Chapter 48: Arc 2, - 26: More Than You Can Chew
"Jotou! Try the eye again," the shadow disappeared just as fast as it blinked in, pointing a dagger next to the ruby red.
"Got it!" Jotou dashed towards the beached creature.
"Over here whaley!" Asobi's voice echoed from the left of the velatos. Its ruby red had no pupils, but what was caught in its attention were thousands of illusory-
"Quack! Quack, quack, quack. Quack!" an army of brown and white ducks running wild on the beach. The flock of ducks in its view did not disappear when it looked to its right either, more ducks distracting it.
"Made you look! I think..." nevertheless all the ducks faced the ruby red from both sides and with a resonant "QUACK!" their bills opened up and from each of them came out a bright white light shining into its eyes.
The whale shut its lids and its flippers shifted again, preparing to cause another mini-sandstorm across the beach.
Shadows appeared with a brunette, standing on top of the whale itself, "...Eugh, creepy," Fumeko muttered to herself as she examined the slick back of the creature.
Though it seemed slick, it was not slippery nor did the water stay on its form...
"Is it some sort of aura? Come to think of it... that centicrab wasn't wet either after coming back from the sea," she thought out loud to surpass the loud noises around her.
Fumeko made her way up the velatos' back—the surface easily climbable; she hoped to find the brain to take this all down.
However, "What in the-" she found the blowhole, "Come on Namora, how many times can you be wrong before you're correct? Ugh. What would Jotou say?"