Courage Takemi vs Tiki Lowell

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'I can still fight!' She told herself as her body hit the canvas. "I've gotten this far! I won't just give up!" She managed to find her breath to vocalize her next thought.

She was bold and determined, that much was clear. But the bout thus far had been all Tiki. Courage hadn't gotten in a single bit of offense. Regardless of what she tried the other woman seemed to have her marked. Perhaps this was the difference between a Young Lioness and someone who was on the main stages of LAW proper. She closed her eyes tightly as Tiki moved to lie across her body. She was relentless!

No. It was more than that.

Since the start of the bout Courage had allowed Tiki to set the rhythm. She'd let her call when the attacks came. And from what angle. Courage, in all her eagerness, had been following the other woman's choreography. And if Courage kept dancing to her music, she was surely going to get beat!

"SORRRYAAAA!" She screamed triumphantly! The sort of scream meant to accompany a big attack! It was partially done to surprise Tiki. But it was mostly done because of the effort she was putting into her next action!

Before Tiki could fully settle her weight down atop her, Courage began to roll! She turned her body, turning herself over and over to slip away from Tiki and to slide under the ropes. It looked silly! But she needed to put space between them! And if she was able to do so, she would fall to the outside of the ring upon her knees. The pain caused her to wince... But it also put a smile on her face. She could feel them again. That meant she could stand. She could still fight!

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Tiki thought she was ending the match, but Courage just didn't stay down. The snark in the veteran was tempted to ask where exactly the idol had gotten, but she just smirked internally and kept it to herself. Tiki did, however, have another thought that she voiced aloud as she stood up once Courage began rolling away, "Where does this much sheer fight come from?"

For all Courage's fight, she still recognized that trying to scrap with Tiki just wasn't working out for her, and escaped beyond the ring to recover. She didn't the idol fall, or her reaction to landing, as both were blocked by the ring itself. But Tiki did hear the kind of thud that signaled that Courage's landing was less than clean, something the veteran could take advantage of.

Tiki was not normally one to follow opponent's outside of the ring, but she knew that blood was in the water. Courage was battered, and likely out of position to defend herself if Tiki got there quickly enough. So she ran after the idol, pulled herself up and jumped over the top rope, and dropped down. Tiki would not try to land on the floor, but on Courage directly, flattening her down to the cold floor beneath the veteran's feet.

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"Haah... Haah..." Courage panted as she got both of her feet under her! Her heavy breasts heaved with each labored breath. Her sweat soaked into her leotard causing it to cling even tighter to her curvy figure. She was battered and exhausted. But darn it, she was still conscious! That had to count for something!

She wouldn't give up! She'd keep on fighting! But doing so without any sort of plan or intelligent defense was just as good as quitting! 'I'll show the whole world...' She was halfway through bolstering herself when she heard the pounding of Tiki's footsteps! They interrupted her chain of thought... She was coming!

Her relentless opponent leapt over the ropes, throwing herself bodily at Courage! She'd noticed in time... but she was still too weak to run. Or to even walk! Tiki loomed above her like the sword of Damocles. She was destined to go down...

Courage's feet left the ground! 'I'll show the whole world that I'm someone they can believe in!' If she was going to go down, then she'd do it her way! She channelled the grace and acrobatic acumen she'd acquired from a lifetime of coprdinated dance! She threw herself backwards and timed her descent with Tiki's! And when she was in the perfect position, Courage's right leg would slam upward in a bicycle kick! Her shin digging into the side of her foes neck in a kicking feat that would make Ronaldo proud!

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Tiki made such an aggressive move beyond the ring because she had reasoned that with the surplus of damage that Courage had already taken over the course of the match, and the lack of time she'd had to recover and get up, that there should be no way that the idol could ever be able to get out of the way of an attack so long as the veteran went for it as quickly as possible.

