Bewitching a Berserker: Jinx vs Rio [Standard]

Jinx's ears twitched as she watched Rio's every movement, taking in the other woman's body language. You could learn a lot about how someone carried themselves and moved. The way people lead into things or blocked blows, it all played into their strengths and weaknesses. Thinking back to moments ago, she had compiled a little bit of information about the silver haired woman opposite her but more was definitely needed.

When Rio rushed in, Jinx stood her ground, but kept her body moving, small steps from side to side to keep blood flowing and reaction time high. She spotted the huge windup from a mile away fro Rio and had to wonder who ever got hit by that? Especially this early in a match.

With a smug smirk, the feline fight dipped to the side, well outside the scope of any sweeping haymaker the other woman intended to throw. Her back leg retreated, cocking for another crippling kick soon to be aimed at the inside of Rio's legs.

"Guh!" Her body buckled inward when Rio's knuckles drilled her right in the stomach, her soft body providing great deal of give before straining muscle stopped the first from simply ripping through her. Her knees rattled as she stumbled in place, clutching her abdomen with a free arm in wide eyed, breathless, shock.

She could see what was coming next as Rio kept up. Identified the drop kick by the way the other woman's body dropped away to tilt her legs forward… and she couldn't move. She was frozen in place, watching it unfold in slow motion in her mind before the sudden snap of Rio's legs coming out like a shotgun blast, clapping her square in the chest.

Jinx's body snapped backwards, toppling head over heels to the canvas. She rolled backwards along the mat I. A tumble before her shoulder snagged and it sent her flopping sideways, continuing to roll right out under the bottom rope to fall outside the ring with a heavy smack when she hit the hard ringside floor without any sense of grace.

It was a mighty series of blows indeed that Rio had inflicted upon the dark cat, her fist first SLAMMING into her stomach, immobilizing her with pain and weakness before her feet DRILLED Into her chest, sending her ROLLING backwards... almost in a perverse mockery of the flips Jinx had done at the very start! As Rio's body was inevitably SLAMMED Into the canvas itself with the force of gravity, she would look up only to see her foe ROLL right out of the ring in a style unbefitting of the grace Jinx had displayed herself to have not too long ago!

For the shortest of moments, the tiniest of smirks flashed across Rio's lips, amused by the irony that Jinx was subject too... but it would fade as fast as it had come. They were even now... Her humiliation had been returned to her foe in just the proper amounts and now it was time to start fighting for real. No more fun, no more games... There was a win on the line and she wasn't going to let some haughty upstart take that from her! She fought too much, trained for TOO LONG to give it over to someone like her! Climbing up to her feet was only a minor struggle, the slam against the canvas stinging her just a bit deeper than she would have preferred... Jogging over to the edge of the ring where Jinx had fallen, Rio quickly hopped up on the middle rope, grabbing the next-one up for support as she surveyed the ground below...

If Jinx was still down, the purple-clad fighter would grin darkly, preparing herself to SPRING RIGHT over the ropes and try to body-splash her smaller foe into the cold hands of defeat! There would be no soft ground to save her out here... only the chilling, barely-padded floors beneath her to soften the energy-transfer!

...If she wasn't there, however, Rio would blink, her lips curled into an annoyed frown as she kept upon the ropes, looking this way and that for her target... She had the perfect move to use on her... Where could she BE!?

The ringside arena where Jinx had toppled out onto was a blank canvas. As Rio survived the terrain there was no sign of the feline fighter. The referee came up near the Berserk wrestler, eyeing the outside as well with a marked look of confusion on her face. After a quick look around them, they started to circle the inside of the ring.

"One! Two! Three! Four!..."

Jinx could hear the muffled sounds of the referee above and the dull confused sounds from the audience who hadn't seen what happened. Having taken a moment to slip underneath the apron she retreated beneath the ring where she was climbing though metal supports and carefully over various items stowed for safe keeping or hardcore matches. Though her lithe frame made squeezing through the tight space relatively easy, each awkward bend made her guts burn from the punch she too moments prior.

"Five! Six!"

Jinx slithered out from under the ring, clawing her way past the cloth apron. She shook her leg out, freeing her foot from a few loose cables that briefly tangled her up before popping up into a crouch. Craning her neck she looked into the ring, Rio on the ropes on the other side and even the referee aware she was her. A rueful smirk played across her lips as she reached out to sneakily slip back into the ring.

