Hello everybody. This is a short story inside a series about a fighter called Lydia who has enrolled in an underground combat tournament. Sorry for the errors; English is not my native tongue. I wrote it originally in Spanish. That explains the name of Lydia's foe.
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UNFAIR COMBAT
When Lydia saw her foe, she got very surprised. She thought that the realm of underground fights was ruled by similar norms to the ones of sport boxing. By this, Lydia, who was 5' 11', thought that her foe will have a similar height and weight. But the girl who wore a black bikini and shook her hand was tiny: she would be 3' or a little less. She was not a little girl, because the minimum age for fight in those matches was 21 years, she was only a very short woman. While Lydia went to her corner, near the wall of a huge basement with a ring with no ropes, she looked sideways at her foe some times. Her foe was talking to her trainer. There were only six persons in the basement: the fighters, their trainers, the owner of the basement and the man who will record the fight for selling it in the Internet.
While Lydia took off the red boxing dressing gown and remained wearing only a red bikini, her trainer gave to her the last plenty of pessimism advices, as usual. He was a short man, which only reached two inches below Lydia's shoulders. Her trainer did not like to see Lydia fighting in the underground tournaments, but he did not want to abandon her training. He warned her about avoiding hits aimed to her low belly, a very obvious advice if the short height of her foe was taken into account. However, Lydia hoped to defeat her opponent fast, with a couple of really hard punches. While her trainer talked to her, she nodded, looked at her foe sometimes and she tightened carefully the upper part of her bikini. Lydia was a big breasted woman, although her breasts were not out of proportion, and she did not want to show them more than necessary.
When the moment for beginning the fight had arrived, the photographer called both fighters and asked them to go into the ring. Lydia stopped close her foe, in the center, and the photographer, behind the tripod of his camera, told:
"Look at me."
He did some shots and ordered to them:
"Face each other, please. Get close and look at the camera."
Lydia did not walk because she was already close to her foe, but the little woman did. Lydia felt uncomfortable because her tiny opponent was touching her crotch with her head; however, she did not complain. The photographer shot several times and she looked down. She will fight a tiny fighter, whose head did reach only to her crotch. Lydia felt sadness for her, but that feeling vanished due to something that her foe did. The photographer asked them to face the camera and asked to Carmen, the name of Lydia's foe, to stand in front of her taller opponent. After a lot of photos, the photographer, joking, told:
"And now, Carmen, prepare for your favourite shot."
Carmen turned, facing to Lydia, and looked at her smiling, touched her belly with her right hand, below her navel, and pinched her flesh with her entire hand, firmly. The photographer took a lot of shots of this pose and, although, again, she did not complain, she got angry. At last, the photographer told that he was finished with the photos and he asked them to go to their initial positions. They did and Lydia and her foe looked each other in a defiant way. The photographer told that the recording had started and the match began.
Rules were simple. Only hands or fists could be used and the legs only were permitted for tripping the foe up or for inmobilize her. The combat can be won by K.O. or by submission. Lydia tried to take advantage of her height and jumped on Carmen. She threw several punches, but her tiny opponent dodged all of them easily. Her tiny foe counterattacked very fast and Lydia stepped back and dodged her hits with no problems. She threw more punches to Carmen's head, looking forward to give her the final punch, but her foe moved too fast. Lydia chased her by the ring, unsuccessfully. She could dodge the attacks that Carmen threw to her thighs and belly.
A time after, Lydia started to feel tired. She felt pain in her legs due to the effort and she could not even grazing Carmen. She became infuriated and threw her tens of punches without resting and her tiny foe dodged all of them. As Lydia had to stop, panting, Carmen took advantage and attacked her taller foe. This time, Lydia had real trouble for dodging. She could block with a lot of problems the punches directed to her belly, but Carmen hit her thighs four times, causing to Lydia a great pain. Lydia could finally move away her foe and they walked describing a circle, facing each other. Lydia knew that due to the difference in size, a single punch in her foe's face will finish the combat, so she attacked fiercely, throwing terrible punches, but none of them reached its target. And when she had to stop, tired, Carmen slipped below her taller foe's arms. Lydia felt how her opponent's tiny fist sank deeply in the lower part of her belly with an unexpected strength. While Lydia bent due to the pain, Carmen punched strongly her low belly twice. Lydia realised that if she continued bent, letting her face at the reach of her foe, she could have a bad time, so she tried to straighten up and move away Carmen. She received a very hard punch between her navel and her bikini, but she could move away.
