Helluva Child

18: Bad Fishy!

"Where can he be, shug?"

Millie questioned out loud to you as scouts out the beach stealthily, ducking behind the numerous barrels that littered the area. She was not only on the look out for any other people on the list, but also for her husband that had been abducted by drunken humans.

You were still cozy in your sling over Millie's back, looking back and forth as you tried to recognize the barrel your father was stuffed in.

It was only when she came up to a light blue barrel, that you recognized how it stood out from the rest.

"Da!" You pointed to the barrel, which caught Millie's attention.

"You think he's in here, darlin'?" After listening for any sound, she lifts the lid off and tips it over, and out spilled the white-haired imp, who belches as he poured out along with the remaining beer in the canister.

"Moxxie!"

"Dada!"

"Millieeeeeee!" Moxxie cheered drunkenly, rolling onto his back. "Hiiiii."

"Hey- Hey, when did you get four heads?" He questioned, smiling up in a drunken stupor. "I wanna kiss em."

Despite the situation, Millie smiles in flattery as Moxxie reaches up at her, with his lips puckered, wanting his kisses. You giggled at your father's silly behavior.

As she picks up Moxxie to inspect how drunk he was, a purple geyser suddenly erupts beside them, and a massive shadow looms over the beach, catching everyone's attention; from the horned up beach-goers, the shell-shocked succubi and incubi and Blitz as he strangled a party goer.

What emerged from the water looks to be a massive blue leviathan creature with long, glowing white whiskers on its face like a catfish and large jagged blue teeth that jut out from it's jaw. It let out a blood-curdling roar, flailing its long, barbed tongue about like a malfunctioning fire hose.

You stared up at the neon, glowing creature in awe as Millie watched on with confused horror. Moxxie just grinned stupidly.

"Ooooh! Fish."

The fish monster then coils its tongue around the drunken imp's body and pulls him in. Too drunk to assest the danger, Moxxie only giggles to himself as the fish mutant pulls him into its jaws with a snap.

"Dada!" Your eyes widened in alarm from what you witness, but you were quick to snarl, which Millie caught on.

"Well get im' back, hon!"

Spotting a nearby man, she moves swiftly, taking you out of your sling and after giving you a brief kiss, she tossed you at him, in which you mauled the back of the man's head, causing him to fall over and drop his drink; Santa's Peppermint vodka. She then uses his towel to fashion a makeshift molotov cocktail, in which she chucks it at the creatures face, causing it to stumble back into the ocean and fall onto its back.

Picking you up and placing you on her back, she proceeded to swim over to it and scale its body using her dagger, and force its jaws open to find her drunken husband, still wrapped in its tongue, fruitlessly punching at its uvula.

"Dada!" You called to him, catching his attention.

Millie reaches for him, but rather than give her his hand, he only gives her a high five. She then opts to simply grab his wrist and forcibly pull him towards her, giving you the opportunity to chew through the creature's tongue, severing it completely and finally freeing your father, but the creature snaps back down on you and Millie.

Moxxie is briefly sent soaring through the air, his arms spread as if he was flying only for him to land in his Blitz's arms, as the beach goer behind him ducked to avoid getting hit by the tongue remnant. However, the man's luck is short lived, as Blitz was quick to shoot him with his flintlock in sheer annoyance, causing Moxxie to erupt into shrill, wheezing laughter.