The mad melody: Karina vs Seraphim (Hardcore)

As the loud clang echoed out through the arena, Seraphim saw the small impact of blood on the chair after the girl stumbled away, realizing just how hard she had hit. Seraphim had packed more strength in her than some thought possible, and give her a weapon in those same hands… well, Karina seemed to understand first hand how bad it was. And as she got a look at the blood trickling from the side of her head, Seraphim knew this match was reaching a climax. No longer would Seraphim tease or joke around, and slowly the smile faded from her face, dropping the chair like it was a peace of trash. She took a long, slow breath while Karina tried to recover, and gave the girl the time she needed before she could muster the strength to get off the chain. Seraphim did feel a little bad when she saw how tired the girl looked as she was leaning on the ropes, and even looked at her in a new light for a moment, but she didnâ€t loose her focus, tolerating the pain she had right now from the headbutt to the few strikes with the guitar, looking past it like it was nothing, as Seraphim narrowed her crimson eye a little. She didnâ€t take this all too seriously still, but Seraphim decided to cast the jokes and all aside now, and just to finish this. Though the white-haired fighter knew it was going to take more than a few blows to still take Karina down, she was determined to defeat this girl now more than before.

Seeing her come at her, Seraphim was a little disappointed to see how slow she was moving. At this point, it was like fighting a dying bull. At first the charges were dangerous and quick, but now it was like she was starting to drag herself, and Seraphim found it even easier to avoid. So, seeing the guitar come slower towards her face, the girl crouched low again, bending her knees and falling on to one like earlier, and quickly countered. While she was swinging and she crouched under it, Seraphim brought her fist back, and sent it strait like a cannon into the girlâ€s gut, aiming to hit her right where she had earlier with the pipe.

Karina didn't even realize Seraphim had moved away and slammed the guitar once again down onto the mat, glaring up infront of her to notice she was only hitting air and then came the felt the punch going straight into her defenceless stomach, her eyes widening and immidiatly she coughed out like crazy, small drops of blood from her mouth, which she has been swallowing all this time, the taste of iron had brought her the adrenaline all this time. Her legs trembled and it looked like she was about o fall but instead she'd hold on, remaining standing and brought her hand down to grasp Seraphim's head, coiling her fingers to her palm and into a fist to grasp the girl's hair and hold it tightly.

Karina glared down at the girl with her ghastly red eyes, her other hand grasping her guitar, bringing her arm up that was holding the guitar and brought it up high over her head, as if ready to do the final blow on Seraphim, it all looked like Karina was set on hurting Seraphim but in the end she just couldn't, her legs trembled wilder then before and suddenly she fell onto her knees and let go of Seraphim's hair, bringing her arm down to place it against her stomach while she continued to cough out softly, her eyelids coming to a complete close as just remained on her knees, both hands upon the mat and let the guitar rest on the mat, almost falling forward. She could feel the blood continued to drip down from the side of her head but she didn't care, she wasn't able to care. Wounds are always made in matches and this wasn't new to her. This was a hardcore match and that's why she brought her guitar, heck she'd bring her guitar anyway but still. She opened her eyes to look at the mat and saw how blurry her vision was, knowing she couldn't waste time resting at all.

Unless Seraphim was going to attack her, Karina would try to stand back on her feet, painfully and slowly but still she refused to surrender.

This girl was soon going to reach her limit, Seraphim could tell the girl couldnâ€t take this much more. Though, she had to admit, she had a heck of an endurance, maybe enough to rival Seraphimâ€s, but it still wouldnâ€t be enough, she let her anger guide her, and it was what made Karina lose this match. She almost pitied the girl, and in the back of her mind, she constantly wondered what could have lead her to this sort of anger. It couldnâ€t have just been because Seraphim touched her guitar, the girl was angry even before that. But still… she really wanted to know. Something about Karina fascinated her… like there was more to this girl behind the hatred. And sure, Seraphimâ€s slightly sadistic side did enjoy watching her bleed and cough in agony with that wide look of shock in her eyes, but she still sympathized for her, feeling like she wasnâ€t just going through physical pain, but mental too.

Trying not to throw off her own concentration though, she shook those thoughts away. And as Seraphim was about to stand up again, despite the pain her opponent was in, she had actually managed to grab Seraphimâ€s hair before she could. For a moment, now Seraphim looked up at her with a confused, wide eyed expression in her own crimson orb, and small bead of sweat trickled down the side of her head as she tensed up, but the girl would be able to breath a sigh of relief as she fell over, the exhaustion seeming to catch up with her. ‘Phew… going to have to give an extra prayer to god tonight on that one.†Seraphim thought to herself, already a religious woman as it was, now finding that the big man upstairs may have actually been listening for once.

