One Knight in Hel- Triin vs Bianka Hardcore

Competitors: Triin and Bianka Bell
Ring: A "dungeon", a cell furnished with floggers, whips and devices of bondage
Stipulations: Hardcore, both fighters are provided a kendo stick and access to various floggers
Victory Conditions: Combination POW and Cage match, the victor must restrain their opponent and leave them locked in the cell. Afterwards the winner may take possession of the loser.

Bianka Bell:

Bianka didn't know what strings had to be pulled to make this match happen, but it was going to make for one Hel of a sensational return to the ring... even if it wasn't exactly held in the ring. A disused soundstage had been rented out after the filming of some B grade fantasy film and converted for their particular uses, providing them with a few rooms worth of castle corridors and a basement dungeon of sorts. It was in this dungeon that Bianka lurked, "the velvet valkyrie"? No, she didn't care much for that nickname, she'd keep working on it.

While most of the room was currently in inky darkness the small lights of numerous cameras twinkled at the edges of her domain, ready to capture all that was to happen here. In the center of the room stood a steel cage a bit smaller than the customary ring. On the walls of the cage hung riding crops, floggers, whips, lashes, silk ropes, handcuffs, belts, bondage tape, and various nefarious little toys of pain or restraint. Of course, the small dais the cage stood on was a lazily disguised ring. The most striking objects in the cage were a hook which hung from the ceiling by a rope and pulley which lead to a cleat built into one of her bars; and opposite the cleat a sole light, a three fat candle already pooling out with hot white wax and secured to a sconce clamped around another bar.

In her winged tiara and armored (okay, it's just shiny fabric) bikini, Bianka skulked in the shadows across from the invitingly open door of the cage. She held her kendo stick in two hands in a low ready position. Her shield was prominently hung high on the bars of the cage, a thing of round wood and about as dangerous as a folding table. Painted on the face of the shield was "Safeword: Nicht Mehr" in dayglow paint. B was a professional, after all.

When Triin Liiv had signed her contract with AFW, she couldn't have really envisioned in exactly what she had been getting herself into. Sure, she had decided to sport her beloved gimmick as the Baltic Knightess, that she deeply cherished and enjoyed. Sure, she had mentioned to the management that she loved matches with special gimmicks and in out-of-the-ordinary places. But the exact magnitude and extent of how those preferences and revelations had turned out to shape her career in AFW she could have in no way predicted. Cages, castles and dungeons had become more commonplace arenas for her than the actual wrestling ring, and tonight she was again heading down into a villain's lair as the valiant heroine knightess.

The Estonian did have an idea of the reason for all of that though. As might have been common in the industry, she did receive the larger monetary bonuses the better ratings her matches would get. And based on the bonus checks she had been receiving lately, her knightess gimmick and castle, cage and dungeon matches were excellent business for AFW. They clearly loved to see a valiant knightess battling against villains in dangerous settings - even if it had often turned out to be the heroine who fell in peril...

But tonight was another opportunity to change that! Tonight the Baltic Knightess was again full of determination to slay her foe! And with that determination, she was now seeking the dungeon of her foe in these dark corridors - a task which turned out to be rather easy this time, since only one of them seemed to shine a glimmer of light. And unsurprisingly, it was coming from the basement.

Triin Liiv - The Baltic Knightess:

Descending down the stairs, the knightess proceeded carefully, and with great attention to detail. Although there wasn't really much yet - not until she actually opened the door and entered the dungeon. After that, there was almost too much details to observe, and also the rules, stakes and stipulations of the match returned vividly into her mind. Slowly closing in on the inivitingly open door, the more she could see, the faster her heart started to beat.

Stopping by the door, Triin took a moment to once again take a look around. If there was a perfect arena for a hardcore match, this had to be it. Also, if there was a perfect arena for a combination POW and cage match, this had to be it. Also, if there was a perfect arena for a BDSM Hentai match, this had to be it - and that got the heroine slightly worried that she hadn't been told everything yet. For sure she wasn't any longer as confident as she had been when coming down the stairs, somewhat nervous as well as everything pointed towards a dangerous and grueling match being in front of her, but still all the danger and ominousness that were omnipresent were somehow exciting her, if not even on some level turning her on.

