Summer Splash Is Where!? (For Daaharu)

At the AFW arena it was another full to capacity night as the Friction show began. The crowd was hyped for a show of hard hitting, violent, sexy fun and already people were wondering what the first event out of the gate was going to be tonight. But, when Justin Timberlake's 2007 song Summer Love began to play the crowd paused in confusion. The music wasn't a recognizable theme for one of the wrestlers of the AFW's league.

However, they resumed cheering anew when the former hentai champion Marisa Evans, along with five other gorgeous women stepped onto the entrance ramp. The five women, models that Marisa had borrowed from the modeling agency she had recently stepped away from to return to Friction full time, were clad in matching white bikini's that left little to the crowd's imagination. For herself, Marisa had chosen a black monokini, that was somehow even more scandalous than what the other women were wearing!

Then, to the crowds' delight Marisa and the women broke into a dance number. Turning their backs to the crowd, they moved in unison, swaying their hips, delighting the crowd with the sight of their well formed posteriors. While dancing wasn't exactly something Marisa was known for, in her modeling career she had served as a background dancer in more than one music video, and she was giving a fair accounting of herself as the song went on. The girls she came with Marisa had chosen because they had some sort of dance experience, and were more than able to move to a beat. Most importantly, they looked good while doing it.  Turning around, she gave the cheering onlookers a smile as she ran her hands up the front of her body, arching her back slightly to put her chest on display as she pointed to the crowd, posing as the song faded out after almost two minutes.

Thanking the girls, Marisa made her way to the ring, taking a mic from a technician as the crowd applauded. Once she got inside it, the former Hentai champion gave a wave to the crowd before raising the microphone to her lips.

"Hello, Tokyo! Phew...I'm sure Aisha could have done it better, but still that was fun, right?!" she called, the crowd cheering back in response. "So...May is here. Which means June isn't far behind. And June, as we all know is the first month of summer. And with summer...."

At this point, the AFW crowd began to cheer, for it was a well known fact that one of Marisa Evan's 'things' was that she was sort of the official unofficial herald of Summer Splash. Which meant, that once she started talking about summer, they were going to get information about one of Friction's biggest pay per view events!

"...you guessed it, comes Summer Splash!"

At this point, she pointed up and a huge banner unfurled from the rafters revealing the Summer Splash logo along with the year, 2016 and the event's location.

Alaska.

Marisa stopped in confusion.
"Wait...what?" she said into the microphone as she blinked in confusion. "Does that say....Alaska? I, uhhh....one second."

She looked down at some of the stagehands and technicians at ringside.
"Ha ha guys, very funny. Pull one over on the dumb model." Marisa said wryly. "Now where's the real sign, Kiko, you little minx?" she went on, addressing one the head stagehands. However, Kiko shook her head, and even though she couldn't be heard by the crowd, was saying that indeed, that was the real banner.

"Well, then the sign can't be right...Alaska is like a frigid tundra isn't? Plus Sarah Palin lives there, how great can that place be?" she said, still speaking into the microphone. Her comment drew laughter from the crowd.

Turning her attention back to the crowd, Marisa shrugged.
"So...they're telling me the Summer Splash is going to be in Alaska this year." she said with a shrug. "And while I don't want to criticize Lukretia's decisions, 'cause I'm not that much into pain, guys, I have to wonder about this one. Unless it's like....an all indoor thing, maybe? Nah...cause part of Summer Splash is the outdoors vibe. I don't know. How about you guys, do you have any answers?"

Marisa looked to Kiko and her technicians and stagehands and all either shook their heads no, or shrugged....

Spoiler:

The dance that Marisa and her troupe performed truly was spectacular. Those fit, toned posteriors which they waggled around on several occasions during the number were really something to behold, especially, and it brought a smile to the face of the Alaskan blonde standing backstage. She was fortunate to have been here for this particular Friction event, seeing as how her expertise was going to come in handy. She was going to get a chance to slip back into her own element. As much as she had enjoyed the brief conversations she had had with many AFW wrestlers, she stuck out like a sore thumb. She wasn't on their roster and a number of them did seem to be somewhat surprised by her presence.

Her eyes were still on the beautiful blonde—who was, if her memory served, a former champion of AFW's sexfighting circuit—as she bid farewell to the dancers who had arrived with her and strode to the ring at the center of the arena all by her lonesome, her chest pushed out and her spine held erect and proud. The way she carried herself, she knew just how the audience would respond to her appearance here and now. And they cheered loudly as she announced the coming of Summer Splash. She waved a hand and unfurled a banner displaying the logo which was by now so familiar to the Alaskan blonde.

Evidently, she had not checked with anyone beforehand. Maybe she had wanted to surprise herself. And she was surprised. By the look on her face alone, that was obvious. And then she started asking questions. Questions that the crowd and the stagehands couldn't answer.

