Chapter 47 (Daily)
In the Xtrema gym, while everyone else was working out, Kaito approached Queen Bee and spoke to her of the events that happened the other night.
"Sister?" Queen Bee asked. "You never said anything about a sister."
"For a good reason." Kaito said. "My sister's not… the nicest person. She makes Diana Diaz look like a saint by comparison."
"You're kidding me." Queen Bee said. "What happened next?"
"Well, she made fun of me before throwing me to the wall." Kaito said. "Basically, just that."
"Wow." Queen Bee said. "I'm… sorry to hear that."
"Meeting time! Meeting time!" Sayuri called out letting everyone approach her. She stood with her assistant along with the eight newcomers. "All right. Take a gander everybody. Let's welcome our new members. First, we have Carina and Luna, who make up our new tag team, the Galaxy Twins. Other than them, we've got Jun Juli, Artemis Creed, Electra Sinders, Maria Crawford—" The black-haired newcomer caught Queen Bee's disapproving sneer before makinga snapping motion with her hands. "Charlie 'the Hitgirl' Hart—" Everyone gasped silently and muttered about the member of the Hart family. "And lastly, Catrina Horace, also known as Hotrina." She made a very subtle sound of disgust in her voice.
Kaito took a look at the last girl introduced and took a step back in shock. "Oh, great. First, my sister. Now, the hits just keep on coming."
"What?" Queen Bee asked. "Why? You know her?"
"That's my ex." Kaito said.
"What?" Queen Bee said looking at Hotrina. "Your ex-girlfriend?"
"Yeah. Been with her back in senior year. " Kaito said. "But after my tenth loss, she dumped me in front of the whole public. It was more humiliating than all the losses I've had so far."
"That bitch." Queen Bee sneered. "Well, don't worry. First chance I get, I'll punch the makeup off of her face."
"Actually, she's not wearing makeup." Kaito said.
"What?" Queen Bee asked in surprise looking at Hotrina's naturally beautiful face. "Well, that's just not fair."
"Anyway, everybody," Sayuri shouted, "You'll also be pleased to hear the match-card we have for our upcoming show tomorrow night."
"Let me guess," Platinum Mask said, "You're gonna give the newcomers a battle royal like you did with us?"
"Not this time." Sayuri said. "With two natural members of a tag team, a battle royal would give them an advantage. So instead, the newcomers will be in their own respective matches. Some of their debuts will be tomorrow night while the others will be in the next show. But the two who perform the best in their matches will get to begin the next pay-per-view, Supernova, together.
"All right. Now, onto the matches. First of all, Sam Hamilton will go against Electra Sinders. Secondly, Team Spirit will face off against the Galaxy Twins. After that, thanks to her demand, Mewlie will face Carly X. Next, we'll have Willow Powell vs Hotrina. Next will be our visitor's match, with Jasper Jones taking on the ace of Miyabi, Juri Sanada. Last, but not least, thanks to popular demand, Queen Bee will face off against Eris in a non-title match. The rest of you newcomers will have to wait next week."
"Wait a minute!" Willow shouted. "You expect someone like me to wrestle against a pin-up rookie!"
Hotrina chuckled. "You're calling me a pin-up girl? Ever look in a mirror? At least I'm naturally this beautiful compared to the mountains of work done to you."
"Oh, it is on." Willow growled. "Just for that, Ms. Rogue, I'd like to add somezing special to ze match! I want it to be a thumbtack match!"
"Really?" Sayuri asked. "Is that okay with you, Ms. Horace?"
Hotrina chuckled. "Fine by me."
"Very well then." Sayuri said. "It shall be a thumbtack match between Willow Powell and Catrina 'Hotrina' Horace. The loser will be whoever gets punctured with thumbtacks taken from a box at ringside."
Mewlie and Neko girl approached the duo of Carly X and Thunder Mana. They had confident looks on their faces.
"You two seem pretty confident that the much older woman is going to beat me." Carly said.
"Of course I'm going to beat you." Mewlie said. "You barely beat my daughter. I'm the Queen of Catfights. You don't have a chance. I'm going to scratch your face off for making a mockery of our family name."
"You already got even when you interfered in my match against N-Bomb." Thunder Mana said.
"Yeah, but that was for you keeping my mom in her locker room." Neko Girl said. "Carly X-tra Lame needs to pay for throwing me in a box of garbage."
"And tomorrow night, I'll put your skank of a mother through worse." Carly warned. "Bring it on."
"Oh, boy." Thunder Mana sighed.
Maria Crawford was about to walk away when Queen Bee stopped right in front of her.
"What are you doing here, Crawford?" Bee asked.
