Stone-Cold, Cold Heart (p)

Elena grunted heavily as she lay beneath the bar-bell-machine, the red-headed wrestler focusing on strength training as she pushed the bar UP in the air... then down against her buxom chest... Several weights, each one progressively smaller, dawned each side of the bar, a soft sheen of sweat coating Elena's fair skin as she struggled with her workout! While mainly a battler of finesse and technique, having a great deal of strength to back it all up was something that shouldn't be overlooked! It was her final set... And she was feeling GOOD! Added some extra weight, got through it all smoothly and without any breaks... She felt the fittest she'd ever been!

With one last mighty heave, Elena FORCED the bar back up onto it's hold, the woman letting out a soft, but content sigh, sitting up and hopping to her feet in one quick motion!

"Ah... That felt great!" She exclaimed happily, flexing her arms and observing her own physique. Dawned in but a workout-bra, shorts and boots, Elena had a good view of her own form, sensing it's tightness and strength after having being worked as hard as it had... A suitable warm-up for the fight she had planned in the future with Sakura! Oh, she could envision it now... After a long, hard-fought battle, Elena would stand over her friend in victory, the two of them then walking home together... best friends as well as rivals... but with herself at the head, the superior!

"Heh... Just wait Sakura..." Elena mumbled, a sharp, competitive smirk flashing across her face. "It won't be long now..."

There was a piece of stillness that came with going to the gym, the whole training and working out process was something that helped relieve stress and work her into a good mood, that and keeping her in tip top shape was the reason why Lucy was here right now.

Standing in a sports bra, a pair of form fitting black shorts that went down to about halfway of her thighs. She would nod her head, a pair of sporty bluetooth in ear-phones draped over her shoulders. She would walk about a bit in the gym, seeing a few people to the left, a few to the right. Thinking about what do do first, Lucy decided to move towards the weights right away.

Going to the bench press, she would seat herself down on one next to one orange haired girl whom she didn't pay much attention to, starting her music with a light tap on the ear-phones, Lucy would start to circle through some music on her phone before dropping she moved to close herself off from the rest of the world by placing those ear-phones in her ears of course.

Stillness... that wouldn't last. Elena recognized the red-headed woman that just entered the gym... her expression of pride and excitement warping into something much harsher... Angry. Elena had been keeping up with Sakura, even if the same couldn't be said in reverse... and this chick... Lucy Stone... deserved a beating! It wasn't just how badly she'd CRUSHED Sakura that urked her, but there were rumors floating about this place... that they had a second encounter as well... One that wasn't professional and hardly friendly! Who came out on top in that battle didn't matter to Elena... All she knew was that she had some revenge to obtain.

Lucy walked right past her as if she didn't know who she was... understandable given that she was knew but it did no less to calm Elena's temper! Nobody was a bitch to her friends and got away with it! She didn't care how strong or above everyone this chick thought she was... She wasn't going to get away with it!

As soon as Lucy sat down upon the bench-press, she would find a cross-armed, very ANGRY looking Elena standing before her, arms crossed beneath her buxom chest, Lapis-blue eyes practically blazing with righteous fury! her jaw was clenched tight in an almost snarl-of-a-frown, her normally beautiful features contorted with intense emotion!

"Think you can start something with my friends and get away with it!?" Elena growled! Should Lucy make a go for her earphones, Elena's hands would shoot out, PULLING them out of her ears harshly! "What the hell even is your problem!?"

Lucy was lost in her own world basically, trying to reject the reality around her and simply focus on some personal stress relief, with some work out and good music. Of course the only thing that Lucy really listened to was rock, so it wasn't the most calming music to most people. Yet to the redhead...it was.

However, her moment of peace was over as she sat herself down on the bench and as a result had someone step right up towards her face, well...her face was more or so located around the abs and chest of the woman who had moved into her space. Without much of a warning the rather angry looking ginger yanked those earphones out of ears!

Lucy wincing at the act would glare up at this woman rather angrily...now that she got a better look at her face, Lucy would recognize her, it took her a moment as she didn't respond, but she gathered who this was. It was Elena Miyazawa...Lucy had seen her fight once or twice...once against Sakura Hagiwara.