Grabbing the kendo stick by the cage door that she knew had been provided to her, the knightess entered the cage. The first thing that grabbed her attention was the shield hanging up high, and the German safeword that Triin could understand very well. "German again... Great... Just great..." the blonde muttered to herself, as she slowly passed by the shield. While Triin had nothing against Germans, coincidentally, many of her previous opponents had been Germans, and unfortunately for the Estonian, her record against them had turned out to be rather poor. And while Triin wasn't superstitious, the observation still did not make her feel any better at all...

Slowly starting to walk a circle around the cage, the knightess's attention was caught in taking a look at all the equipment and weapons provided on the walls of the cage. They certainly were plenty, and there were some things that the blonde had probably never even seen before... But while all of this was grabbing her attention in the almost darkness, the knightess forgot to consider one crucial thing. Why exactly hadn't she met her foe yet?

Bianka watched Triin enter her domain, at least hers for the night, admiring her form and figure and feeling a bit like a voyeur. Not that she had anything against voyeurism, in the right circumstances. When the woman entered the cell she skulked out from her hiding place, her padded boots making little sound as she trod. They looked like heavy boots, but they were surprisingly soft and well cushioned.

She knew woefully little about her foe, except that she was to be her villain for the evening. If things went over well, perhaps for a time longer. The valkyrie stepped up the few steps to follow Triin into the cage as the woman was preoccupied with her toy collection. Notably, she had donated most of these from home. Trailing fingertips gave the cell door a gentle tug, letting it start its long arc to shut behind her. A little nervous now she rushed to close the gap with her quarry, the door creaking loudly in alarm. Playing the proper heel she swung down with her kendo stick, hoping to strike across the knight's back while she was distracted.

"Welcome, my little Barbie doll." She would tease, affecting a slightly heavier German accent than she naturally spoke with. Her long time away had worn it thin, but Lily said that the fans thought her heavier accent was sexy.

Triin was immersed in exploring her surroundings, and especially the collection of weapons and toys that were scattered around the cage walls. Her main intention was obviously to scout what kind of dangers this match could have potentially held - of which she identified a lot - but at times her mind did wander across onto the territory of imagining, what all kinds of things one could have potentially done with them all...

Suddenly though the knightess realized hearing creaking from behind her back! Prompting her to turn quickly around, the heroine- *SMACK!*

Halfway through her turn, Bianka's kendo stick found its target on Triin's upper back. The unexpected impact sent the blonde falling immediately forward onto her knees, before she took support from the cage wall, trying quickly to turn around. The end result was the knightess sitting on the cage floor with her back against the wall, facing her foe of the night just in time to hear her little welcome.

Triin gulped, unintentionally, as she began to comprehend the situation and what she was seeing right in front of her. This had been exactly what she had been supposed to avoid - getting caught in a surprise attack! Luckily her foe seemed keen to engage in exchanging some words for now though, but it didn't change the fact that her position was the more unfavorable one now. It meant that despite that her foe being clearly the shorter one, she was still the one towering over her now... And in better news, it also meant that Triin could now get a good look at her opponent... Her outfit was very impressive to say the least, and her...delicious curves probably held some considerable strength beneath them. In some way, Triin was very happy how her opponent was like tonight... At least it suited the theme.

"Thanks...but I'm not your Barbie doll." the Estonian began with as defiant tone as she possibly could from her position. "I am Triin Liiv, the Baltic Knightess. And you are...?" the blonde raised her eyebrows as she posed her question, eager not only to ensure that her foe wouldn't continue with an imminent attack, but also extremely curious about who her opponent was going to present herself as. But all the while, the heroine kept her kendo stick in position, her body tense, ready to defend herself should her foe decide to skip or cease talking and continue the battle instead.

