11 I once read on the internet about this strange thing. (1/2)

Turning around he found the little crab doing a strange dance around her pot of sand.

”Is this what makes that pot of sand special?” he wondered, watching her with a weird look.

Since she didn't respond he continued to watch until he realized she wasn't actually dancing but stepping on tiny things. There were a bunch of small bugs that were eating some of the sand that she had spilled onto the floor and the few had noticed the big skull and got greedy. Of course the little crab was having none of it and was stepping on them mercilessly

'How dare you eat my special sand! Why don't you have a taste of my foot instead?!'

The little things looked like a black black cockroach. As he watched her brutally murder the poor things he found that every time she squished one it would open its mouth as if it was releasing a scream, but strangely, no noise was coming out.

'Maybe we just cant hear it?' Suddenly getting a bad feeling he tried to calm down the little crab.

”....Hey little gold maybe you should stop killing them .. it was only a little bit of sand anyways so how about you climb back up onto my back? However it didn't seem like she heard him at all as she kept raising her killing spree.

She had only noticed the bugs after they had already eaten a small clump of sand. Don't they know how hard she worked on this pot of sand?

Seeing as she wasn't going to stop he decided to speed up his plans. Even though all the cores he ate had not been fully digested the growing sense of danger made him feel like he was running out of time.

Charging up his attack once again he started cutting through the walls

”Help me little gold!” It was only then that she finally stopped and after she climbing onto his back her sand quickly flew out to hold open the hole the manta had created

Time passed quickly and even though they had passed the halfway point, strangely nothing had happened yet.

'Was my instincts wrong?' With his lower face he looked around to see if there was truly nothing wrong but all he saw were only the black organ walls surrounding them.

'…. Wait a minute, why are the floors and walls black!'

It was all covered with the little bugs! They made no noise and were too small to see so he didn't even notice when they became fully surrounded!

A small bulge started to suddenly rise from the sea of black and quickly grew like a vine towards the duo. A second after the first, others started to quickly rise all around moving also slowly towards them!

”Little gold! use everything you can!” The black manta screamed as he threw most of his mana into the attack which started to quickly rip through the walls. Unfortunately the fatigue was growing just as quickly!

The small crab also did her best as the sand seemed to have gained immense strength as not only did it hold open the hole but it also started forcing it open.

The Mantas lower face was also trying its hardest by desperately blowing at the vines that were quickly getting closer. This desperate struggle that went on for a few seconds felt like hours!

”Finished!” The little crab grabbed onto the manta with her claws right as he used his boost to squeeze through the hole right before they were completely drowned in the bugs.