Inez and the blueberry sea

As Okisato headed back to his seat, a group of 5 girls eyed the 6B tank.

"So Aya, what do you think's in the blue liquid?" a girl with short white hair asked.

"Isn't it obvious? It's alien syrup!" a scantily clad girl with long black hair proudly proclaimed.

A girl with long messy red hair sighed as she face palmed. "Aliens again? Must we delve on this stuff every waking second of the day?"

"What's the harm? It's a fun way to spend time," a girl with long black hair smiled as she took a picture with her polaroid camera.

"Gah, do you have to take pictures every damn second of the day!?" a girl with wavy black and pink hair growled as she shielded her eyes.

"I'm a photoholic, so yes. Don't worry, I've got plenty of film and SD card."

The five were from Ecuador's women's team. The alien enthusiast was Aya Bentura, a girl who desperately wanted to mate with aliens. Her white-haired compatriot, Laia Din, felt the same. The girl with the camera, who was humorously named, Camera Click, didn't share their enthusiasm for extraterrestrials, but she did enjoy taking pictures and movies whenever something interesting was going on. Though she did wish to photograph aliens and cryptids, leading to her tagging along with everyone on an alien or cryptid outing.

As for the sourpusses, the red-haired girl was Ingūna Sanhueza, the normal one so to say, unless cryptids were the topic of discussion. Then she was just as nerdy as everyone else. The remaining girl, Inmaculada Sepúlveda, was often regarded as the most normal, due to her lack of obsession with the occult. However, she was secretly a conspiracy theory nerd, though she didn't let that slip out as she feared anyone could be watching, and trusted no one.

After deciding that they'd face each other in hopes of one being plunged into the blueberry juice, Aya and Laia got in line. As they waited, they watched all before them face off. One was an Armenian woman with yellow and red hair named Arpine Pakradouni, who mercilessly felled her Argentine challenger, Rosa Rivero, a pink-haired woman who instantly became a sticky and blue woman after being plunged into the blueberry juice.

As she was spat out into the kiddie pool, her teammates, Fiorella Otero, Catalina Vásquez, and Silvina Varela, gathered around her and began throwing her into the air.

"Look who's finally matching us in blue," Silvina giggled as Rosa landed in her arms.

"Not quite the same shade of blue, but better than nothing," Catalina smiled as Rosa was tossed up once more.

"Ironic she wears pink despite being such a megafan, while Inez wears light blue but hates football for some messed up reason," Fiorella frowned as she glanced towards Inez, who was watching in annoyance from a nearby table.

"Pink's just my jam. Same must be for Inez. Or maybe... She's a tsundere and secretly loves football," Rosa smiled as she was caught by her teammates once more.

That was not the case though. Inez truly hated the sport, which naturally put her at odds with her teammates, all of whom were massive soccer fans. As such, she'd often try to distance herself from them whenever possible as fraternizing with them would often lead to her becoming annoyed.

"Why are they celebrating? She lost the match and got humiliated," Inez thought as she munched on a burger.

"Hmm, looks like you're eating well," a voice giggled.

Inez let out a shriek and tumbled out of her chair, angrily looking up to notice Muazzez standing before her. "The hell'd you spook me for, baldy?"

"Just thought I'd check up to see how you were fairing after ole Raspy got ya."

"I've been eating just fine. Now piss off."

"Don't wanna, I wanna flirt with ya," Muazzez giggled as she pulled Inez up off the ground.

"And I don't wanna."

"Too bad, I just booked us to be on a team in 6B. And our opponents our really good, so we're probably gonna end up all sticky and blue. But that's the fun of it."

"And I said hell no!"

But Muazzez didn't care and began dragging Inez towards the line. The sight of the line gave Inez some hope they'd be stuck waiting long enough for her to try and escape, but sadly, her opponents, Kazakhstan's Allura Zhumagaziyeva and Alina Japarova, were already in position.

"WHO'S READY FOR SOME MORE HEAD N' HAND!?" D.R. Passant shouted.

There was no backing out now, and worse, Inez was designated as the head, meaning Muazzez could choose to deliberately misinterpret her orders. As for the other team, the mischievous Allura was the head, meaning Alina was at her mercy. Allura was most certainly in the mood to take a dip in the blueberry juice, but that would have to wait as she ordered Alina to open by moving a pawn, to which Alina responded to by moving her pawn to e4.

"Don't mess this up. Pawn," Inez growled.

Muazzez smiled and moved her pawn to f6, horrifying Inez. "THAT BITCH! I tell her to move a pawn, she'll Fool's Mate us!" she thought.

