Post by Angel on Oct 28, 2011 20:54:13 GMT -6
My eyes lock on the figure across the ring from me. He smirks. I hate that smirk. It reminds me of the smug look on Lex's face as he recollected our match at Picture Perfect...
He made a god bleed...
Fitting description, but he fails to mention the mistake I made in that match. I was over confident in my abilities while under estimating him and his. A mistake I will not make again because while he made a god bleed...
I will make a man cease to breath.
Far more impressive if you ask me.
He pretends to ring a bell mockingly then slowly moves out of his corner. I hold my ground with no intentions of moving. I want him to come right at me like Lex, I want him to think his size and strength are all he needs to beat me, like Lex, I want him to try and cripple me, like Lex.
He moves for a tie up but I get underneath him. He swings one of his big lumbering arms for my head but I crush the side of his rib cage with my right shin. He shudders for a second then goes to grab me with his large hands. They both wrap around my throat and he tosses me across the ring.
I smile.
"COME ON!!!!"
Then I burst out of the corner and ram him in the stomach with everything I have, driving the air out of him. He staggers and I connect with a back fist that sends him stumbling into the corner.
"I WANT A CHALLENGE!"
He looks surprised as I run straight at him. He manages to move as I take to the air, slamming my knees into the turnbuckles. I feel his arms under-hook me and lift me off the ground with everything he has then slam me to the mat.
It feels good.
It feels like Lex...
The way he tries to over power you...
The way he tries to make you think you do not have a chance...
Like all you have done has not hurt him in the least...
I nip up and fire a rapid kick to the side of his head, he grabs my foot and clothes lines me. I spin on my back and get right back up as he comes at me again with a big boot. I spin backward and land on my stomach.
"Had enough?"
He must be joking...
"Not nearly."
He grabs me by the hair and rips me off the mat but I throw his hands off and smash my forehead into his jaw. I grab him by the head and pull him down onto the crown of my head with a jawbreaker. He looks dazed as I get back to my feet and super kick him with everything I have.
The big man takes a knee...
And then I see him...
I see Lex...
Mocking me...
Laughing at me...
I see his face, condescending grin and all...
And the rage...
Takes over.
"AHHH!"
Before he can stand I'm behind him and I hit the Revelations. He's barely standing as I come off the ropes and begin the first of the Seven Seals, the back fist, two stiff chops, an elbow that is immediately followed by a European upper cut that knocks him back into the corner. I run in with a knee lift and latch onto his head before running him out of the corner and smashing his smug face into the mat with a bull dog.
My heart races with excitement, I see Lex struggling to pull himself off the mat as I rise. Slowly I walk to the corner and leap to the top rope. Lex stands but barely, he looks dazed, confused, somewhere inside I almost feel sorry for him...
Almost...
I look down on Lex Sense like the parasite that he is...
He prepares to make his final stand...
But he does not stand a chance...
Heaven's Fury rains down on Lex Sense like the flood waters God sent down to wash the Earth clean of it's sinners...
He does not get up.
"Angel!"
Tara rolls into the ring and kneels beside him.
"What the hell!? Your supposed to be training to face Lex Sense, not killing one of your best friends."
I look at him again, the visage of Lex melts away until only Chris Diamond remains...
"Chris, are you okay?"
"I'll be fine..."
She stands up, hands on her hips.
"Were you TRYING to hurt him? Your punk former brother in law already ended Chris' career, you wrestled him like you were trying to end his life!"
Something of a smile creeps across my face.
"I was."
"What?"
I love her but sometimes she doesn't really understand what it takes to wrestle for nCw...
I do.
It takes a killer instinct. An instinct Lex likes to pretend he has... But my ability to stand is more than proof that he does not.
"You do not prepare for an opponent by wrestling someone WEAKER than them!"
"Are you talking about Jennie and I?"
"I'm talking about your whole crusade against the Starlets of nCw."
"I'm doing my best!"
The smile on my face shrinks, a sneer takes it's place as I look the woman I love right in the eyes...
"Do better."
Tara is tough, tougher than most, but I can see the hint of a tear in her eye. Chris begins to pull himself up to his feet...
"Angel, man, you gotta-" *gasp*
My fingers crush his larynx and Chris... Or is it Lex now? He drops down onto his knees. I stand over him.
"You will kneel before me."
