The Midas Touch, Episode 12: The Young Lioness

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Rose Gold watched the rookie as she rolled to herself belly down and onto her hands and knees. She couldn't help but smirk as she watched her. There was something especially human and mundane about her actions. She didn't look like a combatant. She looked insecure, bumbling, and humbled. It was impossible to look cool while fixing a wedgie.

Rose Gold turned to the ropes, grasping the top one on either side of the turnbuckle. She doubted she'd continue to fight. Rose Gold had sent her message. And Meiyun had received it by begging and crying. It was over.

Rather than answer the referee's call to action, Meiyun directed her attention across the ring, directly to her. The girl's words caused the smirk on the champion's black lips to slim. Her words crashed against the wall of Rose Gold's confidence. And rather than bouncing off, left a spider-web crack. Her eyes narrowed, he back still turned to the Young Lioness.

Her fists balled in front of her, gripping the ropes tight... Too tight. She felt the vinyl burn against her palms, squeezing until she thought they might bleed. It did nothing to quell her anger. "Deserve!?" At that moment, Meiyun denied everything the blonde was. Her words aimed at invalidating everything she had worked for. Everything she had built.

She whipped, her right arm slashing across her chest in defiance! Her expression was inhuman rage. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU AGH~" And all of that fire left as her lithe body curled itself around Meiyun's fist as it sank wrist deep into her belly. She'd not braced, she'd never expected an attack in the first place. And beyond that, her core had been dedicated to screaming.

"Ggk~" She froze before coughing a second time. Saliva spattered upon the canvas. Her fists loosened. Her eyes were unfocused as her pupils dilated. Meiyun could feel her bodyweight relying upon the forearm buried within her to stay standing.

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After how much pain Meiyun had been through, the ref was unsure if she'd be able to carry on with the match. She bent down, asking the Young Lioness if she was going to give up. But as far as Meiyun was concerned, she hadn't even heard her. She sprung back up like nothing had happened, fixing a defiant glare on the champion as she lounged against the ropes. Rose was acting as though she'd already won. But if Meiyun was going to do one thing, it would be to prove otherwise.

As she was getting up, she could see the note of frustration cross Rose's face. That could only encourage her even more. The brunette's hand clenched tighter into a fist, and she locked her eyes on the champion, ready to strike. Rose doubted herself. Despite all she'd want to prove to the contrary, Rose wasn't invincible. Meiyun could still take her down! And if she had her say, she'd be doing that right now!

The moment she jumped to her feet, her knuckles buried into Rose's stomach - and the champion doubled over forward, her balance threatening to give out against her. That only made Meiyun's grin grow wider. Not only had she broken through Rose's psychological armor, now she had dealt her a physical blow as well. If she just kept up with this...she'd crumble before she knew it!

Meiyun heard a few cheers at the sight of her landing a blow against an opponent who so clearly outmatched her, and she looked up at the fans with a grin, flashing a thumbs-up. But she couldn't make the same mistake as Rose in assuming she'd already won. She was only getting started, and she needed Rose to feel that!

"HAAH!" Kicking out with her good leg, Meiyun went for a knee at Rose's side. If that hit, her fist would soon follow, as she whipped it around in a hook to the champion's jaw!

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Her belly trembled as she tried to draw breath. Impossible. Her diaphragm received no support from her ailing abdomen. And so she gagged and coughed, saliva falling from her open mouth. Without breath, there was no oxygen in her blood, her muscles wouldn't move!

It wasn't like a headshot. She was conscious and cognisant. The body blow trapped Rose Gold in her unwilling body. Left her mind staring out the window of her eyes, a helpless observer. They went wide, catching Meiyun's with a plea to stop. She didn't!

"GWAGH!" The knee strike sank into her body, bending her sideways as her figure conformed to it! Another spray of saliva hit the canvas as Rose Gold's eyes rolled up into her head in agony. Her knees locking. her shoulders drooped.

And the hooking punch snapped her head in the opposite direction with the sickening crack of bone on bone! "Bg... Gh-" Her empty lungs wouldn't permit her to scream as she sailed backward.

