The attack was with all the power the blue kitten could muster. She did a kamikaze move. The water blades around her, which left Rosch with only one way and that was a frontal attack. Both dashed at each other with amazing speed.
"Damn. I didn't think the kitty was that fast. I would have thought, because of the magic and illusion, that the kitten isn't physically that strong.", Rosch thought to himself.
Both were only meters away from each other as the kitten opened its mouth even further.
Just for a second, both beings looked deep into their eyes. The cat saw pure confidence, while Rosch saw fear, pure fear, but the cat was to proud to run away. The blue cat could have just given up, it understood more than run or fight principles of the forest. It could even understand Rosch completely. But its proud, never backing up nature seems to be more important than it's own life.
They clashed together, the teeth of the cat sinking deep into Roschar's shoulder, while it's claws dug into Roschar's back. Rosch on the other hand just grabbed the cats head and pressed his arms together.
He slowly pressed his arms stronger and stronger together, putting pressure on its jaw.
"Kitty cat, listen. If I release my bone blades, your head will be punctured 8 times. No way you will survive that. And since I pressed my shoulder deeper into your mouth, I blocked the strength of your bite. It's your loss. Think and think well. Die right now or become my pet. Believe me, you won't ever regret belonging to me. ", Roschar's words shocked the big blue cat to the core, even tears started to drop down its face.
But it seemed to not want to become a slave. Even though he pressed his shoulder against the back of the cats jaw, it's claws were still free and it started to slash Rosch everywhere.
Rosch just sighed and pressed its arms together even stronger. Cracking sounds were heard and suddenly the lower jaw of the cat dislocated, bringing the cat to scream. It sounded weird with a dislocated jaw, but Rosch didn't care as he uppercut the cat's jaw back in. The cat never felt so much pain in such a short amount of time, to that came that it's brain started to shake around and it's legs got shaky from the uppercut, as the blue cat finally dropped to the ground.
Rosch went on top of the cat's back, starting to pet it.
The cat was confused, but couldn't do much as it's body still didn't listen.
"See, if you become my pet, you will always get petted. Food won't be a problem anymore and you can even have a wish every month. How about that?", Rosch said looking at the cat, who started to think about it, it seems. Why would he be so kind to a defeated enemy, was the cars thought.
The blue cat started to calm down more and looked at Rosch, who looked completely bloody. While he hurt the beast, he tried to make, as little damage as possible. On the other side the beast tried to kill him with every move.
The blue cat stood up a bit, still shaky, but enough to shake Rosch off. It turned around to look at Rosch. It took seat a bit away from Rosch and rose it's head.
"Do you accept? Why does it seem you want me to approach you?",Rosch said trying to hold his laugh back. He went forward starting to cuddle and pet the cat, who was surprised. The cat thought he would be to proud to lower himself so fast and approach it, but he didn't.
Now the cat even became a bit embarrassed.
Rosch went from head to the neck than the chest and at the end to the stomach, but got slashed the lower he went. The cat even started hissing.
"What was that for? That hurt. You can't just slash me whenever you feel like it.", Rosch became a bit angry, while saying that even slapping the paw of the cat away.
The cat suddenly went to him and showed her back. It seemed as if it wanted to only be petted on the head or back not her lower side.
" What the? Don't tell me you are a female and don't want to be touched on the stomach or chest?", Rosch said and was surprised. He could see a light blush through her fur. He didn't know what to say to that. An animal that had the mind of a humanoid being was just to weird. Most domesticated animals liked their belly rubbed.
After some talking, which was done by Rosch, while the cat just shook or nooded its head, they went back home.
"Wait, I didn't give you a name yet.", Rosch said getting an immediate hissing response.
"What? Oh you have one already?", Rosch asked getting a positive reaction out of the cat. For half an hour Rosch tried his best and finally he got it.