Luckily for Marisa, Siena McCloud, the chairwoman and official spokesperson of the Alaska Women's Wrestling Committee, was in the building, and she had the answers that Marisa sought. Siena straightened her skirt and adjusted her collar. With her pink blazer and black skirt, she struck quite the impressive figure. Confidently, she walked out into the arena. She had no music to play, and none of the fans knew who she was. Most of them didn't even notice her entrance, though a few near the ramp saw the flash of pink as the businesswoman strode by, or heard the clacking of her high heels on the floor. Most did not notice her until she had procured a microphone from a stangehand and began to speak.

"If I may," she began, "I believe I can answer all of your questions. If I couldn't, I wouldn't be a very good spokeswoman, now would I be?" She stopped just short of the ring and looked up at Marisa with a disarming smile.

When she heard another person began to speak, with the aid of a microphone, Marisa turned to see a blonde woman standing at ringside. No music had announced her arrival, in fact nobody had noticed her until she spoke up. Although, now that she thought about it, the model recalled seeing her backstage but had been wrapped up in her own preparations to give her too much thought.

"Well, answers would definitely be nice." she said, coming over to speak to her over the ropes. "Although, I seem to be overdressed when put next to you." she added with a smile, referring to her scanty attire when compared to the other woman's own.

She sat on the middle rope, holding it down so this new woman could enter the ring. Once she did, the former Hentai champion would stand back up again.

"So you're a spokeswoman?" she asked when she raised the microphone to her lips again. "Who are you speaking for, Miss.....?"

Marisa paused, giving the other woman a chance to introduce herself.

Perhaps Siena should have prepared some entrance music for herself, just so she could properly announce her arrival and avoid surprising women like this. Walking in without a word was not exactly a spectacular way to enter, and Siena's whole purpose here was to make herself known. Then again, it wasn't as if she was an AFW wrestler. Her own wrestling days were behind her, a few years in the past...not that she couldn't wrestle again if she wanted to. She was still quite skilled, from what some of the girls around Anchorage had told her. She could always use her old theme music from the early 2000s...

I wonder if a modern-day crowd would go as wild for "Get the Party Started" as the crowds back then did, Siena wondered idly, chuckling to herself at the thought of it. She didn't regret it for a second, but it did amuse her how much had changed, in music and in wrestling, since that time.

Marisa was gracious when Siena caught her attention, walking over to the side of the ring nearest to the Alaskan blonde and sitting down with that fine behind on the middle rope, pushing it down to give Siena a chance to climb into the ring. Siena would do so, taking her time getting up onto the apron in her high heels, before deftly tucking her body forward and sliding into the ring, brushing against Marisa's arm in the process. "Actually, I wish I had dressed with the arena lights and the heat of all these bodies in mind. I wouldn't mind swapping outfits with you right now. You look...comfortable," she would say with a chuckle afterwards.

When Marisa gave her a chance to introduce herself, Siena would accept it graciously. "Siena McCloud, head of the Alaska Women's Wrestling Committee. My organization has been advocating for Summer Splash to come to Alaska since late 2014, and now that it has we are working with AFW to ensure that the event is as spectacular as possible. More than that, we're hoping to use this high-profile international event as a chance to establish a women's wrestling league in Alaska—once the girls of Juneau and Ancorage have a chance to see the superstars of AFW in action, we hope that interest in our current indie leagues will rise!"

As the blonde brushed past her to climb into the ring, Marisa took the chance to let her eyes roam over the woman's body. Even in such a conservative outfit, the model could tell she possessed a beautiful form under her clothes.

When Marisa stood up again, the woman was talking about her clothes being perhaps a little warm for the arena. With a grin, she replied "Well, I bet that one of my ladies has an outfit you could borrow. You definitely could fill out one of those bikinis very nicely, I'm sure..."

Her blue eyes would meet Siena's briefly as her lips curved upwards in a sultry smile as the Alaskan introduced herself.

"That is quite the introduction....and title, Ms and I hope it's Ms...McCloud." the model replied. "I'm Marisa Evans, and please, just Marisa. I'm the former Hentai champion of this league. I don't normally conduct interviews, but since this is about my favorite AFW event, and I happen to be joined by such a lovely guest, I can try my hand at it."

"So, the first thing I should say is, I've actually heard about your organization, but I had assumed, pretty wrongly it looks like, that you and your people were campaigning to host Avalanche. So I have to ask, why Summer Splash? I mean yes, you said you want to get a league started up, to get people talking about the indie leagues that are out there." she recounted the spokeswoman's earlier statement.

"But...Avalanche is a major spectacle in it's own right, more than able to showcase the AFW's talent. And it seems like it would be much easier to fit that event with the image of your state rather than Summer Splash." Marisa concluded in a friendly, but curious tone...

