trying to get her breath back. Her leg nestled between the other's, and Tanya held it entwined, rubbing herself up against the girl's knee slowly. The two kissed finally, and snuggled. "Mmm...this was... a wonderful idea..." Renee finally whispered, spreading her legs willingly as Tanya started to rub her, her breasts nestling up gently along hers, the hard nipples pressed tightly together.

"Not here..." Tanya breathed, "Let's go...back down again...you have to feel this water, gods...let's make love down there..." She reached out to trace her paw along the girl's mouth and whiskers. "I want to..."

Renee looked nervous. "It's so deep, honey, I don't know..." But the thought of getting off with her lover, so many feet below the surface, where the steady pressure can become a silky glove, squeezing, massaging...the thought of that heat, that release was so...right. "Okay...let me catch my breath..."

The two girls climbed up onto the raft, sitting cross-legged side by side, paws to their sides, taking great deep breaths, slowly in and out for ten-second intervals. They did this before every swim meet. It was their secret to swimming faster, and longer than the others, keeping more air in their lungs, and holding it. Less of a need to pick up their heads to breathe, meant less time to swim the length of the pool.

Tanya slipped back into the water again, and smiled up at Renee. "Get in here..." she breathed, flashing her green eyes at her. Renee grinned, doing a head-first dive and surfacing up against her, giggling. "Ready?"

The two traded another long, deep kiss, their tongues entwining, licking, swallowing one another's tastes over and over until they were both as hot and as horny as they had ever been.

They both took the deepest breath they could, rolled forward and dived down, following the lone rope as it trailed and snaked all the way to the mysterious hole. Tanya took the lead, kicking strongly, as Renee swam close to kiss along her asscheeks, playing her tongue along her swollen folds.

Tanya let out a few bubbles of pleasure, kicking her legs outwards, letting the other vixen continue licking and kissing as they dove deeper and deeper. Without stopping, they one by one swam down into the tiny trench.

They both began to feel it immediately. Renee continued to kick, whimpering a little and reaching between her thighs to worry her clit with her fingers, unbelievably horny. The water was like huge silky arms, squeezing her whole body with love and passion she hadn't felt in ages.

Deeper and deeper they went, well past sixty feet, Tanya estimated silently, and then eighty...she began to wonder how such an incredible depth could exist in such a small body of water like this. She let a few bubbles trickle from her lips, steadying her lungs, staving off the need for a breath, and pinched her nose as the depths grew even stronger, the water hugging her like a vise.

Renee caught up to her, kicking hard to keep up, watching her lover's excitement, pushing a few bubbles from her own mouth to compensate, reaching a paw out to rub slowly over Tanya's tail. She looked ahead of them, and saw the hole was gradually getting larger, more open.

And then the hole didn't exist anymore and the diving girls came out of it entirely - and both nearly choked back a gasp of surprise.

Around them, the water was full of sea-life, flora and fauna they had only dreamed about from watching and reading stories about the ocean. It was as if the blue Atlantic had been casually deposited into the pond. A few dolphins clicked at them as they undulated past, and at the bottom, a lush, fully-matured reef of coral and rock jutted outwards and upwards, teeming with fish, plants, and crustaceans.

Renee looked around them in awe, fanning her paws back and forth, trying to hold her breath and marvel at the undersea splendor at the same time. Tanya swam up close to her, thoughts of lust and passion with her lover momentarily forgotten as she looked with disbelieving eyes as well. The girls turned towards each other, and then looked up at the gaping puncture in the strange sea.

A pair of male otters suddenly appeared from behind the reef just then, churrring curiously at the two girls, swimming slowly to them, naked, and in full jutting and throbbing arousal. Tanya's eyes widened at the sight of the two boys, looking to be approximately their age, and as they drew closer to she and Renee, she was drawn immediately to the bobbing pair of otter-cocks.

Renee mmphed! and tapped to get Tanya's attention, pointing up frantically, starting to make a cutting motion with her throat - and then grunted in a flurry of arms and kicking legs as one of the otters swam full-tilt into her, knocking her down onto her back into the sandy bottom.

Tanya cried out and tried to swim down to help the struggling vixen, and was grabbed by her foot and yanked down into the other otter's arms. She mmmph-mmphed, beating at the otter's face, trying to get him to let go, but his grip was strong, and she felt her body pressed up against the coral reef, the stinging, spiny rocks and sponges digging into her back and ass like sharp claws. She yelped in some pain, a blurb a large bubbles coming from her mouth, and her eyes pleaded with the otter in front of her to let go.

The boy grinned and hooked a leg around hers, and without hesitation, pushed against her body, grabbing around one of her full breasts and closing his mouth around her swollen nipple, suckling tightly on her, grinding his teeth across the teat. Tanya continued to struggle, trying to strike a few blows atop of the otter's head, across his ears, but the boy didn't even flinch. She lifted her head back and cried out, losing most of the rest of her air.

