Beer, Blood and Beatings }{ (Open)

[Onas Knox]

Goliath stepped back a few paces, and charged. Onas never thought he'd see a full scale flying kick in real life. He certanly would never have expected it against himself. This guy never quit! Onas wouldn't either.

When he first broke into a sprint, Onas' right eye opened wide, the few heartbeats it took to close the gap weren't enough time to dive out of the way. Maybe if he'd led with it earlier, maybe if Onas hadn't hesitated at the start. But now, Onas couldn't dive out of the way fast enough. He was practically in the corner of the ring, there wasn't anywhere to go anyway. The giant tore into the air with astonishing heigth, his leg crested with Onas' chest. Onas didn't have any time to decide any course of action but this, he threw his arms up, and launched forward!

When Goliath and Onas collided, the giant's foot smashed past Onas' right ear, his leg carving it's way down the side of Onas' head. His body wrapped up in Onas' arms, and Onas rolled back to smash him into the ring floor! All his remaining strength fueled into his back, his arms and his legs. He used Goliath's momentum and his own strength to pull the man from the air backwards, but they never made it to the tan rough mat. Onas had backed into the ropes, and inadvertantly launched his wrapped up opponant out of the ring! Onas couldn't release his hold, there wasn't time or space or even a moment to consider it, and he was carried over the ropes with his quarry. Both men fell in a heap across a close sitting table, smashing it to pieces and knocking the patrons standing around it down on their way!

The crowd noise around them erupted, Onas managed to get his hand against the giant's throat, then he relized exactly what had taken place, and dropped his head to the ground by his opponants side. He laid there, breathing heavily, closing his eyes, and letting the pain from every part of his body linger under the knowlege that the fight was over.

The referee jumped into the middle of the crowd, pulling people back, and declaring the fight over, "Ring Out! Ring Out!" he cried over the unhappy crowd. "No Winner, House Takes The Bets!"

Onas smiled with his bleeding face to the ground, the ref might have waited a moment to say that, he didn't have to look to know that some sore losers were pulling at him. Bouncers came down and cleared the mess of people away, and Onas and his opponant had a chance to sit up. It was crazy, it looked like a quarter of the bar was standing there, how many people had come down to ring four?

He sat back against the ring, there was too much pain to do anything else. He kicked his knee up and rested his hand against it. His waitress from earlier was nearby, and she gave him a cigarette with a smile, saying, "Good fight." He smiled at her while she swanked to his opponant to see if he wanted anything. When she left, it was just the two of them behind a wall of bouncers. Onas took a long drag off of his gift, and drew the smoke in past bloody nostrils, blowing out a thick plum of smoke. He looked over to the giant, and caught eye contact. He chuckled, not from ammusment, but of a glad heart that the fight was over. He held his hand out, and gave his formal hello.

"My name is Onas. I apoligise that I don't remember yours, but I won't forget it again."

[Clairabella Corinth]

Clair had watched the two men clash in an epic finish to their battle. It was the type of ending one would expect in a movie. When the ref called the fight the last thing on her mind was the loss of money. The bouncers had charged in to contain the raging crowd around them and she jumped the ropes and in to the ring then ran to the corner they were in. She leaped over the rope again and down to the area the bouncers had surrounded. A pair of the bouncers came over and grabbed her by the arms in an effort to pull her back from with them.

"Wait, wait I'm with Oj. I'm with him." She yelled out to the two bouncers. They let up their grip after getting some sort of okay from him. She came over and squated down next to the pair. "Are you alright Oj?" She said as she reached a hand out to him to offer him a hand up when he was ready to get himself up from the ground.

[Sidney Bainbridge]

For a moment Sidney just laid there on his back. It had been one hell of a match and he was glad it was over though it would be hard to get him to admit that normally. All he could think of now was laying there and recovering, but for that to happen he would need a smoke and a drink. That would be the icing on the cake for a good recovery.

The other man sat up and the bar tender offered him a smoke then came to Sidney and asked if he needed anything. "Yeah I could take a stiff drink, I'll leave it to you to decide what that is." He replied to her. then he reached his hand in to his pocket and pulled a pack of smokes out from it. The pack was beaten and battered. She flipped what was left of the top open and the pack was nearly falling apart from the sweat.

