Saltwater Showdown!!!: Akari Ito vs Gawr Gura

[Misfit_Alien]

Akari fell to one knee, dropping down as the exhaustion was settling in slightly, but she kept up the pace as the adrenaline kicked in, the crowd's cheers and chants invigorating her to keep on fighting...Gura was RIGHT THERE, it was now or never to go for the pin. She leapt on top of Gura and wrapped her hands around her thighs, yanking her leg back and setting up to the pinfall attempt.

"1...!!!"

"2...!!!"

[The460Slayer]

"3!!"

Gura was pinned by Akari after her body was turned up for that cover, in which Gura couldn't react on time for a kickout, she was done after those kicks on the head.

Now the score is tied after the second fall as the first one for Akari, Gura rolls back to her corner and tries to get up with the ropes besides the pain she got. She feels herself a little hurt but she is conscious that the match is still going, so there's no time to sleep yet.

[Misfit_Alien]

Akari rolls away and rests in the corner, getting to her feet first but holding back as she let Gura get up. Rushing in now while she was exhausted would be of no benefit to her, she needed to play her cards right...and in order to do so, she'd need to play it SAFE above all else. Even if it means letting Gura get her focus back, charing in would do her no favors until she caught her breath.

At least now she could formulate a plan as she tried to recover. Unlike her opponent who was somewhat struggling to get to her feet, she had a mostly clear head that wasn't rocked by two back-to-back kicks to the head.

[The460Slayer]

Once she gets up, Gura would hang herself by holding tight both rope sides of the corner, breathing for a little bit to recover some energy but not just that, also to recover after those successful kicks that Akari gave.

After some seconds, Gura was recovered enough in that corner, looking at Akari with a serious and competitive expression as she walked inside the ring in circles, around the turtle. Then the shark goes directly at Akari with the raised leg to deliver a boot on the face, and with no time to waste, she would give quick forearms to the left side of Akari's face with the opponent trapped against the corner.

[Misfit_Alien]

Akari would dodge out of the way of the Big Boot to the face, moving in haste in order to avoid taking such a damaging blow to the head. She just recovered from earlier, she can't afford to take another hit just yet.

However, the Turtle would find that her sudden dodge was a slight mistake as she didn't move far enough, still within reach of Gura's range. She screwed up as she was slowly driven into the corner, blocking the Forearm Strikes and trying to fight her way out of the bad position with some jabs to the head, trying to stun Gura a little...if she managed to hit her, she'd attempt to follow up with a big Knee Strike aimed right at Gura's tummy and abdomen.

[The460Slayer]

Gura barely took her guard on to block the jabs that Akari was giving, except for the last one which not stunned her but made her turn around and pant for a while, shaking her head.

And without no idea what would happen next, Gura turns around to look at Akari with some anger while she was running towards her but she had the guard off and the knee strike hit harder on her stomach as Gura gasped after spitting some saliva, holding her stomach and kneeling on both knees.

[Misfit_Alien]

Akari saw that Gura was hurting after that knee to the gut, she was starting to gain some more energy as the adrenaline kicked in once more, her body heating up as she was gaining more momentum. The Sea Turtle was beginning to enter into her element as she hyped the crowd up, pulling Gura out of the corner and setting her up in the center of the ring. Akari launches herself at the ropes, hitting them with her back and rebounding off of them in order to run at Gura with as much speed as she can gather before jumping up and over her opponent and trying to hit her with a Sunset Backstabber.

Spoiler

[The460Slayer]

Gura got pulled far from the corner, getting forced to stand over both feet as Akari was going to gain more momentum by going to the ropes and bouncing off to attempt to jump over her for the backstabber, but Gura stopped the attempt and grabbed Akari by the toes, then she pulls her by those until taking over her shoulders, stands on the middle of the ring, then she goes down with Akari against the mat in a Samoan Drop as another counter in favor of the shark.

[Misfit_Alien]

Akari's eyes widened as she was stopped at the tail end of her move, trapped and helpless in the position as Gura pulled her over onto her shoulders while in the middle of the ring. She tried squirming and breaking free but it was too late as she was SLAMMED onto the canvas via the Samoan Drop counterattack, left winded and shocked as she looked up to the lights above.

[The460Slayer]

After a successful drop, Gura would also lay down on the mat and breathing for a while to gain some energy quickly, also looking up at the lights. But it wasn't for the impact and gravity of that move, it was because of the previous strikes given by the turtle against the shark.

Once she took some seconds to recover for a bit, she would roll to stand in an upside down position and crawl towards her opponent to lean over her body and grab both legs for the pinfall count, as the ref runs quick and lays down on the mat to start counting.

"1!"

"2!"