8 Crabs are Annoying

"So plants are capable of killing me now." Z sighed to himself as he wakes up from a nap. Taking out the milk in his fridge that somehow still hasn't gone bad after all this time and chugs a glass down. "Its going to take a bit for this to seal up." Looking at the hole in his rib with a sigh.

So with that thought Z starts to make preparations for the next few days while his rib healed. Most of this was taking the left over bullets he had and emptying the black powder to make a bomb with some pipes he found in nearby empty houses. The problem was a fuse but he luckily found a stash of fireworks in a house and hey more powder for the bomb. Well Z wasn't planning on using it unless absolutely necessary.

He also decided to eat the crystal from the death flower. It was sweet with an iron taste but it didn't have any noticeable feeling.... at first. After he let his guard down his entire body felt like it was on fire. The pain was so intense that Z could not remember feeling worse but thankfully this pain only lasted for a second. It was so intense and so sudden that Z did not understand what just happened. In fact his body felt sluggish and he went from feeling refreshed and ready to exhausted. He would have laid back down but while his body was exhausted, he was not even the least bit sleepy. So after just sitting for a few minutes he began to feel better. Thus he got up and started to prepare after all he had some prey to hunt today.

Z set off from his house after the time to get ready. Something told him to bring everything to kill this just to be safe. After all he had to use a gun to kill a flower yesterday and his target is much more deadly than a flower. It is a hermit crab after all.

This time when Z left his house there was another surprise, a blue bud that seemed to be every shade of blue mixed together. Thankfully this is the seed that was not bathed in blood every day and it appears like it might bloom in a day or two. So with that thought he carefully makes his way to the crab.

After a hour and half, roughly, of travel Z enters the lair of the crab. He got here sooner than he had expected the crab is still asleep. "Well I guess I could try to kill it before it wakes up," is what Z came up with once he realized his mistake.

So carefully and sneakily he approaches the shell of the beast, drawing his dagger. Now he decides to show all his intelligence and experience hunting rabbits by stabbing the shell. Yep, the knife shatters into pieces without leaving so much as a scratch, imagine that. The shell of a monstrous hermit crab is as hard if not harder than stone, who would have thought.

Needless to say Z facepalmed his stupidity. He got so used to hunting rabbits that he forgot monsters have traits that make them hard to kill. Well he is the same since he doesn't even bleed. Now the problem how to open this or does he climb into the hole. Z begins looking around the area for something to hit this with. After all this thing's lair was someone's house even if it resembles a cove. That is another thing how did this thing get enough water for a pool, let alone the fish in it.

Oh look a rock. That is literally all Z could fine so he decides to caveman it. He starts bashing it with the rock. This is loud and even creates sparks but other than marking the shell nothing noticeable is done to it. Of course the rock itself shatters before long and all Z can do is sigh in frustration.

"Fuck it lets just try and blow it up." So with that thought Z goes to the hole for the crab and lights his pipe bomb. Chucking it inside the hole he backs up to a safe distance. After a few seconds an explosion happens but still the shell shows no signs of damage. Getting frustrated at the repeated failures Z really wishes he had a fire arm still, but trying to be optimistic since there is a chance the bomb killed the crab but not damaged the shell. So he decides to be dumb and climb in the hole.

As he approaches though he hears a hissing sound. Something is not happy and it is coming out of its shell. It towers over our skeleton friend looking around for the foolish creature that woke it up. Of course Z is having a panic attack because it is way bigger than he thought. The question of how it even fits in the shell filled his mind before he realized it didn't see him as anything. So Z decides to continue to try and hunt this behemoth crab approaching slowly as it continues to scan for the foe that woke it. Irritation building it begins throwing things to demolish some more of the house as it grabs rocks and furniture around it. Sadly for our skeleton he was also grabbed in its blind furry.

Before it can through him though he tries and stabs its claw with his spare knife. He snaps this knife but thankfully he found his mark in the joint in the claw and was thrown early, right onto a couch. This made the crab cry out from the pain looking at its claw before thrashing about.

Z managed to stand up off the couch in time to have to dodge a claw. The force made his bones rattle as it passed above him. Fear begin to settle into Z as he realized one hit and he would be luck to survive. Also he had no weapon now and his desire was to escape without being noticed. So he tries to back away turning around once he thinks he is far enough away to bolt. Sadly before Z even gets the chance he feels something touch him and then with the sound of a loud pop he suddenly finds himself in the air. Spinning and out of control he notices how the crab started shooting out bubbles as Z was raising in the air.

His entire body hurt and was sent flying just from the bubble bursting on him. The worst part about this is the fact that all this happened in less than a second and now he hits a wall alerting the crab. Standing up dizzy Z does not see the crab close in and instead of grabbing him swings it claw and once again send him flying. This time Z busts through the wall and keeps going. Several bones already cracked and broken and he only has the thought of this is how he dies.

Though thankfully our skeleton is wrong a lot and once again being proven wrong as he hits some trees. The branches cushioned his fall enough to slow him down that the crater that formed on his impact did not reduce him to dust. After all while just a skeleton he is still a monster. Though Z did pass out for a time from the impact. When he comes to he is barely able to move but thankfully he is only a few blocks from his house as he recognizes where he landed. So he begins to drag his way back home as his bones are cracked and broken in places but no limb missing or entirely detached.

Hours passed as even in this state the pain he felt from eating the seed was worse so he could still remember to be careful. As he got home he couldn't even lift himself to get to the door and the exhaustion was to much. Z our dumb and lucky skeleton passed out right next to a flower just as it blooms.