[Trade] Not a Drill

Not a Drill- (Summer Seasonal 2024)- Mercer

Writing by: Lil Monster

Da gallery: https://www.deviantart.com/xxinsanenightmarexx/gallery

Word count: 800+

Dino’s Included: Mercer (38)

The movement of a quick and small figure dashed through the forest floor on the move to get to a destination driven by hunger, green eyes scanned as he kept his quick pace on the hunt but at an unusual spot for the small cryo. Mercer stopped as he sniffed the ground before seeing the change in biomes , the sand was weird to him as he didn’t usually hunt here but today was different and it wouldn’t hurt to have the sun on his scales for a bit who knew what he would find for prey out here.

Taking a step forwards as the sand stuck between his toes as he walked onto the beach taking a scan of the area as the sun hit his scales, hearing the waves of the water coming into the beach area. Mercer’s green eyes closed as the brightness of the sun caught his eye but once he got used to it he started to enjoy the sandy area.

The waters waves were loud and caught his attention as he trotted closer to where the tide was coming in, Splashes catching his eyes as various fish jumped from the tide pools into the swallow waters of the ocean. Grumbling in curiosity he walked up to the tide leaning down to sniff the water as he was caught off guard by a much larger splash.

“Hmm I wonder what that was, maybe I should check it out” Mercer mumbled to himself as he went into the water a little deeper feeling the cooling from it soak into his scales, he was a jungle hunter so the elements of the beach were a little more new to him but he made due with it.

Slowly approaching the thrashing splashing sounds Mercer kept a keen eye on the water as he dodge the splashes of waters that came up soon seeing a large fin breaching the surface of the water. It was a shark and only a medium sized one but it seemed to have gotten stuck in the swallow reef, but it was prey to Mercer but getting to it without falling in and getting bitten was a task.

“A hammerhead? That is odd to be out here but I guess the hot weather is brining newcomers often, unfortunate for this one because it's going to be my lunch” he growled through his teeth as he jumped from rocks keeping his balance, it wasn’t to big he just needed to kill it and drag it to shore.

The hammerhead splashed and shook becoming tired as it could sense Mercer getting closer and closer with each step. Mercer's green eyes scanned the rocks he was standing on as he lunged down picking up the hammerhead in his jaws as it shook around trying to get out of his grip. Holding on with all his strength he held tightly trying to crush the shark so its suffering would end but the shark had a little more fight then Mercer thought in him left.

With the flopping and Mercer losing his grip on the hammerhead, a large splash flew in the air as he had fallen into a tide pool and was now drenched in water as he let out a sigh. Getting up as he lost sight of the hammerhead shark , tilting his head in confusion.

“Where did it go? Did I lose it” Mercer mumbled to himself in annoyance , until he saw the fin come back up from the water's surface as the shark had flopped into a bigger tide pool. He had found it and it wasn’t going to worm its way from him this time, that was just one mess up.

Once he found himself on much larger rocks near the tide pool the shark had gotten itself into swimming around trying to find a way out but it wasn’t possible, Mercer stepped into the water as he walked after it slowly trying to corner it so it had nowhere to swim too from him.

“This is it Mercer , Don’t let it get away” he mumbled to himself as he locked eyes on the shark keeping still and with one swift lunge forwards he landed a bite on the hammerhead as he stood on top of it so it wouldn’t flop around awaiting the movement to stop. The shark's movement came to an end as Mercer let out a breath of enjoyment in the big mean he had just hunted and it would be new to the cryo as he had never had shark before especially hammerhead shark so the excitement to try it was also on his mind.

Leaning down and pulling the hammerhead ashore he licked his jaws and sat in the sand taking a rest before digging into the hammerhead when he felt like doing so.