Cage Match! Taylor Parker Vs. Chigusa Yuuki

Chigusa wasn't in much of a shape to counter Taylor's words, as her wits had been knocked out by Taylor's headbutt. She tried to push Taylor off of her when the blue haired punk straddled her stomach, but with her eyes still unclear and her head pounding in pain Chigusa couldn't muster the concentration. Then Taylor's head came down again. The second thud made Chigusa's vision completely black out for a second. Her head had never taken hits like this before. The blow knocked the idol back as she screamed in pain and tried to shove Taylor away while also covering her head up to keep Taylor from hitting her more. On her forehead a big bump was already forming.

When Taylor was pushed back by Chigusa she cocked a fist, ready to pound on her some more, until she saw the girl's face. Was that it? Had she had enough?

Taylor didn't relish the thought of just standing over Chigusa and beating her face in, so she took a huge, deep breath and pushed up to her feet. She shook out her arms to loosen her shoulders after the punishment Chigusa put them through, and took off running for the ropes. She didn't have the same twitchy, explosive speed that she did earlier in the match, and her mostly bare body was covered in a sheen of sweat. Regardless of how worn out she got, though, or how out of breath she became, she couldn't stop until she'd won. She jumped to plant a foot on the second rope and springboard herself halfway up the cage.

She wrapped her fingers around the chain links and began climbing, maybe a little too carefully. Her hands were shaking from the adrenaline and the exertion of the match, and from the abuse she'd already taken. She could barely feel the cage as she was climbing, but with a glance up at the top, she saw that she was so, so close to victory. Just a few more steps.

When Taylor had originally offered a challenge to anyone for her return match Talia had wanted to accept it. She had even informed the arena stage manager to queue up her song so she could march out to the ring. However, she hesitated to make her entrance. The next thing she knew, Chigusa and Taylor had been scheduled to face each other...immediately. With her opportunity passed, Talia felt bad that she wouldn't get that chance to wrestle her officially.

But as Talia watched the match develop she started to get anxious. She wanted to accept the challenge to begin with because after all Taylor and her had been through she felt it was necessary if they were ever going to move along. She wanted Taylor to respect her, it was why she had joined her Baracuda team after all. If she was going to hang out with all of Taylor's friends, she couldn't just hope to always avoid or ignore her.

But after Taylor's repeated disrespect of her, Talia was starting to get frustrated. Very frustrated. She had already hyped herself into going out to accept the challenge. She needed to do something with that built up confidence. Taylor wasn't going to take her seriously with what she was doing now. So in a fluke of courage, Talia did something she thought would finally catch Taylor's attention.

Talia ran down the ramp after she saw Taylor headbutt her opponent. Her music didn't play because of the spontaneous action, but she didn't care. Most of the crowd didn't even see her as the action in the ring had been so intense. Talia saw Taylor climbing the cage wall but Taylor probably hadn't seen her from being so distracted by the match. Talia quickly jumped to the barricade that kept the crowd out and leaped up to the cage around the level Taylor was at already and kicked up her feet together in a dropkick that twisted up toward Taylor. It was odd to aim a kick up like that, and the landing would surely hurt Talia, but she didn't care. The kick would've hit the cage around Taylor's hands and directly against her fingers outside the cage that held her up.

The sudden appearance of some random girl made Taylor jump, and she pushed back from the cage and nearly fell off. Then the girl's feet smashed her fingers against the cage, and the shock made her let go. She fell, and landed with a scream and a ring-rattling smack.

She laid flat on her back, spreadeagled with her blue pigtails sprawled out around her head. She put a hand to her forehead with her eyes half closed and groaned. The only thing she could manage to do was adjust the black strap of her string bikini top with her thumb, and the only thought that surfaced in her dizzy head was...

What the hell just happened?

Chigusa lay on the mat with one hand covering her head, recovering from that blow while Taylor tried to make her escape. She rolled over and saw Taylor already near the top of the cage and her heart sank. She was going to lose because of the time she wasted. She hurridly got up, trying to go in and knock Taylor off like before, but then suddenly another smaller girl came out and kicked the cage from the outside, shaking it enough that Taylor lost her grip and fell off, landing with a loud and nasty thud in the ring. Chigusa immediately ran up both to checm if Taylor was ok and to see what was going on.

