Post by Zelda Knite on Apr 29, 2010 21:39:25 GMT -6
..::I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings Ayla, I really am, but what am I supposed to say here? I was nineteen, it was my first ever match, and I already heard the rumblings that I wasn't good enough to be in the ring yet... there was nobody in the back who would talk to me because I was Adam's sister, I didn't know if you were being serious or condescending. For all I knew you could of just being saying that to get me to drop my guard and steal that match out from under me and Emma. How would I know? I didn't know you, you were acting all pompous and all Canadiany, that's typically not a person you through your trust behind right off the bat you know.
So forgive me if that hurt, but right now you're just acting like everybody else that has tried to hold me down, like everybody else who has thought I needed to fit into some mold. You think I'm being arrogant because I dress up as an alternate evil super villian? I'm just having fun, like when I'm in the ring, like I do all the time, I just try to bring smiles to the faces of all my Zombies. You obviously look down at me for it, you obviously think that I'm just being some kid, well guess what I am a young adult, if I want to goof around with Nelly and his brainless “minions” then I can. Who are you to imply that I shouldn't, who are you to say that, that's me being arrogant?
And you wanna know something, if that is me being arrogant... I've earned it. You see when everybody wrote me off as nothing more than Adam's sister I had to work hard to make them notice me. When I was called too small, too young, I had to go the extra limit to make everybody remember my name, and when I was told there is no chance in hell for me to beat the more experience, tougher, and stronger Julietta, I had to reach down inside of me and pull out even more passion, even more desire to prove everybody wrong. Look where it's gotten me, I haven't lost to anybody in a singles match, I am the champion with the current longest title reign, all because of my will to be the best, that gives me a right to be a bit pompous when somebody who couldn't even get out of the first round of the Women's title tournament gets handed a “Millenia” Championship and is declared as the real women's champion by the company's owner.
So do you not see why I would be a little upset at you? Even if you claim it's not what you wanted.... you still went along with it. Like I said, good for you, it got you to a pay per view one on one match for the Women's title, fantastic job.... but don't expect me to roll over and take it, don't expect me to fall in line like any of those wolf calling idiots out there who cheer you just because you showed them your cans. I figured it was painfully obvious by know that I was not going to be some mindless drone, I wasn't going to be somebody who played by the expectations people had, I'm going to be me, I'm going to be Zelda, and if you want to try and take my belt away from me, you're going to have to realize... no matter what your reasons for doing it... I'm going to stand to my feet and I'm going to fight you with everything I have, and I will not back away.
It's just like I've already told you, no matter what happens, nobody will be able to say I played by any other rules but my own. Nobody will be able to say that I took any shortcuts, claim that Zelda was given a helping hand, because it's well documented that I gave everything I had, that I fought for what I believed in. Out fates seem intertwined, we were in the very first NCW Women's division match together, we faced off in tag matches, we faced off in the first Women's X-Division match, and now we were both chosen by Leonard Fox to be his playmate, and are now facing off at the biggest NCW stage. Do you not see where our paths divided? Do you not see where you instead of taking your own path... started just following a trail somebody had laid out for you? Cleo has you doing her bidding, Fox is playing you like a pawn... you're not being Ayla, you're being what those two want you to be.
Have you been injected with the Jenova cells? Are you nothing but a mindless puppet when Fox and Cleo say dance, or are you Ayla? Are you going to just follow their will, let them control your every action like their little clone or will you break free and be yourself? That's all I want to know, that's all I care about in this match. I can forgive you for everything, as long as you tell me you want to face me because this is what you want, that you want to face me because you want to make the name “Ayla St. James” meaningful to NCW. Not because Cleo wants you to win it so you can dedicate the belt to her, not because Fox wants you to be some dolled up face of his company for publicity, but because you have a desire to be a champion.
