[Pendant Match]Tag: Akashi & Chigusa Vs. Adrian & Heather

Standard Tag Match
Winning Condition: Pinfall, Submission or Knockout
Match Stipulations: Each Team Member will win the Number of Pendant pieces stated for Participation in the match

Adrian Kytes: Team Purple Parrot [½ Pendant]
Heather Sunderland: Team Purple Parrot [½ Pendant]

Akashi Tanikaze: Team Green Monkey [½ Pendant]
Chigusa Yuuki: Team Green Monkey [½ Pendant]

The crowd was Extra excited for today's match up, not only was it one of the opening matches of the road to Avalanche's Temple Games event was about to begin, but otherwise this match was shaping up to be a regular Main Event of its own accord. Four of the AFW's top wrestlers were in a tag match together and none of them had tagged together before. Team "Green Monkey's" [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40z7aeqOQYo:rqrqvju7]theme began to play[/url:rqrqvju7] and out from the entrance ramp came Akashi Tanikaze and Chigusa Yuuki. Akashi was clad in a deep green mawashi sash, sans her usual leopard pattern. She was also wearing a deep green sports bra and, just for this special event she was wearign cosplay monkey ears and a monkey tail snuck out from out of her mawashi sash. She felt a little silly and it showed on her cheeks, but she was certain that with Chigusa next to her, that everything would be alright.

"As long as I don't have to say "eek-eek..." She muttered and slapped a few hands and marched into the ring. She then looked around and began to perform her pantomime Dohyou-iri ring ceremony. Even in a zany match, she still had to do it. Still, she wondered if her ancestors would approve of her doing it in monkey ears and a tail. When she was finished she went to her corner and waited for Chigusa and the others.

Chigusa felt like giggling a little when she heard the theme play over the speakers. She was dressed in a different attire from her regular clothes, a tight-fitting light green tube top that left the top of her chest exposed and pushed up her breasts, giving her cleavage a bit of pop. On her arms were pads and wristbands, as well as fingerless combat gloves. Her skirt was short and white, so short that when she walked the green undergarment she wore showed up. Her long legs were mostly exposed, only a pair of knee pads and short stylized wrestling boots covered them. And she wore monkey ears and the tail as well. She looked incredibly cute and sexy standing next to the towering Akashi, looking much smaller than her tag partner, but no less formidable.

Chigusa followed Akashi down to the ring, greeting the crowd as she went. She hopped up on the corner turnbuckle and waved while Akashi performed her ritual, not stepping inside to interrupt her. She jumped in once the sumo made her rounds and stepped to the center, waving to the crowd some more to fire them up and give her their full support.

"Don't worry Akashi-dono, we will crush our opposition!" Chigusa said, "I'm already glad to fight with you. Let's do our best!" She turned and waved to the crowd, following her own ritual, trying to whip them up even more as she went around the ring.

It had been a harder choice for Adrian to pick her tag team partner for this match. Admittedly the teams were pretty small as they were but there was a lot of talent to divvy up between the matches. But overall she went for the person with the most tag team experience and someone with a tag win over her opponents: Heather Sunderland.

"You feeling okay?" She asked backstage as she put the finishing touches to her costume, birds being a slightly harder theme to follow than monkeys where a tail and ears would suffice. Her hair was a poofy blonde while she wore rose-coloured shades. Covering a purple singlet was a pink bathrobe with feather boas. It looked kind of like a discount Ric Flair, but as she wore her own ICW/ICWA Tri-State TV title with pride: she didn't want to be wearing anything else.

Except maybe a suit of armour made exclusively out of championships.

"Come on, let's go." The cosplayer told her friend before [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7km555hZIc:9x1n2z0i]their music[/url:9x1n2z0i] cued and they stepped out. It was a fairly mixed response for the Parrots: while Heather had her fair share of fans, Adrian hadn't made a friend in the audience for 3 years, and wasn't about to start now as she got caught up in a small argument with someone at ringside before stepping into the ring, shedding her accessories. To many it looked like she wasn't focused enough, but that small scuffle: to her was just part of the show. She was ready, and hoped that Akashi and Chigusa weren't.

Taking the team match with Adrian was something that was sort of exciting for Heather. Their styles were somewhat similar, and she hadn't really fully teamed with her before even though they were part of the same group at one point. She didn't see anything with teaming up with her here and she was ready to show her just how good it was to have her on her team. Adrian was not only her friend tonight, but also her team captain that she was fighting for.

"Yeah, I'm good..Just uhh..Sorry I couldn't quite get in the spirit of the attire as much as you did tonight." Heather would say, though she was wearing something different as well. Instead of her usual long purple coat, she was wearing a dark purple fishnet top, long sleeved that went to the space between her index and middle finger, the hem going down to just a couple inches below her breasts, which were held by the usual black bikini top that she wore. Along with that she wore her usual black baggy pants but with a purple studded belt and boots underneath that had a purple sleeve going from the top to her toes.

"Heh, right, lets go out there and kick some ass." Heather would let out as they went out. Standing on the stage, she would blush a little at the music as she made her way down the ramp with Adrian. Seeing her have a little scuffle with someone at ringside, she would sigh and laugh a little, shaking her head as she would slide into the ring with her.