"Goddammit that was hard. At least I know your name now, Catherine. I will call you Cathy from now on, is that okay?", Rosch asked and got a nod from Cathy.
He finally was able to get a mount and to that a special one. Nobody has seen such a cat before. Maybe a mutation or a species that traveled from far away. Rosch didn't knew where it was from, but was feeling good to have a mount that could even use magic.
They walked a bit, while Cathy started to lick Roschar's wounds. She doesn't have anything severe, while Rosch was completely ripped to shredders.
His wounds didn't bleed for long, but they still looked horrible.
Rosch just looked at Cathy and smiled. She was proud, but after talking a bit and opening her heart a bit, she seems to have taken a liking to Rosch.
After an hour, they stood in front of Roschar's cave.
"Let me introduce you to my family.", Rosch said, while going inside.
He started with his mother, grandmother, sister and so on. While they had an own home now, they seemed to like it at Roschar's cave the most. And Rosch didn't mind it, he loved to have his family around.
Cathy's head was taboo for the others it seemed, she only let Rosch pet her there.
"So you were not hallucinating. We really thought that there wouldn't be a special animal in the forest.", Suz said, as she arrived. Slowly one female of Rosch after the other came inside. All were fascinated by the blue cats elegance, but seemed a bit annoyed by its arrogance.
As finally the last female, who was Silvana, came in, Cathy started to get annoyed, too.
She jumped at Rosch scratching him lightly.
Everyone was stunned and looked weirdly.
"Rosch is that a tamed animal? I mean, if you get scratches all the time, it isn't really tame.", hearing Schajana's remarks made Cathy even more angry. She took seat on Roschar's lap and glared at the females.
"Wait. Didn't you say the cat was intelligent? Doesn't it look like she is jealous, because she didn't know how many females you had. Look, when Suz and Daria entered, who she already knew, she didn't mind, but with everyone else she became more annoyed and angrier.", Millisiana said. She was one of the first to welcome her grandson back, so she saw how Cathy acted. And to her words came some immediate reactions. Cathy looked to the side with a blushing face. Daria, too was beet-red, since she was called Roschar's female.
Everyone was shocked and thought the same, "Can a cat even blush?" .
"Hold on. Do you remember the details of the mission? The cat only attacked females, while the males had almost no injuries. I think that Cathy was looking for a partner.", Suz suddenly said with a teasing smile. All the females in the room started to laugh, but almost choked on their laughter, because Cathy looked away again completely embarrassed. Than the laughter became even stronger.
" Rosch, finally. You did it. You can make any female yours. Even non humanoids. ", Silvana said, being the happiest. She was still a bit annoyed living in a harem, so having some fun on Rosch behalf wasn't so bad.
"Cathy, you are joking right. Come on kitty. I will find you a fine male cat. I am not into such things.", Rosch said and as soon as he said that Cathy jumped up scratching him again. She walked away waving her head away from Rosch with a hmpf sound at the end, as if he was the one betraying his new female.
She didn't seem to want to hear anything about that, as if she made her mind up already. Everyone had another laugh, while Silvana started to heal all of Roschar's nasty cuts.
First, Rosch wanted to teach Cathy a lesson and spank her, for always scratching him, but the shock that she wanted to be his female left him standing in shock. Only after being healed did he came back to his senses.
"Anyway, I have a mount and Cathy is amazing. But now comes the next problem. Next month is the fight of Gorker and Slither. I just can't get it out of my head that they will try to kill each other.", Rosch said concerned. All of them had an uneasy feeling till now and looked darkly, only Cathy seemed happy being praised.
Rosch went out. He wandered till he reached the empty space near the village border. There his warriors trained. Cathy followed him like a shadow.
"Cathy, can you make me disappear, too?", Rosch asked Cathy, who seemed surprised, but nodded. She looked a bit sternly trying to tell him something.
She wants him to stay on her back, it seemed, because if he leaves her illusions won't work anymore.
