Last Woman Standing: Adrian vs Natasha Grudge Match

Last Woman Standing
Rules and Victory conditions: No pinfalls/submissions/DQs. To win you must beat your opponent until they are unable to stand for a count of 10.

[size=200:2cque64f]Adrian Kytes


[size=200:2cque64f]VS

[size=200:2cque64f]Natasha Loclear


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Lacing up her boots, Adrian took a big sigh as she looked up to see a small screen. Natasha Loclear against Adrian Kytes. A match she had pretty much demanded and at the same time was dreading. The last match had taken it's toll on her body and her psyche, and she initially didn't think she'd ever be prepared for this match. Natasha just seemed so... ahead of everything. Nothing ever seemed to faze her, get under her skin. Even when Adrian briefly thought she was better, vaulting over the top rope in a trouser suit with a bad leg to take out her and another woman, "Rain" seemed to find just the way to make her miserable again, goading her into a match that she initially thought she'd have no chance in.

Natasha was naturally stronger, seemed to be just as fast and had a much more extensive training early in life, tutoring under martial arts masters on her dad's pay whereas Adrian had to scrounge up the money just to get to a low level wrestling school, barely making enough as a commissioned designer to make it day to day. She had every advantage, even the match type was probably in her favour. Despite it being no DQ which would in theory allow Adrian to use her full arsenal of tricks and traps without having to care about positioning the ref in the right place, most of her tricks were designed to be a quick turn-around, something she could use to disable someone long enough for her to roll them up and guarantee the pin with a handful of tights, not outright KO someone. And Natasha's skills at leg submissions would probably allow her to pick up an easy win that way, just horribly ruin Adrian's knee again like it was no big deal and boom, 2 out of 2 for the French-Russian girl.

Drastic times had called for drastic measures however and Adrian went to the only other person who had managed to really get under her skin like that, the last person she had actively wished harm upon for various slights, Taylor Parker. The training from her had probably been some of the most obviously intensive stuff she'd done. Dawn to Dusk, slowly but surely, she got herself back from what could have been an emotional brink.

Her leg had fully healed, she could barely even feel it, and she felt somewhat... confident going back into this match. Not as cocky as she was the first time she faced Natasha where she barely registered her until it was way too late, but she knew she could win this. And she'd do it without her normal tricks too. Her loaded elbow pad was back at the apartment, there were no mist capsules in her wrist bands, no flash paper on her waist, she was going to do this the hard way. Prove to everyone that she was more than cheap tricks.

Putting the finishing touches to her attire, she signaled the music guy to cue up [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOUtdYKLYBg:2cque64f]her theme[/url:2cque64f], and then hit the ring: trying to stay in the zone and not let the fans get to her for once. Heck maybe it'd work at getting her boos better, she wasn't even dignifying them with an outburst of douchebaggery this time.

While Adrian was off in another locker room dwelling on the past and making excuses for why she had lost her first match with Natasha, the french beauty was in her own locker room thinking only of the task at hand and that was finding a way to leave the arena that night the winner yet again. A last woman standing match really wasn't something she would normally have agreed to take part in, but Adrian and Reika's constant belittling of her had gotten the better of Natasha who had challenged Adrian on the spot, and while she had regretted losing her temper afterward she was not about to back out of any type of match, even this one.

Having won their first encounter back at the Temple Games Natasha had hardly thought upon the match at all, after all she had been in so many matches in such a short span of time that most of them had blended together in her mind into one really long match, the only ones which held a special place in her memory being her ladder match with Heather and the sauna match with Natalia. She thought about Adrian about as much as she thought about their match itself, thinking back on the cosplayer as she finished slipping on her boots Natasha remembered a girl who was resilient and strong willed, but also one who suffered from an inferiority complex and was willing to do whatever it took to win, relying on cheating when she really didn't even need to. Then as her mind drifted to the night Adrian had been running her mouth she also recalled her thoughts at the time, that Adrian was just another arrogant AFW veteran who looked down on her for her upbringing, as if Natasha should be ashamed of growing up as an heiress.

