Bitch Fight by PsiGen

Apologies for the long time updating but I just couldn't think of how to do the fight scene. Ah well, here it is.

The Doctor was aghast. Was she mad? She couldn't fight a Cheetah and win! Hell, even HE couldnt fight a Cheetah and win.
A part of him was proud that she deemed him worthy enough to fight for - but even so, he couldn't allow her to go to her death for him.
"Rose, I won't let you do this. It's sweet, yeah and I love you for it, but this is not the way -" He stood up as he was talking, taking her hand.
Rose pushed him back down on the bed.
"We don't have any choice" She hissed.
"Now shaddup, here they come." She plastered a defiant expression on her features, trying her best to look intimidating and dangerous.
It had no effect whatsoever on her opponent, who ignored Rose completely - choosing instead to focus on the Time Lord. She obviously liked what she saw.

"I hope the human child has not overly exhausted you, my pet. Not before I taste you.." She purred, reaching out a soft furred claw to touch his face tenderly.
Rose slapped the offending paw away, before the claw could leave it's mark, shoving the Doctor behind her and doing everything she could to get in the other's face.
"Hands - er paws off! Last time I looked I was still breathing, and that means he's off limits to the likes of you!" She snarled.
Tianna simply smiled patronisingly at Rose.
"You are an interesting opponent.." Commented Tianna
Hope, thought Rose.
"Thanks...umm you too." She returned what she thought was a compliment.
"I shall enjoy killing you"
Shit, thought Rose. Maybe not.

It took three Cheetahs to keep the Doctor secured, whilst Rose was taken to her steward for weapon selection. As she was Defender, so to speak, she got to choose.
Mickey was waiting for her in the tent he'd spent the night in, looking over the weaponry.

He looked up as she entered, noting the grimness and determined look in her eye. Something had happened.
Affecting a casual air, like she had just come round to his flat or something, he smiled and nodded at her.

"Hey babe. You alright?" He asked.
"Where's the Doctor?"
"Umm.. waiting on us, at the arena. What have we got here?"
"Well... they're all lethal if thats what you mean. Clubs, daggers, knives, spikes, ball and chain... you name it, it's here."
He affected a shiver.
"What do you recommend waiter?" She asked him with a half hearted grin.
"This." He pointed to a helemeted glove with a long rusty spike protruding from it. It looked an ugly thing.
"The spike is dipped in poison. One scratch and you're dead." He illustrated with an imagined swipe.

He sobered for a minute, looking her dead in the eye.
"Are you seriously up for this Rose?" He asked her.
She eyed the glove up and down, imagining the weight of it on her arm.
"Hmm? Yep. Looks like it." She responded.
Still looking at the glove.

Mickey watched her carefully.
"And what about the Doctor? What does he say about all this?" He asked.
"Well it's not like I have a choice, Mickey, if I don't fight we lose the Doctor. And that just isn't happening, alright!" She had gotten defensive in both tone and posture, and with the wrong person. She relaxed.
"I'm sorry, Mickey"
"S'okay. But what does he say about it?" He pressed her for an answer.
"He doesn't ... he doesn't.. well it's like this.." She tried to explain, to find the words. Mickey beat her to it.
"He doesn't like it one bit does he." He surmised, crossing his arms.
Rose sighed and shook her head.

"No of course he doesn't. It took three of them just to stop him coming after me when I left." She revealed.
"Mickey, last night.. me ... well me and the Doctor"
He stopped her before she had to actually say the words.
"I guessed when you didn't come back. You love him, you'll fight for him - I get it." He said, looking at the ground awkwardly.
"But Rose, do me a favour okay? When you get out there"
She looked up, meeting his eyes.
"What's that?" She asked "Win. For him.. and for me." He requested.
For the first time, a weak smile appeared on her face.
"Thats the plan." She assured, watching as he left the tent.
"At least until I get out there.." She added, eyeing the glove one last time.

An hour later, she was led out of the tent and into the arena. The brilliant sunlight momentarily dazzled her, the shouts of the crowd deafened her.
As she glanced around the arena, to get her bearings, she saw Mickey by the front line.
He gave her a thumbs up and then pointed to his right and up.
Following his directions she followed with her eyes and caught sight of what he was pointing to. Who he was pointing to.
The Time Lord sported a split lip and a black eye - obviously he had put up a hell of a fight, when they'd escorted him to the arena.
His eyes widened in fear as he saw her entrance, and he had to be forcibly seated - with another guard added to the already growing entourage.
Rage built in Rose, as she saw one of them clip him around the head in order to stop him moving forward again - and Rose felt a surge of adrenalin and hatred for these beings with no morals.
Tianna, Rose's opponent entered the arena and raised an arm for silence. She got it.
"The defender has picked weapons." At her statement two gloves were brought to the combatants - each spiked with deadly venom - of which no being could possibly survive.

