-A day later, The Volcano, Upper Tier, Coliseum-
“Fight!” The referee called as the two beings stared each other down.
-Paprika vs. Velvet-
Paprika surged forward towards a smiling Velvet with bright heart shaped pupils and tried to grab her with a flying hug.
Velvet just smiled and tilted to the left, kicked out at the ground with her rear right hoof and slid out of the way at an insane speed. With all four hooves planted on the arena floor she spun a few times and came to a stop facing Paprika.
Paprika’s head followed Velvet in slow motion before it slammed against the ground, cracking the arena floor with her face. Rolling with the impact, Paprika kicked off the ground once she got her hooves under her and shot towards Velvet.
Velvet smiled and with another kick she strafed around to Paprika’s right as the alpaca flopped onto the ground, the alpaca had been aiming to grab Velvet’s legs with a diving tackle.
The failed tackle attempt unfortunately left Paprika open for retaliation.
Velvet raised her right leg as she was still swinging around at Paprika’s right side, she reared it back and swung it forward with all her might as she slid into position behind the alpaca.
A loud smacking sound could be heard throughout the arena and everyone was now staring at Velvet wide eyed. A cow could be heard laughing loudly from the fighter’s stands seconds later.
Paprika’s ears and tail went straight up as she stood there with her butt wobbling slightly, her face became bright red and she let out a loud keening whine. She turned around to look at where Velvet was and blinked in confusion as the reindeer was no longer there.
Feeling something tapping her left shoulder, Paprika turned her face into her a powerful left hoof strike to the face that knocked her onto her back.
Paprika rolled out of the way as Velvet tried to jump on top of her with a flying hug of her own.
Velvet caught herself on her hooves and then kicked out with her rear right leg again to avoid Paprika grasping hooves when the alpaca lunged for her.
After she slid away while spinning, Velvet came to a stop facing away from Paprika. Looking over her left shoulder, Velvet flicked her ears, wagged her tail a bit and then wiggled her butt at Paprika.
The alpaca looked from the wiggling butt to Velvet’s cheeky eyes and then back, Paprika narrowed her eyes at the reindeer and slung her right hoof forward launching a large tentacle of fluff shooting straight for Velvet.
Velvet stood up on her hind legs and twirled to slightly left and out of the way of the stream fur, then Paprika launched her left hoof forward in as the fur from her right leg circled around in an attempt to wrap around the rapidly spinning Velvet’s barrel.
When it looked like the fur would encircle her entirely Velvet performed a well-choreographed grand jeté, her leap narrowly allowing to clear Paprika’s fur as the alpaca reeled it back in towards herself.
Landing with grace, Velvet started to saucily strut forward and eyed Paprika like a piece of meat with a firm smile on her muzzle.
“Ha!” Velvet belted out as she lifted her right leg and took on a charming pose.
Paprika charged towards at the taunt and launched another tentacle of fur from her left hoof straight to her left and then swept it forward. She then launched her right hoof forward sending the fur from her right hoof directly into the air above Velvet.
Velvet jumped over the swing and had a shocked look as the second tendril of fur was within a second of reaching her. She immediately did something that seemed odd to everyone watching the fight, she bent her legs and then kicked out.
Surprisingly, despite being in the air, Velvet shot upwards and out of the path of the tendril of fur that tried to follow her.
Paprika changed her concentration to something else and made the fur from her right hoof continue forward to grab a pillar, the end of the fur stretching out from her left suddenly rammed itself into the floor of the arena.
Paprika pulled herself into the air and release her hold of the floor and one of the few pillars in the arena that was still standing. The loving alpaca went spinning high into the air upside down, maneuvering herself to be above a still airborne Velvet.
The alpaca spread her hooves out to make large, flat, butterfly wing like wads of fluff that expanded outwards in four directions. Paprika brought them all together towards Velvet beneath her like a giant flying Venus Fly Trap.
Seeing the incoming walls of fluff, Velvet rammed her legs roughly against the air and went into a spiraling twirl between two of the fluffy flaps before they could enclose on her.
Velvet hit the ground on her front hooves and performed a hoof spring backflip to avoid a fluffy whip coming from Paprika’s tail.
Paprika landed on the ground softly on a mound of fluff while facing down Velvet, she quickly retracted the fluff around herself until she looked as she normally did.
