Chasing Her Shadow (Rei Tomizawa vs Toshimi Minami)

Rei would relish the sounds of her rival groaning in pain as she smirked triumphantly as she secured a submission hold on her.

Rei grit her teeth as Toshimi guarded against her choke as she tried to keep the hold together but as her opponent drove her elbow into her rib cage."Ughh!" Rei gasped in pain as she hissed in pain. Rei would loosen her hold long enough for Toshimi to break her rear naked choke but, her legs would still be wrapped around her opponent's waist. Rei would immediately respond as she would transition into yet another submission but, knowing Toshimi, she wasn;t quite sure she'd fall for it. After all, Rei knew the Venus of submission herself was no push over but, she knew staying hear wouldn't do her any good. Taking a breath, Rei sat up forcing Toshimi to do so as well as she pushed her with her hands. Rei would grab Toshimi's left arm with both her hands. Rei would loosen her scissor hold from behind her and try to swing her leg over Toshimi's head to place the back of her knee across her throat to try and secure an armbar submission by pushing the other girl down to her back.

The elbow worked to perfection and Toshimi took a deep breath of much needed air as soon as she was released. Now she only needed to get rid of the scissor, Toshimi thought. She pushed herself up trying to sit up to avoid being trapped again in a choke hold and to start pushing on Rei's legs, and that was made all the more easier by having Rei push her up to sit as well. Toshimi wondered what Rei was planning to do next but it all became quite obvious when she felt the cosplayer pulling on one of her arms and bringing her legs up around it. Toshimi knew what Rei was trying to do, she also knew she had to act quickly or it was going to end badly and in a lot of pain for her.

The Venus resisted having her arm pulled away although she knew she was not going to succeed she needed to buy herself some time and then she rolled her body in the opposite direction to were Rei wanted her to go so that instead of laying on her back Toshimi ended up on her knees, she also twisted her arm to the side so that Rei wouldn't have enough leverage to punish the elbow and reached to grab her own forearm with her free hand to further diminish Rei's ability to hurt her. Toshimi hated to have to be on the defensive and Rei was surely making her work as could be tell by the sweat that was starting to cover her body, but having to fight like this was bringing Toshimi's wrestling instincts back.

Toshimi would then try to move from her knees to one knee, trying to use Rei's own hold to trap the cosplayer's legs and then slowly begin to roll Rei over, attempting to reverse the armbar into a sort of crab hold.

"Ugh..." Rei grunted as Toshimi did a great job of defending against her submissions. Before she knew it, Rei was on her stomach and found herself in a make shift Boston Crab. The purple haired girl growled as she was caught in her rival's hold. She clawed at the mat with her fingers as she knew Toshimi all too well. This hold wasn't so bad but, the girl was capable of putting her the most painful of positions. She still has vivid memories of Toshimi putting her to sleep and making her submit to her. Rei would try to crawl her way to the ropes but, Toshimi would still have an ample amount of time to stop her.

"G-get off!" Rei said as she crawled frantically towards the ropes.

Toshimi ignored Rei's pleas but not like a normal wrestler ignores the pleas of her opponent. Toshimi was getting into her fighting rhythm and when she got into that focused state of mind her opponents stopped being people and became things; things that had to be twisted until they squeaked. Toshimi face turned into a cold focused expression, like that of an artisan working his craft. The Boston Crab was not going to prosper so Toshimi decided to let Rei's left leg go and focus on the right, pushing it up as she slid her butt to sit on the small of Rei's back and start punishing the thighs and spine of her opponent, but she soon realized Rei was crawling towards the ropes and she knew she had to stop her.

Toshimi thus brought her legs up to trap Rei's right leg at the calf with her thighs and then rolled her body to the side, laying on Rei's back and now with her hands free, and twisting Rei's leg to the outside, Toshimi tried to grab Rei's chin and turn this from a failed one legged boston crab into a STF.

Rei felt the girl transitioning on top of her as she tried to just get a little closer to the ropes, she groaned feeling her rival's hands under her chin and her own leg get twisted by Toshimi's. Rei clenched her teeth as she struggled as she was trapped in the STF. Rei pulled at Toshimi's arm uselessly as the girl continued to pull back her chin. Rei felt a choking sensation when Toshimi jerked back her chin and felt an intense pain on her upper back. Rei shook her head as she at her opponent's mercy. The purple hair girl cringed as she tried to reach out for the ropes as her other hand tried to offer some resistance to her opponent's submission. Her leg was also in a lot of pain as it was being bent.

"K-khhh....!" Rei tried to suppress a scream not wanting Toshimi to have the satisfaction of hearing it. The Cosplay fighter would still steadily make her way to the ropes but, she was still unable to grab onto it quite just yet.

