Danger Zone
In a spacious area surrounded by lots of colorful trees two bodies are laying on the ground. One is lifeless and the other is exhausted breathing heavily. Laying there staring up at the sky he is thinking about his first fight on this planet. 'Well that was closer than expected but i know my limit against a fast opponent now. Next time try to end it as fast as possible.' Marcus makes a mental for agile and extremely quick opponents.
He has a deep gash across his chest again while the Crimson Cheeta is laying dead headless with multiple cuts across its body. Taking out one of the bottles he filled with the water from the mana stream he drinks it refilling his expended energy. 'That move takes all the energy i have to use so i can use that as a trump card.' He thinks inwardly. Getting up from the ground he checks himself all over. His clothes are torn in multiple places with his shirt being the most damaged with only the part on his shoulders and left side intact.
Taking a storage box of his belt he enlarges it and puts in his damaged clothes and takes out a new set. Reshrinking the box he looks toward the dead Crimson Cheeta wondering what to do with it. Walking to it he abruptly stops as his eyes become stary blue as he gains new insight on his power. Coming back to himself he has a smile on his face while continuing foward to the beast. Stopping in front of it he holds his hand out speaking, "Mana absorbtion."
A blue stream of mana comes out of his hand and starts enveloping the cheeta. Once completely covered the stream turns crimson and slowly enters his hand. In thirty seconds he completely absorbs the mana from the cheeta and gains another new skill. "This is amazing. Looks like all the animals on this planet have their own mana and skills which can be transfered to others with mana via the mana absorbtion skill." Being pleased with his gains he decides to leave the area.
Walking West he continues exploring the area. 'I wonder how hard it would've been to kill it without mana.' he says inwardly. Looking around he doesn't find any new plants but he can see birds flying around going from tree to tree. Going fifty miles from the open area he fought the Crimson Cheeta he finds trees with claw marks on them. 'I guess this was its territory.' Rubbing his hand on the marks he looks at the other trees surrounding.
A couple other trees have been marked indicating it wasn't just the one he fought that roams this area. Becoming cautious he continues ahead making sure to keep his senses active on his surroundings. In sixty more miles he finds an area just like the last one but this area has red colored grass. As he is looking at the area checking for any dangers the mark on his heart shines brightly. Seeing how bright it shines he tries to turn and run but as he turns there are two Crimson Cheetas behind him.
Staring at the two beast he instinctively backs up a bit. As he backs up they take a step foward. 'Crap there're trying to trap me here and I don't know how many are in that grass. This is a dangerous situation.' Channeling his mana into his legs he takes the chance of running through the red grass. Turning around he boosts himself through the grass watching for any cheeta to pounce at him. Dodging multiple pounce attempts he keeps running not daring to stop.
'I should've turned around seeing the claw marks on the trees. This is ridiculous.' Marcus says inwardly as he gets to a clearing with no grass exposing the exact number of Crimson Cheetas chasing him. There are twenty cheetas starting to surround him trying to cut off his escape route. Using his mana blades he blocks a couple of attacks while dodging others slowly being put into their encirclement.
Taking out a flare bomb he breaks the top of it and tosses it in the air where it explodes and continues to shine and send up purple smoke. 'Hopefully they get here in time. Till then I have no choice but to fight.' drinking more mana water from a bottle he filled he gets ready to fight for his life. This time he doesn't use his dual mana blades but he combines the mana he absorbed with another of his skills. "Crimson Blade!"
Creating a katana blade with the crimson mana he has he creates a stronger version of his skill mana blade. Doing that he is showing the cheetas that he has already killed one of them already hoping to get them enraged so they don't attack smartly. It works on three of the cheetas as they roar angrily and charge at him one by one. Smirking at his tacting he gets ready for them. The first one swipes at his chest which he dodges quickly and counter attacks towards its neck beheading it instantly.
The other two attack at the same time so he has to block while dodging to the right not having a chance to counter attack. He moves back a couple of feet before charging back towards the two with flurry of slashes. Giving them a few deep cuts they back away from him going back into the circle of cheetas. They started healing and two more cheetas charged at Marcus. Blocking and counter attacking he began his fight for survival.
An hour went by as Marcus fought against the cheetas. In this time he has killed six of them while recieving a few cuts here and there. 'I'm getting used to their attacking pattern. Maybe i can kill a few more before i have to restore my energy.' He says internaly while looking at the remaining thirteen. Again three cheetas charge at him attacking at different angles. Narrowly doging their claws he slashes at two in an arc cutting both on the back then turning to slash at the third.
Before he can attack the third one he gets slashed on his back twice in succession by the fourth and fifth. 'D***it. They're attacking more frequently now.' Jumping to his right he moves out of the small entrapment. While watching the cheetas he hears the sound of a jet. 'About time they got here' he thought while smiling. All the cheetas look up at the unfamiliar object as the sound of it distracts them.
'I can kill the five closest to me.' Marcus empowers his crimson blade with more mana making it shine a deeper crimson. "Mana Wave: Crimson Slash!" he says swinging out his blade sending a horizontal arc of crimson energy at the cheetas closest to him. Before they were able to look in his direction from feeling the power he released all five were beheaded. The remaining eight seeing this wanted to all charge at him but before they could the jet started firing on them causing them to flee from the area.
Marcus dropped down to his knees exhausted as the jet lands. Coming out of the jet Iesha and ten of the soldiers came to make a circle around him. Seeing the state Marcus is in Iesha asks, "What happened?" Smiling weakly he answers, "I stumbled into a danger zone."