Tara drops down to check on him.
"You will know what it feels like to be hunted."
Her eyes look at me in a way they have never looked before.
In Fear.
"You will know fear."
I leave the ring, the gym, everything and go somewhere much more comfortable to me. Somewhere dark where I can be alone with my thoughts... My thoughts of Lex Sense and the life leaving his eyes.
"I do not want you to regret."
"I do not want you to feel."
"I do not want you to care."
"What I want is for you to kneel before the man whom you tried to end. I want you to know, despite your best efforts, you could not defeat me in the end. I want you to look up to me in your last moments and know that everything was for nothing."
"Your life."
"Your family."
"Your career."
"Was all for nothing. Because it all ends in the ring this Sunday Night at Road to the Gold."
"A Road that ends with me."
"You think you know. You think you can comprehend what you began the night I was inducted into the hall of fame. You think there is a precedence for this..."
"No Lex."
"You are wrong."
"What you have done, the extent to which you have pushed me, it is not something that has been seen before. You could not possibly know, or anticipate what is going to happen, how I am going to react. All you know is what you have heard."
"He will hunt you..."
"Hurt you..."
"Then kill you..."
"But that does not even come close to describing what I have in mind Lex. Those things, they will happen, but not all at once. No... I'd much rather enjoy tearing you down over a period of time. Slowly but surely ripping away at the facade you have placed around yourself. Day by day. Week by week. Exposing Lex Sense as little more than a pretender to the throne that I sit upon."
"You are not one of our kind."
"You are an insult."
"You talk about insanity, pain, things you wear like your face paint to make yourself more than what you are. And what's sad, you already admitted you are not what you pretend to be."
"You are a man."
"A man playing a monster's game."
"A man who wants, no, NEED to believe he can best the god's for a second time."
"You are a fool, Lex. While you sit in your mansion, with your family, convincing yourself that you can handle the hell which is about to rain down on you..."
"I'm training."
"I'm preparing."
"I'm keeping myself focused on a single goal."
"You."
"Because when we step into that ring it is all going to melt away. There will be no arena, no fans in the crowd, no one watching at home. It will be you and me and however long it takes for me to stop your heart from beating."
"This has gone beyond simple revenge. If it were revenge I wanted I could have had it at any time. This, dear Lex, is a warning shot to the rest of nCw. They have forgotten what I am capable of. They have forgotten why they feared me. You have given them reason to doubt the legacy that follows me. Sunday Night..."
"I will remind them..."
"Your screams will remind them..."
"And they will not forget again..."
"I've played this game long enough to know that people like you need something to fight for. You need to find a reason at the last second to win the big one. You cannot stand there on your own and face me this time. You no longer have it in you because you 'feel' and you 'regret' and you now know the error of your ways..."
"You are weak."
"So you need your family..."
"You think they will make you strong. You need them to lean on, to support you, to pat you on the head like in the movies and say-"
"YOU CAN DO IT LEXI! WE BELIEVE IN YOU!"
"Pitiful."
"You think they will help you? You think your daughters or your wife will give you the strength to defeat me? You think you can use them as your reason to defeat this Grendel?"
"Lex, your family is a non factor."
"They will give you nothing but a heavy heart and remove from you the drive that once pushed you to near the top of this promotion. But look at you now Lex, a month removed from Rob Diamond exposing you and your biggest weakness and you have fallen to the bottom of the pile. Removed from the shadows, brought into the light and Lex Sense is less a boogie man and more a sad waste of human flesh who bemoans his worthless existence."
"I should finish what Rob began and take the lovely family from you. And while it would be easy for me to get to them to teach you a lesson, the only lesson I truly wish to teach will cost you YOUR life, not theirs."
"So leave the kid's at home, Lex. They do not need to see what is about to happen. They do not need to be ring side for this. They do not deserve to live the rest of their life's with the kind of nightmares I would give them."
"Let their last memory of their father be of him trying to redeem himself..."
"Not you writhing in pain as I slowly crush the last bits of life from your body."
"What you seek you will not find this Sunday Night. The only thing waiting for you in that will be the Angel of Death and when you look me in the eyes I want you to know..."
"I do not hate you."
"What I do I do for the betterment of nCw."
"Because once I tried to save her but you have opened my eyes to the truth."
"There is no redemption."
"No forgiveness."
