Phoenix Drop University- Softmore Year

8: Duel

"Ready?" The two combatants are on two sides of the courtyard, several werewolves coming up to watch, Aaron is nervous, less about losing to his girlfriend, no, he was more worried about hurting her.

Aphmau is both confident and slightly doubtful in her own skills. She knew Aaron would most likely be gentle with her, but she needed this job, both to prove herself to him, and for herself.

They circle around each other, tails swishing and ears twitching, they move almost in sync.

"Don't hold back Aaron. I'll know if you do." He nods, but he's still not going to full on punch her, she's still small, and he's still bigger than her.

She starts running at him, he attempts to block but quickly realizes he's fallen for a trap, as she slides under him and kicks him in the back, making him lose his balance.

He quickly gets up, she has a smirk on her face, and Aaron can't help but feel proud, even if it was him that got tricked.

The werewolves hoot and holler, Aaron had the most encouragement, but Aphmau has quite a few followers.

They circle again, Aaron walks up to her calmly, she's taken aback at his demeanor long enough for him to grab her.

"That easy eh?" He chuckles, then get's flung backwards when she sucker punches him in the jaw.

Damn, She's really giving it all she has. He thinks to himself as he holds his throbbing jaw, she's hitting much harder now then when they play fought before.

I won't hold back anymore.

He stands, refusing to show his wound, though he must say that where she hit is actually starting to hurt quite a lot now.

"Come here then love. Show me what you got!" Aphmau smirks, and takes the bait, running at him and attempting to slide underneath him again, but this time, he snatches her arm and pins them to her side.

"Shoot! No!" She yells before she's rendered immobile by Aaron's body weight.

"You know you throw quite a punch- Oouff!" She head butts his chest, releasing his arms around her and then he gets pinned to the ground.

Kicking her off him he quickly slides out of the way of another tackle, making her slide into the courtyard wall.

Again he pins her to the wall, this time not allowing any part to wiggle.

He smirks until he see's the blood running off her head, in which his heart falls.

"Aphmau?!" He flips her around, the slide into the wall knocked her cold, but other than a small scratch that's bleeding way more than it should, she looks fine.

The other werewolves gather around, expecting a finishing move or maybe a celebration, instead they got nothing but Aaron running back into the school and into their room.

He carries her bridal style and gently lays her on the couch, using a towel he cleans the small cut and just slaps a band-aid on it.

His jaw is actually hurting worse now, Aphmau might have sprained it, but it would heal at least partially tonight anyway.

"Mmmm... Ow..." Aphmau stirs, and jumps up before realizing where she is, sees Aaron and groans, pouting on the couch.

"I lost I'm guessing." Aaron chuckles and sits next to her on the couch, pulling her close.

"The battle yes, but not the war. You've shown me you can prove yourself, and I shouldn't badger you on where you can go anyway, so yes you can work at the pub." Her face lights up and kisses him passionately on the lips, he recoils out of pain.

Aphmau looks hurt, then sees the welp on his jaw and immediately looks apologetic.

"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hit you that hard!" She holds his cheek and he gives her a small, pained smile.

"It's fine, I mean, I did knock you out, so... we're even." She shakes her head and disappears upstairs, coming back with a first aid kit.

"I'm going to patch you up, you already did me I see." She feels his jaw and it's just dislocated, meaning it's going to have to be re-set in place.

She pulls a plastic stick out of the bag and tells him to bite down on it, he does, knowing just how painful this is going to be.

"3-2-" She doesn't wait for one and snaps his jaw back into place, Aaron roars in pain as the plastic tube he was biting cracked.

She takes the tube out and they stare at each other for a good ten seconds.

                              "Ow..."