"Tonight was the night."
Kara inhaled deeply, closing her eyes and mind to the thoughts of tonight's fight as the worry and dread slowly dissolved letting her exhale slowly while opening her eyes able to see the image of the man right infront of her as she began to study him.
"He's tall and over built yet quick on his feet." She noted to herself, "seeing" the guy smirk at her and make a move to attack. "From his videos he mainly uses punches and strikes at the face..." She said just as the image goes for her face. "Leaving his lower half unguarded.." She did a leg sweep watching the image fall backwards and she brought her other leg down on his stomach.
The image faded when her phone began to ring and she sighed before walking over to it, picking it up from the couch and answered. "Hello?"
"Hey Kara it's Donnie."
"Oh, hey Donnie. Whatcha up to?"
"April and I discovered something amazing! You wanna come over and see it?" She smiled softly and leaned against the couch. "I'd love to, but I can't. I'm a little occupied with training." She sighed softly looking over where she was training at as the nervous feeling returned.
"Hey..everything ok?" She could hear worry in his voice which made her smile at how caring he could be. "Yeah, I'm fine just a little tired. I have a fight tonight but I'll come by and visit whenever I can." She looked down for a moment as the line went quiet but blinked in surprise hearing him speak again. "Please, be careful.."
"I will. I promise. Talk to you later." She hung up and set her phone down before going back to her little exercise.
-That night-
She went over to visit the guys before the fight dressed as the Blind Bandit and heard April inside. She smiled happy to see her friend and walked in but blinked hearing her shout, "An intruder! Quick guys!" She blinked when no one jumped up and looked over at the guy laughing, it sounded very familiar.
"Oh, sorry. Guess you haven't seen me like this, huh?" Kara said before lifting up the blindfold to show her eyes and winked at her. "This is a disguise of mine. Whatcha think?" She said giving her a pose and laughed more seeing April's shocked expression.
"Well, you'd make a cute boy." She said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"You don't say?" Kara laughed softly but it soon died down as the aura around her became serious and she walked up to Master Splinter. He nodded his head and lead her to his room to speak privately.
April looked to the guys with a questioning look. "Why is she dressed like that?"
"Kara is a fighter in this underground fightclub here in New York. She's disguised like that because they only allow men to fight yet I've been told she's undefeated." Leo said to her.
"Wow, I knew she was strong but she's at a different level! Probably stronger than you...uh, no offense." Leo smiled and shook his head. "None taken." Donnie stared at the dojo door that was connected to their Sensei's room where he and Kara were talking. His eyes were filled with worry for her, having a bad feeling.
When they walked out Kara was clenching her gloves in her hand and bowed her head to their Sensei before heading towards the exit. "I'll see you guys later." She said with a wide smile on her face, waving bye to them. Donnie followed after her. She stopped outside and turned to face him, smiling. "What's up, Doc?" Donnie stepped up to her and kissed her before she had time to react, holding her close to him as she wrapped her arms around his neck til he pulled back to lay his head against her shoulder.
"Please come back to me." He said softly, squeezing her in his arms as if he were to let go she'd be gone forever. She looks at him in surprise before giving him a gentle squeeze and kissed his cheek. "I promise. I'll come back to you." She gave him one more kiss before taking a step back, putting her blindfold back on and started to walk away, Donnie holding onto her hand til his arm dropped to his side as she let go, watching her til she was out of sight.
-At the warehouse-
Kara sat on the bench in her locker room feeling her hand, it still warm from Donnie's touch, til she lifted her head as Casey entered the room. "You've got quite a crowd out there. There's a lot at stake here..specially with the bidders.." Casey said clearly nervous about tonight but tried not to show it. "I know you'll beat the pants off of him." He chuckled seeing her scrunch her nose in disgust before standing up.
"Here, I want you to hold onto these..just incase things get messy." She handed him her gloves and he could feel the heay metal on the knuckles. He looked at her and nodded. "I know I don't use weapons but..I have a feeling I'm going to need them." He pulled her into a gentle hug and smiled at her. "I know you'll beat him. You've grown so much since we first met." She smiled softly, returning the hug before they walked out to the arena together.
Before they entered inside the arena she heard someone shouting, "New York! Hey, New York!" She grinned hearing that all too familiar southern accent as she turned around. "Hey! Texas!" She shouted back her voice disguised, shaking hands with him but felt something was off.
"Wow man, what happened to you? You look like you were in a wreck." Casey said able to see his black eye, busted lip, a cast held by a sling for his broken left arm. "You can thank mister big shot out there. I was one of the lucky ones..if it wasn't for my manager stepping in I would of been a goner..."
Texas looked down having a feeling he was making Blind Bandit nervous and grinned at him. "You're going to do great. I know you'll show him whose boss!" He punched his shoulder for good luck which Kara returned and grinned. "Thanks man. Well, duty calls." She shook his hand once more before walking out after her introduction.
She walks onto the stage and frowns seeing his presence right infront of her as they shout out his introduction. They shake hands though he clenches hers tightly in his as if to break it or make her feel pain but she shows no sign of wavering and takes a few steps back getting into her fighting stance. "I have to end this quickly..." She told herself as the bell rang. She clenched her fist and charged.
It was half an hour into the fight but it seemed longer as she stood her ground, panting heavily, her body telling her to give up. Her arms and legs were covered in bruises. She felt a rib or more was broken, her stomach area was purple from the constant beatings and blood was trailing both sides of her mouth but she grinned knowing he was in the same position she mainly used her small stature and quick feet to get him just as good.
