Finding One's Thorns I: Aoi Hoshino vs Rosie Knuckles

[Misfit_Alien]

"GUH!!!" Aoi was launched back as a result of the move, flopping back but not going too far as Rosie still had her hair in her grasp. Regardless, Aoi was hurting currently, but she wasn't out of the fight just yet. As her eyes shimmered, there wasn't a single tear yet...only a stubborn fire to keep on fighting was left in those pupils of hers. She tried to swing away at Rosie and get her to release her, but she was struggling. She needed to act quickly, otherwise, Rosie wasn't going to let her go anytime soon...

[Dubski]

Rosie went up and smashed Aoi's face on her knee, looking satisfied as her opponent yelled out in pain before shouting, "Your sorry ass will be very sorry." Knuckles pulled on that hair, yanking Aoi upright before releasing her.

Then, Rosie would go for a one-two jab directly for Hoshino's belly before crossing her hands and then thrusting them directly towards her opponent's throat, aiming to put some serious pain on the girl with a questionable move meant entirely to choke her opponent and keep her from breathing as well!

[Misfit_Alien]

Aoi was getting knocked around like a rag doll, but no matter how much pain Rosie put her through, she still wasn't laying down and giving up. Then came the one-two combination which sent the woman lurching forward as she gagged, folding over Rosie's fists momentarily before getting checked in the neck and throat, soon gasping for air as she wheezed and coughed, spitting out saliva as she continued to gag.

[Dubski]

Rosie had laid into Aoi with swift strikes, precisely to cut down her air flow. The jabs hit hard followed by the throat check! Hoshino was quickly gasping for air while Rosie pulled her hurt arm back, shaking it out. It hurt, but Knuckles was hardly about to let that stop her.

"Anything smart to say now, loser!?" shouted Rosie. Having Aoi on a suffering end right now, she decided to nail a big move on Aoi. She grabbed hold of her opponent and then hoisted her up and spun around, aiming to plant her to the mat in her Spinning Spinebuster she calls Stay Down!

[Misfit_Alien]

-WHAM-

With a heavy SMACK onto the canvas, Aoi was once again laid out by the pink-haired pugilist. The violet-haired young woman was rendered momentarily incapacitated after such a bombastic and heavy-hitting attack. Aoi could feel her eyes rolling back into her head as everything went fuzzy. The most she saw was the silhouette of Rosie as she rested on her knees, seemingly towering over Aoi's body with a dominant and smug look on her face.

It was so hard to keep her eyes open, she was in so much pain. It was all rushing to her at once and eventually she passed out. This would prove to be too much for the woman, and so the referee ushered Rosie away so that they could check the fighter's condition and rule on whether or not Aoi would be well enough to continue. The referee lifts up the woman's arm into the air and they let it go. Aoi's arm began to fall down to the ground and when it made contact, there was no sign of consciousness.

Two more times left...

The referee would perform those same actions again, but this time the girl awoke with a pained jolt upon having her arm lifted back up. She took a moment to recuperate and stabilize herself, but she was cleared to continue after her response.

"I didn't hear a bell..." She said, looking at Rosie, giving her a late response to her remark from earlier.

[Dubski]

Rosie Knuckles had planted Aoi to the mat hard with the Stay Down Spinebuster and was ready to keep laying in on her when the referee told her to back up. Looking absolutely flummoxed, the Pink-Haired Pugilist looked at the referee and shouted, "What the fuck are you talking about?"

Still, the referee persisted and Rosie got off of Hoshino, looking livid and watched her see if Aoi was out. Then, Knuckles took a moment to look at her one pant leg that was torn at the thigh. Then, she looked even more angry. These pants were definitely not made for wrestling--and she quite liked those pants.

And so Rosie loomed over the referee and screamed, "You better get your sorry ass up, because I'm going to kill you when you do!" She then grit her teeth, looking down at her one pant leg before simply tearing off the rest of it and pulling it down her leg, leaving one leg covered and the her other toned leg bare.

Then, Aoi was on her feet and quipped at her and Rosie looked beside herself, rolling her eyes and letting out a loud groan before ripping her her tie and letting the rest of her hair fall. "Oh, for that? I'm killing you twice," said Rosie with a snarl before stomping right at Hoshino and attempting to hit her with a straight boot to her midsection, aiming to knock the air out of her once again!

[Misfit_Alien]

Aoi smirked, seeing that Rosie was only getting more and more infuriated. She was ready to go and she was feeling fired up again, this time she'd be taking Rosie down. In order to do that, she'd have to hit harder than before and be on top of her game. For the entire time, she'd have to be giving this fight one-hundred-and-ten percent of her efforts. Anything shorter than that wouldn't cut it, not against someone like Rosie. Aoi spots Rosie charging in from a mile away and she tries to counter her Big Boot by grabbing a hold of her foot and keeping her locked in place, bringing up her knee and SLAMMING it into the innermost part of Rosie's upper thigh.

Afterward, she would immediately spin around and try to clock the girl upside the temple with a swift elbow, the way she performed it called back to how Rosie did it at the start of the fight...showing improvement as she was fighting, many members of the audience were becoming impressed at the fact that she was still able to fight and adapt. Even bigger fighters would succumb to Rosie Knuckles, but Aoi was managing to hold her own somewhat.

[Dubski]

Rosie had her foot caught when she went for the thrust kick, growling while she briefly hopped on one foot. The knee to her thigh came after, making Knuckles yell out in pain, pulling her leg back and holding onto it. The lack of stretching was definitely not helping her, even if she had a little more room for her leg to move after tearing off the rest of the pant leg.

Shortly after, she was hit with a stiff elbow to the side of the head! Rosie fell directly to the mat, holding m her head in pain from the sudden strike and her balance being offset. Hissing in pain, she would roll to her side, slow to start getting up.

[Misfit_Alien]

Aoi's series of attacks had successfully found their mark, and for the moment Rosie was stunned yet again. The entire time as this fight waged on, the crowd was slowly beginning to cheer a little more for Aoi. Despite the odds, she was holding her ground and managing to keep this match fairly even. Each time one fighter would take advantage, the other one would find their footing and even the odds, turning the tables back in their favor in order to dominate the match once more. Back and forth, the flow of this fight was ever-changing like the tides of the ocean, there was no clear sign of who was winning...at least, not to those without keen eyes.

People who watched this battle closely could probably place a safe bet on who they believed would win, but at the moment it was anyone's game...All the while, as Rosie tried rolling away, Aoi rushed at her in an attempt to stop Her opponent from recovering any further by slamming the heel of her foot down onto the back of Rosie's head via an Axe Kick in order to send her back down to the floor.

[Dubski]

Rosie Knuckles was on a painful way right now, pushing herself up to her hands and knees, hanging her head slightly as she tried pushing herself up. Aoi managed to get the upper hand right now, and Knuckles knew she needed to get back on top of things.

However, when she was about to bring herself back up before Hoshino's heel smashed into the back of her skull, sending the pinkette slamming back into the mat, stunned and laying there as she stirred only lightly, laying flat on the mat after that crushing blow.