Allison Watson vs Yi Lan

Daaharu wrote:Sat Sep 27, 2014 4:05 am
Yi Lan had no idea who she was fighting tonight. She had been informed of this match two weeks earlier, and in that time she had done her best to get in what training she could. Her first match had been against Jocelyn, and she hadn’t trained for it at all. This one…this one she liked to think of as her first real match. She didn’t really want to be an AFW wrestler, but, so long as she was under contract, Lan was going to make the best showing of it that she possibly could. She felt a little stronger, a little quicker, a little more durable after all of her training. She felt like, just maybe, she might have a chance in this one.

Things had happened quickly over the last few weeks. She had spent a night at Bonnie’s for protection’s sake. Then she and Jocelyn had moved in together—Lan could still barely believe that—and done…things. Lan was actually riding something of a high right now. Things still weren’t fantastic, but they were looking up for her now, and, as she quickly and quietly ran into the arena in a white tank top and orange shorts, hopping into the ring and beginning to stretch in her corner, she was wondering if she just might be able to add her first victory to the list of good things that had happened this week.

Bluemouse wrote:Sun Sep 28, 2014 2:15 pm
Allison knew exactly who her opponent was. She had gone to the management to specifically request her. The fact that their match took place immediately after Bonnie and Jocelyn's was entirely a wonderful coincidence.

Accompanied by her eerie, almost playfully sinister music, she strode into view, the regal Allison Watson looking like a queen in exile. She was cold and aloof, but smooth and sensual, and while the crowd reviled her they couldn't take their eyes off of her.

She climbed the ring steps and slipped into the ring, and moved to greet Lan with slinky,unhurried steps. "Hello, duckling," she sang softly, with a smile. "You've just missed your friends. Perhaps they'll come back to watch tour big match. Mmm... I hope so."

She turned and walked back to her corner while she awaited the start of the match.

Daaharu wrote:Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:21 am
Lan had thought she’d caught a glimpse of someone familiar on their way out of the arena as she was preparing to enter it, but she hadn’t been sure, and she wanted to focus on the match at hand against her mystery opponent. She had prepared for it, working long and hard to improve the shape that she was in, and was actually almost looking forward to the fight.

Until the music began, and the tall, statuesque European began to make her way down to the ring. Lan’s eyes widened, and she froze as Allison climbed into the ring and walked over to greet her in that false sweet voice of hers. Lan would swallow once and then summon up a reply from somewhere deep within the recesses of her mind. “Umm…o-okay.”

She backed up into her corner and leaned back against the turnbuckle, watching Allison return to her own corner. Lan didn’t quite know what to do now. Should she run? She couldn’t run. But she certainly couldn’t fight Allison, either…at the same time, though, she didn’t want to show the spa owner just how afraid she was. She still wanted to win this fight. But how could she possibly do that, now that she knew who her opponent was?

Bluemouse wrote:Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:44 am
"Do you remember what I said before about the ways we connect with people?" Allison asked as she leaned casually in her corner. "You are I are going to get to know each other very well..."

The bell rang, like a funeral toll, to start the match. Allison strode out to the middle of the ring to wait for her opponent to muster her courage. "I've done this since you were a child, little flower. You're in good hands, trust me."

Daaharu wrote:Mon Sep 29, 2014 11:24 pm
Lan was shifting uncomfortably over in her corner, suddenly wholly unprepared for the match that was about to begin; all of her training had not prepared her for the appearance of a woman who had become unto a bogeyman for her over the last few weeks. Allison had never harmed her directly, but Lan had heard of all the wicked things this woman was capable of, and Allison had harmed her and everyone who Lan knew here in Tokyo in some way, be it emotionally or physically.

“I…w-well, I hope it can be a, umm, a good match,” Lan would say, pushing her fear as far as she could towards the back of her mind. Now was not the time to show any weakness. She may not be looking forward to this match anymore, but she was going to do all she could to win it. She had to. Even if she couldn’t win it, she had to fight as hard as she possibly could.

Lan would walk towards the center of the ring when the bell rang, her arms out, her knees bent. She frowned at Allison’s last comment—Lan wasn’t a child, despite the way Allison spoke to her—but wouldn’t reply to it. She would just wait for the woman to attack.

Bluemouse wrote:Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:01 am
Allison smirked at Lan's attempts to look fearless. They had so much the opposite effect. She also noted the girl's hesitation, and if Allison didn't make the first move, they would likely just stand there all night.

She lifted her hands as she stepped up to the unusually tall Chinese girl, and offered her the chance to lock up cleanly. She stood flat-footed, and within reach, almost as if daring the girl to try something else.

