Post by Nausicaä Suzuki on Aug 28, 2023 20:52:27 GMT -5
۞ I WON’T LET THEM CHOOSE MY WAY ۞  ۞ BECAUSE I’M STILL BREATHING! ۞ Open and shut, open and shut. Slowly Shizuku Yamamoto’s hand opens and closes, the bandaging wrapped around her right hand providing some resistance. Though another reason for said bandaging could be that she might have been training since the short brunette is standing in the middle of a training ring…with her two blonde underlings, Maxine Salt and Pepper Hutchinson, barely clinging onto the ropes with bruises patterning across both their bodies. “That’ll do for now. Feel free to get some rest before we continue training.” With those lifelessly spoken words Shizuku exits the ring and appears to have walked away. This leaves the two blonde to pitifully pant away as the shorter of the two winces while looking over towards her fellow trainee. “Is…Is it me…or…or has Shizuku been even angrier since she first fought D-Donzig?” “Yea…yea…yeah…” “W…We need to do something…something to make Shizuku happy…ma-maybe she’ll st-stop b-being like this…” “Yea…yea…yeah…” “But what?” “What…about Houston?” “Houston?” Though confused at her friend’s question, Pepper knows that Maxine and herself are in too much agony to continue…so instead the pair would indeed take their mentor’s advice in taking a rest. Said rest basically staying slumped against the ropes until the shorter woman regains enough strength to stand back up, get out of the ring and return with a water bottle reach. But any kind of rest is still rest as the taller blonde mouths her gratitude when her shorter companion hands over her own bottle. “So…what about Houston?” Hutchinson makes sure that they both had some of their water before asking her question as Maxine manages to get up to her feet before answering. “Well we have a match at Showdown in Houston…so why not we go to the Toyota Center and defeat The Dark Stars? I’m sure getting our first victory could definitely give some cheer, even to that-” Miss Salt quickly glances around to make sure that Shizuku is nowhere to be seen. “-cheerless bitch.” To say that Pepper looks sceptical would be a major understatement as the shorter blonde had to take a moment to think of how to bring her point across to her tag team partner. “Defeat The Dark Stars? Are you sure that we are even capable of such a thing? Even if you discount the elephant in the room, being the fact that we have lost every match we’ve had so far, both members of them are a third of a foot taller than you while us combined is barely heavier than one of them. They fight like gladiators and are probably chomping at the bit to possibly use us to send a potential message to the Epcot Mafia.” “So what if they want to send a message? If anything that gives us an even better opportunity to reach the stars, strap them down in the cages of our greatness and sell five pound tickets for people to have their children point and laugh at the dimmed shells we leave them as. Hell, you might as well call that ‘elephant’ Dumbo since that little ‘fact’ will further make them overlook us, thus allowing us to soar over them to achieve our first ever victory. And who cares if they are bigger than us? Th-” “You better not say it.” “Say what?” “The cliché of ‘the bigger they are, the harder they fall’.” The pout that practically dragged itself across Maxine’s face could accurately be described with the words ‘over the top’ as the pair burst out laughing not too long afterwards. “It may be a cliché but it’s a cliché for a good reason. Days of Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy are long dead…size doesn’t matter anymore. Neither does the fact that they fight like gladiators since, at the end of the day, most gladiators - past and present - die or fade away to obscurity in pursuit of something precious…be it freedom, a ‘bit’ to chomp on or even a damsel in distress. Unfortunately for them we aren’t a pair of video game Peaches…instead we are a pair of movie Peaches who’ll storm through their defences for our crowning moments-” “While the only ‘chomp’ The Dark Stars will be able to afford, once we’re done with them, is the Cadbury kind.” Though originally dubious of her friend at first, it appears that the taller woman’s confidence has infected Hutchinson’s belief as Salt and Pepper burst out laughing once more shortly after the latter’s words. “You’re right Maxine…we’ll turn this all around in Houston. Together there is nothing we can’t do.” “Yeayeayeah.” Assertively leaves Maxine’s lips as her and Pepper does a Dutch and Al style high five with their free hands. “TIME TO RESUME TRAINING!” Suddenly hearing their leader’s voice echo into the room made both blondes flinch, let go of each other’s hand and quickly straighten up fully straight. While this caused the pair to drop their water bottles neither beauty dared moved out of potential fear as, in union, they answer with: “YES SIRE!” > = = = ۞ = = = < 🧂 842 words ۞ Sorry for no-showing for god knows how long >.< 🌶️ |