So Ayla, please come out there Sunday with all you got, not because you are following the will of that one winged angel, Fox, not because you are wanting to make your “goddess” happy, but because you want to be Ayla, and you want to be a champion. I can respect that, I can understand that. Way are very different Ayla, we both picked a path, but this Sunday I have every intention on showing you the right way to do things, showing you how a true competitor acts, how somebody acts when they aren't being tugged around by a leash, you'll see me legend first hand, and hopefully maybe it'll rub off on you and you can break free of your bonds, and be Ayla again.
Good luck Ayla, win or lose, as long as you play fair I will extend my hand to you after the match. Win or lose, I hope you realized where I've been coming from, this isn't so much about you, it's about proving that man wrong, it's about showing him that I'm more than meets the eye, it's about earning the right to be myself, and represent this title how I want to, in the end... we both really want the same thing I think.... to be noticed, to be accepted::..
{Inside the hotel room where Adam and Zelda are staying this week, preparing for A Night to Remember we see Zelda in a tight form fitting Lance Ryan t-shirt and some short pink shorts. She's pacing the living room area back and forth with her cell phone raised to her ear, her face is red with her hair tussled about wildly, she doesn't look happy to say the least. }
Zelda: NO! I'm not going to send you anything! Especially not money that you can blow on beer!
{Zelda stops pacing and stands there, she lets out a sigh as she listens to what the other person has to say. Zelda rolls her eyes and looks even more frustrated.}
Zelda: I don't have time to talk to you, I've gotta prepare for a match.... yes, I have a match...
{Zelda stomps her foot and yells now, shifting to anger.}
Zelda: AYLA ST. JAMES! Have you not been watching me on TV!? You want me to send you money, but you won't even take time out of your busy day of doing nothing to watch your daughter on TV!? I'm undefeated you know, I......I....
{Zelda's father as it's revealed begins saying something on the other end of the phone, Zelda's head droops in sadness as she listens.}
Zelda: What about all that money Adam sent you for ten years? Did you not save any of it, because I know you weren't spending it on me like it was supposed to be...... ugh... don't give me that line about being unable to work..... why should I, after what you did to me!?.... Adam saved me from you, if not for him I'd be.... **sigh**
{Zelda takes her right hand and puts it over her eyes and rubs them, trying to keep her calm. She listens to some more pity story.}
Zelda: I know... you're sorry, but.... fine. How much do you need? … alright.... I lov...
{Click.}
Zelda: DAMMIT!
{Zelda reaches back and throws the phone across the room and falls to her knees in tears, just as Adam steps through the front door, he throws his head to the side and just barely misses getting hit in the head with the phone. It smashes into the wall, and doesn't care why it was thrown, he just runs to his sister and puts his arm around her, helping her back to her feet.}
Adam: What's wrong Z?
Zelda: Stupid Dad....
Adam: Why do you keep talking to him?
Zelda: He's my dad.... we don't have mom anymore, he's all we have.
Adam: No, we don't even have him, he doesn't care about either of us.
{This just seems to make Zelda even sadder. So not much help.}
Adam: Look Zel, after everything that man did, you don't need to fall for his crap anymore, you got me, you got Kelly, and I guess you even have that goofy ass Nelly you've been hanging with. Just forget that man ever existed.
Zelda: I try to, I already think of you as more of a father than him, it's just.... I'm such an idiot. Thinking he cares about me, why would he?
Adam: Come on Zel, you've been doing good, don't let one call from him bring you down. You're a special person, coming from what you came from, working as hard as you did. Just because he can't see that, doesn't mean everybody else can't.
Zelda: Really?
Adam: Yeah, I had to fight through a crowd of “Zombies” just to get through the lobby. So obviously you mean a lot to those kids. You're an inspiration to them, you're an inspiration to a lot of people, don't let that drunk make you think otherwise.
{Zelda smiles as she looks up at her brother.}
Zelda: Ok. I won't let this get me down. I've worked hard to get here, to get away from him right?
Adam: Right.
Zelda: But.....
Adam: Yeah?
Zelda: I think I need a new phone....
{Adam looks at what used to be Zel's phone laying on the floor. He sighs, before mashing his hand into Zelda's head, ruffling her hair.}
Adam: Alright... I'll go get the car, meet you outside.
