1. Prologue

PROLOUGE

For several years Mexico City has been having a lot of drug cartels around the city. Some of which are owned by the biggest landlords in Mexico City as for others which are owned by the biggest politicians and business men around the country.

The only thing that keeps this business to continue grooming as the time goes is through the profit that it brings to the people who does it, the profit that has changed a lot of living conditions of the Mafia's groups around the city of Mexico.

It's Feb 1st dark in the night. The arena's led lights illuminate the Arena compound everywhere while the screaming sound echoes inside the compound’s ground all the way around with the great energy and anticipation that people have around the Arena.

Pablo and his friends are at their chairs sitting beside the fighting ground stage, discussing business as the MMA fighting match goes on inside the compound, accompanied with the screams of the chanting fans around the fighting Arena.

Pablo has been friends with Nathan and Frank for quite a long time but the one thing that he doesn't know is that one of his friends is an enemy in disguise, an enemy who waits to stab him on the back at the perfect time.

“Listen Pablo!,”, Frank exclaims, his eyes focused on Pablo. “Today I have a bigger tip for you for this final match.  I’m gonna put all of my money on Eden because i strongly believe he is gonna win this match tonight”

Frank speaks to Pablo, sitting on his chair besides the fighting ring as the match goes on as the fans around the arena screams with excitement.

“Are you out of your mind Frank?,” Pablo scoffs, raising his brow with contempt. “Elias is going to win this fight tonight, Mark my words!”

Nathan releases the smoke of the cigarette from his nose, with a staleness of the scent, causing Frank to pull himself into a familiar grimace. “This match looks tough to put my bet on today, I think I’m gonna pass for today, Maybe next time”

Frank smirks and looks at Nathan with contempt on his face. “You are just a coward Nathan.”

The lights on the arena are brighter, reflecting on the fighting ring, accompanied with screaming of fans around the arena as the match goes on while Pablo and his friends talks about business.

 Everyone inside the arena is enjoying the match as the screams of the chanting fans continues to grow overtime as the match gets intense between Elias and Eden on the fighting ring. Pablo bends down besides his chair and takes his briefcase, dropping it down on the top of the table and opens it.

“Today I’m gonna put my bet on Elias for a hundred million dollar.” Pablo says, looking at Frank straight in the eyes while Nathan is on his chair observing Frank and Pablo as they gamble with his cigarette pinched between his teeth.    

 “Are you insane Pablo?!,” Nathan exclaims, his eyes wide open.”That is a lot of money to bet on somebody”

 “Just relax will you!,” Pablo nods a little and looks at Nathan. “Don’t worry I got this.”

Pablo returns his gaze and looks at Frank, waiting to hear what frank is going to propose for the bet.

 Frank nods.  “Okay, that is fine Pablo,” Frank takes his briefcase besides his chair and dropping it down on the top of the table and opens it.  “But today I want to bet with you the amount worth a hundred and fifty million dollar. Are you willing to take a bet or not?”

Pablo’s eye widens open, gasping and astonished with the amount proposed by Frank since he did not expect that Frank will have that large huge amount of money inside his briefcase for gambling with the two Cheques inside the briefcase.   

Pablo sighs and looks at Nathan with a pleading face. “Listen Nathan!, i want you to borrow me another fifty million dollar so that I can close the deal with this guy”

 “No Pablo!,” Pablo exclaims, shaking his head with disagreement. ”That is a lot of money to put on betting on someone. Don’t make a huge mistake of losing that huge amount of money that can end up ruining your businesses on the future.”

Pablo scoffs. “Don’t worry about that brother. I know what i’m doing. Just give me that fifty million and I promise you I will give it to you when the match is over”

Nathan sighs. “Okay fine!, as you say so. But first let us watch the match. I will give it to you later when the match is over”

 Pablo nods and smile. “Okay, thank you brother”

When Pablo finishes talking to Nathan, he then returns his gaze back to frank, looking at him straight in the eyes. ” Okay…. I accept that.”

The ref is inside the ring, moving around as the match between Elias and Eden proceeds, checking and observing any violations of the rules between the opponents on the combat stage.

 Eden’s mother, Joyce, is at the fan stage, supporting her son Eden as the match goes on the fighting ring while being surrounded by the group of the screaming fans on the fan’s bench.

 This match is one among the illegal matches which the drug lords around Mexico City holds for their gambling purposes in order gain more money apart from their businesses, the matches which sometimes ends up with the disasters in between before the matches are over when the police decides to show up on the scene.     

Eden is on the stage, shielding his face with his hands, moving around the combat stage waiting for the perfect time to strike his punch on Elias. As Elias steps closer to Eden’s space releasing a punch by his right hand aiming at Eden.

