Chapter 3: Test - Fighting Ability

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I slowly open my eyes to a new day, or what I presume is one, slowly sitting up and stretching out my paws while letting out a soft yawn. As is look around I see the snow that had covered the ground is now gone, plush green grass replacing the pointy white blades that had been there before.
"Today you will be tested on your combat ability" the voice bellows into my enclosure using the speakers. I groan quietly, my mind not yet registering much combat ability, only some basic skills for defending myself.
I hear a door open and look around a little, wondering where it is; I soon hear the grinding of metal against itself and a voice following it "Is the cat strong or weak, can the cat defend itself, can the cat fight back" followed by chuckling "I guess we'll soon know" he adds. I look around, growling slightly and listening, able to hear a heavy thud, thud, thud coming from behind me, quickly turning and immediately hopping backwards as two large metallic blades are slammed into the ground where I had been stood, a large bulky male human wielding the pair of weapons, clearly strong; The man chuckles "The cat can hear, the cat can move, good" he chuckles "This could be fun after all" he adds, moving and swinging the twin blades towards me again causeing me to duck to avoid them, loosing a little fur to how close they get to hitting me, the man chuckles again "Kitty can avoid simple attacks but how does kitty do against faster attacks?" he asks with a grin, immediately I'm forced to avoid a series of several attacks, each closer to hitting me than the last "Kitty isn't going to be able to dodge forever" he growls, swinging again and again, left after right and repeat, leaving me unable to get my footing to do anything in retaliation, simply leaving me narrowly avoiding each of his attacks despite how slow they are. He chuckles "Kitty isn't smart" he states, continuing his slow but steady onslaught of attacks, dents in the ground where his blades hit, I pick up an idea and start to dodge while managing to move towards a tree, the hulking mass of muscle simply following as he swings his weapons at me; As we reach the tree I duck under a sideways swing of his left weapon, the blade slamming into the tree and chopping straight through it, the man chuckling again after "Nice try kitty" he states, clearly amused by my attempt to stop his assault, he then continues his barrage of attacks with much more powerful hits, each hit sending a small shock wave through the air and knocking me back more; I groan and manage to land on my paws again, still being pushed back by the chuckling beasts shockwaves, my paws trying to grip into the dirt but being dragged through the dirt as I am continually pushed back, the beast of a human steadily walking forwards as I'm pushed back more and more. The man continues chuckling "Kitty is going to go splat at this rate, poor kitty is not going to last long is it" He laughs before suddenly lunging forward and slamming the back of his blade into my neck earning a gasp as I'm thrown far back, slamming into the wall of the enclosure, the attack causing blood to splatter out of a number of wounds over my chest; I growl at him and manage to stand, intending to attack him, taking one step towards him before realising he's already stood directly in front of me "Bye bye kitty" He states before I see the blade of one of his blades about to hit into my underside, as it's about to hit me, everything dissipates to black ...
All sound is gone ...
I can't see or feel anything anymore ...
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Am I dead? ...

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