Eventually, I was returned to Carolyn.
During my absence, Carolyn had located the wrestling coach. The coach was named Nikol. She was my height and had an athletic look about her, with broad shoulders, strong hands and impressive muscle tone. And she was wearing tights, while I was naked, except for my slave collar.
"Another lesbian," Nikol commented as she grabbed my slave collar and pulled me forward, bringing us dangerously close together.
The slave collars were distinct colors depending on a slave's sexual orientation. Straight slaves were given white collars. Bisexual slaves were given gray slave collars and gay slaves like me were given black slave collars. Nikol knew that I was a lesbian the moment she saw me because of the collar secured around my throat.
"There are approximately one hundred female slaves registered for wrestling in this city, and there isn't a straight girl in the mix anywhere. Why do you suppose that is?"
As she asked the question, Nikol ran her hands up and down my body, feeling the firmness of my calves, my thighs, my glutes and my abdomen. It felt weird to be felt up this way. It wasn't sexual or erotic. It was more like evaluating the muscle tone of a racing horse before you bought it from a horse trader.
"I um, suppose that straight women would find it awkward to get groped by another woman, mistress," I said hesitantly. "I mean, wrestling involves a lot of grappling and grabbing your opponent, um, by the legs or the..."
Suddenly, Nikol clamped one hand over my mouth. She gave me a sharp look.
"It was a rhetorical question, slave girl," she snapped. "I already have an excellent idea why straight women don't want to roll around naked on the wrestling mat with other women!"
After I was silenced, Nikol went back to examining my naked body. She complimented me on the impressive firmness of my glutes, and just as I felt she was starting to like me, she asked me about my previous wrestling experience.
"I don't have any, Mistress."
My voice was tremulous. I had been whipped with a riding crop earlier that day and the more she grabbed and squeezed my sore buttock, the more she renewed the pain of that whipping.
"Another novice!" Nikol exclaimed loudly. "I've got nine wrestlers on my team, and Brooke is the only one with any wrestling experience, and she hasn't wrestled since high school! What did I ever do to deserve this?"
I wisely bit my tongue and remained silent. I rightly assumed this was another one of those rhetorical questions.
"So, the American team has no chance?" Carolyn asked.
Nikol pinched the bridge of her nose between her thumb and forefinger and took a few moments to get ahold of herself before answering.
"Not necessarily," she replied. "I was talking to the wrestling coach for the Norwegian team. She says her wrestlers are also woefully inexperienced. She thinks it might be the same for the British and the Ukrainians and everybody else."
"Okay, so amateurs vs. amateurs, that shouldn't be so bad, right?"
Nikol remained unconvinced. Apparently, she took wrestling seriously, and she felt that sending a bunch of inexperienced girls out onto the wrestling mat to grapple with each other cheapened the sport.
"I think that slave contracts are traditionally approved due to the applicant's good looks and sex appeal," Carolyn commented. "I don't think they usually ask about athletic ability."
"This whole thing is a farce," my wrestling coach replied. "I'll try and whip these women into shape, but none of them are going to put in an impressive performance. They ought to take the name 'Olympics' off this thing."
Carolyn and Nikol discussed the situation involving me and the other slaves that would be competing. They came to the conclusion that the attendees would be more interested in seeing the losing slaves get punished than celebrating the athletic skill of the winners.
* * *
Later that day, I was taken into a room and introduced to the other slaves on the American wrestling team. I had already met Brooke, but then I was introduced to all the others.
It was a heady experience. All these women were young, naked, and had bewitching bodies that would tempt a nun into violating her vows of chastity. Any one of them would have been enough to cause my sex to throb, but to be surrounded by seven or eight, or nine naked women of such beauty and raw, unbridled sex appeal had a cumulative effect on my libido. A wave of desire passed through me, and my nipples became embarrassingly hard in their presence.
Every single one of them was exquisite, with slender waists, taut, sculpted abs, long legs and vulvas that had been meticulously waxed or shaved, leaving every woman's plump, glistening pubic lips deliciously exposed.
