The Clash [Invite]

[Jamie Fury]

The Tribute To The Troops show was an most entertaining one. These troops, and the XWA fans who watched at home, got a sneek peek at what was in store this season. And though it was only an exhibition, Jamie Fury didn't see it as one. She knew she'd have to come out and no matter who it was she faced, show how and why she was the measuring stick by which female professional wrestlers are compared.

She did just that.

As the referee raised her hand in victory, as the fans cheered her on, she couldn't help but feel proud of herself. It was good night's work. A job well done.

As she made her way back behind the set, Diamond Title in tow, she was greeted by staffers and superstars alike, congratulating her. She smiled and shook hands and gave thanks to everyone for her support. Now though, it was about preparing even more for the new season upcoming. She knew this was just a taste, and that if she was going to have another night like this, she had to stay sharp.

Back now in the dressing area...

Things were understandably split between the guys and the girls. She'd been looking for Justice. Her new friend didn't quite have the same success as she, so she wanted to give her some more advice. It was after all her first American match. But Justice was gone.

Then, she remembered Amber. They all had come here together after all. She reached into her duffel bag and the light on her phone had been flashing. It was a text from her, Amber that is. She had already left. She too didn't have a good night. In fact, she probably had the worst night of them all.

*Sigh*

It dawned on her. The success, as meteoric as was that she had, was success she longed to share with people she cared about. She had made good friends along the way, but the reality of it all was the she was in fact in a place now where they sought to be. Where conceivably everyone seeks to be. At the top. There's that saying about it being lonely there...and that's suddenly how Jamie felt as she stood there.

She laid the title belt down. Stared at it for a few seconds. Could this one belt, this trophy of trophies, possibly be driving those close to her away? She sighs again. It was not the time now to be thinking this way. This was a time to be happy...or was it? Did she really have a reason to be?

[TITANISHA]

She was fuming. Titanisha was steaming mad. She had no idea who'd she be facing at this show, only to find out that it in fact would be her. The one she had had eyes on from the second she signed to this company. The woman who had captivated so many, leaving women like her to languish in the shadow of her success.

The woman who was right in her sights in the ring. The woman she had the chance to take down. The woman who in fact, took HER down. She wouldn't be filled with so much rage if it were one of the other two women who pinned her, but HER!?

Titanisha's heart rate was racing. The pure anger was palpable, and anyone backstage in their right mind saw to stay clear of the massive woman. And then, opportunity reared it head.

Back in the dressing area, it was deserted. Most of the women were preparing to leave, as now the men were taking the stage. And there she was. Jamie Fury. Diamond Champion. Standing there innocently, contemplating things that Titanisha had no concern over. There was only one thing on her mind now.

This was her target. She had failed to strike her down the first time, but fate had given her the gift of a second chance. And this time...there were no rules to stop her from doing what she had been wanting to do for months now.

There was no hesitation in her stride. She grabbed one of the folding chairs on the wall, still folded. Her movement, even for her size, would have been way too quick for anyone so see coming.

Fury surely didn't.
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WHACK!

With one downward swipe, the steel crashed into that string, muscular back of Fury's. Enough to illicit a wince of unexpected pain from the woman as she slumped to the ground.

I've been waiting for this for a long time.

Her voice was calm. In her British accent, she spoke softly, but profoundly enough to mark her intentions clearly and concisely.

The great Jamie Fury. It's so nice...to make your acquaintance!

Her volume rose slightly. She raised the chair up once more, as Jamie was down on her knees, still weakened. Her back was exposed again, and once more Titanisha flailed down onto it with the chair. The sheer force had laid the woman out completely.

I've come a long way to make this statement. It starts with you, and ends when I've put every one of your fellow Diamonds in the hospital.

You all think you're so special. Well, it's time for you to be put in your place!

She reaches back again. This time, the shot from the chair was sure to do some serious damage. That was her intention. Before, she wanted to make a statement. Now? She simply wanted to make the woman suffer. She unleashes a feral, primal scream as she prepares to strike the final blow, but...

["The HellCat" Hayley Jonas]

Before the blow could be made, Hayley Jonas arrived to quickly yank the chair from Titanisha's hands. It was opportune for her to be where she was, behind her that is, for otherwise even Hayley, a fairly strong woman herself compared to most her size, probably wouldn't have been able to wrestle the weapon away.

What the FUCK do you think you're doing?

It was obvious from the sight of Jamie laying flat on the ground now. Seeing her in that position was rare indeed.

This is some way for you to make a first impression, bitch. You couldn't do it by yourself, so you had to incorporate some "outside assistance"?

Hayley was pretty hot herself, but not from the result of the match. Moreso this act of cowardice that came as result of the match. She slammed the chair down to the ground, balling up her fists and getting herself into fighting position.

Why don't you try that bullshit on me then, unless you got try to hit me with a chair to stand a chance too?

[TITANISHA]

Interference. Interruption. Titanisha was not happy to begin with, but this oversight just seemed to anger her even more.

You shouldna got in my way, Jonas.

She tilts her neck to one side, letting it crack. Then the other. Then she folds her hands out, cracking the knuckles. Titanisha's long dreadlocks draped over her face, almost blocking her eyes from view. But there was fire in them, that was as much as anyone needed to know.

I woulda let you breath a little longer if you minded your own business. I wasn't gonna come after you...yet.

Titanisha slowly marched toward the blonde.

I guess I'll just get to kill two birds with one stone!

Titanisha lunges towards Jonas with all the forward momentum she could muster. Surely she thought she could simply run the woman over, she wasn't nearly the size of Fury or herself.