"Let's not keep them waiting, duckling."

Daaharu wrote:Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:00 am
And here Lan thought she was doing well. She had her breathing under control. She was looking Allison straight in the eye, or close to it, anyway. She was trembling, just a little, but she thought that that could be reasonably passed off as simple pre-fight jitters. Sure, she was scared, and nervous, especially seeing as her own personal bogeyman was her opponent, but she thought she was hiding it well.

The look in Allison’s eyes told her different. Obviously, even if Lan were hiding it perfectly, the European blonde would know just what she was feeling…that seemed to be one of the many strange powers that Allison possessed. It unsettled Lan still further.

But when Allison approached the center of the ring to begin the fight, Lan could find a little positivity in the situation. Allison’s body was hardly any more well-toned than hers, and she was only slightly taller. Reasonably, shouldn’t Lan have a fighting chance here? When Allison paused as if to dare Lan to take a shot at her rather than lock up, Lan couldn’t help but see it as a huge opening. Maybe just a gentle tipping of the scales in her favor was all she needed.

“O-okay. But…I’m g-going to give this everything…that I have!” Lan would reply, before she would step forward and swing a sudden, hard punch right at Allison’s chest.

Bluemouse wrote:Wed Oct 01, 2014 3:30 pm
Allison turned slightly to the side so as not to take the full brunt of Lan's punch, but she didn't try to stop it from smacking against her chest. It hurt, more than she thought it would, and she took a step back, but she didn't drop her hands.

"If you're going to be so violent, at least aim for the face, darling. Or perhaps the midsection. Now if you have that out of your system..."

She kept her hands up in a still open invitation for a lockup. She smiled inwardly while she watched her games play out in Lan's face, but she kept her own face blank. She was a bit curious about what this girl really had inside her. She intended to open her up and find out before the match was done.

Daaharu wrote:Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:30 pm
Lan’s punch landed. Not exactly where she had intended it to land, but it landed nonetheless, and it pounded into the side of Allison’s chest hard. She managed to force her slightly larger opponent to take a step back. But Allison seemed to simply shrug it off. She really was a powerful woman.

“Umm…” Lan blabbed, as she tried to decide what to do next. Maybe she should have aimed for Allison’s midsection, or her face. But her chest had seemed a reasonable target. Next time, Lan would choose a much more vulnerable spot on her opponent’s body, somewhere where a punch that hard would really, really hurt. For now, when Allison kept her hands up, offering a lockup, Lan would carefully move her own hands forward to try to move into a collar-and-elbow lockup with Allison. She didn’t plan to let it last long—Allison could probably overpower her fairly easily, given a minute or two—but she would let it last just long enough that she could find another opening for another attack.

Bluemouse wrote:Thu Oct 02, 2014 2:15 am
"That's it, darling, don't be shy," Allison purred as Lan timidly took the collar-and-elbow clinch. "Doesn't that feel a bit better to have your hands on me?"

She didn't try to overpower or manhandle the young Chinese girl, and only stood her ground, one hand on the back of her neck and the other on her elbow. "Now... assert yourself." She prepared herself for whatever feeble, half-hearted attempt at offense Lan would muster up, and kept her feline green eyes trained directly on hers.

Daaharu wrote:Thu Oct 02, 2014 11:50 pm
Lan grumbled as her opponent would take little action to actually try to fight, instead almost encouraging Lan as the two of them locked up in a classic collar-and-elbow hold. Allison, as was typical of the spa owner, was speaking in just about the most condescending voice possible, and that only served to irritate and unsettle Lan. She didn’t want any of that from Allison.

“It’s not my f-first time fighting…” Lan grumbled. “I know w-what I need to do…”

Lan would keep pushing against Allison, trying to force the European woman back, but Allison was holding her ground. The Chinese girl would have to change tactics, then. After taking a second or two to think, she would lift a leg up and kick Allison hard in the shin, following that up by pushing as hard as she could to try to gain the advantage over the scary woman.

Bluemouse wrote:Fri Oct 03, 2014 12:39 am
Allison answered only with a smile, until Lan's kick made her wince. She picked up her leg, and Lan's charge forced her back several steps, but she dealt with it swiftly by planting her foot and pivoting, hooking an arm under Lan's and tossing the smaller girl easily over her hip.

"I adore your enthusiasm," she said, placing a hand on her hip while she waited for Lan to get up. "But is there no one around you who encourages you to be better? Certainly you didn't sign on as a wrestler for things to go like this..."