The cigarettes inside were all broken, he took the one in the best shape and pulled the filter clean off. then grabbed his light from the other pocket and lit the cigarette up taking a deep drag from it.

When the man spoke to him Sidney just laughed at first. "I won't be forgetting yours either Onas. Names Sidney Bainbridge. Seems you know your way around the ring." SIdney said with a bit of a chuckle to it.

The young lady showed up and offered to help Onas up as she did that Sidney finally sat himself up from the broken table. "How bout I buy you both a drink for the reminder that I am still alive."

[Onas Knox]

"I won't be forgetting yours either Onas. Name's Sidney Bainbridge. Seems you know your way around the ring." The giant introduced himself as he lit up a cigarette.

Onas stared at him a moment when he sat back. The guy's name was friggin Sidney? Just what are the odds on that? His boss had been a father to him. Hell, he'd been a father to the whole crew. Everything Onas knew about fighting was thanks to Sidney's influence. And now, he had just thrown all of it against a man who shared that name. Onas smiled, the universe was a wonderfully weird place. "Heh," He scruntched his eyes and nose together as he ajusted his back, letting out a stiffled 'ahh,' "It would seem I still have a few things left to know. I think you broke something." He twisted his back again, finnaly putting it right, and his spine popped from the bottom to top. His vertabre let out a soothing sensation as he closed his eyes, and let his head rest to one side.

Bella jumped right in front of Onas, nearly causing him to jump. As she turned around and looked very concerned for a second, then very agitated. Two bouncers had grabbed her and were pulling here away. "Wait, wait. I'm with OJ, I'm with him." The two bouncers looked at him for a moment, one of them was Val Carrol.

"Val, she's good, let her.. let her come on." Onas said, attempting to move. Val nodded and she came straight to him, her young face still had his bruise on it. She was worried about him, sweet woman. "Are you all right Oj?"

"I'm good," he smiled with blood in his mouth again. His eyebrows dripped with sweat, and his face was soaked in blood, his tank top wet through, and covered in the same. His knuckles were red from skin peeled off, his jeans had a fresh tear in his right kneecap. His ribs were purple and black. His thigh felt like a sledgehammer had been taken to it, his chest was scraped white and red. And to top it off, he had a headace throbbing beneath his right eye, streching around to his ear.

Yet he smiled, "I'm good las, heh," he slid his mouth to her ear and whispered, "I didn't quit." As he leaned back, He squinted at his back, and popped it again, he needed to stand up. Claira offered him a hand, and after the crowd cleared away a bit, Sidney offered;

"How bout I buy you both a drink for the reminder that I am still alive."

Onas looked at him and kept his smirk, "How bout I buy you a bottle of whatever, and you promise not to ever hit me again."

[Alice Grimm]

Alice walked into the bar, and was instantly remember why she did not like bars. The smoke hung stagnate in the air and there was drunk men yelling all around her. She rubber her wedding ring as she walked through looking for Onas, Justin, and Nick.


As she walked thought the crowd a drunk mad grabbed her hand and pulled her into him. "Hey sweet cheeks! how about a drink with a real man." Alice reached for the mans hand and grabbed his thumb, and digging her finger nail in his cuticle.This brought the man to his knees. " I am already married to a real man. Please respect that!" She Released the man's hand and continued on her search for her crew mates.


She did not mind the fights and when she found everyone she would place a few bets. She liked to see the the way each fighter tried to stay in the fight. It was almost like the way she figured things out when she was tinkering with something new. She could see the wheels turning in their head.


Alice spotted Onas and his friends sitting across the room from where she was. There was a girl and a guy sitting with them that Alice did not know. Alice push her though the crowds to get to their table. She adjusted her goggles on her head as she walked. she stopped a few feet from the table. She looked at the group and felt them out before walking up to them. Onas was not known for hanging out with a great crowd and Alice also wanted to make sure this was not some sort of business meeting.


