Lucky vs. Jinx 2: Unexpected Difficulties

Lucky clutched at the darker hands that DUG into her pure, soft and white mane as Jinx DRAGGED her right over to where SHE didn't want to be! It would've been okay if she just... skipped to the suplex over the chair... Not because it wouldn't hurt quite as much... but because she knew that if any of her stuff fell, she knew it would've been okay! Plushies were made gravity-resistant after all! But no... Even with her head ducked low, with Jinx dragging her around, Lucky could sense a dark, malicious aura wrapped around her darker counterpart... a feeling that scared Sakura FAR more then having her head being SHOVED into the side of her cupboard!

...And slammed into it she was!

Lucky let out a soft cry of PAIN as her body BUCKLED against the heavy-set wooden structure, the cupboard shaking... shuttering, as if it were threatening to fall over! What was worse... was that almost everything inside... did. Even as Sakura dropped to her hands and knees, eyes filled with tears after having her head driven into what was effectively a wall, Lucky's eyes shot up... watching as little bitty statues of her favorite characters fell from all the shelves... and onto the hard, wooden, uncarpeted floor... It was like everything was happening in slow motion, Sakura watching as her precious models falling from their appointed perches, the sharper and thinner edges chipping and SHATTERING upon the ground... her heart ... doing very much the same....

"N....No.... n....not Mitsu-chan...." Lucky whispered shakily, tears rolling down her cheeks... NOT ONLY was a Mitsu-chan figure a small MIRACLE to get a hold of... but it was one of her very bestest, most prized possessions, a prize among prizes... and there was no shortage of them SHATTERING into little ceramic bits... as she watched in horror! Lucky didn't even notice Jinx's cruel, ugly jab at her expense... and so, the cat girl responded with an utterly brutal suplex, Lucky WHACKING her head on the arm of the sofa as she fell...the cheerleader slumping HARSHLY on her back... her skull supported by the edge of the chair... Her eyes just barely open still remained locked on the fallen figures. Her arm limply and weakly raised up across her chest... clutching at the place where her heart should be, bunching up her shirt in her fingers as if someone had stabbed her right around there.

"...W.....why......" She whispered... her voice barely existent.

Lucky's vast collection of baubles and toys only served to annoy her further. It all stemmed back to one thing. Lucky wasn't better than her. She thought that deep down… so why did she keep losing to her? This spunky little cheerleader girl who was far too nice, far too cutesy for the business of combat spots. The girl still had toys all over her apartment for heaven's sake… and jinx had lost to her. Not once… but twice now. It made her positively seethe with rage to know someone this soft had bested her time and time again.

Not today though. She wasn't going to let it happen again.

"What was that? Huh? Why?" She hissed, moving from a crouch to fully stand, walking slowly around where Lucky lay draped over the arm of the furnishing. She reached out, gliding her fingers through familiar silly strands of platinum before tightening and clenching on a was of Sakura's hair. With a hard yank she pulled the other woman's head up enough to glare down at her with narrowed Amber eyes.

"Because I am better… stronger… faster… smarter…" her brow furrow e deeply, lip quivering with each word as if she was assuring herself just as much as she was dictating it to Lucky. Before she finished her full thought in the matter she abruptly jerked backwards, dragging Lucky along with her to throw the girl off the couch and onto the floor where she would finally let go.

"And now I am going to prove it." The lithe dark skinned girl turn d slowly, leaning up against the couch. She lifted her foot, working the laces of her boots loose to kick off one then tug off the other and toss them aside. Much better. She felt she could move again without those clunky things on.

The lack of empathy in Jinx's voice was stunning to Sakura, almost to the point that she couldn't believe it was possible... H-how could she?? She had been so sure that there was goodness within her, that there was a woman in there she could really like... perhaps even... ya know... REALLY care about! In the two times they fought, Jinx had always started out with a harsh, brusque personality BUT... if you dug down deep enough... she could find something sweeter, gentler, a girl who wanted to be loved and cuddled and stuff... At least... that's what she thought she saw...