Natasha pushed the woman from her thoughts in order to finish changing into her ring attire, pulling on her last boot before strolling over to the mirror to make sure nothing was out of place. Considering the nature of the match she had chosen to go with the outfit of hers which showed the least skin, her chest and arms completely covered while her skirt was cut all the way up her thigh giving her full use of her powerful legs for kicks. She could faintly hear music playing off in the building somewhere and figured it must have been Adrian's entrance, making her way from the locker room down to the area directly behind the entrance where she watched the cosplayer's entrance on the monitors. As usual the fans showed their opinion of Adrian and her cheap tricks with their loud boos, Natasha shaking her head as she believed Adrian had brought that all upon herself, which for most of the so called heels in the AFW was not a problem but Adrian seemed to take it all personally, as if she had done nothing to deserve any of it.

"Didn't I tell you last time Adrian, less dirty tricks and they wouldn't boo so much." She said out loud speaking to no one but herself, whether or not she had actually said something like that was up for debate but she felt it was something she would say.

Once Adrian had made it to the ring Natasha signaled for her own entrance to begin, the lights of the building cutting out only to be replaced by a thousand LED lights which turned the ceiling into the night sky. Water began to flow down over the entrance in a waterfall, the tempo of Natasha's music beginning to pick up and once the beat truly dropped the water would part revealing Natasha ready to go. Making her way to the ring she received a very different reaction, the fans chanting her name and cheering for her, Natasha trying to repay them by clapping the hands of as many of them as she could while heading for the ring, climbing through the ropes to come face to face with Adrian for the first time since the challenge had been made.

"I hope the time between now and our last meeting has cooled your head Adrian, or do you still blame me for everything thats wrong in your world?"

"Keep it up! I get paid more the more boos I get. You're supporting my WiiU fund!" Adrian casually told the jeering audience as she leaned back in the corner, waiting for Natasha to make her entrance as she rolled her head around, trying to stretch her neck for a bit. Whoever won this match it wasn't going to be pretty so she was planning on using every bit of time she had before the opening bell to make sure she wasn't handicapping herself by being all stiff. She needed to be calm, calm and focused, focused and calm, and so on.

Calmness didn't hold out very long, as Natasha made her admittedly impressive entrance the cosplayer could feel her teeth grit subconsciously, and the serious expression devolved into a simple scowl as Rain slapped hands with the many fans who probably wanted a lot more than a hi-5 from her. If I let her enter the ring I'm passing up the initiative, I've never won the opening exchange in a match and I am not getting into a lock up with her straight away. She thought, tempted to just boot her in the face while she was stepping through the ropes. Not give Natasha the chance to get going in the match, or allow her to taunt her way back into Adrian's psyche.

Gripping the top rope tightly to preemptively stop herself from taking the dirty option she waited in a stoic silence for the French woman to get into the ring. "I'm fine, thank you very much." She said darkly as she tapped her foot waiting for the match to officially start.

As Natasha entered the ring she couldn't help but notice that the woman actually allowed her to enter without attacking the french woman, Natasha having half expected to be kicked in the head the very moment she poked her head between the ropes. After everything Adrian had spat at her during their last encounter this was quite curious to Natasha who raised her right eyebrow upon looking into the woman's eyes, she could tell Adrian was in fact still quite furious with her but even so no attempt to get the jump on her came, only making Natasha even more surprised and intrigued by this development.

"Shes probably trying to keep a cool head unlike last time where she lost it, though its still odd she hasn't attacked me yet." Natasha thought to herself while listening to Adrian reply to her question, the girl's voice only confirming she was still quite bitter about losing to her before. Glancing down at the woman's tapping foot she smiled faintly, it seemed Adrian was far more eager for this match than she was though that didn't surprise her, after all it was Adrian who felt she had something to prove as Natasha had already beaten the girl once and felt she could do so again.

"You seem confident Adrian, been training have we?" Natasha said while crossing her arms beneath her breasts, lifting them ever so slightly to tease the, in comparison, flat chested cosplayer.

