Post by Maniac on Sept 13, 2010 20:59:19 GMT -6
"Six Days... Six Days until the end comes to pass and all you know is forgotten... Memories are nothing but dust in the wind, gone the moment you pass on... You will leave no legacy... Nothing to be remembered... And no one to miss you..."[/color]
{ Chris Diamond wakes up in his hotel room. For a moment he's forgotten all about his worries from the past few weeks. Until he rolls over and sees Rayne, then it all comes rushing back to him. She's asleep still, cuddled up next to him. He rubs her back lightly and smiles. Thinking out loud more or less. }
"I'm here... Still here..."[/color]
{ Chris gets out of the bed and walks the few steps to the bath room and closes the door behind him as he walks inside. }
"You begged the world for someone to kill you... Stood back and gave them reason after reason to put the final bullet in your head... You ruined your career... Ruined what you had built... You did it for nothing... No titles... No fame... Nothing... Your hands are empty... Your labor bore no fruit... And now with the end in sight... What will you do?"[/color]
{ Chris runs the water, takes a hand full and washes his face off. He stands up and looks into the mirror, smiling, happy for perhaps the first time in a while. }
"It wasn't me."[/color]
{ He tells himself as he just continues to smile, even hum a little song. Chris turns to the shower and starts the water, but then it occurs to him. }
"If he's not me, then who?"[/color]
"You will hide, as you always have, behind jokes and showboating instead of showing this world whats locked inside of you. Your veins pump the same blood. Your flesh made from the same cells. You have the genetics to be everything you ever wanted but you'd rather be the clown..."
"He gave you everything Robert... And he took everything from me... Your life... Built around his failures... You were his second chance... You were the son he never had... You were... His legacy..."
{ Maniac, cold, colorless, alone. That's all you see. }
"You pissed it away like everything else in your life. Scoffing at the very thought of someone handing you something you didn't earn. That's what we liked about you. What I liked about you. But as he buried me deeper, put more and more locks on the door, you became a greater challenge, a greater threat to everything he built. You were getting too good Robert, too much for him to handle, but most of all, you became too cocky."[/color]
{ The mask seemingly floats in the darkness as he speaks. }
"Your arrogance lead you to believe you could take the world by yourself, and boy did you try. But what happened Robert? Like Icarus you flew too close to the sun and your wings melted, you crashed back to the Earth and realized, now that you were all alone in the world, you had to work, you had to try, you had to actually overcome something. You couldn't do it, you couldn't handle it, so few can, and so you chose... To let me out..."[/color]
{ His breath seems to be visible in the darkness, but it's hard to tell. }
"And I couldn't be happier Robert. The day you set me free, I knew exactly what I had to do and I had to start with you. I had to give you what you wanted, what you wished for, what Falcon failed to give you... I had to give you the gift of death."[/color]
{ Chris emerged from the bathroom wrapped in a towel to find Rayne was now awake and on the phone. She turns, somewhat surprised to see him and quickly gets off the phone. }
"I'll talk to you about it later."[/color]
*Click*
"Whats going on?"[/color]
{ She shots up from the bed. }
"N.. Nothing."[/color]
{ Chris looks at her a little puzzled. }
"Whats wrong?"[/color]
{ Rayne slowly makes her way around him and to the door to the room. }
"Nothings wrong... Look, I gotta take off for a while..."[/color]
{ With that, Rayne leaves. }
"That was strange. Wonder whats up with her."[/color]
{ Chris thinks to himself as he sits down on the bed. }
"She's probably afraid of US."[/color]
"You know what they say Robert, be careful what you wish for... YOU MAY JUST GET IT!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"[/color]
{ Chris nearly fell off the bed as he stared into the black holes of the mask of Maniac. }
"What's wrong, see a ghost?"[/color]
{ Chris leaps off the bed. }
"I'LL KILL YOU!"[/color]
"You tried that already, but feel free to try again."[/color]
{ Chris' chest heaves with rage as he clenches his fists, prepared to fight this monster to the death. }
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just kill you where you stand?"[/color]
{ Maniac doesn't move, just stares a hole through Chris. }
"If you could have, you would have. Take a seat CHRIS!"[/color]
{ Chris sits back down on the bed. }
"Good boy. Now listen to me Chris. Your going to sit here, in this hotel room, and your going to watch in six days as I tear Robert apart for what he's done. Understand?"[/color]
"LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE!"[/color]
{ A low rumbling of laughter escapes the mask. }
"I'm not afraid of you Chris, so please drop the theatrics. I want you to watch, as I watched, for all those years as you lived my life, wrestled with my name. I have come to reclaim what was stolen from me and to destroy what you have built. You see Chris, it's simple... I'm going to open nCw's eyes... I'm going to show them the truth... One pint of blood at a time... IT STARTS WITH ROBERT! And where it ends nobody knows..."[/color]
{ Fade. }
"Reap what you sow."[/color]
{ Chris Diamond wakes up in his hotel room. For a moment he's forgotten all about his worries from the past few weeks. Until he rolls over and sees Rayne, then it all comes rushing back to him. She's asleep still, cuddled up next to him. He rubs her back lightly and smiles. Thinking out loud more or less. }
"I'm here... Still here..."[/color]
{ Chris gets out of the bed and walks the few steps to the bath room and closes the door behind him as he walks inside. }
"You begged the world for someone to kill you... Stood back and gave them reason after reason to put the final bullet in your head... You ruined your career... Ruined what you had built... You did it for nothing... No titles... No fame... Nothing... Your hands are empty... Your labor bore no fruit... And now with the end in sight... What will you do?"[/color]
{ Chris runs the water, takes a hand full and washes his face off. He stands up and looks into the mirror, smiling, happy for perhaps the first time in a while. }
"It wasn't me."[/color]
{ He tells himself as he just continues to smile, even hum a little song. Chris turns to the shower and starts the water, but then it occurs to him. }
"If he's not me, then who?"[/color]
"You will hide, as you always have, behind jokes and showboating instead of showing this world whats locked inside of you. Your veins pump the same blood. Your flesh made from the same cells. You have the genetics to be everything you ever wanted but you'd rather be the clown..."