"No salvation."
"There is nothing left to save."
"Not in the Age of X."
"May god have mercy..."
"I will have none."
He made a god bleed...
Fitting description, but he fails to mention the mistake I made in that match. I was over confident in my abilities while under estimating him and his. A mistake I will not make again because while he made a god bleed...
I will make a man cease to breath.
Far more impressive if you ask me.
He pretends to ring a bell mockingly then slowly moves out of his corner. I hold my ground with no intentions of moving. I want him to come right at me like Lex, I want him to think his size and strength are all he needs to beat me, like Lex, I want him to try and cripple me, like Lex.
He moves for a tie up but I get underneath him. He swings one of his big lumbering arms for my head but I crush the side of his rib cage with my right shin. He shudders for a second then goes to grab me with his large hands. They both wrap around my throat and he tosses me across the ring.
I smile.
"COME ON!!!!"
Then I burst out of the corner and ram him in the stomach with everything I have, driving the air out of him. He staggers and I connect with a back fist that sends him stumbling into the corner.
"I WANT A CHALLENGE!"
He looks surprised as I run straight at him. He manages to move as I take to the air, slamming my knees into the turnbuckles. I feel his arms under-hook me and lift me off the ground with everything he has then slam me to the mat.
It feels good.
It feels like Lex...
The way he tries to over power you...
The way he tries to make you think you do not have a chance...
Like all you have done has not hurt him in the least...
I nip up and fire a rapid kick to the side of his head, he grabs my foot and clothes lines me. I spin on my back and get right back up as he comes at me again with a big boot. I spin backward and land on my stomach.
"Had enough?"
He must be joking...
"Not nearly."
He grabs me by the hair and rips me off the mat but I throw his hands off and smash my forehead into his jaw. I grab him by the head and pull him down onto the crown of my head with a jawbreaker. He looks dazed as I get back to my feet and super kick him with everything I have.
The big man takes a knee...
And then I see him...
I see Lex...
Mocking me...
Laughing at me...
I see his face, condescending grin and all...
And the rage...
Takes over.
"AHHH!"
Before he can stand I'm behind him and I hit the Revelations. He's barely standing as I come off the ropes and begin the first of the Seven Seals, the back fist, two stiff chops, an elbow that is immediately followed by a European upper cut that knocks him back into the corner. I run in with a knee lift and latch onto his head before running him out of the corner and smashing his smug face into the mat with a bull dog.
My heart races with excitement, I see Lex struggling to pull himself off the mat as I rise. Slowly I walk to the corner and leap to the top rope. Lex stands but barely, he looks dazed, confused, somewhere inside I almost feel sorry for him...
Almost...
I look down on Lex Sense like the parasite that he is...
He prepares to make his final stand...
But he does not stand a chance...
Heaven's Fury rains down on Lex Sense like the flood waters God sent down to wash the Earth clean of it's sinners...
He does not get up.
"Angel!"
Tara rolls into the ring and kneels beside him.
"What the hell!? Your supposed to be training to face Lex Sense, not killing one of your best friends."
I look at him again, the visage of Lex melts away until only Chris Diamond remains...
"Chris, are you okay?"
"I'll be fine..."
She stands up, hands on her hips.
"Were you TRYING to hurt him? Your punk former brother in law already ended Chris' career, you wrestled him like you were trying to end his life!"
Something of a smile creeps across my face.
"I was."
"What?"
I love her but sometimes she doesn't really understand what it takes to wrestle for nCw...
I do.
It takes a killer instinct. An instinct Lex likes to pretend he has... But my ability to stand is more than proof that he does not.
"You do not prepare for an opponent by wrestling someone WEAKER than them!"
"Are you talking about Jennie and I?"
"I'm talking about your whole crusade against the Starlets of nCw."
"I'm doing my best!"
The smile on my face shrinks, a sneer takes it's place as I look the woman I love right in the eyes...
"Do better."
Tara is tough, tougher than most, but I can see the hint of a tear in her eye. Chris begins to pull himself up to his feet...
"Angel, man, you gotta-" *gasp*
My fingers crush his larynx and Chris... Or is it Lex now? He drops down onto his knees. I stand over him.
"You will kneel before me."
Tara drops down to check on him.
"You will know what it feels like to be hunted."
Her eyes look at me in a way they have never looked before.