She would eye Akashi, part of her wanting to ask how Taylor was after she knew how much she was hurt, but she decided not to. This match was team vs team, and Taylor was yet another team. Now wasn't the time. Heather would just eye Chigusa and Akashi, nodding her head. "Hope you two are ready to find out first hand what it's like to get your asses kicked by the best team."

Akashi was all smiles, even when she heard the other girl's entrance theme. This was supposed to be a fun, lighthearted match for the fans, though she knew no one was going to go easy on anyone. She saw Adrian and grinned. She'd faced the girl once as "bullet Ant" but the two hadn't spoken a whole lot since then. She was eager to catch up with her friend and have a good match against her.

However, when Heather appeared as well, Akashi furrowed her brow. She immediately put on a dour look and folded her arms under her chest. She had never really met the girl or had much dealings with her before they had met in the ring, but that was all she needed. She had watched Taylor kick the girl's ass for an entire match only to have Heather fumble out of the way on the closing move and somehow come up with a victory for the other team. That match had been the genesis of the fall out between herself and Taylor and Akashi couldn't look at Heather's face without getting angry.

When the two entered the ring and Heather spoke, Akashi didn't even look at Chigusa. She only growled out. "I'm. Going. First." in a snarl and settled into a spot. She squatted and looked like a football linebacker as she kept her eyes focused on Heather's. She was waiting for the bell and to see if she would stay int he ring. She looked like a statue of a guard dog from her place int he corner but she wouldn't budge an inch until the bell rang.

Adrian handed her own personal belt to the referee with strict instructions to take care of it before turning to Heather "Okay, so are you alright if I start this out?" She asked rather casually before turning to see angry monkey Akashi. Her smile quickly dropping as she whispered to Heather "What did you do?" Akaghi didn't really get this angry. She got upset and prideful and stuff and annoyed. Especially annoyed at whatever the cosplayer was trying. But really angry Akashi was a new one.

Adrian got burns off the death glare and she wasn't even the target. "Yeah... better let me start, maybe she won't try to outright murder me to get to you. And if she does... well we can work out the funeral later."

Akashi watched as Adrian plead for her to go first. She really felt like plowing into the cosplayer and just demolishing her against the turnbuckle, but she let out a sigh and stood up. She shook her head and her features softened as she flashed Adrian a weak smile. She then turned and as the bell rang, she slapped her hand against Chigusa and slid out of the ring.

"Changed my mind."

She said with a soft blush on her face. Secretly she was thankful for Adrian's maneuver. She realized that maybe she was about to go too far and do something quite regrettable, outside the spirit of the competition.

After Heather said what she did, she would immediately notice the glare that Akashi was giving her. She would blink her eyes a few times in confusion at the sour look she was given, not really knowing why Akashi would be that angry at her as she was, but Heather would narrow her eyes, glaring back at her. She wasn't going to take that from Akashi. She had tried her hardest to make amends with Taylor after the match. She didn't want any hard feelings, but it seemed that wasn't Akashi's feelings on it.

As Heather went to step forward before Adrian would speak first, causing her to turn to her with a look of disbelief. "But..Come on Adrian.." Heather would let out before her whisper, causing her to shrug her shoulders and cross her arms. As Adrian confirmed that she would be going out first, Heather would slump a little. She didn't know why Adrian was stopping her from answering that glare, hoping that her partner wasn't doubting her abilities or anything.

"..Fine..alright..I guess I should relax a bit too." Heather would say, nodding her head and sighing before going to stand on the apron.

Chigusa watched all the events unfold with a little bit of confusion. Akashi seemed really happy at first to see Adrian, but then soured completely when she saw Heather. Chigusa didn't understand too well what that was about. She knew that Akashi lost to Heather and Cecilia, and Taylor got hurt from that match. But she didn't think there would be a grudge over it. Those things happened all the time. She also was clueless about Akashi and Taylor not being friends anymore either. It made sense, considering how they fought now, but even then it was weird...

Then again Heather's attitude was quite annoying as well. "Says the girl that lost twice to Megumi!" Chigusa said, sticking out her tongue. That'll shut Heather up. Akashi seemed eager to go in, and while normally Chigusa would've jumped at the chance to step in she didn't get in Akashi's way, raising her arms and stepping back to let the sumo do her thing. Adrian stepped in first, and Chigusa thought she was going to get a good show.

"Eh?" Chigusa said when Akashi suddenly tagged her in. That was the shortest time she had ever seen someone stay in the ring before tagging out! She realized Akashi didn't want to fight Adrian. That was bad, since if they were friends then she wouldn't be able to be counted on to fight her properly, and Chigusa didn't know Akashi well enough to be a truly effective tag team. Still, she wasn't going to complain, stepping back into the ring and raising her hand, letting the crowd cheer her on.

"Ready Adrian?" Chigusa asked, lowering her hips and getting into a fighting stance.

Adrian breathed an exagurrated sigh of relief as Akashi tagged out, seemingly looking to calm down a bit. While a cooler Akashi meant she wouldn't make as many mistakes: there was also less chance of just being straight bulldozed by the sumo. And she'd faced Chigusa before an won semi-cleanly. So this was a much better opening match up.

Of course it also meant that Adrian was probably going to throw out any goodwill she had built up with the Eclipse Idols in the opening exchange but that's the breaks in this business. "Always ready." She said, jumping up and down to warm up for a bit. always trying to be aware as to where she was in the ring. She could circle the idol but that would probably end with her trapped away from her own tag partner. Best to stay on this side of the ring.