...Felt...

...Loved...

Now, watching as some of her most prized possessions were shattered upon the floor, Jinx's hands practically trying to SCALP her by clutching at her silver hair like it were her own personal point of leverage, her voice cutting through the air like a sharp, scalding-hot blade...

She... she was doubting that any of that was REAL! Sakura stared, hopelessly lost and disoriented, into those cold, yellow eyes as Jinx JERKED her up to face her, the cheerleader's shattered heart seeming to sink deeper and deeper as she explained just WHY she was doing this...

Because of of strength.

Because of her superior speed.

Because she COULD.

All callow, selfish reasons of a girl who couldn't stand losing... A girl who couldn't stand being number two to someone like HER for any length of time. Lucky might've been a cutesy, bubbly and sweet girl... but she wasn't the dimwit that usually came with these attributes. She could read Jinx like a book now, looking back on the way she talked, how she fought... From the two other fights she had with her already! Lucky could only look on in disappointment and despair... because she didn't see it... She could have if she wanted too but she DIDN'T! She wanted to see her as like her...  DIFFERENT, to be sure... but... birds of a feather...

Now she was paying for that. Paying for it with her prized statuettes... With this utterly humiliating and disheartening beat-down in her own home... And with her faith in Jinx being completely shattered.

With a mighty HEAVE, Jinx THREW lucky off the arm of the chair she was pressed against, being TOSSED to the floor with a loud *THUMP!* She'd nearly been tossed on her coffee-table, so close, in fact, that her elbow WHACKED it on the way down, leaving Sakura a whimpering, sobbing mess on the floor... As Jinx scattered her shoes all over her home in utter disrespect, the cheerleader slowly rising up on her forearms and knees, staring at the bare feet of her attacker...

Lucky's eyes slowly hardened, the tears stopped flowing, her sorrowful, tearful expression toughening into something resembling... baleful... She broke her heart... destroyed her precious figurines... practically laughed in her face as she brought chaos and disorder to Sakura's sanctuary of peace, respite and joy...

...Lucky hated to be mad at people. It left her a sobbing, crying mess after the rush of anger and hostility went away... and the realization of what she said or did set in. She always wanted to be the epitome of happiness but...

Jinx took that away...

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Lucky SCREAMED, springing up and LUNGING at Jinx, intent on wrapping her arms around Jinx's pelvis and DRAGGING HER to the ground underneath her!

Jinx had come here with vicious intent. Wanting to crush Lucky under her heel, obliterate her cute little face and snuff out all that optimism the girl was always spouting. She told herself it was because she was better. She believed that. It was insulting to lose to someone that was so… beneath her. So she had made a scheme to end all of that by tearing everything Lucky was down. This was the only way to break her, make her someone else that wasn’t the girl she found herself fantasizing about when she was alone at night. Lucky had stolen a part of her heart and she despised that weakness it left within her.

“What’s the matter marshmellow?” Jinx tilted her head slightly to the side, glouring down at her foe with a smug satisfaction. Just looking at Lucky at her feet on her hands and knees felt right, like she was finally starting to put this strange puzzle of a relationship the two of them had back together. The status quo was being maintained, as it should be.

Jinx pressed a closed fist into her palm, driving her knuckles in enough to allow them to audibly pop as she waited for Lucky to rise, waiting to see her face again before going back in to knock her head off. She gave the coffee table a shove with her foot, nudging it aside to give her more room to work. Maybe she would put Lucky through that next… Her eyes lifted from the furniture, starting to absentmindedly look around the quaint little apartment… It suited Lucky.

Her ears perked at the sudden screams before her, looking down just in time to be bum rushed by Lucky. Staggering backwards she was dragged to the ground, cracking her shoulder against the couch before hitting the floor hard. Her moment of reflection had been shattered, thrown right back into the fight at hand. She reached out, trying to grab hold of Sakura to force the two of them roughly apart with a hiss.

