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kinkandkreep · 3 years

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Sorry for bothering you but I had a question regarding your reader inserts blushing post. Is saying that the reader can feel their face heating up ok? Like it implies that there's blood rushing to their face, but doesn't actually state if it's visible to others? Also is there other things reader insert writers should try to keep in mind as well to stay inclusive?

Hun, I am so glad that you asked, and I want to extend a personal thank you for taking the initiative to do so. I also want to thank you for approaching me in such an open-minded, polite manner. People have done the opposite in the past and it's just frustrating to see.

But, to answer your question, in my personal opinion, saying that a person's skin warms or heats up to express embarrassment or bashfulness is fine. In fact, that is a biological response triggered by a psychological stimulus and happens to everyone, regardless of color. (I do want to mention though that I have never felt that particular warmth on occasions where I've been caught off guard in such a way, but it could be an unconscious behavior and that's why, so I know the experience may be different for everyone.)

EDIT: OH MY GOODNESS I JUST SAW SOMEONE DO THIS AND IT SLIPPED MY MIND BEFORE SO I'M ADDING IT AS AN EDIT-

MAKE SURE TO ALSO AVOID SAYING THE READER CHARACTER'S "CHEEKS REDDENED." THAT IS EQUALLY AS EXCLUSIVE AND ANNOYING AS JUST SAYING BLUSH STRAIGHT OUT.

Now, as far as increasing reader inclusivity, I wanna go out on a limb here and say it's slightly less about what you can do and lil' more about what you shouldn't.

First and foremost, don't assume gender. If you want to specify that your story uses certain pronouns, or is specifically a male/female reader-insert, that is 100% fine. In fact, a number of people would probably say that that is preferred. Personally, it doesn't make me a difference, I don't really care, but I know that for some people it does in fact make a difference, so keep that in mind.

Second, don't assume certain physical characteristics or attributes. The easiest way to avoid doing that is to leave things like hair and eye color as abbreviations (i.e h/c for hair color and e/c for eye color). Also, don't attribute characteristics to things like hair and skin. For example, don't say my "hair cascaded in silky waves" down my back and that my "skin shone like porcelain in the moonlight". As a Black woman, my hair is very tightly coiled and will not be doing any waving in the wind, and my skin is nowhere near being porcelain in color. 😂

Now, I will say this, and this is very important so listen closely, as far as Black people are concerned, as I'm not entirely sure about other POC (especially Latinos, Indigenous peoples and people of Asian descent) we can have any hair and eye color, as well as any combination thereof. But JUST BECAUSE IT'S A POSSIBILITY, DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT IS LIKELY.

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As a reader-insert writer, you want to appeal to the majority, unless of course you're specifically looking to cater to a niche population or a specific group/type of people. If you say that I have black hair and green eyes, I, as a Black woman, may not necessarily have an issue with it, as that being the case is a possibility, but someone else may be peeved about it because though a Black person having green eyes is possible, it's not likely, and thus doesn't appeal to the majority.

Those are the primary things I'd suggest you stray away from, as they really do make a huge difference in how a person enjoys their reading experience. Immersion is integral in stories like reader-inserts and you don't want to spoil someone's experience by excluding them based on their appearance.

Of course, there are also things you can do:

Do be very clear about possible triggers and warnings. Again, it's hard to be immersed in something if halfway through one of your triggers roundhouse kicks you in the face from out of nowhere and suddenly you're thrown into a panic attack.

If you plan on adding certain elements to your stories as plot points, like where they're from, what language they speak, and so forth and so on, do take the time and make people aware BEFORE they begin reading the story. It only takes a few seconds and is a simple as leaving the aforementioned warning or mentioning it in an author's note.

Increasing reader inclusivity is really just making a few small changes that will benefit everyone in the long run. And while I can't tell you what to write, I can give you some tips on how to better write it.

Hope this answered your questions! And please, if you're comfortable with it, share this around so that others can see and possibly get their questions answered as well.

Thanks again for asking hun. Have a good one!😁

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skzsauce01 · 4 years

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42nd Moon Pt 2

Description: By some stroke of luck, you get off the waitlist of your biology class. You’d never have guessed you’d find your soulmate there, let alone that he already has a girlfriend... Or that he comes from a fraternity of werewolves.

