Lucky Vs Lux 2: Oil Boxing!

Lucky only nodded weakly as Maddie said what they both were thinking, Lucky fighting for EVERY inch she could steal to get off the ground. "Crap was right." Because it was what they both felt like. There was no denying it. They couldn't if they wanted too! Lucky and Maddie had beaten the CRAP out of each other... The two girls were mere shallow (if beautiful) husks of what they once were, all that energy and spirit, excitement and pep beaten out of them like stuffing! What Lucky would give for a week to snuggle up with Maddie and rest... Just sleep and sleep and sleep away, her face nestled against her best friend's as their bodies recovered together... just as they took beatings together! Sakura longed for the infinite sleep that awaited her at the end of that match... but that time wasn't yet now. No, there was still one final thing to do in order to put the cherry atop this punch-drunk sundae!

"Th...... this is..... is it......... Maddie....." Lucky gasped softly, clawing, fighting for every bit of strength she could muster! By the grace of whatever divine entity that looks over this world, the cheerleader managed to climb up to her feet, her entire body swaying limply upon her soles like a paper-man before a strong wind. her soul seemed to linger half-way out of its shell, connected in only a few vital places with how colorless Lucky's complexion was... how sickly and frail she appeared... It was like Sakura teetered just one little jab from doom, just one tiny attack from complete defeat... Will certainly wasn't what drove her now... the poor girl had no idea what force motivated her to keep getting up to face her friend... Whatever it was... it rested so deep inside her, there was no words for it that her limited mind could construct... All she knew was that she had to win...

"MADDIEEEEEEEE!" Lucky ROARED, her scream coming from the deepest pits of her soul! With a quick BURST of movement from her legs, Sakura was SKATING towards her B.F.F.E., a single gloved fist LIFTED beside her face, cocked back and ready to throw!

If Maddie wasn't so delirious right now, she would have had to giggle at Lucky's adorable penchant for that anime-style yelling of her opponent's name as she charged. It was so cute, and absolutely the perfect little verbal tic for someone as vibrant—and as firmly entrenched in the manga and anime scene—as Lucky Sakura.

As it was, she would really have no idea exactly what Lucky was doing until she watched the tape a few days later, after the two of them had spent a hundred hours or so sleeping off this positively brutal fight. "Uuugh...this...th-this is it, Lucky..." Maddie groaned, not even hearing her friend say the same thing as they both climbed up onto their feet. Somehow, though she swayed like a toothpick in a windstorm, Maddie did not fall down. She took as deep a breath as her aching chest would allow and turned herself to face Lucky. Her tan body was covered in red and purple spots, her face was swollen, her eyes seemed to stare a few yards past Lucky rather than converging properly upon her...but Maddie would just NOT stop going until she won!

Letting out a wordless yell, Maddie surged forward with surprising strength, charging her B.F.F.F.E. as Lucky charged forward, too, pulling back her glove, ready for one last big impact! As soon as Lucky was within range, Maddie swung her glove straight at her friend's face, letting it fly true right into the center of those cute features, baby blue leather surely filling up Lucky's field of vision just as Lucky's incoming punch filled Maddie's! The two of them ready to decide the match with one more massive cross-counter!

Lucky didn't know what compelled her to move her head... It was likely the exhaustion of the fight, her neck too weak to keep gravity from pulling it down, the dipping her face at an angle as she charged in at Maddie, her fist shooting WILDLY towards her best friend's face! Sakura winced as she felt Maddie's leather glove GRIND against her cheek as it flew past, her exhaustion saving her at just the right time, only the side of her friend's fist running against her face as her own punch still SHOT on course! Lucky's eyes FLARED as the dreaded punch of her rival slipped over her shoulder, her own attack ROCKETING forward with a newfound burst of speed! She stepped into her punch, bringing it down at a lower angle to SLAM her friend's face down HARD into the floor, to defeat her FINALLY!

Even though this was only their second match, Lucky felt like they had been rivals forever... It was like they had been friend since grade-school, rivals since middle... and true competitors in high! She felt like that maybe, in a past life, they had shared this kind of bond with how strong it was now! Maddie was her inspiration, her... like... better HER in every way... and now, she was gonna bring her down! She was gonna show that she could hang with the very bestest of them!

