Ch 2: going to the kelp forest

" talking "

' thinking '

< System >

{ Author Note }

"Yes, I am indeed a little different compared to our brethren but where are here to fight not to talk. We can talk after I either become your subordinate or you become mine." as he swims out of the cave.

"Well okay then." as I start to follow him. "This is where we fight. It will be the same rules you had with my mate yesterday if one of us submits the other wins." as he starts to swim around rock stacks.

'I should be able to win easier this time since I'm bigger than last time as well as having another set of teeth.' I start swimming around rock stacks looking for him.

'he's behind me.' I swiftly move my tail to slap his jaw with my tail and use the expulsion tubes to try and get behind him and bite his neck. 'I'm loving these new mutations.'

As I take a giant chunk of flesh off of his back since he moved in time for me not to get his neck.' damn he's fast and exoskeleton is not easy to swallow.'

He manages to get behind me from above and bite my plating and take a chunk of it off. ' How the hell did he get me from above?' I swiftly turn my body and try to slice his side with my fin and barely graze him.

'Dammit he's much faster than I expected but I need to hurry up and end this. I want to move on with the day.' as I use my Expulsion tubes in rapid succession to get under him and bite a stomach plate off.

'Let's keep this going.' I get in front of him and use Bioluminescence for the first time and stun him long enough to cut his neck with my fin. "I submit." says the giant boneshark while trying to swim behind a rock formation.

I continue to follow behind him to make sure that he doesn't try to sneak attack me. "You are my subordinate now and I hope you will be loyal." I say then quickly swim back to the cave.

'Well, that went a lot better than expected and I now have a new subordinate, his also quick, and agile. He will make a good assassin or good at getting information.' I patiently wait for Amphitrite and the other Boneshark to get to the cave.

Amphitrite and her mate get to the cave after talking a bit from where we were fighting. "Since you are different from the rest of our brethren and much bigger you get a name like Anubis and your mate Amphitrite, From this point on you will be known as Tsukuyomi."

"I serve the pack leader now and accept this name you have granted me." Tsukuyomi says as we start swimming towards the main island. "Now that all of you are my subordinates I shall give you my name, I am Dakuwaqa and the future conquer of this world."

"For those who want names you must earn them. The reason those beside me have names is because they are unique." As I stare at the other eleven bonesharks.

"The three of you that have already been given names will be my commanders or generals, today I shall rest everyone else I want to gather food tonight I will be going to the kelp forest to do some hunting." I say while slowly swimming to the corner of the cave watching everyone leave to go get food.

[Time skip 10 Hours]

'damn, that was a great nap.' I slowly start opening my eyelids to observe my surroundings. "I see everyone is back from hunting" as I look at my three generals and the other 11 Bonesharks.

"Yes lord Dakuwaqa we have hunted lots of peepers again today as well as spadefish and boomerangs." says Tsukuyomi as he swims forward. "That is very good. I look at the pile of food to see 27 peepers, 15 boomerangs, and 8 spadefish.

"We have a good haul today I see, Everyone can eat 2 peepers, everything else is mine." As I swim over towards the pile of food I slap two peepers at everyone and eat everything else.

<DNA Absorption>

Spadefish: 75% Boomerang: 95%

Mutations Gained: Twin-fins and luminescent fin tips

'Well that was a smaller gain than expected. I only got mutations from the boomerang. but it looks like it's time to go stalker hunting time. It looks dark enough.' as I start to swim out of the cave entrance.

"I will be back in a couple of hours. Tsukuyomi, Anubis, and Amphitrite make sure that everyone stays in the cave and goes to sleep. " I say then quickly swim off towards the kelp forest to go stalker hunting

'Okay, we are finally here, Let's start the hunt for stalkers. I should also make sure I don't start glowing.' as I turn my Bioluminescence off and quietly swim into the kelp forest.

'Let's hope I don't get spotted by any stalkers because I would prefer not to be hunted down.' I carefully swim through the kelp forest eating the occasional hoverfish that swims in front of me.

'Finally my first victim.' I slowly get ready to swim as fast as possible to the stalker's throat. 'Okay don't see any others near, this is the best time to do it.' I quickly use my Expulsion tubes to get under the stalker and rip his throat out with my two sets of teeth.

'Well that worked well and stalker tastes quite good.' I start to eat the stalker as quickly as I possibly can to continue hunting them.

