A Wrestler's Dream

**Users Involved:** User:NotaVenusFlyTrap; User:The ancient terror.
**Setting:** West Blue, Serenity Cove
**Characters Involved:**Ragsdill Maria, Tiefenbacher Riha.
**Characters Mentioned**:

## Stepping on the Bag

The waves of the ocean flowed as peacefully as ever surrounding a small island that at first sight wasn't too much of a thing and could be passed by perfectly and ignored, it looked like the average island with a small village though more than a place full of peace it was a no ruler's land mostly visited to trade or to relax in the bar or hotels risking be robbed at any time if you don't look tough or creepy enough to avoid any interaction with the gangs of the place.

But that wasn't the case for a certain someone, people gathered to look curiously at something happening in the middle of the streets keeping their distance cautious not to interfere or fall victim to the little altercation keeping a blind eye on it as a group of 5 individuals surrounded an unarmed young woman, her brown hair shining with the sun all loosened up and falling on her shoulders, her eyebrow was raised in confusion while her big red eyes darted to look at every member of the mob, she seemed to feel out of place but didn't back up a single inch.

''Ya' Know da rules sweetie! Give us da money and no one is harmed!'' One of them said watching the girl from head to toe as if measuring her proportions which only made her frown instead of pulling her pockets out and emptying them as they wanted her to do.

''That's deplorable, not intimidating at all! You lack the presence, and you look very very weak!''

The girl said shooking her head a few times, disappointed at the failure of a threat they tried to play with her.

''Ya think yer tough chick? Lemme see whatcha say after this!''

"How.......just how?"

Said a person who sounded like she had lost the last of her patience, as she was far beyond angry and only holding clear disbelief in the situation.

Standing behind the white haired woman was a sea king who was completely confused before the woman looked at her log pose in disbelief.

"I SAID EAST, NOT WEST! HOW COULD YOU NOT NOTICE THAT WE ENTERED THE CALM BELT AND WENT STRAIGHT TO THE WEST BLUE!!!

Riha cried out as the Sea King even dared to shrug her shoulders. The vampyr eyes twitched as she turned to look at the island they had arrived on. She was about to turn and go back with the Sea King when her stomach growled.

Blushing slightly and with an annoyed expression, she sighed before taking the rowboat from the beast's mouth.

"You wait here. I'll eat something quickly while you try to improve your sense of direction."

Riha complained before she began rowing the boat to the shore of the island. Hopefully the food was good for her, so she could at least satisfy her hunger.

In just a few minutes the people of the area were astonished by how the events turned out, the girl who was being picked on now was sitting on two of the gangsters who were knocked out and laying on the floor piled up above the other to make a little ''throne'' for her while her hand pointed at one of the remaining guys who looked just as perplexed than the rest of people.

''See? All bark and no act, this is not entertaining at all. The people ain't even clapping, one has to keep the masses euphoric!'' The girl said standing up as a grin appeared on her lips but just before she could do anything the malefactor started running away in panic throwing his weapon, which was a metal pipe, directly at her face.

But she didn't move to avoid it receiving the full impact as her body tilted backward the pain flowing through her whole body while the irritating sound of metal bouncing and hitting the ground over and over again, Maria's face was facing the sky for a few moments before she recomposed herself, a wide grin on her lips as a slight blush washed all over her cheeks, her nose was slowly starting to bleed from the impact which she noticed but didn't seem to care about it.

''That was an amazing throw! FUJUAHAHAHA! Let me do it!'' She laughed out loud letting the blood flow down her chin and drip on the floor as she grabbed the pipe from the floor aiming it at the guy who was running desperately in the direction of the shore she took a deep breath and threw it with such force the speed only did nothing but increase, hitting the guy successfully but...the pipe bounced in the air one last time.

Riha entered the island when she finally reached the shore, and she had to admit that it looked bland and boring. Even though she didn't really care about attention or what people thought about her, at the moment she couldn't handle the fact that the locals recognized her and called the Marines. After all, she just wanted to have a moment of peace and get something to eat. So a cloak was the best to hide her appearance.