Renee kicked her legs wildly, trying to fend off her own attacker, bubbles pouring from her mouth in a rush as she tried to find the strength to swim away. She could feel her lungs hitching, badly wanting to take a breath, and she swallowed water as she opened her mouth to scream. She looked wildly around her, seeing her best friend pinned against the reef, bubbles pouring from her, and she fearfully wondered how long they could possibly last.

Suddenly she felt the otter wrapping himself around her body and nudging his head between her legs. No! she thought, trying to squeeze her legs together. I need air! Please! But the grip of his webbed paws was like iron, unyielding, demanding and he wrenched her thighs apart, digging his tongue suddenly deep into her aroused sex, flicking his long, thick tongue across her mons, up and down her hood, giving her clit a sensual tongue-bath. Renee burbled, shaking her head back and forth, lips parted soundlessly, her struggling getting weaker as the need for air clouded her vision, and dulled her other senses.

Tanya felt a stab of pain and then exquisite pleasure as the otter grabbed her by the hips, pulling her forward and onto his raging cock, feeling his enormous sex slam full and hard into her body at once. She cried and found herself wrapping about the otter in a death grip, her breasts bobbing hard up and down as she was wildly fucked against him, her silky folds clenching and strangling his shaft over and over as he thrust into her repeatedly.

The vixen let go of him as she suddenly felt a burst of pleasure racing and enveloping her body. Her arms fell to her sides as she let a more urgent desire besides breath overtake her, and she started to cum harder than she had ever experienced.

"Mmmph-burble!" Another burst of air flew from her mouth and she jerked and spasmed wildly, her orgasm too strong, punching the air from her lungs in spurts, unable to pull away, to kick, and finally unable to do anything. She was growing too weak; her lungs were aching, she couldn't hold her breath any more...

Then she felt warmth against her mouth, and opened her eyes as the otter was kissing her, sealing welcome lips around hers, and she eagerly slipped her paws around his neck, clinging, taking his air greedily into spent, exhausted lungs.

Renee was losing her battle with the water. Her otter-lover shoved his tongue into her once more and she grabbed paw-fulls of briny sand, burbling suddenly hard, losing what little breath was still hers in a cascade of froth in a sudden huge orgasm, her netherlips cinching up and then spreading outwards as seeps of her juices clouded into the water. She wiggled her legs a little, coming down off her high, too tired, too aching to move anymore, and her head sank to the mysterious ocean's floor, hitching her lungs once more, taking her first breath, and coughing water out.

And then her strange lover was atop of her body, kissing her lips hard, working his tongue into her mouth. Renee's eyes widened as she felt a breath of air being given to her, and lifted her head up, a few bubbles trickling from her mouth as she looked at him.

The otter tilted his head and smiled, giving the vixen's cheek a tender caress, and then laid down atop of her, pushing her into the sand. The girl felt the boy's arousal rubbed first across her thighs, and then slipping gently into her body, and she shuddered, moaning soundlessly and hooking her arms around his neck to cling, feeling his length nestling good and deep inside of her. He started to move against her, pounding and thrusting his hips hotly up against her over and over, working himself into a frenzy.

Renee's legs hiked up and grabbed around his hips, her feet boring into his backside, whimpering precious air from her tired lungs as the otter made love to her. The water around them seemed to glow, to sparkle, becoming hotter; as if she'd been immersed inside a scalding therapy tub immediately after a cold swim. She could feel another orgasm wanting to escape, raging lust and desire replacing fear and confusion as she bucked against him, and eagerly clung to him, her life-bond for now.

Tanya opened her eyes as her lover ended their deep kiss, and looked at him curiously, reaching a paw out to caress his face. He smiled at her, churrrring a very soft sound back at her, bubbles breaking across her mouth like supple fingers. The vixen felt herself start to smile too, and her arms looped gently around the boy's shoulders again, pressing her mouth to his to kiss deeply once more. She had no idea how long otters could stay underwater, but was surprised to find that this one didn't seem to feel the urgency for breath.

She didn't care. She wanted him again. Tanya hooked her thighs around his strong waist, letting him support her against the reef, and he dipped his nose into her breasts to start kissing, taking one of her nipples again into his mouth to suckle upon.

She felt his arousal slipping upwards and then forwards into her body again, and she moaned, hugging herself tightly to him and thrusting her hips eagerly against his, rocking steadily, making deep and passionate love now, trying to hold her breath and stave off another need for a little while longer.

Renee felt her own air beginning to give out, the deep-water breath-holding having an impact on her aching lungs, and as the rush of climax suddenly slammed over her body, she jerked and spasmed, bubbling hard against the otter's face, feeling his own powerful member suddenly pump a generous bit of otter-seed into her as she let go with her own juices, melding deep inside her body in a powerful series of orgasms, sending her into screams and tightening her grip around his body.