<DNA Absorption>

Stalker: 10%

Mutations Gained: Night-vision

'fuck yeah I got night vision, oh wait this is probably going to burn isn't it.' My eyes start to burn incredibly hot and start to itch as well as they are being slowly replaced with eyes built for seeing in the dark 24/7.

'shit that hurt like hell but it was so worth it" As I start looking around me seeing that I'm being surrounded by nine stalkers. 'well fuck me this isn't good this isn't good at all.' as I start to get ready for the fight of my life.

"Let's get this started boys." I scream and dart towards one of the stalkers closest to me, I rip his pectoral fin off and start swimming to another that was right next to him and slice his side open with my fin.

I use my Bioluminescence to try and stun the other eight stalkers swarming towards me and it works as it is dark as all hell down here. I swiftly cut two of the stalker's sides open with my fins and ripped another one's throat open.

"You guys have fucked up trying to fight me." I say as I swallow the stalker's throat and continue on my rampage not realizing I'm slowly growing with each stalker I eat and kill.

One of the stalkers swiftly gets under me and bites a chunk of flesh out from where Tsukuyomi bites me. 'shit that hurts. I wasn't expecting a smart one.' as I smack that stalker in the eye with my tail piercing his skull and brain in one shot.

'I didn't expect to kill him from that and there is more now.' Not realizing I attracted more when I stunned the stalkers with my Bioluminescence. "Not like it matters that there's more of you, I will just eat you all and get stronger."

I use my expulsion tubes again and swim under a row of the ever growing group of stalkers ripping open the stomachs of five stalkers and watching their guts pour out. 'This is a lot more fun than I thought it was going to be.'

as I start to relish in the warmth of all the blood and guts in the water making the water get slightly hotter and attracting more and more stalkers in the forest.

"Who dares to kill so many of my brethren." I hear a stalker scream out in utter rage and hate looking towards the middle of the dead group of stalkers.

"I dare kill all of you brethren, they make a wonderful snack as well as amazing practice," I say with confidence and growing hunger looking at the massive stalker.

"You have a lot of confidence for being a Boneshark in stalker territory." says the angry stalker. "Yeah you usually get really confident when you kill two dozen or so stalkers with talking the bare minimum of damage, but let's stop talking and fight to the death shall we."

I use my expulsion tubes to try and rip out the massive stalker's throat. "You are too confident in yourself." says the giant stalker moving himself to slap the side of my face with his tail.

'Did I just get bitch slapped but a stalker. that pissed me off to a new fucking extent.' I swiftly maneuver around the kelp to try and make it where he loses sight of me to get an opening to try and bite off a fin or chunk of meat.

"I won't lose you so easily" says the giant stalker while chasing after me. 'well fuck it who cares if I attract more stalkers.' As I use my Bioluminescence to blind him for a second. 'I got an opening.'

I quickly use my expulsion tubes as fast as possible to rip his throat out but he ends up biting my dorsal fin off instead. 'motherfucker does that fucking hurt.' as I watch my dorsal fin get torn off.

"you won't win this little Boneshark." says the giant stalker while chewing on my dorsal fin. 'well fuck me he might be right.' I quickly turn around and head towards the giant group of dead stalkers and start eating their spilled guts to try and gain biomass.

'fuck I hope this works.' I continue to scarf down stalkers and feel my fin healing back and new mutations growing in.

<DNA Absorption>

Stalker: 100%

Mutations Gained: Dorsal Ridges, Pelvic Fins, Purple-gray coloration and Quick teeth

'yes, it fucking worked, shit it burns again.' I feel my recently regrown dorsal fin split into 5 separate dorsal fins and a nice set of pelvic fins. "You dare eat my kin in front of me." the giant stalker yells while charging towards me.

'well, shit it's time to keep it going I guess.' I start by dodging out of the way of his charge and make a sharp turn to bite his side and tear a pelvic fin off.

'Finally, some damage was dealt, all thanks to these mutations I can make sharper turns now.' I then continue to swim under him and make a deep gash into his stomach and spiral around him to tear off one of his pectoral fins.

"This is what you get motherfucker for tearing off my goddamn dorsal fin." I say while tearing off his other pectoral fin and pelvic fin. "I hope killing me and most of my brethren was worth it Boneshark." says the giant stalker with spite and anger and being unable to move.

"It was worth it, I got even stronger and now own this kelp forest." I say with a victorious tone while tearing one dorsal fin off at a time. "You think I own this Kelp forest then you are greatly mistaken. No my father owns this kelp forest and this is only one kelp forest of many, Now kill me."

