Picking up a friend (for Ragdoll)

Outside of that thing, Navi did think that Abigail fought fairly impressively, especially with her switching fighting styles on the fly. And she fought Navi at full power, unlike her first opponent in the company.

"Yeah, spur of the moment. Sorry...", she would say to Manager's assessment of Abi's ear. She would notice Abi reddening as the guy checked her ear.

"Hmm... Interesting", Navi would smirk...

DING!

"Huh?", Navi heard a ding from a mobile phone, an indication that it got a message. On the chance it was her phone she left Abi with her manager and approached her locker. Unlocking it and grabbing her phone, she noticed that Melody left about 15 messages to her, earliest being "I am going to the arena" about 30 minutes ago.

"How...long was I exactly out for?", she asked the duo

As Manager finished examining Abigail's ear, backing off the completely red face girl who seemed to have steam emitting from her head out of sheer embarrassment, Manager would look at Navi when she asked her question while Abigail would stare up at the ceiling, completely flustered and dazed.

"You've been out for about half an hour. Why ask? Need to be some where?" Manager asked.

"Aaaaaaand we live 30 minutes away from the arena. So, in theory, she should be here right about..."

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Melody has been watching the match on her TV, disturbed at some of the stuff that transpired in the match, especially with Abigail going into "Mind games" teritory with Navi. The moment Navi was knocked out and the moment she saw Abigail dragging Navi somewhere, she immidiately sat in their rental car, periodically sending panicked messages to her friend. She didn't recieve an answer for any of them.

She left her jacket at the entrance to the arena, leaving her in a t-shirt and jeans, and asked the crewworkers about the match that transpired. Being helpful, they pointed her towards the locker room. However, thinking she can never be too sure of what Abigail could be doing to Navi, she grabbed a chair as she approached the entrance to the locker room, hearing several voices, but not making out what they were saying.

She would jump into it, and scream: "Alright, which one of you do I take out first?!"

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"...now"

"Hi, Green!...um...", Navi's face to her friend jumping in with a chair in the locker room had a mix of laughter and shock mixed into one, as she didn't now what to make of her usually calm (despite her temper) friend standing close to the 3 people in the room with a chair.

As Manager finished taking a look at Abigail's ear and answering Navi's question, the door to the locker room would suddenly burst open and a girl with green hair entered, equipped with a chair. Manager and Abigail recognized her as Melody Serperior. When she had entered in the locker room and yelled out her threat, Manager reflexes kicked in on instinct. He would suddenly be at the bench with Abigail to in front of Melody, plucked the chair out of her hands and ran back, putting the chair down in the span of a second using his Don't Blink ability.

"Ya know Miss Serperior, a chair is not exactly the best choice of weapon when rushing someone," Manager said as he placed the chair on the floor, "And what exactly do you mean by beat up?"

Coming into the room, Melody saw Navi (beat up from the match, but relatively unscathed, and a man sitting behind a girl. WIthin a blink of an eye, said man managed to get behind her back and get the chair out of her hands, Melody not even managing to pull the chair back in surprise. By the time she turned her head there and back, the man already sat back near the white-haired girl, with her chair being at their feet:

"Wha...what just...?"

"Just roll with it, Mels"

Melody opened her mouth to say something, glancing at the man and at the white-haired girl. She realised that her fears were for nothing, but she was confused over what happened in the span of that second.

"No, no sorry, I won't roll with it, what just happened?"

"Seriously, just roll with it, this dude's weird", Navi said, despite being just as surprised at Manager's speed.

"...o....ok....Are you alright?"

"Been better, bruises all over, losing via KO sucks, but other than that, I'm ok."

"That's good...so...who...is that?", she would ask Manager. Navi sat silently on the bench as she waited for Manager to answer her friend's question (thinking he is better to answer that himself).

Snickering, Manager crossed his legs over one another and tipped his fedora at Melody. "Name's Manager, Abigail's manager," Manager introduced himself, "Pleasure to finally meet you in person Miss Serperior. This here's Abigail."