"Seven!"

Once she has eased herself silently to her feet, the feline fighter leaned back into the ropes, using them to spring her forward in a spring straight towards the unsuspecting Rio. Long graceful strides that barely even registered on the canvas as she closed the distance in a flash. Springing up towards the other womans back, her palms came down hard to clamp on Rio's shoulders while her knees fucked up to nestle themselves into the Berserk woman's lower back. With a hard tug, she tried to use her weight to rip Rio off the middle rope to fall backwards to the mat, directly on top of Jinx's knees with a backstabber.

"Where in the..." Rio grumbled, her amber eyes flicking this way and that, spotting no sign of the dark feline! "She was just HERE! There's no way she could've scuttled around the ring that fast!" She was in complete and utter disbelief... This was damn impossible... What was she, a fucking wizard on TOP of being a neko!? Wait... She didn't... Did Jinx JUMP into the the CROWD!? Leaning out over the edge of the top rope, she squinted her eyes and gazed out over the many faceless people that stared intently ahead, each one her gaze passed over seemed more interested with what was going on in front of them rather than among them...

"...No... She couldn't be in there or else it'd be chaos... Well... then where did she-"

Maybe the fact the Ref stopped counting should've given away that Jinx was back in the ring but Rio was just too deep in her head trying to comprehend her opponent's disappearing-act to notice! Never ONCE did it cross Rio's mind that the little Neko could've wormed her way under the ring... Why WOULD it!? It wasn't like she was an actual cat, able to SQUEEZE Herself into STUPID-tight spaces... right...? It made more sense she somehow SLIPPED around the ring before Rio was around to spot her... Right....!?

RIGHT!?

It didn't ultimately matter HOW Jinx got behind her... the cat's steps were as soundless as the void... Not even a dry twig would snap under Jinx's weight as she stalked Rio from behind, the stronger, more experienced wrestler completely closed OFF to her approach... until it was too late.

INSTANTLY, Rio's head would twist around as she felt a pair of hands GRAB her shoulders, fingers latching onto her arms firmly, the white-haired wrestler's eyes WIDE, lips curled into a shocked snarl!

"WHAT!?" She roared, gearing up to wrench herself free! "HOW DID YOU..."

She didn't get to finish before the dark-haired kitty struck, PULLING Rio down ONTO her knees, DRIVING them into her upper spine just between her shoulder-blades!

"GGGGAHK!" Rio GAGGED, the gutteral sound choking in her throat as her jaw dropped and eyes WIDENED, her body STIFFENING into a BOARD before FLOPPING hard to the side, her muscles and joints CRAMPING at the double-stab Jinx had inflicted with the cruel points of her knee-points! Her breathing was stunted, gasping, as if she had just been impaled from behind, the proud-woman-in-purple twitching harshly upon the ground like a fish losing it's life upon land!

Jinx had an expression of pure jubilation as she latched on to Rio's back and plucked the larger woman off the ropes. It had been a picture perfect execution and when her knees impacted on the woman's spine, she could just imagine bone cracking from the heavy impact both woman had on the mat. She kicked her legs up, helping the silver haired wrestler to flop off to the side, taking a moment to devilishly laugh at her good fortune. "Mrawrhehe! Got'cha!"

Jinx rolled over onto a four, prowling the ring like a predatory cat, her rump wiggling in the air.  The feline fight moved up to Rio, giving the woman a hard shove to make sure she was flat on her front, just where she wanted her. Stepping a knee over across the other wrestlers back she saddled up on top of her in a mounted position, reaching a hand out to grip Rio under the chin and draw her head back. She pulled painfully, using her weight on the still injured back to stretch the woman using her own body to provide leverage.

Rather than locking in a full camel clutch though, she rested back with her arm and started throwing wild elbow strikes at the back of Rio's head and neck, exploiting her inability to properly defend herself from this position. "Crawl back to the hole you came out of! This is my ring, this is my federation!"

As Rio struggled to gain her bearings after Jinx's knees DRILLED into her spine, the dark neko-beauty took a moment to enjoy her handiwork! Standing over her foe with the most comedically hammy laugh since Skeletor, Jinx prowled around her foe on all fours in a way that would've been unnerving... Had Rio not been losing this badly!

