Haruka Date vs. Chisato Sakurai

Haruka had seen girls fall to all sorts of things. Punches, kicks, even a few karate chops. It looked like the Silent Phoenix didn't get her all the way to la-la land but it was still nice to see a girl become putty, just like that. Chisato was clearly woozy and in a pretty sorry state, however, and that was something that Haruka could work with.

She once again planted on the leg that had been so ruthlessly tortured by Chisato. It was hurting less. Maybe it was because she was winning. Or maybe it was because it wasn't being attacked over and over. Either way, she swung in a knee, aimed at Chisato's face. If that one hit, she could get a few more in for some sweet payback.

In her dazed state, Chisato tried her best to reclaim her senses but it was a difficult task. The knee to the face made things a lot more harder as Chisato's head snapped back from the hit as she leaned back more into the turnbuckle. Her arms moved around sluggishly as she tried to reach up to the second rope, hoping that gripping something would quicken her body to stabilize before Haruka could do even more damage to her...

Haruka recognized the look. It wasn't a pathetic one, but it was kind of a sad one. It was the look of a wrestler who was hit a few times and desperate to get back into the mix. As much as she respected Chisato, she wasn't prepared to let that happen.

The Silent Phoenix planted on her strong foot and tried to put her weak leg against Chisato's throat. Haruka found a delightful irony in the fact that the leg Chisato had so viciously attacked earlier might now be her undoing. She wanted to feel Chisato struggling with her foot to her throat.

Unable to pull herself up to her feet in time, Chisato soon found herself trapped underneath Haruka's foot as it was grinding itself into her throat. Gasping for air as her hands shot to foot on her throat to try and push it off, Chisato began to kick her legs about. The sudden change of events now had her on the defensive after the strong showing she had against her former WA comrade as she gritted her teeth.

There wasn't much for her to do apart from trying to get the foot of her, Haruka was out of range of her kicks and it was pointless to throw punches and lose more energy. Her only hope was to wait until the ref girl broke the hold with her five count.

Chisato struggled against the hold. The green haired girl's experience told her that it wasn't going to be fruitful to throw punches and both of them knew it. Haruka honestly felt a bit bad. She wasn't some monster heel that loved torturing women. The ref got to two before the Silent Phoenix released the hold and backed off. Her leg was still aching from Chisato's vicious assault but there was still a match to win.

Haruka moved back to the middle of the ring. She was brutal when she needed to be, but she wasn't unfair. Choking Chisato until a five count wasn't going to win her the match- kicking and punching and chopping would. So Haruka bounced from one leg to the other and gave a nod to Chisato. Get on up, the grim look on her face said, and come at me with all you've got.

The foo removed itself from Chisato's throat as she gasped for air, pulling herself close to the ropes as she started to pull herself up to her knees. Coughing and hacking for air, she had time to recompose herself with Haruka moving herself towards the center of the ring. When she got enough air and her senses, she turned around to look at the Silent Phoenix who looked like she was ready to continue fighting like the mystical beast she was named after. But Chisato saw it merely as a ruse to hide her pain and her true state.

Getting to her feet, Chisato was ready to clash against the Phoenix once again, there was no time to build the pace again, she needed to burst upon Haruka and stop her momentum from building as she raced at Haruka, looking to regain her advantage with a clothesline.

It was something about Chisato. Maybe her considerable experience let her conceal her intents better than most or maybe it was her beautiful face. Either way, Haruka was taken wholly by the clothesline. She cried out and her limbs were splayed out as she hit the mat. The crowd surged with delight. This match was reaching a fever pitch!

The Silent Phoenix breathed deeply. For a while she was immobile, incapacitated by the clothesline. She hoped whatever was coming next wouldn't be so bad but in her heart she knew that not to be true.

Blasting Haruka on to mat with her clothesline, Chisato had no time to waste as she knew that she had to keep on the pressure on her opponent. It was foolish to give anything but 100% against someone of Haruka's ability. And that also meant that she could show absolutely no mercy against her. Leaping up, Chisato looked to show to everyone and to Haruka that adrenaline could hide pain, but never eliminate it and attempted to double foot stomp Haruka right on to her injured leg.

Callous in her style, Chisato was never going to pass up an opportunity to keep her opponent at a disadvantage but there was another motive for her precise attack. Her opponent was known as a Phoenix. The bird that could rise from it's ashes anew. Chisato wanted to show that even a Phoenix couldn't rise against her after she was through.

Haruka rolled over and cried out. It felt like her knee had been hit by a train and that wasn't so far off the truth. The Silent Phoenix's leg was racked with pain after the surgical strike from Chisato. The two feet did some serious damage.

There was a mixed reaction from the crowd. Chisato almost seemed like a heel to go after her leg this much and some disapproved. But others cheered for Chisato still, demanding that she press her advantage. Haruka tried to roll away, to purchase some distance between the two girls. She didn't want to have her leg tortured even more.

The feeling of her two feet crashing into the weakened leg of Haruka sent waves through Chisato. She smelt blood in the water and she was going to take that leg and figuratively tear it to bits, continuing her strategy of incapacitating the Silent Phoenix. Although some of her signature moves were for targeting the arm, the events of the match worked out well against Haruka's leg since nearly every move in the ring required the proper leg strength to pull it off.

Seeing Haruka roll away, Chisato looked at the position of her opponent and chose to wait and bide her time for another big move. Stalking and waiting for Haruka to rise up, Chisato chose to lay off of the leg and picked another target, her head. Rushing at Haruka when she rose, Chisato would attempt to leap up and plant her left foot into Haruka's hip to use as a stepping stone and tried to smash her right foot into the back of her opponent's head.