I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 237: Island (3)

The old man became utterly shocked, as there was a stunning fourteen-foot-long great white shark, laying across a pile of fish! Of course he didn't have a proper way of measuring the carcass, but this thing was absolutely massive!

It was so fat that it became difficult to understand how a mere human could have beached such a monster. Finding this thing, had helped convince the geezer, that he had indeed found the actual killer.

But what managed to become fairly demotivating, was what he discovered after further observation. This shark was injured for sure, it was dead; but it wasn't missing any fins!

Instead it had a hole through its forehead, so chances were that it had been speared earlier on, but these fishermen had not taken its fins for some reason. Confusing at least, but another dilemma was being given attention towards right now.

This could not be the shark who had killed the hero's family, it can't be! If it was, this beast should be missing a pelvic-fin if not both of them!

Even for a wise old man, this situation began feeling a bit tricky to handle. Sure he could search through the rest of this small island, but would it really be worth the time?

If they didn't strip a massive shark out of fins, chances are that they are for some reason, sparing the body parts of other great-whites as well. So this portion was quite conflicting.

While he contemplated what to do, chaos erupted from the side of the island where he had emerged from!

The first thought he had, was that Timothy had done something stupid, the idea itself didn't seem impossible. But one peek towards the commotion, helped figure out that the situation was entirely different!

Because another massive great-white-shark had erupted out of the ocean waters! For some reason, that had forced human screams to reverberate through the island!

Upon further observation, it was easy to notice that these beastly marine animals, had attacked one of these humans!

The intent behind such an act was difficult and yet easy to understand. The shark might have wanted revenge, but who would be dumb enough to beach themselves for such a crave? That seemed stupid even for a shark.

"Most intriguing." The old man muttered, as he took a single second to observe the sudden chaos.

It became more understandable regarding why this attack was happening, after the same shark managed to wiggle back towards the sea waters. And of course, the beast had taken that unlucky human away with it.

Even though this situation seemed bizarre, it also meant that Gerlach's plan of exploration had met an end. Simply because he needs to enter the waters as soon as possible, to find the rest of the group.

His aim was to protect them. Because in such commotion, spears and jaws would envelop the environment, it wasn't the best place to be outnumbered.

With all of his crawling abilities, the shrimp charged towards the sea-waters and wanted to taste salt as fast as possible.

But when he was half way to reaching the destination, the same shark had beached itself again!

But the commotion had erupted over ten meters away from where the little geezer was crawling, so he was not harmed by this scene whatsoever. Likewise, that beast had taken another human as a victim!

However this time, the massive fish had brought along another shark, who was a couple of feet shorter in size. This one had also managed to inflict pain against a human, but it only managed to grasp the fisherman's leg!

Such an attack was tremendously painful for the victim, but it became entirely lethal when the same attacker, managed to drag the prey down through the sea-waters!

Blood was coating the surface that was near the beach, and this was when the old man feared that Osira could lose her grasp of rationality, again.

He didn't know if human blood would drag the lady towards such a lust, but it might be a good idea to go and calm that good friend down.

After he finally reached close to the waters, he noticed that a human had gained enough courage to approach the biggest shark! The large one was struggling to enter the waters this time, so it had dug itself in a bit of a sticky pickle.

Without thinking twice about it, Gerlach leaped upwards and pierced through the nearby human's thigh! One of these air-breathers wanted him fried anyway, so returning the favour didn't feel odd.

Considering what momentum the old man attained, just through a simple leap; it was understable how a line of blood blessed the air, before it landed on the sand to dry out.

Such an impact, had managed to push the human through a loud scream, that featured desperate pain!

The spear was dropped as well, so the massive shark had been given a few more seconds of time to chew through the human it had captured with its jaws.

A small dust cloud had been caused from where the mantis shrimp had leaped, it was explainable considering what speed he had.

And it also explained how he was still flying, close to splashing against the sea waters.

Throughout the attack, the old man spoke out. "Serves you right, greedy twig!"

But before he caused a small little splash through the water's surface, he and the shark had managed to lock eyes for a quick second.

It was difficult to decide how he should feel about this, but his biggest hope was that the shark had appreciated this bit of help.

Regardless of that fact, he had landed on the waters now and seeked his friends. For a second he worried that these sharks had eaten the group, but that worry had diminished a bit later.

Because the black-grouper was charging towards him, and her intents were easy to figure out. The good lady had arrived to pick the old man up, she understood that Gerlach was not the fastest swimmer or crawler, so to speak.

In a few seconds they rejoined the group, and the team was sharing similar thoughts, as they peeked at the three sharks who were raining chaos against these humans.

And suddenly, Timothy was the only one clear minded enough to put a plan together, with the aid of a short sentence. "We need to check if they're missing a fin!"