Giulia La Rocca vs Kyo Akamatsu - Grudge In Chains

Giulia had been subjected to two pinfall attempts already, and the match had barely even started. Or more precisely, so far Giulia had managed to perform a tiny fraction of all the things she had been planning to perform in this match... Kyo had begun their battle much stronger than the Italian had expected, and her body was sorely feeling the results of it. She needed to catch a break, and she needed to inflict pain on the Samurai.

Headscissors were the perfect solution. They didn't require any strength to be wasted on trying to get back up, and in fact could even allow for some sort of recovery for the Italian. Her legs were made of steel, and inflicting considerable pain didn't necessarily require too much effort. Also, Kyo just happened to be in too perfect of a position to pass the opportunity...

For a moment, her plan could not have worked better. Kyo had not seen the scissors coming at all, and Giulia got the guy exactly where she wanted him. And the best part? He did actually try to pry her legs apart. Yeah, he really did. What a fool. He could keep on trying to do that as long as he could. There was no hope for him. Giulia would just squeeze him for as long as she wanted to... Vary the pressure a bit, tease with him, play with him... Observe his futile struggle...

"Ooh, what's this?" Apparently the Samurai had finally realized that a change of strategy was in due order. The Italian felt her back getting lifted off the mat, but she could not immediately figure out what Kyo was up to. Obviously, it had something to do with the chain. However, nothing suggested she should have let her scissorhold go.....until her back suddenly slammed to the mat again! Briefly shouting out due to the impact, Giulia had no option to keep her hold applied, but rather get once again laid out on the mat.

The ring rumbled around them as Kyo dropped down, neatly slamming Giulia against the mat. The impact briefly pushed Kyo's head against Giulia's crotch, and for an equally brief moment, he was red-faced from the immodest position. Only for a second, though: as the iron vice of Giulia's legs came free from around his head, Kyo rolled onto his side, gasping hungrily for air. Any longer, and he might have started to pass out, and being scissored in such a position would have been a humiliating loss for Kyo.

As it was, he pushed himself up to his knees, blinking away spots of blackness as he breathed hard. A perfect opportunity for a pinfall...but he knew that Giulia was too tough to be pinned at this stage of the match: she had already proven so twice. No, he needed to wear the tough Italian down further first.

Grabbing at one of Giulia's legs, Kyo would stand up and kick the inside of her thigh, before stepping over her leg, aiming to roll her over and lock in a boston crab....

Kyo's red face could have been a major source of mischievous joy for Giulia. While her actions were by no means intended to be on the suggestive side, she would have definitely realized the reason behind the blush risen on his cheeks. For once it would have signalled a weakness - something that he was not exactly prepared to face, but something that he should have been prepared to face in this promotion. There were lots of "worse" things that happened every night in Tension, and he was getting his face red from a simple headscissor hold? Surely the move was something he should have seen and experienced before? It would have seemed strange...

Maybe a little bit cute, but strange nonetheless.

Unfortunately, none of that joy materialized. Giulia was in a tricky situation here, and getting slammed yet again to the mat wasn't exactly helping with making observations of the guy. If anything, should the history repeat itself, the Italian would soon be subjected to yet another pinfall attempt...

...and there it was. She felt her leg grabbed yet again, and prepared to kick out. But this time, instead of a pinfall attempt, Kyo had decided to pay back her thigh the scissorhold with a kick! It was just enough to immobilize Giulia for a moment - a moment that was enough to roll her lock in a Boston crab hold!

Honestly, Giulia couldn't recall the last time she had been put in one. And that was evident in her level of pain... Which was in turn evident by the cries she let out, despite of how much she hated to show any weakness. She tried to kick her legs out of the hold, she really did, but even legs of steel like hers were no match for Kyo's hold. So, what now? The only option occurring to her was trying to power her way to the ropes. So, Giulia began pushing her body up, and trying to squirm and crawl her way with Kyo on top of her towards the closest rope she could reach.

