Fighting For Our Lives! 2

[Time remaining: 5 minutes]

Inside the rocky walls only Shara was conscious enough to keep fighting. The eel was still stunned while the lobster laid down on the sand like it was dead.

"Wake the hell up, you two!" Shara sliced the tentacle trying to slither inside the rock's opening and threw it towards the lobsters direction.

The still wiggling tentacle flopped down next to the lobster. It weakly raised a claw and dragged the tentacle to it's mandibles. It was so weak that it didn't even have enough energy to bite it's food but it remained persistent and just swallowed the large chucks of meat whole, not even bothering to chew it first.

The eel was slowly starting to gain back it's consciousness. It's head hurt so much that it couldn't move an inch of its muscle without being assaulted by terrible pain cursing throughout it's entire body like electricity. It blinked a few times to get rid of it's blurry vision before slowly opening it's eyes and saw someones back turned to it.

It was the shrimp they met. The eel turned it's head with effort and took a good look at what was happening.

The shrimp was doing her best to prevent the monsters outside from getting inside their defenses. She sliced, pierced, cut, and bit everything that got too close to her. Every move she made was filled with so much aggression and anger which enabled her to strike with explosive power she otherwise would never have been able to exert in her current condition.

But the eel could see how the shrimp would occasionally recoil in pain after she accidentally bumps into something and how she would slip up when attacking and get hurt instead. The shrimp was exhausted and in pain, the eel clearly sees that.

Then, it had a realization.

'If she dies here, we will die along with her.' the eel's heart dropped. It didn't wanna die. It doesn't know what sin it had committed in it's life to be plunged into this hell they were in now, but it wasn't just gonna give up.

It wanted to live.

Ignoring the stinging pain in its body, the eel propelled itself towards Shara with it's mouth open!

'In order for my chances of survival to increase...'  The eel's eyes flashed in a dangerous red glint as it sped up towards her, ready to clamp down on some meat and level up!

It's teeth blurred as it bit down the monster that had sneaked behind Shara! The sardine type of monster squirmed and turned at the eel's mouth, yet it's grip remained firm and grew tighter and tighter.

SNAP!

A faint sounds resonated inside the sardine's body and it's struggles quickly stopped as it turned limp.

The eel sneered at the sneaky monster and swallowed it. It then noticed Shara staring at it and it nodded towards her.

"I've got your back." The eel tried to tell her but all that came out of it's mouth was an indistinguishable growl.

The eel was not an idiot. If it had actually killed her, then they would loose their only chance of ever getting out of here alive. It knew that she wanted the three of them to work together, so of course it was going to cooperate with her.

Shara did a quick nod in response as thanks before turning back to defending. Her attacks getting bolder and more calculated at the reassurance of a comrade. She didn't know what the eel said, but she could somehow feel the meaning of what it was trying to convey to her.

At first, she thought the eel had turned against her and was going to kill her when she saw that it wasn't actually planning on killing her. It actually saved her life by killing the monster which has sneaked up behind her without her notice, and for that she felt grateful.

They heard a strange chirping sound behind then and saw that the lobster was now up. It wanted to join in the battle too.

The eel had already gone up and charged towards the small monsters. It's sharp teeth would easily pierced through their scales and rip through their flesh.

The lobster raised it's claws and wrestled against the shelled monsters that crawled on the floor.

 Shara didn't even notice these crustacean monsters underneath her as she was too busy fighting off the bigger and stronger monsters. She realized that these monsters were the reason why her bottom half was also taking damage even though she didn't see any monsters hiting her there.

Her large body also made it possible for her to ignore and throw off the smaller fish monsters, so she wasn't really all that bothered by them. Though their attacks did hurt her.

Now that the eel was chasing off the small monsters and the lobster was now taking care of the monster under her, she could now focus on fighting away the more problematic monsters. The special ones who commands their own hoard of low level monsters.

A Superior class monster.

Although these monsters seemed like the Boss, they were not. They were levels lower than an actual Boss monster so at Shara's current level, she should be able to deal with a number of them. She just hoped that there wasn't a lot of them, she knew that she couldn't take on that many.

She saw a tentacle hurling towards her right and a Velosteous dashing towards her left. Both were carrying a vicious amount of strength in them, their attacks going in for a quick kill!

Shara's mandible gritted. "Don't underestimate me!" her beady eyes easily following their attacks.

