C45 Victory

Freya’s Pov

She charged onward and immediately I ducked, crouching under her arm swiftly. She was quick to swirl, looking back at me. She smirked and stuck out her tongue to the side of her chin.

She mouthed something like, “you can't run forever,” with a very infuriating smug look. I was burning with rage. My vision caught the sight of Oslo shaking his head slowly. The people looked eager and anticipated.

“Don't let your emotions get the best of you,” he mimed.

My gaze returned to Merona who locked eyes with me and cracked her neck in a manner that said ‘It’s time to devour you.’

We both crouched as we circled one another, acquiring a boxer's stance. It was like a staring contest, observing each other move.

The opening came, when her focus was altered, she was calculating where she could plow next but that was my first cue, as she looked for my opening, I had found hers in the act.

I thrusted my fist right into her face, I heard a satisfactory crack that her nose gave up. Her head flew backward, unaware.

She didn't give herself time to recollect what had just happen, she used the moment of my slight victory, to lunch herself forward.

I was taking off guard, and distracted just enough, she retaliated, face palming my face with influence. Immediately I went blind for the shortest time. It was as if she slapped my entire face. The stinging of the slap itched.

Not giving me anytime to retaliate or worse recover, she immediately threw her arms. I knew what she was going to do, so I quickly raised my head. Furious that I had escaped her plan she drew my head near and plowed her head directly into my forehead, which sent me completely stumbling back.

She caught my head in mid-air and smacked it. Damn it!! That made me twist from pain and I fell down. Holding my head. I groaned and she smiled with satisfaction. The people shouted with joy.

From my bleary vision, I could see Oslo, he looked tense. He folded his hand and brought it up to his mouth. He was agitating. Fuck!

Merona locked many kicks into my abdomen, all of which made me curl additionally Into a ball. I coughed as she kept on making contact with her boots. As I coughed, blood spewed from my mouth.

It was painful. It was as if my organs were cutting. Oxygen was getting more and more limited. She quickly came upon me, Veered me around and sat on my abdomen. She started plowing punches at my face. I heard cheers and whistles from the mouth as they called Merona's name with glee.

“Dammit! Shit! Fucking do something!!” that was Oslo’s voice. He was angry. Which meant if he was angry, Artemis was a raging mess, that only came to one result. Smiles on the courts faces.

Merona was not giving me any odds, she made sure to wreck my face. I used my knee at her back, thrusting her forward to my ruined face. I was glad I could still see.

That was a small distraction compared to the mess she had me in, she recovered quite fast. My leg that was caged by her knee had now being liberated.

Although she recovered hastily, my arms were free. Just as she was about to dip her fist again into my face. I grabbed a fistful of her hair and yanked it furiously, making her yell. I got hold of her head and slammed my head into her nose

She squirmed and stood up as she held her head upwards trying to cease the bleeding. The sight of the blood made me smile. She darted her tongue to her lips to taste the blood from her nose.

She smudged the blood over her arm and mouth. I smiled in satisfaction. Her eyes came down to meet mine, “crazy b**tch!!” with rage she rushed towards me,

I did not proceed to her, I stood my ground. When she was close, I sent my fist flying In

into the air, colliding with her face. Blood spewed from her mouth. With equal rage and fury, she launched at me again, I turned and set my elbow exactly under her throat. She coughed and went down on one knee, holding her neck.

I went to grab her hair, she was fast enough to grab a handful of my hair, lunging my head directly into her knee that was propped.

“Argh!!” I screamed. Going down on my knees. Wet substance flowed down my nose, onto my mouth, and dripped on the white floor. She broke my nose, if not for the blood, the sharp cutting pain I felt made it obvious. I smeared my blood with my hand, trying to wipe it clean.

Merona was back on her feet now, she yanked my hair and made me stare intently into her eyes.

“I've played nice too long, you are going down now!” she said sternly into my face, I felt her spit, strewned on my face.

She dragged me to the barbed wire fence, she scraped my face on the surface. A screeching sound made as my face was pulled roughly on it. When she was done, she thrusted my head into the pole. My face crashed into the pole vehemently.

It was that moment that Jade clawed to be let out. My eyes began flicking colours as I strained to stay in control.

‘Stay back, you can't come out!’ I yelled at Jade. She did not listen. She never listened.

‘They said no rule!’ she snapped back, going through with her plan.