She was already about to kick the Edgelord between the legs so she couldn't walk for a week after all the shit she put her through, by a bloody brat with an ego bigger than the Red Line or an old fossil with a god complex, thanks to her decision.

But at least her negative thoughts could go away, after all, this boring place had one of her absolute favorite foods.

"I can't believe they have blood sausages! And that too in a hot dog bun!"

Said Riha with stars in her eyes and saliva dripping from her mouth and her stomach growling even more from the mere smell. She closed her eyes and was about to take a bite. The smell already told her that it would be delicious. But thanks to her closed eyes, she didn't notice that her hotdog was knocked over ass it was replaced by a thrown object, but before she could notice, she took a bite.

**CLANG**

"OW! WHAT THE HELL?!" Riha cursed as she bit directly into the cold metal of a pipe. She looked confused as she reinserted one of her teeth with a crack before watching her delicious hot dog fall to the ground.

"**NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!**"

Riha fell to her knees as tears ran like a waterfall from her eyes as she screamed to the heavens that she had lost her delicious food while some people looked at her strangely.

Maria who was the malefactor of such a tragic event didn't even notice at first as she quickly approached the already knocked out on the floor grunt, hopping happily for her little accomplishment, it was the first time she actually hit the objective by pure luck, normally the pipe or whatever she threw seemed to fly in the opposite direction she wanted to, or at least that's what she convinced herself with since her aim was straight up trash, she's a brawler, not a marksman.

Upon arriving, at first, she didn't notice the crime scene just a few steps away from where she was standing as she looked down at the poor guy with a smile on her face, with the blood from her nose still dripping off her jaw and staining the clothes of the gangster, she kicked him with her foot a few times to see if he was still alive noticing how he wasn't moving she just shrugged and shook her head in disappointment, he was already knocked out and she barely did a thing.

''What a sham- Huh?'' Maria finally noticed the scene looking first at the hot dog on the floor and then at the woman crying for it she didn't seem to connect the dots even after clearly noticing the pipe, SHE threw laying on the floor next to them, she raised an eyebrow clueless about the situation approaching the woman and sitting on the ground in front of her tilting her head as she analyzed said lady from head to toe.

''Why are you crying over a hot dog? Was it special or som- Oh! I know, it makes sense now'' Her mind finally seemed to work properly and gave her a poor explanation of what happened realizing it was her fault. ''The pipe isn't mine but I threw it to this guy right here, was it so impressive you dropped the hotdog? Was it?.'' She explained to the woman not realizing her position while pointing with her right hand to where the grunt was knocked out.

Riha stopped crying and froze when she heard the voice of the new person right next to her. It took her a while to register the words before the aura next to her grew darker.

"Did I hear that right?" began Riha as her grip on the pipe tightened and the girl next to her could see the metal in her grip slowly just begin to bend.

"Did you throw the pipe?"

''I sure did!''

Maria didn't show any remorse in the bare minimum with her answer even smiling brightly at Riha before her eyes took notice of easy she was able to bend the pipe quite surprised by the use of force, unaware of the deep anger she had awakened within the woman, something was poking at the back of her head as if her fight or flight senses were telling her to react, but she just didn't.

''What did the poor pipe do to you? Now it ain't a pipe anymore-''

Riha didn't let the young wrestler finish her sentence, because immediately she pounced on Maria, grabbed her by the collar and started shaking her violently back and forth.

"HOW CAN YOU BE SO HEARTLESS!? THAT WAS MY FIRST REAL MEAL IN WEEKS!"

Riha screamed as tears poured from her eyes like a waterfall and her teeth looked like a shark's.

"AND YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO BE SO SHEEPISH ABOUT IT!!! HOW EVIL ARE YOU!?"

Riha screamed as her trembling became faster and more violent while Maria slowly turned into a blur and only her eyes could be seen with how fast she shook the young wrestler.

