To Love Blaze

(22) Unraveled

This guy looks....different.

He's not as tall as I remember. Maybe I'm just overthinking this because I have never really have had such close-up interaction except for our fight, which makes me mad even by just thinking about it. But again, he seems somewhat different. It's all wrong. Yes, the eyes are green but somewhat different. I don't know, its only the eyes I can see and everything else is covered up just like me.

Only if I could unravel this face to clear up my mess.

I am pulled back to reality when he pushes me away and keeps on walking. Did he lose a match or something? No, that can't be it. I lost to him, which means, he can't lose to someone else.

Only I can defeat him.

I follow him out of the arena. I don't know what will I do if its Chuck. But I cant not do anything. It can just be totally a stranger too. I make up my mind and follow him. He walks a little different than before. determined to find out who he was I follow him with a safe distance between us so that he doesn't notice that he is being tailed. He keeps on walking to the parking lot and down the lane. he goes into a small alley but I won't follow him in because then I will be too noticeable.

I just stand outside and take a peek. There was a car, probably his. He opens the driver seat and take his hoodie and mask off and his blonde hair plops out and I just zone out.

It is Chuck Blaze, its Chuck blaze, Chuck Blaze, Chuck, Blaze, Chuck, Blaze, Chuck, Blaze, Chuck, Blaze, Chuck. No!

I turn around and fall to the ground, sitting with my knees close to my chest. I hear the car rev and my hands clutch my knees tighter. The car leaves and thankfully without noticing me.

What? Why? Why me?

Chuck Blaze is the mysterious underground fighter 'Blaze'. It is very obvious. but still, somewhere in my mind, I hoped it was not him. The only place where everyone feels unsafe, I feel safe. But now, even the underground arena doesn't seem as comfortable and safe as before.

I slowly push myself up and start walking, more like dragging myself. I do not remember the walk back to the arena or even the reason why I am going back there. I wish to get myself back on track and get my shit together but, nothing else seems more impossible than this.

The next thirty minutes went by like a snap of the finger. here I am, standing inside the arena with my mind like a muddled idiot and my stance like a hunchback. I was standing without any care in the world with a high chancing of killing myself or at least break a few bones here and there. I look up at my opponent and a skinny small guy was standing in front of me, jabbing.

What a joke!

And the next second I was being choked by the tiny dude. Yes, that's what I named him. Tiny. No one would have expected that Tiny was a brawler. The aggressive type who relies on brute strength. I knee his back to buy some time and breathe and before I even stand up he lands a clean left hook to my face. I stumble back to the tensed ropes and feel the familiar Iron like taste in my mouth. By this time the audience was Booing. and I'm pretty sure it was for me. Tiny just never stops, he comes charging at me and luckily I was able to save myself by a hair length's gap. He charges at me again and it felt like he was aiming for the face.

Not today, Tiny!

At the perfect time I use the rope to give me some height and angle and I land a clean, nice punch to his jaw. He falls to the ground like a squiggling fish and faints. The referee comes and checks if he is alive because that punch hit him square to face and I am pretty sure all my pain and anger was like an elixir to this match because it started off pretty bad for me. Soon, I'm announced as the winner and I collect my money and leave quickly.

As I was leaving something very confusing happened. I saw Blaze standing in front of the entrance amidst the howling crowd. It's like I can spot him in a crowd anywhere. He kept looking at me for a long time and so was I.

D-Did he recognize me? Does he know that I'm Kristen? No way.

He just stood there looking at me. I couldn't really see him that cleary but I could definitely feel his intense stare. He looks normal now, not short as I thought before and his body language was normal too. Just like how normal I am right now.

What? Normal?

I realize that I'm not in a state of confusion and hot-headed as I was before. A sudden feeling of calmness surges inside me. I know what to do now. It is all clear now. I'm joining zen for sure and I will keep my identity as Roxy concealed for now and try to get information out of Chuck as much as possible or even track to see what he is up to. Yes, that what I have decided on. Today's fight was not so bad after all. I stumbled, I fell, I bled but, I came back stronger and more focused than before.

Blaze keeps on looking at me and suddenly turns and leaves. I run behind him with the intention oh following him again but by the time I got past the group of drunkards standing in front of the entrance, he was gone.

I hate him and will hate him for a long time. It's now my turn to use him as bait and lure BLACKTHORN's leader Donnagon out.

Now that this is decided I should head back to the base but before that, I need to head home and park my motorbike. I somewhat happily walk out to the parking lot and look at my watch and I can feel the springs in my shoes.

Shit.

Its gonna be sunrise in half an hour. I ditch the idea of going back home and just run and jump on my bike and zoom out of that place. I am going to be dead meat of someone sees me enter. I was going so fast that I was almost losing balance and control but I made it in time. I stop a little bit farther away from the warehouse Now for the real question. Where do I park or hide my bike? I can't let anyone see it. I look around and quickly park my bike around a bit bush and cover it with some dense branches. I yank my mask and hoodie off my space leaving me looking like how I left.

I run towards the wall to jump over but, I halt. I see Brandon jumping the other side of the wall like how I was going to. He doesn't notice me so, I just jump behind him to catch up with him.

"Hey, Bran---Ohh No" I fall and he comes to catch me.

Perfect! now, I've set the bar high for the most number of embarrassment situation a person can ever be in.

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A/N- Hey, Hello, Wassup!

What are your thoughts on this revelation? You saw this coming? Took you by surprise?

Lemme know people!

huhuhuhuuu this is getting more and more interesting to write.

Until next time,

Avni ;p