Warning: violence, blood

Word count: 1.7k

Pairing: werewolf!Jisung x fem!reader, werewolf!Hyunjin x fem!reader

Chapter List

Your partner grins victoriously as he holds up another pellet. “Y/N!” he calls. “I found another one; that’s one for each of us, so we can go home now!”

He waits a few seconds but receives no response. “Y/N?” he tries again. “Y/N!”

Again, nothing. He goes to where he had sent you earlier but you aren’t there.

“Goodness,” he curses. “Where did she go?”

He lifts up his sleeve to find that his wrist is no longer glowing, indicating that you are not nearby. He runs his hand over his hair while taking a sharp breath in.

In another part of the forest, Jisung groans in frustration as his partner finds yet another pellet before him. “Ugh, okay, you win. Let’s go find Y/N and Hyunjin now.”

“I’m already here.”

The two turn towards the voice to see Hyunjin emerging from the trees.

Jisung peers behind his friend’s shoulder. “Where’s--”

Hyunjin clamps a hand over Jisung’s mouth and instead of answering, grins unnaturally at the group’s fourth member. “Now that we’ve all found our pellets, let’s go home and catch up on some sleep, yeah?”

The young boy gulps at Hyunjin’s demeanor. “O-okay, let’s go.”

“Actually, I have something to talk to Jisung about privately. Why don’t you head on down first? Y/N has already gone too,” Hyunjin prompts, smiling wider and allowing some of his sharp teeth to reflect off the light of the moon.

Jisung’s partner nods and does as told. When he is finally out of sight, Hyunjin releases his hand from Jisung’s mouth.

“What was that for?” Jisung snaps. “And what do you mean Y/N already left? You were supposed to stay with her!”

“That’s the problem,” admits Hyunjin. He lifts up his sleeve to show Jisung the black ink around his wrist. “I don’t actually know where she is.”

Jisung’s eyes widen and his heart rate increases upon hearing the news. “Did she get lost or did she get kidnapped?”

“How should I know?”

“How did you lose her in the first place? I told you to stay together! It’s dangerous in the mountains!”

“I’m sorry okay? I was just getting confused with the whole soul thing and turned around for one minute!”

“There’s no point arguing. We need to find her stat.”

“How?”

“Your mark, obviously. We just need to head towards where it glows brightest.”

Your mouth hurts from the gag and your wrists and ankles aren’t feeling any better.

“We were just poaching for some owls, but it looks like we found something even better!” cackles one of your two captors. “How much do you think she’d sell for?”

“With that face, thousands, I’m sure, but what do you say we have some fun first?” suggests his partner.

You flinch as you feel a metal blade glide across your neck. You breathing haggars in fear as you feel the skin on your shoulder splitting under the pressure of the cold knife.

“Such a pretty little thing,” he coos and begins another incision. “Maybe we should stuff her like we were going to do the owl. You know, to immortalize the beauty.”

“Or maybe you can go screw yourself!”

The knife clatters to the ground as your captor gets roundhouse-kicked in the face.

“Hey, Y/N,” pants Jisung, flashing you a quick smile before it drops to a frown upon seeing your wounds.

He rushes to your side and cuts apart your ropes a little too easily to have been done by his bare hands. Once he unties your gag, you are about to reassure him that you are fine until a mob of brown fur springs across your vision. Before you know it, there is a brown wolf pinning down the other kidnapper.

Hyunjin has never felt so alive. He feels as if he can jump twice as high and run twice as fast. Of course, this comes from the glowing mark around his wrist, the very same mark he has been cursing for the past few weeks, but he doesn’t care about that. He bets he can stomp right through this man’s arm, so he does. There’s a scream, but Hyunjin’s too drunk with power to hear it. He lifts his paw up again, but the second kidnapper tackles him off his friend. Hyunjin springs back to his feet faster than ever. Now his attention is on both of them.

“Stop it!” screams Jisung. He’s going to kill them, Jisung realizes. He can and he will.

He glances at you from the side of his vision. If he turns now, you’ll find out who they really are. Besides, even he is not as strong as Hyunjin when his powers are being enhanced by his mark.

Hyunjin paws the ground as Jisung tightens his grip on the chair you were tied to, weighing his options. Hyunjin leans on to his hindlegs, and whatever Jisung was planning is already too late. He pounces, teeth baring out, ready for action.