The girl was startled by the sudden reaction being shaken at that pace making her brain literally flip, the dizziness was present really quickly but she didn't stop the woman from continuing to do that, what was she talking about? A meal? Maria still was as lost as a stray dog in a marathon until the dots started connecting from all the shaking, somehow.

''HUUuuUH? Eeeviiiil? I'm nooooooot, I didn't meaaaaan tooooo, buuuut youuuuuu sureeely aaaaaare strooong ma'aaaam!''

Were the girl's words, her wide smile didn't vanish just yet and the engines inside her bouncing brain working to make her feel kind of excited.

Riha didn't stop the shaking, as the words didn't do much to calm her down. The moment she instant of stopping, she lifted the girl over her head, before starting to spin her.

"YES YOU ARE! YOU ARE THE MOST EVIL BEING RUINING MY BLOOD SAUSAGE HOT DOG!"

The vampyr screamed before hurling the girl like a meteorite against a nearby wall of the house.

She was too immersed by her head being already dizzy that it took her too much thinking to realize she was spinning like a mill making her whole vision go blurry from the incredibly fast pace the woman was going with as the spinning went on for a few seconds it stopped but just to be thrown away against the wall, crashing with a great force that even made the wall crumble leaving Maria's figure traced on it with a few cracks that made the rest of the bricks slowly fall on the ground, a cloud of dust raised with the loud sound of something heavy hitting the wall.

The silence remained for a few seconds as Maria remained motionless on the ground, but as the dust cloud finally faded away some rocks fell on the ground while she stood up brushing off the dust from her body with her hands.

''THAT'S SOME REAL STRENGTH YOU GOT THERE SAUSAGE WOMAN! I WANT TO DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN!''

Were the girl's words, she was overflowing with happiness and her excited big red eyes showed it as her body started hopping on the ground with excitement, wasn't she hurt by that?

Riha grunted in annoyance when finally the sign of her anger disappeared under rubles and dust. It didn't bring back her hotdog, but at least it felt kind of good and made the girl fly away. But just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard that voice again.

When she turned around, she caught sight of Maria, who had a happy expression on her face, and when she heard those words, she was even more confused.

"You know what? Fuck it. No, you're not getting any more. I refuse."

Riha pouted before crossing her arms and turning around without looking at Maria, like a child mad at an adult.

Hearing those words made Maria's smile fade quickly and morph into a big pout quickly approaching Riha trying to make her look at her once again, Her expression was one just like a sad puppy down the rain begging for something and strangely, in this case, it wasn't food or something enjoyable, on the contrary, it was literally Maria wanting the woman to do the move once again and if it was harder it could be even better for her, the pain was somewhat a pleasant feeling to the girl, kind of weird.

''Come ooooooooon! Just one punch at least? I can get you another sausage or whatever you were going to eat!''

She begged clasping her hands as if it were a plea to the white-haired woman to look and listen to her.

''Just let me fight, pleaseeeee! Just this once!''

"Don't you have anything else to do!!!"

The puppy's eyes actually didn't work, as Riha made a disgusted expression and pushed her away slightly before hearing the second part of her request as she began to think about it.

"Hmmmm? So you want to fight me? Well, thanks to you I have an empty stomach and I can't fight on an empty stomach. Get me something to eat and I might reconsider."

Riha replied, crossing her arms in annoyance.

''Pleasepleasepleas- Oh? Okay'' Just as simple as that Maria didn't comply to the request quickly removing the puppy eyes from her expression and forming once again a big smile on her lips.

She started hopping while walking in the direction where the hot dogs presumably were from moving her right hand to look in her own pockets for something, rummaging in the cloth calmly at first and then noticing how something was missing making her run her hands in her pockets a bit more desperately before stopping and looking at the ground around her, of course, she didn't bring any money. But she didn't seem to give it much thought approaching quickly the body of the defeated robber on the ground, which she finished with the metal rod earlier, grabbing his leg and dragging him with her to continue on her way to the hotdog store.

Just five minutes and the Brunette came back running with a small pile of sausage hot dogs trying not to drop them in the process while she approached the angry, and hungry, woman that she wanted to fight so bad standing right in front of her with the hot dogs in hands and that idiotic big smile of hers, expectantly.