Daaharu wrote:Fri Oct 03, 2014 3:45 am
Lan managed to hurt Allison. And she managed to force the European woman to back up several steps, getting close to the ropes which surrounded the ring. Those were big steps for Lan. But somehow, Allison had massive amounts of power packed into that svelte frame. She grabbed onto Lan and easily tossed her down onto the mat, still only toying with her. It frustrated Lan. It infuriated her. Her cheeks were red and she would groan as she picked herself up and began to move towards Allison again.

“I was…actually l-looking forward to this one…I w-was.” She had been. Had she known who she would be fighting, she wouldn’t have been. But she had been. “D-don’t worry about…about me at all. My problems are my own.”

This time, Lan was not going for a lockup. She was not going to go punch Allison in the chest. Taking a deep breath, Lan would charge forward, throwing a hard punch right at Allison’s face, then trying to bring her knee up into Allison’s gut, combining her recent bit of training and years of picking up bits and pieces of fighting techniques from her father for what she hoped would be a devastating maneuver.

Bluemouse wrote:Sat Oct 04, 2014 10:07 pm
"Well, then I won't disappoint you..."

Allison reacted quickly enough to lean her head away from Lan's punch, but she took the knee strike flush against her midsection. With a grunt, she bent forward against Lan. Her green eyes flashed and she grit her teeth, and she wrapped an arm around Lan's leg. She pulled her close and hooked her other arm around the smaller girl's head, and then set her feet apart and heaved up with her hips, arched her back, and sent Lan airborne for a moment before planting her on the mat behind her with a fisherman's suplex.

The adrenaline, the visceral thrill of bringing harm to her opponent, skillfully, gracefully, filled her veins and intoxicated her. She hoped the Gastin twins were watching, wherever they were. The show she had in store was especially for them.

Daaharu wrote:Sun Oct 05, 2014 5:06 am
Lan’s punch missed. It sailed through open air, the space where Allison’s pretty face had been but was no longer. Lan was frustrated, but she wasn’t about to give up, and she followed through with the second part of her attack, bringing her knee up and driving it as hard as she could into Allison’s stomach. The woman couldn’t block or dodge that. But somehow Allison was able to counterattack almost immediately. Lan was unable to stop her opponent from grabbing onto her, lifting her up, and then slamming her authoritatively down into the mat. Lan had never much been one for those sorts of moves and holds. As much as she was a fighter, she was a striker.

<Uggh…d-damn it…> Lan would groan in Cantonese, as she would try to get up onto her knees, hoping to push herself all the way to her feet before Allison could get in another attack.

Bluemouse wrote:Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:22 am
Allison was in no particular hurry to get up, and so by the time she turned to face Lan the girl was also on her feet. She showed no sense of urgency, as if she had no reason to be any less than completely confident. Casually, she threw a kick with the toe of her boot into the Chinese girl's gut.

Daaharu wrote:Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:43 am
Lan got up quickly, still full of energy despite the setback. She was still determined. Her confidence had been waxing lately, and she had hoped to put it to good use tonight in her first-ever real AFW match. Instead, she was up against a woman whose sole purpose in life seemed to simply be draining the confidence and the life force out of all those she encountered.

Allison was up at the same time that Lan was, and the European woman twisted around, launching a kick at Lan’s stomach. Lan saw it coming and planted her feet firmly, bracing herself. She was going to turn this around. She would catch Allison’s foot as it came at her, and then she would try to use it to throw the European down into the canvas, twisting her leg and pushing on it as hard as she could.

Bluemouse wrote:Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:28 pm
Even while she hopped on one foot for balance, Allison kept the same calm and composed smile on her face. She fell on her butt and put one hand behind her on the mat while she reached out to hook her ankle around Lan's leg and pull her in.

"Would you like me to teach you things, little flower?" She asked, casually, as if they were not in the middle of a fight.

Daaharu wrote:Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:10 am
Lan grabbed onto Allison’s foot. She twisted it, and pushed, and she sent Allison to the canvas. The European woman was still acting as if Lan wasn’t even touching her, wasn’t hurting her, even as she was sitting on her butt. Allison’s leg reached out and hooked around Lan’s, and the Chinese girl would lose her balance as her leg was pulled upon, falling down onto her knees on the mat.

“I…I…no, thanks,” Lan would say, trying to give a decisive answer to Allison’s teasing question. Lan’s face was slightly pink and her arms were shaking as she got more and more frustrated with Allison’s flippant attitude towards her and towards the match as a whole. “N-no, I don’t. Just…just fight me,” Lan would ask, as she would throw another punch, aiming right for the center of Allison’s face.