Tiki had no idea what the mistake in her thinking was, but Courage was about to prove that it was definitely there. The busty brunette shot her leg up at Tiki's neck, and this time it connected, a Bicycle Kick counter that stopped the veteran's attack completely by virtue of sending her flying back into the ring apron. Before Tiki fell to the floor outside the mat, she reached out with her arm and grabbed onto the bottom rope.

"Wherever did that come from?" said Tiki as she rubbed her neck and pulled herself up. Once there, she rolled back under the ropes and into the ring, allowing Courage to come back in freely on her own terms. The greenette had certainly been surprised, but she wasn't so concerned as to fear that she may lose now. There was no reason that she shouldn't still be able to dominate the idol.

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Courage felt her shin bounce off of Tiki's neck! She felt it sink past the muscles and snap against bone!

It was jarring. She hardly ever struck someone. The dull ache of impact reverberated through her leg. She didn't expect kicking someone to hurt so much! But it seemed to hurt Tiki much more. Causing her to slump and slide out of the ring!

Courage took the opportunity to pull herself onto the apron and roll under the ropes. Tiki was already up and beginning to roll into the ring. 'No!' she thought! 'It hasn't been long enough... I haven't recovered enough!'. But of course, it wouldn't keep her down... Courage had hit barely any offense the entire match.

She managed to get to her feet. Her legs were still shakey from the vicious attack to her groin. But they worked!

Courage rushed towards the corner as Tiki slipped under the bottom rope! She leapt, her left foot planting on the second rope. Her right foot braced upon the top one! And with another push of her knees, Courage sent herself arcing through the air! A graceful moonsault with lightning execution! The result of a lifetime of choreographed dance and gymnastics stunts! The strength of an idol! And she aimed to send it all down upon Tiki before she could manage to make it to her feet!

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The hit that Tiki took from Courage was undeniably jarring, but it was also the first real hit that she had taken during the match, so the durable veteran was able to recover rather quickly and easily. The look on the idol's face told Tiki that the brunette had been hoping her attack had done more, but the greenette just had to look down to the shaking in Courage's stance to have a likely explanation for why it hadn't.

Despite uncertain legs, Courage still charged in, desperately looking to press the success she had earned. The rookie all but ran up the ropes before leaping off towards Tiki, flipping in midair as she tried to catch Tiki with a Moonsault while she tried to stand. But the veteran had time to react since she had kept a watchful eye on Courage, so instead of standing, Tiki stayed down and went to her back, holding her knees above her body for the idol to land on.

Once that happened, Tiki would open her legs for Courage to fall between them before clamping shut around her. The veteran would then swing the rookie away from the ropes and slam her onto the mat. From there, Tiki would simply maintain and tighten the grip her legs already had on Courage, locking her up with a Bodyscissor. Tiki's body blocked off the idol's access to the ropes which were by far the closest, so Courage would really have to work if she wanted to escape.

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Courage's acrobatics had a smooth grace to them, even weakened. Her aerial manuevers were performed with full commitment, full confidence! It made for beautiful mid-flight snapshots as she descended towards her target!

And it meant that she was completely unprepared for the counter-attack!

"BUEGH!!" A horrible sound escaped her lips as Tiki's knees buried themselves just beneath her breasts! All of her weight impaled her own ribs upon the cruel bones of Tiki's knees! Her eyes went wild and her hands snapped to her mouth to keep from losing her lunch!

She convulsed and presented no physical argument as Tiki easily wrangled her into a body scissors!

"HA! IYAAAAH!" She shrieked and kicked her boots as Tiki's body scissor crushed her destroyed mid-section!

It was a grindy hold usually meant to smother and suffocate someone by doing damage to their abdomen. But the damage to Courage's ribs made it agonizingly painful as well!

"AHHHHN! N-NOOO!" Her hands pressed at Tiki's knees with a feral desperation to relieve some of the pain as her eyes went glassy and the frames of her glasses began to fill with tears.

