Tag-Team Match: Cicilia De'Reignhardt and Sayumi Arai vs The Shooting Star Sisters

Getting to deal with the less dangerous and less insulting member of this team was a little reassuring for Touka who wasnt sure she could do anything to Cicilia, at least not the way Namie could but she still didnt like how nice this chick was being. After seeing her partner it almost felt like a condescending good cop, bad cop routine was being pulled on her. Well she wasnt going to be played with.

Moving in as the girl stuck her tounge out Touka closed the gap and went for an otherwise mundane attack, an elbow to the girls face and tried to force her back while looking to grab her head and pull it into a headlock to try and control the early parts of there match.

While it was true, Sayumi wasn't the rage fulled murder machine Cicilia was when it came to throwing punches, the lavender haired beauty was far from a pushover. A tried and true wrestler, she was pretty experienced when it came to most mainstays. A good all around competitor, and surprisingly genuine soul of which wasn't seen often in AFW. She shifted eagerly on his boots, fingers wiggling as she watched for Touka to make a move. As the other girl closed in, she was quick to join her to half the space between them. She had intended to try for a lock up, but noted the girl rearing back as she close in on her. Her arms came forward, creating a solid wall of forearm to soak the impact of her opponents elbow.

As she dropped her guard to press the counter attack, she was immediately yanked forward with a small stumble into a headlock. She took a brief moment to plant her feet, unfortunately giving Touka plenty of time to cinch in the hold. She whined, shining softly as an attempt to pull herself free was easily thwarted. She didn't intend to stay like this, not if she could help it. She leaned into the hold, reaching around the girl to grab hold of her belt nice and firm. She suddenly threw her weight backwards, trying to lift Touka up and over in a northern lights suplex to plant her on the canvas.

Touka initial assault got under way as she started to push the girl back and keep her on the defensive and unable to react fast enough o stop everything she was throwing the girls way. though Sayumi was putting up a decent defense, and certainly wasnt helpless and unable to avoid her attacks Touka felt like her offense was working and tried to follow that up by pulling on her head and looking to lead her to one f the neutral corners. But her attempts were stopped there as the girl got a bit more under her and tried to toss her up with a Northern lights suplex.

Touka didnt even have time to comprehend what was happening as suddenly she was on her feet, then the next she was in the air with the world spinning and her feet not touching anything at all. Then she was slammed into the floor properly. "Owww!" Touka's body slammed into the mat as she was more or less pinned down by Sayumis grip at the moment and looking for a way out.

Had Sayumi initiated the suplex, she could have easily bridged it for an attempted pinfall. As it was here, as a counter, she wasn't as lucky. It wasn't the prettiest northern lights suplex she had ever done, but it was effective enough to plant Touka on her back with the two of them awkwardly locked up by her grip on the other girl's belt. It was a convenient means to grip someone, something she often worried about with some of the harnesses on her other outfits. She was where she did her best work though now as a submission artist which was the ground.

She rocked her body from side to side, kicking her legs out at the last moment to give her enough for to try and roll the two of them over onto their chests rather than their backs. From here she finally released the other girl, immediately trying to pounce on her by driving a forearm down at her shoulders and collar to try and pin her face down to the mat. If she managed this, she would try to hook an arm under the girl's neck and tug it tight before leaning her upper body over the back of her head, trying to sandwich her in an unconventional choke.

It wasn't the tightest or most effective hold, nor was it meant to be. She just needed something fast with enough force to start wearing Touka down. She would try her best to make use of her weight to keep the girl pressed to the mat as best she could, but it was very possible for her to get to the ropes or try to fight out of it with all her limbs free.

Moving to the floor from the suplex Touka kicked her legs making sure she couldn't be bridged and pinned from the move as the girl above her tried to transition them into something else. Pushing them to there fronts rather then the back Touka attempted to push up and try and get the girl off of her but Sayumi refused to budge and kept shoving her downwards hitting her back and pushing on her head as it struck the mat again and she tried to keep pushing up, before Sayumi grabbed around her and tried to choke her out from there.

Touka gagged as her hand came up and attempted to break the hold, pulling and turning her head as she tried to break free and try and get the girl off of her as she turned her head and kept fighting as much as possible. "Hands...off me you little.." She didnt finish that though, just shook her head as she tried to turn and hit her side with an elbow.