["The HellCat" Hayley Jonas]

Titanisha however didn't think Hayley didn't know how to handle such a move. In MMA, they call this a "shoot". Propelling yourself in to take your opponent down. With proper form and leverage, you could stump it with what is called a "sprawl".

This is what Hayley did, grabbing Titanisha as she came forward from the top of her head. She pushed out her own legs to where they were bent behind her, basically using her body and gravity to stop Titanisha's movement, leaving her now in Hayley's grasp...never a good place to be.

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Hayley swung up her right knee from this position, and the tremendous force of it driving into Titanisha's face was enough to actually send the woman to her back. She was temporarily disoriented now (the common term is "rocked"), leaving an opening for Hayley to move in for the finish. She mounted the woman and starting raining down lefts and rights to her face. Even with the support of these gloves she wore, it was like punching a wall. The woman was a wall.

There was fire in Hayley's eyes as well now. She hadn't felt this way since her encounter at 1 Penn. But she showed remorse then. This was different. This woman deserved none for what she had done. Her strategic and positional advantage however wouldn't last long. Was it anger, was it sheer power, or an act of God, she hadn't known, but Titanisha used whatever it was she did to actually push Hayley's body up and off of her.

So much so that Hayley's back crashed against a nearby wall.

What the...?

To say she didn't expect that show of force was an understatement. The woman got up now, trickles of blood falling from her nose and lips, seemingly more incensed than before. She was The Hulk...the angrier she got, the stronger she became.

Hayley breaths in deep and comes off the wall charging in. She leaps forward, propelling her foot straight toward Titanisha's face. What her fists couldn't do, her boot certainly could.

[TITANISHA]

Titanisha's face was stinging right now. The warm, metallic taste of her own blood past by her tongue and down her throat. Titanisha wiped some blood off of her face. She took a moment to look at it. It's deep red hue very much visible even her cocoa colored skin. She hadn't seen it in a long time.

It did indeed anger her further.

It was almost a split second later that now Hayley suddenly took the offensive, throwing a kick that would have knocked her head off it's shoulders. Pure instinct came through as Titanisha managed to grab the length of Jonas' leg in mid-stride. Now, she was at her mercy...an equally unsafe place to be.

GRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!

Another one of those beastly screams unleashed. It was quite certain now that someone out there probably heard this, and was heading in this direction as result, but it didn't matter to her. With that scream, and the sheer power in her arms and her back and the tree trucks she called legs, Titanisha lifted up her opponent by that leg and swung her up and over her own head.

She tossed Hayley clear across the room, sending her crashing into a set of chairs on the other side. The impact left Hayley down and vulnerable. She cracks her neck again. Between baited breaths, she speaks.

Now...who do I finish off first? The Diamond Division...is about to get smaller...

[Jamie Fury]

Meanwhile...

Jamie's back was screaming in pain. One moment, there was nothing, the next it was like a 747 crashed into her spine. She felt it. She still felt it.

She writhed on the ground, her eyes grimaced, her face grimaced. Each motion was more painful than the next. Jamie was a rollercoaster of emotion right now. Before, there was confusion. There was uncertainty. There was worry and doubt. But now, there was an emotion she hadn't felt in all of the years she was a part of the XWA.

Anger.

She propped her head up and looked from the ground at the carnage surrounding her. A few feet in front of her was the woman named Titanisha. A woman who actually outsized even her. A woman who she had faced earlier. More than a few feet away was Hayley Jonas, in a similar situation as she, downed. Trying to pick herself up amidst a pile of chairs that from what Jamie gathered, she was thrown into.

The picture being painted was clear. She remember the words spoken as she was attacked. This woman was a different kind of dangerous than Lilith. Lilith was a mental predator. This one was a physical one, and if not for Hayley, who knows what damage might have been done.

That...angered her.

There was a scream.

There was wind in her face and a thud of flesh to flesh, bone to bone. Then a crash. A loud crash, but not like glass or anything like that. She felt dust. Dirt. Splintering wood. Fury was on the ground again, this time looking up to the South Carolina sky. Looking over to her side, there was Titanisha, now down on the ground beside her, writhing in the same pain she had put Jamie in. Pain that was still there. Suddenly, there were voices over them. Shadowy figures.

"Get some medics over here, now!"

"What the hell happened?"

Questions being asked. Questions she couldn't answer because the pain was too much to take. She just closed her eyes. The picture would paint itself soon enough.

["The HellCat" Hayley Jonas]

Minutes later...

EMTs were present. Two ambulances. Security. Soldiers. The works. Hayley was sitting on the ground now. She was groggy, but she could walk away from this. The other two, not so certain. The look in her eyes though told the story. Well, not the entire story.

The ambulances she had seen outside, she was seeing from a HOLE in the WALL of the building. Both women were being stretchered into respective vehicles.

"Hayley...can you tell us what happened here?"

We got into it. Me and Titanisha. She just laid Fury out with a chair and I stopped her from doing anything else. We scrapped, and the bitch actually threw me over here. She's a fuckin' beast. But Fury...

...I never saw anything like this before. I don't know how she did it, cuz she was down, and I mean DOWN, man. She let out this roar. Then she got up and charged at Titanisha and BOOM.

They both went through that wall over there.

"She...?"

You heard me.

"Wow..."

Yeah. It's a good thing you brought two ambulances, because they might tear one apart if you put them in the same one. If I can suggest something else?

"Yeah?"

Different hospitals altogether.

This wasn't done. Hayley knew it. It was far from being over. Titanisha apparent had an agenda. A jealous, vengeful one. Hayley slowly gets up to her feet. By Titanisha's actions today, she did more than just wake up one sleeping monster.

She woke up two.

The ambulances pull off now. People are still back though, assessing the damage, and repair costs. Hayley just smirks.

See you later.

The new season just became a little more interesting.

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