Harmonia Edelstein vs Aella Midori Last Woman Standing Match

[RedShinigami]

Harmonia had done it. Against all odds she had gotten back in the game, smashing her older opponent into the steelsteps behind them. Harmonia and Aella had managed to concentrate on certain bodyparts of each other and it definetly had worked on the Superstar whose knee now resembled and over ripe tomato as a normal human kneecab. But the adrenalin filling her body definetly helped her to pull through, all the survival instincts of the blonde had kicked in at once. The Blonde gulped and shook her head in disbelief as Aella took the fall, the back of her head slamming into the steelsteps.


There they, were now, two beautiful fighters, knocked down next to each other on the ground like fallen angels. Harmonia panted, exhaustion, pain and fatigue coming in a waves over her body while she heard the pained shivers of one Aella Midori whose brain had to be jello pudding by now. Harmonia did'nt look but maybe she even cut Aellas head, making her bleed. The hot, wet sensation she felt and what was likely sweat could be some red life juice too. But this was a Last Woman Standing Match and that things happened. Harmonia rolled on her belly, using her arms to get up and take a look at what she had done. But at the same time she knew she could not waist anytime and quickly pulled her good leg around Aelleas throat. If that could work then she would put her bad leg away and used on arm to put the headlock in, trying to put the even more strain on Aellas head and forcing her to tap or passing out...

[Bare]

Aella groaned softly in pain after the initial outburst of it that came from impacting the steel steps so roughly from a suplex. She was definitely out of it she could tell, not that it helped her much to be aware. Rather she knew she needed to do something and quick, but even trying to think of a recourse was causing flare ups of pain in her mind making Aella cringe softly in pain.

'Damn.' She thought to herself again, barely managing to push off the steel steps and roll a bit away from them before Harmonia descended upon Aella once again, this time to bend down low and grab hold of Aella once again and wrap a leg around her head. 'Grrr, what is she thinking this time?' Aella thought to herself, trying to piece together Harmonia's plans before a pair of hands also descended upon her head, grabbing and twisting her head to the side as well to further work her skull with a headlock!

"Ugh!" Gagging softly in pain Aella reached out with her arms, as if she was flailing and panicking.. But in reality she was looking for something, or rather Harmonia's leg since the blonde was smart enough to pull it away somewhat, but all Aella needed was to feel out before she grabbed hold of Harmonia's thigh, if successful Aella would tighten her grip, aiming to squeeze down on Harmonia's leg with a tight grip, digging her nails in to try and create enough pain to force Harmonia to let go!

[RedShinigami]

Harmonia had worked for this moment. Her matches against Rose, Toni and the bout against Aelle had shown her that she still had much too learn to be even in the slightest position of challenging the top of LAWs roster. But Harmonia had changed, not just her body but also her mind. Gone was the frustration, the fear of not being good enough, instead, with the help of her friends, the help of her sensei and the most beautiful and loving girl in the world named Molly Forster, she had become "The Superstar". The day of "The Model" were gone, the last remnants burnt in a trashcan in this very ring.

Now Harmonia played with the big girls and it was time to show herself, her opponents and her fans that the name "Superstar" was not just a hollow phrase but meant something.

Harmonia had managed to put up a good fight even if her knee was in no shape of going on. Someone with less pride would have already throw the towel but Harmonia knew that this match here was an important one, a gamechanger. If she tapped out to Aella she would have proven nothing to no one and the sheer thought of sitting there, Aella just looking down on her in pity, hurt as if both her knees had been attacked.

But Harmonia managed to put Aella into trouble too, concentrating on an evenly delicate bodypart when she lifted the Queen of the Sky and sent her crashing down headfirst into the steelsteps. This was no DQ so they could do to each other what they want until one of their bodies would give out. This did'nt end when the opponent decided he could'nt go on. This ended when one of the opponents was sent to dreamland.

And Harmonia had to give it to Aella, the veteran was tough. She had put the mother through the wringer and still she was defiant enough to not only stay concious but to fight back. Harmonia had put Aella into a headlock, looking to keep her bad leg away from the action as Aellas arm shot out, clawing at the soft flesh of her thigh. Harmonia gave a highpitched screa, tears and spit running down her chin meeting there as she put her everything into choking Aella out.

