The Fight Club
The crowd was wild. Screams, shouts and cheers filled the underground arena.
"Rainbow Dash!"
"Rainbow Dash!"
"Rainbow Dash!"
The spectators were observing a cyan pegasus mare with a distinct rainbow mane compete against a minotaur almost thrice her body size. The bull had bulking muscles everywhere on him, covered with sweat and jet-black fur, topped with a clear-white mane. One of his horns was missing, leaving scar and a bald patch. His face had a scar that trailed from his forehead to his muzzle.
The bull could only hear his sponsor-manager raged, "What the buck! Come on, White Mane! It's just a bucking filly! I'm gonna' lose a big load of bits. Which means, you're not gonna' get any! Come on!".
He gritted his teeth, blood drips from his nose. Glaring at Rainbow Dash, he cursed silently.
Rainbow Dash glared back in a fighting stance. Not breaking eye-contact, she tried to predict his next move. One more blow for her and it's all over. Her nineteen-fighters winning streak will be over.
I'm the strongest fighter here, no way I'm giving away that title.
She had bruises covered all over her body. A scar on the left wing from previous fights. She breathed heavily, and taste blood in her mouth. Her jaw was sore and was unable to move, due to White Mane's clean blow. She spat blood between her and White Mane, then, she snickered.
The fight was almost over. Both fighters are exhausted and worn out. Only one last show to give, and the winner takes all. Three hundred bits was the amount of tonight's prize. Triple the average of a usual night, and double the volume of the crowd. Who doesn't want to see an extraordinary mare pit against a known fighter? Or in this case, a minotaur and a pony? The spectators cheered on and in that moment, the fighters started the show.
White Mane lunged at Rainbow Dash.
Gotcha'.
Rainbow dived low, in that split second, Rainbow was below a mid-air White Mane. She gave a buck on his abdomen, sending him flying face-first towards the cage's grill. The crowd screamed. White Mane screamed. He turned and charged at Rainbow. He swung his right fist. Too slow. Rainbow ducked and gave him a clean blow on the side using her left foreleg. White Mane flinched. Before reaching the next second, Rainbow gave a jab right in the bull's diaphragm. White Mane bend over, his breath leaving his lungs. With a strong push of Rainbow's hind legs and wings, she gave an uppercut directly below White Mane's chin.
Spit and blood spurted out from White Mane's muzzle. The bull stumbled backwards, dazed. The crowd went wild. Rainbow slammed her hooves on the cage grills and screamed with pride. She enjoyed the fans' cheer, makes her feel unstoppable.
"Finish him, Rainbow!", a fan in the crowd shouted.
Seizing the opportunity, Rainbow zipped through the air towards White Mane's face. She extended her forelegs and meets them with his shoulders, pushing him to the cage floor. She then proceeded to give White Mane a beatdown on his face.
Left swing.
Right swing.
Left swing.
Right swing.
Each hit on the face made the minotaur grunt while spitting out spit and blood. When suddenly, her left hoof is stopped by White Mane's right hand. Before Rainbow could react, her face is met with an unexpected fist. "Argh!", she tumbled away from White Mane's right side. Rainbow Dash was stunned by the powerful blow. Before her eyes could focus, a hard kick was given to her abdomen, and she flew momentarily before slamming on the cage grills.
The crowd made an uproar.
The impact gave Rainbow a nosebleed. Ahh, what the bu-
White Mane picked her up and pinned her on the cage grills, pressing on her neck, giving her a choke-hold. Rainbow desperately gasped for air. If he keeps this up, it'll be all over for Rainbow. She'll faint and forfeit.
White Mane said to her, "How in Tartarus made you think you could take on a mino-,"
A hoof met his face with great force. Rainbow luckily managed to give him a good kick in his face. White Mane stumbled backwards. In that second, Rainbow wrapped herself on the minotaur's head using her hind legs to choke-hold, and her forelegs to grab the bull's horn. A successful reversal. White Mane flailed his arms, unable to move his head. "Eeeaaargh!," Rainbow screamed while struggling to keep holding on. White Mane, in desperate need of air, jumped and fell on his back, slamming Rainbow to the floor.
The crowd screamed.
The impact loosened Rainbow's grip. White Mane, despite his lack of focus, was able to grab her by the shoulders and threw her forward above his head. Rainbow Dash with her incredible reflexes, somersaulted, extended her wings and landed vertically on the cage grills on all four hooves. White Mane however, lost all of his oxygen during the struggle. He couldn't stand properly. His vision went so blurry, he can't even see a cyan projectile heading right towards him.
Rainbow sent a lightning-fast hoof to his face. The speed of her blow produced a momentum so great, that the minotaur actually flew for a second before his back slammed to the other side of the cage grills.
Rainbow was famous for her speed in her fights. She could actually give two punches in one blow. Some even called her the fastest pegasus in Equestria. It was as if speed was her signature and she knew it. It was time to give her fans some Rainbow Dash.
In White Mane's moment of daze, it was incredible that he was still standing after receiving the choke-hold and blows to the head. Rainbow Dash flew towards him, "AAAAAARRRGGHH!!!", she gave a warcry.
In the first second, Rainbow gave three blows with unbelievable speed. Two to the gut, and one on his right knee. White Mane knelt.
The next second, a head-butt and two punches, all to the head. White Mane was moaning in pain and shielded his face with both arms.
The next second, four jabs to the gut, and when the minotaur lowered his arms, Rainbow spun a one-eighty degrees and gave him a high buck. White Mane once again had his back slammed against the cage grill behind him before coming down kneeling on both knees in front of Rainbow.
Rainbow felt powerful, unstoppable, and merciless. She embraced the excited fans. White Mane looked up to her, face bleeding, his left eye swollen, almost unable to open it. He looked at her with fearful and pleading eyes that seemed to beg her to stop. He was about to raise a hand to call it quits.
He was too late.
Rainbow Dash grinned. "Bitch, They don't call me Rainbow and Dash for nothing,".
She leapt to the air and gave him her most powerful mid-air buck. White Mane fell backwards, leaning on the grill. Unmoving. White Mane had fainted.
NOTES: Big thanks to Temperance, the Guileless Philosopher for advising on errors.