"He gave you everything Robert... And he took everything from me... Your life... Built around his failures... You were his second chance... You were the son he never had... You were... His legacy..."
{ Maniac, cold, colorless, alone. That's all you see. }
"You pissed it away like everything else in your life. Scoffing at the very thought of someone handing you something you didn't earn. That's what we liked about you. What I liked about you. But as he buried me deeper, put more and more locks on the door, you became a greater challenge, a greater threat to everything he built. You were getting too good Robert, too much for him to handle, but most of all, you became too cocky."[/color]
{ The mask seemingly floats in the darkness as he speaks. }
"Your arrogance lead you to believe you could take the world by yourself, and boy did you try. But what happened Robert? Like Icarus you flew too close to the sun and your wings melted, you crashed back to the Earth and realized, now that you were all alone in the world, you had to work, you had to try, you had to actually overcome something. You couldn't do it, you couldn't handle it, so few can, and so you chose... To let me out..."[/color]
{ His breath seems to be visible in the darkness, but it's hard to tell. }
"And I couldn't be happier Robert. The day you set me free, I knew exactly what I had to do and I had to start with you. I had to give you what you wanted, what you wished for, what Falcon failed to give you... I had to give you the gift of death."[/color]
{ Chris emerged from the bathroom wrapped in a towel to find Rayne was now awake and on the phone. She turns, somewhat surprised to see him and quickly gets off the phone. }
"I'll talk to you about it later."[/color]
*Click*
"Whats going on?"[/color]
{ She shots up from the bed. }
"N.. Nothing."[/color]
{ Chris looks at her a little puzzled. }
"Whats wrong?"[/color]
{ Rayne slowly makes her way around him and to the door to the room. }
"Nothings wrong... Look, I gotta take off for a while..."[/color]
{ With that, Rayne leaves. }
"That was strange. Wonder whats up with her."[/color]
{ Chris thinks to himself as he sits down on the bed. }
"She's probably afraid of US."[/color]
"You know what they say Robert, be careful what you wish for... YOU MAY JUST GET IT!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"[/color]
{ Chris nearly fell off the bed as he stared into the black holes of the mask of Maniac. }
"What's wrong, see a ghost?"[/color]
{ Chris leaps off the bed. }
"I'LL KILL YOU!"[/color]
"You tried that already, but feel free to try again."[/color]
{ Chris' chest heaves with rage as he clenches his fists, prepared to fight this monster to the death. }
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just kill you where you stand?"[/color]
{ Maniac doesn't move, just stares a hole through Chris. }
"If you could have, you would have. Take a seat CHRIS!"[/color]
{ Chris sits back down on the bed. }
"Good boy. Now listen to me Chris. Your going to sit here, in this hotel room, and your going to watch in six days as I tear Robert apart for what he's done. Understand?"[/color]
"LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE!"[/color]
{ A low rumbling of laughter escapes the mask. }
"I'm not afraid of you Chris, so please drop the theatrics. I want you to watch, as I watched, for all those years as you lived my life, wrestled with my name. I have come to reclaim what was stolen from me and to destroy what you have built. You see Chris, it's simple... I'm going to open nCw's eyes... I'm going to show them the truth... One pint of blood at a time... IT STARTS WITH ROBERT! And where it ends nobody knows..."[/color]
{ Fade. }
"Reap what you sow."[/color]