Jisung covers your eyes to spare you from the sight, but to his surprise, you, also realizing what is about to happen, jump out of your chair.

“Hyunjin, stop!”

Hyunjin crashes into the two criminals but just skids away from them after the impact. He blinks a few times at the sky as he regains his senses. His foot burns dully from his landing, but your voice burns in his brain even more. You called his name, and it is the clearest, brightest thing he has ever heard.

Jisung looks at you in shock. Your captors run away clutching their injuries during this window of confusion. You yourself stand firmly where your feet are planted, watching the wolf for his next move.

“H-how did you know?” gasps Jisung.

You pull up your own sleeve, revealing a mark on the inside of your wrist that fits perfectly into one of the empty spots on Hyunjin’s design. “I just guessed. I’ve always felt weird around him in class and this weird mark showed up the day I met him, so I thought I’d give it a try. I don’t really understand it; it just… It just felt right.”

Jisung then laughs partially in relief after the recent scare and partly in amazement. “Wow, Hyunjin, you lucked out with a smart one.” And to you, “Good job, Y/N. Not many soulmates figure it out before we tell them.”

“Soulmate?”

Hyunjin growls at his friend.

“Ah shoot,” Jisung swallows upon realizing what he had let slip. “I think it’d be better if Seungmin explained it.”

“And now, as you might have already figured out, the problem is Jiyoung.” The boy with large round glasses points to a girl drawn at the end of a visual thought map he put onto a white board.

Hyunjin sits hunched over his knees in the corner of the Mu Alpha Theta’s study room. “She is not a problem,” he snarls.

“Right,” agrees the boy by the board. “But you get the point.”

“So what do we do now? Do we have to be together?” you ask.

“Not necessarily. Nature is strong, but nurture is important too. Some wolves never find their mates or cannot be with them for one physical reason or another, but like I said, no other person will complement him as well as you.”

You take a slow breath in, trying to make sense of all the information given to you. “So to reiterate, werewolves exist, and this whole fraternity are wolves. On top of that, I have a soulmate, Hyunjin, who already has a relationship with his girlfriend?”

Seungmin nods. “So what do you want to do?”

“What do you mean?”

“Hyunjin doesn’t want to break up with his girlfriend, but your feelings are equally valid too, not to mention there are risks to him being with someone else. We know what effect your soulmate has on you, so what do you want to do? Be with him, or let him be with Jiyoung?”

Hyunjin holds his breath as he looks at you, awaiting your answer. You shift uncomfortably in your chair as you shift your gaze between the werewolves in the room and your lap.

“I think… I think it’s fine if he stays with Jiyoung,” you decide. You hear a sigh of relief. “I mean, it’s just a crush, right? I’ll get used to it.”

“Y/N, are you sure?” Jisung asks worriedly.

“Yes.” You smile convincingly.

“Well then, that went well,” notes Seungmin. Turning to Hyunjin, he adds, seriously, “Just because you can stay together, doesn’t mean you can forget the rules.”

The taller male nods, “Of course.”

“We’re done here then,” Seungmin concludes and leaves after a few good byes.

Hyunjin gets up and walks to you. “Thanks, Y/N. I mean, it’s not like I don’t like you or anything, but I really love Jiyoung, and this means a lot to me.”

“Of course,” you nod.

“And uh, sorry for being so rude to you in the past. You… you didn’t deserve any of that.”

You wave off his apology. “It’s fine; I understand. I’m just glad I know why you did that now.”

“Truce?” He holds out a hand for you to shake.

“Truce.” You shake it with a laugh and he prepares to leave.

“I’ll see you in biology then.”

“Okay. Bring the pellets!”

“I will!” he calls over his shoulder.

Jisung walks over and places a hand on your shoulder. “You okay?”

“Yes, why?”

“I mean, you basically just got rejected by Mr. Tall-dark-and-handsome,” he teases.

You roll your eyes. “I’ve known him for less than a month. I’ll get over it.”

Jisung knows the soulmate bond never really ends, but seeing the sparkle of determination in your eye, he doesn’t have the heart to tell you. He instead reaches to tuck a strand of hair behind your ear and lets his fingertips linger there a second longer than necessary.

“I sure hope so, Y/N. I really do.”