Quickly she broke away, just in case Karina regained her wind again, and tried that again. Seraphim straitened her hair, and even adjusted her eyepatch, letting out a sigh of relief as she subconsciously clutched her stomach a little from the pain earlier, looking down at her opponent. “Itâ€s a shame… youâ€ve got a lot of potential.” Seraphim said with a straightforward, serious tone, slightly disappointed in Karina for wasting her talent with such a fiery anger. The girl looked ragged and beaten too, as Seraphim saw the blood from her lips drip slowly to the mat while she was on her hands and knees. Once more, her sadism started to kick in, but reminding herself of where her new morals were, Seraphim just watched the girl, frowning slightly and even getting a mixed urge to just help her up. Instead though, she waited, taking in the little things about Karina right now, hiding the fact that she enjoyed seeing her on her hands and knees, briefly observing her rear. Biting the edge of her lips, Seraphim gave it a friendly little tap just before the girl got up, her fingers gliding along the outside of her kimono over her ass, but quickly pulled away as she hid those thoughts as well she rubbed along only for a second, not wanting to be a pervert and humiliate the girl, but just wanting to satisfy her curiousity slightly. And she had to say, for that brief moment, she could judge that the girl had a nice body, and on a more materialistic level, Seraphim even wondered where she got that kimono and what it was made of since it felt quite silky to the touch. After this she even contemplated on getting one for herself~!

Honestly, Seraphim was having a big conflict. She wanted to focus and fight fair. She wanted to be reckless and push her adrenaline to the max. She wanted to be a sadist and break the girl. She wanted to tease her a little with jokes and make her angrier. She wanted to talk to her and try to understand her. And she even wanted to touch the girl a little and explore more about her on an intimate level. Her mind was in six directions at once, but for now, Seraphim just shrugged as many as they could off, deciding after she let Karina get up, she would just follow her strongest thoughts, which was to just win this match at any cost.

Karina had trouble standing up, her entire vision was just becoming more and more blurry the more she tried, it was like the was a giant anvil on her back, something heavy that didn't want her to stand up straight, it didn't help that she could feel Seraphim's fingers on her rear, her legs trembling once more, she tried to stay standing and hold her guitar up high, she was simply not going to be defeated here. She stood back up straight and glared over at the girl, bringing her guitar to her stomach and protected it, she was ready to go again, even with all the pain that infested within her body, which made sure she could not move that fast nor be as strong as usual, and the blood that was dripping down onto the kimono, as if trying to escape from the pain.

Karina started to get into her stance again, though she was struggling to stay standing already and she didn't even take a step yet. She looked over at Seraphim, or atleast trying to though all of a suddenl she saw two extra figures moving behind Seraphim. Was her vsion becoming even worse..? No.. She could see a girl with short red hair and one with long blue hair. The one with red hair.. Also known as Sha, moved rght behind Seraphim and with stealth she slammed her fist straight into the back of her head aswell as her leg inbetween Seraphim, forcing her onto her stomach and Sha coming down at her, placing her knee upon the girl's lower back and her hand grabbing a handfull of the girl's hair and coiling her hand into a fist, tugging forcefully on her hair to force her head backwards.

" ... "

Nha walked past the two and stopped infront of Karina, inspect the girl for a moment. Karina was covered with bood all over her kimono now, the wound still had not stopped bleeding and she was standing on her last bits of strength. Knowing this, Nha smirked at Karina and shook her head, moving her hand behind her back and and took out a steel knuckle duster from her back pocket, wielding it as she spoke out clearly.

" Ah, Karina.. One of the EX Leaders of the Era of Hell.. You showed great contribution in making the organization strong and fearsome, just with your raw strength and powerful combination of strikes of your fists and your guitar. Alas.. You are no longer required due to your incompotent actions and having your little sister in our service, who is much more compatible.. By order of Miss Cerbera, you are hereby terminated from the organization. Thank you for being a meatshield to weaken Seraphim and yourself. "

Karina tilted her head to the side, looking at Nha with a weakened, confused glare, not being able to say anything nor move, Nha seeing her confused look and gripped the knuckle duster in her grasp and spoke out bluntly.

