Chapter 26 good to kill?

Then a spear was pointed at our neck with a lot more following after. The people were all dressed in poor fishing attire. They were slightly wet and dirty.

"I don't even care right now, I am just happy to be alive." I say not regretting a single word of that.

"Who are you? Why did you climb our ship?" One of the people holding a spear was talking.

They seemed to be a man in his early teens, maybe 20's at most with spiky black hair and a white band around it. He wore a black shirt with orange highlights, it was a weird since it had long sleeves with a open chest are. His pants were white and grey with a bag on the side. He had bandages around his feet and wore sandals.

I wanted to get them to bring me to where ever they were going since there would most likely be some kind of civilization.

I needed to get there and figure out where we are so I can head back home.

First impressions are important so it is off to a rocky start, but I can fix it.

"Its a long story, My name is Mark. I have been trapped fighting beasts for days and I saw your boat, so I swam here as fast as possible to escape. Ok, not that long of a story." I said this pretty fast in order to get them to drop their spears pointed at our neck.

"Oh, and this is Blood Stalk." I said pointing to my self in the chest area. They said nothing for a long while. Only grunted breathing were heard.

I just realizing how dumb that sounded when I spoke. There is no way anybody would believe us if they new that two people were sharing the same body. Let alone some suit from a T.V. show.

"Who?" The man said confused when the boat got hit with something and made us rock a little.

"Captain, there are monsters attacking the ship." Someone was yelling across from us.

"How many?" The man I was talking to asked. I think this guy is the captain of the ship, but I am not a hundred present sure yet. 

"Unknown sir." The other man replied.

"There are two sharks and a bunch of insects." I said to which they looked at me with suspicion.

"I said I was fighting beast for days, these guys have been chasing me since I got into the water." I said pointing back to the what I assume to be river or ocean with my thumbs, not looking away from the people in front of me.

"You brought sharks to our fishing boat?" Another person spoke from the right.

"I didn't try to, I just couldn't shake them off." I said in poor self defense.

"And what about that." Someone said pointing behind me and I look to see the ink cloud a grown even more since the last time I looked. Now pinkish lighting is circling it in a in a strange way.

"I. I don't." I try and speak but I don't know what I should say in this situation. Who would believe someone that says that they can make giant clouds appear out of know here.

The ship gets hit again and we sway to the right a little.

"We need so stop the attacks." The man I assume to be captain spoke and the others began to look out to the water.

Another hit to the boat and I heard some wood breaking from the impact.

"If this doesn't stop the ship will break and we will all sink." The second person shouted looking at the captain.

Hold on, if the ship gets destroyed then all of this was for nothing. I can't let that happen.

"I can fix this." I said not knowing how to fix this.

"Don't you move, we will handle this mess." Someone said to me still pointing there spears at me and I stay put for the moment.

I can't move to hastily if I want there trust, I can help much more that way.

If they can handle it I don't see a reason not to.

I can always jump in if they need help.

"Captain , we are starting to take in water." A crew member shouted.

When they finished talking a distinctive buzzing sound was now in the air.

I heard that familiar noise and started to panic. 

"No, not again." I say thinking about what is about to happen.

Soon a swarm of those incest's started to fly to the boat and swarm the crew.

There screams were horrifying as they were being injected with venom and there flesh eaten, the horrid buzzing of the wings flapping in the wind made it so much worse.

"Let me help, they are dying." I pleated with the men still around me blocking my path.

"No way, you caused this. Do you think we would let you do as you please now?" They said in anger and distrust.

When that started to happen I froze for a few moments, lost on what to do and just stared at the ink cloud that I made thinking that this might be it.

I did this.

I got people roped into this and now they could get hurt or die because of me.

I might die here.

I might never see my family again.

I start to see my life and everything that has happened to me so far.

I think about the time I spent with my brother and how only two day's ago I was enjoying a nice Christmas day with him and the rest of my family.

