I'm a Stingray?

Chapter 356: The return of the...

The definition of which covered the name of a blockade was easy to understand. This team had their path blocked by a door until now, and required some type of diamonds to unlock it.

Thankfully they managed to achieve just that in a matter of an hour, just because they split up and managed to handle a few situations, mostly individually.

After Timmy almost died while they broke that illusion spell, they swam back towards the main door to see how the situation was.

Two of the diamonds had been merged with that same huge, stone door. The most recent one had flown across the tunnel, it did so while the two stingrays traveled through it. Admittedly, the scene was interesting.

However, after they got a hold of two diamonds, the couple of friends were eager to push their progress forward. For that reason, they went to look for the rest of the team.

Yet it was inevitable for them to float towards a couple of problems, that was the curse of curiosity. It was battle oriented, and at this point the details were nothing the team had not seen before.

Thanks to that perspective, they handled those issues in no time; they simply had a brief understanding of what to expect from this odd underworld, and how to handle what it threw against them.

These rays of experience led the team towards inevitable success. So now, all four diamonds were embedded with the big stone door.

It seemed so astounding to have all of these expensive looking gems collected, but now another problem emerged. The team did not know what to do next!

The indestructible door did not move after the diamonds embedded with it, the door did not slide away as the team magically expected it to.

"Now how the hell do we use all these diamonds?" Timothy questioned.

He felt a bit impatient at this point. He got hit by some massively powerful light earlier on, so surely any lack of progress felt beyond irritating.

Of course that same light has given him a lot of soul power, but the signs of pain were still there, and they slowly crept in to form a bigger mess. The impact from earlier had simply been tremendous.

"Maybe one of them is broken," Dana theorized through a mumble.

And before the conversation could have gone through various odds and ends, Haze decided to take the lead on this topic.

"We can't do anything about this," She weighed in first.

And afterwards she described, "The channels of energy that go through this door, are all leading to one single point in the middle. It's as if we need to put a diamond on that spot as well."

"So do we need to slap the door in the middle, or something?" Timmy interrupted.

"No," The lady shortly answered.

She wanted to point out every corner of her brother's stupidity, but at this point it felt quite a time-waste to do so.

That was why she just described, "This small point is on the other side of this door. So even if we could do anything about this, we would need to be on the other side."

In an instant, her expressive brother pointed out the obvious. "Oh hell, that's bad."

"What was your first clue?" Snoopy breezed across the conversation, undoubtedly with a load of sarcasm.

The team grew increasingly frustrated, so such sassy comments were only expected.

Dana wanted to interrupt this bleak bickering phase, as she picked up a hint that was beyond important. But her word was cut short by one of the other stingrays, who didn't hesitate to complain.

Snoopy looked at his sister and weighed in, "You said that these four diamonds would be enough. Why did you make us deal with weird ass crystal fish, just to let us wait like idiots here at the end."

"As if this is the first time you looked like an idiot," Haze snapped.

And of course she had further comments regarding her brother's incompetent sides, but she decided to move towards the vitally important topic instead.

Before she could have gotten interrupted, she specified. "This door hid that important point on the other side. Everything was clear once these diamonds gave a bunch of energy streams throughout this door."

"So we had no way of knowing ha," Timothy leaped in the conversation again, and he tried to loosen up the tension as well.

In an instant, his sister confirmed. "We had no way of knowing."

The siblings fell silent after that point, they truly did not know how to approach this delicate situation.

Timothy might have chances to figure something out, especially since his creative intelligence is otherworldly; but in this situation, he would need to fully understand the door's mechanism in order to figure anything out.

Those facts aside, the silence and the unholy tension that grew with it, had given Dana a pocket of space to finally express what lurked across her fishy head.

"Guys," She first called out for attention.

And afterwards she weighed in, "Since this point... or lock, whatever it is? Since it's on the other side, then maybe we aren't supposed to even go inside."

"We both have a vision of where we're supposed to go," Timothy followed along.

And then he pressured, "I'm pretty sure we're supposed to go through here."

"Our vision shows us where to go, not what lives in it." The eagle-ray lady finally expressed.

And that's when the team came to a sudden realization, they all caught up with what this fine woman had to say. Unsurprisingly, the entire team sunk under a wave of nervousness, but they still didn't want to back down.

That was why the hero insisted, "If we have to fight some fool, we'll do it, this is not our first fig..."

Such a sentence could not have been finished, as in that moment, a screeching sound erupted across the atmosphere. Subconsciously, the entire team knew exactly where to look.

Their focus darted towards the complicated stone-door, and their heart was forced to skip a beat!

The team noticed that a one-foot wide hole had opened up, this hole was located right in the middle of the door.

It was no secret that this hole revealed what was on the other side, but the team could not make anything out of such a scene. Instead, their focus was reaped by what floated in front of them.

This view was simply difficult to absorb, as what floated in front of them was an exact representation of a small bodied, hairy, adult human!

Towards such a sight, the hero could only express. "What in the ever loving fuck?"