Taking Flight! Kaguya Hojo vs Valkyrie

[Bare]

Kaguya was in a rough position at this point in the match. Despite the dominant show she had managed to put on by targeting Valkyrie's now clearly hurting limb it was quickly made apparent that that alone wouldn't be enough to put her fellow lioness away. Rather the Swedish girl had managed to fight back and seriously lay into Kaguya with some offense of her own, trapping the idol in the corner!

Luckily Kaguya wasn't so injured to the point that this would stop her for long. Rather she was small enough and fast enough to managed to find a opening to slide her way out of the ring and to the outside, temporarily escaping her opponent's clutches. But only temporarily. Before she could even push herself off the apron Valkyrie was already upon the idol even with her bum leg!

"Ngh! Let go!" Kaguya grunted out as she struggled with the grip of Valkyrie before being sent forward, colliding stomach first with the steel steps thanks to a tight grip on her outfit! "Agh!" Crying out in pain from the impact Kaguya groaned and quickly latched onto the steel steps in order to keep herself from being pulled back for another impact. 'Gotta move fast!' Kaguya thought to herself and in desperation she raised her foot up before slamming it down to stomp on the toes of Valkyrie's hurt leg! If this was successful than Kaguya would attempt to turn, looking to drive her elbow into the side of the blonde's head to force her off!

[Valkyrie]

Valkyrie saw an opening and tried her best to stay on her opponent, possibly wearing down her midsection a little to keep her reeling. While a couple of shots land on Kaguya, she was still rather fresh and hard to pin down and keep under control. As she fight continued on the outside, Kaguya found a way to turn things around once more with a stomp on the injured leg of Valkyrie followed by a nasty elbow shot on her face.

Valkyrie stumbled back a little and was still visibly hobbling on her leg. She knew the outside was quite the dangerous predicament so she tried as quickly as she could to roll back inside the squared circle and then work her way back to a vertical position. Ideally she did not want to get stuck on the outside with Kaguya, as all sorts of danger could present themselves out there.

Once inside the ring Valkyrie would try and immediately turn around a sort of play overwatch close to the ropes on the side where Kaguya was at. She knew her opponent had to get back inside sooner or later and Valkyrie’s intention was to catch her right as she did that… maybe with a stomp as Kaguya rolled in or a forearm shot if her opponent stepped up on the apron first… or maybe Kaguya was gonna outsmart her and make her pay the price for this grey area tactic!

[Bare]

Kaguya had been trapped, albeit temporarily by her opponent's quick thinking and positioning of Kaguya's body against the steps. Something that led to the girl getting some damage dealt to her in the process that made her wince and groan softly in pain. However Kaguya wasn't going to be caught flat footed for long.

Mere moments after being put in the situation Kaguya would fight back, pushing her opponent back by stomping on her opponent's foot. In doing so she managed to force Valkyrie away. Unfortunately however as Valkyrie backed off Kaguya wouldn't have the chance to act on it as before she could the other girl would roll back under the ring and get into a standing position.

'Not good.' Kaguya thought to herself knowing how advantageous a position that was and how vulnerable to attack Kaguya would be regardless of how she tried to enter the ring. 'Need to be fast.' Kaguya thought to herself as she approached the ring and got on the apron as if to roll back in. Sure enough as she did so Kaguya saw a stomp coming down from above! 'There!' Kaguya thought to herself as she switched gears, leaning back to grab onto the ankle of her opponent. If successful Kaguya would then hop back to the floor before turning and using her grip on Valkyrie's ankle to slam the girl's leg right against the steel corner!

[Valkyrie]

Valkyrie kept guarding the ropes like guard dog, trying to catch her opponent slipping. For once she felt as if she was somewhat in the driver seat of the match but that wasn’t going to last long unfortunately for her. In fact Kaguya had that move scouted and soon enough, she planned a reversal to catch Valkyrie off guard once again.