"Aella...", Harmonia hissed through gritted teeth as she managed to lock the hold tighter. "Aella... Please...", she gagged and strained her biceps to put as much pressure on Aellas hurting head as she could. "Hate me... Mock me...but please... Please...", she whispered. "Don't look down on me. Please, don't look down on me...", she hissed and squeezed her arm around the head of the Veteran as hard as she could while the crowd looked on. Harmonia felt the strain and fatigue in her but she knew she could not ler herself or her fans down and so she pressed on despite her knee burning like hell, her vision blurring and her thigh starting to bleed...
"You can hurt me... as much as you want...but if you look down on me...it would kill me...", she pressed out through the pain.

[Bare]

Aella grunted and groaned in pain from Harmonia's submission hold, the STF being locked in tight and secure and worst of all painfully on her, making it hard to move, let along do anything. Even so Aella wasn't one to give in easily, and she wasn't about to allow Harmonia get off easily for locking her in such a hold, especially after dropping her head first on the steel steps.

So thinking quick she reached over, managing to grab hold of Harmonia's leg that she had been targeting all throughout the match, and she squeezed for all it was worth, digging her nails in painfully to her rivals knee to try and force her to let go of the submission and back off from her.

But despite the debilitating pain that must have been resonating from the knee Harmonia just refused to let go of the hold! 'Damn it! Why Won't she back off already!' Aella thought to herself, the rapidly depleting supply of air she had aking her more and more desperate by the second as she squeezed tighter and tighter on Harmonia's leg until she felt the tell tale warm stickiness that was blood slowly trickle down her fingers.

'Are you kidding me?!' Aella thought in pain as she struggled to hang on while Harmonia spoke, though Aella found herself confused since she hadn't said anything recently of looking down on Harmonia. Or at least, not since the quick apology from a few minutes ago.

Unfortunately Aella really didn't have the time or luxury to worry about it. Rather she was much more preoccupied with the position she was in and just how dangerously low her oxygen was as she gave one last final squeeze of Harmonia's leg, trying to make the pain so unbearably bad that the blonde had no other choice but to release her submission hold on Aella and back away from her all together.

However regardless of it worked or not wouldn't make a huge difference in what Aella would be able to do going forward. If it worked and forced Harmonia to back off of her than all Aella would be able to do would be to lay on the floor, trying desperately to breath and collect herself before even thinking of doing anything. If it didn't work however... than that last squeeze would double as her last hurrah before she would slump forward unconscious from the STF hold Harmonia had on her!

[RedShinigami]

This was more then about a simple victory. This was about unpaid debts, closing things and about honor. To prove to herself that no mountain was too big to climb for her, no task to difficult. Harmonia hurt all obellver, having been punished by the doctor/wrestler Aella Midori. Her knee was damaged, she did'nt knew how much but even the slightest touch felt as if her leg would fall off.

She had Aella in an STF, looking to keep her bad lev away from Aella who already had done enough to destroy it. It hindered Harmonia from performing her usual signature moveset and getting into a more technical style. But the Blonde could adapt. With trainers like Sia von Karnstein and Dana Ashford she had more then one trick up her sleeve and so she pulled the hold tight, all the muscles in her toned body strained as she grit her teeth, hoping that it would be enough to put Aella down.

And then Aella had slammed her nails into her thighs, making Harmonia scream in pain. The Blondes grip weakened the more the claws of the Queen of the Sky slammed into them and mixed with the already numbing pain in her right leg it was'nt possible for the Blonde to hold out any longer. Aellas movements weakened, she knew she had the Veteran at the brink of conciousness... A little more... Just a little more..., she told herself and held on, bravely and clenching her teeth, tears in her eyes as they mixed with the spity spraying out of Monis mouth, both women were hurt and it was clear that they would'nt last much longer.

Blood trickled down Harmonias tigh were here opponent had racked her silken skin. Tge red face of the Austrian, the veins in her neck and the shivers of her hurting body were all prove of the brave battle she thought, not backing down whatever the cost maybe...
"It... It's over Aella. It's... Over...", she managed to squeeze through gritted teeth.

