I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 229: No kidding

The team had managed to chew through most of the crab carcass, using it as a fine meal. Well, Osira had eaten throughout more than half of the whole thing since she was the biggest here. Regardless, it was fair to say that all of them were well fed now.

Irritation began slowly converting into joy, as most creatures find it easy to appreciate anything that brings them food. Now they had motivation to continue the initial task, searching for a nurse shark can help bring everything back on track. josei

And that was exactly what they did, although it took them another half hour to find one that wanted to cooperate.

Dana was asked to guard the same stingray who spooked away a shark of the same species before, these two friends remained behind as far as possible, while Gerlach was on the front.

He managed to cooperate with one of these bottom-dwelling sharks, and asked the same question he did from before when everything went to hell.

The same shark answered and directed them deeper towards the west, where apex predators likely lurked in every corner. This was expected, so it didn't really spike excitement.

But yet clearly the risks were increasing by following this path. At least the fish who was asked for directions, felt rather certain that there was a shark with a missing front fin, who was living deeper towards the west.

All thoughts aside, it was enough to keep their confidence going for this task, so they began swimming towards the said direction a bit faster.

To avoid getting lost, they swam just a few meters away from the borderline. Although it often curled left and right, it was still a single line that separated deep waters from the shallow side, so its worth can never be underestimated.

After they had attained the directions, this team of four had traveled a couple of kilometres towards the west and felt quite tired because of it, but they had to go on.

It seemed like a good idea to hunt for a bit of food once more, for the sake of attaining more energy even though they had eaten earlier.

And it seemed like the environment here was great to do such a thing, so they began swimming a bit higher above the sand, for the sake of picking out a fish to hunt.

There were quite a few hundred fish here in a mile-wide radius, they couldn't swim ten meters without a fish blessing their vision.

It was easy to notice a few sharks, but they were lesser in this area; perhaps a quarter less in comparison to what they had faced just a few hours earlier.

This had allowed them to lower their senses, as there weren't countless sharks trying to rip through them in every given second.

After a while, they firmly decided to hunt down a great barracuda. The number of species here seemed countless, but Tim knew for a fact that barracudas can raise health, although he didn't need it for that reason.

Right when Osira was about to shoot the target down, they felt a strong disruption throughout the waters.

It started off from their left side and it felt rather bizarre to comprehend. Such a startle felt confusing, because every fish was heading towards them, yet the problem was that they weren't even attacking anyone!

The best hint that one could attain from such circumstances, was that something had spooked these fish!

Yet they weren't seeing any marine animal that was large enough, to push over a hundred fish through chaos!

They didn't see any blood in the area either, so this chaos couldn't be any crave for hunger - nothing was related to what the group had experienced so far, in this new territory.

And the time to think had run out, because these fish had gotten too close and began bumping against them. One small collision wouldn't be enough to push the group out of orientation, but once bumping against tens of them, all at the same time, things began feeling dangerous.

Especially since a few larger fish had tail-slapped the hero into half consciousness, this one might have been a dolphin as it didn't exactly aim to be dangerous.

Within a moment, they felt a strong tug which took them hostage. And just now had Timothy began understanding what was going on, this wasn't a foreign feeling.

For a start, every fish that was close to them was approaching more and more, personal space did not exist here!

And once the hero noticed that they were all heading towards a specific direction, although neither of these fish were properly swimming, the best guess was that something was physically pushing them all!

After feeling certain of what was going on, he yelled. "We're in a net!"

But it felt like a waste of time to say anything, because the commotion that these fishes caused, was enough to muffle all sounds that could be made by a mere boy.

With that considered, he began fighting through the bundles of fish that were taking his freedom hostage, and managed to find Dana.

The sea-pancake's vision was still as bad as ever, but he could easily see a thick net that was made from plastic.

And thanks to all those bones that the lady had exposed to the world, she became the most entangled creature here! The layer of green-light that she was surrounded with, didn't prove helpful, when it came to keeping the net away from her bones.

"We're stuck in a net!" He shouted once he got uncomfortably close to the lady.

"Yeah, no kidding!" She answered back, yelling with all her power for the sake of being heard.

That was when they spotted Osira swimming towards them from the other side of the net, seemingly free to move around, and with the mantis shrimp hanging on her spiny dorsal fin.

The black-grouper wanted to say something and kept yelling it out too, but the struggle that every other fish was putting in here, made it difficult to hear a single word!

And a moment after, a small sized ship had swam high above their heads. And it was loud enough to out-compete any other tone.

That was when the couple of stingrays felt a strong tug against their bodies, as the net was being pulled fast enough to make Osira disappear in the distance!