As soon as Valkyrie went for a stomp on her opponent, Kaguya played possum and faked out her ring-in. Instead, she grabbed the left leg of Valkyrie, the one she had been working for the better part of the match and pulled it off the blonde girl base. Just like that, Valkyrie lost her footing and dropped down ass first on the canvas. Unfortunately for her, however, Kaguya wasn’t done there. In fact, she noticed the steel post was quite near and she decided to slam that tender leg against it for good measure.

“Damn it!” Valkyrie muttered as she trashed about the canvas clutching her left knee, trying desperately to keep herself from screaming. She did what she could to roll back inside the ring and away from the ropes in order to avoid further damage. She knew very well how dangerous both the apron and the steel post could be… and she wanted none of that. However her limited mobility prevented her from standing up, hence giving her opponent a chance to follow up on her smart counter.

[Bare]

Despite the set back she had received as a result of Valkyrie's cleverness Kaguya was not content to simply allow the blonde girl to punish her. No instead she showed off her own cleverness, fighting back against her opponent and managing to see through the girl's offense enough to once against target her leg. As a result the Swedish girl was left clutching her leg on the mat and trying to crawl away from the corner.

'Can't let her get too far away.' Kaguya thought, already dead set on using the ropes and corner for more offense. Now she needed a way to quickly halt her opponent's progress... Eyes drifting to the side Kaguya's eyes landed on the corner. 'That seems fun.' She thought to herself with a grin as she quickly hopped onto the apron before climbing the corner from the outside. Once to the top Kaguya would line herself up with her slow moving opponent before leaping off, going for a top rope elbow drop aimed right for her opponent's leg!

If that move had connected successfully than Kaguya would sit up, aiming to grab onto her opponent's ankles before fully standing up and walking backwards, intending on dragging Valkyrie back to the corner before stepping out of the ring and back onto the floor in order to prepare for her next round of offense! She just hoped that Valkyrie would be a bit stunned from the elbow drop so she would have time to set up her next move.

[Valkyrie]

Kaguya got Valkyrie good and she was very much stunned off that smart counter she got on her. In fact Valkyrie was now desperately trying to get some separation between her and her opponent Kaguya but due to her limited mobility she couldn’t do much other than trying to crawl away from the corner and the ropes for as much as possible. Obviously this gave her opponent time to stalk her and go for a follow up move, which Valkyrie had to scout and think ahead.

In fact, she did catch a glimpse of what Kaguya was doing and that was climbing the top turnbuckle for a diving move. Now, surely Valkyrie was in no way shape or form able to move that much, however the climb to the top of the turnbuckle did require a little bit of time… time that Valkyrie would use to sort of play possum and wait for the right time before getting out of the way. If everything went as planned, Valkyrie would in fact try and roll out of the way right before the elbow landed, hoping she’d be quick enough to time it correctly. While her movement was limited, simply rolling to the side did not require any type of effort nor stress for her injured leg, which is why she attempted it.

If everything went to plan and depending how Kaguya landed, Valkyrie would try to roll towards the ropes and use them for leverage to get up to her feet… before stumbling her way over her opponent to try and follow up with a couple of stomps on the midsection of Kaguya to try and keep her pinned to the mat a little before she figured out her next move

[Bare]

Kaguya had wrested control of this match back from her opponent after both managed to survive being on the outside without any major damage to speak of... well relatively speaking at least considering how dangerous the outside could potentially be. Either way it wouldn't stop Kaguya and her strategy of attempting to do as much damage to Valkyrie's leg before doing for the finish. So she began climbing up the ropes, preparing for her next move.

Once at the top and seeing her opponent still down and in range of her Kaguya nodded, feeling confident in her arm. So leaping up and off the rope Kaguya would pull her lower body up as she bent her elbow and aimed it down, looking to try and come down full force on her opponent's hurt leg with a magnificent elbow drop right onto her opponent's knee! But it wasn't to be. Despite her best efforts it appeared that Valkyrie was playing possum the whole time! "Wha-AGHHH!" Gasping at first in surprise and then yelling in pain the idol would immediately shoot up from the recoil, holding her arm with a wince of pain.