[Bare]

Aella grunted and groaned in Harmonia's STF, suffering for what felt like hours when in reality it was probably only a few minutes. But such was the side effects one had to deal with when having a cranium as suffered as hers with all the head focused attacks Harmonia had delivered to her so far in this match. Not that the blonde had gotten off much easier considering the damage Aella had done to the blonde's leg, even now Aella was gripping as tight as possible to the point blood was being drawn from her nails at the force to try and make her Austrian foe let go.

Rather it almost looked as if the pain was making Harmonia double down more and more on the submission, tightening and causing even more damage to Aella's skull and wind pipe, things becoming increasingly more muffled and muted as time passed, the lights dimming around her as she started to get to her last dregs of oxygen. 'Dammit... not... yet.' Aella thought to herself, not wanting to lose too Harmonia here, or anywhere, but her body wasn't obeying her decision to fight back, or to claw harder, she was slowly but surely losing consciousness and there was nothing that Aella could do about it.

Eventually it became too much for Aella's battered brain and air deprived lungs to take and soon her eyes began to flutter shut before her head lulled forward, unconsciousness taking her as her hand finally stopped damage Harmonia's leg and fell limp against the floor, the Queen of the Skies being grounded for good as the ref came to check on her, grabbing her hand and lifting it up and letting it fall. Seeing this they would then lean to Harmonia and ask her to release the hold so they could start the ten count on Aella. Should she comply then the count would start!

[RedShinigami]

The Superstar would never honor her new name if she had lost this match. It only would have shown that her way was a longer one then she had anticipated. But the girl in the white and red colours was not the same Harmonia that Aella Midori had met at the Beach over a year ago. Harmonia Edelstein had become so much more, thanks to the help of her beloved Sensei, of her friends and of course, Molly. But at the end, what was most important was her will, her strongheaded attempts to rise to the top, beating every opponent that stood in her way and getting out of it victorious.

She did'nt hate Aella, in fact, she had much, much respect for the Queen of the Sky and her career and this match was one of the hardest the Blonde ever had to endure, only her bout with Rose Gold had been as exhausting and there she had been on the losing end, but here, right now, she could at least make good for one loss and when she felt the squirming of Aella getting softer and softer she new that she had to press on, despite her body screaming to give in. To let it be. Harmonia was in no shape to go on anymore, she could'nt even stand up properly thanks to her swollen knee. The talons of Aella who slammed into her thigh, ripping the ivory skin open did'nt help either and Harmonia let out a schrill scream of agony. For a moment she considered to let go, tending to her leg. What could Aella do? Harmonia had given her head such a beating that her brain had to be jello by now and still Harmonia knew that she was up against a master technician. If she would let go, Aella would come up with something that involved her knee and then it would be over. She could'nt let this happen so she put everything that her broken body had into her strong upper body, her biceps pressing into Aellas temples as she grit her teeth, her eyes clenched shut, her face a red, sweating grimace of pain.

And finally what seemed like forever, Aellas body went limp under her. Harmonia gasped , her eyes got open and she saw the last spasms of the Veterans body, felt the last attempts to scratch her thigh, now just a few soft strokes and when the ravenettes hand dropped down on the thinly padded mats of the outside of the ring, Harmonia knew what that meant. The referee came over and raised the arm of Aella, it dropped down immediatly. Then she looked to Harmonia, urging her to let go as she still pressed on tight as if her life depended on it. And finally,finally she could lay her body to rest as she slowy got her arm away from her opponent, rolling off of her.

Harmonia landed on her back, her arms outstretched to her sides, her fans next to her calling her, wearing her colours. She did'nt even hear them. The Superstar only felt the strain, the agony and dullness. Her brain sending every painkiller hormone possible into her system to ease the pain she went through. Harmonia saw the lights above her, shinging bright into her eyes that stung from the sweat that had dripped into them. Her chest rose and fell with the fast beating of her heart and only when the referee who stood between the two women started to count, she looked over to the still unconcious Aella. And then she did something that she did'nt understand quite herself as her hand softly moved, looking for Aellas hand and when she had it, she grabbed it tight. Did she do it conciously, was her painridden body just searching for the caring hand of a mother? Harmonia did'nt knew the answer but she knew that it felt right and she held on to Aellas hand, interlocking their fingers tight as the ref started to count...

