I'm a Stingray?

Trying to be just a hunch smarter again, Timmy tried to assure. "Ha, see I'm already smarter than you."

Trying to shun away that awful pun even further, he had to add. "But what's more important, you're weaker than me now. I killed fish a million times your size already!"

Proving that she had been here longer than the boy perceived it, Alba weighed in. "I saw what you killed, with the aid of 20 friends. That's not a win."

Unwilling to talk anymore with the fear of saying something stupid again to the most hated enemy, the young man laid out a strong string of words. "I killed a lot of fish before that old hag, you will be one in my collection. After all, you don't have a system anymore so we can tell whom is useless here."

Smart enough to understand that a portion of this threat wasn't a bluff, she chirped. "Although you're not nearly strong enough to beat me, I won't take chances."

"See, I didn't come here alone." Uttering such a sentence, Timmy began to spot over 10 fish heads, swimming out of the small entrance that this place provided.

He doesn't nearly recognize these pieces of marine life, so in no way could this be good for the young fellow.

He finally managed to count 17 of these fish, apparently they are from the same species. About a meter each although too slender for fish of that size.

But after a bit of analisation, certain characteristics began to shed light. At first he confused them as sharks considering their dark shaded back and white belly... but no these weren't sharks.

But weaker species instead, tunafish of some sort. They boy could point that out once peeking at their pointy nose which in his view looks, ugly.

This amount of fish was more than enough to fill half of the den with space, Alba seemed like a marble shrimp at this point compared to them.

But yet these fish weren't attacking, allowing the stingray lady to speak. "My forces far out beat yours. You will be a laughing stock in the hidden den when they look at my soldiers."

In those same few seconds, the boy could see a storm of black coloured crabs bursting out of the entrance and stopping near Alba, waiting patiently.

Until she turned around, facing these crabs who in all aspects seemed just a bit bigger than Timothy. "I see the rest of my forces have arrived, splendid."

These crabs... well they seemed terrifying. They have 3 rows of extra feet that hung on the middle of their waists, pointing forwards and making them look a lot like spiders, 20 centimeter long ones.

These look small compared to the tunafish but counted 3 times in quantity, there are still a few of them passing through the entrance.

Giving her attention back to the enemy, Alba recited. "Little boy, I will save you the embarrassment of presenting your recruits to the tribe."

Spotting the fear in the blue dotted stingray's eyes and quite enjoying it too, she pitched. "My friends here will rip you into a million pieces, this is the end of the road."

Seeing a solution out of this but also requiring time to put it into motion, the boy contradicted. "Uhhh... what if we make some sort of deal?"

The enemy quantities are far too large, even if he had a full health it wouldn't be enough to endure a tenth of the damage these fish can inflict.

Thankfully, Alba took the bait and asked. "What deal could you possibly make with me? Stop using that pea sized brain of yours, the end is here."

Able to read Timmy's mind, the system encouraged his hidden idea. [That is the only option to get out of this problem, take it.]

Letting silence stretch wholeheartedly on purpose, waiting exactly 10 seconds, the boy cited. "See we can do a little deal, it will help me but you the most."

At this point pissed, she yelled out. "What's the deal?!"

Taking a few more seconds to reply, the boy answered. "A dealy deal about the..."

And then made a dash for it right upwards until he reached a mild height and then continued towards that path, where the exit was at.

The piece of water he was swimming on, carried the least enemies so the plan of his became more enhanced.

"Don't let him live!" Alba shouted and a large commotion amongst the masses broke out.

The tunafish began to swim faster which caused enough disturbance in the waters to create waves of some sort, knocking him a bit off balance but not enough to stop that golden 3 mp/h momentum.

After making it through the easiest part of this barricade, the wise sea disk began to swim directly down towards where the exit was.

This particular task was harder as it carried more crabs near it, and their claws do portray a deadly attack if he made the mistake of getting too close.

As he swam close enough to be just a foot away from the exit, something long broke his winning streak. It crossed the stingray's path so he ended up smacking against the fish.

By instinct, his tail swung against the enemy and landed a couple of blows while his jaws sunk into that white belly, taking off a small chunk.

[Slender tuna recognized but not killed.]

[Eating a full grown slender tuna can grant the following.]

[System points = 70]

[Effect on health, non existent.]

[Effect on hunger, +150.]

[Effect on sleep, non existent.]

[Effect on stamina, non existent.]

"So I was right, this is a tunafish!" Tim celebrated and felt like a super genius.

But that didn't play such a big role here, the prime aim was survival and it can be attained by fleeing like a coward.

So after those strikes made the enemy flinch enough to move half a foot away, he made for the nearby exit and could feel the enemies charge after him, the commotion in the water showed it all so the boy did not dare to turn around.