Return to the LAW of the Jungle!

[ZorzLeth]

Fang was still being strangled, as it made her distracted from what Bengal was trying to do; despite the struggling Fang was making it difficult for Bengal to subdue her. That was when she felt several knee strikes hitting her legs and make her stagger and falter, which gave Bengal the chance for her next move.

Despite the slight easing on the choke, Fang felt herself falling backwards, as Bengal wrapped her legs around her rips. Then, Fang felt Bengal release the choke, only to then put her in a sleeper hold.

At first, Fang gripped the arm that held her in the sleeper hold, as she tried to reassess the situation. Of course, such a move was painful and disorienting at the start. being forced to think quickly, Fang brought her right elbow and attempted to nail Bengal in the face with it with several elbow strikes. While she had the momentum for the strikes, they would only work if she could land those hits, which of course would be hard since she could not see her opponent's face. So unless she got lucky with one of the strikes, she was in a nasty situation.

[BengalTheBlazeTiger]

Fang's first two elbow strikes were wild, and Bengal dodged them easily, weaving her head back like a turtle drawing into its shell. But whether by blind luck, or some kind of hunter's instinct, the third blow landed right on target. The Tiger's head snapped to the side, flecks of spit flying from her mouth. Panting with effort, she attempted to roll her opponent over, while still keeping the Dragon Sleeper cinched in. If she managed to get on top, if she could pin Fang's arms underneath her, she might be able to stop the other woman from throwing more elbows.

As the two fighters pitched to the side, however, Bengal heard a rustle of leaves, followed by a sharp crackling noise. A second later, the jungle environment dissolved around her in a kaleidoscope of brown and green, and she was rolling downhill at a steep angle, still locked together with Fang. What she'd taken to be solid ground was actually a primitive snare, a deep pit covered with thin branches and camouflaged with palm fronds. No doubt this was one of the surprise features that the fans had been buzzing about. For once, their gossip might have been worth listening to.

Fortunately for Bengal, there were no sharpened stakes lining the floor of this pit, like there might have been in an actual "tiger trap". LAW management were theatrical, but they weren't sociopaths. The hole was dark and cramped, with tree roots poking out from the loose soil all around them. The Indian fighter tried to untangle her own limbs from Fang's and rise to her feet, bracing her hands against the sides of the trench for support. As she did so, she scooped up a handful of dirt and flung it in her opponent's face, hoping to blind her! Even at the bottom of a pit, she'd somehow found a way to get even lower...

[ZorzLeth]

Fang felt her elbow strike managing to hit Bengal on the third time, after the first two strikes evidently missed. This provided some relief from the sleeper hold. Of course, this was only brief as Bengal managed to roll them two of them until Fang felt herself briefly pinned by her opponent; where she could not move her arms. This put Fang into a tight pinch as she could not fight back at the time.

That was until something happened. Soon, Fang felt herself, and her opponent, roll down into a what was revealed to be a "tiger trap" A pit that would keep the "tiger" trapped and unable to escape. There was a small scuffle as this happen, as Fang found herself tangled up with Bengal; especially their limbs. Fortunately, it didn't take long for this to happen.

Now focused on her opponent, Fang stepped up and...almost got hit in the face by some dirt. Fang instinctively raised her left arm to shield herself from the dirt that could have briefly blinded her.

"Eat this, little pussy cat!" Fang shouted as she jumped to perform a dropkick, which if landed on Bengal's chest of midriff, would send Bengal tumbling back through a small passage way that would lead to a "lagoon". The lagoon would look like any other marsh, but it had another trap hidden under the water's surface.

[BengalTheBlazeTiger]

Fang effortlessly blocked the incoming clod of dirt, then countered with a dropkick. As her opponent's feet thrust into her chest, Bengal expected to find herself pinned against the edge of the pit behind her. Instead, the seemingly solid wall crumbled away, sending her skidding down a muddy passageway. The Tiger clawed at the ground to try and stop her slide, but couldn't find a purchase on the slimy surface.

Suddenly, water closed around her head, almost going up her nose. She came to the surface sputtering, a water lily resting on top of her hair. Glancing around, she saw that she'd landed in a swampy lagoon, at the bottom of a sunken grotto. It appeared to be a much larger, more realistic version of the pool she'd fought Sylva in during her previous jungle match.

