Stone-Cold, Cold Heart (p)

Elena's punch did... less than what she was hoping it would on the physical level... but at least it got her point across! Elena's punch BLASTED into Lucy's face, knocking that dumb-ass asshole down a peg as her head was jerked sideways! Oh, for the good second or two it lasted, the former Blue panther relished in the pain that consumed the woman's expression... The satisfaction she felt whelling up in her breast made the woman practically ELATED, to have taken this idiot by surprise and made it DAMN clear what her intentions were... Oh, there was very little in this world that could bring Elena such delight...

...And there was very little else in this world that could've brought Elena more pain than to have her face SLAMMED into by Lucy's punch... And that was why she wasn't there to receive it. Despite reveling in the utter ELATION that resulted from her own punch connecting, the former diva was very careful-like to not take her eyes off her foe for a second. It also helped that she went on an angry rant beforehand, giving Elena just enough time to prepare herself for something... most predictably a retaliatory strike!

Lucy's punch was as vicious as she was, her fist coming around like a god-forsaken hammer, aimed to CRACK Elena's jaw right off her face! A mere rebound of Elena's own punch, the red-headed wrestler saw the attack coming a mile away and ducked under it... though from how those knuckles cut through her hair... that was a bit too close for comfort... Backing away quickly, Elena's hands INSTANTLY shot up defensively, her expression hardening!

"Then come on! I'll make you pay!"

Watching Elena back away and get out of the range of her punch, Lucy would narrow her eyes as she was pissed she wasn't able to smack the taste of out Elena's mouth, but she was going to make sure to make this bitch pay for disturbing her peace. Stepping away from Elena as she would head off towards the ring. " Both you and Sakura seem to like starting brawls, but this is Friction. Here, we fucking wrestle. Or didn't you know that you bimbo idol bitch?" Lucy let out as she went to the training ring.

Rolling into the ring under the bottom ropes, the redhead would get up to her feet and crank her neck, rolling her shoulders a bit as she would gesture for Elena to come into the ring and join her. " I'm gonna show you why bitches like you should stick to dancing." Lucy let out as she would tense up a bit, readying herself as she got ready to break every inch of Elena until she cried out in submission.

Lucy had been adamant in not taking anything to the ring with Elena before... and all it took to seemingly change her mind was to strike her across her face and call her out. For all that self-righteousness and bold arrogance, the woman was extremely easy to incite, Elena making her bend to her will... granted with a few smarmy insults. The former Diva would only smirk as Lucy remarked how here, in the AFW, they WRESTLED... despite her reluctance to do so earlier, the red-headed fighter following right behind Lucy as she made her way to the ring. She rolled under the ropes right after her selected opponent, Elena's fiery blue eyes burning with eagerness and confidence! There was no time to waste, after all.

Karma waited for nobody.

"I'm going to show you why assholes don't get far in this business!" Elena fired back, lowering herself into her wrestling stance! Now, the question here was how she was going to go about this... If this girl's demeanor was any indication, she was strong, brutal, and just loved throwing punches. If she could get her on the ground and force a submission out of her... that would probably be the best way to go about this... That is, if she wanted to keep her teeth in tact!

And so, Elena waited, watched, deciding that to be defensive was the best bet... Lure her opponent in and then wring defeat out of her!

Lucy placed a hand on her hip as she watched the fellow redhead make her way into the ring, the orange haired woman who looked oh so similar to the Demon....Lucy would click her tongue and then crank her neck to the left. She would shake her head a bit and then start to step up.

She would drop down into her own grappling stance as she would raise her arms and bend her knees a little. Her miss colored eyes fixed upon her opponent as she would take a deep breath. Deciding to lunge right in at Elena! Lucy would try and make it seem as if she was going for a lock up, but at the final second she would drop low and try and tackle Elena by taking the woman's legs out from under her.

Seeking to get Elena on her back where she would quickly try and pull back, grabbing at Elena's leg as she would try and pull that shin of Elena's in under her right armpit, lying back down on her back, Lucy would try and quickly go for a knee bar submission hold, as she'd try and latch her legs around Elena's thighs, going for a leg scissor kneebar hold right from the get go.

Elena went in confident and strong... She was going to take Lucy out and redeem Sakura like she had done for her. Images of Rio completely blitzing her back when she was training for Berserk flashed through the red-head's mind, humilating flash-backs of various submission-holds wringing the defeat out of her one after another... She wasn't prepared for what was going to happen that day, so locked into her arrogance that she believed she could fight someone who had been wrestling LONG before her...

...Well, the tables had turned here.

Elena had at least a couple years of experience fighting under her belt, able to claw up the lower ranks of Berserk at a much faster rate than Sakura and obtain a name of fear and anticipation. When Elena fought back then, it was a battle of speed and brutality, controlling the fight the entire length of the match and scoring wins through submissions wherever she could. She had experience... She had a name, she had a reputation. Even if two of those things didn't leave the Blue Panther Persona, a costume she left back home in a storage-box somewhere, Elena was going to use every bit of what she'd learned in Berserk to take this flaming-headed ginger to the cleaners! She believed she could do it...

...and that's why this fight was going to go further south than the equator.