Lydia was for a while facing her enemy, with her right hand touching her painful belly and, for the first time, she doubted that she could defeat her tiny foe. Carmen did not let her rest: she attacked Lydia trying to sink her fist again in Lydia's belly, but she defended herself with all her strength and she only received two weak punches in the right part of her low belly before she could reject Carmen. In her next attack, Carmen put herself behind her foe and started to punch heavily her thighs. Lydia tried to counterattack, but Carmen remained always behind her and she punched her thighs for a long time. Carmen was so short than Lydia could not reach her moving her arms behind her body.
When Carmen faced again with her, Lydia hardly could move her painful legs, and when her tiny foe attacked again, Lydia's arms were not enough protection for her belly. Carmen's fists sank in her flesh a lot of times, and these punches weakened Lydia more and more.
At last, Carmen grabbed Lydia's right thigh, hit the other leg with her thigh and floored her taller foe. Carmen sat on her right thigh, immobilized the same arm with her knee and started to punch her belly heavily. When Lydia tried to hit her with her free arm, Carmen grabbed it and continued destroying the taller girl's belly. Lydia could not move and her weak attempts to releasing herself did not reduce the rate at which Carmen sank her fist on her belly, below her navel. Pain was unbearable, but when her tiny foe sank two fingers in her navel and pressed strongly, Lydia had to cry. Her cruel foe moved her fingers inside her navel for a long time. Without releasing her bellybutton, Carmen told:
"Surrender!"
But Lydia did not. Carmen started to punch her again between her navel and her bikini. For stubbornness, Lydia bore that punishment for a time. And Carmen told:
"Surrender now or I will attack your teats and your face."
And Carmen continued punching her belly. That sentence defeated Lydia. She had lost the match; she had no options, so she surrendered. Carmen released her immediately and jumped for joy while Lydia shrank, lying on her side and with her hands in her belly. She remained in that position a short time; soon, her trainer touched her shoulder and told:
"I told you: this was not a good idea, Lydia. Come on, try to stand up."
Lydia did her best, but she had to remain kneeled for a while, with her body on her thighs. Her trainer tried to comfort her, and cover her with the red boxing dressing gown. At last, Lydia stood up and got dressed with the gown, helped by her trainer. He held her rounding her waist with his arm. Lydia put her left forearm on her trainer's shoulders, but if she could receive help for walking it was because she was held firmly by him.
They went into the changing room and, then, her trainer told Lydia:
"Move closer to the wall and let me open your dressing gown."
Lydia obeyed and, when her trained approached, she left her arms on his shoulders. He opened the dressing gown and looked at her belly for a while. Then, he started to sink gently a couple of fingers in her flesh, starting from her navel and going down. He asked her with each touch if she felt pain, and Lydia answered yes in the most cases. Her trainer sighed several times during the examination and when he finished, told:
"It is unlikely that you have suffered inner damages, even if my fingers hurt you. If you had, you would have cried when touched."
Lydia closed her boxing dressing gown and answered:
"I want to abandon. If this tiny foe defeated me, a bigger one will destroy me."
With sadness, her trainer told:
"We cannot. This is not a legal competition, it implies commitments. You will have to fight during all the season, no matter if you want or not. I had told to you. You are a good fighter, but the level of this competition is very high."
Lydia also knew that she could not change her mind, but she needed to unburden herself. The only thing that cheered up her a little was that she would earn tree times more money with those underground combats that in the normal competitions. That was her only reason for start fighting in the underground combats.
But earning that money would cause her a lot of suffering.