When Alice knew it was safe to walk up and join the group she pulled a pack of smokes out of her pocket. She walked up to the table and dropped them right in front of Onas. "Jax told me you smoke a lot when you drink. So I came prepared." Then Alice smiled and plotted down beside Justin. " Hi! I'm Alice. I am Onas's... Friend."

[Clairabella Corinth]

Clairabella smiled as Onas told her he hadn't quit. He indeed hadn't given up and fought to the bitter end. She couldn't believe that the fight raged on so long and that neither fighter gave in at any point. It was the best fight she had seen since she started coming here six days ago. Finally she helped lift him to his feet.

After helping Onas up from teh ground Clair did the same for the giant man who had disclosed his name as Sidney. She had only barely over heard the name when she jumped down over the ring and was being hauled away by the bouncers. "I'll take you up on that drink after all this excitement." She told Sidney.

Once they were all up to their feet she walked back to their table with the pair and took a seat. She looked at her bets, sure she had lost five hundred on this table but the center ring with a thousand on it had payed of pretty well. She would have more then enough to last her the next four or five months after she went and did a bit of personal shopping for a few thing she really wanted, and needed.

Justin and Nick had joined them back at the table and it wasn't long till another woman walked in and put down a pack of cigarettes in front of Onas and joined them at the table. Clair just smiled at until she introduced herself.

"I'm Clairabella, but call me Clair or Bella." She suggested to her. "You must be a friend on Oj's"

[Alice Grimm]

"Alice. Nice to meet you. Yeah I guess Onas and are a friends. It is more like work friends. I try to fix things that Onas breaks and Onas fixes all my electrical mess. " Alice said to Bella. Then she turned her attention to ordering a drink. She put her fingers on the table and opened up a search and then typed in Something Fruity with Tequila. She half heartily look at her choices and pike one she thought would like. After swiping down of the table to place her order, she looked up at Onas. "What in the Verse happened to you? When you left this morning you were fine, but now it looks like you lost a fight to a reaver." Alice had a good feeling that the man sitting across from her had something to do with the way Onas looked. He also looked like he was in a hell of a fight.

[Onas Knox]

Onas, Sindey, Justin, Claira, and Nick all sat around the small table that they had originally taken earlier that evening. He was still simply amazed by all the people who had clustered around the ring to see his and Sidney's fight. Even more people came by the table to say something about the three of them, the fight between him and Bella still fresh on everyones mind as well. Onas had often been given a compliment or two about a fight when it was over, but never from random strangers, and certainly never so many.

When they all got back to the table, Onas peeled off his tank top, and slipped on his black T-shirt, discarding the tank under his chair. Justin and Nick were chatting up Sidney and Bella about everything, and Onas got his tequila poured into several shots for the group.

"You drink Cactus Tequila Sid," he asked Sidney, feeling a little pelt at the use of his quote, father's, unquote, name. Nick and Onas shared a little look on the name issue. Issue might be a tad harsh, more like coincidence.

Onas slid the shot glasses to each of them. His body was in some amount of pain, but Onas did this as an offering for his newfound comrades, and in that regard, he bared through it. As they toasted, Onas raised his tumbler, and he gave his customary statement, "Siwang Zhiqian Ju Fu." His chinese was typically broken and very hard to listen too, but here, this was a verse he'd learned not on the small unorthodox moon his whole chinese tounge had come from, but from his criminal friends and family.

As he sat down into his chair, Onas opened his cigarettes, and dismayed at the fact that he only had two left. He would simply have to break his normal precidence, and buy another pack. He just didn't think it proper to leave now.

Alice came up to the group, Onas was only a little surprised to see her. She knew where the trio had gone for the evening, but he didn't think she would come. Alice usually stayed around the ship in the evenings to wave Jax. She came in looking like she'd just punched somebody, she normally had that look to her after she'd fought with someone. Alice could be a pistol sometimes. She threw down a pack of Onas' brand, and offered it with commentary. An interesting gesture as Alice might have been the only member of Sid's old crew that never took the habit.

"Jax had to tell you that huh?" Onas smirked with his leg against his brothers chair, waving his knee slowly from side to side, "Thank you very much."

Alice was prompt with introducing herself, and to downplay her role in Onas' crew. Bella returned the introduction, and then Alice turned to Onas with, "What in the verse happened to you? When you left this morning you were fine, but now it looks like you lost a fight to a reaver."