"You're not the owner of this Kelp forest, well shit that's going to be fun to deal with later, thank you for the information though." I say then tearing his throat out.

'This was a good hunt as well as learning some nice information but I sadly won't be able to bring back all these nice corpses.' I say while patiently waiting. 'System that's usually when you give me something like an inventory or something.'

'Well okay then no inventory it is then, Let's see if I can make a net and drag all of them back with me.' I begin grabbing stalks of creepvine and looping them together trying to make a net.

'Well, it works. I guess it's not the best looking but it will get the job done.' I start dragging the dead bodies of the stalkers into the net. 'Well I won't be able to bring all of them but I did get 24 of them on the net. Let's just hope the net works now.'

I slowly start swimming with a piece of the net in my mouth and picking up speed with time. 'This net is holding together much better than I expected.'

'I ended up hunting all night so everyone should be awake by now.' as I swim into the cave. "Everyone wake your bitch asses up its time for breakfast were having stalkers."

Tsukuyomi, Anubis, and Amphitrite are the first to wake up as they were told to keep track of the other Bonesharks. "Lord Dakuwaqa you have returned with obvious triumph." says Anubis immediately knowing it was me again even though I changed again.

"Anubis I really don't understand how you could tell it was me again even though I changed again you really have to explain how that works because I doubt my scent stayed the same." I say with an intrigued voice.

"My lord it's quite simple When you first made me your subordinate you smelled like a Boneshark and a peeper everytime you change another scent is added to your already strange scent." Anubis says with an obvious tone.

"Well okay then I wasn't expecting an actual answer to my question but I suggest you guys start eating because I want everyone to start hunting when you're done." I say to everyone, even the still half-asleep Bonesharks.

I watch all of the Bonesharks and my commanders swim over to the dead stalkers and start feasting. 'Well after tonight's carnage and rampaging, I should check my status."

< Status >

Name: Dakuwaqa

Species: Boneshark?

Titles: Devourer, Leader of the Bonesharks

Biomass: 2,800

Health: 4,760

Bite: 440

DNA Assimilated: 2

DNA Processing: 3

Mutations: Compressed form, Dorsal Ridges, Pelvic Fins, Purple-grey coloration, Quick teeth, Night-vision, Twin-fins, luminescent fin tips, Expulsion Tubes, Enzyme 42, Mottled-green Coloration, Dorsal fins, Under-stomach Feelers, Serrated teeth, Powerful Fins, Bioluminescence, 360 vision, thickly-armored exoskeleton, and large eyeballs.

'holy fucking shit that's a huge increase in health and bite force and shouldn't I be huge because of my biomass but I'm just really compressed instead and shouldn't some of these mutations merge or be removed some seem really redundant.'

< New unlock >

Mutation merger

Mutation remover

'Well that's wonderfully convenient but why couldn't you do that earlier with making an inventory function, it's fine I guess let's just start merging and getting rid of shit I guess.'

Dorsal fins, powerful fins, pelvic fins, dorsal ridges, compressed form, thickly-armored exoskeleton, Serrated teeth, Twin-fins, large eyeballs, luminescent fin tips, Quick teeth, Night-vision, Under-stomach Feelers, and Expulsion Tubes merged makes Great sharks body.

Purple-gray coloration, Mottled-green Coloration, and Bioluminescence merged to make camouflage.

'Well, holy mother of Christ that's a lot more than I expected and this is probably going to burn like all hell isn't it.'

<Evolution begins>

I feel my body start to burn at extremely high temperatures and itch at every spot even in places I didn't know could itch.

My old exoskeleton peeling out of my skin and forming multiple new layers, each fin disintegrating into ash and coming out even stronger and firmer with exo-skeleton plating on them making them as tough as steel, the feelers under my stomach growing longer and more sensitive to movement and even the smallest temperature change.

My teeth get even sharper and more solid but are quickly replaceable if they break or fall out. My eyes start getting a soft glow to them allowing me to see into the darkest places, the tops of exoskeleton plates growing a very thin layer of skin letting me blend in better depending on my surroundings.

My fin tips all start glowing lightly and my expulsion tubes grow thick and able to let out bigger bursts of air for better acceleration. 'fuck me that hurt like all hell but I seem just as big as Amphitrite and Tsukuyomi.' as I continue to look at my every feature.

