>>18869284Maria paced back and forth backstage, calm, collected, focused, warming up. Her mind empty, just trained on her breathing exercises. It had been a while since she had been in a tag match, with the last time having been with...Skelly. A pang of regret shot through her, leaving her to sigh.
>30 seconds!Came the call, snapping Maria out of her thoughts, grabbing the belt and leaning it over her shoulder and making eye contact with Ash Romero backstage.
>I'll be watchingShe breathed out as her music hit, leaving her to head out first.
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The rookies, or rather former rookies were fine, damn fine in the ring. Ash clearly having given them the basis to continue their own training from. Though to call them Rookies anymore would have been an insult. Journeymen (or woman) wrestlers, getting better with every minute they spent in the ring. Maria couldn't help but keep her eye more on the rookies then Ash.
Still, there was a rhythm in Ash's moves, sure she wasn't as flashy as Sola or as explosive as Karna, but there was that cool, calculated veteran's perspective.
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Tag!
Maria attempted to keep up with Sola's lightning fast onslaught before she tagged out with Karna, trying to put up a good fight. But then, she felt Karna lift herself up on her knee, using the boost to throw a punch, connecting with Maria's head, a head that had been so sorely tried, so sorely tested. Karna hitting at the exact spot Nyx had hit her with a steel pipe all those months ago.
For a split second pain screamed through Maria's body, and then, nothingness, her body going down limp on the mat.
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