Preying The Prey

Back at the three Thagdas, the firstborn is currently looking much better compared to before. With the nourishing effect of the native elemental soldiers and the abundant water essence, each of them contains, the firstborn is now almost back on its feet.

"Hurry up! I can smell the thousands of fishes from the area where the turtle runoff." The secondborn grumbled.

"Nom... give me one more nom...minute. I am currently focusing my strength to nom....recover. Some of my bones are still cracked nomm... and should not take long for me to nom.." the firstborn replied while munching on the lifeless body of the soldier.

"Stop talking and focus on eating! I am getting tired of that dead fishes. I want those red-tailed!"

"Those...are mine."

"We made a deal firstborn! You owe me your life!"

"What deal?"

Grrrr~

Grrrrr~

And the first and second-born ended up on another brawl. The third born, on the other hand, was just minding its own business as he continued munching on a piece of hard coral- still trying to figure out why it's not delicious like the other fish folks.

Its dumb face looking to a distant black object, trying to figure out what it was.

"Hey! Brothers look it the leader!" The third-born shouted gleefully.

The secondborn stopped fighting the firstborn and quickly glanced over; he squinted his draconic eyes to focus on the incoming black dragon-like creature.

"What do you mean its the leader? Are your eyes blur? Can't you see its the forthborn?", the secondborn retorted.

"No! Its the leader! Just look at his movements. Stupid."

"Who's stupid? You glutton! Did you eat your eyes too? That is the fourth-born!"

"What are you guys fighting about?" The firstborn asked, standing up after recuperating from his injuries.

They all looked at an incoming creature. It looked just like a Thagda but has a much bulkier build. Its thorns are twice bigger and longer compared to others and it has two long black tails sprouting from its back.

It's huge body looked just like that of a western dragon, saved for its blade-like black wings fluttering like a long stripe of black silk.

Its face resembled that of the fourth and fifth born Thagda. Together with it is a terrifying aura of death. With each step, it leaves behind a black mist that kills any living things on contact. May it be grasses or corals, wherever this creature goes, a thick black trail of poisonous mist follows.

"That's weird. That looks like the leader, but also resembles the fourth-born." The third-born mumbled.

"You are right. It does look like a mixture of them." The second-born agreed.

"Whatever, let's just go meet him. It is probably the leader, just evolving to a higher form." The firstborn shouted as he sprinted his way towards the incoming mysterious Thagda.

As it got closer, the second born suddenly realized that the incoming Thaga is much bigger than they expected. Aside from its mixed aura of the fourth-born and the leader, its terrifying presence also brought him with great uneasiness.

"Hey! Firstborn wait!-" The secondborn felt that something was amiss and tried to stop the still-injured firstborn. But the latter was just reckless enough to reach the incoming Thagda in just a few seconds.

With gladness in his movements, the firstborn greeted, "Hey leader! How are y-"

MUNCH!~

The weird-looking Thagda suddenly lunged at the recuperating firstborn with incredible greed. Its mouth instantly stretched to swallow the firstborn in one go and proceeded to grind it in his mouth with loud cracking sounds.

"Are you gone mad?! Why did you-" the thirdborn was about to move forward and help the firstborn but the secondborn quickly moved to stop him from advancing.

"Don't go. I have a bad feeling about this. That creature doesn't seem to be a normal one of us." said the secondborn.

Confused, the thirdborn looked at the terrified look of the secondborn and said.

"What do you mean it's not normal?"

GGROOOOOAR!~

A loud and heavy roar from the weird Thagda suddenly assaulted the second and third born. Their eyes were flashing incredible fear from the sight they have beheld.

The weird Thagda's body suddenly started to bulge abnormally. Its muscles are twitching and the dark thorns all over its body are also expanding while vibrating with a weird ring. It's an unusual presence even created a terrifying aura that sends a shiver down the spine of the two normal Thagdas.

GRRRRR~

A few moments later, the weird Thagda's abnormal growth spurt finally stopped. It is now twice as big as before and the deep pressure it puts in the ground signifies its sudden increase in weight as well.

Its eyes gleamed with a reddish glare as its slit moved to focus at the image of the two staggering Thagdas. Its wide mouth, filled with abnormally large fangs, crept into a greedy smile while blood-filled-saliva dripped down on the sides.

It is aiming to devour the other two.

"Kekeke...Stop resisting and just be my food..." a cold, ghastly, and freaky voice came out from the mouth of the mutated Thagda. It was like a mixture of multiple voices from agonizing creatures. It's every word sounded like crying spirits asking for help; just the sound alone was scary enough to scare even the brave soldiers of the water realm.

Compared to the mutated Thagdas, the other two were like Corgi puppies standing before a mighty Tibetan Mastiff.

"You think you can scare us? Who do you think are you?" The third dumb Thagda stood proudly, refusing to back down against the terrifying creature before him.

Seeing the thirdborn refusing to stand back, the second born also decided to join.

"No one tells us what to do. We are the ultimate Dragon Elementals! You are just a freak!"

And right after finishing those words, the two remaining normal Thagda's charged towards the mutated one at blinding speed. Their long dark thorns perked to its peak and ready to pierce the mutated one.

Just as they were about to land their attacks, the two Thagdas suddenly changed their pattern and moved in the opposite direction, revealing blind spots at the same time.

BAAM!

The mutated Thagda stomped its long black tails to the sand and sent a massive amount of water wave while dust started flying everywhere as well.

"Foolish..." A creepy smiled appeared on the mutated Thagdas face.

SHUUK~

SHUKKK~

Just when the two normal ones were about to pierce him from both sides, bigger and even longer blackthorn suddenly sprouted out from the mutated one's sides.

"What!? ack!"

"Huh-ack!"

Because of their incredible speed, the two normal Thagdas were unable to dodge the sudden attack from the mutant and were immediately skewered like barbecues before they could react.