You think over your options for a moment. You could avoid all contact with the strangers, but where's the fun in that?
"Keep training. I'm going to see what the situation is."
You decide, speedily flying away before Jasper can say anything. You deliberately don't accelerate to your top speed, since that'd involve making your aura extremely visible.
You arrive in less than a minute and your ki senses don't tell you anything new. Shrouded in the clouds you focus and observe.
Below you two humans are fighting the black beasts that Jasper called Grimm. Even though you can see the individual creatures, their ki still feels like one oily mass. Albeit one that is shrinking as the humans steadily slaughter their way through the animals.
You descend carefully, doing your best to stay out of sight. Once you reach ground level you move forwards, keeping the trees between you and the humans. You sit comfortably in a branch when you get close enough, happily watching the fight.
A pair of humans, one wearing red and the other white are fighting black boars, wolves and weird two legged things. Both humans are wearing what looks like stylised armour.
The human in white is far more acrobatic than the one in red - a man you realise. While the red man stays still the human in white is flipping around, spearing animal after animal.
You blink as you properly take in the details. The human in white is a woman, armed with a
metal lance. Her acrobatics are coming from the lance - some sort of propellant coming from it's pentagon shaped hand guard. The woman never stops moving, disregarding the creatures she spears through as she targets even more.
In comparison then man in red is wielding a
heavy one-handed sword, cutting his way through the animals with heavy overhead blows, using his gauntleted left hand for punching and grappling. He occasionally imbues his blade with some sort of power, causing his slashes to create crescent shaped waves that cut their way through the creatures.
Though the fight is visually impressive, you can't help but criticise the humans. They are both dependent on their weapons, the woman far more than the man. They don't feel like they're using ki and looking carefully you see that the blade waves starting in the hilt of the red man's sword. Considering that the woman's lance probably shouldn't be able to spin her around like it does you assume they have something - maybe they're like Triploid, using multiple types of ki to avoid being easy to scan.
They manage to kill the last of creatures within a minute or two, the man grinning as he cuts the last boar in two.
"Told you. Three minutes to clear them out."
"We should have been quicker."
The woman complains, the point of her lance coming apart and sliding into the handguard, which you realise functions as a shield, albeit one with a hole in the centre.
"Those were young Grimm, practically babies. Students could have wiped them out before we did."
The man snorts and sheathes his sword.
"And how many rounds would they have wasted? How much dust would have been used in flashy theatrics to bring down the group? My way was better."
"The five round challenge.'
The woman says with a grin.
"You-."
She falls silent as you shift on your perch, the tree creaking minutely. The two turn and look straight at you, the man with his hand on his hilt and the woman's lance spiraling back out.
So I can't find decent pictures I could use for these guys, but the woman is wearing slightly more armour than Cardin does while the man wears significantly more.
There's 1 kudos up for grabs if you can guess the inspiration for these 2.