" It means drop dead. "

With that Nha pulled her arm back and slammed the front of the knuckle duster straight into Karina's forehead, once again the sound of the metal smashing into her skull offered many flinches from the crowd as Karina immdiatily released her guitar and fell backwards, sprawled out and unconsious, a newly created wound on her forehead and the blood gently dripping down onto the mat from the old wound.

Nha inspected Karina to be sure the girl was unconsious and not moving any longer, turning around to look down at Seraphim with a grin, Sha holding the girl down wile Nha laughed out loudly and kneeled down infront of Seraphim.

" Look who we have here.. The famous leader of the White Gale.. Are you ready for the same treatment I gave that bitch a second ago? But I'm sure we'll be doing ALOT more then we did to her. "

Good, she still had some fight in her! Seraphim was hoping to continue this a little longer, but she did know that if she did too much more, the girlâ€s injuries might become too serious, and so, Seraphim was trying to figure out the best know out blow. One to the back of the head would be good, or just cut off her air to make her pass out. Either way, after seeing how badly the girl was bleeding, Seraphim figured it would be about time to take her out for good. Though… she wouldnâ€t mind having fun with her, Seraphim reminded herself not to go too far, after all she loved someone already, and that idol stayed strong to her heart.

However, as the two of them stood up, and Seraphim took a stance again, the match suddenly took a dark turn. “You know, I got to say, I like ya. Youâ€ve got spirit and power. Maybe after this, we can talk about- Aghh!!” Seraphim had the intention to just tell Karina about meeting up after the match, hoping to finally simmer her temper down. But in mid sentence, she felt a powerful blow to the back of her skull, completely blindsided from it as she stumbled forward, both hands clutching the back of her head. It wasnâ€t enough to knock her down, and Seraphim was about to turn around, but suddenly there was a second strike that followed up to the back of her legs. As a practitioner of Maui Thai, Seraphimâ€s legs were has hard as rocks, but they struck at a vital point, right behind her knees, as it forced Seraphim to tumble onto her hands and knees, growling mixed with pain and anger as she bared her teeth, and shook her head as she felt a daze, her vision slightly blurred from the attack that struck her in the back of the head. “What the fu- Ow! D-Damnit!” She was about to look behind her and see the source of this, blaming her missing eye and lesser field of vision from it for not seeing this, as she felt a foot slam and remain onto her back, and her long, white, silky hair getting pulled back tight, forcing her to look strait as she felt the roots of her hair strained.

From there, Seraphim watched what happened in front of her, surprisingly non-resistant as she tried to conserve her strength for a moment, and listened in utter shock at the event that unfolded before her. She finally heard her name; Karina, and also found out just who she worked for. “Wh…What..?” Having no idea that she worked for them, and then hearing about the betrayal, Seraphim was completely stunned as everything went on at once, and she felt helpless as she watched the girlâ€s fate be determined. “K-Karina! Look out!” It hurt to speak at the moment, and she cringed shortly after yelling, but when she spotted the weapon in Nhaâ€s hand, she could only hope something could be done, only to watch as the girl was reduced to an unconscious, bloody mess. Even if she is… no was a member to the Era of Hell, she was still human, and no one deserved what they just did to her! A heavy feeling of pity and guilt sank in her stomach when she realized she couldnâ€t have helped, but Seraphim just stayed there like she was.

And then… she smiled? Seraphim couldnâ€t help but find this utterly amusing. The Era of Hell truly showed how vile they were. Betraying one of there own, and not even able to take her on in a fair fight! Hah! This was just disgraceful, and the girl suddenly felt her pride become stronger as she knew that this… this was exactly the reason she made White Gale.

“Well-Well… if it isnâ€t Tweedledee and Tweedledick, whatâ€s the matter? Canâ€t win in a fair fight?” She mocked them in amusement, her fanged smile there, biting back the pain for now as she showed them how little she saw them as a threat. Deep down though… yea, she was scared. Hell, Seraphim was terrified at what could happen right now. But she would never show the Era of Hell that. Or more importantly, anyone who was watching her, including her friends and fellow members of White Gale. And so, she gave a small, brave chuckle right in there face despite being on her knees, not letting that bring her down for even a second! “Yea, Iâ€m ready for whatever you little fangless lapdogs got for me. Ha!”

Sha held Seraphim tightly in placed, ignoring what she was saying and only solidified her clutch upon the girl, letting Nha do the talking whil she took action as usual, looking up at Nha with a nod, signalling that she had Seraphim locked in tight for the punishment. Nha laughed loudly over the booing of the crowd, moving the knuckle duster close to Seraphim's forehead, licking her lips and got herself ready to punch Seraphim straight in the face, finding it hilarious what Seraphim was saying.