Eden ducks Elias’s punch and punches back Elias on the face, causing Elias to grunt loud with pain, looking at Eden with fury on his eyes as he waits for the perfect opportunity to strike back while moving around the combat stage.

As Elias and Eden moves around the stage, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike each other, Elias darts quickly into Eden’s space and jumps on the top of him, causing Eden to fall down on the ground and then strikes his face with a lot of punches until Eden loses consciousness.

 The ref rushes quickly to Elias and removes him on top of Eden’s stomach after he breaks the rules, leaving Eden lying on the ground with the bruises on his face.

Eden’s opens his eyes slowly, looking at the lights of the Arena as his ears are filled with silence, receiving the low vibration of the sound coming from the fans on the stage as the match continues going on.

As Eden tries to wake up, crawling to the other side of the stage in order to grab the ropes and stand up while bleeding on his face. Suddenly Elias rushes towards him and puts him into a neck lock, causing Eden to start choking as he tries to remove himself from the lock.    

Joyce at the fan’s stage gasps, her mouth wide open after seeing her son choking on the stage as her heart hummers fast while her body trembles all over.

 Joyce decides to stands up from the bench and rushes towards the combat stage in a rush while Eden is at the stage trying to remove himself from the neck lock.

Joyce fears to lose her son since Eden is the only child that she fully depends on after the death of her husband who was shot at the street with the group of gang fighters as he was looking for the food for his family at street grocery shop.  

Eden on the stage starts to run out of breath after staying on the neck lock for quite a long time, trying to remove himself by pulling Elias’s feet with his hand by using so much force while his head is filled with a lot of dizziness from the inside.

 When Joyce arrives nearby the combat stage, she finds the combat stage surrounded with the security teams around it which makes Joyce hasty towards going to the combat stage as she checks on her son as he tries to remove himself from the neck lock.

“What should I do now?,” Joyce asks herself on her inner thoughts, trembling as she walks around the combat stage as the match goes on while her palms are sweaty.” I need to get inside there so that I can tell the referee to stop the match”  

After questioning herself without getting the right answers, Joyce decides to walk straight towards the combat stage in rush in order to save her son as the match goes on inside the ring.

When Joyce approaches the combat stage, the guards stops her on her way.

"Let me go!, don’t touch me!,” Joyce exclaims, looking at the guard with grimace. “I want to go inside the ring and help my son”

The security guard shakes his head. “No mom, we can’t do that. It’s strictly forbidden for anyone to enter inside the stage.”

"Okay fine,” Joyce sighs and looks at the combat stage while pointing her finger towards the combat direction.”But can you please tell the referee to stop this match because I'm seeing my son choking up there on the stage without any help"

The guard shakes his head with disagreement. "Sorry mom. we can’t do that rules are rules. We are not allowed to cancel the match while it's on the middle; I hope you understand us Madam"

 "What are you talking about guards?!,” Joyce frowns and exclaims. “don't you see that my son right there he can't even breathe right now, uh?!"

"We understand that you're feeling so sacred to lose your son right now but the match will end soon when your son taps his hand down on the stage. Just be patient madam."

Joyce remains silent, looking confused as she doesn't know what to do in order to save her son as she moves around the combat stage biting her nails with nervousness on her face while praying for her son not die.

As the match continues the fans starts to chant and troll at Eden as they mock him repeatedly while clapping their hands.

"MAMA'S BOY," followed with claps, "MAMA'S BOY" followed with claps.

The whole crowd stands and gets engaged, as everybody on the fans stage starts trolling on Eden as Eden is at the stage trying to remove himself from a neck lock.

When Eden hears voice of the fans trolling, he decides to try again his level best to free himself from Elias's neck lock but unfortunately his efforts seems to fail since his breathing is about to cut short due to the loss of strength.

As Eden is in the process of trying to free himself from Elias's neck lock, he then tilts his head and looks around the combat stage and then suddenly sees his mother standing outside of the combat stage with nervousness on her face as she drops  tears little by little on her face.

 "You can do this son!,” Joyce shouts as soon as she sees her son looking at her. ” Don't you ever give up too soon son!"

At the time Joyce finishes shouting at her son, Eden’s strength returns back fully into his body and then he pulls off Elias’s feet from his neck with so much force while groaning in pain until he is free from a neck lock.

 When Eden succeeds to free himself from Elias’s feet, he then turns quickly and sits on the top of Elias’s stomach, punching him on the face with so much force until Elias loses all of his strengths and remains unconscious.

 When Eden stands up on the stage while Elias is down on the ground, the crowd goes silent as everyone on fans stage cannot believe what have just happened since they didn’t expect that Eden could defeat Elias so suddenly.

 The ref goes and checks on Elias, calling him to respond for the match to proceeds before deciding who he is going to be the winner.