Her back hit the ropes and her arms entangled in them. She wasn't holding on, rather, she was hung from them. Her legs spread with her heels touching the canvas rather than the flat of her soles. Her cheek was scuffed and her belly was bruising. Her hollow belly rose and fell in rapid pants as she drooled. She was breathing again, but she was vulnerable. The world's sexiest sandbag...

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Rose had shown Meiyun no mercy, and the Young Lioness wasn't planning on showing her any in return. She had struck the champion once now, and that meant she could do it again! Meiyun's eyes narrowed with determination, and her fists tightened at her sides. She was going to give this her all. She was committed!

One blow followed another, and as Rose bent over Meiyun struck her with a knee, only for the snapback of the strike to send her head directly into the path of a punch! With each satisfying smack of Rose's skin against her knuckles, Meiyun could feel her anticipation grow stronger and stronger. She was striking faster than Rose could adjust to her blows! And if she kept this up, she just might win!

Now that Rose had been backed into the ropes, Meiyun had her lined up for her next trick, one she was sure could end this match with a bang. She stopped her whirlwind of attacks only long enough to crack her knuckles, raising them up to eye level as she stared Rose down and spreading her legs further apart to widen the base of her stance. This was it. The moment the hero had the villain cornered, surpassing and surviving everything they'd thrown at them, and prepared to finish them off with their strongest move!

"Rose Gold..." she said, in the most dramatic voice an excitable teenage girl could manage, "...I can't forgive you for all you've done! And now...you face justice!"

No sooner had she finished her sentence that Meiyun flew into action. Her fists flailed as fast as she could bring her body to move, striking out at Rose in every direction; each time one punch landed, the next was already in motion. With each strike she landed she let out a shout, punctuating her attacks and whipping her into a fervor that carried her on more and more! If Meiyun had been striking quickly before, she'd easily surpassed her own record! For those as versed in classic shounen anime and manga as Meiyun was, it was instantly recognizable. She was imitating the trademark finishing move of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star, Hokuto Hyakuretsu-Ken!

"ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATAAAA!"

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Rose Gold's vision swam. Her attempts to move resulted in twitching extremities as her nervous system had taken a critical blow. She was limp against the ropes and vulnerable to anything her opponent might have subjected her to.

And at the time, she thought Meiyun's self-righteous teen girl squad monologue was the worst thing that could happen to her. Her expression soured. And Meiyun struck!

Meiyun assaulted the champion with a series of punches that were like flicker jabs. The power, speed, and rapidity of her jabs were overwhelming. Her fists sank into Rose Gold's sweat-dampened figure and peppered her make-up smeared expression. Her body recoiled with every blow to her body, but was cast back against the ropes just as quickly by a follow-up!

"Ugh~ Buegh~! Egh! Ah~!" A series of agonized grunts accompanied the scene of Rose Gold's pretty face and body being whipped left, right, up and down.

Over time, her jaw began to slacken and her grip on the ropes began to weaken. Her thighs trembled. The assault was relentless, and Rose Gold's body was responding only by virtue of the bounce offered by the ropes she was tied up in. A beating like this might have been enough to stop a boxing match. But this was a wrestling match. The rules were clear. Pinfall. Submission. Or knock-out.

One eye closed, forcing Rose Gold to watch through a single, bleary eye. She was helpless as Meiyun screeched and rained hell upon her! Battering her breasts flat and twisting her pretty face into an unmistakable mask of suffering!

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It was actually working. Meiyun was self-indulgently living out her wildest fantasies of being the hero in a shounen manga, but it was actually working! Each fist she threw met its mark, and Rose was being battered this way and that by the impacts. The wear was showing on her face and body, her skin blotched with bruises and her once well-coiffed hair and impeccable makeup disheveled. With each blow that landed, too, Meiyun's excitement was growing stronger and shining brighter. Her smile widened across her face, and her heart pounded in her chest. It wasn't just that she was getting to be the hero she always wanted to be, standing up for what was right when it mattered most and punishing the villain for her evil deeds. It was all that, and so much more - it was that she was this close, it seemed, to actually defeating the champion!