Bianka held her "sword" at the read in case her surprise attack wasn't enough to give the blonde pause. Much to her delight the knight went down immediately, cowering against the bars as the valkyrie stood over her with an imperious smirk on her pale lips. As Triin didn't spring right back up and strike out she took the opportunity to engage in a little villainous banter, laying her own kendo stick across her shoulders and seeming to leave her soft abdomen vulnerable. "I am Bianka Bell... the Valkyrie of Hel." She came up with that on the spot and was very satisfied with it. Lily, write that down!

She stepped in closer, into Triin's personal space and well within arm's reach, "Oh, but you are my Barbie Doll. Just look at you... Tall, blonde,... pretty enough... and with a head full of air." She clicked her tongue disapprovingly, "What sort of knight blunders into such an obvious trap? I did not know they made a Ren Faire Barbie." She snorted in mock disgust, maintaining a poker face to hide her appreciative leering from her opponent.

Triin felt relief as her armored foe, or rather valkyrie as she introduced herself, took her bait and some time for them to get acquainted with each other. While it was fairly indefferent to Triin who exactly her foes were - she was determined to take them all down in any case - it was still interesting to know, especially when one was dressed up such as Bianka was.

As Bianka took the steps closer to the heroine, practically standing between the Estonian's legs with her soft abdomen invitingly right in Triin's line of sight, the blonde understood that her purpose was to signal that she held no fear for her opponent - or then Bianka was indeed just one air head herself.

Listening to the girl's words triggered mixed feelings though. Undoubtedly, the "barbie doll" was an ample source of ire for the blonde, and the accusation of "blundering in an obvious trap" sparked protests as well. "Well, where would have I been supposed to go then?" was the response that Triin decided to keep inside her head, while she couldn't deny the slight flattering that she felt over the comments of being tall, blonde and pretty enough, that brought a hint of color on her cheeks even if they weren't intended as compliments.

But the third mention of "barbie" was enough. Now the valkyrie had crossed the line. Now it was time for the knightess to start fighting back! "Well, if you are from hell, that's where I make sure that you'll go back then." the blonde stated bluntly, while unintentionally reinforcing Bianka's assumption of her as an airhead by failing to understand her gimmick. But probably before the valkyrie could react to that, Triin was going to already have launched her attack! Targeting the soft abdomen that was invitingly in front of her, the knightess tries to suddenly hit her kendo stick hard to Bianka's midsection, hoping that the impact would get her foe staggering backwards, and provide the heroine the opportunity to get back on her two feet again!

Bianka was asking to be hit in the stomach, inviting it, almost begging for it. She was expecting the attack, however perhaps not in the way that a normal person might prepare for an inevitable hit. There was no surprise defense nor counterattack waiting to be unleashed, only the sharp slapping sound of the kendo stick across the valkyrie's abdomen. Her muscles tensed and her serene features knotted up in a wince, but she was unmoved. The knight hadn't had much room to swing taking much of the power out of the attack, combined with an old systema trick Bianka appeared to just grin through the blow.

In truth it still stung like Hel, but she'd been on the receiving end of enough floggers to deal with that. The fading pink stripe across her pale belly evidenced the solidness of the strike though. Almost magnanimously she took a few slow steps back, still smiling if only in an attempt to unnerve her foe, "Oh, care to have another try at that, fraulein? Or is that the best you have" Now at a more sensible dueling distance she took a ready stance, her hands level with her hips and the tip at eye level between them.

She made note of the incorrect usage of Hel, but there would be time later for corrective action.

*SMACK!*

Triin's kendo stick slapped hard squarely onto Bianka's wide open abdomen, and the knightess was already taking support from the cage walls, certain that her attack would allow her ample opportunity to get back up...until she realized that the valkyrie had stayed unmoved. The heroine's face paled a bit as her foe's endurance and tolerance of pain appeared to be much higher than she had anticipated, spelling much difficulty for the blonde in this battle if Bianka's lack of reaction was actually representative of her further capabilities to take punishment in the dungeon.