When Riha saw the sight of the pile of sausages, her angry expression turned into a joyful one, and her mouth was already starting to drool when she smelled the food. Her stomach growled, and without warning she pounced on the food, snatching it from Maria's hands and devouring it like a hungry animal.

It only took a minute at most for the sausages to disappear into her mouth before Riha let out a contented sigh and dropped onto her back, where she lay like a contented child.

"That was delicious.".

''Was it? Will you do that thing you did to throw me again? Pretty please, I did what I was supposed to''

The young one said bending down a little to look at Riha resting on the floor of the little banquet she had, Maria's shadow was projected over Riha, covering her from the sun for a moment while she waited, with that ostentatious grin of hers, for a response from the white-haired girl directing her hand to start poking at the woman's shoulder with a single finger.

Riha looked a bit annoyed at Maria's constant poking, as she just wanted to relax a bit after filling her belly. With an annoyed sideways glance, she looked at the young wrestler.

"Why do you want me to beat you up? Seriously, I've forgiven you for what you did to me, but do you really have some kind of death wish? Or is it some kind of sport for you to get beat up?"

Riha asked as she settled into a sitting position, honestly curious about the young woman's motives.

''Is a lifestyle! What's the point of living if you can't live your life to the fullest?''

Maria answered without hesitation, it didn't sound like a joke since her enthusiastic expression showed how proud she was of her answer not even caring if it was a dumb reason for the woman, it was all she knew. Hopefully for Riha, the girl finally stopped poking her leaving her hand to rest and wait for a positive answer, at least.

''That and no one ever has thrown me like that before, I want to prove something to myself!''

Riha stared at the girl, and her annoyance was replaced by curiosity. She really had the impression that this girl was as crazy as she was.

"With this lifestyle, you die faster in the New World before you can enjoy a minute of your life. So what exactly do you need to prove yourself?"

''I know that and is perfect just like that, I want to prove I'm not just a show pig, but an overachiever show pig! I want to see how much my body can resist before breaking, and you are the first step in my wishes since...YOU ARE THE FIRST ONE TO ACTUALLY THROW ME!''

The woman was way too excited talking about her little dreamland that she couldn't keep her mouth a bit quieter screaming the last sentence with all her heart, her smile was way too big showing her happiness just by thinking about...getting beaten up by someone strong...?

''If I die I die, and if I don't I keep up for the next one, that's all that there is for me.''

Riha stood up and gave Maria a strange look, her expression oddly serious and even angry. But without warning, Riha rolled her leg back before stepping full force right next to Maria, the sheer force shaking the entire floor as the ground didn't crack, but actually her leg dug deep into the ground,

"Who do you think you are!"

Riha snapped in anger and pulled her leg out as debris and dust came out.

"You talk as if you've ever experienced death! Have you so disregarded the gift of life! You think throwing away that gift just to satisfy that one moment makes you special?! I can tell you that you will end up like every other human in this world, buried and as a pile of forgotten bones!"

Riha replied, though she sounded much more emotional than her usual mood swings, as it sounded a bit more personal. As this happened, purple dust gathered around her as the feeling of unease and fear increased exponentially, and the people around her were already starting to back away or run away from the sheer presence.

Out of pure reflex, Maria took a step back watching how the woman became angry by what she said but not exactly placing why and just feeling her skin get goosebumps from the mere pressure the woman's presence gave her but unlike the people around the area who were already leaving frightened, she didn't chicken out just yet, feeling the adrenaline starting to flow through her veins just by looking at the danger faced ahead, perhaps she may had to be more careful with her next words.

''But that's what I was made for, or so I think. I don't know, I'm not good with words lady, okay? I may not have a proper purpose but I'm trying to look for one in the process, have something to live for without getting bored!''

Maybe she should have kept her mouth shut but at this point Maria didn't care about her own words, not thinking before answering.

Riha heard it silently. Her dangerous aura was still present, her expression not beckoning, as the apology seemed to have no effect.

