Kyoko Akan (c) vs W Y V E R N for the LAW Middleweight Championship

[Fairy Dragon]

The loud click of Wyvern's teeth next to her cheek made Kyoko hustle, the second time time might not miss. "Crazy bitch.." Kyoko muttered in disbelief that Wyvern was still fighting this hard when her body was clearly telling her to stop. She was stepping back to the center of the ring and ready to move before Wyvern could try anything else, her struggles wouldn't stop Kyoko from falling back and dropping her down with the Akan Buster. The loud impact was enough to make the crowd wince, knowing that Wyvern was taking the move in a poor state and would end up worse after that. This time she was sure that Wyvern would actually stay down, but she resisted the desire to go for the pin and instead make sure that Wyvern wasn't going to give her any more surprises. The Belly Queen had to make a statement here and now.

"Let's see you break this one." Kyoko said turning to grab Wyvern's unbroken arm and pulling that in a fujiwara armbar like before and tightening the hold. The crowd booed the move, wondering why Kyoko would go for this after hitting the Akan Buster and seeing the state Wyvern was in, the Belly Queen ignored the protests and focused on gaining her victory. "This match is over Wyvern, you have nothing left!" Kyoko shouted, pulling on the arm. This time she'd be ready if Wyvern tried to escape the same way since she knew by now it was the only way she could try and that Wyvern was crazy enough to do it.

[Hills]

The Akan Buster was a devastatingly powerful move against even the freshest opponent. Wyvern was amongst the toughest competitors in the middleweight division; if there had been any doubt about that before, it had been laid to rest by this match. To continue fighting even with her arm shattered, an injury she had inflicted on herself, was a level of dedication and endurance few could match. And that had been after an extended, exhausting fight. At full strength, Wyvern might have been able to withstand the impact of the Belly Queen's most powerful finisher.

Might.

Wyvern is spared another round of jarring torment from her shoulder only because the Akan Buster knocks her senseless at the moment of impact. The ferocious fighter goes dead in the champion's arms, dropping bonelessly to the mat as she's released from Kyoko's iron grip. If it weren't for the ragged breathes coming out of her mouth, it would almost seem as if the champion's first defense had ended in an outright murder. When Kyoko doesn't immediately go for the pin, the referee swiftly begins a 10-count, hoping the match was finally reaching its end, but stops uncomfortably as the Belly Queen makes her intentions clear and locks in the second armbar. For a few seconds, there's no reaction from the trapped challenger, either unconscious or in too much pain to fight back or submit. After a moment, however...

"W-well...this is...c-cute..."

Wyvern's voice is hoarse, barely audible over the disapproving roars of the crowd, but in this moment they might as well have not been there at all. Neither of the fighters in the ring had any care at all for what the audience thought. Exhaustion and pain cause her to trip over her words, as if barely able to get them out of her mouth, but there's a hint of unbroken steel in her tone. Her body is nearly finished, but her spirit is still defiant.

"D-do y-you really th-think...I won't...?"

In front of Kyoko's eyes, the fingers of Wyvern's trapped hand curl into a fist, and she begins straining against the armbar, trying once again to pull the champion to the mat in order to escape. The effort is doomed from the start. The fact that she can even muster up enough power for Kyoko to feel the difference already beggars belief; but with only one arm, she doesn't have the leverage necessary to upset Kyoko's position, and with the Belly Queen ready for the attempt it's dubious even that would have been enough. None of this seems to deter the Scarmaker, who continues her fruitless struggle against the inescapable submission hold.

[Fairy Dragon]

The Akan Buster could've finished the match, Kyoko was sure of that. But she refused to give Wyvern the moral victory of kicking out of it and would go to a submission she knew that Wyvern wasn't kicking out of in her condition. Without a working arm to help her she could only flail once she started to come too, barely reacting to the pain like a normal human would and trying to pull her arm free. She can't get far, lacking the leverage needed anywhere else to help her and Kyoko still being well enough to shut it all down. It doesn't stop Wyvern from trying to break out even when it looks like her body is going to give out before she even gets close to freedom. Kyoko settles in and starts to pull back, leaving the fans uncomfortable at how things are looking for Wyvern's other arm.