Zelda: Hey, can we swing by gamestop while we're out?
{Adam smiles and shakes his head at his wide eyed sister.}
Adam: Anything you want sis.
Zelda: You know, despite being a perv.... you're the best big brother ever.
Adam: Ever going to let me live that down?
Zelda: Not a chance...
{Fade Out}
So forgive me if that hurt, but right now you're just acting like everybody else that has tried to hold me down, like everybody else who has thought I needed to fit into some mold. You think I'm being arrogant because I dress up as an alternate evil super villian? I'm just having fun, like when I'm in the ring, like I do all the time, I just try to bring smiles to the faces of all my Zombies. You obviously look down at me for it, you obviously think that I'm just being some kid, well guess what I am a young adult, if I want to goof around with Nelly and his brainless “minions” then I can. Who are you to imply that I shouldn't, who are you to say that, that's me being arrogant?
And you wanna know something, if that is me being arrogant... I've earned it. You see when everybody wrote me off as nothing more than Adam's sister I had to work hard to make them notice me. When I was called too small, too young, I had to go the extra limit to make everybody remember my name, and when I was told there is no chance in hell for me to beat the more experience, tougher, and stronger Julietta, I had to reach down inside of me and pull out even more passion, even more desire to prove everybody wrong. Look where it's gotten me, I haven't lost to anybody in a singles match, I am the champion with the current longest title reign, all because of my will to be the best, that gives me a right to be a bit pompous when somebody who couldn't even get out of the first round of the Women's title tournament gets handed a “Millenia” Championship and is declared as the real women's champion by the company's owner.
So do you not see why I would be a little upset at you? Even if you claim it's not what you wanted.... you still went along with it. Like I said, good for you, it got you to a pay per view one on one match for the Women's title, fantastic job.... but don't expect me to roll over and take it, don't expect me to fall in line like any of those wolf calling idiots out there who cheer you just because you showed them your cans. I figured it was painfully obvious by know that I was not going to be some mindless drone, I wasn't going to be somebody who played by the expectations people had, I'm going to be me, I'm going to be Zelda, and if you want to try and take my belt away from me, you're going to have to realize... no matter what your reasons for doing it... I'm going to stand to my feet and I'm going to fight you with everything I have, and I will not back away.
It's just like I've already told you, no matter what happens, nobody will be able to say I played by any other rules but my own. Nobody will be able to say that I took any shortcuts, claim that Zelda was given a helping hand, because it's well documented that I gave everything I had, that I fought for what I believed in. Out fates seem intertwined, we were in the very first NCW Women's division match together, we faced off in tag matches, we faced off in the first Women's X-Division match, and now we were both chosen by Leonard Fox to be his playmate, and are now facing off at the biggest NCW stage. Do you not see where our paths divided? Do you not see where you instead of taking your own path... started just following a trail somebody had laid out for you? Cleo has you doing her bidding, Fox is playing you like a pawn... you're not being Ayla, you're being what those two want you to be.
Have you been injected with the Jenova cells? Are you nothing but a mindless puppet when Fox and Cleo say dance, or are you Ayla? Are you going to just follow their will, let them control your every action like their little clone or will you break free and be yourself? That's all I want to know, that's all I care about in this match. I can forgive you for everything, as long as you tell me you want to face me because this is what you want, that you want to face me because you want to make the name “Ayla St. James” meaningful to NCW. Not because Cleo wants you to win it so you can dedicate the belt to her, not because Fox wants you to be some dolled up face of his company for publicity, but because you have a desire to be a champion.
So Ayla, please come out there Sunday with all you got, not because you are following the will of that one winged angel, Fox, not because you are wanting to make your “goddess” happy, but because you want to be Ayla, and you want to be a champion. I can respect that, I can understand that. Way are very different Ayla, we both picked a path, but this Sunday I have every intention on showing you the right way to do things, showing you how a true competitor acts, how somebody acts when they aren't being tugged around by a leash, you'll see me legend first hand, and hopefully maybe it'll rub off on you and you can break free of your bonds, and be Ayla again.