Luckily, soon the villain took a few steps back, lending enough confidence for the knightess to try getting back up without the fear of an imminent attack. Obviously, Triin's defences were still left momentarily open as she did so, but the knightess knew that she was still much better off on her own two feet. And based on her little goading as well, it sounded like her enemy was rather keen to engage in a duel. Obviously, having even been provided a kendo stick and a permission to use it, the Baltic Knightess wasn't going to waste the opportunity!

Confident that the valkyrie's skills with the kendo stick would pale against her own, Triin was determined to see how much punishment could the shorter girl actually take. "If you're begging for it." was the knightess's rather dry reply to her foe's goading, as she took a couple of steps forward to close in on her opponent. Then, the Estonian blonde would lift her kendo stick high up, before appearing to try to hit Bianka on her right side - but it was just a trick, as she would then try to swing the stick onto the other side, and hit Bianka's bare midsection from that side instead!

Bianka was no stranger to being flogged, whipped, caned, jolted and burned by hot wax. She had asked for it on a fairly regular basis in her life before AFW. Just the same, she didn't intend to just stand there and allow herself to be battered by her opponent. At the very least for the sake of the fans who were tuning in to watch a fight and not just a cosplay bdsm session. Besides, she was the dominatrix here, not Barbie Dream Dungeon!

Sure, she could have kept Triin close to the wall where she had a clear advantage... but they were given these very on-brand swords that wouldn't get much use in the corner. She figured they could make a little show of their duel before getting to the real fun, assuming Triin could keep up.

Their was a brief moment as they came together, each angling their "blades" in opposition, seeking a way past the other's defenses. Bianka could see that the knight had at least some experience in the art. For just an instant the corner of her lip curled up in a smile. When Triin's attack extended Bianka pivoted and swung her sword down after the knight's forearms, but they'd already doubled back.

Instead of dodging the strike from her right Bianka moved into a strike from her left, taking it across the small of her back with a THWAP. Once more she had shortened the extension, deadening some of the force, but this time it wasn't intentional. Her back arched and she stumbled half a step forward with a jaw-clenched... moan? Perhaps it was a groan of pain, or both.

Twisting back again she swung upward, flicking the tip of her kendo stick out to snap across Triin's chest. Still stinging from the blow she grinned through gritted teeth, almost hissing her words, "Oh, if you want to make me beg for it you're going about it all wrong, Barbie."

Triin was fairly confident that as a real self-proclaimed knightess, she was definitely going to have an advantage on anything even remotely fencing-related, such as a kento stick battle, over her villainous foe. Now that she thought of it though, valkyries were supposed to be no strangers to weapons, such as sticks and swords, but realistically... This was AFW, right? What were the chances that the short and curvy fighter posing as a valkyrie in this dungeon would actually be skilled in any kind of fighting art?

At least she seemed to be fairly easy to trick, as was evidenced by Triin's kendo stick hitting squarely its target on the small of her oppnent's back. While the knightess could already deduce that this probably wasn't the first time Bianka was holding a kendo stick, she was still fairly sure about her superiority. Which was all the more reason for her surprise when Bianka's weapon suddenly snapped across her chest! "AAGH!"

The impact got Triin flinching and stumbling a step backwards, and her cry of a mixture of surprise and pain was a cause of embarrassment for the blonde. She shouldn't have been expressing pain just after taking one hit, even if it targeted rather sensitive areas. But what was even more ominous was Bianka's horrifying grin, which told a blood-thirsty tale. Luckily she wasn't holding an actual sword, in which case the fabric covering her chest would have probably gotten already torn up.

Bianka's words were not only an effective comeback, but continued with the insulting barbie-theme. The resulting surge of ire inside Triin, combined with her instincsts telling her to get quickly back onto the offensive after taking the previous hit, ordered the knightess to respond to her foe with actions instead of words. Still holding the assumption that the valkyrie would possess no meaningful skills to anticipate her attacks of defend herself from them, the Baltic Knightess decided to rely on speed, and quickly try to take a step forward again, before attempting to first slash her kendo stick down low against Bianka's thighs, before wanting to target the small of her back once again with the second attempt.