The second she had rolled them over Touka was already fighting back. Squirming, turning, grasping at her arm. She was having no difficultly keeping the smaller girl pinned face down to the mat, but hooking an arm around her neck was proving to be difficult. The two women awkwardly struggled on the mat for awhile, she had almost cinched something in but the girl was too wily to be locked into something so sloppy.

For her efforts she caught a stiff elbow, enough to persuade her to give up on this for now. Clutching her side, she rolled away from Touka, swiftly rising back to her feet. She took in the ring, taking note of where she was in relation to everything else before readying herself again. She didn't seem like she was going to bum rush Touka while she was rising, far too much of a sportsman for that. She'd let the girl get herself up and find footing. This was a soft reset to Sayumi. She'd have to do better next time the girl came at her.

Her fighting paid off a little. though she didnt seem to do any lasting damage like that she got her to back off as Sayumi realized she didnt have what it took to actually keep the hold. Thankfully she backed off and let her do what she needed to get up and Touka took the chance to do so. Finding her way to her feet as she looked at the girl in front of her as they both seemed to want to just rest and keep going from there.

Though how she wanted to play it was beyond her. Sayumi had already showed herself to be crafty and Touka wasnt looking to try and grapple with her. Instead she would start to circle her and look for a chance to pay her back for tossing her like that. "I still have alot to show you Sayumi."

Sayumi shifted her weight between her legs once Touka had risen to her feet, preparing for a potential charge, but nothing came. She couldn't help but smirk at that, unsure of their brief encounter had spooked her fellow wrestler or if the girl was just naturally cautious. Either way, she had done her part in letting the other girl recover and it was time to get back into action. "Me too!" She sounded almost excited, flashing the girl a big genuine smile.

Rather than circle opposite the girl, she had backed herself away, slowly at first, but her backpedal became longer strides as she threw herself up against the ropes. Back pressed in firm, she went as far as she could before they snapped forward sending her dashing off in Touka's direction. The ring shook slightly with each heavy footfall. Using the ropes, she had picked up far more speed than she likely could have naturally over such a short distance.

Her arms pumped, head lowered as she picked up speed, coming in like a rocket. As she neared, she gave a small hop forward, springing onto her feet one more time before kicking up off the ground for real. Her body twisted in the air as she turned herself horizontal, coming a far wider area as she looked to try and bring herself crashing across Touka in a cross body block. If she managed to catch the girl and bring her to the mat, she would immediately try to preposition to try and entangle the girl beneath her. Her rams reaching around to pull her into a headlock, while her legs would try to scissor lock one of her arms to keep it at bay.

As Touka tried to move around the ring to get a better opportunity to attack the girl when Sayumi instead opted to fall back and try and use the ropes. Her mind seemed fixated on using her speed to her advantage and keeping her at a disadvantage by flooring her again and again. Still it didnt stop Touka from being bale to react. She wasnt stronger then her sis but she knew how to get out of dodge and when she came in for the cross body Touka quickly ducked and let her fly past her rather then connect.

From there she would try and push up to her feet and run into the ropes herself rushing after Sayumi and hoping to catch her before she was on her feet and nail her with a dropkick to knock her down to the floor.

Sayumi was a fan of cross body blocks, they covered a wide range, and were notoriously hard to dodge in most circumstances. While not the shortest woman in the AFW by far, it certainly didn't hurt Touka as she deftly slipped under the flying lavender haired wrestler. She gave a surprised shriek as her target was gone, no longer there to catch her force or cushion her fall. She twisted slightly, landing hard, but in a practiced roll to lessen the momentum based impact she could have done to herself. Flinging yourself still tended to hurt, regardless of how well you managed to land it though.

Sayumi pressed her hands to the canvas, pushing herself up. She shook her head, focusing up as she got to her knees before realizing should could feel the ring shaking. With a turn of her head she caught sight of Touka rushing her down, just in time to witness her opponent take flight. her adversaries boots caught her hard in the side, blasting her off to the side where she flopped over onto the canvas again, tumbling a little ways closer to the rope. She had somehow wound up on the opposite end of the ring, closer to the Sister's corner. Not the neighborhood she really wanted to be in, but it had been beyond her control.

She reached up, pawing at the air before she grasped at the ropes, trying to slowly drag herself up to her feet. While Touka may not have been the stronger of the two of them, her speed had done more than enough for make up for that when she impacted Sayumi so dead on.