Haruka Hirayama vs. Peggy McIntyre

Haruka was much slower at getting to her feet. Both her belly and back ached like crazy, as if they were screaming at her not to let that happen again. She looked like she was going to vomit, but still knew that she had to get back up lest she give Peggy an easy target.

By the time Peggy was on her feet, Haruka was only just starting to get her feet under her, sitting on her hands and one knee.

Peggy saw that Haruka was slow to rise. Instead of waiting Peggy wanted to take advantage of this opportunity. She howled as she rushed at Haruka, jumping at her and trying to flatten her with a shining wizard!

Peggy felt like this was a crucial point in the match, and she was either going to push Haruka to the limit or Haruka was going to stage a comeback!

Haruka felt so tired, and her body hurt so much. If the match had been over just now, she'd have been happy just because it meant she'd be able to go lie down somewhere. Unfortunately, it hadn't been, and she'd forced herself to start standing up. The little wrestler sorta realised she'd made a mistake when she noticed her big opponent was already on her feet, which didn't seem right to her. She'd watched hundreds of matches, and the smaller girl was always supposed to be faster, right?

Peggy interrupted her thinking a second later, sprinting at her and landing a flying kick that thumped against Haruka's chest and sent her falling back down to the canvas, undoing all the progress she'd made towards standing.

Peggy looked at Haruka's body language and knew she was on the figurative ropes. Peggy made her way over to Haruka's legs and grabbed on to one, kneeling down on the back on the leg. Peggy wanted to lock in a painful ankle lock on the woman to try to get a submission!

Haruka ended up flat on her back after Peggy's kick, but she twisted over onto her belly and started to climb up onto her feet. She would've got there too, and surprisingly quickly, if Peggy's strong hands hadn't locked around her lower leg and dragged her down again. The woman's thicker body sat down on Haruka's leg, and she locked in a torturous ankle lock that made Haruka let out a heart-breaking scream as loud as she could. The maid would've tapped, if she wasn't so silly, and hadn't watched far too much of the big-name AFW wrestlers recently. Instead, she started desperately trying to drag herself forwards toward the ropes.

Peggy wrenched down and put all she had into trying to make Haruka tap out! She howled out and twisted... only to hear the referee call for a rope break! The old Peggy would have kept hold until a five count reached dangerously close to five. Now, after being around Alaina, Julia, and her boyfriend so long she let go as soon as the referee made the call. Peggy backed off and stood in the middle of the ring, taunting Haruka.

"Come on ya daft fool! Lass, ya shoulda tapped! If ya can even hobble about all your flashy offense is gone now! Get up and show me what ya got left in ya!"

Haruka curled up, cradling her twisted ankle with one hand and desperately clinging to the ropes with the other. How on earth did her wrestling heroes handle all this? None were all that much bigger than herself, and Peggy was far, far, far off being the biggest wrestler in AFW, and she still almost broke Haruka's ankle.

The slender lightweight, after a few seconds, felt comfortable enough to start getting up, climbing up using the ropes and turning around to face Peggy, keeping her weight off of her injured foot. She moved forwards, her hands raised as if in a boxing stance, and tried to throw her best right hook into the Irish woman's jaw.

Peggy was not sure what Haruka wpuld do, but a straight jab was at the bottom of the list! Peggy's eyes widened and she staggered back after taking the punch! After an audible groan, Peggy rubbed her jaw and reared back trying to send a hard punch right into Haruka's abdomen as a form of payback!

If Haruka wanted to brawl, Peggy was more than happy to. Hopefully her ankle lock sapped a lot of the fight out of her foe....

To everyone's surprise, even Haruka's, the blonde maid managed to nimbly swing her hips to the side, causing Peggy's hard punch whoosing past and hitting nothing but the air. She breathed a sigh of relief, quickly starting to put distance between herself and the larger wrestler but maintaining a sort of defensive boxing stance incase she attacked.

When she got away, she didn't really know what to do next, so just began to circle the Irish lady and look for some sort of opening. The pain in her ankle was still there, but seemed to recede ever so slightly with every step she took.

Peggy missed and glared, clearly angry that she did not connect. Watching Haruka circle Peggy moved about herself, cautiously approaching and fading back. Peggy had to make a move sometime though, and tried to quickly move in to grab hold of Haruka by the arm! Peggy rotated around trying to send Haruka flying to the ropes with an Irish whip!

Peggy readied herself in the middle of the ring, moving at a hopefully rebounding Haruka as she tried to jump up and turn, hammering Haruka in the upper chest or face with a hip attack!