[@Zeroth]

It was a stalemate between the young dire rat and the poisoned slime. The moments that passed, felt like hours as both of them waited and anticipated the other to attack. Ed had the advantage of time; something the slime did not. The stalemate was soon broken by the desperate slime, hoping to kill the dire rat before the poison did. It lunged at Ed in the shape of a malformed and awkward curve, much like a horse shoe. Time slowed to barely a snail's pace in Ed's perspective. This was it. The mistake he was waiting the slime to make. His only opportunity to end this fight. 
Ed's brain instantly fired millions of signals that his body was well and ready to receive. Ed swore that he felt every sinew, every single muscle fiber, in his body react to the sudden assault. One second Ed was still on the cave floor, about to be crushed by the slime's attack. In the next he had jumped backwards and was a half-meter away from his original position; watching the slime's attack fail. The slime's desperate attack missed and now it was Edward's turn to act. He could feel the adrenaline running through his system mix with anger once again as he closed the distance in a blink of an eye. He was upon the weakened slime; teeth and claws at the ready with eyes filled with grim determination to end the slime's life then and there.