Noticing that my eyes were flicking colours, Merona stepped back and was ready to change before the judge called out, “you must not transform into your wolf, if you do? You are disqualified,” he yelled from where ever he was.

Merona’s smile was back on, “It looks like you are doing this by yourself, ex luna,” she taunted which made the fury in me blast.

There's no no way I was going to let her win.

“I see that gets a reaction from you,” she teased, I grabbed the pole for assistance and commenced to stand up, halfway up and my side face contacted the pole fiercely. She kicked me.

New Blood formed in my mouth. The taste of copper hit my tongue. I drew it out and spat. I hissed out from the effect of the cut in my mouth.

I'm not given time to stabilize as Merona’s stupid fist plowed into my face once more. She was bent on deforming me. The punches came again, time without number.

They gashed my breath, one of the punches made contact with my ear and I heard a ringing. Everything went silent all at once. I could not hear anything aside from the ringing.

My arm came up to shield my face from her enormous attack. With her fist not enough and not plundering the amount of damage that she wanted, she resolved to use her feet. Matching and kicking me.

She yanked me up with my hair, dragging me back to the center of the ring. She wrapped her arm around my neck and locked my head under her arm.

My greatest fear, she had headlocked me. She contracted her hand, compressing my wind pipe with her arm. It was as if she wanted to squash it. Oslo had tried this same trick with me, and I had maneuvered around it. I still could but I wanted her to wear out first, that way I could take her unaware.

She applied more pressure as I stamped my foot, she pressed her hand to the extent of me seeing her vein and knowing damn well that mine was on a parade.

Not only that, if I let her continue at this rate, I might pass out and that was the only way she would win. As at now, I didn't feel oxygen passing into me and my vision were blury, my throat hurt with the urge to choke out. It was ti…me.

I tried a new strategy, last time I pinched Oslo but with the combat outfit we both had on, I would not be able to obtain a handful of her flesh…… shit!

So I yanked her hair, pulled it like my life was in the line here. I tugged it vehemently, as much pressure as she applied on my throat, I did same, with comparable fury and rage. If she didn't let go, she was going to bleed from her scalp. She knew this, so she swiftly let go. I did same because I required oxygen.

I took my throat in my hand and coughed, caressing it. This had to end now. I did not give myself the ample of time to recover because neither did she.

“This is taking more than it is supposed to!” she snarled, anger bursting through her face, forcing green veins to be noticeable more than they were required to.

I loved her anger, I was feeding off of her fury because they would only blind her. I smiled edging her even more.

As she plunged forward like a giant, I jabbed at her ribs, I went behind her and kicked her right at her back. She stumbled forward as she crashed her head into the pole. Pay back.

I grabbed her head and plunged it right into the pole multiple times. I smeared her face on the fence. She grunted and tried to stand up but I dipped it back furiously.

“You are not getting out of my hold,” I snarled into her ear. The crowd erupted into awe, murmuring.

I didn't care about them. I was fixated on Merona. She slumped to the ground. I locked multiple kicks into her abdomen. With each kick, she groaned from pain. Jade was raging in my head, she wanted blood. I picked Merona up and dashed her head against the door, drawing blood from her head. She had a cut.

It was gratifying seeing her bleed and I wanted her to bleed even more. I sat on her abdomen and delivered multiple punches to her face.

I gave her a chance to recover, for what I wanted to do, she had to be on her feet. She choked on her saliva and blood as she stood up. When she steadied herself, that was my chance, I plunged my shoulder into her abdomen, my arm wrapping around her waist. With my force and weight, I sent both of us flying Into the fence, her back taking all the impact. My shoulder still in her waist region, I lifted her up and flung her once more to the pole.

Dragging her away, I lifted her and thrust her one more time into the iron pole. The snapping of bone told me I had achieved my aim.

I stepped to see if she would move, when no movement was perceived, the referee opened the door and came inside, he raised my right hand and shouted, “Winner!!!”

The place fell silent for a short while before they erupted into a cheer like they just pressed the start button.

I dropped down to the ground and heaved slowly, trying to catch my breath.

From inside where I sat, I saw the paramedics approaching. The referee was touching her neck to see if she was still alive.

And I saw them, Artemis, Oslo, Iris, and Rachael all came running into the ring.

I felt my eyelid grow heavy as the darkness pulled me in. The last thing on my mind was, I won!!!