Jinx tried to force them apart but Sakura wouldn't let it happen so easily, the cheerleader grabbing onto Jinx's top, her nails sinking into the fabric, providing her a much deeper grip! With each shove Jinx tried, she only succeeded in tearing more and more of her overalls and shirt, the white-haired woman GLARING down at her as she PINNED Jinx beneath her!

"YOU! YOU'RE WHATS WRONG!" Lucky cried, grabbing Jinx by her shoulders and lifting her up... only to SLAM her back down into the floor... It was almost as if the cheerleader wanted to shake some sense into her, to get her to SEE what she was doing... a hopeful interpretation given the ANGER the flowed through Lucky's veins! "I've been NICE to you! I wanted to be your friend! I... I LIKED you, Jinx! You... you didn't have to do this... YOU DiDN'T HAVE TO HURT ME!" One of Sakura's hands shot up from her counterpart, clutching at her chest where her broken-heart lay... It hurt so much, ached as each pulse sent wave after wave of regret through her system... Jinx glared up at her, hissing and spitting like a stupid entitled cat being told off for how bad she'd been, trying desperately to throw her counterpart off of her...

...Didn't she feel anything...? DIDN'T SHE CARE!?

The thought of that answer being anything but 'Yes' brought fresh tears to Lucky's eyes... rolling down her cheeks.

"I.... You.... I CAN'T STAND YOU!" Sakura screamed again, obvious pain in her voice! Sakura would then attempt to stand with Jinx in her grip... and THROW her back onto the couch, cushions softening her fall, should it follow through!

Jinx pushed at Lucky, starting to force herself upright before the cheerleader asserted her weight and leverage, driving her back to the floor with a grunt. The two locked steely eyed looks, though some of the malice seemed to break away from Jinx's Amber eyes when she saw the vitriolic glare from the normally jovial Sakura. She didn't fight being held down, at a loss for words in the moment… it didn't last long once Lucky had started to pour her heart out.

"What?! Me?! Are you kidding?!" She jerked violently in Lucky's grasp being slammed back into the floor. Her own hand shot up, grabbing the other woman by the collar of her shirt to keep them locked in. The referee looked on awkwardly, clearly this sort of emotional exchange was not what she signs sup for.

"You sucked up to me just so you could beat me! This is proof! This is who you really are under all that fluff, see? I was right all along!" Jinx kicked her feet, bucking as Lucky balanced on top of her to keep her to the floor. Her free hand whipped around, attempting to swing her nails across the other woman wherever she could hit.

Jinx helped as she was suddenly yanked upright by Lucky, still holding firm onto the other girls shirt. She growled, her Sharpe canines on full display. Just as she opened her mouth to say something in response Lunch gave her a hard shove, sending her backwards into the side of the couch.

Her legs hit the arm of the couch hard, enough to send her flipping backwards into a tumble. She flopped hard onto the cushions sending a Cascade of loose pillows flying as she was awkwardly propped up onto her head and shoulders, backside in the air. She let out a frustrated yell, flopping violently like a fish out of water until she was flat on her face on the couch.

Pushing herself up on all fours she inches to the car end of the couch, glaring at Lucky with a stiff lower lip. "Liked me? You said you luuuuuuved me." She put on a mocking cutesy tone, batting her eyelashes at Lucky before making a "bleh" face. "Liar! Big fat fatty fat liar!" She scooped up a couch cushions, hucking it across the way at Lucky, then another!

"How many people have you said that to, huh? You know other matches you have get televised, right?" Jinx rocked back onto the balls of her feet, ready to pounce at any moment. Her head tilted to the side with a feline smirk, braid hanging loosely over one shoulder. "I'm not stupid! Do you think I'm stupid?!"

Lucky's words bounced RIGHT off of Jinx like a kid's rubber ball against a hard surface, the woman firing RIGHT back with accusations of dishonesty! The black-cat grabbed at Sakura's shirt, DRAGGING her down so that they were forehead to forehead while she screamed her counter-points in Sakura's face! Just seeing the cheerleader mad for her first time appeared to justify her disgust for the cheerleader based on the things she said, remarking how all her bubbliness, her happiness, all of it was FAKE and that THIS was the true cheerleader! After all, all of those things were only tools she used to get at Jinx, to control her, to win their battles because... WHY WOULDN'T she? They worked once already, why wouldn't it work a second time?

