Chapter 2

"Give it up for, Cougar," came a man's voice over the loud speaker. Ed and Al walked into a casino as a girl in gold spandex raised her arms and lowered her head. She was standing in a boxing ring and the crowd was going wild.

Ed noticed some life-like accessories in her outfit like a headband with cat ears that seemed to follow every sound in the room and a long tail, whipping around everywhere. "What a freak," Ed murmured.

Cougar's ears turned and the crowd was silent. She looked at the newcomers, smiled smugly, and shouted, " Hey! People, we have a couple of challengers! Come on up here!"

An old man sat near a counter. "Hehehehe. The poor souls." He turned and yelled, " Hey, give me 500 against those poor suckers."

Ed looked at Al and the two of them smiled, and walked to the ring. Cougar hopped on Al's shoulder. She said, "Okay, you better not wear this thing," and took off his helmet. "What the," she looked inside didn't see anything, and popped the helmet back on. " Kid, you're just freaky."

A man standing on the outside of the ring blew a whistle. Ed refused to move, so he shouted, " That means GO, Shorty."

Ed turned quickly and started chewing the guy out. Al sighed and charged at Cougar. She put out her arm to clothesline him, but she was slammed back into the side and fell on her knees.

The man at the counter looked worried and called, "Can you change my bet to. . . . ."

Effortlessly, she knocked Al off his feet by sweeping her tail under him.

The man chirped, "Never mind! Hehehehehe. "

"Crap," she said when she noticed her arm was bleeding. Cougar wrapped her tail around her arm to stop the blood. When Ed decided he was done yelling, he ran at the girl and got the wind knocked out of him by a clothesline.

"What's the matter, Shrimp? Didn't you see it the first time, when I tried it on your . . . . uh?"

"Brother?"

"Hey, if the shoe fits."

"Okay," he was about to walk away when he turned around and screamed, " SHRIMP? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? I'm taller than him," he suggested, pointing in the crowd.

"Duh, he's five years old!"