"Pawn," Allura smirked as Alina moved her pawn to d4.

Too scared to risk it, Inez ordered Muazzez to move the knight, resulting in it being placed on c6. The other team also decided to move the knight, with Alina choosing to move it to c3. Still weary of calling out "Pawn", Inez instead did something radical and ordered Muazzez to move the king. F7 was the only square it could go, and while he position was worse, at least the threat of a Fool's mate was averted.

"Trying to disrespect Allura? Not happening! Pawn," Allura called out as Alina moved her pawn to d5.

Inez scowled and ordered Muazzez to move the knight, resulting in it being moved back to b8. Allura then ordered the bishop to be moved, resulting in it being moved to c4, and then, Inez ordered the pawn to be moved, and the pawn to g5 move she had been dreading was on the board.

"You bitch! I knew you'd play that!" Inez fumed as Allura began to chuckle.

"Queen."

"Sorry girls, but it's the deep blue sea for you. Check," Alina smirked as she moved her queen to h5.

Since the only legal move was king to g7, Inez didn't really need to say anything, but she did anyway. "King. You bitch, you're trying to screw me over again."

"'Again'?"

"Yes, again. First was-"

"Sorry ladies, but Allura doesn't want to hear this drama. Pawn," Allura scoffed as Alina moved her pawn to h4.

"Pawn," Inez grumbled as Muazzez captured the pawn at h4 with her g-pawn.

"Pawn," Allura smirked as Alina got the message and moved her pawn to d6.

Now Inez began to sweat. She couldn't risk moving a pawn, for if she did, Muazzez might blunder them into mate on purpose, thus, she ordered Muazzez to move the queen to the only square it could move to, e8.

"Allura says queen," Allura smiled as Alina captured the queen at e8 with her queen.

Inez gritted her teeth and stared at the board. "Shit! she needs to go pawn e6 to save our asses. Ugh, might as well go for it," she thought. "Pawn."

Muazzez nodded and moved her pawn to b5, allowing the other team to make an easy mate.

"I KNEW THIS SHIT WOULD HAPPEN!" Inez fumed as Muazzez began giggling.

"Allura thanks you for the payday. Queen," Allura smiled.

"Checkmate. Sorry, but your bald girlfriend wants you both blue, and I don't say no to love," Alina smiled as she moved her queen to f7.

"YOU BITCH! SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIIIIEEEEEND!" Inez cried as she and Muazzez fell into the blueberry juice.

The two were then sucked through the room before being spat ou into the kiddie pool, sticky and blue.

"EW! EW! WASH THIS SHIT OFF ME!" Inez cried.

"Nope, they say this stuff stains for 24 hours before you can attempt to wash it off. Now, its sexy time," Muazzez cooed as she attempted to make out with Inez.

"GET THIS BITCH OFF OF ME!"

Allura meanwhile found herself confronted by a woman with short brunette hair.

"What? Allura can have fun!" Allura pouted.

"And if you became blue for 24 hours?"

"I see no problem," a well-dressed woman with short brunette hair that obscured her right eye, snarled as she took a sip of her drink.

"Ever the miser, Marias," a woman with short black hair smiled.

"Yeah, we can have fun here. In fact, how about I challenge you next, Zhazira?" Alina smirked.

The brunette-haired girl flinched in discomfort. Her name was Zhazira Ismagulova. She was the DSPCM of Almaty as well as Allura's manager. Most of her life was wrought with stress, dealing with Allura's antics. Her black-haired teammate was a fellow DSPCM, hailing from Astana named, Zylija Azovskaya. Zylija was a successful business woman and current premier of Kazakhstan, having defeated Allura's father in a recent election. The remaining woman was Marias Niyazimibetova, Kazakhstan's current top female chess player, who was constantly feeling threatened about being overtaken by younger talent.

As Zhazira began to tremble, Allura smirked and nudged her towards Alina. "Allura will bet against you. Have fun."

Before Zhazira could protest, Alina grabbed her arm and dragged her towards the line. "Guess Allura's gonna owe me another one for babysitting her maid. Hmm, wonder what parfait I'll have her buy me for the week," Alina thought.

The full game:

White: Head: Allura Zhumagaziyeva (2305) Hand: Alina Japarova (2367) Black: Head: Inez Pereya (2216) Hand: Muazzez Başak (2269)

1. e4 f6

2. d4 Nc6

3. Nc3 Kf7

4. d5 Nb8

5. Bc4 g5

6. Qh5+ Kg7

7. h4 gxh4

8. d6 Qe8

9. Qxe8 b5

10. Qf7#