After The Battle (The Chronicles of Yang VS Tifa)

Chapter 7: Round 5: The First Knockdown

Yang and Tifa got up and awaited for the fifth round of the night. The women were awaiting after the drama at the end of the last round. Yang wanted a knockout, and so did Tifa. Yang hit her gloves against each other and Tifa did the same. Both fighters put up their fists, and awaited the bell.

DING! The fifth round had started and Yang and Tifa wasted no time. They went at each other with everything they had. Jabs, hooks, and uppercuts were flying as they were locked in the center of the ring. Yang was faster with her punches, but Tifa was stronger. Yang got more hits off, but Tifa had more force behind them. "Firecracker" Xiao Long and "Beat Rush" Lockhart were circling each other as they kept up the blows, but Yang soon started to back up towards the ropes as Tifa kept hammering away at Yang's lower and middle section. Yang then knew she had to give some bigger blows to Tifa to have her back up, so that's what she did. Tifa then backed up to the ropes and stayed on the defensive. Yang was working Tifa though, as she was working Tifa's face with her jabs and hooks for the round.

"Tifa! Get out of there!" Cloud shouted from the corner.

"I'm trying, Cloud!" Tifa said to herself as she was trying her best to keep her guard up, but Yang was soon weakening Tifa's defense, and Yang soon started to work very hard on Tifa's face, hooking her cheeks and noticing that Tifa was getting light on her feet. Yang was weakening her. Soon, blood started to come out of Tifa's mouth and Tifa was starting to try to get out of Yang's fists. But, it wasn't working. Tifa couldn't escape Yang's fury, and she was getting pummeled with punch after punch, and was spitting out blood and saliva around the edge of the ring.

"Is this close to what you felt when I SNAPPED YOUR NECK?! I HOPE IT HURT AS MUCH!" Yang shouted as she cranked it up a notch, hooking and uppercutting Tifa nonstop, watching her stumble side to side as she took all of the punches.

"I.. can't...sub..mit...No...I..won't!" Tifa said to herself as her vision got more blurrier and blurrier. Tifa was starting to lean to the right, trying to get her best to get away from Yang's fists. Yang kept on her, seeing a little black eye form around her right eye, and focused on it, jabbing and hooking it. Tifa felt the pain as she did her best to not fall to the mat.

"No...I...No...this can't...be..happening! I made sure she would fall tonight! This is bad." Tifa said to herself worringly, as she kept trying to escape the pain of Yang's punches. Soon, the first knockdown of the night would happen. Tifa was then caught in her corner, and Yang kicked it up one last notch, soon seeing she made a cut on Tifa's cheek. With Tifa's black eye, and cut, she was in trouble. Yang then gave it her all with one final hook.

"Go..To..HELL!" Yang shouted as she gave off the blow to Tifa that would knock her out. When it connected, Tifa spit out blood, and only blood, and fell down to the mat. When Tifa hit the mat, the crowd exploded, the Referee had Yang get back to count.

"Into the corner!" The Referee directed Yang. Yang went back to her respective corner, and heard her friends congratulating her.

"Nice shot, Yang! She's down for the count!" Ruby shouted at Yang.

"Heh. I don't think this is over though..." Yang said as she waited for the events to unfold as she started to hear the count.

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!" Tifa heard the referee counting and Cloud shouting for her to get up.

"Four!"

"Tifa! Get up! You're not done with this yet!" Cloud shouted from Tifa's corner.

"Five!"

"Fuck!...I'm not done yet, Yang!" Tifa said as she came up.

"Are you okay?" The Referee asked Tifa.

"Yeah." Tifa replied.

"Alright then. Fight!" Yang then sprinted out of the corner, about to savagely beat Tifa again, but right as she was going to land a punch,

DING! Yang stopped her punch right as it was about to hit Tifa's face. Yang then looked at Tifa's messed up face and laughed. She then turned around and walked back to her corner. The crowd cheering behind her as she sat down. Tifa sat down and did the best she could to rest up.

"Wow, Yang! You did amazing in that last round! This is going so well for you!" Ruby said to Yang.

"Yeah, that was a great round. She'd better be hurting after that." Yang replied.

"If she got up after that, she's not done by a long shot." Blake replied as she wiped the sweat off of Yang's neck.

"I hope not. I want this fight to go to the tenth round." Yang confidently said as she relaxed and waited for the bell. Over at Tifa's corner, Cloud and Aeris were doing their best to patch Tifa up.

"Holy Hell, Tifa! You were the first knockout of the night! This is bad!" Cloud said as he did his best to patch up the cut on Tifa's right cheek. Meanwhile, Aeris was doing her best to attend to Tifa's black eye.

"Aaaaahh! Sssssssss- Ouch!" Tifa said as Aeris patted a cold rag on Tifa's eye.

"Sorry it hurts, Tifa, but It's really black! Yang hit you hard there!" Aeris replied. After the eye, Aeris focused on Tifa's blood on her mouth, and then focused on the sweat on Tifa's face and back.

"Fuck. That was a bad round. If I can turn the tables on her, this can be good. If I even have the strength." Tifa thought to herself as she looked at the relaxing Yang. Tifa almost wanted to take off her right glove and give Yang the finger, but she wouldn't have enough time to put it back on. She just wanted Yang to go down.

"Tifa, You need to focus on speed and agility for the next round. Don't go on the offensive, just stay agile." Cloud directed her.

"Got it." Tifa replied to Cloud as she spent the moments she could to prepare for the next round, and the rest of the fight ahead. Things just got a lot more serous.