Shay cleaved through the air with her Katana as her body spun at an angle to improve her momentum. The mantis skillfully parried her attack, as it always did. Unlike always, the absolute force behind the attack sent the mantis plummeting through the sky and embedding itself into the cliff-side.
Seconds passed, and Shay was already on top of the mantis with an aura-coated boot to the face. The mantis crossed its arms before its head to protect itself. Shay's boot came down, and while the mantis successes in protecting its head, that was about all it protected. The stomp was so forceful that the mantis' body drilled a thirty-meter tunnel into the cliff-side.