"A-arigatou," Chigusa said to the girl outside. She saw Taylor was fine, if a bit stunned, and immediately went to work to try and defeat this girl. She sat down, grabbing Taylor's head, and tried to pull her in between her legs, hoping to loop her calf around Taylor's neck to trap her in a figure four headlock! Once she has that, Chigusa would squeeze down on Taylor's neck and wrench it around to keep her disoriented, her hands reaching down and grabbing Taylor's blue pigtails as well to hold onto her head like handlebars.

Taylor let out a groan and lifted her head to look for what had hit her, just in time for Chigusa to slide in behind her and wrap her legs around her neck.

"Gachht!" She spluttered as the idol's legs tightened, cutting off her air supply. She struggled to resist, fought to breathe, and kicked her legs high up in the air to try to jostle herself free. She clutched at Chigusa's leg, one hand on her thigh and the other on her calf, and pulled frantically while she tried to wriggle around enough to relieve some of the pressure and steal a desperate breath.

She couldn't believe that it might be over just like this. As long as she was awake, she wasn't just going to let Chigusa have it.

Chigusa grunted as Taylor struggled, the girl still possessing so much energy despite how rough this match had been for both of them. Chigusa was sweating hard as well, her body covered by a shining sheen. She held the hold as tightly as she could, countering Taylor's attempts to escape by pulling on her blue pigtails to hold her in place while her legs tried to choke the girl out. Still, the girl kept on loosening her hold and getting the precious breaths that kept her awake. They were at a standstill, with Chigusa unable to squeeze her out.

"Tch... You struggle... So much!" Chigusa said between gritted teeth. She decided to change her hold. She loosened up on Taylor's neck, stretching out her legs instead and sandwiching Taylor's head in between her thighs. Chigusa leaned back, pulling on her hair, while squeezing tight to keep Taylor's head trapped in a powerful headscissors!

"Ng...Hck..." Taylor could only splutter in response. She immediately gasped in a deep breath while Chigusa switched up her hold and tried to thrash her way free, but Chigusa's legs were already clamped around her neck again, but at a different angle.

All the pressure on the sides of her neck was so painful, with Chigusa's thin, muscular legs squeezing into the muscles on the sides of her neck, choking her, already making her feel faint. Taylor moved her legs to one side, and then swung them both to the other side for momentum and tried to roll over, so that she'd be on top of Chigusa while the idol scissored the life out of her. It was already apparent how much of a toll the holds were taking on her, the plucky, energetic punk was not moving as quickly or as easily as before. But even with her body slowing down for lack of air, her mind was unflinchingly focused on escape, not on winning but on denying Chigusa victory.

Chigusa scissored down on Taylor's neck relentlessly as her thighs tried to cut off all blood flow to Taylor's head. The idol knew Taylor was still dangerous even after being choked only moments before, and that she didn't have to put in too much effort to break herself free from this hold. Chigusa pushed her legs together as much as she could, using her thighs to put serious pressure on Taylor's head as if she was trying to crush it! She didn't have that kind of strength, but at the very least Taylor was going to leave this hold with a nasty headache.

Still she couldn't keep Taylor down. When the girl flipped them over Chigusa couldn't squeeze down as hard any more, as her legs wound up under Taylor's body. The idol grunted, deciding to break the hold and move to another one. She pushed her legs apart and quickly tried to pull them out from underneath Taylor, before scooting back to try and sit on the girl's back to hold her down and set up for a different submission hold.

Taylor put a hand down to try to get up when the weight holding her down suddenly vanished, but when Chigusa slid down onto Taylor's upper back her arms collapsed and she face planted on the mat. She was still weak from the lack of air and blood flow to her brain, her arms felt shaky and she was having trouble catching her breath, or even with getting the black around the edges of her vision to go away.

She tried against to push against the mat and stand up, hoping to pick Chigusa up with her, but she was too heavy. Instead, she planted a foot and threw her body to the side, rolling again to put Chigusa on her back, laying so that her own back was against Chigusa's stomach. She reached back for her, hoping to share a wrist or pull on her head, anything to keep her from immediately putting her in another debilitating hold.