Chapter 56: Teamwork
Looking down, he could see the very coral of which this beast clashed into, collapsing!
Shattered at the very bottom and the effects of it going up like the domino effect, the main point that led this collapse was very close to where the enemy had head butted it.
Seeing just how much damage a head bud from this beast can cause, Tim felt a hunch more sad about the blacktipped grouper whom took a bullet for him.
But now the prime focus was on the enemy, he could see the very coral collapsing over the large fish!
The beautiful red coral that was shaped like a circle, shattered in 3 main pieces and one of them fell right on the tough fish's back!
Even a moron at this point would understand that the enemy had been restricted by the collapse, seeing her bash the caudal fin around in utter desperation assured such thought.
So Timmy charged directly to the enemy, with the prime thought of noticing that the risk factors have been sliced in half.
Soon as the sea pancake reached just a couple of feet away from the enemy, he gave a massive burst of power on his left fin and felt the entire body twist to the right mid swim, behaving like a frisbee.
Such a move made the boy's backside land directly on the fish's head. With a swing of that marvellous barb, he had landed a horrible kiss right on the enemy's only working eye.
Swimming a foot more away, he could hear more struggle as the enemy shouted. "Your soul can't escape the holy tar!"
"Aha sure." Timothy answered and lended a view towards the enemy's spine.
The humpback had been struck with coral and the damage from it was in all terms hard to carry for a fish whom carried her weak spot right on that body part.
Unwilling to wait until the enemy can break loose from these chains that mother nature threw over her, Tim landed right on the hump.
And then moved that vicious tail of his, striking the enemy 3 times right on the hump!
Such pain forced the large anglerfish to yell out and put an attempt to fight, but it wasn't enough to break free.
So Timmy landed on her once more and continued stabbing the back, landing 5 more strikes!
"Enough!" The enemy shouted, and flinched her chest backwards and the tail right towards the front.
Which as a result, made the humpback release enough power to launch Tim about 15 feet away from her and the coral was moved enough to aid breaking free.
Spotting the enemy slowly rise, facing the boy directly although blind, all he could say was. "Well shit."
But then heard an excruciatingly loud tone coming from the front, citing. "I'm Konon!"
And a similar tone following up. "I'm Koob!"
Such an entrance got the two opponents confused, even Tim who had known these pufferfish for a long time.
A few seconds more of analysing was all the brothers needed to land their prime attack!
Well... it didn't really cause much damage. One of them clashed against the enemy's left side and the other clashed on the right.
But due to being small and plumpy, the effect was minimalistic. But then, all of a sudden...
Puff!
The brothers unleashed their most dangerous weaponry against the enemy with one inhale of the water around them, sucking in as much as they could carry.
A second later, the big bad enemy was captivated with more than a few dull spikes whom prime motive was to unleash poison!
"Ah!" The old enemy humpback shouted, apparently not tough enough to endure the boiling effects of poison.
Through the midst of that horrid shout, Timmy could see some memorable characteristics. Thin to be more exact...
The needlefish siblings seemed to be carrying what one can call a massive red plate, but no, it was just a 40 centimeter wide crab!
Near the siblings, stood a small pack of pufferfish carrying a couple more of those large crabs.
A few seconds later, the crabs were tossed right on the enemy's back and the thud once these beings landed those pointy claws on the hump, was hearable.
Unwilling to give this massive fish a chance to fight back, these crabs started bashing their pointy and yet strong claws all across that back.
These dungeness crabs showed no remorse, regardless how much the anglerfish yelled on each strike, these tough bastards kept bashing their tough claws a few inches deep in the hump.
Since they are too big, one crab had to hang on the beast's tail with one claw and stab with the other... one could easily tell that getting constantly stabbed in or around the anus was nothing good to experience.
Filtering out that shouts have become lesser, Tim charged right towards the enemy and sunk his jaws right on the head, taking a chunk off.
And then he took another, unwilling to miss the opportunity of taming this beast into submission.
About 5 bites later, the enemy lost her set of balance and therefore all of the crabs fell off the enemy and landed on the coral, although it didn't really deal them any damage considering how tough their whole body was.
Still hanging on the enemy, he finally heard the system specify. [Humpback anglerfish killed, 20 system points have been added in your collection.]
[Since this fish is abnormally large compared to any fish of her species, you get rewarded 40 more system points.]
[Total system points = 143]
"Haha! That's kind of a cheat, these crabs basically slaughtered this old hag." Tim debated but the idea of earning so much points felt more than great.
[Eating this entire fish can grant the following effects.]
[Effect on health, -500 bars.]
[Effect on hunger, -100 bars.]
[Effect on sleep, -300 bars.]
[Effect on stamina, -200 bars.]
[This fish had been poisoned and had bad effects before it as well. System heavily recommends to not consume it.]
Upon hearing such foul statistics, he thought. "So glad I didn't swallow any chunk."
But then a thought hit his head, "Wait..."