Ch 30 - Fighting a Rat

[Porche POV continues]

*Woosh*

*BAM*

*BOOM*

*CRASH*

I just dodged another projectile fired off by this horrendous looking giant of a rat.

We have drifted a bit far from the original location, and we find ourselves in a more populated area of the island, and due to that fact, a large thick brick wall that was behind me a second ago, was peppered with four large projectiles, causing it to explode in a cloud of dust.

It's been 1 minute since I've encountered the large rat and all I have been doing so far is dodging what appears to be his teeth, that even though he is firing them like there Is no tomorrow, seem to regenerate as quickly as he fires them, if not faster.

However, what was once a 20-foot large monstrosity, now appears to be a 15-foot large monstrosity, apparently those teeth don't come free.

This creature's appearance is that of a dark colored brown rat, with patches of dirty matted hair covering its entire body, and what appears to be dried blood and dust crusting its exposed skin.

It's a horrendous sight, and due to its humongous size, its sharp pointed head, large beady eyes, elephant sized wrinkly ears, and long dirty claws, it appears very menacing to anyone that looks upon it.

That is the reason, that not long after the wall broke behind me, I once again hear the screams of the civilians on the other side, fleeing from the fight, but mostly from this creature.

However, as quickly as the screams began, they abruptly stopped, and a quick look behind gives me confirmation of what happened.

Another large rat, identical to the first, about 5 feet tall, just butchered and ate said screaming people in a few quick, bloody bites.

This disgusting scene has been repeating itself, again and again for the past minute that we've been in combat.

And Due to the fact that the smaller rat looks identical to the larger rat, and that for some reason, when the smaller rat eats a victim, the larger rats get stronger, more energetic, and once again grows in size by a small margin, I once again act and quickly dispatch said rat with a bloody beheading.

Yet no matter how many of those adult sized rats I eliminate, more keep appearing, they seem like an endless wave of rat clones or something.

However, contrary to my expectation, after killing this specific rat, I'm greeted by not the usual tooth projectile, but by a booming scratch-like voice, "Woman, Shee! Enough with your insolence, Shee!"

I hesitate for a second before replying with a cold voice "Oh, the rodent speaks! What do you want creature?"

It replies with an angry voice, "Why, Shee! Have you gotten in the way of my attack! SHEE! It was not even aimed at you, it clearly passed right by you, not harming a hair on your tasty body! Shee!"

Hearing this I shudder a bit and reply with a colder voice, "You were aiming for my companion you beast, what other reason is there for me to stop you!?"

Hearing my reply, all that's heard is deep silent before a cacophony of, "SHEE, SHEE, SHEE's" ring out in what seems to be mad laughter from the creature.

"You, Shee! mean to tell me that you stopped my projectile for a mere companion, Shee? You Cretin! SHEE! You have just opposed I, the great Rat king of the Gambino Family, Ratto Gambino! SHEE! And you shall suffer greatly, SHEE! Before I go back to your friend and devour her whole, SHEE!"

When I heard him say this, I froze for a second, before continuing as if nothing happened, the reason for this momentary freeze was because the Gambino family is well known to be 1 of the 5 great criminal families here in the West Blue.

Everyone knows that these great families have their hands in everything here in this sea, and offending any of them is considered suicide, it doesn't matter if you're a 100 million belly pirate, or a Marine Commodore, if you stay in this sea, and you offend someone from the great families, you are bound to disappear, no other way around it.

However, recently there have been obvious signs of great disturbance when it comes to these 5 great families.

The grapevine has it that the new family head of the Capone Family, another of the great criminal families, has been causing chaos by backstabbing and killing off the majority of the major players in this dark game.

That's the major reason why I quickly calm down my racing heart, in a period of great chaos like this one, no one is going to care about me and this rat that I have never heard about, and if they do care, they are welcome to try, I believe myself capable of defending myself, and either way, in 6 months' time Cade-kun and I are going to leave for the Grand Line, a place that not even the 5 great families would be able to reach me.

And as I think this through, I suddenly hear another loud *WOOSH* before a sharp tooth again demolishes the building that I was in.

However, this time, I didn't dodge it, no, it didn't even come close to where I was, during that short stint of inaction, I was secretly and slowly moving around the large rat and flanking the creature, communicating back by throwing my voice in the direction of the building, making it seem as if I was still present inside said building.

And due to this, the rat-man, now known as Ratto, didn't notice that just as he fired off his disgusting saliva covered tooth projectile, that I appeared right at his side, jumped, and slashed at his neck with my hidden blade inside of my new baton.

However, this didn't last for long, because just as I jumped up and tried to cut off his head, he seemed to finally use those oversized ears of his for something and reacted by barely softening the blow with one of his long wrinkly rat ears.

That, unfortunately, prevented me from completely beheading him, but as a result cost him his ear and a large gash on his neck.

"SHEEEE!" he loudly screeches, and leaps back by around 10 meters and lands on top of a ruined building not far away.

*Thud*

"YOU BITCH! SHEE! YOU'VE DONE IT NOW! SHEE! YOU MADE ME DO THIS! SHEE!"

He howls, and just as he says this, he rapidly starts ballooning in size, going from 15 ft tall to over 80 ft tall! Dwarfing all of the surrounding buildings, and he doesn't stop whatever he's planning with just that, he inexplicably opens his ginormous maw wide, making him seem as if he's regurgitating something, and not a few seconds later an increasingly high-pitched noise can be heard coming from inside said mouth.

All that can be heard are soft screeches coming from inside, and not long after, there begin to appear a number of vicious looking brown rats the size of my head coming from within.

However, the ringing sound continues to increase in volume and in pitch, and in accordance with that, the trickle of rats starts becoming a rain of rats, then a downpour of rats, and finally a large waterfall of brown rats!

He's spewing out a torrent of rats!

And as the rats become a brown furry wave; they begin demolishing their surroundings, devouring everything in their path, and utterly obliterating everything in sight, even the dirt road isn't left untouched.

And the worst part of this all? The huge rat wave Is actually heading right for me! Coming at me like a ravenous monster!