Astrid and Roshi: Catastrophic cat

The new arrival ruthlessly pounced at Roshi, rolling him others on his back. It gnashed its teeth and went for a vicious bite, with the only thing in between being the net provided, with that slowly being reduced to shreds. Roshi speedily diverted the position of the netting to go around the neck, before enhancing the strength of his fingers, and stabbed into the neck of the cheetah. A small amount of blood spurted out, and the cheetah leaped back, growling intensely.

"Hey Astrid, I hope you got some space over on the trampoline cards, because it looks like there was another."

Astrid laughed while tearing the cheetah apart. "Well my job is done, the thing is neutralized. You can kill the other one now."

"Well this'll be fun." Roshi grabbed up 3 cards and threw them straight at the new rupture. The three of them stuck into the ground in front of the cat, pushing it backwards against the wall, pressuring it. He picked up another, and turned it straight into a kunai. He walked forward, and stabbed it into its eye, straight into its skull, silencing it forever.

"That was pretty easy." Astrid said nonchalantly.

3 cheetahs leaped out into the cave.

"You definitely jinxed that.The moment we find an opening with these ones we leave. Chances are there's a lot more of them, and this might've been a trap. Basically, let's dash."

"We'll have to report this quest giver. Definitely not dying on my first mission with my fighting game rival. Until you are beaten to a pulp by me and me alone, death is impossible.

Roshi heard more roars coming from further away. "OH BELIEVE ME, DEATH IS COMPLETELY POSSIBLE IF WE DON'T MAKE OUR LEGS MOVE AS FAST AS LIGHTING. COME ON!"

The two of them dashed forward to face the cheetahs.

Roshi swiped up his three cards on the floor, subsequently speedily transforming them into three different Kunai's, two of which he held in his two hands, and one of which he threw at the group of predators, stabbing into the eye of one in the middle. One of the other cheetah's leaped forward, coming in with its teeth, to be blocked by roshi's second kunai. Teeth started to break and shatter. While doing so, Astrid redrew her sword and slashed at the head of the middle cheetah, bouncing out the kunai from the eye, and grabbing it in the air. She leaped straight over the beast, slashing the right cheetah in the gut before loudly shouting "Come on! Let's move!"

Roshi quickly stabbed through the side of the cheetah's mouth, before withdrawing his weapon and dashing over the dazed beast, and running after Astrid.

Each of cheetah's were injured but that didn't stop their insane speed. As they ran, they slowly caught up to them.

Roshi pulled out four cards from the container of eternal blasting fate, gripping each one tightly

"Slip these into your shoes." He said, with him hoping it would work.

After slipping it in, Astrid felt her feet float up in her shoes.

"We are going for a fight here and now. Prepare yourself. We'll do this one at a time. Go for the eye of the one that seems to be the leader."

The two stood against the three unexpected threats to their life.

Astrid walked forward to the cheetah, still unused to this new feeling of floating in shoes, with even pain from the pressure against her feet. The cheetah slashed its claws at Astrid, and she looked like she was going to get hit, before Roshi threw his kunai into its other eye, making it cry out in agony, also resulting in the claw just scratching into Astrid. Reactionarily, Astrid kicked her foot forward, which resulted in the pushing back of her current opposer. She smiled.

"Hey, can I have a lift?"

Roshi immediately put out his hands.

Astrid ran up to him and did a half flip, pushing up with her hands, leaping into the air. Right above the cheetah, she fell, only to be repelled even further into the air.

"TURN IT OFF!" She shouted, while falling from the sky.

"Deactivate!"

As Astrid fell, she lifted up Hardship, and dug it straight into the cheetah, skewering it, and finishing it off. One down.

Astrid felt an extreme shock throughout her body. Though she was using the cheetah as a cushion, the fall from such a great height left her dazed.

The cheetah closest to her came in for a lunge, but Roshi shouted "Activate!" resulting in Astrid's position to be suddenly changed, meaning no damage was done.

Roshi magically appeared in front of the cheetah, stabbing it in the side where Astrid had cut it, eliminating it. Seeing this, the final cheetah retreated into the barren wilderness, leaving a growl in its wake.

The two hobbled back to the meeting place with the body of one of the cheetahs, with people gasping left and right.

The man looked surprised as they came back.

Astrid was furious. "You orchestrated that, didn't you?!."

Roshi threw the body back to him.

"I'm sorry," the man said with a mocking voice, "We can't take this as a proper research specimen, so I'm afraid you can't receive the reward."

Astrid was already drawing her blade, before Roshi put his hand on her shoulder, and signalled to the train station.

Sitting in the train station, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief. Astrid closed her eyes, Veins still popping out in rage.

Roshi picked up a cube from his pocket and made a call to Lucaria. When she picked up, and Roshi told her off the events, a spit could be heard from the other side of the call.