'Damn it!' Kaguya thought to herself in frustration while biting her leg to keep from screaming more as she held her sore elbow. Worse yet however her opponent would waste little time coming back and laying into her with a series of stomps! "Agh! Ugh! Ngh!" Kaguya grunted with each blow, temporarily unable to do anything in the wake of the strikes!

[Valkyrie]

The pace of the match was definitely starting to take its toll on both bodies and Valkyrie had been visibly slowed down by the precise and methodical work of her opponent. However, she wasn’t really going to go down without a fight. In fact she a game plan of her own and was to soften up that tight midsection of Kaguya in order to make her fall prey to some bodyscissor work later on the match.

Having her opponent down on the mat was the first step, but Valkyrie knew she had to soften her belly up a little more before going for the kill. Hence why she sit down right beside Kaguya and forced her to sit up as well, before trying to tangle her left arm under Kaguya’s right armpit so that shed be trapped in a seated Abdominal stretch meant to apply further pressure to those abs. In doing so Valkyrie was careful to kneel down in a way that prevented her left knee for being exposed. In fact, her left leg was right behind her while the right one was slightly to the side.

“Ask her ref!” Valkyrie would say if she successfully had her opponent trapped in the stretch. It was a decent move to soften Kaguya up and keep the pace under control, while at the same time give her tormented left leg some time to heal up just a little bit. Was it going to work though?

[Bare]

Kaguya had miscalculated and would totally admit to that. Considering all the damage she had inflicted on Valkyrie's knee that her fellow young lioness would be preoccupied tending too said leg, or at least too focused on crawling to safety. In reality however the Swede had been waiting for Kaguya to take the turn to more high risk offense just so she could take advantage with a well timed dodge.

Now the massive lead that Kaguya had initially was all but worthless now that her foe had rolled to safety, leaving Kaguya stunned and unable to move as she was lifted up into a sitting position. 'Another bodyscissor?' The dark haired girl would think to herself, knowing already from earlier that Valkyrie seemed to pick that particular form of offense to use heavily against Kaguya. Unfortunately however Kaguya was forced into a different hold, a rather painful abdominal stretch!

"Agh!" She whined out in pain, the hold clearly doing its job as it felt like the idol's stomach was being torn apart from either end. Worst yet the seated position left her without the vantage to really target any part of Valkyrie to lea to a breakout. 'I need to think.. quick!' Kaguya thought to herself in pain as she kicked her legs against the mat.

Thinking desperately Kaguya would grab onto Valkyrie's kneeling leg next to her. As she did so she tightened her arm that was forced around the blonde's arm. If she was able too Kaguya would roar with effort as she attempted to pull up on her foes good leg while pulling her opponent by the arm to try and roll the two over and lead to Valkyrie's shoulders pinned on the mat for a make shift pinfall! Truthfully Kaguya didn't expect a pinfall victory from this, she just hoped it would motivate Valkyrie into letting go!

[Valkyrie]

Valkyrie was doing a decent job at keeping Kaguya grounded and under control. Her abdominal stretch was working quite well and she could feel her opponent being progressively drown out of her energy as time progressed. Her goal was to keep working that tender midsection to hopefully then being able to put her opponent away with a bodyscissor.

Unfortunately for Valkyrie, however, the match was still rather long and her opponent had different plans. In fact, a mere few moments afterwards, Kaguya started wiggling her way back into the fight by first trying to get some room to maneuver and then effectively freeing herself from her grasps. Her counter was smart, as she rolled Valkyrie to the side and effectively forced a quick count.

Valkyrie obviously had enough energy to kick out rather promptly but that forced her to let go of the hold which was what her opponent wanted all along. Valkyrie then attempt to stand back up but as soon as she put weight on her bad leg she stuttered for a second, effectively allowing her opponent to follow up and capitalize, while her back was turned and she was still trying to regain her bearings