Good luck Ayla, win or lose, as long as you play fair I will extend my hand to you after the match. Win or lose, I hope you realized where I've been coming from, this isn't so much about you, it's about proving that man wrong, it's about showing him that I'm more than meets the eye, it's about earning the right to be myself, and represent this title how I want to, in the end... we both really want the same thing I think.... to be noticed, to be accepted::..
{Inside the hotel room where Adam and Zelda are staying this week, preparing for A Night to Remember we see Zelda in a tight form fitting Lance Ryan t-shirt and some short pink shorts. She's pacing the living room area back and forth with her cell phone raised to her ear, her face is red with her hair tussled about wildly, she doesn't look happy to say the least. }
Zelda: NO! I'm not going to send you anything! Especially not money that you can blow on beer!
{Zelda stops pacing and stands there, she lets out a sigh as she listens to what the other person has to say. Zelda rolls her eyes and looks even more frustrated.}
Zelda: I don't have time to talk to you, I've gotta prepare for a match.... yes, I have a match...
{Zelda stomps her foot and yells now, shifting to anger.}
Zelda: AYLA ST. JAMES! Have you not been watching me on TV!? You want me to send you money, but you won't even take time out of your busy day of doing nothing to watch your daughter on TV!? I'm undefeated you know, I......I....
{Zelda's father as it's revealed begins saying something on the other end of the phone, Zelda's head droops in sadness as she listens.}
Zelda: What about all that money Adam sent you for ten years? Did you not save any of it, because I know you weren't spending it on me like it was supposed to be...... ugh... don't give me that line about being unable to work..... why should I, after what you did to me!?.... Adam saved me from you, if not for him I'd be.... **sigh**
{Zelda takes her right hand and puts it over her eyes and rubs them, trying to keep her calm. She listens to some more pity story.}
Zelda: I know... you're sorry, but.... fine. How much do you need? … alright.... I lov...
{Click.}
Zelda: DAMMIT!
{Zelda reaches back and throws the phone across the room and falls to her knees in tears, just as Adam steps through the front door, he throws his head to the side and just barely misses getting hit in the head with the phone. It smashes into the wall, and doesn't care why it was thrown, he just runs to his sister and puts his arm around her, helping her back to her feet.}
Adam: What's wrong Z?
Zelda: Stupid Dad....
Adam: Why do you keep talking to him?
Zelda: He's my dad.... we don't have mom anymore, he's all we have.
Adam: No, we don't even have him, he doesn't care about either of us.
{This just seems to make Zelda even sadder. So not much help.}
Adam: Look Zel, after everything that man did, you don't need to fall for his crap anymore, you got me, you got Kelly, and I guess you even have that goofy ass Nelly you've been hanging with. Just forget that man ever existed.
Zelda: I try to, I already think of you as more of a father than him, it's just.... I'm such an idiot. Thinking he cares about me, why would he?
Adam: Come on Zel, you've been doing good, don't let one call from him bring you down. You're a special person, coming from what you came from, working as hard as you did. Just because he can't see that, doesn't mean everybody else can't.
Zelda: Really?
Adam: Yeah, I had to fight through a crowd of “Zombies” just to get through the lobby. So obviously you mean a lot to those kids. You're an inspiration to them, you're an inspiration to a lot of people, don't let that drunk make you think otherwise.
{Zelda smiles as she looks up at her brother.}
Zelda: Ok. I won't let this get me down. I've worked hard to get here, to get away from him right?
Adam: Right.
Zelda: But.....
Adam: Yeah?
Zelda: I think I need a new phone....
{Adam looks at what used to be Zel's phone laying on the floor. He sighs, before mashing his hand into Zelda's head, ruffling her hair.}
Adam: Alright... I'll go get the car, meet you outside.
Zelda: Hey, can we swing by gamestop while we're out?
{Adam smiles and shakes his head at his wide eyed sister.}
Adam: Anything you want sis.
Zelda: You know, despite being a perv.... you're the best big brother ever.
Adam: Ever going to let me live that down?
Zelda: Not a chance...
{Fade Out}