" My problem? Bitches like you are my problem!" Lucy let out as she would stand up, the sudden rise caused her to bump into Elena, their impressive chests doing a light bump into one another as she got right back into Elena's face. " What the fuck is your problem huh?!" Lucy could guess why Elena was here, from what she had read and heard through the grapevine was that Elena and Sakura were close friends, so it was no doubt because of how she'd beaten and humiliated Sakura in the ring. Well, if this bitch wanted a piece of her, Lucy wouldn't deny it! In fact, she'd be all for kicking her ass instead!

A lesser woman might've backed down in the face of Lucy's fury. A lesser woman might've felt afraid of the utter rage that seemed to boil beneath that woman's figure. A lesser person might've felt the slightest bit of regret for being foolish enough to RIP Lucy away from whatever she was doing and FORCE her to confront her own wrongs... But Elena wasn't lesser. She didn't once second-guess ANY of what she was doing, even as Lucy got UP in her face, their breasts lightly pressing together, the woman practically screaming! Elena's expression only hardened even more as Lucy justified her horrendous behavior by turning it back on Elena, remarking how it was "people like her" who make her this way.

...What an utter callow bitch...

What, so she went about beating people up, girls as innocent and trusting as Sakura... what, because she didn't LIKE them, because she didn't respect them...? Because she thought she could do anything she wanted to them? Did Lucy think she had the authority and power to waste whoever she wanted...? Her arrogance and self-appointed importance disgusted Elena, her righteous fury boiling in her throat. It was everything she could to do keep from interrupting this red-headed half-brained fool and devolving this into a shouting match, every cell in her being wanting her to just leap upon Lucy and take out upon her what was rightfully owed... But she did not... No, she stood her ground, looked Lucy DEAD in the eye... and gave her a glare that could wound grievously... if not outright kill!

"You're my problem." Elena responded harshly, through gritted teeth. Lucy reminded her so much of Rio, so much of her utter arrogance, her belief in herself to the point of madness, her utter justification in being a bitch to whoever you don't like. This wouldn't be like then..."You hurt my friend. I don't care if you like us or not... But now you're going to pay."

Lucy and Elena's rather generous pairs pressed together, and in terms of size, weight even hair style and so on was quite a bit similar to one another. They were both redheads, though Lucy was a much more red shade of red, as Elena was more of an orange head.

She wasn't about to take this crap though, as Elena glared daggers at her Lucy would fire back with the same kind of gaze. She huffed out at Elena's words, it looked as if there was another person who wanted a piece of her. She still wasn't happy about getting knocked out by Sakura in their brawl...and she was looking for someone to take out her frustrations on. She couldn't exactly do that against Sakura's protector...Misaki, so it might as well be this bitch.

" I'm gonna pay huh?" Lucy said as she remained pressed up against Elena, she would reach up and grab at Elena by her pony tail trying to pull the woman away from her. " First, get out of my personal space." Lucy let out, once she had some space to stand on her own without being pressed up against Elena, Lucy would release that hair. " So you looking for a beating?  That can be arranged bitch." "

Elena might describe the look on Lucy's face as "exasperated", perhaps because she was being confronted for her bitchiness... something that only made Elena all the more angry. What, did she think she had a RIGHT to treat Sakura that way!? Did she think she deserved to be an absolute tool and walk away like it was NOTHING!? The hell gave her that idea!? What made her think she was SOOOO much better than them? Because she could punch a little harder? Because she spent more time beating people up in the ring than they did? Perhaps because she didn't have a past with the awesome, FUN Sweet-Divas, far too busy dressing up for the sweaty biker-gang costume party!? Elena had nothing but CONTEMPT for this woman, her blue eyes sharp, cold, like the points of a pair of needles, stabbing into Lucy's annoyed little eyes. She couldn't wait to beat the crap out of this girl... To show her just how weak she really was in a language the thug could understand.

