Adventures of Hollow the dog and Rage the cat part 2
Rage stared wide eyed at the open space as he fell through a slide like shoot. When his small frame and cat reflexes made it easy to land on all fours. Hollow, was larger though, a Great Dane an unprepared landing, meant that the poor dog simply barreled out of the whole tumbling and knocking down his companion. Half is squashing Rage underneath his larger frame. The two righted themselves shaking out there fur, an action both to rid themselves of collected partials and to get their paws under them once more mentally, as they had done physically. Rage was, at this point glaring at Hollow for landing on him, Hollow, annoyed at the situation they were in barked out a sharp statement "Don't give me that glare you stupid cat, this is your fault and you know it"
Fur on end Rage hissed flexing his claws in response, "My fault, you're supposed to be some great ninja, why didn't you see the trigger" . The bickering went on and eventually the two leapt at each other, tumbling down until they neared water. The splash made the two snap out of their frustration, and the two began assess the situation. A look passed between the two, it meant that what was done was done, and anger was gone for the moment. "It's some kind of extreme obstacle course" Rage pointed out staring over the edge into a hall way of jumps that ended in water, and lava along the walls. Hollow, was more worried about the Lava, but Rage couldn't swim, water in its self was a weakness to the cat. "Alright, so we just jump across, no problem, right?" Rage, glared daggers at Hollow, who just shrugged., "Now or never, don't be a scared cat." The cat rolled its eyes, "Leave the puns to me, I'll leave the, going first on scary death course to you." Rage sat his tail curling around him as he nodded for Hollow to go first. The dog huffed backing up a few paces before jumping to the first ledge, when he landed it helped his confidence grow, and he took on the next few jumps with far less tension, the last one, was tricky but the dog managed, and called out to his companion at the other side. "Alright your turn, its not as tricky as it looks, just watch you paws on the last jump." Warned the Great Dane. Rage, was not very concerned about the jumps, he was a cat, nimble on his feet, so he made it to the last jump faster than Hollow.
Rage however under shot the last jump, having grown cocky, and ended up with Hollow grabbing him by the scruff of his neck. It was embarrassing having to be lifted onto the plat form like a kitten who had strayed to far. He bristled in what could be considered a pout as he licked his paws to wash away his embarrassment. "We have to swim to the other side" Hollow stated, eyeing the cat. "You can't though." Irritation at a boiling point Rage rolled his eyes. "Watch me." He made to jump in the water only to be stopped by the ninja dog. "Don't go drowning yourself because of your pride. I don't like it anymore than you do but you will just have to ride on my back" Rage glared, but simmered down. "Fine." Hollow took that as cue as the cat climbed onto his back. "Not scared are we" teased the dog, he wouldn't let Rage fall, but of all the times he teased him, payback was due. "Shut it."
The crossing was silent, they made it half way to the other side when Hollow noticed a tunnel under the water, a sign next to it saying, "To avoid incomplete course" the dog sighed, if the way up ahead was incomplete the only way to get out of here appeared to be to dive under the water to get into the tunnel. "Rage, hold your breath and dig your claws in." He could feel the cats disbelieving glare at his words on his neck. "Are you nuts, or just a masochist?" Unaffected by the nervous taunting the dog began to count down from five, when Rage got he was serious at two, he felt the claws dig into his fur, wincing but holding his breath the dog dived, moving quickly through the water until he reached the sign. A button waited for him, he pressed it with his nose, and the pair was sucked into a tube. 'This might have been a bad idea' he thought unable to hold his breath he was forced to gasp in water and the world began to fade, the last thing he noticed was Rage claws slipping from his back before the world turned black for the both of them.