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Helena - Best Laid Plans...
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~ Helena in "the Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men..." ~

As Helena laced up her gloves, she remembered the long battle that brought her to this moment. She had fought in the ring and in the courts, to get this one bout... this shot at the world heavyweight title.

She made her way to the ring barely aware of the cheering crowds. She felt them, but their roaring sounded like distant whispers. It felt like a movie, she could hardly believe she was here, that her dreams had come true. She almost missed the bell as the fight began.

She closed in with her guard up as her opponent circled wearily to her right. She watched carefully as the champ picked at her defense. Helena almost laughed... was this six foot four, two hundred seventy pound man really afraid of her?

Helena began playing with her opponent, faking and throwing light, teasing jabs - just to see if they`d get through. Her opponent was becoming visibly flustered as Helena seemed able to land those jabs at will.

Too angry for caution, the behemoth started attacking wildly, hoping to make Helena back off. Helena ducked and bobbed, avoiding the blows with uncanny ease. As the round was drawing to a close, she decided to stop playing about and score some points.

As Helena closed again the man let loose a big right, whipping her head around. Helena slowly turned her head back and smacked him on the nose... just a jab, but it stung like hell. He threw another big punch and Helena stepped in and started unloading... it quickly became a slug-fest as neither fighter was blocking. The heavyweight champion of the world's hardest punches weren't slowing Helena at all, but her punches had the man almost out on his feet. He didn't even hear the bell and stood confused for several seconds before returning to his corner.

The fog around the champ was beginning to clear, so he understood what his coach was telling him. "You got twice her weight... knock that bitch off her feet. Get out there and score some points. Don`t let her use you like a speed bag. You lose this, you`ll never live it down."

The bell rings for the second round and both fighters charge out. Helena ducks under the chumps right and stings his nose again, making him back up. As she steps in he lands a big uppercut, lifting her off her feet. Helena lands hard on her back, but she`s on her feet before the ref hit two - with a wide grin on her face. Finally, she thought, a little competition.

Helena steps in with a wild left; he ducks the punch and delivers another uppercut, harder than the first, lifting Helena a couple feet off the ground. She quickly rolled to her feet but the referee had already called for the bell. Despite demonstrating she was fine, the ref refused to allow the fight to continue.

Helena couldn't believe what she was hearing... they were calling it a TKO in the second round and awarding the him fight.

The jackass began taunting her, cat calling and saying she had no business in a man's sport. Helena grew angrier with each passing second as the man, and now his manager, continued to chide her and rub in their technical win. The referee apologized to Helena, but stated firmly that the rules were clear, the fight was over.

She started to turn to leave the ring, amidst the overwhelming boos of the audience, when the emboldened man remarked, "you're lucky that`s all I done. Next time I see ya I'm gonna rape you and your cute little sister! She still in the hospital? What`s her room number so I can go pay her a visit. I feel like celebratin'!"

Helena stopped dead in her tracks, her face twitching with rage. These three little men had shattered her dreams with their stupid little rules. She felt nothing but contempt for the lot of them, and the chief bastard kept up his verbal assault even as she approached him; he mocked, "aww... little girl gonna cry n-". He hadn't quite finished the remark when she unleashed an uppercut of her own.

Helena quickly turned and leapt from the ring - running all the way back to the lockers with tears of rage streaming down her face. The crowd stared in silence as she left, but all eyes were elsewhere... watching as the champ nearly hit the ceiling before crushing the concrete beside the ring. What landed was barely recognizable as human.

. . .

When police arrived they found her curled up on a locker room bench, completely catatonic.

. . .

Helena had lived her whole life by the rules... rules... who`s rules? The rules of rich men... rules designed for only one thing... to keep those men rich... to keep them in power... rules written so that these pathetic men could win... weak pathetic men who had no right to impose their rules, their laws, on one such as she, one who was obviously superior to them. Nature does not submit to the laws of man, nor should the superior bend at the knee to the inferior. Never again... she would never again subject herself to those rules.

. . .

Helena awoke to find herself in a padded room. She paced about the room wondering what she should do next... deciding she should do whatever the hell she wanted, she was in charge now... no man would ever tell her what to do again... but what did she want? She continued to ponder over this simple question, mulling for several hours before finally deciding...
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EDIT: slight rewording to excise redundant use of the word champ. (10/05/2014)

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Character Origin: Helena

My first boxing story, also the intro of a possible character for AF... I don`t know yet. It was a short story idea from last month that I fleshed out a bit.

General question to all readers. Should I slow the pace down and add more detail, or is this a good pace for story action?
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xychrom's avatar
Cool story - well paced now, but more detail is always welcome. And it would be great to read a continuation.