L.A.W. - League of Anime Wrestling

A quiet groan is Bandita's immediate response, one hand briefly setting against her collar. Her legs are taken, and she feels herself dragged across the canvas, her ponytail trailing behind her. When she's flipped over, realization hits her. Hands plant firmly to the mat, elbows bending, and-- too late! Raya steps upon her legs behind the knees, stapling them down to the ring.

"Ah--! She wouldn't..!"

Her arms flail to try to dislodge her from her mount, but Raya grabs the wrists. And in short order, the luchadora is pushed upwards, her back arching, her limbs forced backwards and body taut.

"AAAHHH!"

She wants to thrash, but her limbs are tangled and captive! All she can do is violently shake her head trying to work through the pain. The audacity of the moment is staggering, on top of the loathing realization that this is a move she used on Laxia when they wrestled! After all the underhanded moves, the humiliation, the pain she's endured, it'd be so easy to give in and call it a night, to regroup and try again next time!

"Do you submit!?," asks the referee, suddenly right beside her.

It'd be so easy.

Her head turns, marking Laxia at ringside. Suffering etched on her expression, it's almost as if she's silently asking permission to give in. "Aaagh!" Another shock of pain rips her focus away.

"Do! You! Submit!"

"NO!" Bandita shakes her head in a more definitive decline.

Her feet squirm, attempting to unhook her ankles from Raya's legs. Her wrists twist what amount they can, hoping to disrupt the hold at its pillars. Every breath is a seethe, trying to keep her mind on getting out. If she can just.. work one arm free, work one leg loose, the balance would give out, she could twist over, and she could drop her body across Raya's for a sudden pin..!

Raya couldnt contain her laughter as she watched her opponent squirm as the ref asked if she submitted, but after a moment she shook her head and said no before trying to break free from the hold, but Raya held on as tight as she could, keeping her trapped still and refusing to let her twist out.

"What was that hesitation for, huh?" Raya mocked. "Don't tell me you seriously considered calling it quits for a second? No way, forget that. I promised I'd make you suffer, remember? Here, let me make it easy for you."

After saying that, Raya would then loosen up her hold slightly, almost as if daring Bandita to try and twist free!

Raya’s heavy clothesline turned Bandita inside out, drawing a horrified reaction from the crowd. Laxia could only clutch at her head with both hands, momentarily at a loss for words. Watching Raya humiliate Bandita right in front of her, openly promising to drag out her suffering, was torture enough for Laxia. Then Raya seized Bandita by the legs and dragged her toward the center of the ring. Laxia’s expression froze.

“No...”

She knew that hold, she had been trapped in it herself. She knew exactly what was coming. Sure enough, Bandita was soon lifted into the ceiling hold, her scream of pain cutting through the arena. Laxia paced anxiously at ringside, unable to keep still.

“Bandita...!”

Then Bandita turned her head and looked directly at her. The pain written across her face, and the almost questioning look behind those hazel-green eyes, made Laxia’s heart drop. She wanted to tell her it was okay to stop. She didn’t want to watch her suffer like this anymore. But seeing the determination still there in Bandita’s eyes, Laxia couldn’t bring herself to make that choice for her either.

“......”

So she could only watch, visibly anguished, silently willing Bandita to hold on. And then Raya loosened the hold. Not out of mercy, just to mock her. Laxia’s expression changed instantly. That wasn’t kindness. It was humiliation. Her hands slowly clenched into fists. She glared at Raya through gritted teeth, the anguish in her eyes giving way to open anger.

Another pained noise erupts from the teen, her head tipping back. If she had the mental wherewithal right now, she'd take some minor solace in the fact that her ponytail is probably getting in Raya's face and being a nuisance. But that's small comfort to a suffering body.

Hearing her name carried on the concerned voice of Laxia was difficult to take. She wanted to hear pride, encouragement, hope! Not dread and fear! Not pain! She screwed her eyes tightly shut, teeth clamping shut together, her head shaking fervently in response to the referee's next inquiry. She can't let this match end this way! She asked Laxia to be here to show off for her, not to be humiliated! If she gives up now, that's all it could ever be!

Hearing Raya mock her for her moment of weakness causes the girl to scream out again - anguish mixed with outrage. Her arms try to squirm, the muscles twitching through the biceps and thighs, but she just can't slip the grip of the bigger girl! That is...

...until Raya's confidence seems to lead her to make a mistake.

Feeling the hold start to loosen, Bandita pulls one leg forward with a growl, slipping the entanglement. And immediately with that, an arm wrenches free! The girl's lithe body whips over in the air, using the remaining interlocked appendages as a base to reposition herself over Raya - and drops! Bandita's toned midsection lands firmly across Raya's chiseled stomach in a short-range bodysplash!

Raya's smirk quickly faded as after she had loosened her hold, clearly underestimating Bandita's perseverance, she was met with her opponents resilience as she quickly managed to break free and then slam down into Raya's stomach in a bodysplash!

Raya, having not expected any of this at all, had been totally unprepared during this moment, having instead taken the time to keep mocking, and so she had no time to react to Bandita's movements and so could do nothing but lay there and take the blow as she was crushed underneath her opponent, letting out a massive grunt of pain as she had the wind knocked out of her instantly and was left dazed on the mat underneath Bandita's form, her arrogant mockery had once again backfired and left her in a precarious position!