The Shadow Lord Brings the Cheer!

[ADarlingDucky]

Attempting to walk away from Yoko and find some place that they could talk in peace, Ducky and GASTER didn't make it very far before the heavyweight's hand shot out to shove GASTER back onto the bench, the blonde woman apparently having a bigger beef with GASTER than with Ducky, the blonde slightly keying in on this through her words. Still though, if these two knew one another, it was all the more likely that Clara was going to be on the receiving end of some bullying, and Ducky had been through enough herself tonight.

As Yoko began to walk slowly towards Clara in what was clearly a threatening manner, Ducky slid in behind her, staring daggers at the larger woman as she stuck out a foot in an attempt to trip Yoko and send her to the floor! And knowing that this was likely to set Yoko off, Ducky backed up a tad to avoid any immediate retaliation, glaring down at Yoko.

"Alright, last warning. Turn around and take a hike or we're going for round two, and I have backup this time!" Ducky growled, doing her best to scare off the woman who just beat her, hoping that GASTER would indeed hop in if worse came to worse!

[Vc0m]

"Oh?", Yoko would turn to Ducky, GASTER sighing in relief in knowledge that her new friend had her back:

"So...a girl who is scared shitless of me, and a girl I choked the life out of think they can take me on?", Yoko would explain, looking at both GASTER and Ducky with an intense look...

...before throwing her head back, and howling with laughter:

"Could beat you both up, but I am plenty tired myself...and I need to get my sis from her wrestling training. So I'll beat you two losers up later", Yoko would say, collecting her bag from a nearby bench, and walking off, Clara hoping she wouldn't have to content with the Japanese blonde again...ever:

"I am so...sorry about this, Ms. Ducky...", the Shadow Lord hung her head low...

[ADarlingDucky]

Glaring at Yoko, Ducky wasn't sure what she'd be able to do in her beaten down state, still weary and in quite a fair amount of pain from the match, but she had zero plans to let Yoko try and walk all over her, trusting that GASTER would be there if worse came to worse in order to back her up, neither of them fans of the bigger blonde.

However, it wouldn't come to that in the end, as Yoko would eventually pick up her bag off the bench, giving a few parting words before taking off, slipping out of the locker room and leaving Ducky and GASTER alone again.

At GASTER's apology, Ducky turned and raised an eyebrow before speaking.

"What are you apologizing for? Not your fault that she's an asshole. But anyway, let's forget about it, you and I can go talk somewhere else." Ducky said, ready to leave this match behind her and continue on!

[Vc0m]

"I just...feel she would've left us alone had I not been here...", she would explain to Ducky, right as the curvy American blonde offered to take the discussion some place else:

"Oh! U-uuum...sure!", she nodded upon deliberating for a second: "There is a cafe not too far from the arena. We can go there! I'll wait for you outside the locker room!"

And with that, she left the locker room, standing right beside the door into it to let the Blonde change her clothes in peace...

[ADarlingDucky]

With Yoko gone, Ducky and GASTER would both relax, GASTER feeling guilt over the thought of bringing the harassment upon them, even though Ducky shrugged off the notion without a second thought, assuring the Shadow Lord that it wasn't her fault. From there, GASTER would vacate the locker room and allow Ducky to change back into some normal clothes, the blonde wrestler ditching her singlet for now and slipping on a pair of yoga pants and a t-shirt, opting for something more comfortable!

After swapping her attire, she would make her way out of the locker and find GASTER outside, giving a nod to her newly met friend, motioning for her to lead the way to this cafe she mentioned!

"So, what's the deal GASTER? You were just in the neighborhood after I got my ass kicked, or you wanted to come find me for something?" Ducky inquired, curious as to why the masked lightweight had approached her in the first place!

[Vc0m]

"Hmmmm...yes! Mwahahaha! I came here to make you my minion!", Clara played her character up, walking in front of Ducky as the two ladies walked out of the LAW Arena and towards the cafe. With the tense situation because of Yoko earlier, the masked Brit felt the need to discharge the situation with a bit of humor, hoping to make her new friend laugh, before turning herself back to the conversation at hand:

"As you could've told from that...encounter, I have history with Yoko. I saw the match advertised tonight...and felt a rush of anxiety over this. I felt she might do something, either before, during or after the match...and even if I am much weaker than her, I believed that I could've helped if the situation after the match got too dire. You got away lightly. After she beat me in our match, she put me in holds for 10 minutes straight, belittling me, telling me to quit wrestling...and I almost did...", she held on to her mask: "So needless to say, I didn't want a fate like that on someone else...", she concluded her explanation.

[ADarlingDucky]

Smiling at GASTER's teasing, Ducky would follow the lightweight wrestler as she led the way, while also listening as she explained why she had been backstage in the first place, piquing the blonde's interest firstly before she heard what Yoko had done. It was no surprise to Ducky that a woman as vile as Yoko was would pick on someone much smaller than her, and it only fueled Ducky's anger towards the larger woman, internally vowing to get revenge for both herself and GASTER.

"Figures... what a disgusting woman..." Ducky muttered, more to herself than to GASTER, but continued to follow the masked girl as she led the way, distracted a bit now by thoughts of revenge.

[Vc0m]

"I used...language a lot more colourful to describe her in private...", GASTER laughed as her and Ducky slowly reached the bar, simply titled "British Palace".

This was when Clara realized her mask was still on...and appearing with it on in public felt quite weird and unnatural to her. She glanced at Ducky:

"I forgot to take my mask off...", she said in half-joking tone before pulling it off, revealing her face to Ducky, as she opened the door for her to enter the bar...

[ADarlingDucky]

Reaching where Clara had been leading them, Ducky would watch as the lightweight wrestler removed her mask, revealing quite the cute face before she opened the door, allowing Ducky to enter the bar ahead of her! Walking inside, Ducky would wait for GASTER to catch up before resuming her conversation with the lightweight woman, deciding to switch to a lighter topic than both women would have a bit of an easier time discussing, neither one seeming to want to discuss Yoko anymore!

"So, what's up with the mask and stuff? You bout scared me out of my clothes back in the locker room." Ducky asked, a slight chuckle accompanying her question for the chuuni!

[Vc0m]

"Oh! Sorry for that...", Clara apologized and scratched the side of her head with an awkward smile: "I'm...not fully comfortable with people seeing my face backstage. You never know if you could encounter someone who you can upset with an off comment and have them track you down to a Supermarket you frequent to beat you up...", Clara explained with a suspiciously specific example.

The two ladies would sit down at the bar stand, ordering herself "the usual" (meaning a non-alcoholic Mojito), and looked at Ducky for her to choose her drink...