~ ad.gold

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aj22writes · 7 years

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Chapter four...

...is gonna be the last one for a couple of days. I want to maintain a little bit of a buffer. In this chapter, we learn about how Sol energy can be used to affect someone’s body. And there’s more fighting. So two cool things.

Chapter Four

Team Beatdown

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Team Dueling Hearts

This time it was Jen’s turn to be surprised by her opponent’s movements. As soon as the stout man announced the start of the match, Mike seemed to disappear. Despite the fact that Jen routinely trained against the Dueling Hearts, who could move so fast as to appear invisible for a second or so, she was unable to follow Mike’s initial rush. As soon as he flickered out of the range of her vision, he flickered back into it again just in front of her, in time to score a solid right jab to her jaw.

Jen reeled from the hit. There had been a good amount of momentum behind it, and it had left her ears ringing, but it hadn’t had the strength behind it that she’d expected. It had served, however, to allow Mike to once again move out of Jen’s field of vision. This time he could be anywhere in the arena. She didn’t bother looking for him. She knew she wouldn’t find him. Instead she began tracing a shape in the floor again with her foot. However, just as she did, she felt the air stirring to her left. Her feet became wrapped in soft purple light in the same instant that she jumped, sailing several feet into the air, clear over the reaching form of Mike, his fist outstretched. Jen frowned. Her opponent wasn’t going to give her time to draw a sigil this time. She’d have to fight this one the old fashioned way.

Jen reversed the energy in her feet, increasing gravity’s pull on them, and dropped like a stone. Mike, still beneath her, seemed genuinely surprised, but he was able to compartmentalize his surprise and still use his incredible speed to change direction in time to avoid Jen’s attack. Jen’s move had been risky. She’d dropped too fast, and wasn’t able to reverse her energy again in time to soften her landing. She rolled upon impact with the ground, but the fall had still been heavy enough that her left knee now throbbed dully with pain. She could manage it, of course, but it would still serve to slow her down and increase the gap between her opponent’s speed and her own even further.

From the sidelines, Sara, in her usually hostile way, demanded, “How is he doing that? How is he moving so fast? His legs are scrawnier than mine.”

Jo didn’t answer. She’d been wondering the same thing, and just as Sara asked her question, Mike made another high speed lunge at Jen. As soon as he was within reach of her, he wound up and threw his heaviest punch in a downward arch in Jen’s direction. That’s when Jo saw it. Energy crackled along Mike’s body, from his legs to his arms. Jen managed to avoid the strike by a hair, and Mike struck the floor where she’d been standing. The entire arena shook. Then, as Jen spun in place, trying to counter Mike with a kick, he shuffled back, and energy crackled along his body once again, from his arms to his legs, and suddenly he was gone, leaving Jen attacking only air.

“That’s how,” Jo told her sister, her eyes glimmering, impressed. “He’s using Sol energy to augment his speed and power, but he’s using all of it at once for each. So if he wants to move fast, he needs to move all of his Sol energy to his legs, but if he wants to hit hard at all, he has to move it to his arms.”

“That’s crazy,” Tucker said. “I mean, yeah, I use Sol energy to make my attacks stronger too, or to buff up my defense and take more hits, but you gotta commit to one or the other for the whole fight. No one can just shift their Sol around that fast.”

“I’ve known of people who can,” Jo told him. “No wonder Mike seems so undertrained. He’s never needed to improve his physique. He’s trained his Sol so well that he can more than make up for any physical weaknesses with Sol energy alone.”

Jen had noticed this, too. Despite how impossible it must have seemed to her, she’d internalized it and moved on. Immediately, she refocused all of her efforts into staying just ahead of Mike, trying to assess his movements. She wasn’t even trying yet to counterattack. It was remarkable that she was able to keep ahead of him at all, even with her power to decrease the pull of gravity on herself, but despite how impressive she was currently proving herself to be, she was going to slip up eventually.

That’s about when Jen misstepped, just a little, and came down too hard again on her injured knee. It wasn’t enough to take her out of the fight, but it was enough to give her a second’s pause. Mike saw his opening, and moved all of his energy to his arms, just as he threw an uppercut to Jen’s gut. Jen tried to grab onto Mike’s arm, but she was still thrown upward, and gasped as the air left her lungs. Mike moved the energy back to his legs and jumped up to match Jen’s height. He flipped in mid air, and brought his heel downward like an axe. Jen raised her hands to block as much of the impact as she could, but she was still thrown back to the ground, where she bounced hard, her head spinning.