Nick busted out laughing, and bounced to the joy of that comment. Onas just smiled with a devil's grin and came back with, "I was jumped in an alley, ten guys bigger than Jax, an' whooped 'em all!"

Justin was quick to comment, "Shayeah okay, and I just installed a fourty seven LR coupler alone in fifteen minutes," He jeered at Onas, then he stood to swich chairs with Alice, putting a chair between himself and his brother, "Here Alice, Onas can put his feet on you fer a while."

"What else are brothers for?" Onas joked, "Alice, let me introduce Sidney Bainbridge, aka ten guys in an alley."

[Alice Grimm]

Alice snickered "fourty seven LR coupler..." as she switched seats with Justin. Then she was taken back when Onas introduced the man. Sidney... Wow. She just got over his death when she married Jackson. She didn't know why hearing his name effected her so much, but it did. She stirred her drink and smiled politely at Sidney. "So what your telling me is that Sidney here is a lot like my Jackson in a fight." She did not mean to but her eyes went a little dreamy when she said her husbands name. 'He will be here soon' Alice told herself.

That is why she came tonight. She needed a distraction from the loneliness and the longing. Alice was glad she came, even after hearing her long lost "father"/ crew leader's name. She was ready to see some good fighting. She was not going to fight tonight, but she was looking forward to watching a few.


"So Mr. 'ten men in an ally' did you get the fight you were looking for in Onas or did he let you down? Onas please tell you won or Jax will never let you live it down..." She said wiping some grease off the back of her hand onto her black jean shorts. She had gotten in the habit of wearing at least one item of black clothing. Grease did not show up on black. Something Jax liked! A trait she picked up from Onas, Who was wearing a black t-shirt.

[Sidney Bainbridge]

When they got back to the table Sidney took a seat and lit another cigarette. Then he just listend as they all began to interact. When he was introduced as ten men in an ally he just chuckled a bit. He took the shot that was offered to him and relaxed, he could use that after the fight he just had Onas was one hell of a fighter. There were few people in the Verse that he had found at this point that could put up a fight for him. Most of his losses in the ring were from fifteen years ago when he was still newer to it. Now days it was harder to find a good fighter.

"He'll be able to tell him he didn't lose." He replied to Alice's comments. Yeah he hadn't lost, it was a draw but Sidney wouldn't make an issue if Onas wanted to play it up for his friends. These were his people and Sidney had nothing to gain from it by talking himself up.

Sidney pured his shot in to his mouth and swallowed. He had cought himself drinking more lately then he would like to admit but he had a lot on his mind. After waking up he was free of his old situation the losses they had taken and just all of it. He felt guilty for not being there, for not carrying on and he had a lot of thinking ahead of him still. Would he return or would he go his own way like he had many times before.

"So what is it you all do?" Sidney chimed in when he felt a bit more comfortable with the crew. After asking the question his mind went to what he did or used to do through out his life trying to figure out what he would say he did. He would have a hell of a time just passing as a businessman after that fight so he would have to come up with something that would work.

[Onas Knox]

Onas wiped his eye with a linen from the table, and grinned at Sidney's comment, he addressed Alice as such, "Ha, naw, let's just say that I need ta start workin out wit Jax again when he gets here."

Alice was teasin him. She'd seen him fight plenty, and she knew he typically ended up bruised. Maybe not bleeding and scraped all over, but Onas seemed to have a problem with blocking. He just kept his grin, and thought perhaps it was time to work on that.

Sidney asked Onas' favorite question to never answer. Alice would know better than to say anything of a revealing nature. The whole crew kept a tight lid on their cover. They were here to refit the Athena. And possibly get a shop in order. That was the story, and she would stick to it. It was ironic though, stealing the nine ships aside, they might just live up to that last bit, and open the shop after all. There was a lot work involved with a new buisness venture like that, but wasn't that part of the whole point? What is life without a challenge? Niether Bella nor Sidney would be at this table, being honored, if they had shown no challange. It's the very fight of life that makes it worth living. So the buisness should be hard, what else would make it worth having?