Using the water to ambush and exhaust the Huntress had been key to Bengal's last victory, and she planned to do the same thing here. She sank back below the surface like a crocodile, using the lily pad to hide her eyes. As soon as Fang followed her down the tunnel, the Tiger would lunge up behind her, attempting to drag her opponent under!

[ZorzLeth]

Fang had managed to send Bengal tumbling after the last few minutes of being caught in both a strangle hold and falling into a "trap"; which resulted in her successfully dropkicking Bengal away from her. She saw Bengal slip and slide away from her at a fast rate that the latter vanished from her sight. As she proceeded to follow, all she could hear was a loud splash.

Fang would soon emerge from the hole and find herself staring at a massive lagoon. Oh great, that could mean one thing. Bengal was probably hiding in the wate...

SPLASH!

Fang had little time to react as Bengal caught her from behind and attempted to drag the former into the water. However, Fang was not going to let Bengal get her like this so easily again. She attempted to fight back, cause a struggle between the two.

However, little did the two realize that there was something else in the lagoon. Something big...and long...and it was moving towards the ladies; as if their presence trigged a reaction from it.

[BengalTheBlazeTiger]

Bengal burst out of the water, sending up a spray of flying droplets and bits of pondweed. However, her ambush didn't go exactly as she'd planned. She attempted to collar Fang's neck and drag her down, but the jungle girl planted her feet on the mucky bottom, stubbornly keeping herself upright. The two fighters continued to struggle, tangling their legs in the roots of water lilies and breaking up the once-calm surface of the lagoon with rippling waves.

Just then, Bengal noticed a very different kind of ripple. Instead of spreading out around the fighters, this one was heading in the opposite direction, as if something huge was swimming directly toward them. The hairs on the back of the Tiger's neck stood up, as she realized that she wasn't the only ambush predator in the lagoon. She wasn't sure what kind of creature was hunting them, or how the LAW staff had managed to wrangle it into this arena, but she wasn't about to wait around to find out.

With a surge of desperate strength, she shoved Fang toward the oncoming ripple. Hopefully, whatever was approaching them would be satisfied with a single meal. "Feeding time...come and get it!" she yelled over her shoulder as she spun around, trying to escape from the pool while the beast was occupied with her opponent.

[ZorzLeth]

Fang had been handling herself well with fending off Bengal's ambush. She managed to plant herself well in the lagoon to keep her opponent from dragging her into the lagoon. However, this meant that with her focused on fending off Bengal's attack, she remained oblivious to what Bengal was aware of. This made it all the easier for her adversary to shove her back towards the oncoming ripple.

By the time Fang could try to make sense of what was going on, it was too late. She felt something large and long bump against her body. Then, a sudden splash of water erupted from behind Fang as she only had enough time to see a large, long body of black scales. It was this that Fang realized what was happening. It turns out that LAW was bringing in more than just props to make the place look like a jungle. It would seem that they also brought in some 'creatures' to add to the mix. In this case, a large snake that burst out of the water and was looming over Fang. It looked a very large, very real and very hungry snake. Bengal had a proper look at this thing and it was probably longer than twenty feet in length.

Fang recognized that this snake was a model. In fact, it was an animatronic snake that was designed to be as realistic as possible. These were being developed for being shows and movies, especially ones that she was part of. In fact, she took part in the testing of these animatronics to make sure they were fully operational and efficient, without causing harm to actors. This include physical contact, coiling and squeezing and...

It happened so quickly that Fang was unable to process in time the fact that the snake's jaws dropped on her. From Bengal's point of view, the snake's jaws enveloped Fang's head, shoulders and chest.

"Mmmph!" Fang's words and response were muffled and cut off, as the snake was starting to eat her, apparently.

"Uh-oh!" one the wrestling commentators shouted over the intercoms, "Looks like the ladies have disrupted the wildlife and triggered a penalty. In this case, it seems like the snake is having Fang over for dinner!"

Meanwhile, Fang could feel herself being pulled into the 'esophagus' of this animatronic snake. It looked and felt quite real with the insides consisting something similar to fleshy, inner walls. It was very wet, hot and sticky. She tried to fight back, but her arms were pinned to her sides.