She was strong but his strength was that of a mamoth's compared to hers and it showed on her body. She gasped, feeling mallous and blood thirst from his aura. "Now things are getting interesting! I haven't had this fun in a long time!" He said charging at her a wide grin plastered on his face.
She stepped back, keeping her arms up, guarding her face as he goes to punch her and she does a leg sweep, knocking him down and before he could get back up she jumped ontop of him, putting her weight on him and started pounding his face in til he grabbed her head and headbutted her causing her to stumble back but quickly jumped to her feet, feeling her forehead as blood runs down it.
She backs up towards Casey, keeping her focus on the fighter and whispered down to him. "Give...me..the gloves." She says through heavy breaths not knowing how long she can last. He gave them to her immediately but before she could put them on he was already infront of her.
Before she could move her hands up to block her began punching her in the face, blood splattering in the ring, Casey shouting at her to attack. She gritted her teeth having put one glove already while he pounded her face in and used as much force as she could to punch him in the gut, digging the little spikes into his side. He yelled in surprise and looked down and she took this opportunity to kick him across the ring and put the other one on.
She wasted no time in charging after him adrenaline keeping her body up and moving as she punched and kicked, giving him no time to fight back one thing going through her mind: "I have to win!"
After mercilessly beating him he finally fell. She stood above his body panting heavily as the judge began to countdown, the whole arena in complete silence for they have never seen her fight like that. She kept her head in his direction, making sure he stayed down but noticed something strange. "Casey..get this man some medical help now.." She said but the crowd began to roar as the countdown was over and she was declared victor, drowning out her request.
She began to panic hearing his breathing turning shallow and his heart beat slowing down. "Casey!" She yelled, turning towards him. "Get the medical team in here now!" She bent down beside him and turned him over on his back, laying his head in her lap. "Hey, wake up!" She shouted in his face as she tried to get him to open his eyes. "You won't die on me yet!" She said angrily pounding his chest to keep his heart beat going. "I will not have your death on my conscious!"
The medical men pushed her out of the way as they lifted him up and took him out of the ring to take him to a hospital. Another crew came in after them to take her but she refused before turning to leave.
"Blind Bandit!" She heard behind her and turned her head to see the Mary running at her, arms spread out and wrapped her arms around Kara's waist. "You were incredible! I can't believe you did all of that..just to save me.." She looked down, her heart beat racing before reaching up, grabbing the side of Kara's face and leaned in, kissing her lips.
Casey had a cigarette in his mouth, flicking his lighter on as he saw the scene unfold. His eyes widened with his mouth hanging open causing his cigarette to fall to the floor. Kara's face turned tomato red, feeling her eyes starting to rip through the blindfold from how wide they were in shock. Mary pulled away and looked up at him and giggled seeing how red he was. Kara backed up and smiled nervously while rubbing the back of her head. "Uh...here's the thing.." She sighed and placed her hand gently on Mary's cheek.
"I'm sorry but I'm with someone else..someone I care for dearly. I appreciate the feelings but I can't return them." She let her hand drop to her side before turning to leave. Casey went up to Mary and gently patted her shoulder knowing she must of been heart broken but lead her to follow after Kara. "I know after this you won't have anywhere else to go so you can stay with me til we can figure something out." Mary nodded and noticed Blind Bandit putting his clothes on to leave. "W-wait, where are you going?"
"Yeah! We need to get you to a hospital!" Casey joined in looking angry and worried at her. "Sorry, but I made a promise to see him afterwards. I never break a promise." She said before grabbing her things and leaving. "I'll go to the hospital after that, ok?"
"Fine. I'm going to call Jessica tomorrow though to make sure." He said crossing his arms. She gave him a lazy wave before leaving which made him sigh and look down at Mary to see her blushing deeply, touching her lips. "Oh my...he's gay?" She looks up at Casey who gives her a blank expression til he starts laughing out loud. "Sorry, Mary but that information will be told by Blind Bandit himself. I don't share his secrets." He laughed out loud all the way to his car, letting her in.
It felt like she had been walking forever. She tossed the blindfold aside not having much use for it now that she was in the tunnels alone. She panted heavily, the pain coming back in waves but she ignored them the best of her ability as she struggled to keep her mind awake and focused.
Eventually she found the light of the lair and smiled, walking into the entrance to see the light being that of the tv as the boys were watching a movie with April sitting on the floor hugging her knees. She took out her cellphone and texted Donnie since the volume was loud enough to drown out her voice. She could faintly hear his T-phone going off and she could see him reading it as Leo, who was in charge of the remote, pause the movie as Donnie jumped up and over the couch to see her.
"Stop!" She shouted, her voice quivering from the pain. "I..I don't want you to see me..I'm a mess." She chuckled softly taking a step back trying "I j-just wanted to keep my promise." She said as the others came over. "Everything ok? You sound exhausted..and in pain." Leo said as his eyes look at her with concern. "Yeah."
Raph crossed his arms over his chest, not believing what she was saying and took a large step towards her, grabbing her hand and pulling her into the light. "Just tell us what's wrong already!"
He immediately let her go as everyone saw what horrible state she was in, April covering her mouth with her hands. She was lucky to still be up and walking. Her mouth turned in a weak smile as her eyes started getting heavy. "Heh..told you I...was...a mess..." She said softly before fainting. Donnie caught her in his arms and had the others help her into his lab so he could get to treating her. Luckily he was able to give her the medical attention she needed as he began working. At least she wasn't in any serious danger of losing her life but she was beaten pretty badly. "Don't worry, Kara. I'll take care of you."