Siena was almost always smiling in her role as a spokeswoman for the Alaska Women's Wrestling Committee—not to mention in her day job—but she liked to think that women like this could tell when her smile went from self-assured and professional to one of genuine interest and amusement. She saw the way Marisa's eyes roamed over her body, and it seemed that her fellow buxom blonde liked what she saw, even when it was buried underneath Siena's very professional attire. Siena, obviously, had no such issues as her eyes traveled across Marisa's form from top to bottom. She, too, enjoyed the view, and her smile surely showed it.

"Assuming they do, where do you expect me to get changed? Right here, in front of everyone?" Siena would say, waving an arm around to encompass the audience, who gave a healthy round of applause to her line. They picked up on the way she was playing to them, but ate it up, nonetheless. "That may be fine for you hentai wrestlers, but I'm a very important businesswoman, you know, and I have appearances to keep up!" While she spoke with an air of poshness, it was so exaggerated that it was all Siena could do to keep from laughing at her own words. She only wished that hentai matches had been as much of a thing during her wrestling career as they were now.

Marisa started asking her questions, and, despite her insistence that she was not an interviewer, she did a good job of it. Her questions were fair and gave Siena ample conversational room to answer, and they were born of genuine curiosity, rather than a desire to discredit the Alaskan and her successful cause. "That is a good question, Marisa—and, by the way, you can just call me Siena," she would begin. "So, the first question that everyone asks me about hosting Summer Splash in Alaska is 'Isn't it too cold in Alaska? Won't Summer Splash just become another Avalanche?' And, you know, it is cold in Alaska. I've been to Nome, and it is frigid nearly year-round. But Alaska is a big state—the biggest in the United States, in fact." She pursed her lips, though her face didn't lose its smile even when she closed her mouth and paused for a moment for effect. "The truth is, the Arctic Circle is about as far away from the southern part of Alaska, the Panhandle, as Chicago is from Florida. Or as Tokyo is from Okinawa. And I'm sure you know how big the difference in temperatures can be over such great distances."

She would lift her hands, using subtle but powerful motions of them topunctuate her main points. "Juneau, Alaska, where I'm from, sees average air temperatures of almost seventy degrees Fahrenheit during the height of the summer, with plenty of days even warmer than that. And, while that may still sound a little cold to you, I'll tell you right now that the water is even warmer. We get tropical water circulating up to the Gulf of Alaska from the south, and it's just as warm as the water in California at the same time of year. Don't get me wrong—hosting Avalanche would be a thrill. But we actually see fewer snowy days in the Panhandle than someone in Ohio, or New York!"

"What we're hoping to do," she would continue, "Is show people a side of Alaska that isn't as often publicized. We have beautiful beaches, lush rainforests, and rolling meadows full of flowers. Believe it or not, I actually keep a butterfly garden in my backyard!"

Cocking her head thoughtfully, Marisa listened as Siena explained her position. She had to admit the woman brought up some fair points, things she didn't know about Alaska.

She also had to admit, she found the sight and sound of the intelligent, beautiful woman dropping knowledge to be quite alluring. Granted, it wasn't like it was super hard to draw Marisa's interest, but she had always been drawn to those with passion, and Siena definitely was passionate about her home state. She drew closer to the business woman, a finger tapping her full lips thoughtfully as the model took in the information.

"Actually, wow, I didn't know Alaska had such a wide range of temperature zones." Marisa admitted. "You are right about something though. Seventy degrees is kind of cool for summer. But that is far from being horrible. We have put on shows in way worse conditions in the past. Some of the other girls are more than willing to have a throwdown in the parking lot of a truck stop if that's what it takes. Although I'd like slightly better accommodations for my type of matches."

She gave Siena a smile as that seemed to flow into another question that seemed like it needed to be asked.
"Now that I think about it, yeah, where would the events be held? I assume there's a good sized arena, right? And of course, at Summer Splash the AFW kind of prides itself on doing matches outside the confines of the normal wrestling ring. Usually it involves being on a beach, or.." here she gave a slight giggle at the memory of this match "...even out on a boat at one point. But yes, what kind of settings will Alaska offer the AFW and it's fans?"

She turned to the crowd.
"'Cause admit it guys, part of the reason you like Summer Splash so much is because you like seeing us getting it on with each other in various outdoor-sy locations."

While the phrase 'getting it on' could be used to mean starting a fight, Marisa's tone of voice definitely encouraged the crowd to think of the words in a more salacious sense, drawing whistles and cheers from the audience.

Siena kept her back straight and a smile on her face as Marisa drew closer to her, her expression and the finger tapping on her lips indicating that the model was interested in the explanation that the spokeswoman had laid out. Evidently, Siena had provided her with some new facts about Alaska that Marisa had not been aware of before. Hopefully, Siena had given this whole audience some food for thought. She knew that there were a few people here tonight who had already bought airfare to Anchorage, but AFW's Japanese fans were generally not any more knowledgable about the beautiful Alaska Panhandle than Americans were.

