After The Battle (The Chronicles of Yang VS Tifa)

Chapter 8: Round 6: Bloody Times

Yang and Tifa stood up and awaited the bell for the sixth round. However, something else was on their minds for this round. Both women were out for one thing. Not dominance, not who was better, after round 5, both women were out for blood. Yang gritted her teeth together and was ready for what Tifa would throw at her. Tifa, after resting up after the knockdown, was ready to bounce back.

DING! The sixth round had begun. Yang had begun starting to go on the offensive, but her strategy wasn't working since Tifa was quick on her feet in this round. Tifa was very active on her feet and was moving all around the ring, making it difficult to have Yang land a punch on her.

"Oh come ON! What does it take to hit her? That's it. I need to take her down." Yang said as she started to push Tifa back to the ropes and started a few combos on her. Tifa's head was moving side to side as Yang hit her with hook after hook, seeing blood fly all over, Tifa was not doing good for the first part of the round. Then, Yang threw an uppercut that stunned Tifa, causing her head to snap up, spitting out blood as her head moved. Yang then knew she could knock her down soon, and with that, Yang threw two more hooks, one right and one left and she held Tifa's head with her left glove and prepared for a massive uppercut.

"Oh no. Not Now!" Tifa said as she watched Yang's fist go down.

"Take this, Bitch!" Yang shouted as she connected with Tifa's chin, sending blood flying across the ring, and having Tifa lean back on the ropes before falling for the second time for the night. This time, she seemed in more pain then before, and it felt like she wanted to give up. The referee called Yang to go to the corner.

"Into the corner!" The referee directed Yang. Yang stepped back as she was waiting to see if Tifa would stand up. The referee started the count.

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Four!" Tifa then woke herself up and started to get up.

"I need to finish this! Not now!" Tifa said as she struggled to get up. Tifa tried to get up, but actually fell back down, and needed a few moments to get her strength back.

"Five!"

"Six!" Tifa then was on her feet.

"You OK?" The referee asked.

"Yeah." Tifa replied.

"Fight!" The referee announced. Yang then came out of her corner, coming right at Tifa, but Tifa was expecting this and then jabbed Yang straight in the face, and she stumbled back. Tifa then proceeded with her plan of attack and brought Yang to the ropes, attacking her body.

"Oh. Shit! This is bad! I- No. Yang. Keep your guard up. You can't let her cause you to drop your guard." Yang gave herself directions as she was defending against Tifa's assault. Yang was keeping up the defense since she had much energy left, but Tifa was whittling it down, focusing on Yang's lower section. Yang was spiting out blood as Tifa worked Yang's chest. Yang soon stumbled back to a corner as Tifa whittled away Yang's energy, and Yang soon dropped her guard. Yang's head was moving side to side as Tifa started to focus on Yang's cheeks. Tifa, after pummeling away at Yang, noticed a blackened eye on Yang's left eye. Tifa focused on the eye and Yang was having trouble staying up.

"I can't have this happen to me! My eye is hurting very badly. I need to have Tifa focus on something else!" Said a struggling Yang Xiao Long. But, however, Yang's luck would run out. Tifa worked Yang's eye so badly, Yang put her fist over her eye to keep Tifa from focusing on it. However, Tifa didn't let this stop her as she went in for the left hooks and worked on Yang's body. Yang stumbled over towards the corner, and Yang was trouble. Yang did her best to defend her blackened eye, but Tifa was able to get Yang's arm away from her eye, but she just decided:

"Oh, Screw it." Tifa said as she went for the knockdown. Tifa then gave her all with the next few hooks, causing blood to erupt out of Yang's mouth, as she was nearly falling. Yang was struggling to stay on her feet. Ruby was yelling to her to counter.

"Yang! Counter Tifa's attacks! If you don't, you're in trouble!" Ruby shouted from Yang's corner.

"I'm trying, Ruby! But I can't when she's pressing me!" Yang said as she was doing her best to avoid the assault. Eventually, Tifa gave her all and gave a uppercut that would end up knocking Yang down. When Tifa's fist connected with Yang's chin, Yang spit out so much blood that Tifa even got some of Yang's blood on her face. When Yang hit the mat, The referee told Tifa to back up.

"Into the corner!" The Referee ordered Tifa. Tifa went back to her respective corner, where her fans were cheering her on for finally getting a knockdown.

"Nice job, Tifa! You have a chance to end this right here!" Aeris said to Tifa.

"I hope. I want-no, NEED to be the better fighter." Tifa replied to Aeris. Tifa started to hear the referee count.

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Four!" Yang struggled to get up as she had enough vision to see blood dripping from her mouth and onto the mat.

"Wow! The first knockdown for me. I didn't think it would come so late in the fight! Still, I need to prove I'm the better fighter." A struggled Yang said as she did a push up motion to get back to her feet, but she at first fell.

"Five!"

"YANG! DON'T GIVE UP NOW! YOU NEED TO FINISH THIS! FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED!" Ruby shouted as loud as she could so Yang could hear her.

"You're right, Ruby. I need to finish what I started." Yang then started to get up.

"Six!" Yang was almost to her feet when the Referee counted seven.

"Seven! You okay?" The referee asked Yang.

"I'm good." Yang replied.

"Fight!" The referee got out of the way as Tifa sprinted towards Yang. And as luck would have it...

DING! Both women walked back to their corners, anxious to rest after what went down in the sixth round. Yang was barely able to stand after the last moments of the round, while Tifa was exhausted from the energy she used in the last stretch of the round, and from when she got knocked out herself.

"Yang, bloody times are upon us. If both you were knocked out in one round, things could be bad." Ruby said to Yang.

"Yang, this girl is trouble. she was able to bring you down to the point where the referee counted seven!" Weiss added.

"Let me talk to her." Blake said as she pushed Ruby out of the way. "Yang. You can beat this girl. You've done it once. You can do it again." Blake directed Yang. The two actually shared a moment together for a brief second.

"Now that you two have had that, can we address to Yang now?" Weiss wanted to get down to business, so she gave Yang some water, and had Blake and Ruby focus on Yang's blackened eye and cut on her cheek. Ruby also fanned off Yang, and also wiped the large amounts of blood and sweat off her face and neck.

"Jeez Tifa! That was a good and bad round. You got a knockout, but you also got knocked out yourself!" Cloud explained to Tifa.

"Yeah, I got that. But I just need to relax while I can. I thought I had her there. Can you get the huge amounts of blood off my face?" Tifa asked. Aeris wiped the blood off Tifa's face, got rid of the sweat on Tifa's neck, and Cloud fanned her off as much as he could, gave Tifa some water, and also splashed it over her head, having it drip down, cooling her off. Tifa and Yang were both hanging onto the ropes, getting as much off time as they could before they would go back into battle.

Bloody Times are upon us...

NOTE:

That little bit between Yang and Blake was not a motion that I support the couple Bumblebee. In fact, I was only joking with it, since I personally think the idea of Bumblebee and by extension, WhiteRose are stupid ideas the fanbase had come up with. Now, I really think that If I say this I will get a ton of hate. But either way, I was joking at Bumblebee. Not supporting it, and I want to know what you guys think of that little line of dialogue.