This was the kind of woman Jinx apparently saw in Lucky... and that conclusion didn't please Lucky one BIT! Jinx swung her nails at her, trying to claw at her lighter counterpart wherever she could, harsh scratches raking along her arms and down her sides, threatening to rend right through the soft fabric of her shirt, potentially even drawing blood if she scratched hard enough! In response...? Lucky picked her up and THREW her into the couch, actually trying to toss her into the cushions rather than the harder arms or back... though any damage she sustained from her disgraceful landing couldn't have been avoided.

Sakura's breathing was heavy, her eyes... more hurt than enraged, Sakura wincing ever so slightly as she felt the shattered pieces of her collectables around her toes and heels! Why... WHY!? Why would Jinx ever see her like this!? What had she ever done to hurt her to the point she'd see her like some sort of manipulative... bad person!? She'd soon find out... Dropping on all fours like the cat she emulated, Jinx twisted her words around, making them seem lesser than Sakura could've intended! Blinking slowly, the cheerleader slowly realized what'd been eating at Jinx...

"...Jinx... I..." A pillow came HARD and fast, Sakura barely bringing her hands up in time to deflect the oncoming cushion, sending it flying off to the side but, in her surprise, sent her stumbling back! Another came soon after, striking Lucky hard in the face, knocking her on her butt with a loud *THUMP!" A soft whimper escaped Lucky's lips as she stared up at her rival, Jinx asking if Lucky thought she was stupid!

"...You... I'm...." Lucky stammered, unable to come up with a good response... She was right. She HAD said that a lot... To her friends mostly, those she knew in the hentai ring that she cared for greatly... She was also right that these matches were on TV, that Jinx was BOUND to see them... why WOULDN'T she take it personally after Sakura gave her affections to her, affections cheapened with how many hands it passed through before her own! More pain... emotional strife, flashed across the cheerleader's face, her emerald eyes breaking from Jinx's... now locked on the floor between her own legs.

"I'm sorry.... I... I never wanted to hurt you, Jinxy..."

Jinx's eyes narrow e to thin razor sharp slits as realization hit Lucky. While the cheerleader lost herself to the moment, focus drawn away from the fight, her feline like opponent looked on with an ever growing annoyance. Even now she wasn't being taken seriously, not enough for Sakura to keep her eyes on her as they drifted to the ground as the girl wallowed in self pity. Her teeth clenched, grinding behind taut lips.

"Idiot!" The dark complexioned fighter scrambled forward, pulling herself up onto the arm of the couch on all fours before kicking off to launch herself at Lucky. Arms outstretched, she tried to grab a firm hold of the other girl and charge her backwards until she could slam her into a door or wall and pin her against it with a firmly placed forearm across her chest. With her weapon of choice, Kind drove her knee up over and over, trying to knock the breath out of the other woman with a vicious barrage of strikes.

Each one was harder than the last if she gained any purchase, taking out all her frustrations on Lucky's guts without a hint of mercy in her actions. If she wasn't met with much resistance after paying into her opponent with several strikes she would stop and just hold Lucky up against the wall, huffing loudly as she caught her breath.

"The second I met you I knew you were a liar. " Jinx nearly spit her words, leaning in close enough to put the two of them close enough to press their foreheads together.

"People aren't friends in this business. It's dog eat dog. Nice people, sweet people, don't exist. Just a bunch of manipulative bitches… like you." In a moment of mock cuteness, she hopped their noses together. It was pretty clear that this particular line of thinking likely had a history with Jinx, one that preceded the two having met that had only been restored by their interactions.

With that, Jinx would try to pull away, grasping at Lucky to whip her around and toss her to the floor roughly.

