Post by Mr. Moon on May 20, 2021 14:50:30 GMT -5
Gabriel #6
“You little...Ugh...”
Reacting angrily on his taunt, the large man, tried to turn around, but before he could throw his monstrous fist again, the nimbler fighter hit him at the back of his neck. Orca stumbled, shocked by the sudden pain. But it wasn´t nearly enough to bring man like him down.
“Ah...looks like the betting favorite for this match is in trouble!”
Announced Python, using small Den Den Mushi to broadcast his voice all over the arena. As it turned out, he decided to act not only as the organizer, but as commentator as well.
“Mustang, the Dark Horse brought to us by Raven family seems to be simply too fast for him. But can he bring him down, before he´ll tire himself? Because from where I am standing, these strikes doesn´t seem to do much!”
Whatever the answer for his question was, Orca didn´t want to wait for it. Instead, he turned around and while Python was speaking charged against Mustang, with his arms spread to the side as he was trying to catch Koda in a bear hug.
“Hmmm, this Mustang guy, is he friend of yours?”
Quiet and calm voice disturbed Gabriel from watching the fight that was unfolding on the screen in front of them. Not that there would be much to watch, as the winner was already decided but still...the scholar in him didn´t want to lose a single moment of this fight. He didn´t have a chance to witness Mustang´s real skills after all and there were way too many rumors about secret martial arts of the world government to pass an opportunity like this. But still, it would be very disrespectful to ignore someone´s direct question and so he turned his head to the right, where the other fighter was siting.
There he saw young, dark skinned man of average height and athletic figure, whose shorts and gloves that were lying on the bench just next to him were giving him away as a boxer.
“We know each other.”
Said Moon without much interest in this conversation.
“I see and between the two of you, which one is stronger?”
The professor frowned. Was this man afraid? No, on the contrary. Quick look on his face told him that he was excited and to make it even worse he was holding one of the red tags.
“I don´t know. We never had an opportunity to fight for real.”
The boxer frowned.
“Shame...in that case I guess I will leave you to Gen and see for myself!”
His sincere laugh rang through the waiting room, before he became serious again.
“This won´t last long...”
He pointed to the screen.
“And Gen looks eager to fight you in the next round, shouldn´t you already change?”
Little confused, Gabriel looked around to see all the fighters wearing mix of shorts, gi and other combat uniforms while he was still wearing his formal suit.
“Yeah, I guess you are right.”
He muttered, as he took off both his socks and shoes, leaving them under the bench on which he was sitting. After pausing for a moment as if he was thinking he, took off his jacket and tie as well, keeping both his trousers and shirt. Which left the other man speechless. a