It helps a little to have her distracted by towering rage and annoyance but he has no chance of winning this. Even with being trained practically from the time he could walk, how could that compare to someone who's been killing people for millennia?
So he starts getting his tail absolutely thrashed. It's only all that Cato training that lets him survive the first few minutes. But she's just toying with him and the best he can do is deflect the occasional fatal shot. He can't get any hits in.
And he can't sustain that level of skill for long without getting exhausted. She's too fast and too strong.
"Dad, you need to run! I'll catch up!"
Normally, he'd want his dad fighting by his side but blasters don't work here and he's seen his dad's skill with the sword arm, knows its limitation. Of the two of them, he's got the magic weapons that confer extra skill, and has already trained with energy swords even without the weird magic.
He'll be less distracted if Gary's not in danger because this is...this is a little beyond his dad. It's honestly beyond him, too. He has to hope he can knock her off balance just long enough to bolt.
She's starting to get hits in. All in short succession. A cut to an arm. A slash to a thigh. He mostly just grits his teeth through it. It's the glancing blow to his face that causes him to cry out. Fortunately, it misses his eye but there's definitely a trickle of blood running through his fur on the cheek underneath now.
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So he starts getting his tail absolutely thrashed. It's only all that Cato training that lets him survive the first few minutes. But she's just toying with him and the best he can do is deflect the occasional fatal shot. He can't get any hits in.
And he can't sustain that level of skill for long without getting exhausted. She's too fast and too strong.
"Dad, you need to run! I'll catch up!"
Normally, he'd want his dad fighting by his side but blasters don't work here and he's seen his dad's skill with the sword arm, knows its limitation. Of the two of them, he's got the magic weapons that confer extra skill, and has already trained with energy swords even without the weird magic.
He'll be less distracted if Gary's not in danger because this is...this is a little beyond his dad. It's honestly beyond him, too. He has to hope he can knock her off balance just long enough to bolt.
She's starting to get hits in. All in short succession. A cut to an arm. A slash to a thigh. He mostly just grits his teeth through it. It's the glancing blow to his face that causes him to cry out. Fortunately, it misses his eye but there's definitely a trickle of blood running through his fur on the cheek underneath now.