"Go...go..."

She made a sound as her lips twitched before she burst out laughing and threw her head back.

"Goyoyoyo! You're not stupid! You're just an aimless kid looking for a hobby?! I'd call it adorable! Goyoyoyo!"

Riha laughed, all anger gone in an instant as she just laughed, tears even coming from her eyes.

''Huh...?'' Just as she was at a total loss for words Maria's expression looked like one of confusion, wasn't she going to kick her just a few moments ago? At least she was able to take a small sigh feeling slightly relieved yet something was poking at her mind constantly about the words of the pale woman, sure, she was laughing at her of course, not a surprise at all.

''I used to have a hobby okay? It becomes very boring when you don't have to do shit!''

She added with a small pout on her expression, to the girl it felt as if the woman in front was making fun of her, which probably was true at this point.

''Is not funny, okaaaay? I'm a wrestler, not a cloooown!''

Riha continued to laugh, but she calmed down a little and was able to talk to her.

"Isn't that funny? So your old hobby was being a clown? Goyoyoyoyoy!"

Riha burst into another fit of laughter and patted Maria on the back, the anger now gone as all she could think of was the image of Maria dressed as a clown.

''Me? WAIT WAIT I DIDN'T MEAN- UH''

At the time Maria didn't know how to get back in her tracks the conversation the words stumbling in her mind before she could even give a proper answer, her brain practically short-circuited trying to explain and clarify.

''I'm not a clown! BUAAAAAHHHH!''

With that just like a child, the girl had busted into tears with a hand quickly slapping away Riha's hand that was patting the wrestler's back.

Riha honestly didn't care, even after Maria slapped her arm away and began to cry. The laughter echoed for a few moments before she finally calmed down.

"Okay! Okay! Nice ex-clown! Don't get so upset right away! So you're a wrestler now? That's actually cool! I love wrestling, my favorite sport to participate in myself!"

Riha didn't really feel bad about upsetting Maria, but he at least tried to change the subject.

At first, the girl kept crying loudly, her tears comically falling in abundance like a waterfall but it slowly got a bit quieter upon hearing a certain word that was kept repeating on a loop in her head, Wrestler, with a few sniffs she looked at the white-haired lady a bit reluctantly at first but after thinking about it and remembering what her objective on all of this was. Fighting the woman. She just stumbled off the road for a moment with the clown stuff, something that clearly upset her a whole lot.

''Wrestling?'' She sniffed twice wiping off her cheeks what was left of the tears. ''Do you like wrestling too?''

"Well, as I said, ex-clown, I love wrestling and would even wrestle in my spare time at some point, even if I've lacked a prominent sparring partner or opponent in recent years."

Riha replied before letting out a yawn.

"But since you like to cry, I should leave you now. See you soon, ex-clown."

Said Riha, believing that Maria had lost all interest in a possible fight as she reached into her rob, pulled out some berries, gave them to Maria and turned to leave the young wrestler.

''Wait wha-''

Her brain was actually working five times harder than normal trying to figure out what that meant, her mouth was shut down by the berries tossed her way, trying to catch them they bounced and escaped her grasp not once but twice, each one of them falling on the ground beside her, where they remained, her red eyes looked at them for a moment, they were just blank only conveying how clueless she was. As her gaze rose in a slow motion her eyes fell on the scene of the woman walking away from her, already at a large distance from where she stood motionless.

She just snapped from her little burnout.

''**LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADYYYYYY HOLD OOOOOOOOOOOON, I'M NOT A CRYBABY! I'M A STAAAAAAAAAAAAR!**''

That scream was heard alongside footsteps on the ground of someone running after the white-haired female, before she could notice Maria using her race momentum, she dashed using her feet that propelled from the ground and forward throwing her body to tackle the ''lady'' to the ground, she wasn't going to let anyone call her a crybaby, not even a stranger.

As Riha walked, she suddenly heard a scream before a weight slammed into her back. It was fast and powerful and would have knocked any normal man off his feet and probably into the nearest building.

