Chương 13: Natasha's Skills

"Since you are going in the forest then you should keep this if the girl handles the rifle." said the guide as he held the machete given by the guide with one hand while his other hand was still holding Angel.

He passed angel to the guide and said "take care of her, for the time being, will I bring back her mother"

The guide nodded his head as he signaled for the rest of the tourists to come and sit in the safari.

"So shall we go," said Natasha as she inserted her right hand inside the strap of the rifle and kept it on her shoulder.

"Before that, I want to see how good you are in Kendo," Matt said as he passed the machete to Natasha which with its 8-inch long handle and 18-inch blade length could pass as a sword.

"What!? How are you going to test me!? You don't have any weapon" said a surprised Natasha.

"'Oh! no, I have it in my bag" said Matt as he puts his hand in the bag and takes out his kukri from his inventory showing it to Natasha.

"Wow! didn't know that someone could keep a knife in his bag and enter the National Forest!" Natasha said a little surprised.

"That's not important! Let's see how good you are but let me tell you if I am not satisfied then you will go back in the safari" Matt said.

"Fine," said Natasha dropping the rifle on the ground and holding the Machet with both hands she went into her fighting stance which was the basic stance of kendo.

"What are you to doing!?" asked the surprised guide who only looked at them now as he was placating the tourists to stop crying or shouting.

"I am checking if she is good enough to go to the forest with me if not she would be going back with you guys" replied Matt.

"Yeah! It may be another way around" Natasha said with a smirk.

"Sure why not!" Matt said as he signaled Natasha to come.

Natasha dashed towards Matt slashing the Machete downwards, he sidestepped dodging this slash but Natasha changed the direction of the Machete in mid-swing ging for his waist forcing Matt to use his kukri to block the swing from his right.

The moment she attacked was blocked she back stepped and did a 360 turn swinging the Machete from the left with added momentum. Matt blocked the swing as well but that didn't mean he wasn't impressed. Her reaction speeds good and so was her strength for a normal human but other than that her skills with the sword were impressive as well.

Natasha swung the Machete diagonally from her right shoulder to his left but Matt easily swayed the swing away from him by pushing the Machete to his right. This speed of his was only because of th 17 points he had in agility making it easy for him to move like that.

They continued to spar like this for 5 minutes straight in which Natasha attacked him continuously and he dodged or blocked the attack while he only attacked two or three times at most to see if she could block an attack which she did hence he was satisfied with her.

For everyone who was sitting in the safari, it was lie seeing a real-life action movie where a master is teaching his student how to use a sword.

After 5 minutes, Matt stopped as he didn't want to tier her out if she was going to come with her.

"OK you are good, you can come with me!" said Matt.

"Huff... huff... thanks," Natasha said while taking deep breaths and wiping off her sweat.

Matt nodded his head then looked at the guide who was looking at him while sitting on the driver's seat in the safari and said "You guys should go back and don't stop at all. Make sure that you tell authorities about the violent animals in the forest so that they did not allow anyone else to enter it."

The guide hurriedly nodded his head and started the Safari after seeing that display of strength from Matt there was no way that the guide was going to argue with him.

The guide drove the safari away from them at full speed towards the exit of the forest without stopping as Matt had ordered him to do.

After seeing the guide driving away from the safari Matt looked at Natasha and said "We are entering the real forest now so always stay sharp it's not only the big animals that we have to worry about but the creepy-crawly as well"

Hearing his words Natasha nodded her head and asked "I am good with the machete you can take the rifle"

"No, you keep it. It will be safe for you, I can handle myself with a knife" said Matt

Hearing Matt she nodded her head picked up the rifle strapping it back on her shoulders and inserted the Machete back in its scabbard after which she strapped it to her waist.

After Natasha was ready Matt crossed the steel wire and entered the forest followed by Natasha at her toes.

As they entered the forest Matt saw the dragging marks on the ground along with blood spots here and there which allowed them to follow the trail of the Monkeys easily.

"I don't understand why those Monkeys took everyone. Did it wanted to kill them or eat them or do something else!?" Natasha questioned.

The answer to this question was not even with Matt as from what he remembered the monkeys and chimpanzees were one of the few evolved animals who loved fruits more than animal meat but that still didn't stop them from killing or torturing them. The fact that they evolved and reached the same intelligence level of humans didn't help them at all. It was only in later stages that humans understood that they evolved and became second species like humans and they thought of humans as lower species that they decided to kill them. If not for the fact that there were other animals after the evolved monkey because of their habits that they decided to stop coming after humans otherwise humans would have another enemy along with zombies.

"Let's not think about that for now, look around yourselves to make sure that we don't miss any clues"