Higurashi Dojo-Taylor Parker & Julia Rogers vs. Jessica Wright & River Styx

Taylor's eyes widened in horror when Julia's progress was abruptly halted, and the reversed. She strained to reach farther toward her partner, as if she could make up the extra distance by force of will.

"No, no, no, no, no!" She growled, with an unmistakable twinge of fear. "What'sa matter, Fuzzball? You scared of me? Well you SHOULD BE!" she snarled angrily. Her eyes settled back on Julia, clenching her fists and hoping she could get away.

The fans were rising to their feet as Julia inched closer and closer to Taylor with each passing second, and it seemed the people were about to see the former world champ added into the fray!

But just before the cowgirl’s hand could make contact with her mentor’s, River managed to hurry over to Julia and grab her by the boot, then dragged her right back out to the center of the ring. “Damn!”

Once River had stopped dragging her, Julia planted her hands on the mat and started pushing herself up, with only one of her legs supporting her since the other was still in her foe’s grasp. She’d been stopped from making it to Taylor, but she couldn’t afford to stop fighting! And once she was up on a foot, Julia would then jump up and try to swing her free leg right at River’s head with an enzugiri attempt!

Styx managed to ignore Taylor's squawking - not easy - and continued dragging Julia back toward her corner, refusing to give a single shit about the audience's very vocal opinion on the matter. Idiots like these dojo girls were all about silly flips and giving the people what they wanted to see, putting on a show. Fuck that. Styx fought to win.

She was just about to start working over Julia's leg in the middle of the ring, trying to take some of the mobility away from her, when the cowgirl popped up with newfound signs of life. Styx barely had time to blink, much less defend, before she was kicked upside the head. For the third time.

"Son of a-" Styx grunted and grabbed her jaw, as she spun around with her arm swinging wide. She went for a quick tag on Jessica - she was too stunned, too slow, and she banked on her partner being able to catch Julia before she could make the tag. "Get her."

"You got it." Jessica was happy to jump the bit, to do anything to get back into the match. While she wasn't feeling 100%, she was feeling pretty goddamn fresh. And Julia held on a lot better than Jessica thought the little cowgirl would. River was kind of a beast and Jessica was honestly floored that she managed to even survive the initial stomps.

But she was a wrestler, and she had work to do. The first order of business was keeping Julia the hell away from Taylor- Jessica summoned all of her pathetic speed forward to try and launch an attack on Julia. She tried to seize her legs, flip her over, and put her in a double legged Boston crab- that would surely slow her down quite a bit!

After her leg smacked into River and send the big girl reeling, Julia dropped back down onto the mat and immediately resumed her attempt to move to her corner to try to tag Taylor in. But what she didn’t see was Jessica getting tagged in behind her, and the Violent Violet was hot on her tail.

Before the dojo trainee made it very far, she felt a pair of hands grab onto her legs. “Ugh! Let go!” Julia protested, rolling over onto her back to try to kick at her foe to shake her off. But before that could get anywhere, the blonde was turned back onto her front while Jessica wrenched both her legs back to apply the Boston crab, causing the blonde to cry out in pain as her body was bent and contorted in Jessica’s clutches!

Taylor's heart skipped a beat, but she drew a deep breath and forced herself to settle down. There were a dozen ways to stop a Boston crab, but all of them before it was locked in. Once it was in deep, there was no easy way out.

She tried to smooth out her voice and make it as calm and confident as she could for Julia.

"You're okay, babe, just listen to me. Stay tight, and I need you to crawl, okay? This chick is strong, but she's not very big, you can carry her. Now buck her off or get to the ropes, okay?"

Taylor didn't need to add any urgency to the situation. She knew Julia was already feeling plenty.

Jessica smirked. Of course she wasn't going to let go. And then her smirk turned into a full on smile- Taylor thought Julia could actually escape the hold. That was adorable. A submission break was not something that the Violent Violet would suffer easily and she took a few tentative steps away from Taylor to try and make that distance a little bit harder to cover.

She leaned back and applied more pressure to the hold. Her strategy would have to be to wear Julia down to try and get her to stop bouncing all around the ring like it was a fucking bouncy castle. Then she could really keep Julia away from Taylor. But for now, this hold seemed like it would be enough. She gave one more yank, just to apply that pressure a little more...

Julia took deep breaths to try to help cope with the pain being inflicted on her, and nodded in response to Taylor’s instructions. But just as she was about to start trying to follow them, she was dragged further away from Taylor, and the pressure of the Boston crab was intensified as Jessica leaned back in the hold!

“AAH!! FUCK!” Julia cried out as her face scrunched up in agony. But just because she was further form her mentor didn’t mean this was the end for the dojo trainee. And as the ref asked if she wanted to surrender, the blonde shook her head and responded with an emphatic “NO!”

Pushing against Jessica’s strong arms as much as she could with her legs, Julia pressed her forearms to the mat, and one step at a time she put an arm in front of the other and tried to start slowly dragging herself toward the ropes. Each inch felt like a mile, and there were quite a few inches between her and the nearest rope. But she refused to surrender, and fought with everything she had to try to reach the rope and force a break!

The girl had spunk. Jessica hated spunk. A ton of girls used it as an excuse not to train hard or be dedicated to the sport that Jessica loved so much. And here Julia was slowly and infuriatingly making her way to the ropes. The little cowgirl would not have been out of place in a war movie, crawling her way beyond the enemy lines. Jessica redoubled the pressure on Julia but nonetheless found her making her way to the ropes.

The luchadora reached the ropes, and nothing happened. The ref girl waved her off and Jessica refused to budge. The Boston Crab was still in on Julia and it was nice and tight, just how Jessica liked it. The poor overmatched referee girl had to practically tackle Jessica to get her off her opponent. She stood up and got up in the ref girl's face.

"Come on, I didn't see it. You're giving my opponent an unfair advantage. You are trying to hurt me. Did they fucking pay you or some shit like that? Because honestly, the AFW refs are usually up to snuff and you're a fucking joke..." Jessica was towering over the ref, gesticulating wildly and glaring.

The referee was temporarily distracted, getting up in Jessica's face. Styx's teammate was using her amazing talent for shit-talking, and in the meantime, poor Julia was left to lay there and recover from the brutal Boston Crab, conveniently close to the ropes.

Hello, opportunity.

With the referee's back to her corner, Styx took a few steps on the apron and shot her foot through the middle and bottom ropes, giving Julia a quick stomp on the head. She slid right back after she connected, taking up position by the ring post with a smirk and a wave towards the booing audience. Having a great time.