"To the death" Chanted the crowd. "To the death, to the death!"

Rose had barely two seconds to get her glove in place before she was forced to dodge a deadly swipe at her head.
The fight had started.

The Doctor couldn't look, but he couldn't not look either. He had to do something, anything - but any movement in any direction drew unwanted attention from his guards... Mickey was way down in front, so no signals could be given between them. It was all down to Rose. His Rose against a Cheetah - he couldn't look... but he couldn't tear his gaze away.

Down below the fight was raging - Tianna was fast, deadly fast but Rose wasn't out of shape either. The first few directed blows on either side were easily dodged by the other, and for a few seconds they circled each other - each sizing up her opponent.
"Give up and I'll make it quick." Promised Tianna, licking her dry lips.
"No chance!" Snarled back Rose and rolled in for a swipe at the legs.
Bowled over, Tianna was momentarily winded, but as Rose pressed the advantage and came down with glove raised - the Cheetah rolled out of harms way.

Another swipe, this time Tianna's side and Rose almost didn't make it, stumbling slightly and having to take a second to recover. A second which almost cost her her life.
It was pure chance when the opening happened, a Cheetah had all the advantages over a human - born to hunt, bred to kill - but in every match, even uneven ones, theres always the element of surprise.
Tianna jumped forward, kicking dust up into Rose's face, momentarily making her look to the ground.

Tianna's blade at her belt caught Rose's eye, and in a sudden moment of inspiration, Rose put her head down and rammed the Cheetah, her other hand reaching for the knife.
Tianna wasn't stupid, and she caught Rose's wrist and wrangled the blade away bringing it to bear on her opponent and slashing her deeply in her shoulder.

"ROSE!" Howled the Doctor, smashing a fist into one of his guard's faces and trying to jump down to her defence.
He was pushed to the floor, pinned there by four Cheetah warriors, still fighting to get to her.

Her vision blurred, the knife had no poison on it, but it's blade was still buried deep in her shoulder. Tianna believed she had won, and shoved her glove away.
"I'll kill you with my bare hands..." She gloated and advanced to where Rose sat, still trying to recover from the shock of her injury.

Over confidence at her apparant victory, the Cheetah took her time, toying with her prey and showing the crowd exactly what she thought of all inferior prey.
The battle was hers, and she would finish it now.
She seemed to have forgotten that Rose still wore her glove.

Rose looked up and saw the world blocked out by the snarling face of Tianna, and reacted instinctively at the very last second, bringing her other arm up to protect herself. Her gloved arm.
Tianna's cry of pain echoed throughout the arena, and then fell silent.
As silent as the grave.

Rose Tyler, left sitting in the arena all alone, had won.

The Cheetah's couldn't believe it, the guards holding the Doctor down relaxed their vigilance - peering down at the area - unable to believe what they were seeing. A human had bested a Cheetah? Impossible!

The Doctor took his cue and in five seconds flat had made a run for the arena, his guards seconds behind him.
"Stay back!" He snarled.. and his eyes flashed yellow.
Fear and surprise kept them at bay, and the Doctor ran to Rose's side.

"Stupid ape, stupid, stupid.. what have you done... " He sat beside her, taking her wounded shoulder carefully.

Mickey skidded to a halt beside him minutes later, looking scared.
"What do we do? Take it out?" He asked the Time Lord.
The Doctor shook his head.
"No she'd slip into shock. We need to do this in a controlled environment and we can't move her far." He murmured, stroking her hair gently.

Rose felt the motion and opened her eyes, smiling gently when she saw him.
"Hey... there's my Doctor.." She murmured simply.
"Easy, Rose... easy... I'm gonna take care of that shoulder... then we're going to have a little talk about that jeopardy streak of yours.." He spoke softly.
She nodded, and passed out again.

The Doctor called to Mickey to hold Rose and stood up. The fury in his now yellow eyes spoke volumes to the gathered Cheetah people, who backed away slightly.

"You called her out, and she beat you. Now you will do whatever it takes to save her life! Or I swear by the gods of Rassilon not a single Cheetah will be breathing when I leave this place!" He cried, and Mickey could see in his face he meant every word.
So too could the Cheetah people.