With one last uppercut across Rose's jaw, Meiyun shifted her weight back, prepared to land one final blow. One strike, hitting with all the force and explosiveness of a firecracker, that would topple Rose's weakened foundations and send her crashing to the ground! She'd not just only an end to the blonde's reign of terror; she'd make sure it'd end with a bang, in one moment no one would forget! Swerving onto one foot to bear her weight, she began to draw back the other leg, with a kick aimed straight for Rose's jaw! "WHAAA-TAA-"

But the triumphant battle cry Meiyun belted out as she swung that leg through the air was cut short. Her kick stopped just short of its target. It hung in the air, her foot just inches from Rose's face, as her body locked up, and her muscles went stiff. Her teeth clenched in a groan. Meiyun had been so caught up in the adrenaline rush that could only come from being so close to the greatest moment of her career...that she had forgotten about what had happened in the match up to this point.

She'd forgotten how sore she was in her leg, the same leg that Rose had so brutally stretched to its limits with the Petal Puller. It was only just now, at the worst possible time, that Meiyun felt that ache again - but suddenly, just as her leg stretched out, a shudder went through her body, and she seized up from the pain. Her already sore muscles were pulled to their limits, and she could take them no further. She knew she was this close. She knew she needed to kick out just a little bit further...and yet, she couldn't!

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"Move!" She beseeched herself desperately.

Her lovely figure was battered against the ropes. Sagging and weaving in the opposing direction of Meiyun's relentless strike. Her arrogant, confident black lips lost their shine as they parted and sprayed saliva with every strike. Her 24kt eyes grew dark, skewing closer to brown than amber.

"Move!" She plead without answer.

The uppercut crushed her jaw. Her feet remained planted on the canvas. Her neck stretched and her head snapped back, but the weight of her body kept her from toppling out of the ring. It left her hanging. One eye closed. Drooling. And wide open.

"Move!" Her body convulsed as she choked. She sputtered and coughed out a gasp. Her fingers twitched.

Her head was like a ball on a tee as Meiyun's kick whipped through the air. It wasn't even a pitch. She just needed to smash her into the stands to achieve the Homerun she'd been hoping for.

"IYADA!! [NO!!]" She shook her head, denying her fate and lashing out almost childishly! It was fruitless, the kick would connect. She'd managed to move, but it had only been her head... Except... The kick never came!

...The shine returned to her eyes. They glinted with actualization. Her belief, she'd been chosen by fate, was validated in this horrible turn of events.

Meiyun had run out of gas. Entangled by the exhaustion and injuries incurred from earlier in the match! And as a result, Rose Gold's desperate struggle crept past Meiyun's kick!

The toe of her boot crashed against the barrier of Meiyun's pubic bone in a degenerate and devastating counter-attack!

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Meiyun was flying high with anticipation. Every blow she'd landed against the champion was a victory in and of itself, but all of them were building up to the finish - the grand crescendo that would silence Rose Gold once and for all, and show her where she truly belonged. In Meiyun's mind, it was inevitable. The climax was just around the corner, and she would be the one to deliver it! But it was just then, as she swung her leg forward...that everything screeched to a halt!

At the moment her foot left the ground she had gotten Rose to cry out in shock, something Meiyun would surely consider an accomplishment - but she didn't even hear it. She couldn't focus; not now, as her leg hung uselessly in midair, stopped just inches from its mark. The girl's eyes went wide, and her jaw hung open in a gasp that died in her throat. She was this close! She just needed to hit, and it'd all be over! And yet...she couldn't!

"N-No..! Please..! C'mon-!!" she moaned. As she grit her teeth and shook her head, Meiyun wasn't begging for mercy from her opponent. No, she was pleading with her own body! Her fists went tense in desperation, yet she couldn't find the strength in her to follow through, to land the kick against Rose's jaw, like she was supposed to! Like what was destined to happen! She tried to work the fibers in her hamstrings to stretch just a little further, but they just wouldn't budge - and trying to force them just caused her to squeal in pain as an ache ran through her body. It was the time Meiyun needed her strength the most - and it had failed her!