But the captain of the cursed pirates was another matter, a woman who could barely move, with abnormally hard skin and strength. To the young wrestler, it felt like she was actually trying to conquer a huge mountain, because the result was obviously that it looked more like Maria had hugged her, while the vampire didn't move even an inch.

Slightly annoyed, she turned her head to the side before grabbing the wrestler's head firmly and lifting her into the air, giving the wrestler a nasty look.

"A star? Shouldn't a star be popular and well known, because I've never heard of you and I'm sure most people in the world haven't either. But I'll admit, you're a brave brat. Tell me what you have planned after the tackle?"

Maria's expression remained the same, a frown that felt more like a pout than an actual angry face, as the woman showed her strength by single-handle lifting her up she grabbed the woman's arm with both hands trying to escape her grip by squeezing tight with the sheer force of her hands while her legs and feet kicked the air vividly.

''I was one where I come from! I don't care if people don't recognize me, I couldn't care less since they eventually will!'' with a bit of irritation in her voice she admitted not being **THE** star yet her wish of achieving it was strongly present. ''I was going to perform a Crossface submission, but it seems you are as hard as a baguette left weeks at room temperature!''

The arm didn't even buckle in the struggle Maria was having as the vampire lifted her to face her forward.

"Crossface submission you say? Trust me little girl, even if you were as strong as me, submissions are the stupidest way to defeat me. But you know what?"

Riha sang as she pulled Maria so close to her face that the young wrestler could feel the captain's breath.

"Are you interested in getting more excitement and recognition and not being bullied by sluts and bastards like me?"

''Excitement you say...?''

Rather than being angry the proposal of the woman seemed to pick her interest quite a bit, her gaze remained locked into the woman's eyes not being intimidated at all by the superiority the older woman had demonstrated over her strength.

''What are you proposing? Wait, more importantly...why? Aren't you going to like...knock me out or throw me across the sea...?''

"Well, you've piqued my interest, ex-clown. I mean, even you should be not stupid enough to realize that if you attacked without doing anything, you'd die, and yet you attacked, which means you're either really stupid, suicidal, or very brave."

Riha grinned and shook Maria's body left and right as she watched the young wrestler.

"You may be weak, but you have the potential to be strong. Here's the deal. What do you say I take you under my wing and show you parts of the strongest sea and promise you'll reach a level you'd never reach on this island or even on this sea?"

As the woman shooked her body Maria let herself loose a bit as the thought crossed her mind, it was quite a sudden proposal yet...she didn't feel like denying it, it picked her interest even more as her main goal was related to it and could even be possible to accomplish rather than on her own, she allowed the thoughts to come and go through her mind before giving a final answer.

''Don't call me ex-clown, call me **Maria**! And if what you are saying is true I think...I will accept because I respect you for being strong, I just have one request tho...'' Her lips immediately curled up into a smile from ear to ear. ''Throw me again like you did earlier!''

Riha looked at Maria with narrowed eyes, because it wasn't that simple after all.

"**It's official. That brat is even crazier than you are.**" Wahn commented dryly and this time Riha couldn't contradict him. Slowly forming a grin, not paying attention to how people were looking, the captain carried the girl at her head further towards the shore.

"Well, in that case. Welcome to the crew, ex-clown Maria!"

Riha exclaimed before her muscles tensed. Maybe it was because Riha didn't really think about the fact that they were in West Blue, maybe because Maria was such a stranger or maybe she was just too excited. But the cracking of the ground made Riha jump back and she prepared to throw Maria like a ball...only for her to throw the wrestler with full force. This resulted in her literally breaking the sound barrier as Maria shot out into the vast horizon of the ocean like a flying star. But as she flew and slowed down, Olmar shot out of the water with his mouth wide open and swallowed the wrestler in one bite.

Riha, seeing the scene, froze, her expression frozen as the sea king was about to dive.

"Wait! Olmar! She's not food! Spit her out!" shouted Riha in comedic horror as she took a rowboat and rowed all the way to the scene to avoid losing a new crew member for being mistaken for food.