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Gloves VS Hessomight

⭐️Chapter 11: Gloves VS Hessomight

(Warning: Stab in the head near the end)

Gloves felt his heart skip a beat as he looked at the huge monster on top of him. He reached for his weapons quickly and shot some ink in his eyes, using it as a chance to escape his grasp. He skidded across the floor and backed up against the wall.

Wait, no! What am I doing? I'm just backing myself into a corner, and--

He flinched as Hessomight leaped straight for him and pushed him straight through the wall with brute strength. Luckily, there was nothing on the other side. He fell down against solid ground near a dumping area. Gloves felt himself beginning to panic. Hessomight had him on the ground again, breathing against his face, teeth bared.

"Just one snap of these fangs and you're a goner!" Hessomight laughed as he opened his mouth to bite.

Think fast...

Gloves kicked up with all his might against Hessomight's bottom jaw, making his mouth snap shut before his maw reached him. This gave Gloves the opportunity to ink a pathway and swim through it in his squid form. Hessomight shook his head and snarled.

"So you think you're somethin', hah?" he growled as he leapt up in the air and reached out to slash Gloves' face with his claws.

Gloves was on the ground once more.

What am I doing? He's too strong... no he's not, he's defeatable like everyone else is, I'm just not in the right mindset...

He struggled to get back up.

It's hard to move... he's huge... and honestly...

I'm a little intimidated...

But I have to try. I need to do something, I can't just sit here and let him beat me up like this.

He got up, determination flaring in his eyes, gripping his dualies in his hands as he inked up some of the ground and swam through it at a pace that Hessomight could never hope to catch up with. His advantage was that he was fast and Hessomight wasn't. He jumped out of his ink path and inked up the wall of the building and swam all the way up. The fangtooth growled, snapping at the inkling, but he was too far up to be caught.

"How do you like that? Ha!" Gloves laughed triumphantly.

He wasn't expecting what came next.

"If you were really brave, you'd come down here and face me! But hiding up there? I laugh at you! Coward!" Hessomight growled from below.

That struck a nerve.

Hold on, he's right. I'm hiding all the way up here, which is good because I have an advantage. I might be up high, but if I'm not facing him for real...am I still cool? Would cool people be facing him one-on-one instead of hiding? No wait, he's just trying to get at me! I'm not gonna let him taunt me like that!

"I'm the coward, eh? I'd say YOU'RE the coward for using that as a pathetic excuse! Your stumpy little legs can't make you jump this high, SUCKAAA!"

Hessomight snarled, but instead of trying to leap at Gloves, he ran around a different way. Gloves turned into a humanoid form and watched to see where he would go, but he lost sight of the enraged fangtooth. Soon enough, he felt a set of jaws grab his tentacles, and HARD. Twisting around as best he could, he saw Hessomight behind him.

How did he even get up there!?

Gloves groaned when he saw what he'd done. When he'd been thinking about all that stuff, Hessomight had gathered a bunch of trash and garbage bags together and used it to gain higher ground. He tried to free himself, but Hessomight smacked him in the head and he couldn't think straight. He yelped as Hessomight tugged him off his platform and went back down the trash bags. He ended the assault by smacking Gloves against the wall, hard.