That was the scariest part of all this... Jinx was bringing her to her KNEES so early in this fight! MAYBE she could take losing to a rookie... After all, she had before and got past it! It wouldn't be the end of her carrier of she failed to defeat this girl... But each consecutive hit this woman landed upon her was BRUTAL, paralyzing, attacking her most vulnerable areas and leaving her helpless! As much as it was a blow to her body, so too was it a blow to her PRIDE! She was being KNOCKED AROUND by some girl almost half her size!

...And the humiliation wouldn't end there.

Rio rolled over onto her stomach, finally finding some sort of control over herself amidst the internal chaos Jinx had infected her with, her hands shifting up near her face to try and PUSH against the ground... She might've gotten an inch... MAYBE two off the floor before a knee PLANTED Into her spine, forcing Rio back down to the ground! She didn't even have an opportunity to let out a sound of protest before Jinx had her arms around her... or rather one beneath her chin, PULLING her up into something like a half-camel clutch! her spine was bent back... not with as much force as one might expect from the hold... but then, that wasn't truly the point was it?

Rio grunted harshly as the cat-girl HAMMERED elbow after ELBOW into her skull and the base of her neck, each piercing attack sending WAVES of almost electrical impulses through the purple-clad wrestler, seizing her muscles away from her control once more! Stunning blow after stunning blow, CRACKING the back of her head over and over... Rio was starting to lose detailed awareness of her surroundings by the time Jinx took a moment to gloat... the words taking more than half the time of her speech for the words to process!

"Hhhhhhh.... Hhhh...." She gasped, a hand limply reaching up, grasping weakly around Jinx's wrist... hardly with the same authority Rio possessed before! "If.... If you think... you've WON.... You're even.... dumber... than you sound..."

Jinx could practically hear the muscles straining as she pulled Rio backwards to her breaking point a little more with each passing moment the woman under her lost the power to fight back. Sending weakness only empowered her assault, taking time to aim more precise elbow strikes at the back of Rio's skull to jar the woman's words mid sentence in a place of unprecedented control. Having savagely unloaded on the veteran, the referee looked like she was standing by, trying to make sure Rio was still capable of continuing.

Jinx hissed loudly at the officially, startling them as they scrambled backwards. It had been enough of a warning to stop the feline fighter from continuing to pummel her opponent though. She slipped her hands behind Rio's head, clenching chunks of her silky silver hair in her fists. With a hard shove she drove the other woman's head into the mat and proceeded to wrench her about roughly to grind her face into the canvas.

"Oh yeah… keep talking crap. I like it when you pretend you still have a chance. It's cute." With that she tried to yank Rio's face off the mat and slam it down several more times in quick succession, trying to drive all the fight out of this woman to the shock of the audience. If Rio wasn't able to mount a defense, it seemed Kind was already gearing up to try and finish the match. "I am going to make you tap in front of all of these people, in front of all of these cameras. I want to hear you scream my name!"

It would not be through Rio's own ability that Jinx would cease her attack upon her skull... but by the concern and command of the ref. Outsiders would determine the white-haired fighter's fate, the ring-authority commanding she cease her relentless slams against the purple-haired fighter for reasons that went unsaid... She didn't have too though... It was pretty fucking clear: Rio was getting the absolute snot beaten out of her. Even though the ref commanded her off... Jinx would only stop her assault for as LONG as it took to get the ref off her back, jumping RIGHT back into SLAMMING her opponent's head... only this time it was her face!... Into the floor!

Perhaps it was because Rio's sense was being beaten out of her... Perhaps it was because she was growing TIRED of being wailed on by someone that should have been stripping for some other girl in a hotel room. It was as if the primal DNA within all sophisticated creatures was slowly being unearth with each blow to her head... riling her up on a deep and fundamental level... Fight-or-Flight was burning in her blood, filling her muscles with the energy to act, scraping away the sludge that was cluttering her head... and, in the process, taking away rational, complex reasoning as well... She had to get out of this DAMN SITUATION one way or another or she was going to pay for it in the LONG term. Blows to the head were exceptionally scary in fights...

...Especially if you survive a lot of them.

Jinx laughed off Rio's declaration and WARNING that this fight wasn't yet over, remarking how she would make Rio SCREAM Her name...