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Not going for off the ropes aerials that lead with anything other than your knees or feet was something that Tiki was actually planning on teaching to her student Niko in the near future. So Tiki was actually somewhat thankful to Courage for giving her a recent, personal example of what happens when you try to land with your body. Not that the veteran would actually express that to Courage, as it would just come off as mocking and tasteless to the idol.

Once Tiki locked in the Bodyscissors, it didn't look like Courage was going to be able to get out. But it also looked like she wasn't going to submit anytime soon. The brunette had already broken free from one of Tiki's attempts at ending the match when the greenette had held back earlier, so to both ensure that the match was put away, and to show respect to Courage for the fight she put up, Tiki would put everything she had into her next finisher.

Tiki would release her Bodyscissor and pick Courage upside down onto her shoulder. Next, the veteran would drop down hard to her butt, jolting the idol with a Muscle Buster. Once that hit, Tiki wouldn't let Courage drop to the floor, instead leaning back while pulling the idol's legs down and wrapping her legs around the brunette's neck for a Headscissor, so that even if Courage refused to tap still, she would eventually pass out. It was one of Tiki's two finishers that she considered to be her guaranteed match enders: Dragon's Fire.

Dragon's Fire

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The body scissors kept Courage docile save for the screaming! It hurt too much to even struggle now! Was she... was she going to be crushed? This couldn't be how it ended!

"Nn-Ahh!!! N-NO!" She refused to give up, denying before the ref could even ask!

She wouldn't... She wouldn't let it! She'd wait for the right opportunity to escape! To turn this around! If she just kept her spirit up she could survive! Her body was breaking... But she'd MAKE it listen!

And suddenly the body scissor was released! The sudden influx of air shocked her system! All of the tension was gone and her lungs filled so quickly that she was left in a coughing fit!

By the time she drew in her first clean breath she was upside down! There was no ceremony. No pausing. No delay. She was turned inside out in a single fluid movement! "W-WAI-"

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Tiki hadn't waited. The muscle buster compressed her spine and nearly seperated her hips. Her legs spread so wide that her leotard slipped between the alluring valley of her lower lips. Tiki's grasp kept her thighs splayed. It left her exposed. Plump and blushing through her sheer hose.

Her glasses were shaken free by the impact. Her beautiful emerald eyes lost their shine, becoming dull unpolished jades. Her frames landed upon the canvas shattering!

Unmoving, it was no effort at all for Tiki to transition the brutal powermove into a vicious choke! She pulled upon Courage's legs like some twisted work-out machine! They spread further than seemed possible, causing her leotard to floss deeper betwixt the petals of her flower. And to force those petals to bloom just slightly!

The choke had only been locked in for a second before she started to convulse. Her throat trembled as she gurgled. Tears ran down her cheeks and her tongue began to loll and her mouth foamed. Her face turned dark woth asphyxiation... She'd never tap.

But this time it had nothing to do with willpower. Tiki's violent finisher had put her out immediately!

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It was over in an instant. Crash, squeeze, bell. Tiki hadn't meant to knock Courage out so suddenly, but it looked as though the brunette's body had just... given out on her. It was evident that Courage was pushing her body to a great extent in order to keep herself in the match against the overwhelming veteran. But eventually, if you mind wouldn't give up, your body would do it for you, and that's what happened to Courage.

"Onto the semifinal," said Tiki as she gently released Courage to the floor, leaving the battered idol face up on the canvas. She'd taken a moment to adjust Courage's leotard, trying to cover the idol up a bit more since she was unable to in her current state. "Maybe Dragon's Fire was a bit much, or at least i should've went for it earlier," the greenette said to herself. "Sorry, if you can hear me."

Despite Tiki's more muted demeanor, the crowd was roaring with praise and applause. It was a clinical, near perfect performance from than veteran against an opponent who was considered respectably competent within the promotion. It was a level of ability that even a casual fan could recognize and appreciate. Tiki didn't look to just be a championship favorite in Queen of the Ring, but a fan favorite as well.

Winner by KO: Tiki Lowell