"We just finished a refit job on a transport ship," Onas said while refilling his shot glass, then Bella's, then he handed the bottle to his brother, who continued around the table. Onas thought for a moment about Bella before he continued. That was almost verbatim to what he'd told her when she'd asked the same question. His crew would answer the same way every time they were asked, it's how they were trained. She was clever, and though he liker her style, he didn't want her to catch wind of any foul play. He realised he'd been staring at her while he thought about this, and casually looked back to Sidney, "We're sortof'.. inbetween jobs. At the moment. Might make some moves more permanant later on, but all in all, you could call us wrench monkeys."

His crew took his cue, and none spoke more on the subject, letting him take the lead if it should come to another question. They all gave him the predesigned signal for such a circumstance.

Onas turned it over to Sidney for his own question. You might think it was a clever question for it's double meaning, but, Pesephone was well known for it's corruption and crime. That was certinally nothing new. As soon as he asked it, Onas regretted it. It was sloppy, far to abrupt, and laced with intention, "What about you boss, what do you do? That 'as quite fight you put up back 'er, you a fed or somethin?"

Dispite his awkard internal moment after he'd asked, he maintained a perfect pokerface. Nick did throw him a glance, and Onas clearly caught it through his peripheral.

[Sidney Bainbridge]

Sidney listend to the explaination of what they did from Onas. It seemed everyone agreed with what might have seems a bit like a planned responce to his question aside from Bella. Sidney wouldn't have paied it to much mind until Onas returned fire with his question.

A fed, the only connection Sidney had to the Fed's was being harrassed by them whenever they saw him. They have been seeking to arrest him since the end of the war. There were a few occasions they had actually arrested him actually. It just turned out that they couldn't get evidence on him or a witness. Well there was one time they 'had' a witness but that was a story for some other time. Needless to say he was about as far from being a fed as one got. "Well if I were a fed I would have to arrest you for assualt." He said with a smirk on his face. He paused and reached to his back slowly while looking at Onas. Taking his time and looking like he planning to make an arrest.

Then he burst in to laughing. "No, I am far from a fed. If they let me in to that career then they are really desperate. Is there something you need to hide." Sidney asked the question not expecting an answer to it but he wasn't to worried, he had his ways of finding out anyway. He then took his shot glass and raised it up. "On to new subject, to a good fight and a good recover." The good recover really applied to him after having just spent a month at St. Lucy's he had some recovering to do.

[Onas Knox]

Onas paused his cigarette near his mouth as Sidney reached slowly to the small of his back. He saw nick slowly reach to his as well, but hoped that he hadn't drank enough to pull a piece in a public bar. Sidney busted out laughing and his freinds noticably relaxed, as Onas let out a shallowly held breath taking the toke off of his cigarette and smiling. It was.. a tad akward.

"No, I am far from a fed. If they let me into that career then they are really desperate. Is there something you need to hide," He asked with an air that was somewhere between not caring an mild humor.

"Nothing that comes to mind," Onas said with smokey breath, leaning back and putting his left leg back up agianst Alice's chair. Putting pressure on it dulled the pain a bit and Oj would take all the dulling he could get.

Sidney surprised him by adding, "On to a new subject, to a good fight and a good recovery." He concluded this with a raised glass. 'New subject'? It could be that Sidney here disliked the Alliance as much as his newfound company. Onas didn't know if he hated the Alliance, they sure made easy targets, and anything with the flag on it was worth twice it's mirror goods.

"Yes!" Onas said sitting up a little and taking his own shot glass that Nick had only just refilled. He raised it with Sidney and the two shared a nod before drinking. "A very good fight sir. I'll admit though," he look at Bella and added after the burning tequila subsided, "I was glad to avoid the Sprout Fourty this go around."

"Well Oj, that's about all you avoided," Justin said, "Brother, we gotta teach you how to block."

"I was blocken, look at my arm. Between Bella's kicks, and Sidney's punches, I think it may be perminantly stuck like this." Onas retorted, his arm tucked against his chest.

"I ain't worried bout' yur arm, you shoulda been blockin ya' face!" Justin came back almost immediantly.