Paprika tilted her head while looking at Velvet curiously and the reindeer continued to smile in her direction. Velvet held out a hoof and motioned at herself tauntingly, it was an invitation for Paprika to come and get her.
The cheerful countenance on Paprika’s face dropped, yet the smile never exactly left her face even when it became far more serious and her eyes narrowed. The reindeer gave Paprika an equally serious look.
Shifting her hooves so that they were spread out, Paprika lowered herself ready to charge Velvet again.
Velvet crouched down and prepared to charge Paprika as well.
They burst towards one another kicking up massive amounts of dust in their wakes as they came upon each other.
Velvet spread her hooves out and was low enough to the ground that her belly could touch it and with a kick of her left hind leg she started to spin on her hooves rapidly. It was an attempt to knock Paprika’s hooves out from under her.
Paprika launched herself into the air using her fur to boost her jump well over Velvet’s rapidly spinning form as it slides forward. Twisting herself in the air, Paprika landed facing Velvet and charged her.
Velvet changed from spinning on her four hooves, to spinning on her hind legs with her front hooves held above her head as a method of readying herself for Paprika’s approach.
When Paprika tried to thrust her right hoof at Velvet, it was deflected by Velvet’s left hoof and she received right hoof across the face, a left elbow to her throat stunning her and then a high right hind hoof kick to the chin.
Velvet had stopped her spin with the flexible high kick, a kick that lifted Paprika a foot off the ground with the blow. The reindeer followed that up by pulling back both her front legs and then started to thrust the upwards rapidly.
Flashes of blue erupted from each blow that was landed upon Paprika’s body, soon Velvet had Paprika flipping end over end in the air and Velvet was keeping her up there by the sheer ferocity of her high speed precise blows.
Eventually Velvet pulled back and stopped attacking Paprika when she could no longer keep up the momentum of her attacks.
As soon as the attacks ceased Paprika flipped landed on her hooves and immediately caught Velvet in the face with a painful looking right hook.
While Velvet was staggered and stumbling from the blow, Paparika swung her backside around and into Velvet’s chest sending the reindeer sprawling.
Paprika didn’t let up as Velvet floundered backwards, the alpaca darted forward and her left hoof jabbed its way home into one of Velvet’s kidneys making her gasp out in pain.
With Velvet properly disabled, Paprika got both her hooves under Velvet’s armpits and lifted her up, Paprika smiled and started to pull Velvet closer while increasing the strength of the building hug.
Paprika puckered up and was so close to kissing Velvet back for that wonderful kiss back in Rein, then she heard a very strange loud squeaking sound that confused her.
Blinking at her legs suddenly pressing up against her chest without a reindeer snuggled into them, not to mention that her lips missed Velvet’s face or body entirely, Paprika looked around herself for Velvet in confusion.
Velvet came down from above with both her hooves tightly pressed together and she landed a well-timed two hoofed hammer blow to Paprika’s skull.
The alpaca head was sent straight into the stone flooring of the arena and her body soon followed when Velvet flipped forward from the hammer blow and forcefully kicked off of Paprika’s back with all four hooves.
A large crater had formed around Paprika’s body when Velvet stomped on her, yet Paprika still got up and stumbled about a bit as she pulled herself from it. Shaking her head Paprika had her focused entirely on Velvet who was waiting for her.
The audience by this point was feeling sorry for the arena.
Paprika leapt from the crater and thrust her left hoof forward. Velvet deflected with her left and slapped Paprika across the face with the back of her right hoof, only for Paprika to catch it with her still outstretched hoof.
Having gotten a good grip on Velvet’s hoof, Paprika pulled and swung Velvet around to release her towards a pillar. Velvet hit the pillar belly first with a thunderous crash that sent up a massive amount of dust as the pillar collapsed.
It was barely three seconds later that Velvet came charging out of the dust cloud to ram Paprika in the chest with her horns.
Paprika just wavered backwards with the impact and then she snapped forward bringing her chin down on top of Velvet’s face dazing the deer. She followed up by slapping Velvet’s face with a left and a right, making a dazed Velvet stumble back with each blow and unable to concentrate on defending herself.
Leaping up, Paprika went for a full body slam, only to miss as Velvet halfway rolled out the way to the right to end up on her left side.