In Fear.
"You will know fear."
I leave the ring, the gym, everything and go somewhere much more comfortable to me. Somewhere dark where I can be alone with my thoughts... My thoughts of Lex Sense and the life leaving his eyes.
"I do not want you to regret."
"I do not want you to feel."
"I do not want you to care."
"What I want is for you to kneel before the man whom you tried to end. I want you to know, despite your best efforts, you could not defeat me in the end. I want you to look up to me in your last moments and know that everything was for nothing."
"Your life."
"Your family."
"Your career."
"Was all for nothing. Because it all ends in the ring this Sunday Night at Road to the Gold."
"A Road that ends with me."
"You think you know. You think you can comprehend what you began the night I was inducted into the hall of fame. You think there is a precedence for this..."
"No Lex."
"You are wrong."
"What you have done, the extent to which you have pushed me, it is not something that has been seen before. You could not possibly know, or anticipate what is going to happen, how I am going to react. All you know is what you have heard."
"He will hunt you..."
"Hurt you..."
"Then kill you..."
"But that does not even come close to describing what I have in mind Lex. Those things, they will happen, but not all at once. No... I'd much rather enjoy tearing you down over a period of time. Slowly but surely ripping away at the facade you have placed around yourself. Day by day. Week by week. Exposing Lex Sense as little more than a pretender to the throne that I sit upon."
"You are not one of our kind."
"You are an insult."
"You talk about insanity, pain, things you wear like your face paint to make yourself more than what you are. And what's sad, you already admitted you are not what you pretend to be."
"You are a man."
"A man playing a monster's game."
"A man who wants, no, NEED to believe he can best the god's for a second time."
"You are a fool, Lex. While you sit in your mansion, with your family, convincing yourself that you can handle the hell which is about to rain down on you..."
"I'm training."
"I'm preparing."
"I'm keeping myself focused on a single goal."
"You."
"Because when we step into that ring it is all going to melt away. There will be no arena, no fans in the crowd, no one watching at home. It will be you and me and however long it takes for me to stop your heart from beating."
"This has gone beyond simple revenge. If it were revenge I wanted I could have had it at any time. This, dear Lex, is a warning shot to the rest of nCw. They have forgotten what I am capable of. They have forgotten why they feared me. You have given them reason to doubt the legacy that follows me. Sunday Night..."
"I will remind them..."
"Your screams will remind them..."
"And they will not forget again..."
"I've played this game long enough to know that people like you need something to fight for. You need to find a reason at the last second to win the big one. You cannot stand there on your own and face me this time. You no longer have it in you because you 'feel' and you 'regret' and you now know the error of your ways..."
"You are weak."
"So you need your family..."
"You think they will make you strong. You need them to lean on, to support you, to pat you on the head like in the movies and say-"
"YOU CAN DO IT LEXI! WE BELIEVE IN YOU!"
"Pitiful."
"You think they will help you? You think your daughters or your wife will give you the strength to defeat me? You think you can use them as your reason to defeat this Grendel?"
"Lex, your family is a non factor."
"They will give you nothing but a heavy heart and remove from you the drive that once pushed you to near the top of this promotion. But look at you now Lex, a month removed from Rob Diamond exposing you and your biggest weakness and you have fallen to the bottom of the pile. Removed from the shadows, brought into the light and Lex Sense is less a boogie man and more a sad waste of human flesh who bemoans his worthless existence."
"I should finish what Rob began and take the lovely family from you. And while it would be easy for me to get to them to teach you a lesson, the only lesson I truly wish to teach will cost you YOUR life, not theirs."
"So leave the kid's at home, Lex. They do not need to see what is about to happen. They do not need to be ring side for this. They do not deserve to live the rest of their life's with the kind of nightmares I would give them."
"Let their last memory of their father be of him trying to redeem himself..."
"Not you writhing in pain as I slowly crush the last bits of life from your body."
"What you seek you will not find this Sunday Night. The only thing waiting for you in that will be the Angel of Death and when you look me in the eyes I want you to know..."
"I do not hate you."
"What I do I do for the betterment of nCw."
"Because once I tried to save her but you have opened my eyes to the truth."
"There is no redemption."
"No forgiveness."
"No salvation."
"There is nothing left to save."
"Not in the Age of X."
"May god have mercy..."
"I will have none."