"Get 'im, Herc! You can do it!" Iolaus yelled above the splashing. "Teach that one-antennae monster a lesson!"
Cemia watched helplessly as Hercules fought the monster in the middle of the lake. She could have sworn her mother had told her about huge carnivorous fish with one claw like a scorpion's tail and one antenna with a ball-like growth on the end...wait! That's it!
"Hercules!" Mia shouted, "Hit the growth on the antenna! It's their weakness!"
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Hercules was starting to get nervous. Here he was, fighting this monster fish every way he knew how, and nothing was working. He'd better think of something, or else he'd be fish food in a second. "Oh boy." he said as he felt the fish's claw grab on to his tunic again. The claw lifted Hercules out of the water, and angled him so that his feet were inches away from its mouth. ::Think of something!:: he yelled at himself mentally. Then he heard Mia's shout.
In lifting Hercules out of the water, the fish had accidentally put Hercules at eye-level with the growth on the end of the fish's antenna. Herc boxed it hard, and the fish froze in pain for a moment, before continuing to try and eat Hercules.
But a moment was all Hercules needed. He swung up onto the antenna and wrapped his legs around it for leverage before raining blows on the growth. After ten hard hits, the fish gave up and started heading towards the bottom of the lake. Hercules didn't realize anything was wrong until he felt himself being pulled under the water...deeper...deeper...
Cemia watched helplessly as Hercules fought the monster in the middle of the lake. She could have sworn her mother had told her about huge carnivorous fish with one claw like a scorpion's tail and one antenna with a ball-like growth on the end...wait! That's it!
"Hercules!" Mia shouted, "Hit the growth on the antenna! It's their weakness!"
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Hercules was starting to get nervous. Here he was, fighting this monster fish every way he knew how, and nothing was working. He'd better think of something, or else he'd be fish food in a second. "Oh boy." he said as he felt the fish's claw grab on to his tunic again. The claw lifted Hercules out of the water, and angled him so that his feet were inches away from its mouth. ::Think of something!:: he yelled at himself mentally. Then he heard Mia's shout.
In lifting Hercules out of the water, the fish had accidentally put Hercules at eye-level with the growth on the end of the fish's antenna. Herc boxed it hard, and the fish froze in pain for a moment, before continuing to try and eat Hercules.
But a moment was all Hercules needed. He swung up onto the antenna and wrapped his legs around it for leverage before raining blows on the growth. After ten hard hits, the fish gave up and started heading towards the bottom of the lake. Hercules didn't realize anything was wrong until he felt himself being pulled under the water...deeper...deeper...