Kamila had not missed her shot, she had hit it perfectly, she had always wondered if the tail if a mammal was cut would it reduce it's fighting capabilities or would it be a negligible loss that could be overlooked.
This was a dangerous way of thinking, treating your opponent, an angered beast no less as an experimental subject was dangerous, too dangerous for someone like Kamila who had not yet been accustomed to her rapid increase, but the girl herself was grinning like a fool as if the best thing had just occured.
Kamila did not want an easy kill, how the heck would a one hit kill help her familiarize herself with her new found strength?
She wanted a battle! A long drawn out battles that would test her stamina reserves, highlight her deficits in strength and agility, test her endurance and resistance, these things could not be attained by a one hit kill
So she choose the best and simplest way to have all that she required, enrage a slumbering beast. Quite literally
The Green panther's head snapped back as it's reddened eyes locked with Kamila's glowing honey brown eyes, it roared and dashed towards her
Kamila dodged taking a side step which made the Panther to miss and continue moving forward before it turned once more and lunged itself towards her
Kamila used her ghost walk as her presence began to phase in and out of perception along with her body.
Yes she wanted a ling drawn battle...but that was only possible if the predator was not reduced to prey...for the Panther to actual push Kamila back it had to equal and rival her in all aspects or simply overwhelm her in a few...but if it failed in the endeavour...death was all it awaited.
From her flickering ghastly presence Kamila struck out from random positions at the Panther who frantically dodged and parried with it's claws.
It's rage subsided once it noticed it's attackers weird pattern behaviour, it's red eyes returned to its formerly brown as it's body was now enveloped in a green glow
The Panther just like the predator was a wind type beast, it focused on speed as it's strength and dashed forward cleanly striking Kamila's spear, the clung of metal resounded throughout the forest as the beast amped it's already speed by encasing itself in what seemed to be an innate ability.
Beast unlike humans did not have techniques and arts, they however utilized innate abilities that were inscribed into their bloodline.
The Green coating was mearly an ability all wind type beasts had, it was called winds Blessing by a famous beast researcher.
The Panthers ability however was a tad bit different as all it's limbs were coated in dark green energy, unlike the Aerial claws of the predator, the Green panther's ability was seemingly focused on improving agility as the Aerial claws was nothing more of a by product of it's claws moving at high speeds that forced it to discard some of the accumulated air element.
Kamila struck back her stance shifting from the evasive style to a more grounded and defensive style, this was something she had picked up back at Varia since Ivan had refused to teach than any weapon based techniques or Arts.
She had seen an elder practice it every day since she was five up until she was eighteen, the style was dewply rooted in her mind as it was mesmerizing to the eye.
The style was grounded and domineering as it prioritized to control the two meter reach of the spear into something like a zone?!... Domain of sorts.
It dictates what the enemy would do, when to do it and how to do it as this allowed the user to counter and defend if need be
In all practicality, Kamila had no way of recreating the style... atleast for now that is.
She could however use it as a reference as she clashed with the beast who vanished from the four meter distance and appeared Infront of her.
She raised her spear and net the attack head on before pushing back the Panthers, she then hit the butt of her spear on the ground, pyschicing herself up before dashing forward.
And then it begun, the dance in the thin thread of life and death, with every vlaw that struck Kamila her spear would thrust half a dozen times and leave cuts and lacerations on the panther
When one side stepped the other missed leaving an opening to take advantage of, when another dodged the other would have to shift their approach
The battle grew more and more dangerous as Aerial claws flew out at alarming speeds, one after their other followed up by precise claw strikes which Kamila was able to withstand without being pushed back
The fight was intense yes....but not to the point where Kamila wanted, she did however manage to have a mental graso over her speed, her quick burst or dashes or even evasive maneuvers.
Her strength however was still not quite adjusted but still getting there as sone ateijea carried more than was meant to be delivered whilenothwr came out with less
This made her to not use any other techniques apart from the Ghost Walk as they would mess with her already faulty control
She dashed forward after dodging an aerial claw to the face, she side stepped again at the large claw swipe and was about to cou ter when
ROARRRRRR
The Panthers roared outloud but the roar was not normal, it was a sonic attack which cleanly hit Kamila sending her flying away.
The panther stood still as now runic lunes engraved themselves on its body
It's design was different from the Predators as these lines could seemingly be mistaken for music notes.
It's body slimmed down, and became lithe and compact as it's strength doubled and speed almost quadrupled. Kamila crashed against a tree and fell to the ground, she raised her head slowly and stared at the Panther which had shrank from almost three meters to one and half meters
It now had imprint ls of grey on its green body which merged with other runes of green, it looked marvelous and otherworldly as it's danger levels spiked.