After The Battle (The Chronicles of Yang VS Tifa)

Chapter 11: Round 9: Yang Bounces Back

Yang and Tifa then get up to start the ninth round of the night. Yang needed something to spark after the disaster of the last round.

DING! The ninth round had started and Yang then started with hitting Tifa's face with a right jab. Tifa was caught off guard by this and then stepped back a little bit. Yang then kept working with the jab, hitting Tifa with her rights and lefts, and having Tifa stumble back. Yang actually did this for a while.

"She looks fantastic!" Ruby said as she looked to Weiss and Blake.

"Yeah. Yang's bouncing back!" Weiss added. Yang then hit Tifa with five right jabs, stunning her opponent. Tifa then goes for a hook, but Yang saw the telegraph and ducked to avoid being hit. Yang then hits Tifa again with a right jab. She then goes for a three hit combo, hitting Tifa with two right hooks and one left. When the second right connected, Tifa stumbled back and then came back to meet Yang in the center. Tifa hasn't thrown anything other than the one hook. Tifa had the nerve to taunt Yang, saying:

"C'mon, Yang! Hit me! Hit me for real!" Tifa taunted. Yang then threw a right jab, stunning Tifa and sending her back a few feet. Then, Tifa erupted with rage and started to just throw as many swings as she could, but Yang kept dodging them, countering with jabs and hooks. Then, for the first time of the night, Ruby actually suggests something interesting.

"Yang! Tie her up!" Ruby yelled. Yang knew exactly what that meant, and she held Tifa for a few seconds. Tifa was hitting Yang's chest as she was holding onto her, until the referee came in and broke it up.

"Break it up!" The referee then broke up the hold and put his arm out to indicate they could continue the fight. Yang then hit Tifa with two jabs, one left and one right. She continued to do this until Cloud shouted at her.

"Get her! Get her! Get her!" Cloud shouted. Tifa then swung, but kept missing Yang. She brought her back to the ropes, but Yang ducked and switched places with Tifa as she then hit Tifa with two body blows, hurting Tifa badly. The two fighters then got back to the center, where Tifa was continuously swinging at Yang, but still was missing every single one. Yang kept hitting Tifa with lefts and rights, until Tifa was stunned again. Yang then heard Ruby, Weiss and Blake shout:

"GOOOO!" Yang then started hitting Tifa with everything she had, including an uppercut that would stagger Tifa. But, however, that woke her up and she started swinging again. Then, Tifa and Yang met at the center again. Yang was still working Tifa's face, jabbing with rights and lefts nonstop. Then, Cloud shouted for Tifa to do one thing:

"GET HER!" Tifa then forced Yang back into a corner, and actually pushed her back, leaving Yang very surprised at what she did. This made her wide open, and Tifa then gave her all with four right hooks. Ruby yelled at Yang.

"Get out of there!" Ruby shouted. Yang listened to her coaches advice and moved out... but then Tifa did something that changed the round completely. As Yang was moving out, Tifa yelled

"Get back there!" And then threw Yang back to the corner. When Yang landed, she was so surprised that she was stunned for a second. Tifa then hit Yang with three super hard hooks, having Yang nearly fall, but she held onto the ropes to keep her from falling. Cloud then shouts:

"Alright! Alright!" Yang then holds onto Tifa for the second time tonight, and needed some energy. The referee broke them up.

"Break it up!" Yang then stumbles back to the corner, and waits for a few seconds. Yang then does a cross, and then meets Tifa in the center of the ring. This time, when they met, before Yang got the chance to do anything, Tifa then threw a nasty hook, causing Yang to stumble back. Tifa was now on the offensive, hooking Yang, wanting for this round-this fight- to be over so she can be the true female fist fighter champion. She was so deadly in the last round because she had the fact that she could end this there and then, and she was giving all she got. Now Yang was back in her corner, getting pummeled with hook after hook, and having her team yell to her telling her what to do.

"Hold her, Damnit! Hold her!" Ruby shouted.

"Come on, Yang! Come on!" Blake shouted. Tifa was near close to knocking Yang out again. Yang was stumbling to side to side, with each fatal hit she was giving Yang, and now Yang was pretty much speed walking to get away from Tifa. But, moving from one corner to another, and another, Tifa then gave Yang a big right hook, causing her to fall to the center. Tifa once again threw her hands up into the air and celebrated as the referee called her back to her corner.

"Into the corner now!" Tifa walked back, celebrating, wanting this match to finally be over.

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Get up, Damnit!" Ruby shouted.

"Four!"

"Five!" Yang then heard the count and started to pick herself up.

"Six!"

"Seven!" Yang got to her feet.

"You okay?" The referee asked.

"Yeah." Yang replied.