Mike landed, and then sprung back, putting some distance between himself and his opponent, as the stout man began the count. Jen almost stayed down. What little semblance of a plan she had didn’t have much chance of working anyway, but she had a stubborn streak just like her cousins. So at the count of five, she drew herself back up to her feet, took a deep breath, and moved her aching body into a readied stance again. Energy once again wrapped her feet, making her body lighter in preparation for her next attempt at keeping pace with her foe.

“You’re tough,” said Mike, showing genuine appreciation for Jen’s skills.

“And you’re infuriating,” Jen told him, in a tone that said that her words were ones of appreciation as well, “but I think that you’ll be surprised by just how much fight I have left in me, and how infuriating I can be, too.”

Mike smiled, and he rushed Jen again. She dodged, and dodged again. It wasn’t by much, but her teammates noticed that she avoided his attack by more than she had last time, and that Mike’s advance hadn’t been as fast. More surprisingly, though, was that, in that moment, Jen chose to strike back. She threw a roundhouse kick right at Mike’s torso. Mike, as surprised as all who were watching, was too slow, and wasn’t able to change direction in time to avoid it. He was slammed hard in the gut, just as Jen had been moments before, and thrown back, though even now, he didn’t move as far or as fast as he should have.

“What did you do to me?” Mike asked Jen through ragged breaths.

Jen, smirking, replied, “When I grabbed your arm, and again when I reached up and blocked your kick, I passed a little of my energy to you, and then, the moment you moved to attack me again just now, I activated that energy, making the pull of gravity a bit stronger on you. Not as much as I could have with another of the sigils, like I used on your friend, but enough to bring your speed down to my level.”

Mike nodded, “You’re tougher than I expected. You’re the kind of fighter who treats a fight like a puzzle to solve, and with those gravity powers of yours, bringing a faster or stronger opponent down to your level is the first step in beating them.”

Then he smiled in a knowing way and declared, “The only problem is, I’m not on your level.”

The air became charged with energy, and every experienced Sol user in the room knew immediately what Mike was doing. They could feel as he forced the Sol energy and the life energy at the core of his being to mix. His Sol energy exploded. Where the best that the average fighter could do at this point was channel such energy into a quick boost to one attribute, Mike was no average fighter. He was able to hold onto that energy, and his entire body became wrapped in it. Suddenly his entire body was surrounded by a churning white aura. The crowd cheered. Jen took an apprehensive step back, ready to defend against her opponent’s next strike, if she could.

“I don’t get it,” Jo said from the sidelines, considering Mike’s latest choice critically, “from what I can feel, all his aura did was allow him to boost his strength and speed at the same time without having to move his energy around. But that won’t make it any easier for him to hit Jen.”

However, before either Sara or Tucker could respond, there was a surge of static, and the air shifted, as Mike disappeared once again, flickering back into view in the same place that he’d started. Every spectator, save for the other members of Mike’s team, sucked in a collective gasp of air as Jen doubled over, unconscious. The stout man began his count.

“H-he moved even faster than before,” Sara said, fumbling over her words in disbelief.

“A lot faster,” said Tucker, “I-I couldn’t even see when he hit her.” He was trying, and failing, to hide how worried he was. After all, he was the one who had to fight Mike next.

While the two of them wondered how Mike had managed to increase his speed so much again, Jo didn’t have to wonder. She’d managed to follow Mike’s move, if only barely. As the count reached ten, and Jen, just regaining consciousness, was being helped from the arena by one of the Megadojo employees, Jo turned to Tucker and said, absolutely seriously, “Tuck, he can move his entire aura into his legs or his arms. The entire thing.”

“What!?” Tucker exclaimed. He looked again at Mike like he was seeing him for the first time.

“Don’t hold back at all,” Jo told him. “Hit him with everything you have right from the start.”

Tucker, his eyes wide, nodded, and collected himself. He jumped the short distance to the arena, and walked forward, facing off with Mike in the arena center. Mike’s aura was still active, and he didn’t seem to have any problem maintaining it.

