"How long was I out…?" Kimura lightly muttered.
"About Four hours Kimura."
Kimura turns his head to see Ayameko sitting on a metal chair as she watched the next match going on from a standing flatscreen TV. Where…did they even get that…? Kimura looked at the TV confused as he slowly shifted his body.
Upon moving Kimura felt a sharp tension pain in his right shoulder, left arm and his entire right hand down to even his fingertips. He dropped back onto his back as he took deep breaths to try and dullen the pain.
"Let your body heal, you overexerted for one match." Ayameko commented while looking at the TV.
"How bad was it…" Kimura softly replied.
"Imagine your muscles being ripped apart all at the same time while your nervous system has an aneurism and your heart beating faster than a AMV music video."
"That's…oddly specific…" Kimura commented.
"Hey that's the nurse's comment not mine." Ayameko replied.
"Whatever…but why are you the only one staying here when you could be watching the match over at our station?" Kimura points out.
"I…don't know honestly, it's just a gut feeling that's all…and plus I promised Naoki I'd switch out every couple of hours."
"I guess…" Kimura sighs as he looks at the tent's tarp at the top, "I'm just gonna take a longer nap…wake me up when you feel like it." Kimura commented as he dozed back off to sleep.
"Sure thing…" Ayameko replied.
***
Upon the battlefield being broadcast onto some TVs and screens around the area, the fight nonetheless was engaging. Teisho Academy and Vixen Academy were fighting for the second round. A student wearing a robe jumped back as she slammed her hand onto the ground, suddenly a rocky fin emerged from the ground as it jumped out, a rock shark had formed lunging at the Vixen student.
"Pity."
The Vixen student caught the snapping rock jaws of the rocky shark as a rocky tentacle wrapped around his left leg. He looked at the tendril as he broke the rocky shark in half, shifting his weight as he kicked his wrapped leg, throwing the rocky octopus towards the Teisho student.
Shit!
They swiped their hands up from the ground as the air infront of them became compact, the rocky octopus breaking on impact and causing dust to burst. She coughed a bit as she looked around, the dust slowly settling as she suddenly turned her head to the left and ducked down, narrowly being hit by a left hook.
That was close.
She backed up and out of the dust as she stomped her foot on the ground, lifting that foot in the process slightly as a small portion of the ground cracked. She waited silently as she began to focus on it.
"..."
Then suddenly something flew out of the dust as it startled her, causing her to flinch and react, lifting her leg and throwing a piece of the ground at the jacket, seeing it fly and hit the jacket.
A Jacket? But where did-
Just as she thought of that a rough outline of her opponent came through as the Vixen Student, wearing a sky-blue colored t-shirt, grabbed her ankle and slammed her back onto the ground. The initial impact of the slam caused the ground to crack where she landed as the Vixen student yanked her ankle towards him.
As if time itself had slowed down for him, he was quick enough to land a straight and clean punch right at her face, slamming the back of her head against the ground. It caused another piece of the ground to crack as it had knocked out the Teisho student.
He stood up popping his left shouder in as he winced in pain a bit as the crowd went wild. I didn't think that rock hit my shoulder…and with such force too… he thought as he looked and waited for the nurses to bring her on a stretcher.
***
A couple of hours passed as Ayameko walked towards the middle, her hands in her pockets as she was assigned to a separate tournament. At the same time, a Student from Tartarus Academy came walking down to the center as well. Both participants were participating in a one-on-one dual tournament.
"Now most of you might be wondering why we are holding two tournaments, well this is where both tournaments are intertwined, the winner of this tournament will fight the new best academy of the world in a Two on four challenge!" The Announcer shouts.
"Hey, aren't you the guy I poked holes into?" Ayameko tilts her head a little to the right.
"Aren't you the bitch that got lucky earlier?!?" The man responded.
"..."
Ayameko decided not to respond back after that as she clearly knew she had to dig someone a new grave for that comment. However, the announcer came towards them with his microphone.
"Alright you two, I need names and naming scheme…" He asked both.
"Ishida Ayameko, Old-World."
"Jack Ruharven (Ru-harv-en), New-World."
"Thanks for the information." He nodded at them as he ran back to his stationary stage.
The Announcer got on his stage as it rose him up a bit as he began announcing and hyping up the one-on-one battle. Amidst the hype, Ayameko backed up slightly as she took her hands out of her pockets, her hands having the same fingerless gloves that Kimura wore.
Crack…Crack…
Ayameko popped her knuckles as she and Jack got ready to fight. 3…2…1… Ayameko thought as at the same time the announcer shouts, "FIGHT!".
Jack rushed at Ayameko as she took three steps forward, in two seconds they were nearly face to face as Jack threw a couple of punches with Ayameko on the backseat, taking steps back as she began slipping and weaving around.
"The aggression is just out there huh."
"Is he hitting them? Or missing purposely?"
"She's leaving so many openings to fight back, why isn't she fighting back?"
The crowd was obviously confused as Ayameko kept slipping past punches, dodging left right and center as she stopped kicks and leg checks by raising her leg up as she was sweeping through all offensive attempts.