Against the Abyss: Gaia Eden vs The Defiant Darkness

She felt the rush of adrenaline surging through her veins as she executed the dropkick on her opponent. It had been a good read on her part, one that was paying off. She couldn’t get complacent now though, there was an opportunity to capitalize on. As she rose to her feet, Gaia couldn't help but let out a breathy laugh, a mix of excitement and determination. She couldn’t be sure just how long Akemi would stay down, so she went to work right away.

Closing in on Akemi, Gaia wasted no time. She reached down, her fingers wrapping around Akemi's shoulders, intending to haul her opponent up. As she guided Akemi to a semi-upright position. Her other hand snaked down, grasping a handful of Akemi's skirts, a move more out of necessity than intention to embarrass. Gaia positioned herself, ready to execute her next move.

With a swift motion, Gaia would attempt to tuck Akemi's head under her arm, if unopposed, she would briefly heft Akemi up, displaying a brief glimpse of her strength before dropping backward with precision to drill the defiant darkness into the mat with an implant DDT. She would be quick to turn the move into another attempted pinfall, trying to shove the girl onto her back and cover her with a leg hook for good measure.

Akemi's opponent had a lot more energy than the Defiant Darkness had. While they had both been on the same level when it came to trading blows, Akemi had been taking a lot more strong hits and was starting to take longer and longer to recover from each blow she took. So after taking the last blow, Akemi hadn't even been able to even start getting up by the time her opponent got back up and walk over to the downed Defiant Darkness.

Akemi winced when her vision shifted. Her brain had yet to catch up to what was going on so her opponent was able to liff her up and then hold her there for a bit. While the move wasn't intended to humiliate Akemi, the public still got a good look at what was underneath Akemi's skirt which wasn't much since the girl was wearing a one piece.

Then, the next thing Akemi saw was her vision of the floor get drastically closer until it hit the floor. She couldn't even cry out in pain as things would once again go momentarily black for her. Her body rolled forwards onto her back, the eye that was not covered by the eyepatch closed. She was barely showing any signs of consciousness. Her basically limp body making it easy for her opponent to slide over her and place her into another pin. "ONE!" the referee and the crowd shouted after the Ref's hand slapped the ring floor, starting the pin count. "TWO!" the second count came.

Things would look promising for Gaia until Akemi, leg shot out from her opponent's grasp and the Defiant Darkness' consciousness had returned to her in that split moment before three, her figure rolling onto her stomach but not getting up. She only had the basic strength to break out of the pin, but there was not much left in her. If she managed this, she would attempt to crawl away, wanting to make a small tactical retreat for a moment to recover strength.

With a tight leg hook and her weight pressed down over the top of Akemi, Gaia took a moment to breathe. The match wasn’t over yet but this girl had certainly been putting in some work against her. Their match had been fun, in a way she hadn’t wrestled in quite a while. While she loved competition and being challenged, getting to play pretend as a hero had been a breath of fresh air toward a career she knew well already. She’d have to thank her opponent for that later.

Akemi’s sudden buck had been starting, not because it was surprising but because Gaia hadn’t been paying as much attention as she should have been. She leaned her weight up off the Defiant Darkness, letting the woman freely roll herself over. It was an attempt to escape, but one that only managed to put the girl in a worse position. Gaia took her time to stand up, letting the other girl start to crawl. Catching up to her was easy with a few strides and she reached down to grab Akemi by the ankles to drag her back to the middle of the ring, far from the ropes. Now would have been a good time for her to try out a finisher but she wasn't quite done yet, wanting to give the crowd more. "Darkness cannot hide from the light! It always sulks in the shadows, easily found."

Gaia would try to flip Akemi over onto her back, keeping hold of her legs, and step a bit closer. Attempting to curl her arms around the girl's ankles she would lean back and start to spin, dragging the other girl along the mat at first but soon have her spinning up off the canvas eventually with centrifugal force. She would twirl the two with several rotations of a giant swing, only letting go to hurl Akemi across the ring once she had started to get dizzy from the motion.

Akemi's attempt at crawling away in pain were foiled quickly as she could only get in a few feet closer to the side of the ring before her opponent managed to snag her legs right out from under her, her eyes widening while she clawed at the floor helplessly as she struggled weakly to break free from the hold.

But just like that, her vision began to spin and that wasn't because of the multiple hits to the head she received. She realized that Gaia had started to spin her around the ring like a ball and chain, her body eventually lifting off of the ground. "S-Stop!" she yelled while being swung around. She got what she wanted, but not the way she wanted. Her body was sent flying and when she hit the ground, her body rolled a little and nearly falling outside the ring.

It wasn't nearly as painful as the last few attacks were. But it left her disoriented and a nauseous. She curled her legs under her, grabbing onto the bottom ropes, she attempted to climb back up to her feet using the ropes as a crutch. Though even with using the ropes, her balance would give out on her one time while standing.