"Thanks bro... duech... ain't nothin wrong with the way I fight," Onas commented laughing. He streched his chest back a little, both flexing out some of the scrapes, and popping his back again.

[Jackson Grimm]

Walking up to the 'Final Bout' Jax eyed the line which was at least fifty people deep and wondered what the hold up was. Looking over the crowd Jax was getting impatient, I mean it been almost a year since he had seen Alice and this is where she said she was going when they had ended their nightly wave. She didn't now he was coming in that same night. He was able to catch an earlier flight off Santo and he wanted to surprise her. So when he had landed, he quickly tracked down the Athena which luckily was only a few docks down from where his ride had come in to port. Stowing his gear as quick as he could, he made a b-line to the 'Final Bout' hoping to catch up to them before their night was done. Looking around and over the people in front of him Jackson made eye contact with Val Carrol, a long time bouncer and friend. Val noticed Jackson and waved him forward to the dismay of the other would be patrons.

Walking up to Val the two men stood eye to eye. Val may have been one of the few men in the verse that could stand with Jax pound for pound, in size and stature. Val extend his hand and the two men locked arms in an iron embrace. "Mr Grimm, how you been?''

"Pretty good Val, yourself," Jackson asked, while squeezing the other mans hand with considerable force.

"The same, you here to drag your scrawny brother back home?"

"Hows he doing in there," Jackson asked.

"Not good Grimm, two fights and the house won the second one."

"Ooo...ring out huh," Jax replied knowing that, that was the only way the house would win. "Where is he at," Jax inquired while pointing into the bar.

"Sittin in the back by ring four," Val replied stepping aside so Jax could place his hand on the finger scanner. After surrendering the necessary credentials. Jax made his way to ring four, he admired the place as he walked. "Man, they sure have spruced this place up since the last time I was here." Drawing closer to the table, he could hear his loud family giving Onas a hard time about his last fight. There were two people at the table that Jax didn't know, so to be on the safe side he would play this like Onas was working a job, and not give up formal names.

Getting close enough to hear the content of their banter, Jackson saw an opening that he couldn't let pass. Stepping behind his wife, he placed his hands on her shoulders and announced loud enough for the table to hear, "Yeah, that's cause O.J. fights like a damn sponge, absorbing every blow that comes his way."

[Alice Grimm]

Alice sat eying the empty glass that use to be her drink. She was feeling a little light headed and it had just dawned on her that she had not eaten all day. Onas was talking to the rest of the crowed. Alice was only half way paying attention.

"Yes!" Onas said .

"A very good fight sir. I'll admit though," "I was glad to avoid the Sprout Fourty this go around."

Alice had pulled a short handled screw driver from her tool belt. She always wore her tool belt. She was even tempted to wear it on her wedding day, but Jackson would not go for it.
She began to loosen screws from the underneath of the table they were sitting at.

"Well Oj, that's about all you avoided," Justin said, "Brother, we gotta teach you how to block."

"I was blocken, look at my arm. Between Bella's kicks, and Sidney's punches, I think it may be perminantly stuck like this." Onas said.

"I ain't worried bout' yur arm, you shoulda been blockin ya' face!" Justin wittingly came back.

"Thanks bro... duech... ain't nothin wrong with the way I fight," Onas commented laughing.

Alice giggled a little, but she was still only half listening. Then some very large hands dropped on her shoulders. Before she heard the voice she had turned the screw driver around and was preparing to fight another drunk man. Then his sweet, wonderful voice floated in her ears. "Yeah, that's cause O.J. fights like a damn sponge, absorbing every blow that comes his way."

By the time Jackson had finished saying the word "way," Alice had put the small screw driver back in tool belt and stood up. Then Using all her might she jumped on the Jax and tackled him to the ground. Their lips locked for the most passionate kiss Alice could remember them having.

After the kiss had ended Jackson stood both him and Alice up in one smooth motion. Then he scooted her chair out sitting himself down and pulling her to sit in his lap. "I thought you had a few more days till you landed... You lied to me you jerk." Alice said hitting him in the chest. This really hurt her hand way more than it hurt him."I love you so much. Even though you know I hate surprises, this is by far the best surprise ever" Alice kissed him again.