Rosch went on her and she started to use her magic. It was truly fascinating. Rosch couldn't even see himself, as he tried to see his hand.
"Good Cathy. Now look, do you see that guy, who is the second biggest of the group. That's Gorker. I want you to sneak up on him. But don't attack, that is my duty.", Rosch said smiling ferociously. Cathy looked at Gorker and it seemed she smiled a bit, too. She can feel that her foe is a strong opponent. She completely concentrated, while erasing her presence as good as possible. And to Roschar's shock it seemed to work. Rosch was only 3 meters away and Gorker, didn't realize it. Rosch suddenly accelerated releasing his bone blades.
On the last step, Gorker turned around feeling something, but still got slashed. A deep wound was on his chest, but nothing serious.
"Young chiefling, how?", Gorker said shocked, while all subordinates were jumping around thinking they are being attacked.
"Nice right. That's my new mount Cathy. She has unbelievable camouflage abilities. Now I can train with you.", Rosch smiled, shocking all his subordinates. Only Gorker had a bug smile on his face.
"Thank you young chiefling. But it will be hard from now on. Now I know that there is a being that can hide its presence that well, even from me. Let's see if you can catch me by surprise again.", Gorker said feeling thrilled again, since ages.
Even though Gorker couldn't use magic, he truly was amazing. Rosch couldn't do a think against Cathy, without his magic. Rosch felt Cathy only thanks to his water affinity and magic training with his mother. Gorker dodge on pure instinct. Rosch separated from Cathy and they attacked from every direction.
"Good young chiefling. If a method doesn't work anymore, you have to think fast. And attacking from different directions is always a good thing to do.", Gorker said still lecturing Rosch. Even pissing him a bit off.
"Goddammit, even now he is calm as fuck.", Rosch thought to himself.
"Cathy, you can use your full power.", Rosch shouted suddenly.
Now even water blades and balls of darkness flew on the training field. The subordinates were shocked by how fast they three beings fought, but no one looked away. They absorbed everything that happened.
Suddenly Flatch stood up and attacked, too. He was to slow, which would be dangerous in close combat that was why he threw big stones at Gorker.
"Hahaha, now even you Flatch. Good, how about Orosh, Gub, Gerhard and Luchs. Get here and fight, too.", Gorker said his smile becoming ferocious. He felt some fun right now.
And like he said 7 beings started to attack simultaneously, attacking Gorker from every direction. And to everyones shock, while Gorker got bloodier by the minute non of the wounds were to deep.
" There is truly a huge gap. I completely underestimated Gorker, Slither and the rest.", Rosch thought to himself in disbelief. He truly understood the gap between the top leaders in the village and him now. Gorker, Randan, Slither, Leonhard and Torkel are truly terrifying beings. Even though Randan and Leonhard are again much stronger than the rest.
Suddenly the first, which was Gerhard screamed, as he was kicked into the stomach. He went pale and almost threw his entire breakfast up.
Next was Orosh, who got knocked down with an uppercut. And like that one after the other was taken out. Gorker slowly let himself get cut up, while analyzing their patterns. And now he started to destroy them.
After another hour, Rosch lied on the ground, breathing heavily. His eyes unfocused.
Two students of Silvana came and started to heal everyone.
"Truly, amazing. Vicemaster Gorker.", Gerhard said completely healed already, since he was the first to go down.
Gorker just smiled.
"We will do this every third day from now. It helps me and you guys, too. You have to find tactics together. I may have other things to do in the future, while you have to fight warriors that are on another level. Thats why you guys have to fight like you just did, but with more coordination and tactics. If you do that nobody can beat you. Even if quality is important, numbers are as important, too. If you aren't strong enough, fight together. In war honor is important, but coming back alive is even more. ", Gorker said, teaching the young ones. They were a bit annoyed since they were already 7 against 1. Does he want them to come with a little army?
After the exercise, Rosch went back with Cathy to take a bath and relax.