Alright, Tucker thought, no holding back. I can live with that.

He smiled his nervousness away, and he concentrated on his energies. The air became charged with even greater quantities of energy, and static flew between Tucker and his opponent. Just as the stout man called for the fight to start, and Mike shot forward at his insane levels of speed, aiming to end this fight as quickly as he had eventually ended the last, heat and light erupted from Tucker’s body. He’d done the same thing that Mike had done. He’d mixed his Sol and life energy, but just like Mike, he wasn’t satisfied with a temporary boost. He’d seized that energy with his entire will. As Mike struck, Tucker actually reacted quickly enough to catch his opponent’s fist. The two warriors were blasted apart by their clashing energies, sliding to a stop forty feet apart. Cheers erupted from the crowd again.

Mike gasped, and suddenly he looked upon Tucker with newfound respect, and a healthy level of concern. He hadn’t been sure that it would work, but Tucker had given it his all, and now he was, himself wrapped in an aura. A fiery aura of swirling red and orange light. It was wilder than Mike’s, and unlike Mike, Tucker was struggling a bit to keep his aura going, and he couldn’t move the energy from his aura around the way Mike could, but Tucker’s aura was bigger.

Tucker grinned at Mike, his eyes flashing with pride, “How do you like that? This is the aura from my fire Sol.”

Mike tilted his head and took a deep, controlled breath, “Should be interesting.”

The two fighters circled each other. Tucker had to push himself as hard as he had ever pushed himself, and then even harder, just to keep pace. The arena floor where his feet touched the ground was left scorched and smoking behind him. Then, finally, after ten seconds or so of sizing each other up, they rushed at each other. They traded blow after blow. Mike fired his fists faster than Tucker was able to, but he wasn’t able to put the full energy of his Sol behind them and still keep up with Tucker as the two of them darted around the allotted space. Still, Tucker felt his stamina decreasing with each punch he threw, and each hit he took. The strain of maintaining his aura was wearing him down. He had to do something quick, or even putting out the full energy of his Sol, Mike was still going to take him apart.

So Tucker amped up his energy again, renewing his aura. It was hard, and he almost lost his aura completely, but it gave him an extra boost of speed, just enough to pull back from Mike and swerve around beside him. Then he sprung up, and threw a heavy kick right at Mike’s head. Mike, using his enhanced speed, sprung to the side, and then forward, slamming both of his fists into Tucker’s torso.

Tucker gasped, but this is what he’d expected to happen. Before Mike had even finished attacking, before he had time to shuffle back out of Tucker’s reach, even with his great speed, Tucker brought his elbow down on Mike’s left shoulder. He put everything he had into that strike, planning to take out one of Mike’s arms, but just because Mike couldn’t move fast enough, that didn’t mean that he couldn’t defend. His aura sprung from his arms, and enveloped his entire body, shielding it. Tucker still hit, and his attack still hurt, but it didn’t do nearly as much damage as he had hoped.

Mike made his move without missing a beat. He lowered his body, and spun in place, sweeping Tucker’s legs out from under him. Then he flickered out of view again. Tucker had no idea where he was, or what he was planning to do, but he dropped into a roll, rather than fall to the ground. He sprung to his feet. Before he could even regain his footing, though, he was knocked forward suddenly. It only took him a second to realize that Mike had gotten behind him and scored a solid kick. Tucker felt the air stir as Mike circled him, preparing to strike again.

It was a long shot. Tucker wasn’t even sure where Mike would attack him from, but his instincts told him that Mike would plan to attack where the kick would send him. So, acting on impulse, he flared up his aura, and stopped mid-air. That same moment, Mike flickered into view just ahead of him, his arm outstretched, wrapped in white light. If Tucker had not stopped, Mike’s attack would have caught him square in the side of his head. He likely would have been knocked out in an instant.

Tucker dropped to the ground, and leaped back up in the same instant. He threw a kick at Mike’s extended torso. He expected Mike to avoid him again, but he didn’t. He kept his aura in his arms, and he deflected Tucker’s kick, with effort, and then stepped in close, catching Tucker by surprise and hitting him square in the center of his chest.

