Post by Shinobu Tsutsumi on Feb 25, 2023 9:57:25 GMT
January 8th, 2023
(A wrestler in a cheap cassowary mask flies downwards in the air, crashing harshly onto a grungy mat to start the beginning video. A monstrous kaiju masked giant figure roars from the center of the shambled ring, having thrown the cruiserweight prey to the mat as the gladiator pit like fans egg on the brutality in the underground venue. The giant clamps its massive over the destroyed victim's head and removes its mask to expose a broken young man as the crowd roars in a wild uproar. A noh-style masked woman then slithers into the ring with a wicked smile and is picked up on the monster's shoulders, where she manically celebrates with the stolen mask in the air as if she won it herself. A sleazy ring announcer laughs and then announces the victory in Spanish, but subtitled for you the viewer.)
Sketchy ring announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of El Casuario Jr., give it up for this Hueco favourite, Tsutsumi's Pet Kaiju ….Shadoji—
(Before the name and celebration continue the video blurs out to its first end for more relevant subject matter.)
January 10th, 2023
(The video turns back a few days later as an undisclosed hideout. The place is filled with people appearing of ill repute, some getting wabori tattoos to the back, while the masked woman from earlier plays with the stolen mask. The masked kaiju man looms behind her while an older scoundrel lectures her in an old-school respectable tone, but her unbridled amusement remains unaffected.)
Seasoned Scoundrel: Lady Shinobu, third daughter of the Tsutsumi line, I must advise your actions in this country have been ill-advised. That man you had victimized may have been a buffoon, but not a waif with no ties to the wider world.
Shinobu: Please! No one who falls between the cracks into this gap will ever amount to anything great. They wouldn't be in a place like this if their life were going well or if their loved ones were watching out for them.
Seasoned Scoundrel: Do you not know who that man was?
Shinobu: Just some dreamer who couldn't accept his lot in life being the runt in his family litter and decided to try becoming a star in the underground. I hate people like that, and so do most. That's why his family won't care he got his little feelings hurt over his petty dreams being brought to an end.
Seasoned Scoundrel: And yet, madam, we have received this ominous letter as of this morning. From Emperatriz Ala Oscura, I'll translate for you.
(This seems to catch Shinobu's attention as she stops playing with the mask to turn to her retainer reading the letter.)
Seasoned Scoundrel: It reads as follows. "Wayward child from eastern lands, you have brought great shame to what I would was led to believe was a distinguished family, ever since you arrived here in my beautiful country. You have been an uninvited, unruly, guest who has only not been dealt with because you took to nest in that Hueco hellhole for no one to see. But your baseless confidence has gotten the best of you. My little brother may have been a lost soul, but he is still Casuario blood and you have dishonoured him by taking what is most precious to members of my family. For cassowary, the world's most dangerous bird, the females are larger and most vicious. In that vein I am the matriarch who shall avenge my kin by meting out justice. I challenge you! My people have already made contact with the dirtbag running the operations down there and he's sold you out for my appearance in that cesspool, so we'd know if you try to flea this in-ring contest…. don't, forcing us to use our men to track you down for street justice would make your fate worse where your body will not be found. And don't bring that beast either. I'll be seeing you in combat soon. Prepare to be torn to shreds by the talons of the dark pinion. - Emperatriz Ala Oscura.”
(Shinobu gulps and looks around the room of layabouts that has been driven silent by the message. One of her scrawny closer confidant young grunts checks on her being distressed.)
Shinobu: I can't believe he went running to his sister, what a pathetic baby! And she actually cared?!
Brash grunt: Maybe you should ask one of your sisters to come over?
Shinobu: Silence!
(Shinobu snaps at the lackey who flinches and shrinks back at her anger. She then shakes her head.)
Shinobu: They wouldn't come help anyways, idiot. They'd just lecture me, or take you guys away if anything. I'll just have to fight through this.
Seasoned Scoundrel: To be frank, madam, you wouldn't last ten minutes against a woman of Emperatriz's caliber. Allow me to advise. Emperatriz is harsh but she's a lady of reason and honour. I'm sure if you just allow her to dole out her punishment without issue, her rage shall be quelled.
Shinobu: …I understand. I'll make this right
(Shinobu nods and slightly slaps herself to prepare herself.)
January 11th, 2023
(The video turns back on at the Hueco underground, where Shinobu is already in the shambled ring. The ropes are lax and unusable, the corners have no pads and aren't secured to support weight on them, and even the mat has an extra lack of give. Still, there are more cameras than usual, with the promoter doing extra business with the relatively packed crowd who will probably send him profits off their bootleg video sales.)(The rowdy crowd goes quiet in awe when Emperatriz Ala Oscura makes her appearance as if stunned she truly came to their "establishment." EAO is dawning a fancy-robed garb of imposing shiny dark feathers and a fancy blue, black and red cassowary mask. On top of that, she's 5'10" and toned, clearly sizing Shinobu by a large margin and carries an aura of majesty. She's flanked by actual official-looking staff, a referee and an announcer that shoo away their underground counterparts away. EAO, being a veteran wrestler with influence, has Shinobu patted down by the referee to ensure she doesn't have any weapons hidden on her person while the announcer speaks.)
