The creature's jaw neared his body before being met with a punch to the side of its face. Damien's rusty gauntlet drilled into it and knocked it away.
THUD!
Damien hastily took a step back away from it—his feet reaching the edge of the roof he was on. He took a brief glance down and saw that it just led to another flooded street.
He frowned and brought his focus back to the aquatic assailant. It had a Dark blue, slimy, long body with a white scaly underside. Its eyes were a deep yellow that constantly trembled like it had a vibrator underneath stuck in its eye sockets.
The eel also had gills just underneath its head and barely hidden away by its scales.
Its overall appearance showed similarities with the skyscraper-sized eel he escaped from, albeit shrunk down to the length of 5 metres.
He then watched how it slowly got up off the floor and mimicked how a snake would stand up to scare away predators. Damien hurriedly reached for the sword that he had sheathed before feeling something bash against his chest—it felt like a cannonball with the weakest setting on for its launch.
Damien flew back and crashed into the water.
SPLASH!
He tried to pull himself to the surface but was unfortunately unsuccessful. His rusted armour and skeletal bony stopped any of his attempts to float. A few seconds later, something else had entered the water with him.
He turned his eyes towards them, the glow in his eyes lighting up the surroundings like carlights in the dark. Suddenly, he felt something snap onto him at breakneck speed. Without delay in its movements, the eel had shot through the water and captured him in its jaws.
Its jagged teeth grinded against his armour—scratching against its rough and rusty surface. The eel then swung its body around and slammed him into the ground.
The impact shot through his mind and caused him to blank. After that, it then swam forward, tilting its head slightly down so that Damien's skull would grind against the ground.
Damien's neck bent to an unusual angle that would leave a lasting and perhaps fatal injury on an ordinary person. Fortunately, he wasn't.
He wrapped his arm around its neck and used his other hand to plunge it into the gills, albeit with a bit of difficulty due to the water.
The eel, suddenly feeling a shock of pain followed by a suffocating feeling, released him from its jaws and spun around.
With a fluid motion, it wrapped its long, slender body around his body and threw him off of it. He shot out of the water and arced in the air before coming back down like a comet and smashing through the roof of one of the run-down buildings.
CRASH!
He broke through the decaying wooden ceiling and shattered the table he happened to land on in his entry. "That wasn't so nice..." He outwardly thought as he stared through the hole he came through.
The sky was as black as the coal inside the furnace that he saw in the corner of his eyes. He then began to ponder, 'I wonder if fire would work.'
Outside of the home, the eel roamed the front of the building before coming to a stop. Its body bent like a spring before launching itself out of the water and roughly fitting through the hole.
Its arrow-like body slammed against the floor before thrashing around, its tail destroying every kind of furniture inside. The eel then suddenly felt the heat, followed by a bright crimson-orange light that crawled around the room.
The fire surrounded it like an army surrounding a giant leviathan that roamed the surface. It darted its yellow eyes around before finding a familiar figure sitting on a chair.
Damien was wrapped in a blanket that blazed around his body. In his hands were his sword and one of the coals he fetched from the fireplace.
SCRAPE! SCRAPE! SCRAPE!
He slid the black and dusty surface of the coal against his sword. The rusty surface of his sword sparked and ignited the stone.
Damien, seeing that it had been ignited, chucked it to the side and watched as the fire consumed it. His gaze then met the eels, his crimson glowing eyes staring menacingly at it—stunning it in its place.
"The fire feels nice... You should get comfortable..." He said before giving a dramatic pause.
"...Because this will be where I will cremate your corpse..."