Viper Hoshiwara vs. Irene Kanzaki - Hardcore Match

[CaptainL]

For a hardcore match, it was perhaps later than expected that the weapons would come out. Viper had been able to coast along on her innate wrestling prowess thus far. But now, she saw her opportunity! As she whipped out the chain and threw it around Irene's throat, Viper pulled back, tightening the length of cold steel around her opponent's neck. The crowd was aghast; some voices booed her, while others simply looked on in shock at the depths of brutality Viper was willing to go to. But no reaction would stop the green-haired girl from slowing down, as she pulled back harder to reel in her catch.

Irene brought up her hands, pulling against the chain to try and even out the pressure. Undeterred, Viper gave a harder tug, trying to outpace her, as they were dragged from one side of the ring to the other. When that didn't work, however, Viper stepped up her game. Raising her foot, she aimed a stomp against the side of Irene's ribs to try and silence her attempts at resistance!

[DarkMagician]

It was a hard task to win over a tug of war with that chain threatening Irene to gasp out while she was getting dragged by Viper, moving backwards. With mixed reactions coming from all around the ring from the spectators, Irene was losing the sense of space as her still blurry vision was not helping much. Viper giving a sudden tug, made her stumble and lose the balance as she dangled down backwards as the chain bitten down to her neck.

Viper was not playing easy on her. Pulling against the chain harder, they were dragged around the ring. Irene desperately waited for some kind of opportunity. She felt a sudden relaxation on the chain which allowed her to gain a better hold on it, but a second later she got stomped in the ribs. Gritting through the pain, she gave a sudden tug on the chain possibly tearing the chain off of her opponent's possession or potentially sending Viper topple over.

[CaptainL]

Many wrestlers would rejoice at the knowledge they had their opponent in such a vulnerable position. Viper had Irene fully at her mercy, strangling the life out of her as she writhed hopelessly at her feet - and, under the rules of a hardcore match, there was nothing the referee could do to stop her. But Viper was never the most expressive of individuals, and things were no different now. Her brows were narrowed in single-minded focus, and without a word she continued putting traction on Irene's throat. All she cared about was making sure that, by the end of this, Irene wouldn't be moving.

Of course, Irene had other interests in mind. And when she saw that Viper had to let up on the tension, she saw her chance! Before the green-haired woman could secure her hold on Irene's neck, she pulled down at the chain as hard as she could. While it wasn't enough to bring it out of Viper's clutches, it did cause it to go slack, relieving the tension on Irene's neck and giving her space to breathe. So too, the force being pulled back on the chain caused Viper to drop to one knee. She grumbled softly under her breath, her hands burning from where the chain had been dragged across her palms.

But Viper wouldn't be deterred by that. She was only stunned for a brief moment before she knew she had to fight back! Tightening her grip on the chain, Viper went to throw herself backward, aiming to fall to her back so that the momentum might pull Irene down with her. Assuming, of course, Irene wouldn't counter by then.

[DarkMagician]

All of her efforts only managed to get Viper on her knees. Still having the chain wrapped on her neck, it seemed it was not over yet as Viper quickly tightened her grip and threw herself backward, falling, pulling Irene down with her. With a thud, she fell down on top of Viper. This gave Viper better control over the chain. Irene immediately lifted her arms up in search for the chains; however, it was futile. As Viper pulled on the chain, to relieve pressure Irene crawled up backward onto Viper until her head was just under Viper’s chin. Nowhere to go, she had no chance to relieve the stress on her throat. Her hands would claw on Viper’s arms trying to tear them off of the chain. In a final attempt, she would move her hands up towards her merciless opponent’s face, which was just above her own and would start scratching her face with her fingers.

[CaptainL]

With all the thrashing and pulling Irene was doing, Viper soon found herself forced to follow the motion, and she was guided down onto her knee. But while she was fighting to stay on her feet through all of this, her next move would see her go down purely on her own will! Using momentum to her advantage, the green-haired girl dropped to her back, causing Irene to be reeled in after her - and she fell on top of Viper, leaving her in a precarious position indeed!

Though Irene tried scratching and pulling at Viper's arms, it didn't seem to phase the deathmatch veteran too much. She stayed there with her expression as blase as ever, leering coldly at her opponent as her fingers coiled around the chain in her hand. Viper had been through things that were far more painful than fingernails against her arm; it would take more than that to get her to move. But Irene would soon find just the thing, as her wandering fingers found Viper's face instead!

Her teeth clenching from the pain, Viper at last drew back with a hiss. She squeezed her eyes shut and jerked her head aside, trying to protect herself from Irene's attack. In the process, the grip with which she held the chain began to loosen, letting up the tension around Irene's throat in the process.

[DarkMagician]

Irene's determination had been keeping her up and she was trying her best to escape from the vicious viper's grasp. There was at least progression as both fell to the ground. Climbing up backwards trying to close up to the source of this madness. Clawing, thrashing and flailing on top of Viper, she eventually lifted her target towards a more valnurable part of her opponent in an attempt to let herself free from the iron grip.