Official ring announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, this match will be contested under your Hueco rules, where one must either render their opponent unconscious or forcefully remove the other's mask! I present to you from Naucalpan de Juárez!..The Triple Crown, five time RRR Ultra World Champion, “The Dark Pinion” EEEEMPERATRIZ AAAAAALAAAAAAAA OSSSSSCUUUUUUUURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(The crowd explodes as a bell is rung, and Shinobu instantly bolts out of and catches EAO with a surprisingly fast dropkick. EAO is rocked down as a rabid Shinobu desperately wails on her with all she's got. But while the flurry was unexpected, it's nothing the big timer can't handle as she eventually turns the table on Shinobu by powering through, grabbing onto her and slamming Shinobu down with a modified spinebuster.)
(Shinobu tries fighting back, but with the ring ropes and corners being messed up as they are, there are no opportunities for her to maximize her preferred maneuvers that use momentum and the skies. For the next five minutes, Shinobu did get some good hits in during their exchange, but EAO was too in exemplary fashion and as time went on, it only got worse for Shinobu. It got more terrible for Shinobu when she tried to turn for a spinning elbow, only for EAO to show explosive speed herself to catch Shinobu by the back and deliver EAO's pattened High Angle German Suplex.)
(For the next ten minutes, Shinobu hangs on by a thread, as EAO mostly dominates, ragdolling Shinobu around and piecing her up with strikes. As time went on, Shinobu became increasingly desperate, beginning to gouge at the eyes and hairpulling to get moments of respite that'd never last. Yet no matter what EAO hit her with, Shinobu refused to stay down, even as the crowd would cheer on everything as they only enjoyed the pure violence of the affair. Shinobu didn't care if they didn't pick a side, it was her gladiator crowd, her wretched people she's been with over the years she's been in the underground! She can't stay down to some outsider! She even made it past the ten minutes she wasn't supposed to be able to! So she keeps getting back up and fighting like a mad woman!)
(But eventually, Shinobu falls, and her head hangs from the middle rope that's fallen as low as the bottom. From the sea of fans, a scrawny one puts his hands on her mask and gets his palms all over it, and that sympathy from this sea of animals convinces Shinobu, it can't go on. After all, "no one who falls between the cracks into this gap will ever amount to anything great." She crawls to EAO on her knees and begs, to an annoyed crowd that didn't come to hear talking.)
Shinobu: Enough, please! I've learned my lesson! Show mercy! Think of your brother, he and I are the same, just two looked over children in the shadows of their siblings trying to make something of themselves in this disgusting place because it's all we have! We both went down the wrong path, but if I can turn my life around and apologize to him so can he! Allow me to give him that peace! Don't you want that for him?
(The talk of comforting her brother stops EAO for a moment, but Shinobu springs up and smashes her head onto EAO's in that split second. In a shock to all EAO falls like a sack of potatoes and is rendered unconscious. Shinobu then rips EAO's mask off and cackles. The scrawny person from the crowd enters the ring, as the concern feint from earlier was a lie and it's just the grunt from the earlier video, now helping Shinobu to her feet. They escape after Shinobu delivers one last kick to her unmoving victim. Blood begins to trickle down EAO's exposed face as the crowd cheers, and even though Shinobu is getting out of the arena so quickly without being able to celebrate, she still hears the sketchy announcer take his job back.)
Sketchy ring announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, that is the end of Emperatriz Ala Oscura! Give it up for that Hueco menace, a blasted…no accursed being that'll deliver our chaos throughout the world Shinobu Tsutsumi!
(Outside in the dark of the night, Shinobu is helped towards an inconspicuous car by her scrawny grunt, finding the seasoned scoundrel waiting. He's shocked to see the mask in Shinobu's hand while she's being put in the backseat.)
Seasoned Scoundrel: Lady Shinobu, what have you done?! What wi–
Shinobu: Oh relax, that traitorous thug got the show he sold us out for and now Hueco will get the renown as the underground where that famous Emperatriz bird lost her mask! He's smiling ear to ear somewhere and has reason to hold a grudge. Now, let's get out of this country. It's been too long since I've been home. And I’ve heard there’s an whole galaxy of dreamers for me to shatter the hopes of.
(The old scoundrel shakes his head in exasperation but joins the scrawny one inside the front of the car to drive. As the car begins to run, the grunt looks back at the back of the car, where Shinobu is unseen due to the darkness. Her old mask comes flying forward and he catches it, taking out a one-sided metal plate he had added when touching it during the match. Knowing what this means, he smiles and talks to Shinobu)
Brash grunt: Ya know, boss, I know you change masks all the time, but you sure that one's any good? Sure, the bird's deadly for a bird, but I hear they can't even fly, while you take to the skies all the time……I think it's basically a mean giant black turkey.
Shinobu: Ha! Who cares? That family's heritage and the origin of this wicked design mean nothing to me. Though it's fun knowing that the empress and her people will know I took what was lovingly theirs. Any ol black feathered bird would have done the trick to be my tengu mask! What matters is that it's now mine!
(Disgustingly dismissing her victims' entire lineage and having no respect for the beast whose face she wears just for looks, that is Shinobu Tsutsumi. From out of the darkness, Shinobu leans forward into the light at the front of the car, showing the "tengu" masked face the "Ring of Dreams" will have the misfortune of getting to know.)