BLEED/HAVEN

[XXX] ISAIAH

The impromptu tournament was going by quickly, match after match kicking off and winner after winner being proclaimed. Mari entered into the ring at one point facing off with Richard Stevens. She was a striker, never taking fights to the ground, but when she struck with that synthetic arm, her opponent would feel it for days. She ended up winning her first fight with an onslaught of aggression, however lost the next when her opponent, Lisa May, grappled her and held her in an armbar for submission.

Otto's fight went next, the man winning with his insane, flashy wrestling moves against his opponent, Tek. The left side entered the locker room once more as everyone once again started briefly chatting. Isaiah felt butterflies in his stomach and decided now was as good of a time as in. He stretched his arms above his head and shook them out afterwards before he called out,

"I got next."

Everyone turned and whooped and cheered as the man turned to exit the room, jogging up to the boxing rind and ducking through the ropes to stand on the well lit white mat dotted with blood and sweat from all the fights that had been happening on this night. The crowd cheered and filled the man with a sense of triumph, not for him fighting, but that they all were here, in this moment, winning the bigger fight. From there the man turned to meet his opponent, and who other would it be than Kenny himself entering the ring with a stoic look on his face, Isaiah contested that look with a huge smile, throwing his head back in laughter as the crowd riled up in instigation for the old rivals to duke it out for everyone to see.

Isaiah cracked his knuckles as he approached the center and Kenny merely kept his hands in his pockets as he approached as well. Arthur approached and spoke into the mic,

"I don't think these fellas need any introduction, Let's give it up for the Devil and the Fox themselves!"

The crowd cheered as Kenny reached out to give Isaiah a fist bump before the two donned their masks. From then, Arthur exited off the ring and rang the bell,

"Fight!"

The crowd drowned out as Isaiah took a deep breath and entered his stance, bringing his two arms up in front of his face bent. His hands were barely closed and kept loose. His feet were placed shoulder width apart and his right foot remained his root with his left foot forward just a bit, switching between the balls of each foot as he focused on Kenny. Kenny assumed his stance as well, bringing his right hand under his chin and left near his torso while bouncing on his feet in his stance, squared off and angled with his right shoulder leading.

Isaiah planned to make the first move but Kenny was fast, dashing into the man and going for a right roundhouse the Isaiah easily evaded by stepping back, but Kenny was a tornado, one kick led to another and another and another. Isaiah was doing his best at evading and parrying to look for an opening. He saw a repeat, a right side kick coming for his left side, to which Isaiah caught with his left hand and grappled into the side of his body to lock the leg. The man primed himself to bring Kenny in, cocking his right fist back to be launched. Then, before he could strike, Kenny launched off his left leg and brought the foot into the right side of Isaiah's briefly exposed head, causing him to release the man and stagger backwards as the first bell rang.

Isaiah's ears were ringing for a second and he felt a cut opened on his head that slowly began oozing blood. However he simply walked to his corner and took a few deep breaths, shaking it off before Arthur called him good and they continued to the next round.

"Round two. Fight!"

From there Isaiah launched a left forward kick to which Kenny parried out the way twice in a row before the man stepped forward and launched his right leg straight into the air, but Isaiah was ready, he swayed backwards to avoid the leg and answered by swinging his right knee towards the man's torso, Kenny flinched to block, but Isaiah pulled the knee in as a feint, using the momentum to spin around and extend his left leg that tripped the man's single left leg, knocking him off balance. That wasn't before Isaiah spun low and rose while simultaneously bringing his right elbow into an uppercut and grazing the man's torso. Kenny fell to the ground and rolled backwards onto his feet.