Chapter 2: The Quarter Finals

The following day, the quarter finals were about to begin, with those whom had qualified for the quarter finals, on standby until they were to be called up into the ring. Both Mei Ling and Anzu were standing around, the two of them at different sides of the ring, yet, they seemed to be eyeing each other as well.

It didn't even take long for the first fight to get underway, yet, lucky for both Mei Ling and Anzu, neither of them were called up just yet. They were just two other fighters that were in the tournament.

Anzu's eyes diverted to the fighters in the ring, watching their moves carefully, in case she were take on either of them in the semi-finals.

However, Mei Ling, for the time being, continued to keep her eyes upon Anzu, keeping her thoughts to herself all the while "She seems determined to win this competition, at all costs for that matter, should be fun to fight her though, although, I do hope I get to fight her sometime" she gave off a smile to herself as well.

It didn't take long for the fight to finish with the victor of the match, staying in the ring for a moment longer before stepping out of said ring.

Moments later, the next contestants were called up, Anzu being one of them, to which she complied in doing so, stepping into the ring and looked at her opponent, a male leopard, which caused her to smirk as he moved into a stance straight away.

Without a word, she moved and started to strike as the other leopard started to block each of her moves with much ease, yet, Anzu only smirked all the while, keeping up with the leopard she was facing off against.

"Ready to give in?" the male leopard asked her rather smugly.

"What's the matter? Can't actually keep up? Starting to tire are we? Cause if I really wanted to, I could just as easily end this match, but why should I when we're giving our audience a good fight?" Anzu continued to smirk still.

"What are you talking about?"

Anzu sighed somewhat at the leopard's question. She only very quickly glanced at the audience before speaking "I suppose I could end this fight a bit earlier than I had first anticipated, but do me a favour first…don't blink, or you may miss it"

The male leopard cocked his head to the side slightly and that's when Anzu struck, knocking his arms out of the way, long enough for her to be able to land a few consecutive strikes to his chest, which in turn, caused him to stumble backwards.

She swept her feet along the ground, knocking him off his feet before bringing an elbow down onto his chest, slamming him down into the ground in the process.

"Uh, I'm not sure what just happened, but I believe that Anzu is the winner" the announcer called out as Anzu stepped off the stage.

She walked past Mei Ling and spoke only one thing to her as she did so "Top that"

Mei Ling gulped slightly "Okay, maybe she does have some skill after all" was all that was going through her mind as she waited for her name to be called next.

Sure enough, Mei Ling was called to the stage to face off against her opponent, a chameleon. She had to concentrate, not let how Anzu was doing, put her off, she needed to make it to the finals.

Anzu stood by and watched as the match started, carefully analyzing Mei Ling's movements on how well she was doing in said match. Surprisingly enough, Mei Ling did do better than what Anzu had first anticipated. But of course, the question still remained, would she do well enough to make it to the finals?

The winner, in turn, was called out moments later, which did not surprise Anzu in the end. Mei Ling had indeed, made it to the semi-finals "Don't get so full of yourself kid" Anzu spoke as Mei Ling approached her "You still have a long way to go…if you make it past the semi-finals and into the finals, then I might very well be impressed, but until then, just…don't loose focus"

Mei Ling had to at least think on what Anzu was actually on about, however, the moment she looked back to Anzu, only to realize that she was already gone. But that didn't stop Mei Ling from following Anzu to the changing rooms.