Tomomi Watanabe vs Cassie Elliot

"Aaahh!"

The pain and vulnerability in Cassie's scream as her head was yanked back turned to anger and she instinctively protected her neck, keeping her forearms underneath Tomomi's arm to keep her from being able to constrict her neck. She'd had just about enough of Tomomi's apologies. If she wanted to be rough, that was her business, but she didn't have to keep apologizing to Cassie as if she knew Cassie couldn't handle it.

She seized Tomomi's wrist, and jerked it down, twisting her body and kicking up her hips to fling the idol off and put her on her back.

Tomomi grunted as Cassie's arms got in the way of her headlock. She grunted and tried to lock in a different hold to hurt Cassie, but then Cassie grabbed onto her wrist before she could pull her arm away. Cassie pushed her hips up to force Tomomi up off the mat, and then twisting hard to the side to fling Tomomi in a flip over Cassie's shoulder! The idol quickly rolled to pull herself out of Cassie's way, attempting to wrench her arm out of Cassie's grasp before the girl could pull Tomomi's body in to several painful grapples. No doubt Cassie was pissed now that Tomomi was being so rough. She didn't want to face Cassie's wrath.

Cassie clutched her aching arms against her chest, still grimacing in pain. She let Tomomi have her arm back without a fight, she would've won it anyway, and instead she rose up to her feet and kicked a boot straight out into the idol's face.

"Ha!" She cried.

Tomomi had only barely begun to get up when Cassie came at her again. The girl was feisty to be sure, still spry after this long of a match. The idol barely got a hand up to block the worst of the kick. Cassie's soft boot smashed Tomomi's arm against her face and sent the idol tumbling backwards onto her back, stunned once more. Tomomi shook her head and blinked hard as the glare of the ring lights blinded her. This was bad. Why was she getting beat up when Cassie had just endured a ceiling hold? She didn't realize how exhausting holding Cassie up for that long had been, and even if Cassie's muscles were sore Tomomi's were ready to just give out. The idol rolled over to try and get to her feet before Cassie could jump on her and twist her into some painful submission.

Cassie drew deep, measured breaths and tried to stay focused. She stalked around Tomomi, still clutching her aching arms against her chest. She waited, picked the angle and the moment, and as Tomomi was struggling to her feet she stepped in again and kicked out with the heel of her boot at Tomomi's face.

Tomomi wasn't expecting a kick. She had her arms in a defensive position to guard against grapples, which was entirely useless for blocking a kick coming at her face. Cassie's soft boot shot through her arms and smashed into her cheek. The blow made Tomomi's head spin as it knocked her onto her back once more. Tomomi groaned. She had taken several kicks to the head and it was all adding up. She groaned, shaking her head. The idol tried to push up to a sitting position before Cassie could get to her again. The girl looked hurt with the way she hugged her body. Tomomi knew that if she could get up she could win, but would Cassie let her?

Cassie watched Tomomi fall back on the mat again, and while she would normally be automatically contrite, this time she felt nothing. If she was ever going to be respected as a fighter, and not just someone who knew a lot of submission holds, she had to take it, and with the idol finally down, she smelled blood.

As Tomomi sat up, Cassie rushed in again, this time like she was kicking a field goal, swinging her boot to slam squarely into Tomomi's face.

Tomomi didn't understand why Cassie was using kicks instead of grappling. The girl's blows hurt quite a bit to the rattled and tired idol, but even after taking those devastating blows she wasn't going down. If Cassie had decided to lock in a painful grapple Tomomi would be finished, since the idol knew she wasn't as good as Cassie. The dazed idol was just sitting up when Cassie came running in. Her foot was cocked back, aiming a kick directly at Tomomi's face. Tomomi knew that if it hit, she would be knocked out.

"Ah!" Tomomi gasped as she flopped off to the side to make Cassie's kick hit nothing. But the idol wasn't done yet. She quickly kicked both her legs up around Cassie's ankle, before rolling over onto her back. Her legs rolled with her as she tried to use Cassie's momentum against her to send the Canadian down to her front with a drop-toe hold!

Cassie's leg buckled involuntarily and she flopped face-first, bouncing her face off the mat on landing. She groaned, and bend one leg up to one side and brought a hand to cover her face. She ached, she was tired, and worst of all she wasn't sure she would beat Tomomi.

In an effort to stay in the match, she pushed herself onto her side and looked down through bleary eyes to find Tomomi. She really didn't want to have her hair pulled and get hit some more.

After the drop toe Tomomi knew she had a chance to end this. Tomomi was weak and tired and sore but Cassie certainly looked like she felt worse with the way she lay there covering her face. The idol pushed herself up to a sitting position as Cassie rolled onto her side. They made eye contact. Tomomi's eyes were quite unfocused due to how dazed she was after those kicks, but she didn't have the bleary tiredness evident in Cassie's gaze. The girl was close to being finished. All she had to do was get it done.

Tomomi knew that pinning Cassie was out of the question. The girl was stubborn and still in the fight, given how she was trying to get up. Tomomi had to make her submit. The idol crawled over to grab one of Cassie's legs. If she was successful and Cassie doesn't fight back, Tomomi would attempt to lay the leg over her shoulder and slowly start standing up, forcing Cassie's back to bend in the wrong direction as she tried to put the girl through a stretch muffler!