L.A.W. - League of Anime Wrestling

"Uuugh... this sucks..." Came a low groan from the corner of the locker room, the voice belonging to none other than the fan favorite wrestler Ducky Williams. However, though usually in a good mood and full of smiles, tonight had been quite a rough night for the blonde bombshell, having taken a rough loss in a match against quite the mean spirited woman.

Now, backstage, Ducky was trying her best to shake off the sore throat and massive headache she had, products of the end of her match with Yoko, the blonde sitting on the floor up against the lockers!

"Well, on the bright side... I don't think this night could possibly go any worse for me." Ducky grumbled to herself, deciding to just sit in peace for a moment, trying to shake off the sadness she felt!

Clara Gaster couldn't say she hated a lot of people. There are people she definitely disliked. Rosie, Xiuying...but even at the very worst, she wouldn't call them enemies, rather preferring to call them antagonistic rivals.

There was, however, one woman on top of her dislike list...on that she absolutely hated - Yoko Kitsune.

The woman pretended to be her friend for several months in her native Newcastle, before she turned on her for her losses...and in the subsequent match, utterly destroyed and humiliated her. Had it not been for her sister, the shame from that match would've been enough to hang her boots for good.

And when it was announced that Yoko was coming to LAW...Clara screamed. Into a pillow, to not wake up the neighbors...but she was unbelievably upset at her worst demon coming back to haunt her in her new home company. She hoped that Yoko and her never cross paths ever again...

...but...she knew this was not a way to go about things. Yoko would continue to do what she always liked - beat up and humiliate rookie wrestlers, and aim their careers off track, like she did with her. And in her debut match, she expected that to happen, as Yoko faced one of LAW's biggest underdogs (besides herself), in Ducky Williams. Clara liked poking her head at the woman's matches now and again. She had great technical skill...and her assets gave her quite the edge in smother matches Clara found of the woman outside of LAW...the match type looking more and more fun to the Shadow Lord, especially after the hands on experience with Clara Kennedy..

Clara was in the arena for Yoko vs Ducky, sitting backstage...and saw Ducky do a lot better than she expected, but still coming up short to the large Japanese blonde, with Yoko further demeaning Ducky post match.

As Yoko came from the ring...Clara hid in between the lockers out of woman's site, as she got undressed to head into the showers. She did not want to interact with Yoko whatsoever...

...but she had to comfort the losing Ducky, as she came into the locker room, and moped about her loss...

...and didn't let it get her down too much, as it seemed!

"Y-yeah!", Clara would remark at Ducky's words, coming out from between the lockers wearing her casual clothes...and her smiley mask:

"That's the spirit, Ms. Ducky!"

Sitting on the ground and trying to cheer herself up, Ducky was completely unaware of the other figure that resided in the locker room with her, still focusing on looking on the bright side of things! That was why when GASTER finally made her presence known, popping out from between the lockers in order to help cheer up the bombshell, it had the effect of giving Ducky quite a startle!

"Aaack!" The blonde startled, shooting upwards as the Shadow Lord popped out, causing her head to swing up and slam into the locker she was sitting against, with quite a loud clang!

Ducky instantly doubled back over and brought her hands to the back of her head, clutching where she had just slammed into the locker, hissing in pain as she was proven wrong immediately!

"Ow ow ow ow! Aawww... So I guess now it can't get any worse..." The blonde groaned out in a particularly defeated sounding voice, now having a dull pain in the back of her head on top of her pounding headache. Still, after a second of nursing her head, she was reminded of the girl in her presence, looking upwards at the masked woman.

"You... you're GASTER, right? The Shadow Lord?" Ducky said, clarifying who she was looking at, while also pondering what would have brought the lightweight wrestler here!

"Ah!", GASTER let out as Ducky, startled, rose up and hit her head on the locker, the masked Brit rushing towards the blonde to help her:

"I am so sorry! Are you ok?", she apologized, sitting down with Ducky as she sarcastically and depressingly responded that this cannot get any worse, Clara feeling horrible about herself as she sat down with the curvy woman.

"Y-yes! Hello! I-I am not really as big of a Shadow Lord when I am outside of the ring however...", Clara answered, scratching the back of her head as she left her mask on for now. She got positive vibes from the American blonde...but chose to keep her mask on if anyone else waltzed into the locker room...or if someone came back from the showers:

"I-I wanted to ask...are you alright? After your match, I mean..."

Rubbing her head where she had smacked against the locker, Ducky would ignore the dull pain that she felt as Clara moved to sit next to, seemingly bashful about having spooked Ducky, though she didn't remove her mask yet.