"YAAAAAH" Sakura screamed as she put ALL SHE HAD and more into this final blow, CRACKING it across her Best Friend's jaw!

Oooooh, Maddie was definitely going to be a bit frustrated that the reason she lost this fight was that she was actually still STRONG enough to keep her head fixed looking forward as Lucky's punch flew in at her!

Her baby blue glove slid along Lucky's jaw, definitely bruising, but also not making a definite, powerful impact, while Lucky's punch, which came in at exactly the same speed, same angle, just from the opposite direction, managed to smash straight into the middle of Maddie's face, the Californian letting out a cut-off shriek as that leather filled up her nose and mouth and swallowed up the rest of the noise!

Meanwhile, a big, bright white light filled up all of her vision, as her eyes seemed to rattle around in her skull, losing focus, and she went spinning backwards, legs kicking up into the air, the oil now turning into an ice skating rink as she slid, did a flip, and landed upside-down on her face in the shallow, warm pool!

"ONE! TWO!"

Lucky would've let out a genuine, hearty laugh upon bearing witness to the complete cartoonish comedy that was Maddie's final fall... were it not for the fact it was AGONIZING to laugh! Sakura used the last little bitty fragments-of-fragments of her remaining energy to stumble to the ropes, her feet slipping out from under her just as she had reached them, the cheerleader barely even able to stand.... Her eye-lids drooped heavily as if she'd been fighting the big sleep for the past week, her body movements floppy and weak like a soft piece of unbaked dough!... But she was still up... still standing... Luck had supported her this time... and now MADDIE WAS DOWN! She had to have won, right....? PLEASE tell her she won... She... she couldn't go another round if her friend got up again...

THREE! FOUR!

Sakura's head dipped, her body slackened, almost taking her down to the floor too... before she SUDDENLY snapped awake, throwing herself back on the ropes before gravity could strengthen it's clutch on her!

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuugh.... Stay..... down......" Lucky moaned softly, lifting up her free glove to her cheek where Maddie had scuffed it, rubbing it weakly....

"P...please...?"

FIVE! SIX! SEVEN!

It looked like Lucky was about to fall down, too, like a party girl who had way too much to drink and then got smashed in the face by a frying pan. Maddie, if she were in any kind of a position to be watching what Lucky was doing right now, would have been really, desperately hoping that her cute bestie fell down, too, so that they would both be counted out, and the worst thing that would result would be a tie, and ideally they'd go to some sort of overtime which Maddie would win.

It didn't happen. When she began to pass out, the Japanese girl recovered fast enough to lunge for the ropes, desperately wrapping herself around them, hanging on for dear life. Maddie, meanwhile, had her ass pushed high up into the air, and, even as she began to breathe normally again, sucking air in and out hard, she was in no position to get up anytime in the near future.

"Uuuuuuuurrrrghhh..."

"EIGHT! NINE!"

At this point, Maddie felt a spark of consciousness return inside of her head. And an intense, blazing feeling of worry, as she tried to get her muscles to obey her, tried to get her limbs under control, only for the next word she heard to be...

"TEN!"

Lucky's heart, which was already pounding in her chest... HAMMERED with anticipation as each number was called... She counted them quietly through the sludge that was supposed to be her mind... Maddie had done a thorough job beating it into jelly... but she could still count NUMBERS, dang it! She could... even if it took her a little while longer to remember if 7 came after 8 or not!

...And then Salvation came... Sakura had never EVER heard a number as rewarding, exciting or as... as exhausting as Number 10... Lucky collapsed on her knees the INSTANT the ref had declared her victory by completing the count-down, flopping down face-first, ass-in-the-air, mirroring her friend... just a little bit later! Huffing and puffing, Sakura's eyes slowly rolled down closed, her lips curling into the smallest of smiles... Feeling Maddie's presence so close and with this match completed, the cheerleader and FINALLY accomplished a goal... one that, she felt at least, would mark her path in wrestling significantly...

SHE FINALLY BEAT MADDIE LUX!

LUCKY WINS! OBTAINED 10 KO's First!