By the third day of the tournament, Sia’s name was slowly getting popular, she was getting more fans with huge amounts of money used as bets on her head. She had won every single battle from the first day without breaking a sweat. She soon realized why Bone Crusher always wanted her to be on her toes. It made her swifter, made her faster, and made her able to dodge punches easily and if she was hit, she could easily bounce it off. Penny had been stunned and had almost fallen after seeing her first fight. She almost couldn’t believe that Sia had gone through exponential growth. It was crazy. The people who had usually watched Sia fight were also likewise surprised.They soon concluded that one of the ghost trainers must have found her and even if that were to be true, that was the higher-up management of the underground ring acknowledging that a girl had potential. It drove people to her and soon her name was slowly becoming a household name.Had lovers and haters at the same time but
It had been a tough fight but Sia had won in the quarter-final shocking a lot of people, nobody would have thought that a small girl like Sia would have lasted till the quarter-finals, but she was in the semi-finals and was close to the finals. The semi-finals and finals were always fought closely together and the shouts in the underground ring were deafening Sia won the semi-final. There was a bruise on her lip as she stared panting at the man lying below her.She was even more eager to find her Bone Crusher and then her father. Tyler had sent word that her mom doing a bit better but missed her, she had to rush whatever she was doing and Sia understood. Mother and daughter had come such a long way and they both unconsciously relied on each other.“It’s the finals okay?” Penny said and Sia nodded her head.“Let’s get this” she whispered and Sia walked into the ring.Even when she had been adamant and told Penny that her goal was to find Bone Crusher and win the championship, there wer
The silence in the car was almost deafening. Sia couldn’t even stop the thoughts running in her head. Since when had he found out that she was his daughter? Why didn’t he say anything? Why did he teach her boxing? She had thousands of questions but she couldn’t bring herself to ask, she couldn’t even bring herself to hate him.Tyler had been stupefied when he saw Sia with a strange-looking man, he was stunned when he saw the resemblance. He didn’t say anything and told Sally to excuse them. Sia walked into her mother’s ward sighing softly.“Mom, there’s someone you should meet” she muttered and she watched as her mother stared at the man behind her in shock.“Jon.. Jonathan…. Jonathan… Jonathan….” she called repeated and Bone Crusher stood in front of her trying to smile.‘I’m so sorry Maya. For leaving you that year. I had no choice, they were going to kill you if I didn’t comply, they were also responsible for the death of your brother. They had planned the accident, so I was terrifi
Sia pressed her back against the wall rewrapping the boxing bandages around her hands. They were already coming apart and she immediately made a mental note to get new ones if she didn’t want scars running around her knuckles. The screams and the shouts of the underground boxing ring had never been louder. Many a times she wondered if these people generally had a good lung capacity or their lungs were forced to expand its capacity.Sia chose to believe the latter though; none of them looked healthy enough to have good lungs; nobody in their right sense of mind would come to an underground boxing ring every day to watch people fight, kill themselves and then yell on top of their voices.Anyone who wanted to be healthy would do that.She didn’t see the skinny woman walking towards her and blowing wisps of smoke into her face. A frown immediately crawled up Sia’s face as she turned to the woman with displeasure written all over her face.“How many times will I tell you not to smoke into
The taxi had already driven into the highway before Sia slowly pulled the hoodie slightly away from her forehead. The lights in the streets shone brightly providing enough illumination for the cars and pedestrians to go about their daily business as though it was past mid-day.As for the people who went about their usual business; she had nothing to do with them, she as well was about to go about her normal business. She pressed her head against the window of the taxi, the cars fleeting and lights blinding her a few times. Her head remained pressed to the window until the taxi rolled to a stop in front of an hospital.She dug her hands into her hoodie pocket and paid the taxi driver before getting down from the car and walking towards the sliding doors. A girl with a shrouded hoodie walking suspiciously into the hospital at minutes past 11 definitely wasn’t an everyday occurrence and so Sia had a few heads turning as she walked further into the hospital.She pulled down the hoodie fro
Under her mother’s instructions; Sia had to leave the hospital around 1am and make way towards their house. It was dead in the midnight and the roads were void of taxis, cars and human beings but Sia had no problem walking for almost ten kilometres on foot and without any fear.Instead she had treated the walk like her early morning jog. Jogging to the apartment complex without losing her breath. She stopped at the apartment complex, her breadth coming out with slow wisps of air. The building was desolated with the lights in almost every room was evidence that people lived there. Not that Sia expected anyone to be roaming about the complex at few minutes past 2am in the morning.She proceeded to walk into the apartment complex walking into the elevator and pressing down for the fourth floor. She relaxed folding her arms as the elevator moved and soon it made a ‘ding’ sound notifying her that he had arrived at its destination.The doors slid open and she walked out walking towards one
The second girl’s veins throbbed wildly against her forehead at Sia’s insult. Sia glanced at the security guards who were watching them with apprehension. The students had burst into laughter when Sia had called her dumb and it was funnier because she was always ranked in the last 50 students in their set. The thought annoyed but Sia was not bothered.“I have no business with you so stay out of my lane” Sia finished before turning and walking towards the school gates.No one knew what had gotten into the second girl as she rushed towards Sia grabbing her bag and turning her around to give her a slap but it seemed as if Sia had seen it coming because by the time the girl turned Sia around to slap her, she was the one who got a fist to her face. She staggered backwards screaming on top of her voice while holding her bloody probably broken nose. Her friends seeing the scene also rushed towards Sia who now had a huge frown on her face. She was quick to grab the first girl who rushed towar
Sia had no idea of how much she slept or how many hours of school time had passed by when someone roughly pushed her desk. Aroused from sleep; irritation seeped into her bones as her eyelids fluttered open glaring at the person who had shaken her table. The boy who was seated in front of her withdrew his hand immediately terrified of Sia’s glare.She sat up and realized that half of the class was boring holes into her head and another much older man with glasses managed to bore a hole through his glasses.“It’s your first day and you are already sleeping in my class” he said through his nose and Sia sat up fully meeting the older man’s eyes.“What is it that you were teaching or talking about?” Sia asked, her question instantly producing green lines on the teacher’s face.“Insolence!” he yelled banging the table. Sia looked around the class a small chuckle on her lips. Even though virtually everyone in the class was now staring at her, she was still able to depict the fact that none o