Chapter 7: Cream Takes on Sticks

It was another day at the gym. Charmy had undergone another training session, and he was just sweating up from the last bag run. However, today was a different kind of fight; Cream was taking to the ring to take on Sticks. This fight had garnered alot of attention in the gym, and the room was packed with people wanting to see the match. Charmy was looking forward to the fight. He was looking forward to see Cream in action for sometime now. Meanwhile, Cream and Sticks were putting on their combat attire. She had a little conversation with Sticks before they went to the ring to fight.

"I've heard you do pretty well in combat. Sonic and Amy told me all about ya." said Sticks.

"Yeah, I do good. I advise you might wanna be careful on that end." Cream cautioned.

"I'm sure that it shall be a good match." replied Sticks.

"It will be..." said Cream with a smile.

After a while of their getting their combat equipment together, this was what they were wearing:

Cream had a MMA tank top on with orange on the background as the main color and yellow on the lined sides of her shirt as the secondary color. Her shorts and gloves were the exact same color as her shirt. Cream also had headgear on, the same color as her shirt. Sticks had a grey MMA tank top as the main color alongside her shorts being the same color with black on lined sides of both of them. Her gloves were black. Soon, they entered the ring. The referee announced their names and class.

"In the blue corner for her 10th amateur match, Lightweight C Class, Cream the Rabbit!"

"In the red corner for her 19th amateur match, Featherweight A Class, Sticks the Badger!"

Soon, the match was on after the two tapped their gloves.

*DING!*

It was go time. The two of them entered their fighting stance, one of them wanting to make a move. Not much progress was made, however that changed when Sticks made a first strike with a right kick dodged by Cream. Cream responded with a right jab punch to Sticks' body that lands on her. The two then dedicate the next match throwing punches and landing them. Not much action occurred on the first match. Soon after, it ended.

*DING!*

The girls head back in their corners. The other fighters in the room were engaging in conversation about what was expected of the match ahead. Cream and Sticks were planning their moves ahead of time determining the next steps. Both looked at each other across the match with a serious face. After a minute's two of rest, they got up from the corner stools and the second match commenced.

*DING!*

The two immediately entered their fighting stance. They started moving around in a circle. Sticks started attacking with a punch and kick but it was blocked. Cream packed in the heat and started the next major moves. She immediately did a body tackle and took Sticks onto the ground trying to ground Sticks's body. The whole room looked like it was just shocked at Cream's move. They had never seen her that aggressive before. Afterwards, Cream begins to start punching at Sticks head starting to show out blood from Stick's nose. The struggle between the two had gone on for some time until Sticks managed to break free of Cream before crouching her knees punching Cream's face left and right until the referre call of the match with a bell.

*DING!*

The second match ended with Cream and Sticks heading back to their corners. The both them looked tired and exhuasted, their face filled with bruises and blood. But they were ready for one more round of fighting. The two of them returned to the center of the ring for the last round.

*DING!*

The third mach was on. Nothing happened at first, the two were walking around the mach with their fighting stances, but there was nothing at first. Then, Sticks made her first move by throwing a left punch at Cream's body trying to land a hit on Cream's rib cage, but Cream blocks her punches and counterattacks Sticks with left and right punching jabs one after another on Sticks's body. Cream was doing a boxing move where one is landing on the other's body. Sticks soon started to feel nauscous, and before anything else Sticks can do to fight back, Cream did a left side kick to Sticks's right side of the body (which she lands), another side kick to Sticks's chest (which she also lands), and a big left roundkick to Sticks's side of the face that ends up landing hard on the right side of Sticks's face, knocking Sticks down to the mat floor with the mouthpiece flying out of her mouth. The whole room was shocked. The referee starting doing the count, but Sticks was too exhuasted to get up. Afterwards, the referee calls the match.

*DING*! *DING!* *DING!*

"This match is over!"

The referee raises Cream left hand, declaring her the winner of the match after taking her headgear off.

"Cream is the winner of this match with a left roundkick! Third match of this round, one minute and two seconds!"

Cream went back in the corner to meet up with her coach while a medic was attending to Sticks.

"Cream, you didn't do bad at all. You've earned my respect." said Sticks.

"Thank you." replied Cream. "It took a long time learning the rules, but I figured it out."

As this was happening, Charmy was stuck on Cream, having a crush on her. He went to go and talk to him.

"That was some killer moves." said Charmy. "How'd you learn to fight like that?"

"Sally, Shadow and Sonic trained me when I joined the Freedom Fighters. I recall doing a lot of exercise. Push ups-, bag drills, punching and kicking." replied Cream. "They taught me discipline and respect."

"Whoa, I didn't know that." said Charmy. "Sonic and his friends are good mentors."

"Anyways, do you wanna go out for some karaoke later on?" asked Cream.

"I'll see." replied Charmy. "I'm still doing the late night training to improve my strength, I don't know if I have the time."

"Here's my number on this paper here if you wanna come." replied Cream.

Cream gave Charmy her number before heading back to the changing room. Charmy took some time to process this. Before giving the matter more thought, the coach called out his name.

"Charmy, you're needed on the mat. You're up next. You're gonna fight Tangle."