Akino Sanada Vs. Chloe Ruiz

Chloe groaned out as she looked up upon Akino, gritting her teeth as she heard the girl's words and felt the motion she was bringing about, draping her legs over Chloe's body and pulling upon the arm of the Brazilian. The silver haired girl did not want to be locked in a cross armbar so very early in the match and quickly attempted to use her legs, pressing her feet down against the mat as she tried to get the help of those muscles to push herself upwards, while her free arm would attempt and help to push herself towards Akino and away from the mat in hopes of trying to roll Akino up.

If she could do so the girl would attempt to lock her hands in together, clasping them tightly to make sure she was slightly safe, as she attempted to keep Akino's frame rolled up with her shoulders pinned down against the match, trying her hand at an early roll up pin.

Akino had managed to lock in the cross armbar on her foe, and wrenched back on the arm to apply some painful pressure to it. However, Chloe was determined not to stay trapped in her clutches for long. And within moments, the Brazilian managed to reverse Akino’s submission hold by rolling over and turning it into a pinfall attempt on her!

“ONE!...” the ref shouted as the first count was made.

“Tch.” Akino muttered in mild annoyance, knowing she would have to break the hold to avoid being pinned early. Releasing Chloe’s arm, she brought one of her legs to kick the woman’s head, hopefully causing her to stumble back and break the pin attempt. Akino would then roll back before picking herself back up to her feet. “Hmph. Don’t think you’ll be able to keep me down so easily.”

Chloe grinned as she managed to reverse the hold on her foe, rolling her up into a ball before the ref girl came up and started to count. She doubted that she would pick up the win so easily but it was a good and effective way for her to make Akino let her go instead of trying to find a way to escape and potentially hurting her arm even more in the process. She gambled on the chance that Akino would rather abandon the hold than try and press even further on that advantage, while perhaps risking herself to lose if she did. Gambling against a Gamble in a sense.

Of course it seemed as if Akino would rather give up the hold than to suffer any longer count than a one. When her arm was released Chloe quickly tried to pull away from Akino, but as she did she took a light though somewhat annoying kick from the blue haired maid clad girl. She stumbled back a bit and shook her head before she saw her foe roll away and start to pick herself up. Chloe decided that she had to take this opportunity regardless if her head felt a little bit dizzy after that kick.

The Brazilian opted to attempt and rush forward towards Akino, trying to catch the girl just as she got up to her feet. The white haired girl would attempt to come in as a rocket and in the final moment attempt to drop down low with her feet extended before, going in for somewhat of a sliding tackle...or in wrestling terms it would be a low dropkick, attempting to catch Akino right on her knees and take the girl down onto the mat with a bit of a fast paced action heavy move.

Akino managed to kick out of the pin and create some distance between her and her opponent, allowing her enough time to start getting to her feet. She hadn’t been able to keep her hold moments ago locked in for long, but inflicting a bit of damage here in the early goings was still a good start.

However, putting as much distance between them as Akino did might not have been the best idea. The Japanese native had momentarily forgotten about Chloe’s quickness, which the Brazilian put to effective use at the first opportunity as she dashed across the ring toward Akino.

The blue haired woman was just about to her feet when... *BANG* Chloe crashed into Akino’s legs with the sliding dropkick. “Agh!” she gasped out as her legs were driven right out from under her, before dropping onto the canvas. “Ugh. Should’ve seen that coming...” she muttered to herself, bringing a hand over one of her knees.

The quickness of Chloe managed to pay her some favor as she took to speed and smacked her feet into Akino's knees and drove the blue haired girl down with a impact-full low drop kick. Now that she had managed to get the advantage over the maid clad wrestler she now had to find a way to keep it. Following the dropkick the white haired girl would attempt to move up towards her feet with a swift kip-up. " You really should have."

After she got up towards her feet the Brazilian would attempt and throw herself forward and jump up, attempting to flip in the air with her right leg stretched out as she'd attempt to have it crash down onto Akino for a flip flip legdrop, attempting to have her legs crash down over Akino's neck in a painful manner and perhaps get a bit of an upperhand against her tough foe.

Any wrestler with any sense knew the last thing you want to do against a fast opponent like this was to give them room to run around, but that was exactly what Akino had done, and now she was paying the price for her mistake. And now with aching knees, she began trying to pull herself back up.

The speedy Brazilian was starting to pick up some momentum as she sprung back up to her feet following her low dropkick. Akino had only made it up to her hands and knees by this point, but Chloe made sure that was as far as she’d get, and Akino suddenly felt her foe’s leg come down on her neck like a falling guillotine blade, driving her head down onto the mat. “Ungh!” she grunted out in pain upon impact, putting her hands over her aching skull and rolling aside.