" You got alot to say for a caught animal.. Soon you got nothing to say at all, the White Gale is falling here and now, you should've backed off when you had the chance.. Which reminds me.. We already disposed of people who were going to defect already or were to weak to keep going, much like Karina over there, I guess she was just a weakling, much like our good old ex leader Reika.. "

She then grinned wickledly at Seraphim and leaned in, close to her ear and breathed out hot air into it before she whispered with a sweet tone.

" Because of you she's done too. All because you pursuaded her to defect.. Now. It's time you bowed down for good. "

Sha's eyes suddenly widened because of something behind Nha, Nha didn't notice it untill she heard something dripping down loudly on the mat, looking over her shoulder to notice... That Karina was back on her feet!? Karina's face and kimono were now covered with blood, her guitar was also tainted by blood though held it strong by her side, glaring down with dead eyes and the three, standing strong like a statue, every single pain of her body had just withdrawn from her, an almost emotionless express on the girl's face and without warning she swung the guitar straight into the side of Nha's head, which in turn forced the girl to release her knuckle duster and roll away in pain.

Sha quickly released seraphim and jumped away from her, looking over her shoulder before back at Karina, for some reason Sha was not resorting to weaponry and instead got into a fighting stance, shaking her head at Karina as if refusing to fight her but Karina started to made small steps towards the girl, ignoring Seraphim and Nha for the time being, though Nha was on her stomach besides Seraphim, clutching her head in pain, yelling out loudly.

" W-What the fuck are you!? "

Seraphim didnâ€t back down or falter, Nhaâ€s words only making the girl feel more encouraged to take her stand. Whatever the punishment was that they dealt to her, Seraphim would endure. She did crap like this daily back when she was in prison, and that was when she was even abused sexually too. So, a knuckle-duster didnâ€t intimidate her. Sure, being in this position did make Seraphim worry just how bad this would go, having a strong feeling she wouldnâ€t look pretty for quite some time, but none the less, she would endure. These low lifes could do all they want and break her body, but they would never break her spirit or White Gale.

Even her words about what happened to Reika, and how what they had just done to Karina was her own fault Seraphim would just fight off. Sure, it did make her feel awful, and there were only so many people she could help, but even those who were out of the girlâ€s hands, Seraphim still felt guilty about. Everyone who fell victim to the Era of Hell, even some of the members among them, Seraphim pitied, and it served as a reminder to her that she had to be stronger.

“Less talk… If you want to hit me, then cut the crap and do it. But know that no matter what, the winds of the White Gale will always soar, and no matter how much you threaten and hurt us, we will keep standing, and bring you down like a hurricane.” Those words came strait from Seraphimâ€s heart, as she felt like the whole ring was listening to her right now. She cringed a little and gritted her teeth at the end of her sentence when they pulled back on her hair more and grinded more into her back, but she still held herself where she was, taking the time to muster up her strength to break free.

Until someone else took action.

‘Karina…?†The girl was actually getting up! A wave of relief came over Seraphim when she realized she still was able to move, and for a moment, Seraphim thought that maybe, just maybe her wounds were not entirely so bad. But when she saw all the blood she was coated in, Seraphimâ€s eyes widened in a bit of shock, fearing that even though Karina was standing, she was possibly risking serious or damaging injuries that might leave a permanent injury to her. Still… she was proud of the girl, she may have finally found someone who could take a beating to Hell as much as she could!

Watching as Nha was knocked to the ground hard from the guitar and on her stomach, and Sha released her, Seraphim took a few breaths, getting slowly to her feet as the back of her legs were killing her, but she still didnâ€t let it stop her. Instead, among the confusion, she quickly analyzed the ring, knowing what weapons laid around, where everyone was in the ring, and coming up with what to do. ‘Screw it, beat them at their own game.†Seraphim thought as she quickly turned to Sha, and attempted to get a hold of her while she was distracted, hoping to get behind the girl and put her into an armbar. This was, she could hold the twin in place and leave her as a perfect target for Karina.

Sha was someone who said nothing and only let action speak for her, something Karina used to know but in the state she was in, she couldn't let the girl get to her. Even when she heard her sister yelling to grab that steel pipe near her, Sha shook her head in refusal, resuming her stance as she was forced to face Karina instead, her eyes taken from Seraphim, which turned out to be stupid. The girl came behind her and armbarred her, flinching both eyes tightly closed and tried to get free, shaking her head wildly from side to side, Seraphim had a solid clutch on her and she knew Karina was approaching her. Still, she did not beg to be released not cry out, she just kept on struggling to points where she could not hurt her arm. She pressed back against Seraphim when she noticed Karna only a few steps away from her, knowing she has to move now but Seraphim just had her locked in tight.

