Post by Rumpke on Mar 26, 2017 13:54:45 GMT -5
Date: March 18, 2003
The scene comes to see a younger me backstage at a SFT event. I was much younger these days and wasn't as tarnished as I am not. My hair was longer with a bright blond color. I had a few scars but not many, nothing like I have now. This was a time before Steele, a moment in time that I missed. I was much happier then with little care in the world, no fear of what would become of me in the future and simply, I was full of a beautiful ignorance that seperates the young from old.
I stood in this locker room with my ring gear already on. I was pacing as I listened to Angry again by Megadeth, awaiting a match, a opportunity that I had worked hard too earn. I took alot of shots to the head with weapons from every angle. In that ring, leading up to this moment, I've lost enough blood that could fuel a blood bank in New York City for one whole day. My eye sight hasn't quite came back to me and the swelling that shrouds my pupil throbs constantly from the last match I had against SFT Hardcore legend Kabal. That man beat the fuck out of me with everything he could find. Shot after shot was delivered to my body and face yet somehow I managed to dig down and overcome my good friend to earn this Hardcore title match against an equally vicious man known as Aj Red. Some have tried to advice me that I wasn't ready for the step. These people would tell me that I took too much of a beating while delivering very little in return. My head, is surely fucked up from my run in with Kabal is another message that they tried to get across and they might be right about all of it. I know that I wasn't the most polished fighter and it wasn't a mystery to me that I had another grueling uphill battle on my hands tonight. Regardless, there wasn't a doubt in my mind that I was going to show up with a iron head. The injuries sustained last battle, this broken body it will not give. I will not run...
Suddenly the door to this locker room opened up and a man told me that it was time. I reached up and turned off the radio just before I made my way outside of the locker room and made my way down the hallway. Aj Red's music can be heard as I walk past people. Some yellow in the face as if they look sick, perhaps fearing what is about to happen to this young man that walks past them. Others look on at me with disgust. The distain they fill for me surely is because they aren't me. These men aren't the ones going to battle against one of the best, and fuck them, they should step up and do something about it instead of sitting here feeling the toxic thoughts of jealousy. If they really were better then me, it would be them making this walk of determination instead of this young novice. Yet here I am, surpassing their guts with an endurance of a young man possessing an unshakened determination to be the berserker's that he's always held up on a petastle. The men that would run in and fuck shit up with an iron jaw and a steel fist.
"Give a man a sword and he will learn to kill quickly, Give a young man a shield and he will learn to survive." I don't know who said this but sounds like theres some truth, don't you think?
My music at the time hit the P.A systems which was no other than "Angry Again" by Megadeth and I stepped through the curtain, the thousands of people, some cheering others booing, instantly made all of the pain go away where all of the alcohol I had drank this day only reduced the pain.. I could feel my blood rush and the temperature began to rise. I looked at Aj Red standing in the ring with a blank stare. He was watching every step I made and with every step closer to the ring that I made, a eurphoric feeling slowly swept from head to toe... Here it was, the fruits of my labor, on this night they would give me a taste of another brutal battle. One that I had worked so hard to earn.. On this night, as I walk down this ramp, I know that I've officially hit a milestone in my heart. While many try to tell me that I am not ready, I understand that they are wrong, regardless of the outcome. My mind and body can endure whatever hells this man can dish out. And I know that I will never give in, on this blood filled evening, I will earn everyones respect including Aj's. There will never again be someone in this organization that questions my fortitude. Never again will they tell me that I don't have it in me. The horrors, the drive in this forceful soul will sweep over this land tonight and erosion will be enevitable and with that wear, a new land will take form. One that will forever change Aj's and my own life. As I stand outside the ring, looking into the ring directly at Aj, there is no question in my mind that tonight is the night where I make everyone understand exactly who I am and show them exactly what I'm capable of..
I walk around the ring approaching the steps as I look at Aj Red and as I set my foot on the first step, the scene, it fades out and it is here that I will stop for now. But this will be continued as the time comes. Until then, fight hard and never give in my friends! And to the other, I see you and its only a matter of time before I react. But until then, I will once again wave.. Take care everyone.