I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 167: Folding

Such a sight was scary but not exactly anything he wasn't used to. So the young one began flapping fins randomly, portraying a semi-desperate struggle to get out of the way. He did not know how dangerous a bite from one of these enemies could be, neither did he care to figure out.

The half meter fish ended up bashing against the coral, specifically at the hero's former position. Timothy had the time to get mostly out of the way, but it wasn't enough. Since he had decided to swim up, the white-coloured enemy had bashed against the little one's tail.

[Health, -3 points]

[Total health = 89/110]

Such pain was definitely not anything he wanted to tolerate. Although in numbers it didn't sound drastic, tail pain was almost paralysing - mainly because it was his primary weaponry.

Raging beyond measure, the sea-pancake abruptly shook his head to gain a bit more focus. His flat lips curled into an ugly frown once locking eyes with the enemy's back. It was still regaining some senses, because a bash against hard and often sharp coral, wasn't great on the noggin.

Using the opportunity, he charged against the enemy and landed the barb straight through its spine. That's when a sharp pain followed along. Typically, breaking through soft bones and flesh wasn't damaging to the barb - but in this case, his tail was damaged and using it has a bad aftermath.

Terrible timing to have such an injury, the enemies weren't yet slaughtered and the white-legged shrimp in this specific area were close to being flattened by these half meter long fish.

Regardless of these horrible circumstances, the young one continued fighting but this time avoided using the barb. Instead he went against the same enemy who was underneath him, and began putting in those powerful jaws into use.

Typically, several bites within a second would inflict so much burning pain on an enemy, that a sense of disorientation would barge in. Stamina would run low as well due to the often pale effort to fight the pain.

But brief damage wasn't what the hero was going for. Instead, he lunged and dug jaws against the enemy's spine. This one was tougher to munch through but after hanging on for a few seconds, he took a mouthful of bones from the enemy.

Struggle erupted amongst the waters, it was clear that such delivered damage was far stronger than anything this lousy fish had experienced! It tried to swim forward but it was a pale attempt. Because once moving the tail, it flinched in pain and within a few tries later, it was followed along by a shiver!

This enemy will be as good as dead soon, or at least rendered immobile to the point of not being able to fight! So rage was replaced with confidence as the young hero charged towards another enemy that swam close by.

His tail was still aching and using it previously had obviously made everything worse. So as an alternative but surely effective option, he once more used the jaws against the enemy. And just now had noticed that they had a thin black line that ran just below the spine, from one end of the fish to the other.

This species was truly beautiful although Haddock was weird for a name, it was a bit of a shame that they had to be put down for good. He tried to bite this one through the spine as well but destiny seemed to have other plans. Because instead, Tim had just dug close the enemy's front fins.

It wasn't exactly any damage worth talking about, he didn't even find any bones through this bite. But it was too late to land another bite because the enemy had turned around and was looking for trouble.

Gazing around, he noticed that a couple of haddocks have been killed already, it was obvious that the shrimp had dealt such damage. But it wasn't enough because 4 more of them were up and swimming around like the maddened fish they were, a bright green light was glowing through their eyes.

This reminded the sea-pancake what the whole deal of this situation was, domination. Either side could have attacked which unlocked such a gruesome battle. But considering that there weren't many shrimp around, it was more likely that the holy-tar members had started this battle.

He didn't know when reinforcements would arrive but right now there were 4 enemies who craved to rip the boy apart, one of them was charging straight forward. Although the sea-disk's tail was damaged, his fins weren't.

So with a rough splash against the sea waters, he leaped upwards like a startled mammal. The enemy continued charging forward and smashed against coral, simply because such body mass wouldn't grant control once attaining too much speed.

That was one fish he wouldn't need to worry about for a few more seconds. So he charged towards another fish who was close by, this one, just a second ago, had decided to fight against the remaining white-legged shrimp.

Such a situation was an advantage, simply because the enemy was distracted. And so the hero charged towards this specific fish and already started clapping jaws for the sake of landing a gruesome bite.

But in a split second he was greeted by an enemy who timed an attack well enough. It had charged against the young stingray and bashed against the boy's fin! Which in exchange had managed to spoil his attack and orientation, as the strike was simply too much.

[Health, -5 bars]

[Total health = 84/110]

At this point, it had struck the boy how important the secondary upgrades were. Because how much damage could he have received here if his bodily durability wasn't upgraded to 20 points?

After spinning like a disk for a few times, a bit of orientation was regained. The enemy who had stricken him was still charging forward, its momentum wasn't damaged which made the hero feel like a rock in the road.

"What I would do to have Haze here right now." He expressed, the urge he had was for the enemy to be folded like paper but that wasn't possible.