Kyo didn't even realize his face was still red after that scissor, or that close encounter with Giulia's powerful thighs. Still, he was free now, And now he was turning the tables once again, sitting squarely on the Italian's back and wrenching her legs back in a boston crab. He held his breath, the muscles in his arms and abs flaring as he fought against her powerful legs, all the while pouring pressure down on her back.

In response, he felt Giulia pulling them towards the ropes. "Seriously? Are you forgetting your own rules?" he asked incredulously. "No rope breaks, remember? Either you free yourself...or you tap."

As if to emphasize the fact, Kyo suddenly unhooked Giulia's legs and folded them over across one another, sitting against them to keep them trapped. Yanking on Giulia's chain, Kyo tried to grab a hold of her head: if he managed this, then he would try to tuck her head under his armpit, and lean back, hoping to trap her in a modified dragon sleeper/back bender!

"Speaking of which...give up, Giulia!" he shouted as he arched his opponent backward, testing her flexibility. "I'm only getting started!"

Getting into the Boston crab was a tricky situation for Giulia indeed, and much to her disappointment, Kyo managed to keep her legs in check. But all was not lost though, as the Italian found out that powering up the two towards the ropes appeared to be a feasible possibility...until Kyo said a couple of crucial words. At that moment, it felt to Giulia like pretty much all was lost.

Yeah, no rope breaks. Right. How could she possibly forget her own rules? How could Kyo have messed up her game so bad? In frustration, Giulia almost slammed her fist hard to the mat. Only stopping from doing it in the last second, trying not to let Kyo hear audible examples of her frustration, it was still evident to the crowds. And what Giulia felt right now was utter humiliation. She had come out to this arena tonight to solidly beat Kyo to pulp, and right now he was basically embarrassing her with her own rules...

And before the Italian knew it, the Samurai was already up to something else. He let the Boston crab go, and it looked like Giulia might have had a chance to fight back against his new hold attempt, but in reality the girl was always one step behind. Once she realized something could have been done, Kyo had already moved on to the next part of his move - and before she knew it, she was fully locked in this new, devastating move, for which Giulia could not imminently even figure out a name for.

And it hurt like hell. Kyo was putting her flexibility thoroughly to a test, one that hadn't truthfully been conducted on her body for quite some time. The only positive thing was that now Giulia wasn't any longer one step behind, and could actually try to figure out a way to escape the hold. And in this situation, words were best saved for later...

But what could she do? Maybe she had to try taking advantage of her own rules this time - mainly the chain. The Italian would have loved to somehow twist it around Kyo's head, but that did not seem plausible from this position. So instead, the girl began yanking the chain desperately, hoping with consistent yanks to get Kyo's feeling too uncomfortable for the guy to keep up his hold. Gracious? Definitely not, but hopefully effective.

It wasn't hard for Kyo to switch to the dragon sleeper variant, or to lock the hold in. With his arm around her throat and her face tilted back under his armpit, Kyo was able to simply lean back, curving Giulia's body backwards in a painful arch...and, in the process, inadvertently mind you, give the audience a good view of Giulia's body stretched out in full display. In this hold, it was a question of what would happen first-- if she was going to tap out, or simply run out of air.

He kept an eye on Giulia's arms all the while as the Italian suddenly yanked on the chain. Little by little, he felt his grip loosening. That damned chain as definitely complicating a lot of things in this match. With an irritated sigh, Kyo released Giulia and stood up, yanking on the chain to pull her up to her feet...before sliding an arm around her waist from behind, hoping to arch back and catch her in a quick but effective back body drop turned pin! If he couldn't make Giulia tap, then at least he was going to try to score a pinfall on her...

This was not going good. And where had it even begun going wrong? Giulia was at a loss of finding answers to that question. Surely she hadn't lost any of her strength and skill since their last encounter. Had it been her preparation? Had it been Kyo's development? Had it been her choice of rules for the match? Had it been her overconfidence? Had it been her words before the match? Or had it been her whole decision to call Kyo out at all?