After being inside this hellish fight for what felt like an hour to her, when the low level monsters were attacking her, she had to strain her mind to react quickly to attacks that was aiming to hit her vitals. She could just ram against the dumber ones, but every now and then a monster would figure out her weak spot and she would have to defend against them.

But now that she was free of distractions, her focus became sharper! She also slowly started to figure out the Superiors' attack pattern and where their vitals were located. Now, she could confidently throw an attack that would deal critical against these monsters!

Shara timed her rhythm with the tentacle's and Velosteous' speed. Her mind quickly turned on its gears and time seemed to slow down for her.

The Velosteous was about to snap it's mouth on her side when she raised her scythe and smacked it in the head, the impact pushing it downwards and Shara upwards.

She twisted her body and avoided the hurling tentacle. When it's attack missed her, the rest of it's long tentacles was now outstretched and out for her to attack.

With as much violence as she can manifest, her scythe swung down and cut the tentacle on half!

Writhing in pain, the owner of the tentacle quickly retracted all of its tentacles. Now, only her and the Superior Velosteous was left inside.

The moment the tentacle blocking her  view has left, the Velosteous hidden by the tentacles shot out towards her with such speed that it almost turned into a blur!

However, Shara had already expected this and raised her scythe in response. Only one of them was going to hit the final blow!

"SCREEEEEE!!" Shara screeched in anger before angling her scythe in a specific way and thrusting down with adrenaline driven viciousness!

Blood was spewed and a corpse floated listlessly in the water.

Shara's scythe had pierced through the Velosteous' brain and it's body remained hanging off of her. She removed her scythe and let the corpse fall down on the sand floor.

[Time remaining: 3 seconds.]

At the death of their Superior, every low level Velosteous in the area froze.

Then, as if they were blinded by wrath, their eyes glowed red and they all howled an ear piercing screeched all at once!

Shara, the lobster, and the eel snapped their heads up in surprise. They were confused for a few seconds before realizing what was happening.

"I forgot about this part..." Shara whispered.

[You have killed a Superior Velosteous!]

[All the monsters serving under the Superior Velosteous will now be coming after you!]

When a Superior monster is killed, all the low level monsters assigned to them would go into a crazed state which was dubbed by the Players as, the Berserker!

The Velosteous' slowly turned their heads towards Shara and her heart began to raise. Then they all lunged at her with surging murderous intent!

The eel was quick to react as it propelled itself to her and swung out it's tail towards the crazed monsters like a whip!

[Time remaining: 2 seconds.]

Many Velosteos was hit by the tail whip and they were pushed back by the heavy impact!

The lobster also wanted to help out. Gathering all of its strength unto it's tail, it slammed it's tail on the floor and it's body shot up to the water!

The lobster grabbed and unsuspecting Velosteos and dragged it down with it.

The Velosteos was taken by surprise and didn't avoid in time before it's head was grabbed by the lobster and was pulled down along with it.

Although they were a level lower than Shara, they're body was heavy and bulky! An advantage that Shara's small and light shrimp body didn't have!

[Time remaining: 1 second.]

Shara also didn't waste her time just standing around and attacked all the low level Velosteos!

Many monsters which got too close to her were all nicely sliced and decapitated by her as she aimed towards their weak spots!

"Just turn zero already!" Shara screeched in panic.

Her body was starting to show signs of fatigue and so did the other two Players.

If they slip up here, they might get crit by these monsters!

"WWRRAAAAAA!!"

A distorted roar rang out in pain. The eel violently struggled to get out of a tentacles tight grip. The eels slippery body didn't work on the tentacles strong suckers and it was tightly kept in place.

Something inside Shara stirred in anger at seeing her comrade being attacked and she quickly swam towards the eel and raised her scythe to cut down the tentacles!

The lobster also launched itself towards the eel with its claws out, ready to rip the tentacles apart!

The tentacles grip tightened on the eels body and it was slowly turning limp.

Shara swung her scythe down and the lobster snapped down its claws shut!

[Time remaining: 0 seconds.]

The tentacles were sliced in half and it released the eel just in time.

[The Main Scenario has ended!]

[Every Players who survived will be taken to their own respective spawn points.]

A honking sound one would usually hear at the end of a countdown rang out and their visions flashed.

Then everything became white.