As Asura toyed with his 'new' form he could feel that it was taking more energy to maintain. He reverted to his normal softer form to keep himself from getting overly tired before a fight broke out. Then again he tended to fight best when exhausted, it pushed him further. But that was in a ring with rules and a body he had had for decades. Not in real combat with a week and some change old body. Movement made him focus on Mother Slime who was rolling back and forth. Was she nervous?

Reaching out he touched her. [color=red][i]Nervous?[/i][/color] He asked, not fully understanding slime body language. She was still unable to speak clearly but it did seem like the more he interacted with her the more she seemed to learn and a lot faster. He'd have to spend some time after this fight to work on helping her speech more.

While he interacted with her through the slime-link he scooted the bone needles he couldn't pick up towards her. He showed what he planned to do with them, spikes popped out of him much like a hedgehog or porcupine. During the whole thing though he was still practicing on how to condense himself to make himself more like rubber than a water balloon.