At the mention of her name, Abigail snapped back to reality and stood up, bowing in respect. "Pleasure to meet you Miss Serperior." Abigail would then look at Melody and started to unconsciously study the green-haired woman, Melody's old matches playing through her head and every nitty-bitty information Abigail had on her went through her mind. Guess she was still had her wrestling mindset on, and Manager noticed this before pulling Abigail back down to snap her back to her senses.

"Abigail, you're not in a match. No need for the Strategist to come out," Manager said as Abigail snapped out of her daze and realized she was staring at Melody.

"Oh...sorry about that," Abigail apologized shyly, looking down at her feet. Manager chuckled which made her head turn a bit redder, his laugh catching her off guard.

"Um...the pleasure is all mine", Melody said, doing a little bow towards both, but after a few moments:

"Wait, how do you know my name exactly...? Also, Manager as a name...?"

"Just roll with it, he and his friends are kind of... weird"

At the same time, she noticed Abigail looking at her, as if scanning her with her eyes, before Manager snapped her out of it

"My point exactly"

Melody still eyed the locker room with confusion, but after a few moments, she decided to take her friend's advice:

"So...guessing since I am here....and since you are not in trouble, should we go home?"

"Give me a second to take a shower, and I'll meet you at the car"

"Alright...umm, good bye you 2...", she said towards Manager and Abigail, before turning to leave, but still within the earshot if Manager or Abi wanted anything from her.

As Navi went to go take a shower and Melody began to leave, Manager noticed Abigail hesitant on something and nudged her side. Abigail would jump slightly before looking down at her manager and he said, "If you have something to say to them, you should say it." Manager would look up at her with a coy smile and she blushed. Nodding her head, she would get up and call out to Melody.

"Um, Miss Melody! I-I-I really thought you're matches were amazing," Abigail said timidly, almost too quiet for anyone to hear.

Soon after Melody and Navi turned to leave to do their respective tasks, Melody would hear something that hit home from the heart.

Nowadays, she did get messages from the internet from her fans, telling her that they like how she wrestles (despite losing more than a few matches), but nothing compared with actually hearing the words Abigail said to her then and there, especially being in a slump that she was in.

Melody stood shocked for a moment, before turning around, and saying to the white-haired girl with a smile:
"Th-thank you! It really, truly means a lot", before turning around, and wiping a tear from her eye.

"I just got something in my eye...yeah, that's it", Melody lied to herself in her head, before walking away.

Navi heard the entire conversation from the showers, and popped her head in the way to say to Abigail:

"Thanks. She needed that.", before popping back, and hoping to, finally, take a shower after the match she's had.

Abigail blushed as she said that, that took a lot of her courage to do that. And seeing Miss Melody's face thanking her made her happy. She always admired strong wrestlers, how they boiled with confidence and determination. She was getting red until Manager pat her on her back. She let out a small squeal before looking down at Manager who was smiling at her.

"Why don't you head out first, I got something quick to give to Miss Melody and Miss Navi," Manager said. Abigail nodded and quickly slipped past Melody before whispering something to her.

"P-P-Please tell Miss Navi that we had a great match," Abigail said before she slipped away. Manager would sigh as he took out several things behind him. A bouquet of roses, trimmed and blossomed during precisely in the spring and a heart shape box filled with Willy Wonka Nerds and Sour Patch Kids, and a bouquet of chrysanthemum with a heart shape box filled with chocolate raisins and nuts.

Manager would walk up to Melody and bowed slightly before extending the gifts out to her. "A present from a manager to a wrestler," Manager said in a rather surprisingly gentlemen voice, "I understand the pain you must've been through after Avalanche but you made a nice recover with your win over the previous Entropy Title Holder. Be proud of yourself. As for Miss Florges, she is quite the interesting woman. But I can tell she's a great friend, you're lucky to have someone like her. Give her my regards too." As soon as Melody accepted the gifts, Manager would straighten himself before taking another bow, tipping his fedora, and left the locker room with a smile.