SUDDENLY, a hand would JERK back, grabbing the ring that connected Jinx's collar to that chest-piece she had, JERKING it forward as Jinx held her head up for another round of beatings! She would pull on it so hard, it would be as if she tried to RIP it from her neck... or rip her neck in half... whichever came first! Regardless, she would attempt to PULL the smaller woman DOWN in front of her with just raw, adrenaline filled POWER, Rio's lips curled into an angered snarl! If she managed to PULL her attacker off of her, Rio would JUMP to her feet faster than she EVER had before, dragging Jinx up to hers by that same collar... before PLANTING a GUT-BUSTING knee-strike right into her belly! Not only did she intend to damage her... but stun her! She had fucking PLANS on how she was going to get even.

There had been a few times in the independent circuit before coming to AFW where Jinx had this much control. They were normally jobbers though, weak or under trained wrestling students who just weren't up to snuff. Rio was a certified wrestler though, a newbie killer from what the feline fighter had heard. It felt great to manhandle her like this like she was just some chump off the street. In her moment of goes she recalled another time she had been this merciless, recently… with Lucky.

She paused mid slam, furrowing her brow. Why the heck was she thinking about this now? "Mrawr!" She let out a surprised shriek as Rio's fingers curled around the ring just below her collar, the brass piece making it easy to get a good grip on. When the veteran pulled hard, there was an unnerving metallic "plink" as the slender ring was snapped. The force of the pull had still been there, flopping Jinx off her opponent.

With her top coming undone, she hugged her arms close, trying to hold up the loose straps that were literally sliding off her body. It made her an easy target for Rio to take her by the throat and pull her upright. Far too concerned with covering herself up, the other woman's knee not into her stomach, making her bend forward and nearly retch up her lunch.

Jinx's knees shook as they buckled inward, bracing up against one another as she tried to stay upright. She had still managed to hold her arms across her chest to maintain some manner of dignity but if she kept up like this, she would be defenseless. The feline fighter leaned forward, pushing against the mat to try and give Rio a shove with her shoulder to attempt to get some space between them.

Rio didn't manage to pull Jinx down but the result was ultimately the same. Perhaps even better, actually, as her pull practically ripped Jinx's top off, the twin pieces that covered her breasts now falling limply down her front, held up only at the behest of the wearer! Rio would still rise like a titan from the ocean below, SLAMMING her knee into Jinx's stomach as BRUTALLY as she pleased... After all, she was far too concerned hiding what selective pieces of skin she chose to! It was amusing to watch, actually... how she still clutched at her breasts as if she wasn't showing them ALL off before hand. Look at them... hiding nothing but the nipples themselves, the poor girl barely able to do THAT as Rio had already nearly forced the contents of her bowels outward.

Where was all that confidence now? Where was all that arrogance? She was talking all that GOOD shit a second ago! Then she got kicked in the stomach!

"What were you saying...? About me crying your name?" The white-haired wrestler asked, her trademark smile returning with earnest! Somehow, with this one blow, Rio had made up A GOOD amount of the ground this girl had stolen from her, the poor freak looking like she was about to wet herself from how her knees buckled beneath her. She was next to helpless now... maybe capable of a weak little kick or something... But now her power had fled her like the air out of an opened balloon...

Time for some payback!

Rio reached out to grab her little kitten... Only for her to launch a quick surprise attack, SLAMMING her shoulder into Rio's stomach, DESPERATELY trying to push her away! It would've been considered a CHARGE if it had any weight behind it... but between Jinx clutching at her chest and her guts being scrambled... at it did was annoy the larger wrestler, forcing her back a single, tiny step.

"Well, look at you. Still have that spunk, huh..?" She remarked darkly, an open palm WHIPPING across Jinx's cheek in an utterly disrespectful and stinging slap, aiming to knock her to the ground face down! "Don't worry. I'll fix you good."

Should Rio have knocked Jinx down on her front, Rio would bend down and take Jinx in hand, one digging into her short-shorts for a hand-hold... the other grabbing the back of her neck! With a loud GRUNT, Rio would LIFT the girl UP in an almost dead-lift style, carrying her off the ground and towards the ropes as if she were a battering-ram to be used upon a door!

"You seemed to like it out there, kitty. HAVE FUN!"

A mix between a triumphant laugh and a chilling roar escaped Rio's lips as she HURLED her foe OUT of the ring, between the bottom ropes and HEAD-FIRST into the barricades protecting the audience from stuff like this!