Chloe had managed to turn things around rather well and it was paying off immensely, especially when speaking of her last two moves on the blue haired  one eyed beauty. Not only had she taken the girl down but she had gotten the chance to use a strong and impactful legdrop thanks to her flip. It was a given that she was fast with her frame, but she was also very athletic. Chloe's greatest prowess was probably her speed, if not then her ability to perform stunt like jumps with precision with ease. Something as simple as a speedy front flip was in no ways difficult for her to do and it was paying off her like in many matches before, momentum weight and so on added to each of her high altitude and medium altitude moves.

After the guillotine like drop down against Akino's frame, the white haired tanned skinned girl would quickly try and proceed to crawl towards where Akino was rolling aside to. If she could catch up then the Brazilian would quickly attempt to move her up into a seated position, facing the girl's back as she'd try and snake her legs up in under the maid clad wrestler's armpits and lock them up around and behind her head, interlocking her feet and ankles to try and lock in a lotus lock submission hold upon the girl. " Should you have seen this coming too. Eh, caxia ? "  

Akino knew she’d be reprimanding herself later for leaving herself as open as she had to Chloe’s offensive, but the time for that would come later. For now, she just needed to find some way to slow down her opponent’s momentum. Once she could find a way to keep the Brazilian grounded again, she’d be much more comfortable with things in this match.

But almost ironically, Chloe seemed to have a similar gameplan in mind, at least for the moment. As soon as Akino stopped rolling, her quick foe was right there, setting her up into a sitting position and snaking her legs under the Japanese woman’s arms and locking them together behind her neck with a lotus lock!

“Argh!” she shouted and groaned, the pain of the hold reflecting well in her expression as she instinctively kicked her legs around in response. “Urgh... Smartass.” she grunted out, forcing a grin as she spoke. The ropes were close, but Akino opted to try to escape using a different method, hoping to demonstrate why playing a game of submissions with Akino usually wasn’t a good idea. Still grunting in pain as she moved, the blue haired woman tried to bring her hands up to grab Chloe’s feet before attempting to pull them apart.

If she got that far, she’d then plant her own feet on the mat and push backward, attempting to roll Chloe onto her back. It might seem as if she were trying to turn this into a pin attempt, and the ref would even move into position to start counting. But Akino had other plans, and from there would try to push up to a standing position while holding Chloe’s legs, before attempting to turn around in order to roll the Brazilian onto her stomach while pushing her legs forward in a modified version of a boston crab.

Now that she had managed to take control of the match and was able to mess with the blue haired maid a bit, Chloe took every moment she could to do so. As her legs pressed tightly against the girl's body, pushing her shoulder blades together and bending her neck downwards to put even more pain on the girl's elbow joints, all for the purpose of paining Akino as much as she felt like she could. It was a rather good hold, the Lotus lock and Chloe herself was by no means a slouch when it came to submission holds. While her forte was high flying and fast paced action and striking, she was skilled enough to be considered deadly when it came to submission holds.

Sadly for her, her opponent was also very good with such things. Perhaps even better than Chloe in some ways, and she was starting to show that as the blue haired maid started to move around, her words of cause doing nothing but widening the white haired girl's grin. All up to the point when Chloe started to be pushed back towards the mat, pressing the Brazilian's back down against the mat. What came to follow was even more of Akino pushing her back and soon Chloe's feet were pulled apart from the back of Akino's head.

Chloe's body was forced to flip over onto her front laying with her chest and side of her face pressed down against the mat as Akino stood looming over her with those legs held tightly in the modified boston crab like hold. " Aaagh!" Chloe yelled out as she flailed around with her arms a bit, caught by surprise of the girl's rather smooth transition. " Ow ow ow ow"

Akino might not be as quick as Chloe, or capable of flying around the ring like she could, but when it came to submission holds there were few wrestlers the blue haired woman couldn't hang with. And that talent came in quite handy as Akino managed to reverse Chloe's hold in order to lock in one of her own.

And on top of locking her Brazilian adversary in the modified boston crab, she'd been able to get in excellent position to work over the high flyer's most valuable assets, her legs. Chloe's lotus lock had put a good strain on Akino's arms, however, and it had taken a good amount of effort to reverse it as she had. At the moment, Akino's arms likely wouldn't be able to hold Chloe's legs like this for long. Time for a transition.

Once she felt her grip starting to slip, Akino would release one of Chloe's legs, while holding onto the other. She'd then attempt to wrap her legs around that leg to keep it trapped, while laying over Chloe's back and snaking her arms around her foe's head to synch in an STF. This wouldn't take all the burden off of Akino's arms, but it should at least alleviate it some. "Ready to give up yet?" she asked, though she had a good feeling it'd be far too soon to get a submission out of this woman.