The Serpent Queen

Lull | Part Three

Phoebe and Hawk were already a few minutes into the fight when she noticed the rest of the Cobras appear from the surrounding area to watch the final fight of the day. She had blocked a spin kick with her own leg and then she stepped forward to deliver a front kick. He had moved too quickly and she missed.

Hawk went to punch her, but she leaned back to dodge out of the way. He ran forward and landed a spin kick to her stomach, which made her stagger back and become winded from the immediate impact of it.

Whatever way she stepped back, she stepped back over a tree root the wrong way. Though, she didn't fall, or twist it. Pain shot through her left ankle, she had twinged it again even though it was in the process of healing. Ever since breaking it with a gymnastic landing gone wrong, the pain from it flared up and just became very annoying every so often throughout the years, but Kayla had burst that dam wide open with her car, and now Phoebe worked tirelessly to build it back up again. To give strength back to it weakened ankle. She figured everyone has a physical weakness and this was hers.

She used that weakness to her own advantage...or so she thought. Phoebe quickly spun around and went to catch him off guard with another lightning fast sharp jab before he would even have the chance to move.

Luckily for Hawk, he caught what she was going to do. What happened next was the same move that happened between Miguel and him, but this time, it was mirrored. Hawk grabbed her arm and flipped her over onto the ground.

Lying on her back with her arms pinned down by Hawk's hands and mostly the rest of her being pinned down with the rest of him, Phoebe had her head against the dirt as well. She could have head butted him if she wanted to and he could have took her headband there and then, but he didn't. Instead for a momentary second, the two had locked eyes. Blue grey ones staring into chocolate brown. In that second they both forgot that all of the other Cobras were watching. They had drowned them out so it was only the two of them in the forest. She had drowned out the throbbing pain of her ankle, but her heart was slamming against her rib cage with him being so close to her. They could only hear the sounds of their heavy breathing, taking a moment to catch their breath. Everything felt right in the moment. Nearly like a dream, almost as if they hadn't broken up at all.

Unfortunately, it was a dream too good to be true.

Coming back to reality, Phoebe remembered what he had done and how he hurt her and what the aim of this exercise was. Without breaking eye contact, she wiggled her legs out from under his body and wrapped them around his back tightly. Bringing her head up off the ground, she savagely made her forehead connect with his, and then she rolled him over so he was pinned beneath her.

Phoebe snatched the headband from his head and then got off of him. The mood between them had changed. From the dream like haze to pure furious hurt and anger on both sides.

Hawk looked up at her with loathing in his eyes. He was annoyed that he allowed himself to become distracted by her. Happy thoughts and memories had came flooding back when he had locked eyes with her. She used that against him to win. He hated it, and couldn't understand why Phoebe and Miguel didn't understand that Miyagi-Do were to blame for recent events and they were the problem. He also angry at himself that he had lost the exercise for the red team. This experience had taught him that he had to get Phoebe out of his mind and move on. He hoped it would be easier than it sounded as she was his first girlfriend, first love. They were nothing but fellow Cobras now.

Phoebe hadn't been out for blood with this fight like she had been with Kayla. Hawk had hurt her, but that was the driving force for her during the fight, not the reason of it. Glancing down to Hawk, out of respect for her opponent and teammate, Phoebe muttered, "Good fight." Then she turned to her Sensei's and fellow Cobras and stepped over towards them.