Whatever that point had been, it was long gone now, and she had to live with it. Luckily the chain was apparently turning out to help her with that this time. Kyo's grip was gradually loosening, slowly but surely, and eventually he had to let Giulia go of this painful, very painful hold...

...only to have something to keep on going with. Giulia needed recovery, oh, she needed that badly, but up she was going almost like a ragdoll as the Samurai was pulling her. And unsurprisingly, further moves followed as the guy showcased his own strength with slamming the Italian's back to the mat with the back body drop!

"1!"

This hurt. But what Giulia was hearing now had the potential of hurting even more.

"2!"

"Not again!"

After the two count, the Italian powerhouse promptly kicked out of the pinfall attempt. But this had already been, like, the third one? Giulia might have already lost her count on that, and the situation was not looking good for her at all...

For the third time in a row, Kyo attempted a pinfall on Giulia. He figured that after stretching and slamming her a bit, he ought to have softened her up by now. He was half right: this time, the pinfall managed to get to two...that was, until the short yet sturdy Italian kicked out from under him, almost throwing him off of her with the power of her kickout alone. It was going to take a lot, lot more than that to keep La Forza Italiana down.

He gave an irritated hiss of breath as he stood back up, grabbing Giulia by the arm to pull her to her feet. It was time to get a little inventive of his own with the chain: yanking on the chain, he suddenly started to spin like a top, using the chain to swing Giulia around him on her feet like a top, accelerating faster and faster...trying to walk towards the corner post and use Giulia's built-up momentum to swing her, hard, into the corner post...

Giulia had come out to the arena tonight looking for a decisive win, a revenge, a destruction of the Japanese guy in a match with her own rules. Nice plan, but right now she was desperate to get even a chance to try a pinfall attempt of her own. The Samurai had already gotten three of them of his own, and so far his perfomance was clearly outclassing the Italian's.

It was looking bad, but Giulia knew there was still time to avert the disaster. While Kyo had managed to deal some significant damage already, the Italian also had very good endurance. It was not yet over for her, and her determination was vividly demonstrated by the force with which she kicked out of the latest pinfall attempt.

But she was not yet over with Kyo's plans either. Without a chance to catch a break, the Italian was pulled up by Kyo again, and things took an unexpected twist, quite literally as the Samurai began utilizing the chain to cause the shorter girl swirl towards the corner! And there was nothing that the Italian could really do to stop him - not least because she had no idea of what he was doing - but nonetheless the hard impact on the ringpost did cause her to crouch forward, leaning on the ropes...

But that caused the Italian to realize that this was a good opportunity to gain one step ahead of the Samurai for once. She figured it was likely that the guy was already targeting her, hoping to crush her further against the corner... Thus, the girl decided to try quickly sliding out between the ropes to the other side, while protecting her body from Kyo's potential impact by positioning the turnbuckle between them.

And even if he wasn't targeting her already, hey, she could just use the chain and pull him to the corner with it, right?

Kyo knew exactly what Giulia could do in the ring, and so wasn't about to give her a chance to recover. But in a situation where he coudn't whip Giulia towards the ropes, he had to improvise-- hence, he used the chain to spin Giulia around into the corner post, and was rewarded by the sound of her slamming hard into the turnbuckle, La Forza Italiana crouch forward, reeling from the impact built up by the swing.

Thus far, Kyo was in top form against Giulia, and now was at a point where he was neatly dominating the match. All he had to do now was keep Giulia on the defensive-- a thought that ran through his head as he charged forward, swinging a knee up into Giulia's exposed, leotard-clad belly...

...only for Giulia to twist on the chains at the last minute, sliding through the ropes and yanking him into the turnbuckle!

The knee took the worst of the impact, pain lancing up his thigh, though the turnbuckle itself slammed against his chest, knocking the wind right out of him. Gasping loudly, Kyo staggered back, nearly losing his balance...held upright, ironically enough, by the chains attached to his opponent on the other side of the ropes...