"Me? I was just here to introduce myself to the rest of the roster. I've got an appointment, so I won't start working out until tomorrow."
"That's not what I meant." The champion growled. "I know Liz Lancaster roped you into this just to spite me."
"Look, as much as I'd love to verbally abuse you and listen to your pathetic attempts to threaten me," Maria said, "I literally have a million better things to do. So get out of my way or I'll have to submit you in a sleeper hold again."
"You really think you scare…"
SMACK!
"Consider that slap a warning." Crawford said as Bee felt her sore cheek. "You've got better things to do too, Dull N' Broken. After all, you're about to go up against an undefeated member of your roster. After that, youv'e got to go train for your PPV opponent. I hear Diaz is quite the handful." She strutted away leaving Queen Bee shooting daggers at her.
After knocking at the door, Natsuki was invited into Kanae's house.
"So what are we doing?" he asked. "Perhaps a home movie or something?"
"We'll see." Kanae said. "For now, I'd like to show you something."
She took him to a nearby room and turned on the light inside, Natsuki's eyes widened as if he had just woken up. In front of him was a big blue mat. There was a chair nearby with a pair of red-and-black workout shorts on it.
"Wait." Natsuki said. "Are we having… a wrestling date?"
"I know it's strange," Kanae said, "But I thought I'd give you a piece of my world."
"I thought you were in no condition to wrestle." Natsuki said.
"Not professionally. I can't do any high-flying moves like I used to do, but I can still grapple and other stuff like it. Come on…" She leaned in to whisper in his ear. "Don't you want to wrestle me to the ground?"
Natsuki perched his head up and smiled at that. He quickly picked up the shorts on the chair and said, "be right back" before heading out. When he came back a few minutes later, he was only wearing the shorts he was given. He also gazed at what Kanae was wearing: a white two-piece with blue outlines. She removed her glasses and placed them on the table on top of her casual clothes.
"You ready?" she asked walking on top of the mat.
"Born ready." Natsuki responded standing across the mat from her. The two took a couple of steps to their side waiting for their opportunity. "Just so you know, I won't hold back just because you're a woman."
"Fine by me." Kanae said. "I won't hold back just because you don't have any wrestling experience."
The realization hit Natsuki like a bullet. "Holy crap! I don't have any experience!"
That was Kanae's chance. While her boyfriend was distracted, she quickly pulled him down onto the mat. She got on top of him and pressed her cleavage on top of his face. He muttered in shock while Kanae giggled. He quickly tapped onto the mat giving his partner her cue to get off of his blushing face.
"That… Wow!" Natsuki said. "You really did that."
"I've always been a bit of a sneaky competitor back in my Berserk days." Kanae said. "You're not bothered, are you?"
Natsuki sighed with a smile. "Not really. Honestly, I've never thought I'd get my face smothered without my permission."
Kanae chuckled. "Well, I've only ever done that to one of my opponents, and even then, it was a spectacle to everyone who was watching."
"Do you ever miss it?" Natsuki asked. "Wrestling in the ring, I mean."
Kanae frowned. "Of course. Every time I moved around in the ring is a time when I felt alive. But after that ogre, Klaws, broke my back, the best I could do were some grappling sessions with some of my friends so I could stay in shape."
"Sorry to hear that." Natsuki said.
"It's all right. You're a good listener." She picked him up before giving him a kiss on the lips. She let go and smiled. "Now, about that movie…"
Deep in the dark streets of Rusuo City, there was a bar. And inside of that bar, there were only two women the bartender was serving. One of them was Vanessa Slayer. She was clearly upset, and the Xtrema commercial that showed her enemy, Midnight, wasn't helping. She immediately picked up her glass and smashed it onto the wall.
"It's not fair!" she screamed.
"Uh, ma'am," the bartender said, "You're going to have to pay for that."
"Here." Said the other woman when she passed a check to him. "And while you're at it, give us a couple of top-shelf stuff. Surprise me."
Vanessa turned back at the woman who just paid for her. This woman was African-American with brown hair. She had on a black shirt, white pants, and a red jacket.
"I don't need your pity." Vanessa snarled.
"But you do need something. I can tell. I'm guessing… you're a wrestler, right?"
"What do you know?" Vanessa asked.
"Lady, I know plenty. The name's Jessica Jaclyn. I used to be a big wrestling promoter in New York City. Then, I came across a very promising business partner called Yami. Together, we put together our own wrestling organization here in Japan."
"Bully for you." Vanessa said.
"And you." Jessica returned. "Since you're a wrestler, how would you like to join us?"
"You don't want me." Vanessa snarled. "Nobody wants Vanessa Slayer on their roster. Apparently, I'm 'unstable'."