"Not before I do!" Kyoko said before she really started to pull. The ref saw what was happening and looked to Kyoko and Wyvern as if both were crazy. She began asking Wyvern if she gave up, almost sounding like she was pleading for the challenger to do so before the situation reached the inevitable. Kyoko could laugh, all three of them knew what was going to happen next, they were only playing it out as if it were fate. Kyoko would continue to pull and resist Wyvern's escape, bending the arm to it's breaking point and beyond...what happened next was up to the challenger.

[Hills]

Wyvern looks back into the referee's pleading eyes and exhortations for her surrender with a cold disgust. She had tapped out before. She wasn't proud of that, but she wasn't ashamed of it, either. Every match she wasn't able to keep going until she or her opponent fell apart under the strain was a disappointment, but she couldn't commit her entire self to every opponent. Some injuries would never heal properly. She needed to consider the entire rest of her career, because to lose the ability to wrestle would be to lose herself. To throw it all away for another few seconds of exhiliration would be foolish. A match, win or lose, was just a match.

But this was a fight.

The greatest battle of her career, on the largest stage. Part of the climax of one of LAW's largest shows. She might never get another chance like this in her life. To fight against a champion, to put everything she was on the line. Hundreds of thousands of eyes were on her, and while that normally meant nothing, in this one instance she found herself desperate to prove herself. To be seen as who she was. She might never be this visible again, and she had to be sure. For one pair of eyes in particular, she wanted to leave no doubts. Her endurance. Her strength. Her conviction. After this, she would be sure that nobody would ever question her again.

The referee calls for her submission once more. She spits on the ground, splattering a gob of fluid on the canvas that is more blood than spit. She summons the last of her strength. It's enough to break something. Whether that's Kyoko's grip or herself is immaterial.

"ENOUGH! It's over!"

Finally pushed past their limits, the referee leaps to their feet to put a stop to the match. They might have shown more lenience to injury and skirting of the rules here than in a normal match, but this was beyond any rational allowance. The match was over, the winner was decided, and they weren't going to wait until the crazy bitch died rather than admit it. They call for the bell.

The clanging signal of the match's end seems to flip a switch in the Scarmaker, and she goes limp in Kyoko's hands. All resistance is vanishes in a moment, and the taut thread of consciousness sustained by her will snaps. Pain and exhaustion snuff out Wyvern's consciousness.

It is done.

[Fairy Dragon]

The snap wasn't a surprise this time. Wyvern wanted to fight until her body burned out and everything she threw at a foe was stopped and thrown back at her until it crushed her. Kyoko Akan was that opponent, breaking her other arm when Wyvern's struggles wouldn't stop and forcing the ref to end the match before this continued. This match would end by referee stoppage and no one would dispute the outcome after seeing what happened to Wyvern's other arm. Kyoko Akan let the arm go when her music played laying next to her now unconscious challenger now that she let the pain take over and passed out once the fight was over. The words 'and still Middleweight Champion, Kyoko Akan' would blare through the arena thanks to the announcer as the ref dumped the title by Kyoko and went to check on the injured challenger. Even though the crowd didn't like the result they were still in awe at the resistance and grit the challenger showed, putting her body on the line for this one moment, a fight that they would never forget and one that would prove Wyvern to be a fighter unlike any other in world of wrestling. In the end maybe that's all she wanted, a true fight to show what mattered to her in this sport.

On the other end, Kyoko Akan knew she got what she wanted when she hugged that belt against her. Her first title defense and she was put against a maniac that refused to stay down unless Kyoko was ready to kill her to do it. She was the first to say something like that and actually prove she meant it, and Kyoko proved she was ready to see it through if it meant her hand was raised. Every time she thought she found her limit, she was pushed harder and surprised herself. Maybe the Belly Queen had no limit, maybe she was just meant to be the best. She liked that thought, standing up and holding a title in each hand while looking at the people gathering around Wyvern to check on her. All the Queen did was give Wyvern's body a bow before she raised both titles. "Get used to this image! Burn it into your brains! This is just the first of many!" Kyoko said to louder boos. This was just the start, how could she top this? She didn't know how, but she knew that she would...and she was excited to remind them that Kyoko Akan was simply the best there was.