Are you ok??!!

Katsuo was in deep shock. the once curious girl was gone...

He felt like his brain shot off for a second, Sakura was not knowledgeable about the beast and he knew that he messed up and did not think the serpent would attack him head on. Getting angry at himself and the beast. Katsuo strikes head on, running towards the beast as fast as lightning he slammed his sword onto the beasts tail resulting it to be cut straight off.

Shaking it's head the serpent smashed its into everything, Katsuo did not know what was happening. Stepping back he thought it would attack him but instead it was hitting it's head on everything. Next thing they knew a swords tip smashed through its head, falling down lifelessly, Katsuo walked towards it and nudged the head.

Seeing movement he stepped back, it's mouth began to open and what came out? Sakura came from the mouth holding onto her sword and something blue. Finding out that she was still alive Katsuo ran up to her and hugged Sakura so tight.

"I can't breathe." tapping on his shoulder so he could let her go he finally released his grip on her. Walking towards their stuff Sakura grabbed her things "we have to get going, I'm pretty sure in this realm since there are such things such as this, some other beasts would be attracted to the scent so let's go." calling her pet, Sakura began walking ahead.

Understanding what Sakura meant, Katsuo ran towards his stuff and grabbed it, running to catch up to Sakura. He felt as though he was seeing a whole different person, not the cheerful young lady he knew when they were at the palace, instead what he saw was someone who has been through countless years of bloodshed and battles.

Staring at her side profile he believed that he should not take her words for granted. This young woman did not lie about her past life and she was obviously well trained to kill. "Are you ok?" whispering to her, he saw her nod.

Quietly walking they both chose to stay quiet. Not a sound, all they could hear was the leaves and twigs under their feet as they walked.

After walking for another hour or so, Sakura and Katsuo heard a roar, both of them speed up their pace. The sound was in fact coming from where the battle took place. Countless beasts of all kinds came to the spot, fighting each other for the serpent's body as a meal, tearing at the others fur or scales, this took all night and what was left was many bones. The beasts bodies were left as bones but a person could not even distinguish what they may have been before.

Staring at this sight was a person sitting on a high tree, blue hair and red eyes, covered from his nose to his feet in all black, this person looked as though he was sitting in the same spot since the fight began and it would seem as though this fellow was from a different kingdom just by his looks, standing up this person walked behind the tree and disappeared.

Walking for the whole night Sakura was deeply tired, slamming her knees on the ground "I can not keep going Katsuo, me and ichika needs a rest." petting her beast pet, earlier the little one started to slow down and was growing tired as it was only a few days old Sakura would naturally pick it up and continue forward.

Setting down her bag, Sakura took out a little ancient thermos, it was not like a modern thermos but it was smaller and it was almost like a teapot shape and held together with some magic.

Sakura was honestly surprised by the thermos at first but after awhile she got used to it. pulling out two cups, she poured some water in both and handed one to Katsuo and one to her pet ichika. Spending the night running through the forest they finally were closer to the middle of the forest, they were not exactly there but it would at least take a whole day or two to be able to walk there minus all the beasts if they were to fight, if by running they would arrive half the time at least.

A cultivation technique Sakura knew that came in handy at the moment was a force field, it would stay up as long as the cultivator would not get tired.

Laying down a mat, Sakura suggested they should rest at least for an hour before moving forward on their journey.

Laying down on the mat Sakura snuggled up to her pet beast and closed her eyes, Katsuo soon followed as he also put a barrier over them in case of enemies or something happens but his barrier was made to hide them and protect them, making it as though they were invisible.

After an hour of rest they got up looking outside the barrier's Sakura felt like she was camping, it was early dawn, the start of the day. Getting up to pack their things Sakura picked up her sleeping little panther carefully and made a sleeping comforter in her bag for it, leaving open the bag so it can have air, she put it on. "You ready Katsuo?" Sakura turned towards him.

Going through his bag, he tossed an apple towards Sakura, quickly thanking him sakura took a bite and felt relaxed. Putting his bag on they took down the barrier's ready to go. starting to walk and eat apples on the way Katsuo started to think of his plan. He knew the other kingdom on the other side of the forest likes to hunt here, Katsuo was very curious about them though, if he could secretly get them to notice, he might have a chance to get inside their kingdom, looking behind him he thought how naive is this girl... Holding back a wicked grin..