"Then you're perfect!" Jessica said. "Unstable is our specialty. Brutality is our main venue. And don't get me started on the wrestlers we have so far. Trust me, with you fighting with us, we'll leave all those other organizations in the dust."
Vanessa thought for a moment before asking her most important question with a smile. "Will I be able to hurt my enemy who's in another organization?"
Jessica smirked. "Ms. Slayer, everything is allowed. Everything is encouraged. Because we are Hardkor."
*Xtrema Shorts*
A Chibi version of Monica Everly sat in her office alongside Neko Girl.
"Welcome to Xtrema Shorts. I'm Monica Everly, and I'm here to give you a little bit of enjoyment at the end of these chapters. First of all, Epiclot214 wanted to make an announcement. If this chapter isn't very detailed, he apologizes. He had this chapter finished with a different draft, but a technical error caused him to accidently erase his progress, so he had to restart from scratch. So if some parts aren't very descriptive, please forgive him.
"Here's another thing to let you all know. The girl who recruited Vanessa Slayer at the end of this chapter is Jessica Jaclyn, a minor character in the Nickelodeon show, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; specifically, the episode 'Shell in a Cell'. Epiclot214 always thought she was an underrated character who deserved a returning appearance. So they wanted to include her in this story."
"Now, onto our interview. Introducing my guest, one half of the Killer Kitties, Neko Girl!"
Chibi Neko Girl groaned. "Whatever. Let's just get this over with. I'm dying for a catnap."
"Sure thing." Chibi Monica said. "I'll ask you some standard questions before a few personal ones."
"Again, whatever." Chibi Neko Girl said. "Just ask your stupid questions."
"All right. First question: how long have you been wrestling?"
"You mean professionally? Well, I started off at a backyard wrestling academy for a couple of years. My mom's been preparing me to be a sneaky wrestler and an expert catfighter since I was a kitten."
"All right. Next, do you have any dream opponents?"
"As if I'd ever waste my time thinking about any of the other so-called 'wrestlers' in this roster. Now, outside of Xtrema, that's where the real competition is. If I could beat down big-time wrestlers like Jackal Tojo or even that upstart, Tiger Mask, then the whole world would know I'm the baddest bitch in the ring."
"How do you feel about your fans?"
"Pfft! Who cares about them? They never showed me any love ever since I debuted in the ring. Why should I give a damn about them. Let them say what they want. I'll just flip them all off in exchange."
"What's the toughest match you've had so far?"
Chibi Neko sighed. "Fine. If you must know, back in my backyard wrestling days, me and my mom had an argument which resulting in me challenging her to a catfight. Long story short, my mom proved herself the Queen of Catfights."
"What do you do for fun?"
"Well, I like to pull pranks on the other wrestlers on the roster. One time, I cut a hole in the back of Kaito's bottomwear. He didn't know until he got to the gym that his butt was showing." Chibi Neko laughed.
"What do you think makes a great wrestler?"
"Need you ask? Winning, of course. If someone has the ability to win, that's fine. But if someone is willing to do go below the belt to win it all, then they deserve my respect."
"Do you have any other interests besides wrestling?"
"Hmm. Well, I like going to sushi restaurants. I know it sounds like a stereotype because I have a cat gimmick, but I genuinely like sushi, even outside of costume."
"All right. Now for the personal questions, all from Awesome ax10. First, what do you think of Kaito Marx?"
Chibi Neko Girl blushed. "What? You think I have something for the loser? I don't! It's not like I keep thinking about him ever since I first got my hate comments from the public and he assured me that their opinions don't matter in the end as long as I think I'm a great wrestler! There's no way I have any acknowledgment to a weak loser like him! If you say anything else, I'll bury you in my litter box!"
"Why do you hate Carly X?
"Hey, for your information, she's the one who started it! I think she's just jealous that I have a better relationship with my mother than she has with hers!"
"If you had the chance to join a heel stable like the League of Evil, would you take it?"
"Of course, I would! The League of Evil know how to win and strike fear in their opponents! If either of those bitches invited me into their stable, I'd take it in a heartbeat!"
"Well, thank you, Neko Girl, for that enlightening interview. And to our faithful readers, our next chapter, we will begin our next show. Here's our match-card…
1.) Sam Hamilton vs Electra Sincers
2.) Team Spirit vs the Galaxy Twins
3.) Carly X vs Mewlie
4.) Willow Powell vs Hotrina (thumbtack match)
5.) Jasper Jones vs Juri Sanada
6.) Queen Bee vs Eris
"Who do you think is going to win? What's your prediction? Be sure to check out what comes next! Any and all comments are welcome!"