As SOON as she got in the ring, the look the two girls gave one another was equivalent to a silent conversation, as if they knew there would be no waiting... no bell to chime.

The moment Elena got into the ring, they charged at one another, the Berserk Diva going high... While Lucy shot low. REAL low. She didn't just barge into her body, but TACKLED OUT HER LEGS out from under her, Elena gasping loudly in shock as all that haughty confidence bled away!

She landed HARD on her front but that wasn't the end of it. Elena let out a YELL as her leg was PULLED into a kneebar that personified the bitterness of the woman that inflicted it, Elena CRYING out in pain as her nails DUG into the canvas beneath her!

"G... GET OFF ME!" She demanded... somewhat callously, reaching out desperately for the ropes! A reflex that had saved her before... but she had no idea what it would do for her now... Lucy seemed only to be consistent on the rules when it suited her!

Lucy had taken Elena down firmly and making her fall flat on her face, having outmaneuvered the fellow ponytail styled redhead and getting her down and stunned enough to get a hold of her rival. Wrapping her hands and knees around that leg of hers.

Quickly she would lock that kneebar in as tightly as she could, wrenching on that leg and looking to torture beyond what anyone would in a training ring like this. She could already feel Elena start to pull herself towards the ropes, hearing those nails scratch against the canvas.

" What happened to your cockiness huh? You stupid diva!" Lucy shouted back as she would pull harder on that leg and bend at those knee joints. Of course she had no intention of letting Elena escape, even if she managed to reach the ropes since there was no rules in this match.

"AAAAAAAH" Elena cried out as Lucy only doubled-down on her hold, laughing darkly at her misery like some perverted demon. Un-righteous fury radiated from Lucy like she was some kind of broken power-plant, her very presence infecting the air with something toxin and uninhabitable. Elena could only cry out in PAIN and frustrating as her knee was being strained to the point of critical damage... and all her opponent could do was smile and laugh.

'She probably thought she was in the right, this redhead' Elena thought, trying to bear with the pain. 'She probably doesn't even know what she did was wrong... so fucking deep in herself as she is.' Images of Sakura giving up in situations like this combined with the utter SPITE she had towards this woman for HURTING her so much compelled the orange-haired fighter to keep the fight alive, Her eyes locking HARD onto her opponent's with complete defiance, her hands shooting out, grabbing the woman's leg as her nails sunk in, scratching at them!

"Right here, you bitch!"

No fucking rules right!? She was going to make Lucy pay no matter what the cost!

Lucy was enjoying this for now, torturing this uppity bitch that was Elena! She was annoyed as all hell that she came here looking for a fight, disrupting the peace of the demon! She would pay the price for that! Without a doubt! Lucy continued to wrench and continue to torture Elena, taking in the cries of pain as she laughed out!

She had heard a bit about Elena after she found herself in confrontation with Sakura Hagiwara, She knew that Elena had lost to Sakura in their big first match against one another. So she had something to play on if she needed to.

Though any thoughts like that was knocked out of her when those nails dug into her bare legs and raked down! Leaving red scratch marks along her leg and causing Lucy to yelp out in pain. "AAIIEEH!!" Lucy yelped out, her mind being pulled back down into the match as pain shot through her legs. She would release Elena as swiftly as she had locked her in and roll away! Rubbing and trying to mend her hurting leg!

Elena was just as quick to roll away as Lucy was, cradling her own wounded leg as SOON as the red-head had let her go! Even if her limbs ached, she was fighting for a BIGGER reason than just showing someone up this time... She was gonna get REVENGE for Sakura-chan and that gave her strength! She wasn't just going to lie here and give this girl a chance to keep her down! She... She wasn't going to let her best friend's bully get AWAY with what she did! With a loud grunt, Elena would force herself back up on that hurting leg of hers, her knee throbbing intensely as she shifted her weight on it! If she managed to get up before Lucy herself did, Elena would cock back her, unaching leg and THROW it forward into Lucy's ribs, aiming to SLAM the toe of her shoe right between each rung of her rib-cage! There was so much fury, so much personal grief behind the blow that it only served to FURTHER enhance the strength of her kick, Elena's blue eyes BLAZING with fury!

If Lucy managed to get up around the same time Elena did, the orange-haired firecracker would hold NOTHING back, throwing a punch DEAD-CENTER right into the center of the woman's face, following up with a BRUTAL uppercut into her stomach before concluding with a POWERFUL right hook, each punch aimed at bringing Lucy to her knees, each one packing a SERIOUS level of power! Elena wasn't holding a single ounce of her already considerable strength back in this fight, determined to make this girl PAY!

Lucy quickly got up towards her feet, narrowing her eyes as she saw the orange haired fighter stepp up to her and throw a punch straight towards her face. Bringing her arms up, Lucy would guard against the strike to her head, wincing from the knuckles of Elena hitting her arm.

Though it looked as if the diva wasn't done yet, as she threw up a brutal uppercut straight into the stomach of the redhead! "Guuh!" She gasped out, hunching forward which put her in the prime position for that right hook to smack into the side of her face and bring Lucy stumbling and down onto one knee. Her head shaken, her gut aching...