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Level 6: 49/60
Location: Carcass Isle
Word Count: 828
Points Gained: 2
New EXP Balance--- Level 6 : 51/60 [/center]

	[color=f49ac2]"Thank you, Mister Link."[/color] Sakura had said after being said by him. Her outfit and skin was a little scuffed, but she still had oodles and noodles of ki left to protect her body from permanent harm. The crabsnake was dead, and she was safe, for now. 

	When she threw Delsin, his plan seemed to work, but he was quickly dunked into the drink. [color=f49ac2]"Oops! Sorry!"[/color] She waved over to him, grimacing. When Link, still harnessed up, said he would go get them, Sakura nodded. She could trust the hero to help Delsin out.

	As Sakura observed the frenzied battlefield to pick her next target or ally to help, a whole new wave of enemies emerged. From all sorts of various places, especially the dying dead monster. Loads of terrible monsters hatched from its body. More fishmen arrived, and a two-headed monster came from the well.

	[color=f49ac2]"This is so gross."[/color] Sakura wrinkled her nose, her cat ears twitching. This was going to be a long fight, wasn't it? Still, she smirked, ready to deal out some hurt and take some hits herself. Such was the thrill of fighting. It'd been too long!

	The Sea Crawlers caught her interest as the opponents she would like to fight. The three of them were mostly human sized. She didn't want them running amok and hitting her allies in the back while they were distracted with more important foes. Sakura's body was pulsing with potential power just ready to be spent. Her EX meter had built up a bar and a half, and her V-Meter had a bar, too. 

	The trio of Sea Crawlers disappeared under the surface of the murky water. Sakura internally named them Zappy, Clammy, and Crabby. Helpful monikers to keep them separate in her head. Clammy was a monstrous looking fellow with a huge clam for a head. Crabby was a hunched over humanoid crab with a large claw. Zappy looked like a dead guy with electric crystals and fungus plugged in him, and was easily the smallest of the three. Normally she wouldn't underestimate someone just because they were small, but she doubted this ugly fungus zombie had Ki and technique to be his equalizer. This guy was no Akira. 

	Sakura went to the edge of the basin, where she knew the Sea Crawlers would be trawling underneath the deep waters. The giant creature holding the anchor was also nearby, but Sakura hoped that she was far enough away that she wouldn't attract its attention before someone else did. Many of her teammates, including another new guy who was a pirate skeleton, were fighting The Judicator. Sakura didn't want them disturbed. 

	Sakura didn't want to fight the Sea Crawlers where they could still hide underwater. She wanted to lure and harass them until they were forced to attack her in the shallows. Sakura gathered ki in her hands and fired a ball of plasma into the water. [color=f49ac2][i]"Hadoken!"[/i][/color] She blew a huge chunk of water away, displacing a tunnel's worth of water as the ball pushed through. The ball careened towards the underwater crawlers.

	Sakura's fireball exploded on contact, doing damage to all three if they were clustered together. 

	Focused on the Sea Crawlers, Sakura employed a kind of zoning strategy. She fired hadokens whenever she saw them approach her from underneath, knocking them away and whittling them down.

	Once they got close, she would time a V-Shift. She had seen Karin do it before on their fight, and she'd been eager to do it ever since. Normally she felt like she would have to practice to do it, but something about this World of Light made her feel confident that she could do it first try. Everything went slow and starry as she dodged the monstrous claw. [color=f49ac2][i]"Whoop..."[/i][/color]

	For a moment, she saw everything, and felt like she was on the verge of some kind of philosophical breakthrough. But the moment passed, and she punished the monster with a back throw. She grabbed its claw, and then hop right over Crabby's head, slamming it with her fists between her legs. That would send it scattering into the shallows where she could hopefully engage all three of them on her terms. 

	[color=f49ac2]"All right!"[/color] Sakura hyped herself up, kicking at Crabby and Clammy. [color=f49ac2]"These three uggos are on me!"[/color] She called out. Now that she was actually fighting them, she wondered if she really could take on all three. Was she biting off more than she could chew? A bead of sweat dripped down the side of her face. If it came down to it, one of her allies would just cover for her again. It's not like she could just stand idly by and let the Sea Crawlers walk right on past. Even something as some precise ranged attacks from someone like Mirage, Kamek, or Bella would do the trick. 

	Whack! She shut Clammy's big mouth with a bigger uppercut.