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HUNTER [34] VS WOLF [11]

"Tonight, our reigning, undefeated champion--Hunter!" cried the announcer The crowd bellowed "--takes on undefeated newcomer, Wolf!" Mixed boos and cheers Evidently not everyone had bet against hiraph Wolf [11] Eleven wins, she suspected Eleven fights

Eleven nights?

Her grand But her father--hadn’t he said they’d only kept him for a week? She frowned, frustrated fro wolf for dinner tonight!"

Hundreds of hands slapped against the edge of the platform like a roll of thunder

Wolf’s concentration darkened into soht red, then evaporated with the sound of a bellowing horn

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Hunter threw the first punch Scarlet gasped, the movement almost too quick to follow, but Wolf ducked easily and skirted out from Hunter’s shadow

Hunter was impressively fast for his bulk, but Wolf was faster A series of bloere deflected, until Hunter’s fist finally connected with a sickening crunch Scarlet recoiled

The crowd erupted, pushing and screaainst her The frenzy was palpable, the crowd salivating for blood

Moving as if it were all choreographed, Wolf airound as Hunter was knocked onto his back He was only down for aBlood was dribbling frolowed

Hunter attacked with renewed vigor Wolf took a punch in the storunt It was followed by a blow that sent hie He stumbled to one knee, but was up on his feet before Hunter could colikehands poised at his sides, staring at Hunter with that peculiar grin

Scarlet wrapped her fingers around her sweatshirt’s zipper, wondering if that tick was how Wolf had gotten his nicknaain, Wolf lunged to his side and aimed a kick square in Hunter’s back Hunter collapsed to both knees The crowd booed A roundhouse kick, this one at Hunter’s ear, sent hiet up, but Wolf aie The croas in a fervor, screeching and calling foul

Wolf stepped back, allowing Hunter time to pull hi stance There was a new glint in Wolf’s eye, like he was enjoying this, and when his tongue darted out to lick the blood froed again Wolf blocked one punch with his forearm but took another in his side Then his elbow shot out, catching Hunter in the jaw, and Scarlet knew he’d taken the hit intentionally Hunter stumbled backward A heel in the chest nearly knocked hiain Wolf landed a punch to his nose, and a spurt of blood oozed down Hunter’s chin A knee in Hunter’s side had hi

Scarlet flinched with each blow, her sto How people could stand to watch this, to enjoy this, baffled her

Hunter fell to his knees and Wolf was behind him in a breath, his face violently contorted, his hands on each side of Hunter’s head

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Scarlet cla the cry, as her ears waited for the snap of Hunter’s neck

Wolf froze and blinked at her His eyes flickered, empty and mad one moment, then almost dazed Surprised to see her there His pupils widened

Revulsion burned through Scarlet’s nerves She wanted to look aanted to run, but she was anchored to the ground

Then Wolf leaped back, letting Hunter sluain The croas a lee at seeing the great Hunter defeated None of them minded the blind cruelty, or the fact that they’d almost witnessed a murder

As the mediator climbed up onto the ropes to announce Wolf as the winner, Wolf peeled his focus away from Scarlet, shoved past the ed away fro Scarlet backward She barely kept her balance as she was nearly crushed fro his hands and feet to propel hih the yawning exit and dashed off into the silvery weeds

Red and blue flashed in the distance

The croar with confusion and curiosity The muttered consensus seee one

It wasn’t long before soh theainst the police, before rushing for the door and scattering across the abandoned far as she pulled her hood up and fled with the to call order There was a gunshot and irl with the zebra hair was standing on a storage crate, pointing and laughing at the cowards ould flee froht air and the noise faded without the warehouse’s echo around her She could hear the sirens now,with the thru, she spun in a full circle as the crowd jostled around her