Nha heard her twin sister and looked up to notice Seraphim had locked her up instead, slowly starting to stand up even though she saw she was too late, Karina had already moved in and slammed the guitar straight into Sha's gut, who coughed out loudly and wiggled uncontrallably in Seraphim's grasp, wanting to fall on her knees from the lack of air that kept her strength in her body, looking up to say Karina slowly stepped back and her head tilting back, as if going to fall once more but she managed to bring one foot back behind her to keep herself balanced, looking up at the ceiling for a moment before she grinned and looked down at them.

" Well then.. Nha.. I will take great pleasure smacking you about with my Guitar.. And you.. Sha. "

She turned her head to look at the twin that was being held by Seraphim.

" I didn't expect this from you. My old pupil no less. Weren't you the one who told me about honor and pride? "

Karina then grinned at her as she watched Sha look down in shame before she turned to Nha and ran over to her to deliver a swift kick in the face and force her to roll out of the ring to recover.

Despite Sha trying to break free, Seraphim held her hard, even making it worse as she demonstrated her vice-like grip, clamping and squeezing the twinâ€s wrist with all her might and no mercy. The girl was smart though, squirming in her arm in a matter that reduced the submission hold. Seraphim never was very fond of submissions either, but a simple armbar was doable, and she maintained it as the incoming strike of her.

Seraphim cringed a little when she saw the guitar slam hard in Shaâ€s gut, feeling her tremble in her grasp, and seeing her get crushed from the blow and writhing in pain, Seraphim didnâ€t feel right. Sadistic at times or not, she was more or less about to be acting just like her enemy; holding someone down as they were beaten. No… it wasnâ€t right. And so, after that strike, Seraphim released Sha, allowing her freedom for now, not wanting to be like them.

But, not before Karina said something to Sha that made her really begin to wonder… ‘Honor.. and pride.†To Seraphim, those words meant as much as family to her, and were part of the only reason she loved for at this point. And as Seraphim released Sha, she felt like this had just reached a point that couldnâ€t be tolerated any more. Karina was badly injured, these damned twins entered a match, and a victor hadnâ€t even been decided! Even worse, they gave her that grim reminder about the dangers the Era of Hell posed, and it only served as a greater reason to her cause.

For now though, she focused on the fight at hand. She worried about Karinaâ€s condition, and now she had a new goal in mind, which was to prevent any further injury to this girl. So, seeing Sha still standing, with a broken pride no less, Seraphim would take the chance to throw a strike at the side of her skull since she was still behind the red twin, having released her now as she gave an elbow smash to the back of her head, wanting her to feel exactly what Seraphim had, the pain even now still pulsing in the back of Seraphimâ€s mind.

Karina merely looked at Seraphim and Sha now, moving her guitar behind her back and brought both hands up to move them to her face and gently stroke the blood away from her eyes and acted like this was normal. Infact it really was normal for her, she used to be beaten alot when she was a child and she toughened up alot from it and dealt revenge numerous of times. She watched Seraphim release Sha and deliver a fatal blow in the back of her head, Sha gasped sharply as she hit the floor on her stomach and slowly rolled out of the ring to leave the two, getting onto her feet and looked up at Seraphim and Karina, frowning and then turned to walk out without a word... Nha on the other hand growled loudly in anger and frustration at yelled out at Karina.

" You fucking bitch! You will pay for that! What you've done was unforgivable! You're not an enemy of the Era of He-- "

Karina threw the steel pipe to Nha who quickly jumped to the side with a gasp, looking back at the two and yelled at her again.

" What the fuck is your prob-- Ee! "

Karina had thrown another object at her, almost lazily and watched the blue haired twin flail her arms like a child before Karina threw another object at her, which Nha dodged too before running away after Sha, Karina releasing a low sigh and turned back to Seraphim, removing the guitar from her back, as if ready to use it again and turned to head for the turnbuckle, placing her guitar against it and turned back to Seraphim to face her.

" That takes care of that... Now.. "

Karina wiped the blood from her face and pressed her hand against her forehead to press it against the wound for a moment, hising out softly before she removed her and and got back into her stance.

" Let's continue. "