"Duh." Adrian said simply, staring a hole in Natasha. Of course she had been training! She wasn't injured to the point of being in a wheelchair for months so of course she'd got out to the gym in between physiotherapy sessions, but she doubted that the French woman meant the normal kind of training that everyone was supposed to do. She probably meant her trip to Kyoto for training with Taylor or something like that, something extra that she'd hoped to give her an edge in this match. "Unlike you, the rest of us have to work our asses off." She said, trying to sound as patronizing as possible before the bell rung.

The second it did, she dashed forward, trying to close the gap between the two but didn't go to make an attack of her own, trying to fake out a more reckless charge and draw a response. Trying to make Natasha blink first.

Adrian hadn't taken her eyes off of Natasha not just since she entered the ring, but she had noticed the woman glaring at her from the very moment she exited the backstage area. While she hadn't thought much of Adrian while the girl was away she was beginning to realize the opposite had been true for her, Adrian must have been thinking of that loss over and over ever since that night, which likely meant she had been training harder than ever hoping to beat her tonight. At least thats what she suspected, it was also quite possible Adrian had simply languished in her anger all the time she was injured and was betting on that to bring her a win tonight.

"I am so tired of hearing you say that Adrian, I train just as hard as anyone else, your jealousy of my body and upbringing is getting quite old." Natasha replied coldly before the bell rang signaling the match had begun. As Adrian charged her Natasha could see that for all her talk she was the same person as before, but she wasn't going to try anything flashy and instead charged right towards Adrian looking to drive her fist into the girl's stomach.

Adrian saw that Natasha was heading on for a head on collision with the former cosplayer, probably with her own trick in mind. Keeping her eye line steady at Natasha's shoulders, trying to see any movement that didn't sync up with the run. A sudden halt or trying to aim a shot, There! Right shoulder! she realized, eyes shooting wide as she tried to react in time, dropping down as she tried to slide between Natasha's legs like a baseball player trying to get to home plate, the jumping up behind her to catch her in a waist lock.

Natasha was a trained hand to hand fighter and wouldn't have expected Adrian to see through her moves but thats exactly what it seemed the smaller girl had done as she dropped down to avoid the punch altogether. Not letting herself get thrown off her game from just a single missed attack Natasha looked down to see Adrian trying to slide through her legs of all things, a move which put the girl at quite the disadvantage however as it allowed Natasha to simply drop down and drive her knees into the woman's stomach. "Where are you going Adrian?" She would call out before moving to deliver a quick strike to Adrian's head, a second and even third to follow if the first landed as planned.

Although Adrian had seen through Natasha's move, she hadn't exactly picked the best way to go about countering it and turning into her own advantage. Although she was a fast runner, sliding brought friction into play and the mat wasn't exactly the slipperiest of surfaces. Well, not before it got covered in blood sweat and tears anyway. They clean the mats after every match. "Gah!" Adrian let out as Natasha's knees drove into her gut. This was exactly what she didn't want to happen early on, trapped underneath Natasha and giving her free reign to rain punishment straight down on her.

Trying to tank the blows to her face, she reached up to loop her arm over the French woman's head, coiling around her neck while she placed her feet firmly on the mat. To get her off, she tried to bridge up and roll, bringing Natasha over the top using her own arm as a pivot.

Natasha wasn't surprised to see Adrian underestimating her once again, despite what the woman had claimed it seemed she hadn't truly learned anything from their last match after all. With Adrian pinned down beneath her knees Natasha wasted little time in taking full advantage of the situation, going with speed more than power as she didn't pull her arms back before hitting the woman's face with a few open palm strikes.

"You didn't learn anything did you Adrian?" Natasha said through gritted teeth before the smaller woman would surprise her by looping an arm around Natasha's neck, the blue haired woman reaching up to grab the arm with both hands trying to pry it free from her neck. Adrian would shoot her hips up and roll to the side in an instant, bringing Natasha along for the ride as she would end up on her back, still tugging upon that arm to free herself.