[Long fish]

When Obsi woke up again he was greeted by a serene quiet. For a second he thought that Karka went hunting again before realising she was still sleeping besides him.

Moving slowly as to not wake her he moved to the cave entrance to check what was happening.

Sensing nothing in a 90 meter radius he started moving. After a few seconds of moving in one direction he sensed something.

Moving closer to get a better read on it he started making out details. It was massive, 8 meters across, covered in scales and spikes that seemed to drip poison heavier than water and it was moving.

The absurdity of the thing took Obsi a second to realise. This thing was a living being, a gigantic living being. This thing had scared off all their potential prey.

Taking a minute to calm down and not panic Obsi observed it a little more. He realised that it was moving deeper and doing so fast. Considering that they were at least a kilometer deep in the water it made sense something like this would go deeper, but then why was it near the surface in the first place?

As he wondered what to do and how to deal with the food problem he sensed Karka poking her head out of the cave. A second later she sensed him and swam towards him. Another couple seconds later she sensed the gigantic being and realized what it was and began to panic.

As she reached Obsi he began to try and calm her down. After a minute of telling her to relax he managed to stop her from panicking too much.

'Alright have you calmed down now?'

'yes...'

'good. Now then, we have to consider a few things, first what we do about food, it was already going to be difficult to acquire and now it's downright impossible. Second, leveling, we have reached our first evolution and from the levels of the predators we killed it looks like we will be stuck at a low level here, to fix that we could go down, the same direction as that thing is going, or we could do the opposite and go up where it's potentially safer. What do you think?'

'umm, I don't know, aren't you our leader?'

'yes I am but that doesn't mean I won't listen to your opinion, I don't know if you would like to go up or down and I'm not going to force you to do what you don't want to do.'

'ah, okay then, umm, I don't know? I don't like to be hungry, that's all I know, isn't there food wherever we go?'

Sighing Obsi answered 'I guess you're right, if you don't know then we will postpone it. Now then, we still need to eat so let's go and look for food.'

'okaaay!'

At the mention of food Karka cheered up a lot. As they went hunting Obsi and Karka tried out their new bodies a little to get more used to them.

It had taken them an hour to find anything they could hunt. They had found a Tuna swarm of 30 fish. I guess since there's a lot less of them now they decided to group together more. As they prepared to attack Obsi noticed a few other fish swimming a couple dozen meters away from the swarm. Pointing it out to Karka who was already drooling he told her to take care of the fish there.

'why?'

'because they will come and try to eat your food.'

'ah, okay!'

With that they split up, Obsi taking out the ones closer to the swarm and Karka taking out the ones further back. Sucking the fish dry of blood they met above the swarm once more. Discussing how they would attack the Tuna they agreed to both take on either side of the swarm, Obsi stunning them beforehand with his ability.

Executing their plan Obsi activated his ability on max power, the whole swarm going quiet in a second. The next second he and Karka were on them. Obsi punching and crushing with his hand while biting up heaps of fish. Karka punched as well but mostly used her wings, head and horns. They had discussed the effects their tails would have on the fish and decided to not use them simply because there wouldn't be anything to eat after.

The swarm was killed in seconds, Obsi killing six fish a second and Karka killing five, mostly due to the fact that using wings to slice fish was quite difficult.

Dividing the fish equally they began to eat.

'hey Obsi why are you giving me as much fish as you get if you killed more of them?'

'why shouldn't I divide the amount equally? Do you want less because you're so small?'

'I'm not small!'

'then you have to eat as much as I do to grow at the same rate.'

Continuing to chit-chatting they finish their food and went looking for more, neither of them being quite filled.

It had taken them another hour to find a new swarm, this time they numbered in the fifty's. Taking care of the lurking scavengers they executed their strategy once more, Obsi stunning the fish and the two of them descending to slaughter them after.

This swarm went quite like the last one, the only difference was the few extra seconds to kill off all the fish. Dividing the fish equally again they began to eat.

When they finished their meal Obsi noticed some more scavengers showing up. Not finding the scavengers of any interest and having already eaten their fill they began to swim back to their cave.

'Obsi there are more scavengers!' Karka announced, finally noticing few fish that had shown up.

'good girl.' Obsi praised her and gave her a head pat which resulted in a twirl from her.

When they reached the cavern Obsi choose to settle down near the entrance in case anything happened. Karka as usual settled down next to him.

I hope that long thing won't cause any trouble...

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Long fish...

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