SS 14 Best 2/3 Falls: Taylor Parker Vs. Adrian Kytes

Taylor held on tightly to stalemate Adrian, thankful for the break. Even if she was using a lot of energy keeping Adrian down, she had bought herself a few pain free seconds.

She was even happier when Adrian gave up on the hold, at least until the first elbow hit. The sharp bone of Adrian's elbow smashed into Taylor's forehead and snapped her head back, opening yet another cut.

"Fuck!"

She held onto Adrian's hair for dear life and tried to shield her head with her arms as more heavy elbows followed, battering her aching head, pushing her to the brink of collapse. In one final effort to save her brain cells, she shoved Adrian back, forced herself to her feet and grabbed the back of Adrian's head. She raised one knee and dropped onto her back, yanking Adrian down with her knee tucked against her face so that upon landing she crushed Adrian's head against the worn black knee pad.

Junko had had absolutely enough of watching Adrian beat her daughter to hell. SHE was exhausted! She couldn't imagine how the girls must have felt.

!TAYLOR-CHAAAAAAAN!"

Junko shrieked and slapped the apron as hard as he could. "Please just turn it around..." She said to herself.

Adrian panted with effort as she swung wildly at Taylor, she had put so much energy into smashing the punkette into a million pieces she was starting to wear herself out and she couldn't really put much of a stop to Taylor shoving her off.

"Raaargh!" the former cosplayer roared, diving straight back into the fray and aiming to knock Taylor back down to the mat only to get grabbed herself and pulled down face first into Taylor's knees. A sickening crunch echoed in Adrian's ears as she sprang back, flying towards the mat as though she had been shot out by a cannon, blood trickling from her nose down to her chin as she laid down on the canvas, barely moving.

Taylor stayed flat on her back, unable to get up. She put her palms against her forehead and felt the slippery warmth of her own blood. She was bleeding from two places on her forehead, her nose, her lip, and the blood pulsed out of ger in time with her heartbeat. Her face was a gruesome red mask. She spat out blood as she took short, heavy breaths, her heaving chest the only moving part of her.

She had been hit much harder by other people. She had taken her share of beatings. But Adrian had been grinding on her for so long in the marathon of a match, the pain in her neck, her back, her head, her face, was debilitating. She just wanted out, she wished she was at home in the tub washing off all traces of the match. In the corners of her eyes, the beginnings of tears appeared.

But if she quit now, Adrian would win, and all the hard work, all the help from her friends and her family, would be for nothing. She had to get up. She couldn't make Junko look at her like this.

She drew herself up to her knees, and the crowd cheered. She joined them with a ragged, animal scream. "YEAAAHH!" She looked at Adrian, who was still down, and staggered over to her, bending to grab two handfuls of her hair and drag her back up.

Adrian felt like couldn't breathe, her nose felt as though it was nothing but a red smear in between her eyes and her lungs felt as though they were on fire. Win or lose she was looking at a one way trip to the hospital at this rate. She had taken beatings before, been bloodied badly before and still pressed on as long as her body could, but this time... it felt... different. Maybe it was because of just how long this match was, 3 falls and running on 40 minutes so far and it wasn't over yet. The former cosplayer had made the offhand comment that she could last in a long match and that was definitely being put to the test.

As much as everything hurt, she got back up to her feet when Taylor grabbed her by the hair, she had come too far to stay down now, even if all she could do was croak out a small "Let go of my hair..." as she staggered up to her feet.

Taylor backed up several steps to bring Adrian forward, keeping her bent over as she held on tightly to her hair. She was wary of retaliation from the crafty girl, but had to keep on the attack. She didn't want to give Adrian an inch, lest she risk another surprising end to the fall.

Taylor did let go of Adrian's hair, but only after she launched a ferocious knee strike up into her already bloody face. She punctuated the shot with a guteral growl, and the crowd collectively cringed. Blood already covered most of Taylor's face, and ran into her hair and onto her chest, her deep blue eyes and bright white teeth were the only points of contrast on her face. With Adrian bleeding as well, they were certainly going to leave their mark on the mats for the rest of the night.

"Nggh!" Adrian grunted as her head was knocked skyward by Taylor's knee, splitting her lip on top of the blood splashing from her nose. But this time, Adrian remained standing on both feet. Staggering back, the former cosplayer tried to regain enough stability to launch herself forward. Swinging a heavy forearm at Taylor's head with all the strength she could muster. It wasn't much but Adrian was determined to keep fighting as long as possible, to keep grinding Taylor down until one of them fell apart

"Aagh!"

Taylor cried as Adrian's arm smacked into her temple. Every time she got hit it hurt more and more, and this one staggered her. She turned away and stumbled several steps, and then found herself at the ropes. She threw herself against them on her back and rebounded off into a run back at Adrian. She jumped, coiled her legs, and unloaded a powerful dropkick into her opponent, though it went a bit lower than usual, only reaching her opponent's gut.

"Yaaaa!" Adrian yelled as her arm rocked the punkette, but she left herself gasping for breath as she stayed up, trying to get some energy back so she could follow up in time. Time that Taylor wasn't going to let her have.

It might have been aimed a lot lower than Taylor's normal dropkicks, but it floored the former cosplayer none the less, leaving her a bloodied, groaning mess on the canvas. No quick response this time.

Taylor hit the mat with a heavy thud, and the impact jarred her injured neck and sent a renewed wave of agony through her body. She laid flat on her back, eyes closed while she gasped for breath, and only after a moment could she begin to get up.

She shook her head and slung blood off the end of her nose as she turned onto all fours. She crawled her way to Adrian and flopped on top of her, draping her body flat across the former displayed in a tired, desperate pin.

"One!" The entire crown counted along with the ref.

"Stay down, stay down, stay down..." Taylor whispered.