Her Cop colleagues called her “Tomboy Jones”. The criminals, i.e. those unfortunate to cross her path called her the “Devil Incarnate”.
It was not as if Estella (that was her real name) was a girl who looked like a boy or had boyish mannerisms. In fact she was a hot Latino with a super toned body and a good 5 feet 8 inches in height, blessed with good looks and super jet-black long hair. But what she really was famous for was her hot temper and her penchant to use her fists to resolve a dispute, which few of her female colleagues did. While this was necessary in her line of work (she was a patrol officer on a night beat), it did not always work out in her favour. As it happened, during one of her beats she brutally beat up a gang of three teenagers; two boys and a girl who were graffiti painting on the alley. The beatings were so severe (she didn’t show any mercy to the girl either) that the kids were hospitalised for more than a month. Parents of the kids pressed charges and soon Estella was tried for using excessive force and was fired after forcing to pay a hefty fine which emptied whatever was left of her savings. It was only because of her cop connections and also because she knew the judge personally that she escaped going to prison. But her career as a cop was over.
And so it happened that Estella, once the cop feared by gangs across the street was now reduced to a nobody and flush out of money. She tried her hand at a few off jobs here and there but it was nowhere near to being on the Police force. Soon the anger and frustration in her began to grow and at one time reached such an extent that she was unable to focus properly on any job she handled and got fired soon after. Then, one day, like a blessing in disguise she heard of this place near the docks where it was rumoured that street fights were conducted. She decided to check it out personally one night.
The place was nicknamed as the “Bull Ring”. It was actually a huge circular steel cage with only one entrance which was also the exit. As she approached the place she saw a huge group of people shouting loudly and cheering. She could see inside the cage a vicious fight was going on. One woman, with Asian features and Oriental in origin was beating the crap out of another woman, who was blonde and fair. The Asian woman was wearing a black bikini top and matching tight black pants while the other woman was wearing a blue sports bra and blue tight leather racing pants. The Asian had the blonde huddled up against the steel cage bars and was pounding her senseless with powerful left and right hooks. With each punch, the crowd cheered wildly. It was evident that she was the crowd favourite. The sight of this Asian woman dominating the other stirred up something inside Estella. It was as if she had reached her destination and all the anger and frustration she had bottled up inside her for so long stirred up the urge to fight. She noticed most people were crowding near a small man, nearly dwarfish and kept giving him small or large amounts of dollar bills which he took happily and made notes in a book. She guessed he was the Bull ring’s betting agent. The noise of the crowd brought her back to the fight and she saw that the Asian had stopped her barrage of punches. The blonde, clearly stunned by the assault was in a daze and while still on two feet, was trying to steady herself. The Asian stepped back a bit and gave a powerful side heel kick which connected with full force to the blonde’s stomach. The blonde instinctively bent over with a gasp of pain.
The Asian was ready for her and gave her a knee to the face, causing the blonde’s head to rise up sharply. The Asian then grabbed the shoulders of the dazed blonde, positioned herself in front of her and slammed her right knee into the blonde’s groin. A huge collective gasp of “oooh” escaped from the watching crowd as the blonde’s eyes opened in shock and her mouth opened to form a perfect ‘O’. She would have fallen down but the Asian had a powerful grip on her shoulder. The Asian kneed her in the groin again and again. Each knee was more powerful than the previous causing the blonde to rise up a bit in the air due to sheer force. With each precise groin strike, the fight started diminishing from the blonde’s eyes, until after the tenth knee, it was clear that the fight had gone out from her. The Asian then released her grip on the blonde’s shoulders. The blonde simply slumped to the floor with her hands wedged between her thighs and assumed the foetal position. A low moan of intense agony escaped from her as she vomited on the floor and then passed out unconscious. The Asian meanwhile was pumping her fists in the air in a sign of victory while the crowd cheered. The dwarfish man she had noticed earlier stepped into the ring with two assistants who lifted the unconscious blonde and took her out of the ring. The dwarf grabbed the Asian woman’s hand and lifted it in the air to signal that she was the winner with the crowd cheering. Then he raised his hand indicating that he was speaking. The crowd soon fell silent.
“Is there any chick left here brave enough to challenge Lin?” he shouted. There was silence among the crowd. Clearly, no woman present in the crowd considered challenging her after seeing what she had done to the blonde. Estella seized the opportunity and cried out “I challenge her!” The focus of the entire crowd turned towards her. The dwarf man smiled and said “It seems we have a challenger. Step forward into the arena please.” With her heart pumping furiously, Estella stepped into the ring.
To be continued ....