They were walking for awhile and it soon became mid-day sakura thought she could try to catch some low-level beast or see if there was a pond near by "hey I'm gonna go scout the area for any beasts or a pond to fish." turning in another direction she went away.

Putting down his things Katsuo believed Sakura could be quite useful for some things but right now his objective is to make her believe he was a good guy.

Whispering a few words under his breath, suddenly a dark mist appeared in front of him. what came out of the mist you may ask? well it is in fact what seemed to be a young man with short black hair, pale white skin, black robes, and on his forehead it seemed as though he had devil horn's. "You called for me master?" said the devil like boy. He was not an actual devil but he was born with horns as a baby, his people also had horn's but they were mainly slaughtered by humans who wanted their secret power. He did not know if there was any survivors of his kind but he always hoped to find his kin which were called horned humanoids. Their power was in fact was useful, they can make anyone do their bidding. Almost like hypnosis. A psychological power, it will make the chosen person do whatever the welder want for a short amount of time but after they are done, the person will not remember what they may have done.

"How is the prisoner doing, salve?" Katsuo replied.

"The prisoner is still locked up in the dungeon, with no sunlight, the chains are draining his energy, and he has not been fed according to your orders sir."

Katsuo thought well once everything is planned, it will be very interesting to watch this show, dismissing his subordinate Katsuo was deep into his thoughts.

Currently Sakura was walking, she saw a wild boar in front of her and jumped into a tree preparing her bow. Taking a deep breath and aimed. In her past life she sometimes went camping by herself in the wild just to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city, she knew how to hunt with guns and sniper rifles but using a bow was a bit different. Letting go of the arrow it flew really fast and hit straight into the heart of the beasts, jumping down from the tree walking slowly and cautiously towards the boar, looking around not seeing any other wild animals or beasts nearby, she stopped the blood from gushing out of the animal and pulled out the arrow.

Watching from up above in a tree was the blue haired man. Sakura was not able to see him because he was using a invisible barrier. He thought right now was not the right time to tell her as she was not strong enough, before disappearing again.

Pulling out something from her bag to help her drag the carcass of the animal, she put the animal on top of a blanket. Without realizing her pet ichika was actually gone during the time she killed the boar, it suddenly flew up to her with an animal in it's tail.

Seeing ichika using her wings, sakura thought how cute but then questioned when it left, looking at it's tail she saw it caught a white rabbit with antlers, it seemed that ichika caught a low-level jackalope.

Reaching out her hand she pulled the dead little jackalope out of it's tail and put it with the boar. Sakura whispered "next time you go hunting let me know before you go by gesturing your tails into a straight line, this will let me know when your hungry or want to go hunting." Understanding what her master was saying ichika nodded its head.

Sakura and the flying ichika both headed back towards Katsuo, it took them thirty minutes to catch some thing to eat and walk back.

Katsuo saw them return quickly, he thought if they came sooner they would have seen or heard what had happened earlier. "So you two are finally back, it did not take long at all." changing into a cheerful side Katsuo got up to help them.

"Yes it did not take long at all, while I caught the boar, ichika caught a low-level jackalope." Happy with their finding, Sakura starting to pick up twigs and branches to prepare a fire pit to cook the animal's.

"How are we going to cook them?" Katsuo questioned, he thought might as well help if I can since I'm bored.

"We will be making a fire pit so I can cook the meat." Sakura putting all the wood in a pile, after she went in her bag and grabbed a metal spike and a small knife to put the meat on and to be able to skin it.

"May I skin them" Katsuo asked. Handing him the knife, Sakura began trying to light the fire, remembering something she read in a book Sakura visioned a small flame and put her hands into a holding position, like holding onto a glass cup with both hands.

Visioning the flame Sakura started to pour small amounts of spiritual power into her palms thus creating a small flame the size of her finger.

Opening her eyes she was very happy "look, look, look... I made a flame out of cultivation!!" Sakura urged Katsuo to look. "great job, when we get back we should start practicing for you to enter the clan and then we will see what elements you hold, obviously you can weld fire as we can see." Looking at sakura he informed her. Going back to skinning the animal, there on his face was an evil smirk..

Sakura proud of what she was able to do hurriedly went to the pile of wood tried to get the pit started with the fire. Finally able to get it going Sakura went and sat down near it, tossing a few pieces of fur in to help it grow.