Gaia let Akemi fly with a toss, stumbling back as she steadied herself from the spinning. Her first few steps were heavy and deliberate, letting everything return back to normal before she truly started to advance on her opponent again. It seemed like her opponent would be up by the time she reached her but she collapsed part way up. It gave Gaia time to reach her but also felt like it was time to possibly wrap thanks up. There was no reason to go overboard in beating on someone in the ring.

She reached down to grab hold of Akemi, trying to pull her from the ropes. She moved slowly, trying to support the other girl’s weight while also guiding her steps to keep her from falling. All the way back to the center of the ring. If she still had control of her opponent by then, she would dip herself down along with Akemi, resting the back of their heads on one another’s shoulders. She would reach out to grab the back of both Akemi’s legs and take a deep breath for what came next. Red-faced with strain she would try to lift the other girl up, lowering herself down to a knee to brace the weight, trying to suspend The Defiant Darkness upside down, legs spread, in a muscle buster hold. She had played at being a hero all match, what better way to usher in a finish than a spectacle like this?

Poor Akemi was becoming putty for her opponent to play with because with each throw from Gaia, Akemi grew weaker to the point where Gaia needed to help her keep on walking judt to keep to Defiant Darkness from falling over. "N-nngh... Th-The darkness... Always... Wins..." she spoke quietly while being guided to the middle of the ring. It seemed like she could barely understand what was going on to even talk correctly.

Akemi yelped as she was lifted upside down, expecting yet another type of throw and attempting to prepare for it by closing her eyes tightly. But the slam never came. When she opened her eyes, she would realize that she was being held upside down, her figure resting upon Gaia's shoulder with her legs spread. Of course this caused her skirt to succumb to gravity and creating a rather humiliating pose for someone like Akemi. The pain of being stretched so violently sent a painful shock through Akemi's body and near instantly reawakened the blonde chuunibyou.

"AHH!!" let out a scream of agony, her hands attempting to weakly flail in a struggle against her opponent. She could tell that Gaia was prepared to finish her off because this was the most painful hold she had been in not just in this fight, but ever. The ref ran in and checked Akemi to see if she would submit. But she kept living up to the "defiant" part of her name and shaking her head no despite everything seeming hopeless at the moment.

Her cheeks burned a bright red hue when she saw cameras snapping photos, cat calling, and some even toying with themselves a little when they realized that things were getting a bit steamy. "I... I won't.. I-... Nngh!!" she tried to come up with something to say, but couldn't talk through the pain when Gaia would stretch her further.

Gaia paced herself once she had found her balance, one knee to the mat, using her the sole of her other bood to hold them steady. Managing Akemi’s weight had become easier after the initial list, now that she could hold her steady. The blond clamped down hair on her opponent’s legs, wrenching them down hard and bouncing the girl a bit on her shoulder to put additional strain on her neck as she was folded up.

“Nowhere to hide now, Defiant Darkness. Submit yourself to the light!” Gaia grinned, glancing sidelong over at Akemi. It seemed like it was only a matter of time now before the other girl gave in, she just had to keep her like this a little while longer. She breathed in through her nose, wincing a bit at the pain in her arm still.

Akemi continued to cry out in immense pain, her head once again shaking defiantly to Gaia's order but she could do nothing to really get out of the hold she was in. At this rate, she was finally starting to lose faith in herself. Her hands reaching around and hoping to grab onto something... Anything to try and reduce the amount of pain she was feeling.

Gaia straightened her back, puffing out her chest proudly. If people were going to be snapping pictures, she wanted them to get her in a good pose, one befitting the heroic role she had given herself tonight. She thought of herself as not too much unlike Atlas, only rather than holding up the world she was shouldering all of its darkness embodied by a slightly petite blond girl. Nearly the same!

“Surrender to the Li…eh…” Gaia blinked as she felt something graze her chest. Desperate fingers feeling around blindly, unintentionally tracing themselves along the opening in her attire. Her face flushed slightly as Akemi managed to grab hold of something finally, mistakenly groping Gaia’s breast. Her eyelids fluttered as she let out a soft giggle at the touch. "I... Mmm.."

While still held upside down, Akemi would feel most of the pressure drain away from the hold, no longer was she being actively compacted. It barely felt like like the supposed hero of light was even holding her tightly anymore.

Akemi's eyes opened and widened when she suddenly finally let go of the hold. Although the damage was done, Akemi had regenerated just enough mental energy to land firmly on her feet behind her opponent--albeit barely-- turn around, and try to reach one arm down between her opponent's legs and the other around her shoulder, in a way where the two hands would meet in the middle if she was successful.

If she managed that, the Defiant Darkness would bend her knees and use the last bit of energy she had left in her to try and lift her opponent into the air above her head and then spike her into the ring floor back first in her finish move: "Darkness Armageddon". Normally she would yell out the name of her finisher, but she didn't have the energy for it.

She had so little energy in fact that if she did manage to land the finisher, she would just collapse onto her opponent for the pin, meeting the absolute bare minimum requirements for a pin.