Artwork by DxC2005
Deena came so close to the title, but fell one match short in @Dxc2005 ‘s latest melee fighting tournament.
AND I partnered with him to write the narration of the play-by-play: 40 images and 32 pages!
The text below is for page 26-28 of the final PDF. Go follow his page to see the rest, and see if Deena can get the win!
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Thinking Camilia had left her an opening, the smaller blonde fighter leaned in aggressively again. She tightened her abs, pivoted her hips, and launched what could have been a knockout blow toward Camilia’s chin.
Camilia, the more experienced fighter, was ready for the move and threw up her left, deflecting the force of Deena’s punch to the outside. At the same time, she drew back her right to put more momentum into a counterattack.
By putting all her leverage into the strike with her right glove, Deena had dropped her left and over-extended herself. She had left herself open to an attack from Camilia, and she realized it far too late.
Camilia didn’t hesitate to take advantage. She stepped forward and threw her right directly forward into Deena’s chin and connected solidly, popping Deena’s head directly back and standing her up straight.
To her credit, Deena didn’t fall back – but doing so might have given her a second to recover.
Instead, standing straight up with her gloves dropping low gave Camilia the perfect opportunity for a finishing blow. The powerful fighter swung clockwise and brought her left around with a crushing blow to the lithe blonde’s face, connecting solidly with the sweet spot of her glove.
Seeing the incoming pink blur of Camilia’s glove far too late to react, Deena’s head snapped to her left and her shoulders followed, the force of the blow carrying her upper body to her left past her center of gravity.
The strike rattled her to the point of vertigo, so her leg simply went limp beneath her, and she crumpled toward the floor.
Deena caught herself with her left forearm to avoid crashing into Zoey and Jessica. She rolled to her back, landing heavily enough to wind her, and hard enough to cause the floating platform to rock on the water.
Dazed but not knocked out, she tried to brace her back against the platform and mount a recovery.
Camilia, however, was not about to show any mercy, not with the win on the line and the title within her reach.
She’d followed Deena all the way down to the platform surface, dropping to her knees straddled across Deena’s torso, and sat heavily on Deena’s tummy, not allowing her to draw in the slightest breath.
She paused to look Deena in the eye with her gloves raised. “I doubt you’d stay down if I told you to, would you?” she taunted. “You wanna concede and save yourself a concussion?”
“Never,” Deena spat, an angry glare in her eye.
“That makes me so happy,” Camilia laughed. “Say goodnight.”
The gloating woman in the bright pink kit finished Deena off with the same crushing left that she used to knock her down. Deena’s head bounced off the platform’s surface with a dull thud, and her eyes glazed over.
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Please go check out his work and find out how Deena fares in the finale!
And check out his feature length stories on his gumroad, too!
dxc.gumroad.com/
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Thanks to all the creative partners in our community for all the creative energy, enthusiasm and encouragement of our entire group–I’m grateful to all of you! #Gratitude2023 <–my mantra for the new year!
Thanks to all of you, 2023 is my BEST YEAR EVER!
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KatieD 