Toshimi always acted cold and distant but she really loved to hear her opponents groaning, moaning and ultimately howling in pain before giving up; she also enjoyed when an opponent struggled so hard to avoid screaming like Rei was doing. Toshimi knew very well that Rei was too stubborn to give up to a hold like this so early in the match, but it was still a good opportunity to work the cosplayer, weaken her and punish her for her insolence. Toshimi remained quiet all the while and tightened the hold, pushing it to strain Rei's muscles to the maximum and then easing the pressure a bit to regain strength, avoiding to tire herself, to then put the pressure up again.

"Ughh... Aaaahhhhh!" Rei cried out as Toshimi tortured her like this as she hissed at Toshimi, she could tell she was enjoying her misery. Although Toshimi didn't show it, Rei knew her well enough she was enjoying her cries. After being a victim to her opponent's submissions for a long while, she just had a way of knowing what she was feeling. The girl would inch herself forward as Toshimi continued to torture her body. The girl swore that'd she'd have to do something special to get back at her rival, she wasn't prepared to take this lying down. Rei cried as she felt her leg begin to bend int he wrong way as she then reached out for the rope as she awaited Toshimi to release her. Rei would then quickly roll herself away as she didn't want Toshimi to continue her onslaught.

Toshimi kept the hold on Rei intensifying the pressure on the girl's head, neck and leg when the cosplayer reached the ropes. Only when the referee said she had to let go did Toshimi released Rei's head, but not the leg. Raising her arms to show that she was no longer holding Rei's head she kept using her legs to twist the cosplayer leg and punish that knee. The referee quickly called Toshimi out on still bending the knee and only then Toshimi unwrapped herself completely from Rei, rolling away from the cosplayer to quickly get up. Toshimi stood at the center of the ring, placing her hands on her knees while she recovered her breathe, always looking at Rei waiting for the girl to be ready to fight again.

Unlike many sbmission wrestlers, Toshimi actually liked the 'rope break' rule; otherwise it would be too easy she thought. And there was nothing more delicious that an opponent in agony inches away from her salvation but unable to reach it. Toshimi took a deep breathe and stood up, using one of her wristbands to clean the sweat from her face. She tried to bury those thoughts down, she was here to defeat Rei again, not to enjoy torturing the girl.

"Ahhh! Rope break! Rope break! Ref!" Rei was relieved as she thought her pain was all over but, she was sorely mistaken. Toshimi's leg still twisted her calf back as she clenched the rope tightly as her opponent tried to inflict as much pain as possible from her hold. "Ahhhh!" Rei screamed as the ref finally forced Toshimi to get off of her, she panted as she layed flat on her stomach panting as she was covered in sweat. Turning onto her side, she brought her leg close to her body. As she rolled over to her other side, Rei's mouth opened wide as she shut her eyes tight trying to tend to her injured leg. Hissing in pain, Rei used the rope to get back onto her feet as she looked across the ring at Toshimi. The only thing that was on Rei's mind was to win. She would have her chance to humiliate Toshimi afterwards as she wanted some revenge. She had a strange and primal desire to beat Toshimi as she wanted so badly to beat the raven haired beauty but also found her irresistable. Her breath heavy, the purple haired girl charged forward at Toshimi.

"Raaaahhh!" Blidly running towards her screamin her battle cry, she had no words for Toshimi. Rei would try to get into a grapple with her opponent to lock up with her. If successful, Rei would attempt to drive her knee into her rival's gut.

Toshimi stood in the center of the ring and looked at Rei with cold eyes, but under the dead calm expression of her cute face Toshimi's heart was beating hard and fast. She was feeling that rush of adrenaline she got from wrestling again... and the pleasure she took every time she saw her opponent's hurting. Watching Rei holding her leg as she rolled was simply beautiful and made her feel so great with herself. "Come on... get up..." Toshimi said, resisting the desire to add a weakling at the end of that sentence. She wanted to bait Rei and humiliate her but she felt at the same time that it was just too unprofessional to do something like that... even if she thought Rei was a weakling.

Toshimi fell back into her fighting stance as she saw Rei charging at her blindly, she could have easily avoided it but she didn't wanted to do it, it was Rei who should be avoiding her, Toshimi thought. She locked up with Rei, placing her hands in her opponent's shoulders to push her back, already thinking how she was going to twist the cosplayer's body this time, when Toshimi felt a sharp pain in her tummy. "UGHHH!" she groaned as Rei's knee connected with her abs making her grimace and double over a bit in the lock up, stopping her from proceeding with her plans to attack.