Gritting her teeth and with the eyes flaming with anger, she directly aimed to tore the Viper's face out of its emotionless state. Even if she couldn't see, she knew Viper was disturbed at the least as she jerked her head to the side allowing a small gap appear in her iron grip. Irene successfuly removed the chain loop from her neck and after a few coughs, she would directly turn back to her opponent and using her position she would sit on her stomach. Still furious and hurt from the previous chain of events, she had steam coming out of her ears. Leaving the chain just as it is lying down on Viper's chest, her intentions were to plant some emotion to Viper's face by burying her furious fists into Viper's cheeks.

[CaptainL]

Though her stony countenance had held thus far, Viper still had a pain threshold, and there was only so long she could keep up her usual stoic demeanor. When she felt Irene's sharp nails bury themselves in her face, that was enough to wring a groan out of her, as she fell back, letting up on the pressure from the chain looped around her opponent's neck! Her hands shot up to her face, trying to rub at her cheek, but in the process she left herself open - open enough for Irene to sit down on her stomach, pushing her back against the ground!

Viper shrank back against the pressure, but as she parted her fingers from over her face, she looked up at Irene with fiery eyes, her teeth locked in a snarl. It didn't stop the dark-haired girl from setting into her, however, and she battered her back and forth with punch after punch aimed straight at Viper's face! The deathmatch veteran jerked from side to side with each impact as Irene's fury came out in the bludgeoning strikes of her fists. But all it was doing was making Viper angrier!

Eventually, she deemed, enough was enough. Paying Irene back for her own attack, Viper blindly reached out in front of her, her fingers curled. Though she couldn't see where she was aiming with how her head was being thrown constantly back and forth, she would grab for anything she could get her hands on. If she could grab Irene's wrist and keep it away, that would serve her purposes. If she could claw at her face, that would be even better!

[DarkMagician]

She had merely escaped the greenette's grasp and Viper nearly strangled her out cold. She was hurt but her pain was instantly tranformed itself into a much functional emotion now - anger. As she saved her neck from the chain, she quickly took the higher position, sitting on top of Viper she directly went for the punishing blows, sending punches after punches she watched as Viper took those furios fists bashing her cheeks, sending her head sideways with each blow.

Viper stayed unresponsive for sometime as Irene took her time to punish Viper, she wouldn't stop easily even if Viper stayed like that. However, Viper reached forward catching one of Irene's wrist, while her other hand grasped Irene's chin from down her head upwards while digging her fingers into her lips and skin, whatever comes in contact to grasp. Irene would try to free her wrist but the hand preventing her from properly looking downwards was quite the annoyance so her free hand would grip on that arm.

[CaptainL]

Viper growled under her breath, finding herself held down under Irene's weight - and if that wasn't enough to keep her contained, the barrage of furious fists definitely would make things harder for her! She clenched her teeth in a snarl, trying to keep her focus in one place even when her head and body were being forced from side to side with each punch that landed. Viper was trying to take control, and she didn't enjoy having that denied of her.

She tried to push back at Irene's chin, attempting to get her to back away enough to secure an edge on her while she used her other hand to still her next blow. But Irene matched her, grabbing Viper's arm with her free hand. The green-haired girl's eyes narrowed with a groan of frustration, but ultimately, she was undeterred. For someone as unscrupulous as Viper, there would be plenty of other opportunities to win out in this struggle.

The chain around Irene's neck may have been loosened, but it hadn't gone far, and Viper still felt it dangling down close to her chest. Trying to push Irene away would be a futile effort when the two were already deadlocked and weighing in at one another with equal strength. But the chain would provide Viper a far greater benefit. Abandoning her advances, she let go of the hand that was holding Irene's chin, and grabbed the chain instead! Giving it a sharp pull, Viper would shift her weight to the side and attempt to pull Irene down with her, getting them into a more even position. From there, she would begin to throw some fists of her own straight at Irene's face!

[DarkMagician]

Irene continued punching her downed foe with ferocity and little to no remorse until Viper decided to defy her doing farther more by clasping at her punching arm by the wrist. Her other hand went forward, coming down from Irene's chin, it was shoving Irene's face upwards nullifying her vision. While her palm giving the upward push under Irene's chin, her finger's was all over Irene's face, clawing through whatever comes over their course. Using her free hand, Irene would try to shove off Viper's.

This all happened in mere seconds before Viper changed her strategy and went more aggressively. Irene still had the chain loosely dangling down from her neck. Viper let go of her hand holding Irene's chin and gripped the chain. Irene could finally look back down at her opponent and was startled when she realized Viper had the chain in her hands. Her hands instinctively went for the chain, her intentions were to free her once and for all from those chains. However, Viper gave it a sharp pull which made the chain loop tighten around her neck once more than to shove her sideways on the ground.

Irene's neck hurt as she coughed and held her neck with both hands. Fortunately, the chain loosened up and within all these motion was freed from her neck. Unfortunately for Irene, she was left open to Viper's fists. The first fist solidly struck her in the face and reminded of her that she was not yet freed from the real danger. Inbetween her coughs she had to move her arms up to defend herself from more of those. Taking several more to her head, she tried to guard up.