Tucker was knocked backwards. The air flew from his lungs. He huffed, gulping down new air to replace it. He held on to his aura, but only barely. Mike lunged at him again. Tucker was too slow to react this time, and he took one of Mike’s full power hits right to the jaw. Even with his aura up, helping to defend him, Tucker saw stars. Worst of all, though, that was that. He lost his concentration, and as he sailed through the air, his aura disappeared. He landed hard, and the stout man started counting.

Tucker shook his head, trying to clear it. Mike stood in a ready stance several feet away, in case Tucker got back up again, even after everything. Tucker moaned. His entire body hurt. Some of the pain was new. Some of it was old pain from past fights reignited. He almost didn’t get up. He’d fought hard, after all. Mike was just stronger. There was no shame in that. Then, at the count of seven, he looked over, and he saw that Mike was actually breathing hard. Even if he couldn’t win, Tucker was making progress. He shook his head again. Maybe some of that good old Sieger family stubbornness was rubbing off on him, but at the count of nine, he stood up. It drained almost all of the stamina that he had left, but he forced his Sol energy and his life energy to mix a third time, and his fiery aura flickered into existence around him.

He charged forward. His aura flared out behind him, forcing him forward, boosting his speed. At the same moment, Mike charged forward as well. He put all of his aura into his legs for a second at the start of his advance, and then shifted it all into his right arm. Tucker raised his right arm, and, with a moment of concentration, his aura flared brighter. The two threw their punches at the same time. Their fists sailed past each other, and each struck true the other’s jaw. Mike and Tucker sailed apart. Mike managed to keep his footing, though his breathing had become even faster and heavier. His aura flickered. He wiped a trickle of blood from his lip.

Tucker also managed to stay on his feet, though that didn’t last too long. His arms hung heavy at his sides. His eyes were glassy. His aura disappeared again, and he fell heavily to the floor. This time, he stayed down, at least until the count of ten.

Sara was up next. Even with Mike two fights in, and clearly fatigued, the spectators all murmured collectively, wondering what she might be able to do. She was small, and didn’t look very fast or strong. The other Dueling Hearts, however, knew better. Tucker never would have made the choice to stay down if he didn’t know that Sara was more than strong enough to pick up where he had left off. Jo had been on the receiving end of her sister’s cornered badger rage more than once. Jen was convinced that Sara was one of only a handful of people alive that it was always a bad idea for her to piss off. So as Sara made the short trip into the arena, moving with clear purpose, and harsh eyes trained upon her opponent, in the end, the only person whose opinion of Sara actually mattered who wasn’t sure that she would win was Mike himself, and that attitude didn’t do him any favors.

The stout man called for the fight to start. Mike immediately moved to attack Sara. He moved at the closest that he could muster anymore to his full speed, but Sara was ready for him. She felt for the shifting air that signified his movements. She wasn’t entirely sure where he would attack from, but she knew that the attack would come from somewhere on her left. So she shifted in place, and twisted subtly, spinning, acting on instinct to dance around Mike’s incoming strike. In the same motion, she ducked beneath Mike’s outstretched arms, twisted inside his guard, and delivered a tiny elbow right into Mike’s celiac plexus with the force of a sledge hammer.

Mike doubled back, but before he could even recover, Sara pressed her attack. She launched a series of swift jabs in Mike’s direction. Huffing from loss of air, Mike managed to deflect only the first two. He nearly toppled, lashing out one more time with all of his remaining strength. Sara danced gracefully around the attack, spun once on her heel, drawing on the energy of her Sol to kick Mike in the side of the head with everything she had. He tried to defend with his aura, but it wasn’t enough. His aura dissipated, and he fell to the ground. He wasn’t able to stand before the count resolved. Meanwhile, Sara moved to stand ready on her team’s side of the arena, still completely unwinded.

“The score is now tied,” the stout man announced, sounding surprised, “two to two. Will the Dueling Hearts be able to keep up their incredible pace, or will they lose out to the regional champions? Only time will tell!”

Sara smirked, remembering the stout man’s speech outside less than an hour ago, and how he had mentioned Team Beatdown by name, and had not mentioned the name Team Dueling Hearts at all. Now it was the opposite. So as the third Beatdown, the blonde young man, Jason, stepped up to fight her, Sara decided that, stupid name or not, she was not going to let Team Dueling Hearts down. She was going to make sure that they won this thing.

Onward to Chapter Five

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