"Blue bastard!" Yelled out Smoker as he ripped a beast apart. A small blue fish-like beast hung from Smoker's hand. The small creature had four scaled legs and a head like a dolphin. A shiny black fin was attached to the side of the beast's head as its black eyes slowly lost color.
"This is the tenth one." Said Smoker as he jumped off a pile of beast corpses. Smoker landed in water tall enough to reach his knees. The water almost pure blue gave off a strange aura as Smoker walked through it. Moving through the water was the only option Smoker could do or even think of, ever since losing connection with Tim he was in a never-ending battle with a wolf-like creature, its high regeneration was a pain in the as for him. After cutting the creature into small pieces of flesh, he decided to run away but trouble away seem to find him. Smoker took one wrong turn and fell into a lake, somehow this cave had a lake. It was never reported to have one, so Smoker was completely taken by surprise.
Swimming through the water was a troubling experience, the water seemed denser than he would ever think and those fish creatures tried to swarm him at any chance.
Splashes could be heard behind Smoker as he ready his battle stance, he went through this long enough to adapt to it.
"Where are you?" Smoker mumbled to himself as he spread his smoker into the water. The fish creature uses move-in packs sending the weak ones first to test the water and as bait. When the prey kills the weak creature, the other creatures would stay still waiting for the prey to drop its guard. Smoker made that mistake, it almost cost him his arm.
Smoker's attack hit a dead end as the smoke bounced off a hard object, the water under Smoker began to shake as it slowly drifted away from him.
"This can't be good." Said Smoker as he pull a device out of his back pocket, small in size the device hover over Smoker head as he press a button on the center of the device.
The smoke began to transform into grey spikes, as Smoker became tense. He was in an unknown location without any help, one mistake and he would lose his life.
"I hope she's okay." Said Smoker as his eyes began to tear up thinking the worse. These monsters gave him a struggle, he fear what would happen to his team. Van and Tim might be okay but Cole and Cindy…
His heart fears the worse for the people who he treats like his family but his mind is focused on his survival and his survival only.
"Fuck it." Said Smoker as two smoke spears flew past his head. A huge splash could be heard as a slime figure passed in between the spears. Seeing the figure's movement Smoker launched the spikes at it hoping to deal some type of damage.
"Tsk." Escape the figure's mouth as a clap his hand together, a large sound wave washed over the spikes causing them to dissipate. The sound wave launched smoker back into a wall, using his smoker as a cushion, Smoker was able to reduce the force of the attack almost stopping it completely. The two smoker spear spin mid-air as two figures grab them. Two Smoker look-alikes began to rush the figure, in a state of panic the water around the figure began to lift above its head.
A deafening sound came from the water as it hardened into ice.
"Impossible!" Screamed out Smoker as he jump at the figure. I'm human history no one was strong enough to instantly transform water into ice. Yes, some ice hunters were able to do it but that was with other water hunter mana. Using water hunter mana ice hunter could replicate the natural effect of freezing water but not to this extent. In an instant water was turned to crystallize mana ice, nearly impossible, Smoker was thinking about escaping before but it wasn't an option. He NEEDS to escape now.
The two grey Smoker was frozen in an instant as their spear reached the ice cocoon. Smoker bust into smoke as he tried to get past the figure.
A white light passes through Smoker causing him to vanish.
"That was a good one human." Said the figure as the ice cocoon broke apart.
"So you can talk? Why haven't we tried to talk this out?"
"Because you killed my subordinates, what will the king think of me if I let you live after that?" Asked the figure. The water under Smoker began to harden trapping him in place.
"Well, I think your king would forgive me."
"Forgive you?… human your different, why don't you fear me?" Asked the figure as he walked closer to Smoker.
"Fear you? Just because you can talk doesn't mean you are all that powerful, we dealt with, the yeti of the cold, evil king gold Midas, Storm eagle…"
"Storm! You met the king!" Yelled the figure as he put his hands on smoker's shoulder.
"Your king never met him unless you're talking about the eagle…"
Cutting Smoker off, the figure began to bash his head on the wall in frustration, in a moment of weakness he let his prey escape and told him important information.
"Human, I know you're not here so I want to leave you a mission if anyone lay hands on the king, we will destroy the race you call humans.." said the figure as it melt in a puddle of water.
"He knew.." said Smoker as he dissipated into smoke.
"Fuck! He knew!" Yelled Smoker as he punched the wall. He fear the worse for his team, this beast no creature was nothing like they faced before they will need his help. "How did he find out?… when he froze my feet. But why did he talk to me?" Smoker began to shudder as he realized that the beats were acting the whole time, instead of the beast leaking information, he did. "Him hitting his head in frustration was an act… so cunning."