Medieval history match: Tessa vs. Triin

Rolling away after she had freed herself from the rain of blows that had come down upon her, at least you could see it this way, the hometown blonde girl was on the way to rise again. She felt a little bit dizzy still, but her ankles seemed to hold when she was finally back on her knees and then on her feet again.

Her luck seemed to be destined to not hold for long though as Triin had something against her effort and nailed her right in the head with a kick while she was still busy to hold her ribs after the hits with one hand.
“GAH!”
She yelled before she turned 180° from the impact and crashed back first on the mat.

Tessa had managed to anger Triin with her elbow strike. While that might not had been her intention, the Estonian knightess didn't care. She wanted to get revenge on Tessa, and preferrably in an as painful way as possible.

Thus, she opted for the Roundhouse kick. And it couldn't have been a better success. The kick hit Tessa right to the head sending her straight to the mat. Now Triin had a perfect opportunity to gain momentum here...

With Tessa in a supine position on the mat, Triin descended to target her legs. Having worked on the hometown girl's ankle already previously, it made perfect sense to target more of her legs next. So while Tessa was still reeling from the impact, Triin attempted to apply a figure-four leglock on her hometown foe.

Tessa had indeed no idea how she could have possibly angered Triin with her elbow while she was decorating he floor with her writhing body under the oohs and aahs of the audience. And things went quickly from bad to even worse when her opponent came in to capitalize of her downed state by turning her around.

“...Ughn...”
She groaned lightly when she was turned on the back again, opening her eyes wide with her hands gasping in the air while Triin went for the submission hold and locked it in.
“AHH!”
She flopped around in the hold from left to right.

Now this was starting to get fun. Triin had managed to nail Tessa with the roundhouse kick, and immediately afterwards she had succeeded in getting the figure-four leglock locked in. The Baltic Knightess was taking control, while her hometown contestant was struggling and flailing in the hold.

Triin had already realized that Tessa was probably more experienced than her, so each moment she managed to keep her foe as the underdog was a very important step towards defeating the veteran. Wanting to increase the efficiency of the hold, Triin started trying to deliver some chops at Tessa's shins, hoping to break her spirit even more.

"Come on, surrender! Spare yourself from a tragic fate and hand your castle over to me!"

Shaking her head around wildly, Tessa raised a hand to basically signal the referee that she was not out of it and refused to give in. No way that she already would give in, but she had not looked really good in this match up until here which angered her a little bit on top of getting creamed in the ring in the moment with some chops adding insult to injury.

With a little snarl, she would attempt to get the two girls swinging until she could roll over Triin, hold her in the figure four for a moment before looking to get on her feet for a low Texas Cloverleaf where her own butt would rest heavily on the butt of Triin to spare her legs some work.

Triin was being the dominant knightess of the duo. Tessa was clearly suffering in the leglock, and the Estonian's chops were also having an effect. That provided a great opportunity for some taunting in hopes of lowering her local foe's morale, but Tessa was clearly still being very defiant, and getting a submission already was out of the question.

And there was a slight problem though. Even though keeping the hold had gone well so far, grappling wasn't one of Triin's strengths. It meant that the Estonian was rather vulnerable to the veteran's counters, and with a sudden swing, Tessa managed to turn the pressure of the leglock against Triin!

Letting out a moan, the rookie was suddenly the one in trouble! And Tessa was determined to make her position an even tougher one. The veteran swiftly applied a Texas Cloverleaf hold on the Estonian, earning a few cries of pain out of her. Immediately, Triin was looking for the nearest ropes. They weren't terribly far away, but she couldn't reach them yet. And unfortunately, all the weight on her butt meant that the valiant knightess wasn't going to be moving anywhere, and would have to bear what the veteran wanted to dish out on her for now.

Tessa would have asked the girl to surrender now as she had asked her, but that was pretty hard with gnashed teeth and a sweaty face. One of her poor ankles really hurt, and her cloverleaf probably looked a little bit one sided because she would inevitably favor her more stable ankle and leg in general. But still she thought that it was pretty good locked in when you factored in the circumstances. At least Triin did not find a way out of it quickly.

It was good for her that the referee would take that job and ask the other knight if she wanted to give right now.

Triin was in trouble now, but luckily her endurance was still at a fairly good state. She hadn't had to go through many submission holds yet in the match, and it meant that the Baltic Knightess wasn't going to be easily forced into submission just yet.

Tessa's hold was fairly tough though, and it wasn't a surprise when the ref came in to pose her question. Triin let out a stern "No!", signalling determination, but some degree of frustration was evident as well, as the rookie still was in a quite rough position.

Ropes seemed to be out of the question, so the only thing Triin could come up with to alleviate her situation was to start trying to deliver some strikes towards Tessa. Her blonde foe was reachable by at least her other hand, and the Estonian decided to try delivering some punches or chops to Tessa's side with it. Granted, her position for doing so was very difficult, but at least it was something she could do.

Triin obviously would not want to give up in the Clover Leaf, but the Blonde did not mind too much about it. Only because she would not give up did not mean that she would not give up sooner or later.

“...Ahn...OW!”
The grunt of Tessa turned into a scream of pain when she was chopped into the side. Gritting her teeth she was first determined to let her opponent try her luck with chopping her down, but a punch against her ankle persuaded the girl to finally let go of the other knight theme clad girl.

Panting and wheezing she would drop Triin on the floor, limping away to lean into the ropes.

Tessa had managed to put in some tough holds on Triin, but the Estonian wasn't about to give up just yet. Despite the damage they had been doing, the valiant knightess had managed to keep up her fighting spirit, and deliver some chops at Tessa. That had finally worked, enabling Triin to get some recovery on the mat.

Seeing Tessa limping away to lean on the ropes herself was giving some comfort to Triin. Tessa's skillful holds had taken Triin's legs out of the game for a moment, and kicks were unfortunately out of the question right now. The longer she could recover, the more use they would provide her later on in the match.

Triin was taking her time with the recovery, determined to stay down as long as Tessa would. But then again, if the local knightess wouldn't start to show any signs of getting back up herself, Triin would have to do so. She was the attacker after all, the one who was supposed to conquer Tessa's castle!

With that in mind, the Estonian would start crawling towards her opponent. Being careful with her moves, Triin's goal was to yank Tessa's leg so that the blonde would become separated from the ropes, and that could then provide her the opportunity of positioning herself behind Tessa's back for a Sleeperhold!