Tianhuo vs. Zhu Chao-Xing: Setting the Crimson Lotus Ablaze!

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Match type: Cage match
Condition: Victory gained via KO, pinfall, DQ or Submission.

After her hostile interaction with the Crimson Lotus in the gym, Tianhuo was dead set on making sure that Zhu Chao-Xing was put in her place for her dishonor. After meditating for a few minutes, a LAW official would start to knock on her dressing room door.

Official: Oh, sorry if I disturbed your.. journey to the astral plane mam.

Tianhuo: I take it they are ready for me?

Official: If by they you mean the crowd, then yes.. the cage’ll lower when both you and your opponent enter the ring.

Tianhuo: Very well, I need a few more minutes to get ready.. if you don’t mind.

Official: Oh, of course! The Lotus will be making her entrance first anyway..

As the official leaves, Tianhuo stands up before taking a knee and prays.

Tianhuo: Honored Mother, give me strength. Honored Father, give me courage. (She stands up and cracks her neck muscles before taking a deep breath) Now it is time.. to burn the Crimson Lotus to a crisp!!

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Chao Xing's theme played...

As she entered the arena in in kickboxing attire

As she approached the cage ring, surrounded by a cage for thid mstch, she focused om her object. She would give the unpleasent woman she had met earlier im a LAW gym the treatment she deserved.

She considered her 'dishonorable' for daring to fight with tactical strength by going after their weakpoints rather than just mindlessly thrashing at them. As though an fighter worth their salt did anything else. Holds are't applied to random parts of the body after all, that's why people tap out, or face getting choked out or a limb snaped. There was no reason her kicks & punches shouldn't be similarly targeted.

But if her opponent Tianhuo didn't thimk so, that would be her weakness & ideally the cause of her defeat. She'd give this woman a clinc on how to fight properly, by makimg her body her newest canvas on whuch she'd paint a variety of devastating strikes. The Crimson Lotus reached the open cage door and stepped inside, as the official closed it behind her.

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New World (feat. Vava) by Krewella & Yellow Claw blares through the speakers as orange and yellow pyrotechnics go off on the other side of the stage.

Announcer: And her opponent fighting out of Foshan, China.. Standing in at 5ft 9in, and weighing in at 146lbs! The Death Dragon, TIIIIANNHUUOOOO!!

As her name is called, Tianhuo appears on the stage with a liangmao (otherwise known as a bamboo hat) to cover her face. She makes a mad dash to the cage before throwing the aforementioned bamboo hat into it, preforming an acrobatic maneuver to enter the cage before landing on her feet in a Phoenix stance and catching said hat causing the crowd to cheer.

Tianhuo glares at Zhu from her side of the cage, bowing to her in respect before entering her stance.

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That Tianhuo 'bowed' to her now was enough to cause Chao-Xing to quietly seethe. This woman was performing 'respect' for her now that she was in a cage with her, with a crowd to watch, when previously she derided how she made her living as a fighter as inherently dishonorable?

The Crimson Lotus would make her pay for her insolence, she had to make her pay for insolence. Anything less would be to betray herself & her long career. She stepped towards the middle of the cage, getting into a standard kickboxing stance, waiting for the bell.

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Tianhuo: Time you learned why I earned my moniker.. now come, show me your power!!

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Chao-xing was happy to oblige. Her first move as soon as the bell wrung as quick right-footed low kick targeted at at the side of her opponents' left knee.

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Tianhuo dodges it before retaliating with an elbow strike to the torso, following up with a bicycle kick to the head.

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Chao-xing's kick is dodged as her opponent moves faster than she expected, allowing her to get off an elbow strike to her torso. But the excessive flourish of a bicycle kick so early in the bout is very easily by the Crimson Lotus, puttung her in position to attempt a side kick to Tianhuo's torso.

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Tianhuo takes the hit like it was nothing before returning the favor with a palm strike to her chin, following up with a snap kick and an Iron Mountain Lean.

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Chao-Xing takes the strike to the chin & staggers backward, but when her opponent leans in to tackle her she drops to the floor for a swinging sweep kick to her opponent's legs to taker her off her feet.