bruniboi asked:
How about Honeymaren teaching Elsa to spear fish, but Elsa falls in/pulls Honeymaren in vice versa?
"Did you really have to craft yourself an ice spear?"
"What? You said to bring one."
"I meant, pick one from the camp, you spirit dork!"
"Oh."
There was a blank, and Elsa looked at the spear the brunette was holding, then shrugged. "I prefer mine anyway."
Honeymaren rolled her eyes. "Yeah, I bet you do."
Her ice spear looked like a refined and simpler version of a trident only with four blades, and it definitely looked like she could fight with it more than hunt, so the Northuldra wondered if she actually had conjured it once to train for fight. It was sparkling blue and white, and had a gradient of crystals with their four different colors along the stick. Honeymaren signed to Elsa to follow her.
"Come on, let's get to it. I'd tell you to take off your boots", said the brunette as she put hers aside, "but you're already bare foot."
"Actually, I'm wearing sandals. But they're hardly visible. And I'll keep them, thank you very much."
"You still have such royal habits", puffed Honeymaren.
"No, it's just that Nokk told me that there are sharp rocks at the bottom of the river sometimes."
"They… Told you?" Frowned the woman, stepping in the water along her.
"Well, it's more of a… Sensing language. I… Felt it. I don't know how to explain it."
"Alright." Smiled Honeymaren, seeing how the blonde has just blushed.
"So, what do we start with?" Asked Elsa.
"For starters, we obviously have to find fish."
The spirit nodded, and looked around. The river was naturally clear because of how respectful the Northuldra were of Nature, and even quite transparent, but the fishes were clever enough to hide under the rocks.
Elsa hesitated for a moment to use her magic, due to how used to it she had become, doing more than half of her daily activities helped with magic. But she thought that it would be more fair towards Honeymaren to not do so, and more polite to simply follow her instructions and spear fish normally.
"Here!" Exclaimed Honeymaren when she spotted a bunch of fishes further down the river. "Careful to step slowly to them. The less moves you make, the better it is."
The blonde nodded silently. She had paid attention at how the Sami kept a low voice.
"Okay, we're close enough. Always take your time to aim, and keep your focus. Then you can give the attack like that, with your fingers down as you hold the spear, or you can have them up, with it above your shoulder. As you want. Both are efficient. Here, have a try."
Elsa was staring at her as she was showing her, and got a bit lost in a daydream.
"Elsa."
"Uh?"
"Have you been listening?"
"Yeah, yeah, fingers down or above the shoulder. Noted."
She grasped firmly her ice spear, and walked forward with prudence. Honeymaren noticed that her moves were flexible and calm, barely making rounds in the water as she went to the fishes, and knew that it would be a winning catch on first try.
However, when Elsa launched her spear into the water, she completely missed them, and her ice spear planted in the bottom of the river. Honeymaren burst out of laughter, and she gave her a frowning look.
"Sorry, it's just…" Wheezed the Sami. "Who would've thought that you're so clumsy!"
"It's my first try." Grumbled Elsa, defensive.
"Yeah, I know, it's just… It's so funny, I'm sorry."
The blonde groaned a bit. "I'm gonna get my spear. Stop laughing."
Honeymaren kept giggling, unable to not to. Elsa saw that her spear was entirely underwater, and was about to attract it to her with her magic, but sighed thinking that it would be better to just get it herself.
The Northuldra looked at how Elsa went into the water, and calmed her giggle little by little. Then there was a silence. Elsa hadn't come back. "Elsa?"
Honeymaren's breathing sped up with stress. "Elsa?!"
The blonde didn't reappear at the surface.
"ELSA!" Exclaimed the Sami, and she moved the water around in nervous splashes to find her. "ELSA, WHERE AR–AAHH!"
She yelped when she suddenly felt something gripping her ankle, and she got strongly tugged underwater. She clenched her eyes as she hit the surface and got completely immersed. Hopefully, her brother often did that joke, and she was used to open her eyes underwater.
When she looked around, she saw Elsa giving her the biggest smirk, and noticed that she had an air bubble surrounding her head.
"You cheater!" Said Honeymaren, even though with the bubbles of her mouth, it sounded more like 'ylou shleatley'.
Elsa giggled like a child, her chuckle clear in the air bubble and echoing to the Northuldra's ears. Honeymaren smiled, but then went back to the surface, gasping.
She coughed a bit, and was joined by Elsa.
"This is unfair. You shouldn't be using magic."
"I didn't. And I won't, I want to hunt fish fairly. This was just Nokk's work. They promised me that I'd never drown after I confessed that our fight traumatized me a bit and made me scared to go underwater."
"You get a bubble of air every time you go in the water?" Asked Honeymaren as she swam to the bank.
"Only when I need it. Again, it's something we just have to think of."
Elsa tilted her head, and a smile stretched her lips as an idea came to her mind.
"Do you want to try it?"
"What?"
"I can ask them to give you one as well while we spear fish. It will be a lot easier if we're underwater, no?"
Honeymaren smiled, excited and amazed. "Yes!"