Paprika hopped up and went to attack Velvet, by that point Velvet had already regained her senses and rolled entirely onto her back and kicked with both her hind legs.
Velvet slid on her back across the stone flooring until she ended up underneath Paprika while priming all four of her legs.
Paprika looked underneath herself in confusion, but couldn’t move out of the way in time as Velvet’s four legged buck lashed upwards into Paprika’s barrel launching her upwards.
The alpaca landed on her head a few feet away and then flopped onto her back with a grunt.
Velvet shakily got up onto her hooves, even Paprika wasn’t nearly as quick to get up this time.
Something caught Velvet’s eye as she looked at her nose. Rubbing her right leg across her nose, it came away from it covered in a streak of blood and snot. Instead of panicking about that, the pain or the various injuries she and Paprika dealt to one another, Velvet just smiled brightly as she looked to Paprika.
Paprika looked to Velvet with worry, but Velvet looked to her slightly stained floof and then nodded to Paprika with an ever present creepy smile on her face. Paprika reluctantly nodded back as if expecting something from the manic gleam in Velvet’s eye.
Velvet came at Paprika hard and fast with two thrusts to the chest, both of which connected and then Paprika blocked the Velvet’s right leg with her left and a wad of fluff rammed upwards into Velvet knocking her into the air.
Velvet flipped in the air so that she was almost vertical, kicked off of the air and went zooming straight back for an unprepared Paprika who was moving forward to attack Velvet when she landed.
Velvet’s front hooves smashed into Paprika’s forehead and she shot off to the Paprika’s left and kicked off the air to slam her right shoulder into Paprika’s side knocking her over.
Paprika, having her head slammed into the stone flooring again, grunted and got up. Only she figuratively froze as she saw Velvet’s legs moving in a four step rhythm as she bounced in place in the air.
Velvet thrust her two front legs behind her, the reaction to that was her suddenly shooting forward like a rocket and she slammed into Paprika with thunderous force.
Paprika suddenly found herself pressed up against a pillar as Velvet ferociously pounded away at her with a flurry of pointy jabs, rough hooks and dizzying slaps.
Fluff went flying in every direction with each of Velvet’s vicious blows that seemed to become streaked with blue every other impact, the pillar behind Paprika was cracking violently from the force of these attacks.
Velvet thrust both her hooves forward into Paprika’s chest and the pillar exploded from the shock of the attack going through both her fur and her body.
Paprika hadn’t moved an inch from her spot even as the pillar seceded from existence. She thrusted a hoof at Velvet who, despite blocking with her hooves, was launched backwards a few feet towards the center of the arena.
The reindeer still kept her balance and landed well enough, the manic smile on her face still didn’t leave at Paprika’s approach.
Paprika was about three feet from Velvet when she stumbled and fell to the ground, her bruises and the battering she took from Velvet finally added up even with the defensive power of her fluffmancer abilities.
The alpaca weakly struggled to stand up, as Velvet approached her while limping slightly. Paprika’s last blow had injured one of Velvet’s legs badly enough that she could hardly walk on it.
Velvet sat down in front of Paprika and waited.
Paprika didn’t have much energy left, but there was one things she still wanted to do. She lashed out with a tentacle of fur from her right leg. Velvet ducked the attempt to grab her and moved a little bit closer Paprika after the fur reeled in.
Paprika weakly looked at Velvet with a pout as the reindeer sat down in front of her. Velvet placed a hoof on Paprika’s shoulder, tilted her head and opened her mouth, just waiting for Paprika to initiate a kiss.
Taking the invitation, Paprika slowly brought her face to Velvet’s and started to tenderly kiss the reindeer.
After a minute long kiss, an exhausted Paprika fell backwards and sighed with a happy smile.
“Meep.” Paprika muttered happily as her eyes closed.
The referee looked to Velvet who simply raised her right hoof high, while she gently planted her left on Paprika’s chest.
-Referee-
“Winner, Velvet!” I announced and shivered in fright.
These two were married?
How in the world could they attack each other like that and still love one another at the end of that fight?!
-Velvet-
Paprika is really hard to take down, especially when it's so hot out here.
After gathering all the fur I had knocked off her, I lifted Paprika up to slowly carry her towards the stands.
The crowd couldn't believe that I still had enough strength left in me to carry my wife up the stairs.