For whatever reason (potentially her own insecurities regarding her... uh... disgraceful chest size), Lucy was eager to put some space between them... and doing so in such an utterly predictably scummy way. Appearing to embody the bitch she was so determined to portray herself as, reaching over Elena's shoulder to grab her pony-tail and JERKING it to force Elena back!

Reflexively, Elena panicked, reaching pack to PRY off Lucy's fingers... only to be quickly shoved back, nearly hard enough to send her toppling over! Her eyes widened... then narrowed, the glare emanating from her nearly being capable of rotting STEEL!

"And it will be." Elena growled back, stepping back into Lucy's precious "personal space" challenging her to try and grab her hair again. "I'm not like Sakura... I won't waste any time kicking your ass..." Elena glanced to the side, noting the ring... fresh and empty... before flicking back to lock eyes with Lucy once more.

"Want to see how quickly I can waste you?"

Seeing Elena panic from the hair grab of that pony tail, Lucy smirked a little for about a second or two until she shoved her back and got her a foot or so away from her. Though it didn't seem as if Elena wanted to stay away, as she marched right back up into the personal space of Lucy, pressing her chest right up against the redheads.

The Demon would narrow her eyes a bit as she glared into the fellow gingers eyes. " So you're saying your better? All I've heard about you is that you got your ass kicked by her." Lucy said as she would flash a wide and cruel grin towards Elena. She would see her look over towards the ring and then back towards her. " Hah, here? Why?"Lucy let out as she stood pressed firmly up against Elena.

"Really, why?" Lucy spoke with nothing but malice for Elena. "Why should I fight you here? What's in it for me? If I kick your ass, I just beat what?...Sakura's sloppy seconds? I've already beaten the main dish haven't I?" Lucy spoke as she would stare Elena down. " No body cares about you, you second rate loser. Someone who always plays second fiddle. So why should I face you here? There is no gain, and there is nothing for you to lose here."

Oh, Lucy knew just where to hit her... and it was nowhere on her body. Each one of her strikes against her character and worth BOILED Elena's blood... and not one bit of it was spared from her expression. With each and every jab the sanguine-haired punk made at her past, at her less than desirable win-loss record against Sakura, the more angry the former Diva became, her eyes narrowing, those deep blue irises of hers cutting deeper and deeper into the opposing soul-gateways as if they too were her enemy... At this point, there was really nothing Elena wanted to say... After all, there were no words she could use to truly, effectively articulate the malicious miasma of emotions that were boiling up inside. This woman bit into her heart in all the wrong places, knowing just where to sink her teeth with each and every snap. ...Because it was true. A lot of it was true. She was the second-fiddle desperate to get out of the main-star's shadow, she was second-rate for the longest time...

...Lucy was wrong about one thing, though... There was nothing to lose here... except her patience. Her body LASHING out before her mind could even properly articulate a response, Elena threw a LIGHTNING quick hook across Lucy's jaw, enough force behind that punch to leave the woman's knuckles SORE from sheer impact alone! Should it connect, Elena's mind would be SHOCKED back in sync with her body, the woman's eyes widening in surprise of her sudden loss of control... but only for a moment.

...Because it felt good. Damn RIGHT Lucy deserved that... That, and much, MUCH more. Feeling the sting of her knuckles now, she wondered why she hadn't opened up with that punch in the first place!

Lucy was more than a little annoyed at this point, she hated the attitude that Elena had, even more so than Sakura's. Elena reminded her too much off herself in more than just looks. Which was something that Lucy just couldn't stand, her eyes narrowed as she stood and basically demanded that Elena would give her a reason as to why she had to face her in a match? There was nothing for her to gain, and there was nothing for Elena to lose...so what was the point even?

That was when the fist of Elena came up and smacked Lucy right in the cheek! Snapping her head to the side as the redhead would wince out at the pain of being punched in the face! Yet, she remained standing, fixed upon her position as she would turn her head back towards Elena, eye twitching a bit as she would glare at her. Her cheek pounded with pain, but Lucy wasn't about to let this orange haired bimbo diva idol get away with that.

Aiming to throw her own fist up and aimed right for Elena's face trying to return the punch! " If you won't blood, you've got it bitch. I'll make sure you submit so loud you lose that singing voice."