10 Uhh.... What are you doing?

After what felt like hours the large manta suddenly felt a warm feeling spreading out from his stomach slowly healing his internal injuries. Feeling the warmth easing the pain and discomfort in his body he closed his eyes and fell unconscious once again.

Some time later once his body finally reached a more stable condition the large manta started to wake up. As he opened his big eyes the first thing he saw was the flustered little crab. She would pick up a small beast core looking heartbroken and after what looked like an internal dilemma she would throw it into his open mouth before picking up another.

When the little crab noticed the manta had woken up her eyes showed a glint of happiness before she quickly hid it.

"Little gold what happened?" He said, still slightly dazed.

"We got eaten!" She instantly responded.

When he heard what she said he was somewhat confused as he was still slightly dazed from having just woken up, but once his mind started to clear up he remembered what happened!

When he looked around he found that they were inside an immense enclosed space with pink sticky walls, there was also many trash and decomposing body parts of different creatures scattered all over.

Letting out a deep sigh he turned back towards the little crab as his mind started to turn thinking of a plan however, he noticed something strange sitting beside her. There was the skull pot full of sand she usually kept but there was a dug up hole in the middle showing large amounts of beast cores that were hidden on the bottom!

"Hey little gold, where did you get so many beast cores? I very vividly remember you always instantly eating your half when you got it, so where did these come from??" He asked, squinting his eyes.

Startled, the little golden crab looked back and noticed the still uncovered stash and by taking control of the sand she quickly covered up the hole acting as if nothing happened.

"Hey little gold did you stash away some of the cores you picked up before we split them between us?" He asked once again seeing as she didn't reply.

Turning her head to the side the little crab started looking around completely avoiding eye contact! If she knew how to whistle that is probably what she would be doing!

"Signs you know what, since it saved my life let's just leave it as it is."

'There are much more important things to worry about now, like the fact we are inside a huge beast's stomach! If we don't find a way out of here we are probably going to end up like one of those dissolving limbs!'

"Come on, let's go see if we can find an exit" The large manta floated down low to the ground to which the small crab responded by quickly jumping up onto his back.

The duo made their way around the giant stomach looking carefully for any potential exits but they only found one large opening which was the entrance they had come from. Unfortunately every time it opened, the current that came through was too powerful! There was no way to go through it!

"Little gold don't worry, even if there are no exists, we can just make our own! Hehehehe" the large manta said as he let out an evil laugh

Moving up close to the wall he gathered up his mana and then quickly attacked.

"MANTAAA! RAAYYYYY!"

A black laser-like attack with a small bit of white mixed in randomly cut right into the thick slimy wall. It took a second but it eventually cut all the way through to the other side!

'Hahaha! Your body might be big and strong on the outside but how tough can your insides possibly be?'

Turning his tail slowly to the side the laser started to cut a thin horizontal hole into the thick wall. While he was calculating how big of a hole he should make he noticed that the corner he started on was already closed and the rest was rapidly healing!

'OK fine! it's tough OK! your insides are tough!'

"Little gold! help me keep it open!"

The little crab swiftly acted, she pointed her small claws towards the large skull and once she did the sand started to stream out and fly towards the hole that was quickly closing. As it reached the wall it slipped into the parts that were starting to heal and turned into small pillars that held it open.

"Sand creation- Sand pillars!"

Feeling proud of his naming abilities as he ignored the annoyed look coming from his back he continued trying to make the hole big enough for him to be able to fit his large body through.

"It's too strong, go faster!" The little crab suddenly warned him. You could hear the urgency in her beautiful voice. The wall's regeneration was so powerful that the pillars were slowly being squeezed!

Realizing that they might be in trouble he started to increase the amount of mana being used in his attack which started to cut through even faster however, the amount of mana he had put in was not worth the amount of attack power he gained!

Once he noticed that the hole looked just big enough he rolled his tail around the little crab which didn't forget to grab onto the skull pot with her little claws before he squeezed into it.

'Thank god for this aerodynamic body or else I would never be able to fit through that!'

The pillars disintegrated and the sand moved back into the skull as if alive allowing the hole to quickly close back up.

Feeling some fatigue after the large amount of mana they used, the duo started to eat some beast cores that the little crab unhappily donated to recover their energy as they inspected the new area. They were in a dark purple corridor like organ that was just big enough for them to fit comfortably. It went on for a couple of dozen yards to each side before making a turn in the distance and the water around them was slightly tinged red but fortunately they could breathe just fine.

'Maybe we are in the veins?'

"Little gold, we will make another hole after resting. I'm pretty sure this corridor won't lead us out of here." After saying that he laid down on the floor to finish digesting the cores and recover his mana faster.

As his belly touched onto the sticky purple ground he started to feel faint thumping from a certain direction. Both his mouths broke into an evil smile as he suddenly had a great idea.

"Hey little gold, I have a good plan of how we can not only get out of here, but we might even be able to get our reven… uhh, little gold, what are you doing?"