"Fight!" Tifa couldn't believe what she saw.

"She's still able to fight after all this? Maybe she is worthy..." Tifa then threw her hardest punches yet, as Yang spit out blood with each hit, and within four freaking hits, Yang was down again, over in another corner.

"The corner! NOW!" Tifa walked back to the corner, and spoke to herself.

"If Yang is able to take all of the abuse I've given her, maybe she is a true fighter." Tifa said as she waited for the count to start.

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

"Four!"

"Five!" Weiss was facepalming, Blake was watching in horror, and Ruby took the towel off her neck, and was ready to throw it. Ruby gripped it tight, but then something caught in her mind:

"Yang wouldn't want this. She would want to see through to the end. She wouldn't want me to throw in the towel. If she gets up at least." Ruby said to herself as she put the towel around her neck, and goes to meet Yang in the corner she fell down at.

"Five!" Ruby got to Yang, and shouted to get her up.

"YANG! YOU NEED TO SEE THIS THROUGH! YOU'VE FOUGHT HER BEFORE AND WON! SO WHY DOES THIS CHANGE NOW?"

"Six!" Yang heard Ruby's pleading. She then starts to get up by using the ropes.

"Seven!"

"Yang! Come on! Get up!" Ruby shouted.

"Eight!"

"You need to win!" Ruby shouted one last time.

"Nine!" Yang got to her feet. Ruby went back to Yang's corner, and smacked her teammates out of their trances.

"You OK?"

"Yeah." Yang replied.

"You sure?" The referee asked.

"Yes." Yang said back.

"Alright then. Fight!" Tifa then walked over to Yang in her corner, and before she did anything, she said this:

"You got some real balls, Yang. Hope you're done soon." Tifa then uppercutted Yang, and luckily,

DING! Tifa said in a split second:

"Really? The tenth round? Wow. She's really got it in her."

And then... The whole stakes changed.

Yang then looked up, after recovering from the uppercut, and noticed a single...golden...lock of her hair fall.

The crowd grew silent. Dead silent as Yang watched a strand of her hair fall. For Yang, and for everyone else in the gymnasium, time began to go slowly. Yang's eyes slowly followed the golden strand of hair fall down. Once it hit the mat, Everyone looked up at Yang. Including Tifa. Yang slowly and NOT angrily, looked at Tifa. She locked eyes with her, and everyone was wondering what she would do to Tifa. Yang didn't blink, didn't say anything. She just... stared.

Yang then slowly started to remove her gloves. Yang took off her right glove first, and threw it like a frisbee to her corner, where Ruby took it. Ruby was sweating out of her cape, and was only wondering one thing:

"Why isn't she doing anything?" Yang then started to remove her left glove, and threw it also to her corner. All Yang had now was her wrist wraps on her wrists, and was only having a stare off with Tifa. Yang then spit some blood onto the mat, and asked Tifa one question:

"Did..Ha...Did you just hit me so hard, a strand of my hair fell out?" Yang asked almost psychotically.

Tifa nodded and said:

"Yeeep."

Yang then looked away, closed her eyes, and looked back at Tifa. Now, her eyes were red. Her hair started to catch on fire, slowly moving up her hair, until it reached the top of her head. Yang then yelled:

"You...Little...PIECE OF SHIT!"

Yang then viciously attacked Tifa, swinging with hooks and uppercuts, having Tifa spit up blood with each punch. and both figher's teams had to get up and stop Yang from continuously attacking Tifa.

"NO! GET BACK HERE! YOU TOOK A PIECE OF MY HAIR OFF! LET ME GO!" Yang tried to break free but couldn't break free of Ruby, Weiss, and Blake's grip. Once Yang was back in her corner, the referee allowed one extra minute to the time in-between rounds to re-put on Yang's gloves, and since it was the last round of the night, the referee allowed it.

"I...That bitch is dead. Two goddamn hair strands gone?! Are you kidding me?" Yang shouted.

"Yang. Hold still, and pay attention. If you want to win this, You need to do your best in the last round. Okay? If you don't, she'll win. And I know you don't want that." Ruby explained to Yang. Ruby was able to get Yang's right glove on, while Blake was working on her other. Yang then looked at her team. She decided it was time to end this...

"Tifa, this is the last round. You need to take her down." Cloud explained to her.

"I've been trying, Cloud! But this girl truly has a fighter's power in her." Tifa explained to Cloud.

"Is she worthy enough for you?" Cloud asked Tifa.

"...Yes. But I still need to try and win this." Tifa sat as time slowly turned, getting closer and closer to the final round of the night. Tifa and Yang knew that one thing was for certain:

"It's time to end this..."

Round 10: Clash of the Goddesses (Part 1)

Coming soon...