Sudden Attack! 2 (edited)

Shara saw in white and blurs, her vision was flickering.

'What just happened?' Shara thought in frightened confusion.

It was so sudden. When she felt something behind her, an overwhelming pain just stabbed her back like knives!

Something inside her was screaming, not out of fear, but in a roar for survival!

With instinct guiding her, her body nimbly twisted and stabbed the attacker with her scythe!

"SCREAAAA–"

The loud distorted roar of pain snapped her focus back to herself, now making her feel the damage done to her carapace.

The pressure behind her back disappeared and the pain lessened. The attacker had fled from her.

Her eyes darted behind her and only saw the attackers tail before it disappeared as if an invisible veil had covered it.

Shara forced her blurring vision to focus. Her eyes saw it disappear, but her antennae says otherwise.

The unusual vibration of the water around her confirmed that the attacker was still around.

She decided to ignore the pain for now and focus on the enemy before her. She did not dare to do any rash actions that might result in her getting killed.

The water flowed in an unusual manner as if something was charging on her right. The enemy was coming!

Shara sharply turned to her right and blindly waved her scythe forward!

TANG!

Her scythe hit something hard and the enemy was pushed back. She had somehow deflected the attack!

Shara felt the invisible enemy circling around her carefully, trying to find a blind spot to sneak an attack again.

Shara knew its intentions and turned her back away from the enemy, raising her scythe threateningly whenever the enemy got too close for comfort.

The fish was starting to get agitated at the unexpected turn of events. Not only had it failed to assassinate the shrimp, it was now fighting back against it and even blinded its left eye!

Even with its invisibility on, the shrimp somehow knows where it's hidden and always dodges, blocks, or parries its attacks every single time!

This angered the fish. Knowing that it couldn't hide from the little shrimp, it dispersed its invisibility and revealed itself.

Shara's mandible clacked in surprise when the enemy boldly showed itself to her, she knew this guy!

It was a low ranked monster that would spawn in the Lower Regions.

She would often encounter these monsters before when she was still a weak noob.

These monsters usually swim together in a loose cluster of shoals and only appears in the nighttime to terrorize players who doesn't have a base to hide and sleep the night in.

Shara was one of the 'homeless' players who wandered around at night and day in the open. Therefore, whenever night falls, she kept having to fight or flee these annoying monsters.

At her current level, its red scale armor would be impossible to break even if she struck it repeatedly and it was useless to attack its densely protected gills too. She might be the one who'll get hurt instead if she attacks that close to its face.

This monster had one of the highest stealth, defense, attack, and mobility in the list of low rank monsters, making it the most annoying mobs to deal with.

Though, the only ones having trouble dealing with these monsters are only the Players who haven't increased their strength stat yet.

Shara dispersed the thought of escaping. Comparing this monsters speed to hers, she was sure she would be shredded into pieces if she even tried, so she really had no other options than to fight.

Fortunately, this monster had low intelligence and health. There's still a chance for Shara to win.

Her memory quickly searched for something. Shara's beady eyes brightened faintly as she thought of a solution to get her out of this situation.

She remembered seeing this one-shot-kill attack a lot before when she was grinding as a beginner. It was quite a risky move, but she was too drunk in adrenaline to think rationally.

The fish was unaware of the thoughts inside her mind. It flicked its tail and propelled itself forward with a terrifying speed!

With its mouth wide open, she could clearly see its sharp needle-like teeth displayed to her!

'Since I cant hurt him outside, how about this instead?' Her eyes zeroed on the upper area inside the monsters mouth.

The monster swam dangerously close to her while Shara just floated, unmoving and tense. Time seemed to slow down as Shara positioned herself before clumsily thrusting her scythe inside the fishes gaping mouth.

With the force she exerted, her arms drove forward with a surprisingly intense speed!

The monster couldn't stop itself on time and it swam directly towards her scythe, adding to the damage of the attack!

Her scythe easily pierced the monsters palate and through its right eye! Now, both of its eyes were blind. It was a fatal blow.

However, Shara only gasped in horror.

"I missed!"

She intended to stab it in the mouth and through the brain to kill it instantly.

Unfortunately, luck was not on her side as her attempt to one shot the monster failed and her scythe was now stuck inside its mouth.

"SCRREEAAAAA–"

The monster screeched in unbearable agony and thrashed around violently, carrying Shara's tiny body around with its massive size.

"REEEE!" Shara screeched in panic at being pulled everywhere like a ragdoll.

At first, it tried to throw her away from it, but then the monster noticed that her scythe was actually stuck and she could not take it back out.

The little shrimp was stuck, an opportunity has arrived!

The monster felt rage bubble up from within itself, let's see how she likes a severed limb!

Shara felt her heart drop when the fish snapped its jaws closed.

SNAP!

Her right dactyl snap like a twig.

×Dactyl is the name of a shrimps main front arms, which I have been calling 'scythe'

She screamed at the pain erupted in broken dactyl, her panic worsening when the fish repeatedly chewed on her bloodied dactyl like a broken toy.

"You ugly bastard!" Shara screamed in fury.

She had just reincarnated into this place. She was absolutely not going to have to amputate her arm to survive just because of some dumb fish that got lucky sneaking up behind her!

The fear she had before was now completely replaced with animalistic irritation! This fish needed to die!

Shara didn't care about the pain and jerked her broken dactyl even more violently, trying to cause damage from inside the fish.

The thought of getting her arm out was thrown away and forgotten, she was going to kill this fish and have it for dinner!

The monster thrashed around even more aggressively than it did before. The intensity of its thrashing was starting to make Shara feel dizzy.

She raised her left scythe and stabbed inside its mouth again, not caring if she might be bitten or not.

The scythe pierced through the mouth and passed directly into the brain!

The monster spasmed around for a good while before turning limp, its body turned upside down with its belly faced upwards before sinking down the sand and laying there with no signs of life.

Shara made a low screech in anger at the bleeding body, the adrenaline of the fierce fight slowly starting to leave her body.

After a while of staying still, she stared at the dead body in silence.

She slowly swam backwards and looked at her scythe and the blood that hovered around it hauntingly.

Shara was disgusted.

This was the first time she had actively tried to kill something and it was... not fun.

Killing inside the game was alright since she knew they were fake, it was entertaining even, but doing it personally only made her feel dizzy in nausea.

She didn't like the smell of blood.

She didn't like how she the fish struggled before dying in her arms.

She didn't like killing anyone or anything.

She just wanted to live.

The pressure of knowing that other monsters would also try to kill her like this and the mission of the main scenario basically forcing her to kill or die was scary.

She was overwhelmed.

She didn't care how her body ached in pain as she looked at the fresh corpse. A new realization hitting her hard in the head.

"...I have to get used to this kind of lifestyle?" Shara spoke with no emotion in her voice.

For the longest time since she came from this new world, a repressed sob accidentally came out of her.