[Bare]

Aella had been knocked unconscious. After an absolutely grueling war between the two women the veteran had succumbed to head trauma brought on early and late in the match that left it hard to think and stay conscious, especially when subjected to a long and grueling STF hold with no clear way of escaping. As a result she had fallen under and, as the ref asked Harmonia to back off so they could see if she would manage to beat the ten count, the blonde would do so.. But only to also grab hold of Aella's limb hand, something the ref didn't seem to notice, or care too much about as they started the count.

"One! Two! Three!"

No sign of life whatsoever from Aella aside from the rise and fall of her chest.

"Four! Five! Six!"

The scene of Aella and Harmonia holding hands despite the hellish match both had been through was already starting to circulate, all while Aella still showed no signs of rising.

"Seven! Eight! Nine!"

[RedShinigami]

Harmonia held on to Aella as tight as she could. Tears started to flow endlessly from her eyes, not just from the pain in her knee but from everything that had went down between them. Harmonia did'nt want to go further. It was enough, both women had shown each other what they were made of. The Blondes head was filled with memories of her and Aellas first encounter, the time after, the shame when she saw the picture and got harrassed by Aellas fans.

Now she had done it, now the transformation from the Caterpillar to the Butterfly was complete, the Crysallis finally broke entirely, leaving Superstar Harmonia soaring into the warmth of the sun. The Austrians body was shaking and she was in no shape of fighting back. If Aella could make it then her fate was sealed but she knew deep inside her that this would not happen. She had put much too much hurt on her opponent, the Queen of the Sky was out cold. It had ended.

The referee checked Aellas arm and did'nt give Harmonias grab for it not too much thought as she already saw that both of them were in no shape to go on. She started to count and with every number that brought the Blonde closer to victory, her heart started to get faster. Close, so close. Harmonia closed her eyes, pressing Aellas hand tight and then it happened...

TEN!

The referee waved her arms, the bell rang and the crowd errupted, jumping out of their seats as the riffs of Harmonias theme started to play and the Blondea body deflated, the tears now coming without a chance to stop them as she raised on arm, screaming like she had never done before, it was like as if a demon that had tortured her left her body when her loud and primal howl filled the ring area.
When Harmonia had done it tough, her arm dropped and she fell unconcious, having done everything she had to do. Her hands never left Aellas, intertwined like a daughter holding her mothers hand.

A few hours and a dire diagnose later it was Harmonia again who sat beside the bed of the Queen of the Sky, holding her hand with both her slender hands, waiting for her to awake. Her right knee, swollen to thrice its size, was wrapped in bandages. It hurt with every movement but Harmonia did'nt care. She just wanted to see Aella awake to talk to her.

[Bare]

Aella had been knocked out from the length and raw power behind Harmonia's STF hold, the move being too tight for even her to deal with, especially with Harmonia so desperate to keep it locked in that she even withstood the pain of what Aella had done to her leg, likely risking some form of long term damage. In the end though that risk had paid off for the Austrian native and now as a result the ref had finally reached the ten count, bringing an official conclusion to the long and brutal match between Harmonia and Aella with Harmonia's victory.

Naturally it wouldn't be long before medical staff who had already been on stand by came to stretcher out both women, the unconscious Aella as well as Harmonia who's leg had been pretty heavily damaged as a result of the contest between them.

"Ugh..." Not too long after she had been taken and set up in the medical area of LAW Aella would groan softly as she slowly came awake, her head positively throbbing from all the damage Harmonia had done to it during their match. A match that was very, very foggy, which was never really a good sign, especially since the last thing she remembered was being in a submission hold... Yeah that meant she probably lost. "Crap." Aella said to herself, a bit frustrated at herself, but overly upset, after all she was no sore loser, but still a win would have been nice..

"Hm?" Before she could lament things much further though Aella felt a warm touch on hands and raised an eye brow, turning to see none other than her former opponent at her bedside clutching her hands. "Whats this?" Aella asked confused but not upset, really she was just surprised Harmonia felt this concerned. Sure she was pretty remorseful about their beach incident but Aella didn't think it was that bad, or that the girl would feel so guilty for koing her.

Deciding she wanted some context Aella decided to get the attention of the seemingly spaced out Harmonia with a flick of her fingers against the girl's head. "Edelstein, everything alright?" Aella asked curiously, waiting to see just what kinda of reaction she got back from the blonde.