'I feel like I can fight that giant stalker again twice over and not be tired or hurt at all but I'm probably just confident over my evolution and body changes.' I started to move around to get used to my new body changes

'Let's go see what time it is.' as I swim out of the cave and see that it is currently almost past midday. 'well shit I wasn't expecting my evolution to take that long but that also means everyone should be back in a couple of hours so that means I can go back to the kelp forest and do some hunting for more delicious food.'

I swim at full speed towards the kelp forest and occasionally use my expulsion tubes for even faster movement making the trip only take 30 minutes instead of the previous one to two hours.

'well goddamn I got here a lot faster than I thought I was going to, but let's start hunting for some food and trying some nice veggies as well.' I start swimming through some caves and eating lots of drooping stingers.

<DNA Absorption>

Drooping stingers:100%

Mutations: Electric Follicles

'Those bitches sting like all hell but it's worth it but what does Electric Follicles do hey system can you explain this to me.'

<Explanation >

Electric Follicles: Follicles along the tentacles are capable of detecting contact with foreign bodies, triggering an electromagnetic charge in the 600-watt range. Prey is likely paralyzed and consumed over many weeks. From Drooping Stingers

'Thank you system, and that's really cool now I can release an electromagnetic charge into the enemy's body whenever they touch me. Let's try it out really quick.'

I start zooming around stunning Hoopfish, Boomerangs, and Spadefish but tactically avoiding the hoverfish. 'Well, it definitely works and it works amazingly now let's start dining.' I turned around and started eating all of the little critters. I stunned. 'That was delicious as expected obviously.'

<DNA Absorption>

Boomerang: 100%, SpadeFish: 100%, Hoopfish: 25%

Mutations: yellow-blue coloration, Single Eye, and Purple-Green Coloration

<single eye has been deemed irrelevant will you remove>

<YES > <NO >

< Yellow-blue coloration and Purple-green Coloration can be absorbed by Camouflage do you allow it>

<YES > <NO >

'Well, that's a new function I very much enjoy. Yes, remove single eye and let Yellow-blue coloration and Purple-green Coloration be absorbed by camouflage.'

<commencing with removal and absorption>

'I really do like this new function, it's going to save me a whole lot of time.' as I continue to swim through the kelp forest finding the occasional hoverfish and swimming around it.

'Well, I should head back to the cave now.' as I turn around I feel a giant movement in the water's current. 'something is coming towards me really fucking quickly.'

I stay still wanting to see what's coming at me and see a giant stalker with rage in his eyes and ready to tear me apart. 'goddamn he's almost the size of a reaper.'

{ Well I hope you guys enjoyed today's chapter and I know I just blue-balled the fuck out of you when there was about to be a fight but I hope you are enjoying the fic and will point out any obvious spelling mistakes I might have missed also can you give me a name for his current species because he's definitely not a boneshark anymore and as per the now usually, I will put the subordinate tab, status, and mutations under this to show his progress. }

{ Update im probably going to scrap the current book and update it with concept arts and other things but if you wish i can leave it as it is and remake it in the future with the concept arts. }

< Status >

Name: Dakuwaqa

Species: Boneshark?

Titles: Devourer, Leader of the Bonesharks

Biomass: 3,000

Health: 5,000

Bite: 450

DNA Assimilated: 5

DNA Processing: 1

Mutations: Enzyme 42, 360 vision, Great sharks body, camouflage, Electric Follicles.

< New explanations >

Electric Follicles: Follicles along the tentacles are capable of detecting contact with foreign bodies, triggering an electromagnetic charge in the 600-watt range. Prey is likely paralyzed and consumed over many weeks. From Drooping Stingers

Camouflage: a defense or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings Acquired through Merging

Great shark's body: A hard and sturdy body made for protection with several layered plates with an incredibly compressed body. also with several fins for quick movement and slicing.

< Subordinates >

Anubis

Titles: N/A

Health: 230

Bite: 20

Mutations: thickly-armored exoskeleton, large eyeballs, and Sensitive Nose.

Amphitrite

Titles: N/A

Health: 250

Bite: 25

Mutations: thickly-armored exoskeleton, and large eyeballs.

Tsukuyomi

Titles: N/A

Health: 300

Bite: 30

Mutations: thickly-armored exoskeleton, large eyeballs, and Black-gray Coloration

Boneshark 1-11

Titles: N/A

Health: 200

Bite: 20

Mutations: thickly-armored exoskeleton, and large eyeballs.