Marisa's next question had to do with where matches would be held, another question that Siena was more than prepared to answer. She giggled softly at Marisa's "getting it on" comment—it was clear what the former hentai champion actually meant by the use of that phrase—before she would begin to elaborate on the setting of this year's Summer Splash.

"Oh, I've been watching AFW matches for years. It's quite impressive how many unique locations the girls and promoters here can think up. Of course, I'm hopeful that our creativity will impress AFW audiences, as well," she would say. "So, as some may know, we did lobby to host last year's Summer Splash, but were denied, in large part because the Alaska Panhandle lacks a full-sized arena to host standard matches in. That changed when we added Anchorage to our bid in the form of Alaska Airlines Center and Sullivan Arena. Both feature seating capacities for wrestling of nearly ten thousand, and the Alaska Airlines Center has several other amenities, including training rooms and a bar and grill on its upper level."

"Of course, the outdoor settings are what Summer Splash is really all about, and for those matches, wrestlers will travel down to Ketchikan, Alaska. We've made arrangements for the exclusive use of a nearby black sand beach, and we're also looking to have some of our beautiful rivers and parks available as possible match sites." Siena would take a step closer to Marisa and wink. "And it's funny you should mention a boat, because I believe we'll have one of the famous Alaskan coastal cruise ships booked for the exclusive use of Summer Splash attendees—and wrestlers, of course. Who's to say a match couldn't take place there, as well?"

Marisa had to admit, two arenas that sat ten thousand wasn't a fact to take lightly. She had to wonder if Lukretia was going to be so ambitious as to try and use both of the arenas, as well as take advantage of the scenery provided.

"Well, I have to say, even if I'm not going to have a match at Summer Splash, I'm going to be on a boat!" she said loudly. "Kicking back on a cruise ship, enjoying all of the beauty..."

As Marisa stressed that last word, she stepped teasingly close to Siena, her body brushing up against the business woman's.

"....Alaska has to offer." she said with a mischievous grin. "Yes, I could really get behind that idea. And you know, even if it does get cold at night, I'm sure, as someone who lives in Alaska, you have a few ideas that could warm someone up....I know I do."

The crowd, catching on to the not so subtle hints of Marisa's gist, began to give loud "Wooo!'" cheers and whistles as the model started to drape an arm over Siena's shoulder, hand cupping the back of her head and leaning towards the Alaskan as if she were about to kiss her. Suddenly though she stopped, abruptly stepping away. The model snapped her fingers, as if she forgot something, while winking at Siena. The crowd groaned in disappointment.

"Wait, wait, wait!" she said into the microphone. "It's something having to do with you guys!"

She turned to Siena.
"Merchandise." she said, pointing at the other woman. "Fan swag, whatever you want to call it. Summer Splash has always had all sorts of T-shirts for the event and merchandise that sort of carried the theme of whatever location were were visiting. My favorite was those little tiki things from when we went to Hawaii. So, what kind of souvenirs do the fans have to look forward to?"

Siena smiled. Marisa had made a very quick turnaround on the idea of holding Summer Splash in Alaska. That was what happened when a reasonable person had the facts of something laid out for them. And Marisa was far more than simply reasonable. It was obvious that she was a kind, gorgeous, generally well-liked member of the AFW community. Siena had only seen one or two of Marisa's matches, but she was sure she was going to see plenty of Marisa in the future. As Marisa stepped closer to her and brushed her scantily-clad body up against Siena's body, Siena had no doubt she would be seeing a lot of Marisa, and very soon indeed.

Marisa only kept on dropping innuendos, as she suggested that people might need some warming up while they were in Alaska. Siena, of course, had an idea what sort of warmth Marisa would be looking for. But she was going to play coy. "Oh, yes, if you need to find some warmth at night, I'm sure our gorgeous wrestlers would know just where to look for it. Alaska has a number of hot springs, just like in Japan, that attendees could take advantage of! And the Tlingit people, who have been so gracious in allowing some of this event to take place on their lands, make some intricate, incredibly detailed blankets that I'm sure would be available for purchase."

That remark, coincidentally, segued very well into Marisa's next question: what about merchandise? "I'm glad you asked, actually. You know, I actually attended Summer Splash in Hawaii as a spectator, and those tikis were so charming, I had to make sure we had something to compete with them this year. When you attend Summer Splash, you'll have opportunities to purchase some exclusive memorabilia that weaves together both traditional Tlingit art and the excitement of AFW: miniature AFW totem poles, shirts, hats, jackets, and more. We even have some exclusive bikinis that we'll be selling!"