Chapter:65The Unyielding Crane - Legend of gine !!

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Tien started hovering cross-legged, then on his feet. "Alright, I've indulged you long enough, now it's time to pay!"

"I don't think so!" Kakarot shouted back.

"Tension in the ring is high! Despite the extraordinary displays at resilience and strength, neither combatant shows any signs of fatigue!"

They charged at each other, meeting in the middle of the ring trading blows evenly. Kakarot's small size being advantageous to dodging and landing hits in weak spots, but Tien's powerful blows sent Kakarot reeling whenever he got struck. This fight looked like it could go either way.

"Rarely have we seen fighters display such an unrelenting fury! Tien and Kakarot are taking this fight to a whole new level, everything is to the extreme! A normal person at the receiving end at those punches would never wake up!"

They both stopped trading blows and leapt away from each other to a safe distance. Both combatants calm and without any sweat broken. They get into stance, ready to go at it again. Kakarot's tail twitched in anticipation.

Tien went after him with machine gun-like crane strikes that Kakarot blocked. Then they increased their speed until the fight became a blur to everyone else except Gine. They were going so fast even the announcer couldn't see what was happening. But the judges won't be able to enforce rules that don't exist in regard to record speed fighting.

Bulma and the others were cheering and shouting for Kakarot on where his next moves ought to be. They couldn't possibly see what was going on save for Roshi and Gohan, but she kept feeling more and more touched by their support.

Kakarot went on the offensive explosively, pushing Tien to the very edge of the ring with no room to move. Gine felt so into the fight she felt as if she were on the edge too!

She felt a crunch in her hands and caught herself when she realized she had been crushing the bricks where she gripped the spectator wall. The people next to her looked terrified that some woman could grind bricks into dust. She flushed red with embarrassment and looked away from them, hoping they would stop staring at her.

Back in the ring, Tien deftly broke free of Kakarot's barrage to expel him from the ring and got back into the center of the arena to counterattack. But Kakarot suddenly splits into several Kakarots at once surrounding Tien, all frozen in place.

"You whelp! I can't be fooled by optical illusions. But you're about to learn that now." Tien declared. He strikes a Kakarot that charged from behind, but it was an apparition.

"Gotchya!" Another Kakarot charged, but he went right through Tien.

"Now who's seeing double?!" Tien taunted and swung at another Kakarot. His hit connects with the boy solidly. Tien yells victoriously as Kakarot fell to the ground. But then he simply fades.

Tien realized too late that it was also an apparition as another Kakarot flew at him with a double kick, the blow sent Tien into the ground with a earth-trembling thud. Gine could only watch in awe as the son who struck Tien also faded. How many fake Kakarots were there? The others faded as the real Kakarot stood at Tien's feet. The crowd went wild.

"Spectacular! I don't think anyone could label that as anything less than extraordinary, as Kakarot's mastery of the Mirror Image Technique has left Tien face down!"

"I guess there's a first time for everything!" Kakarot said to Tien's earlier declaration as he struggled to get up.

Tien looked at Kakarot angrily. "Fool, you think your infantile tricks could defeat me? Me?! You are barely even a challenge!"

"I dunno, it looked like you had to fight pretty hard." Kakarot countered with a hint of salt in his voice.

Now Tien was enraged. "You dare mock me? Now prepare to suffer my wrath!" He held up his open hands to his head.

"SOLAR FLARE!" He shouted as the world went blinding white.

Gine had barely enough reflex time to put on her shades before her head felt like it was splitting open and seeing spots behind her eyelids. When her sight adjusted, she could see Tien charging at Kakarot while he seemed to not move.

Kakarot suddenly grabbed Tien's fist in mid-punch. Before the shock could register on Tien's face, Kakarot right hooked Tien in the chest exactly where Gine had struck him in the ribs a couple nights ago.

Tien cried out in agony as a loud crack came from him, as Kakarot hit him hard enough for even her to feel his pain. If his rib wasn't broken thoroughly before, it was now. As the blinding light of the flare faded, a sly smile appeared on Gine's face as she saw Kakarot had put his shades on at the last moment. Such a perfect surprise she thought by improvising with his full-moon glasses. Gine swore her son was becoming more and more clever than she ever thought.

"Whoa! There's something you don't see everyday! Kakarot pulled out some stylish shades to protect his eyes at the last moment! And now Tien is down and looks WAY out of sorts!"

Tien lay collapsed on his side clutching his chest and looked in complete pain, almost incapacitated by the now very broken rib. He looked up at Kakarot and spoke through gritted teeth.

"H-how?! How did you...survive?!"

Kakarot posed and did a peace sign as Roshi would. "My sunglasses!"

With Tien writhing on the ground, the announcer began the countdown.

"One!... Two!... Three!..."

It seemed all but certain that Kakarot would claim the match.

"Four!... Five!..."

But before long and with great difficulty, Tien managed to stand back up. Gine, the gang, and the rest of the crowds were just as stunned that he won't give up.

What was this guy made of? Gine thought.

The announcer then looked concerned as Tien staggered and clutched his rib, visibly cracked.

"Huh, hey, let's get a medic here since I'm not too sure about fighting with a broken rib is a good id-"

"NO! NO DOCTORS!" Tien shouted. Then looked back at Kakarot.

"You don't give up, do you?" Kakarot said with an ounce of respect. Tien clutched his side with one hand and shook his other at Kakarot with a clenched fist.

"GIVE UP NOW, IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU!" He demanded.

"Leave him alone you big bully!" Bulma shouted from her spot, then looked embarrassed.

Kakarot chuckled. "You are not in any position to ask me to give up, especially with that rib. Whether you like it or not, I never quit for anyone!"

Tien gave him a glare that could kill. "Very well then, you'll pay for that cheap shot!"

Kakarot acted offended. "Cheap shot? I'm not the one who broke someone's leg when they were down for the count. As far as I'm concerned, you had it coming. And now it's a weak spot for you to defend, so have fun with that!" He said mockingly.

Gine was slightly disturbed by this. Given Tien's brutal tactics she guessed it evened out that he got what he served, but now Kakarot was fighting dirty too. And if Tien was as brutal in a fair fight, what would he do now?

They charged against each other with Tien keeping an arm back to defend his broken rib, leaving only an arm to attack and block. Gine's fears seemed to vanish for a moment. Kakarot could definitely win this, she thought without a doubt.

Suddenly in midair, Kakarot froze in the middle of a charge and did not move or do anything as Tien struck

him viscously with a right hook that sent him across the ring. What was that? She thought.