There was Emma, Olivia, Scarlett, um, okay, I never learned all their names. I spent so much time mesmerized by their bodies and struggling to function while being swept away by a never-ending tidal wave of libidinous desire, I had trouble focusing on mundane details like names.
And while the never-ending display of exquisite female bodies was a potent distraction, the training sessions on the mat had a way of getting me intensely focused.
On the mat, those beautiful bodies became opponents who could grab and squeeze and hold and painfully twist your arm behind your back and slam you face down into the floor and make you helpless. I needed to focus less on their seductive beauty and more on how to defend against their physical attacks.
For example, one of the first slaves I sparred against was Brooke.
The fact that she was naked meant that the aesthetic curves of her remarkable body were sublimely on display. So, of course, I was admiring the delightful interplay of her boobs between her arms as she crawled across the wrestling mats towards me.
I probably should have been paying more attention to those arms, and her strong hands. Within seconds of reaching me, she grabbed me around the waist and flipped me over on my back.
I raised my shoulder off the mat, arching my back. With a frantic push, I rolled over backwards and away from Brooke, but she set upon me quickly.
She was quick and agile, grabbing at my waist, my legs, my arms, my pussy, just about anywhere. If she could grab any handful of me and use that grip to control the rest of my body, she grabbed for me there. I found myself immediately on the defensive. I rolled and dodged and squirmed away from her, and tried to find an opening where I could grab her instead, but she moved so fast, and if I managed to grab onto her wrist or her torso, she easily broke my grip. She was strong, merciless and determined.
"Oooooh!"
At one point, she grabbed me around the waist, picked me up and threw me back down. I just barely managed to throw my arm in front of me, protecting my boobs from painfully slamming into the mat, but while I was face down, Brooke shot her arm underneath my armpit and snaked it around me. Then I felt her hand clamping firmly across the back of my head.
She got me in a half nelson, immobilizing my upper body and forcing me to arch my back and thrust my boobs out. I gasped and struggled and tried to get free. My struggles accomplished little more than exhausting me. I began to sweat, and my shoulder got sore from all the pressure exerted on it. Then she grabbed both of my arms and squeezed them painfully together. With her superior strength and leverage, she painfully trapped both of my arms. Then using her free arm, she reached around and grabbed one of my protruding breasts.
"Aaahhh! Stop that! Mistress Nikol!"
"Brooke, keep doing what you're doing," Nikol instructed my opponent. Then, to me she said, "Diane, the rules in slave wrestling allow for breast fondling. I advise you to get used to it."
Clearly the rules for slave wrestling were different from the rules for high school or college wrestling, or any type of wrestling I'd even seen.
In slave wrestling, grabbing your opponent's boobs or smacking her on the buttocks was not only allowed, but encouraged. You earned points for that sort of thing. Forcibly kissing your opponent on the mouth or neck after you had her pinned also earned you points.
"Once your opponent is immobilized or pinned, do whatever you can to humiliate them. The judges award points for that, so finger their pussies, fondle their breasts, kiss them on the mouth, spank their butt; all of these things earn you points, and those points can mean the difference between victory and defeat."
Even though the other women had little to no wrestling experience, they all seemed to have superior instincts when it came to grappling, holding, and pinning your opponent to the wrestling mat. And Nikol encouraged my fellow slaves to humiliate me at length whenever the opportunity presented itself.
For a while there, I was humiliated by all the other slaves. And Nikol made my situation even worse by rewarding my tormentors. If one of them did especially well in a wrestling bout, I was ordered to reward them by getting on my knees and licking my opponent to orgasm while all the other slaves gathered around and watched.
Nikol felt that such public displays were motivational.
"If you pay attention and practice hard, Diane," she would say, "perhaps one day, you'll be the one getting pleasured by one of your fellow slaves."
With endless hours of coaching and practice matches against my teammates, I slowly got better. I learned wrestling holds and how to use leverage to force my opponent to the mat and keep her there. My levels of self-confidence went up, and I did win a few bouts against my fellow wrestlers.