I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 221: Sharks

It was easy for anyone to notice this foul enemy, and everyone was bracing for impact or at least waiting for Osira to unleash another ball of black-light that would surely obliterate this predator.

But contrary to all expectations, a special little mantis shrimp had leaped off the black-grouper's back with speeds that were rather admirable.

The amount of power he had put behind that jump, had forced the lady he was laying over, to do a backflip. She was tossed a good couple of feet behind even, but thankfully wasn't injured in any way.

He pierced through waters like a bullet who was launched with an excessive amount of gunpowder. Yet his momentum still met with a halt just after a few seconds, he was now half way from reaching the enemy.

But that was when he surprised everyone around. Because even though he had no solid surface to implant his legs on, the little creature managed to barge forward once more with speeds that were lesser in comparison to the last leap, but still powerful.

Within those few seconds, he reached the shark who had long since noticed the shrimp. Upon instinct, the enemy had opened its mouth and expected to land an easy kill.

It only led to hearing a thud reverberating across the area, which was strong enough to numb all pain sensors that a shark could have. As that little geezer had gone through the enemy's jaws, pierced the inner flesh of the enemy's mouth and reached all the way to the brain.

As for the team who were watching this good moment of action, all they could see was a line of blood emerging on the front and the back of the shark's head; which later on began spreading around thickly in all directions, before completely dissipating in the salty sea.

The enemy had died with its mouth open, and Gerlach was simply standing on top of the minorly exploded shark-head.

From that distance of fifteen-meters or so, he shouted. "I can't swim all the way there, come get me."

It was even more encouraging for the old man to stay on that shark, after taking a peek towards the bottom of the ocean. Which seemed dark enough to be considered as endless, they were floating near the border after all.

The group arrived eventually and it was noticeable that they were all hungry. So Timothy, who was being notoriously known for determining if food is poisonous, just by taking a bite of it: moved forward and munched the slaughtered shark.

While the old man cited, "Go for the head next time, Osira. These sharks can't do anything if they don't have a brain."

"Noted." The lady answered, actually appreciating the advice since it sounded new.

While on the other side of this group, the system began announcing a few rays of specifics that had to do with this carcass.

[Mako-shark identified, this species has effects that will lower your health so I recommend you avoid it]

Dana heard the system speak as well, but she didn't really need to eat anything so this didn't bother her to the slightest. But it could surely affect the others to a certain extent, so she didn't plan to fight whatever the sea-pancake was about to say.

That was when the system carrying stingray, cited. "This shark is pretty much poisonous, let's find something else to eat."

They believed him blindly of course, so it wasn't difficult for them to meet an agreement. Hunger wasn't a big problem and it hadn't kicked in strong enough yet since it was still early morning.

Gerlach was peeking around in the meantime, and stated. "It's best if we get out of here quicker."

Afterwards he lifted his marvelously sturdy arms towards the higher portions of the sea and cited, "There are a few sharks who want this food."

"It's weird how sharks don't mind being cannibals." Osira followed up as they slowly swam away towards the shallow waters.

Such a statement made the hero think about lobsters and shrimps, which made him express. "It's actually pretty common."

Dana was swimming behind them and she didn't enjoy how the grouper was floating so close to Timothy. That was why she tried to squeeze in between the two, but her rows of fin-bones ended up scratching both of them a little bit.

It managed to disrupt their swimming pace a little bit, but they didn't consider it as a problem and showed a bit of sympathy too, as the bony-lady couldn't exactly see so clearly.

The mantis shrimp was glancing at the little lady. And judging from all the expressions that were forced on that bony-face, it was clear that jealousy was blooming from one side of the stick. Such a cute gesture had made the old man smile, this was adorable to watch.

Timmy opened up a topic in the meantime after they reached portions where sand was just a foot below their bodies.

He wanted to remind them of something that he did not want to forget, "Snoopy told me that the shark we're looking for, has a missing front fin."

"Pelvic fin is the name you're looking for." The geezer was quick to add his own thoughts in.

"Wow that matters." The latter answered, trying to squeeze in as much sass as possible.

And then he got back to the point, "Anyway we should stalk every shark for a while until we find one with a missing fin. There are a lot of sharks around here so we have much work to do."

"We should try to be safe." Dana added while swimming from behind, trying to sound smart.

Before any further references were given, Osira's senses tingled as she yelled out. "Shark!"

The mantis shrimp stalked the perimeter for a short second and spotted the charging predator, coming narrowly from above.

He didn't say anything and just waited for the monstrosity to get closer, and once it had reached just fifteen-meters away, he sprung into action.

The power he put behind that leap, had managed to push the black-grouper downwards with a force that was strong enough to nail her against the sand, causing a small dust cloud!