How we played games and joked. How we could do the stupidest thing and laugh it off the next day or even in the moment.

How much trouble we got in at the abandoned mall where I experienced the worst event of my life at that point.

Maybe worst than even this.

I don't know.

No, this is worse, he was at least there and told me it was alright.

He would know what to do.

He always did.

I miss him.

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I then thought about how I met this person I now existed with in one body.

The person whose body I took over against both of our wills but found a way to make it work, who we fought together against monsters in a dark hole in the ground with nothing but a toy gun and knife.

The person who took on the name Blood Stalk because they didn't want to use their own name, who I saved and do not know how yet.

This person that I hardly knew me, whose feeling, goals, and dreams were shared with me on a campfire last night.

We didn't always agreed on what was the right choice in the moment but we at least tried, and we won so many times.

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Who because of me will die here.

Because of me, I ruin so many lives.

"Because I am just a burden." I say unconsciously, thinking back at when those words were used to describe me made me feel so horrid a couldn't speak, couldn't think, couldn't be.

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No, can I do something. I have do something. I need to do SOMETHING.

I snap back to reality and see a huge warm of insects have started to attack the crew. Sharks ready to destroy our only way of escape, and A cloud of eminent destruction flying above us.

"Blood Stalk, how are you feeling." I asked them ready to move.

"Good... to kill" They said ready for the fight ahead of us.

How could I get rid of these sharks, insects, and giant ominous cloud.

"One at a time or all at one doesn't matter, as long as one goes down." I say with a new perspective.

"First the insects. Lets shock them all." I say since I already know how to deal with them.

"Ok..." Blood Stalk said readying the steam blade in our left hand to electrocute all of the bugs on the ship.

We ran past the people in front of us with a speed we never had before as we got to work. A red star like outline of us followed behind as we moved.

We fired it and the blast was like multiple lightning storms that hit everything in random order. The voltage was low enough that the people weren't that hurt and only the bugs were left smoking. 

We were moving so fast that we appeared as a blur to the crew. 

The people stared at us for a moment but I didn't have time to worry about any repercussions since the ship is not out of danger yet.

We turn around and start to look for the fins and I see one swimming away from the ship and turning around to ram us. There were more bubbles appearing through-out the water.

"Oh no you don't." I say pointing the gun at the fin and pulling the trigger shooting an ink bullets at it. 

When it hit the fin of the creature, it went down into the water with a black and red liquid trail coming off it.

"Oh, it's like a marker now?" I said thinking how I really need an instruction manual for this thing. every time I use it something new happens and I have to just figure it out as I go. 

A screen appeared with multiple windows, it had an target, lighting, snake, and squid symbol in front of me all flashing.

At least it does something rather than nothing now.

"What are you doing?" someone said but I don't know who from my left spoke.

"What does it look like? I'm shooting it. " I said not looking back. Instead I am keeping my eyes out for the second shark since the first one is tagged.

"It attacked our boat, its our job to stop it now. So stay out of our way." The person said behind me in an angry tone.

"Yes, and we were the ones that brought it over, so it is our fault and our responsibility to make it right." I said with conviction and determination to see this through to the end.

When I finished saying that we got hit again.

"Another hit to the starboard hall captain." Someone said and I look to the direction.

Looking into the water I see the second shark fin now starting to sink.

I fire another shot and missed it by a few inches.

I exhaled in frustration at missing.

Looking back to the ink cloud in the sky I wondered what it was going to do. It just hovered above us. So far it is last on the to do list of worries.

"Maybe if I get the sharks into it, no that wouldn't work." I said to myself.

As I debated, the sharks suddenly jumped out of the water and were now at the top of the ship. There mouths open with blood red teeth.

I could finally see the monster that was attacking us all day was ready to destroy us along with our hope of escape.

My chest with a snake like logo started to light up a little and so did the screen in front of me.

We charged at it with gun and blade ready to kill.