by Dulcie » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:09 am
A number of interesting things occurred next. The tall man was hit with the tentacle, but that limb went sliding back into the water, the creature unable to control it's limbs with total independence from one another and it was too much for it to focus on the battle on land and the series of multiple attacks that came from within the water. The smaller squid was a much bigger threat than anything that was coming from land.
It was a great question if the squid understood the warning colors and the messages the smaller one was sending, it's limbs continuing to writhe and squeeze at the other creature. Where a smaller tentacle wrapped a larger one would return the effort, trying to coil about and squeeze with that gripping force.
It was with the first victory had by the smaller squid that the battle would begin to turn. The sharp beak of N'vek bit through one of the tentacles, the creature thrashing in the water with pain, creating great waves that came up splashing over the bank, throwing fish and algae up towards the trio that were still gathered there. As the limb came free N'vek would feel a sudden absence. Where once the giant crushing tentacle had been, now there would be nothing. There was no severed tentacle left writhing in the water nor upon the land nor left in the smaller squid's beak. It was as if it had never been there to begin with, were it not for the bleeding stump that was left behind and the true pain that it's victim's would feel for the efforts that tentacle had made.
The Giant squid would redouble it's efforts, driven forth by the pain that it felt, but it was losing the battle, twisting about in the water as N'vek took hold of it's limbs and continued his snapping, freeing another tentacle from it's body, vanishing just as the first had.
On the bank Joseph moved easily away with Cat, shaking in his wet clothes. The lad clearly traumatized.