The vixen's eyes suddenly flew open, and she realized her air was gone, and her lungs were searing in pain. Quickly she tried to cup around the otter-boy's chin, pulling his face up for a breath, but he smiled down at her, and buried his head into her breasts, pinning her down.

"No!" Renee bubbled hard, trying to wiggle away, "Mmmph! Mmmph!" She grabbed around the otter's head, trying to pull him to her, opening her mouth and swallowing water. "Glub!" A burst of bubbles came from her as she coughed, and tried again to get free, her fingers grabbing around the boy's head, reaching for his eyes to try to scratch with her sharp claws, but to no avail. She watched in horror as the otter lifted his head and smiled down at her, churrrrring a rush of bubbles teasingly against her open mouth before they flew upwards towards the surface far above them, and Renee gasped softly like a fish, her lips moving silently as if to try to catch them for air.

There was no air left to hold. Renee looked up weakly at the otter, parted her lips again, and breathed, coughing out the water immediately, choking, explosions of bubbles coming from her as her body was assaulted with rips and jerks. The otter clung to her greedily, nuzzling her cheek as she slowly drowned against his body.

Tanya was lost in her own orgasms as her lover assaulted her against the reef again, pounding away at her, until she was lost in gurgling cries of delight. She quickly tried to wiggle away from the otter, and to push her face against his mouth, hungrily seeking his air again. But the otter pulled off from her and started to swim away. Horrified, she spun around wildly to find Renee, seeing her motionless on the bottom, eyes staring, mouth parted.

She cried out and started to swim to her, but the other otter suddenly turned and grabbed at her foot. "Mmph-urb!" Tanya was yanked suddenly down, and she wildly kicked out at her lover-turned-attacker, trying to pull away, clawing the water. He let her go again and she started kicking for the entrance to the strange hole upwards again, and as before, was pulled by her foot back down. "Burbrbrbr!" The vixen was losing her strength, the need to take a breath bearing down on her body like a dull aching hammer, slamming into her chest over and over.

She kicked weakly away once more, trying one last arm-stroke towards escape, and the otter clung to her from behind in a bear-hug. Tanya wiggled and twitched in his arms, her eyes closed and it seemed as though she had gone to sleep, her whole body going limp. The otter continued to hold her, stroking hair away from her face, until a few moments later a huge burst of bubbles flew from the vixen's mouth in a hard stream. The stream turned to bursts, and then to trickles, and then she was gone...

**

Tanya's eyes opened against a brilliant, blinding white and she lifted a paw to her face to shield it. It felt so warm. She blinked and then moved her head side to side, spotting Renee close beside her, and struggled to sit up.

Somehow, they were back on top of the raft again. She cried and buried her face against Renee's chest as the other vixen coughed, gasped, and opened her eyes, looking up into Tanya's.

"T-Tan..." she whispered, and the two girls clung to each other naked, shivering. "Wh-what...happened to..."

"I don't know...I..." They heard splashing beside the raft and looked over the edge. The two otter boys were smiling up at them, churrriping softly. One of them lifted an outstretched webbed paw from the water.

The girls looked at each other and smiled, wordlessly getting up from the raft and diving in to the deep water, the otters following them down swiftly to their new world. Their shapes mingled, shimmered, lost in the depths, soon becoming like vapor trails dissipating in the wind...

**

"...At the top of the news at this hour, the search continues for 19-year-olds Tanya Perkins and Renee Kimmel, last seen two weeks ago outside of Norton University on the afternoon of Friday, June 10th. A 2007 Toyota Corolla belonging to Ms. Perkins was found parked next to a large dry flatbed of rocks called Harper's Quarry, a pond that had once belonged to the Woodson family.

"You'll recall that three years ago, Carl and Stephanie Woodson's sons, Peter and Timothy, drowned in the quarry, and it was then subsequently closed and drained. Investigators are baffled as to why the girls' clothes were found here, and are combing the surrounding area for clues..."

**

"Oh God, will you look at it!" The bunny stepped out of the car, stretching on her toes in her red bikini, as her companion got out as well, staring at the beautiful shimmering water. "Oh wow...it looks as pretty as a picture, doesn't it?" She giggled, nearly running down the embankment, kicking off her sandals before diving tummy-first into the water in a huge splash.

"Hey, wait up!" the other bunny laughed, following her friend, wading out, and breaking into a comfortable breast-stroke, catching her out towards the center of the pond, not far from a floating wooden raft. "Come on..." she said breathlessly, "let's find out how deep it goes!"

"Okay," the girl nodded, "One...two...three...huhhhh!"

They flipped up their legs and dived down, disappearing into the crystal blue..

END