The next thing she knew, Rose struck back. Her kick went off like a flash of lightning, her toe burying itself right into the inner edge of her thigh! The crack of the impact was practically audible, with how hard and fast it had struck. Meiyun screamed in pain, her hands shooting down to clutch at her groin as she was thrown backward and off her one foot by the momentum of the blow. There, she crashed onto her back, still panting and groaning.

As her teeth clenched from pain, the brunette looked up at Rose through eyes that were growing blurry with tears. This was it, she thought. By the standards of a wrestling match, her end was coming soon. And yet, Meiyun knew she had already lost the moment she failed to land her kick.

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Rose Gold fell to her knees after delivering her counterattack. She caught herself on her hands, panting. Her eyes watched the canvas beneath her as it was dotted with sweat, blood, and saliva. HER sweat, blood, and saliva.

Her right fist balled. And she let out a cough before punching the canvas with that same fist. It made a thunderous sound. One that didn't even come close to expressing her fury... Unfortunately for Meiyun.

The Champion crawled towards the rookie and took her by the hair. Rose Gold climbed to her feet first and then pulled Meiyun up to her knees. It left the Young Lioness staring at the Sinister Siren's pale thighs. She was eye-level with her hips as the lightweight loomed large above her.

"Who are you to say who deserves to be champion!?" She snarled. The hand in Meiyun's hair closed tightly, pulling her roots with unrestrained anger.

"Save your pretentious and naive lectures for someone else!" She grunted as she forced Meiyun's head between her thighs. She bent over the rookie and wrapped her arms about her belly, pulling her up to her feet while keeping her bent at the waist. The position was familiar... But something was different.

Rose Gold let out a grunt of effort as she pulled Meiyun's boots off the canvas! She held the woman's body aloft, upside-down and fully vertical. Her back was rigid against Rose Gold's front. And she kept her that way with the body lock around her waist. The position was unmistakable. She had the rookie in position for one of the most dangerous moves in Professional Wrestling...

"It doesn't matter how she gets there! The Champion is the woman who is standing at the end of the match!" She looked between Meiyun's legs, finding a camera and looking into its' depths with wild violence in her eyes.

And as she stared into it, Rose Gold jumped straight up! As she descended, her legs kicked out, ensuring that she would land on her backside. But that the spunky young Meiyun... Would be spiked atop her head with a hate-fueled, spine-compressing piledriver.

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Rose was leaning down, drawing her fist back to land a punch against the canvas. Out of instinct, Meiyun flinched. She let out a yelp, her hands shooting up to shield her head as she brought up her knees to protect her center of mass. Yet the impact never came down on her. Rose only hit the mat. And yet, to Meiyun, that was enough. The fury in Rose was unmistakable, and now she knew that, defenseless and out of energy, there was no way she could protect herself from it. She had already lost. There was no hope to come around now. The only thing Meiyun could hope for was that whatever punishment the champion had in store for her wouldn't be too bad.

And that punishment was soon upon her. Rose grabbed Meiyun by the hair, forcing the rookie to look up at her, and when she did it was with a gasp, her eyes going wide and her face pale. "I'm...I'm s-sorry, I'm sorry-! Please, don't hurt me-!" she pleaded, desperately hoping that she could say anything to ease the retribution she was about to face. The bravado Meiyun had put forth a moment ago was little more than a memory, now. Her eyes were brimming with tears, and she shook her head in a desperate hope to salvage some semblance of mercy, while her whole body trembled. But Rose, of course, had nothing to show her for it.

Rose twisted her hand tighter in Meiyun's hair, causing her to let out a squeal of pain. Her body bent forward, right into the path of Rose's cruel embrace, as she found the champion's thighs clamp shut around her head. She yelped as she was hoisted off her feet and into the air, and her legs kicked in the air above her. But nothing could stop the fate that awaited her. Not as Rose dropped backward, dropping her head down hard onto the mat!

Meiyun plummeted through the air, letting out a scream to punctuate her descent. She squeezed her eyes shut to shield herself the sight, while her mouth was open wide as she wailed in terror. But a moment later, all of that stopped, as she struck the mat with a clunk. Her eyes rolled up in her head and her tongue lolled out of her mouth while her legs dangled low and limp, and a low groan crept out of her throat.