Chapter 21: Raiden Vs King Chappa
Raiden had descended down to the ring to face of Chappa. No more just blasting everyone out of the ring with a ki blast. He had come to the tournament to get experience and train and that's what he planned on doing.
Unfortunately, everyone in the preliminaries was too weak for him to even waste his time actually fighting them. He 'had' been partly trained by King Chappa a legend in his own right and wouldn't deign to actually get serious with the other competitors, maybe save for Yajirobe who was maybe even stronger than Chappa himself.
Not that he knew for sure. While he had been working on his new technique for the past two months Chappa and Yajirobe had been doing training of their own and he didn't know how far either of them had progressed.
Chappa wanted to win the entire tournament itself to prove that he WAS still the best fighter on the planet. As for Yajirobe... Raiden had a feeling that the prize money and the cost of food in the capital had a lot to do with his motivation.
He threw off his cape on the floor by the stage and into his battle stance that was similar but also different from Chappa's stance. As soon as the announcer started the fight Raiden braced himself as King Chappa flashed across the ring towards him.
He knew that Chappa would attack first because the core of his martial arts was based on striking and precise blows. Rather than get into a full-blown battle of aggression with him Raiden decided to go on the defensive and get a feel for Chappa's attacks. After all, he wasn't using any of his ki outside his body or any ki blasts so if Chappa had increased his ki control during the last two months they should be evenly matched.
Chappa charged forward and struck out at Raiden with a series of punches and chops that Raiden evaded and blocked with relative ease. The two fighters got into a sort of flow where they flashed around the ring always with Chappa chasing and Raiden defending.
To the crowd, even though they couldn't really see much due to the speeds Raiden and Chappa were fighting at, still thought that Chappa was pushing Raiden back.
"Folks King Chappa seems to have Raiden on the backfoot! It looks like he is being chased around the ring by Chappa at blinding speeds, surely it won't be long till we have a victor to this bout!" Shouted the announcer as he officiated the match.
Even though Chappa and Raiden were still feeling out the other opponent and warming up it was Chappa who decided to change up the face. He feinted a punch to the head with his right arm and when Raiden raised his arm to guard he delivered a bone-crushing kick to Raidens side that came almost twice as fast as they had been moving.
Raiden seeing the kicking coming at the last second managed to move his ki to his side and ribs at the last second, but still took the brunt of the force and flew into the wall connected to the ring. The wall crumbled and the ruble fell around him and the whole stands fell silent for a second before erupting into a large cheer.
"Well, folks looks like that's it. 1. 2. 3. 4.," the announcer said as he starting counting the seconds Raiden was down for.
Even though the whole crowd and the referee were sure the fight was finished there was one person that was still waiting patiently. King Chappa was in his fighting stance and was staring at the pile of rubble the way a hawk stares at its prey.
Just when the count down reached seven the rubble started moving. A hand shot through the rocks and with it followed Raiden's body. Raiden was leaking blood from the corner of his mouth and one of his hands was holding his side in pain.
The crowd watched as Chappa didn't wait for Raiden to recover before covering the distance between his and Raiden in a second and striking out with a chop aimed at Raiden's neck.
Raiden still dazed from Chappa's earlier attack did the thing that was most natural to him. He left up off the stage and flew into the air.
The crowd watched as Raiden flew up into the air and waited for him to drop down, but to their confusion, Raiden somehow stayed floating in the air.
"Using air dance already? I thought you were better than that Raiden," Chappa said with a smirk as he also started to slowly float off the stage to stand on eye level with Raiden.
"Yeah well I guess I underestimated you," said Raiden using the sleeve of his gi to wipe off the blood running down the side of his face. " That kick really hurt," he added with a grimace.
"O yeah? Well, you haven't seen anything yet." Said Chappa as both he and Raiden got back into their fighting stance in mid-air.
The crowd watched in awe as both of the warriors' ki spiked and they were covered in a glowing light of some sort.
"Folks somehow Raiden had managed to get up after receiving that knockout kick and now both he and King Chappa seem to have risen to the air to continue their bout! What else can we expect from their great fighters! Find out on the next episode of.." The announcer shouted giddy with excitement.
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