Jinx exploited Lucky's regretful, sorrowful state with all the mercy of a savage jungle-cat, SPRINGING off the couch she had been thrown into! Her fingers CLUTCHED into the cheerleader like the claws of a wild beast, her strength amplified beyond anything Sakura could ever hope to expect from her, driving the poor girl back flawlessly and smoothly, CRASHING her into a nearby wall! the sound could likely be heard several rooms down but if anyone had heard... they didn't seem to care. Blow after blow CRASHED into Lucky's taught, trained belly, Amber's knee cutting deep with each stabbing strike... the venom of hatred staining each one. Sakura grunted softly, hopelessly, painfully as Jinx laid into her... but she didn't cry out. She didn't deserve to protest the kind of treatment Jinx was giving her... If she had known... if she had KNOWN what she had felt... It was all her fault that she hadn't seen it... Jinx... she... she had a right to this... and Lucky didn't stop her. Her arms tensed with every blow but they didn't dare rise to her defense. Tears rolled down her cheeks after several had taken bites out of her stomach but Lucky didn't dare cry for herself... she could only stare weakly into Jinx's eyes, searching for any signs of forgiveness... of anything other than the seething rage the woman felt for her...

...Nothing so far...

Lucky's lack of counter offense/defense didn't sit well with the dark feline it seemed, the woman pressing an arm across her chest, leaning in SO close Sakura could smell her... so close that their faces touched... a position once filled with love and affection now tainted with darker, more savage emotions... Jinx's insults cut deeper than any of those previous knee-strikes her dismissal of Sakura cutting into her heart more savagely than any physical blow. The breaking of her heart sustained by the destruction of her prized figurines paled to the utter devastation wreaked upon her from Jinx's lips, the woman laying into her like a lover betrayed. She expressed... not true anger... Outrage, perhaps... but hopelessness, declaring that there could never be someone nice, someone sweet in this world... Lucky was just another manipulative bitch that deserved crushing...

Sakura was thrown FACE first into the floor as Jinx drove her points home, Lucky's forehead cracking into the wood hard with a sickening *THWACK!* A small trickle of red rolled down over an eye from just behind her smooth, silver hairline, Lucky raising her head back up to stare guiltily at Jinx... She didn't know what to say... Could she really apologize for breaking her heart? For being too stupid as to not see it when all the signs were right there? Sakura would only flinch away if Jinx would approach, sniffling pitifully as she expected more of her wrath to come...

It never really occurred to Jinx that Lucky wasn't fighting back anymore. This happy to Lucky cheerleader had faced off with her two times prior and utterly embarrass her when they fought. To her, she had simply caught the woman with a good set of strikes and was in total control of their bout. This was how it should have always been.

She was far too proud to ever admit it, but she did think of the other woman as a rival… she wouldn't have hunted her down time after time if she hadn't. Neither of their past encounters had ended how she had wanted, which was to say, with her victory… she still however thought about the outcomes often, rather guiltily. She hated that part of her had liked losing the way she had. That wasn't how she was suppose to think, that sort of mindset was poisonous in this career.

Looming over Lucky now, she had a smug sense of victory. While the two had a brief back and forth, she was now dictating the pace of this match and had no intentions of letting up. She brought back her leg, about ready to soccer kick the other woman in the ribs when their eyes locked.

Jinx hesitated. Something was wrong. This wasn't the cheerful marshmallow she fought twice before, or the angry woman that had lashed out at her moments prior. Her nostrils flared in annoyance, unable to look Lucky in the face. Rather than boot Sakura as intended she stepped forward, trying to plant her foot on the cheerleaders face and give her a hard shove to stop her from looking towards her.

"Why aren't you fighting, huh? Cause your tricks won't work anymore, is that it?" Fingers balled up into fists, arms shaking at her side. Jinx started to pace along the length of Lucky's downed body, frustration seeming to mount.

"Get up… let's go." There was a pause where she said or did nothing which left an awkward tension lingering in the air. Contradicting her own order she snapped back towards Lucky, attempting to bring down the flat of her foot across her back in a hard stomp. "Fight me!" Another stomp. "Fight me you loser!"