Serris

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Standing up eventually and looking around the area Samus could tell the only way to continue from this dead end was to go back into the water and see if there was anything below. Weavel was long gone but she knew he was still alive somewhere and that they'd meet again, but for now she had to get back to the task at hand and kill the remaining metroids.

"Atleast I've an excuse to use this once again " she thought as she activated the gravity suit. She jumped back into the water and sank to the bottom with ease , making her way forward and following the river for as far as it went . Eventually she came to some more ruins that had been submerged by the water. Out of the corner of her eye she spotted the husk of a larval metroid , signifying the nearby location of an alpha metroid. She came to a long shaft that extended downwards and she jumped down. An alpha metroid raced up from below and she turned into morph ball and boosted into it's mouth and out its back completely ripping the creature in two! "These are getting easier to kill. The larvae were more challenging" at the bottom of the shaft were four flooded tunnels.

- Samus was now making her way back up to the surface. After exploring the tunnels for so long luck had actually befallen her and she had encountered 10 alphas while she was down there. Only 26 were left now and she felt greater hope now that she could kill them all before the space pirates captured them. She was about to jump and boost her way to the surface when a blurry shape zoomed past her peripheral vision . She switched to the thermal visor but something was strange. She detected a heat signature but occasionally it would distort and avoid her visor when it changed speed. She changed to the plasma beam and stood there at the bottom of the water waiting for the danger to make its self known. She had a split second to react as a blurred shape came from behind , forcing her to become a ball to avoid getting hit. She emerged but the creature was gone. Suddenly it came at her from the front at a slower speed and she jumped over it and used her thrusters on her back to keep her floating above the ground . The creature was some sort of serpent with spines lining its body . She switched and scanned it as it slowed down on her thermal visor .

"Morphology: Serris , aquatic predator that moves with extreme speed. Serris is quite possibly the most deadly aquatic life form on SR388 and can avoid detection very easily. Limited data is available as a result. But it is recommended to attack its face and force it to the surface"

Serris came at Samus from the side with the speed of a bullet and she reacted by screw attacking right into it. The creature roared and was flung back a few feet. Samus attempted to shoot a charged plasma shot at it but the beam cooled down and became nothing more than black smoke when it reached serris . The creature recovered and looped around before diving at her from above she jumped out of the way but the side of its body scraped her armour and did three quarters of an energy tank worth of damage. She needed to end this ASAP! She would die if she continued to fight
It down here and so she thrust the grapple beam at its tail as it passed her and was taken along with it at ferocious speed . Climbed up the spines toward its head desperately holding on for dear life as it made its way up to the surface . Serris leaped out of the water near a wall and Samus used her legs against the wall to propel herself further up its body. She shot the plasma beam into its mouth and the creature roared as it slapped back down into the water . Samus landed on the water's edge and used the grapple beam to pull Serris out of the water. She screamed as she threw the beast onto the ground beside her . It lay there as the inside of its body slowly began to burn. She couldn't help but feel sad for it but also amazed at its deadly speed. The speed this creature possessed was unnatural and would be lethal to pretty much any other life form, it should not be possible for it to move this fast and yet it did.

"Detailed analysis of Serris now reveals that this life form is artificial. The creature was created by alien hands presumably the chozo and was given enhanced movement abilities seemingly for the purpose of hunting . Why it was created is unknown but there is definitely more than one "

"Why. The chozo were supposedly a harmonious species yet they created bioweapons like this and for what purpose? And what was their connection to the metroids? Were they attempting to weaponise them too?. None of this makes sense and I don't like where this going"

There was no time to ponder this and so Samus quickly looked for a way out of this isolated cave . The ceiling had various holes and so she turned into the morph ball and used her spider ball ability to magnetically attack herself to the wall as she rolled up toward the cave ceiling.

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