I stared into the jaguar's yellow-green eyes, they were beautiful. It was as if those eyes alone were saying, I understand your pain, I feel it too. It was as if those eyes were the key to life, having seen more then they should, and more then they wanted to. I could have gazed into those eyes all day, except the horn blew, signaling our cue to commence fighting. I purred with excitement, the crowd feeding my drive to win. I waited for the jaguar to throw the first punch, but he never did. We danced in a circle, sizing each other up. He was shorter the I was by about 2-3 inches but was just as strong as I was. We must have been close in age. Though something about him seemed off, I felt as if I knew him. As we kept dancing, the crowd grew silent, it felt as if the whole area was holding its breath.

Finally, I spoke, breaking the silence. "You have watched me fight before."

"Wrong, I have fought you before, many times." He replied, his voice a little higher then I would have expected.

"Impossible, I fight with my instructors in private." I told him.

"Let us fight then, and maybe you shall find out." He said.

We closed in our circle, each of us throwing a few fake punches. The crowd grew restless, someone ended up throwing a bottle next to the jaguar, spooking him. He jumped in towards me throwing the first real punch. I blocked it, then counter-attacked, though he had more speed then anyone else I'd seen, having blocked my punch. We kept attacking and counter-attacking each other for what seemed to be forever. We were equally matched, I knew his moves and he knew mine. We were also tiring at the same rate. We started backing up from each other by some unspoken agreement. I looked him over and he was shaking from the amount of energy he had exerted. That gave me hope, I rose my paw up by my face, then I realized after looking at my paw, I was shaking from exhaustion too. I nodded towards him, showing my respect. He nodded back, and we both collapsed to the grown.

I spoke what was on both our minds, in between gasps for air. "We...we shall continue this...this later." Then to my opponent. "Well done."

Unable to speak my opponent merely just nodded in my direction. 

Sorry, another short one, but these are my first action scenes. Let me know what you think.