“Tonight, we have your favourite fighter! She’s here and she’s not fucking around!” The MC says over the mic, “everyone applaud for your girl, the decimator… Blur!!!”
The screaming pitch hits an all time high and Adri covers her ears to protect herself from the noise assault. We see E coming down the center aisle, her dark hair is braided back and she’s dressed in all black. Flanking her are both Emmett and Carm, they each have a knowing smirk on their faces. E’s face though, is calm and her eyes are void of emotion. This is what she looked like when she got back after the kidnapping. It makes my blood spike with fear because each time she turns herself over to the darkness, there’s more of a chance of losing her to it forever.
“She looks so tough,” Adri breathes, “she’s so fucking hot.” I watch as she squirms in her seat.
Adri has had a little thing for Ember since that make out at Vin’s party. I know she finds her attractive and if she could experiment with her further, she would.
E pops up into the cage and throws her sweater off and into the corner. She flexes her taped hands and cracks her neck from side to side. She looks so small compared to the muscled asshole in there with her. I can hear him from here, taunting her and calling her names. She remains unfazed though as she slowly paces back and forth.
Emmett and Carm sit on my other side and Emmett leans over into my ear, “this guy is fucking brutal. I’m worried.”
I quickly turn my head and look at him, “can she drop out?”
“No,” he solemnly shakes his head, “she would never be hired for another job again.”
“So what?” I shrug and nervously look back at E.
“She won’t hear it. She’s confident she can beat him.”
“Then we just have to trust her.” I whisper, knowing he can’t hear me.
“It’s a special night again tonight guys!” The MC calls out over the mic, “we have another… fight to the death!!!” The crowd’s roar only intensifies the gnawing feeling in my stomach.
I lean over and look at Vin, his gaze is steady on E and it looks like he’s mouthing something. Fuck, is he praying? I begin to sweat and the complete unease I’m feeling makes me want to rush that cage door and sweep her out of here.
The bell sounds and the fucking beast of a man rushes at Ember. Finally, I watch as a slight smirk hits her mouth and it eases some of my fear. His large right fist flies out, aimed for her face and she quickly-so fucking quickly-leans back, her back parallel with the mat and comes back up, lifting her leg and kicking him in the stomach. He flinches slightly and staggers back a few steps, but he’s undeterred. He comes back at her, swinging around and kicking out his leg in a roundhouse kick. Again, Ember’s back hits the mat as she dodges his foot and pushes herself through his legs and comes up behind him, only to give him a hard swat on the ass.
“What the fuck is she doing?” I snarl. The crowd is eating it up and laughing at her antics. “She’s only making him more angry.”
“It’ll also tire him out as he lets his anger make him sloppy.” Carm yells to me over the noise.
Adri has been in a state of hands over mouth since this began. Her eye’s filling with unshed tears. She’s worried and fuck, so am I.
I turn back just in time to see E throw out her fist and hit the guy in the throat. His hands come up to grip it and she uses the distraction to pummel his stomach with her fists. The final hit is against his ribs and he roars out in pain. Looks like she might have cracked one. Finally, she’s dealing out some damage. The guy staggers back and hits the cage and Ember is right up on him, hauling herself up, climbing the cage and kneeing the guy repeatedly in the stomach and ribs. He gets a hold of her waist and throws her off and I watch with bated breath as her back hits the mat with a loud thud and she skids to the other side.
My breath is literally lodged in my throat until I watch her flip herself back up to her feet and turn to throw us a wink. At that moment, I both love and hate her fiercely. The guy isn’t so fast anymore but it doesn’t look like he’s any closer to giving up. He thunders towards her, his feet making loud noises with each step. E stands completely still until he is practically on her and then she quickly side steps and punches him twice in his left ear. The hits are hard, I could hear the crack of each one and he tosses his head and screams. I watch as blood begins to run out of his ear and E stares at it. Her breathing increases and a look of pure lust comes across her face.
“This is it.” Emmett says beside me, “this is where she starts fucking shit up.”
I fucking hope so because I don’t know how much more of this I can watch.
Ember swings her arm out and blocks his punch and then delivers one of her own straight into his nose and I watch as the blood spurts out and sprays across her face. Instead of being disgusted, she looks almost euphoric. She’s delivering punch after punch to his face until he sways on the spot and drops down to his knees. Finally, it looks like this match is coming to an end and it couldn’t be soon enough.
Ember stops and takes a deep