Ducky herself would eventually sit back up, giving her head a final rub as she turned to reply to GASTER's question, taking a moment to consider it before actually answering.

"Eh, I'll be alright. Losing isn't new to me. And it wouldn't be the first time I've come back from getting my ass kicked. Just means it'll be that much sweeter when I finally get to take her down." Ducky said, solemn after such a loss, but only resolving to come back better and take Yoko down a peg when she was finally ready to!

"Y-yes! That's the spirit!", GASTER positively replied, believing that her blonde new acquaintance could, with enough time, beat the heavyweight...

"U-uuumm..."

The cheeks under the lightweight's mask reddened:

"I-I have actually seen a couple of your matches online...particularly the ones of a...smother-y...variety. I have to say I am actually a bit of a fan...", Clara would tell Ducky with a nervous giggle.

Feeling a bit better now that she had managed to take her mind off the loss that she had just suffered to the blonde heavyweight, Ducky was more focused now on her conversation with GASTER, the Shadow Lord pausing for a second before continuing.

With a tone that clearly conveyed a bit of embarrassment at even bringing the subject up, GASTER would tell Ducky that she had watched some of the blonde's smother matches that she'd been in, and was actually a fan of them! Ducky's eyes widened a tad, as she hadn't thought that GASTER was the kind of person to be interested in such matches, the Shadow Lord having seemed to be more all about her character work and technical skill in standard matches. Still, it was a pleasant surprise!

"Heh... thank you! Most folks are always telling me how much they love the smother matches, but it means a lot!" Ducky said with a giggle, happy to find that another wrestler would enjoy some of the more softcore stuff she had done!

"Perhaps I could take you on in a smother match sometime?" Ducky asked with a playful tone, curious to see if the Shadow Lord would take her up on such an offer!

"Hahaha, I imagine so! You are quite a l-looker, after all...", GASTER would compliment Ducky...right as the curvy blonde offered her something for later:

"Oh! Umm...aahhh...grhmmm...I-I...maybe later?", the Shadow Lord responded, taken aback by the question.

As Ducky and Clara continued their discussion, suddenly, a loud voice boomed from the locker room...a voice that made Clara's blood run cold:

"Ooooo...who do I spy...with my little eye...a cute little duck...aaaaaaaaaand..."

Clara kept looking at Ducky, not giving any satisfaction to the woman who just entered the locker room. Why was she here? To bully Ducky more? Could the 2 of them possibly take the blonde giantess down if push came to shove?

...but the thought made shivers go down Clara's spine.

"Hey, masked lady...you should look people in the eyes when they are talking to you..."

As Yoko, the woman who beat Ducky not even an hour ago, approached the duo in the locker room, Clara kept her attention on Ducky, trying to whisper to her: "Sh-should we leave?"

Talking with GASTER on the floor of the locker room, Ducky's mood had been slowly lifting throughout her conversation with the lightweight, though soon enough that would change, as her foe from tonight soon made her presence known.

"You... ugh." Ducky grumbled under her breath, all to annoyed at the presence of her foe who was here to mock her.

Ducky was quick enough to rise to her feet, feeling a bit of a head rush but still getting up, turning to GASTER slightly as the smaller girl asked a question, seemingly quite worried about being around Yoko.

"Yeah, we can leave. Let the big bad winner have her day in the sun." Ducky said with a somewhat pointed look at Yoko, as if to signal to the blonde that their business wasn't done after just one match.

Still, Ducky would walk past her, turning and motioning for GASTER to join her so the two could continue to talk somewhere else.

Yoko, already changed into her street clothes of a t-shirt, jacket and jeans, stared down at the 2 ladies, whom she trumped with her size:

"Me!", she exclaimed with a smile when Ducky realized she was here. Clara would mention leaving the locker room to talk elsewhere, and the American blonde took her up on that, stepping past Yoko as the woman eyed her with an evil gaze.

The masked Brit tried to do the same...

...only for Yoko to put her large hand in front of her. The Shadow Lord looked up, as she saw Yoko's smile turn into a frown: "Is taht how you meet old friends, you masked freak?"

With that, Yoko would push her hand forward, practically shoving Clara right onto the bench behind her!

"Aaah!", she yelped in surprise: "Friends? You don't even know what that word, means..."

In response, Yoko started to threateningly walk towards Clara. The masked chuuni fearfully stared her down from her position...knowing that things could turn ugly unless Ducky intervened somehow...and yet, wishing she didn't, knowing that her new acquaintance had had enough of the big bad Japanese blonde for one day...