Post by Noble Savage on May 10, 2019 14:11:25 GMT -5
Noble Savage RP
WCF Endgame
WCF Championship Match
Alex Richards (c) vs. Teo Blaze vs. Noble Savage
"The Saga Continues"
Wordcount: 5,061
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The scene opens up with a shot of Noble Savage up close. Her eyelids are lowered to almost closed as she silently whispers to herself in an unknown language. She finishes her final phrase and her eyes open up, fixating her stare right at us.
SAVAGE:
“WCF’s Final show… Endgame! A fitting title, considering what it is that I set out to do the very second I entered this body. Noble wanted me out, but I had bigger plans. I had plans of taking this organization by storm and burning it to the ground in the process. It is not by coincidence that in less than a year after my debut, so many other wrestlers have fled the company that we are on the brink of a shut down. It is also not by coincidence that within my so-called rookie year, I have won accolades, broken records, and main evented more pay per views that some names that have been on the roster for ages. I came in to this place to make it my bitch, and that much I have already accomplished. I promised myself I would decimate every person I look up to, but that I would take my sweet time devouring the final pieces of the softest one… And that’s when you come in, Alex…”
Noble Savage licks her lips and gives away a subtle smirk before she takes a deep breath speaks her next words with a grin.
SAVAGE:
“I looked up to you once upon a time… I looked up to you almost as much as I looked up to Odin before I broke his Godhood. I looked up to Bonnie, too, but we all know how that went. She wasn’t half the person she seemed to be, but you… You are every bit the blob of deceit that you say you are. So, ask yourself this ‘Archduke,’ if Noble Savage had so much love and admiration for Odin Balfore and she ended up crushing him like an ant time and time again, then how come she is taking so long to crush little ol insignificant me? Yes, that is a question that you should always keep present, because I am not doing this just for the love of the arts, it is because you carry a prophetic anti-life with you, a foul stench that I had not yet figured out. See, I defeated Odin when it meant something. I defeated Bonnie when it meant something. But you, I just haven’t faced you when it means something… Until now."
We cut to a flashback of the ending of the Four Way match at One:
In the flashback, things are much more dramaticized; Noble Savage is shown paused with a cat-like stance while looking over her shoulder and a twinkle sparks in her eye. The camera now zooms in to Noble Savage’s eye, and in the reflection we see Alex Richards struggling to get up to his feet. The voice of Freddy Whoa is heard with a dramatic echo and distanced effect: “Is this Noble Savage’s Moment?” The camera quickly pulls back and we see dust pick up under Noble Savage’s foot. She runs in slow motion and catches Alex Richards in the back of the head with a Tomb Seeker Curb Stomp. Noble Savage rolls him up and he three count quickly follows with Tarantino-style freeze frames. A still image of Noble Savage holding the WCF Championship is now shown, while the voice of Zach Davis echoes over: “And we have a new WCF World Champion!” - The bell is heard ringing and the image now fades away in to blackness. From the black screen we fade back in to Noble Savage’s face.
SAVAGE:
“That time we were in the stupid four way at One, I admit I was honored to be in a match with the three best superstars this business has to offer. But the simple fact that I was the fourth person in that match made me realize that I wasn’t just surrounded by greats; I had already become one of the greats. To go into a match like that and walk out victorious would have been its own reward, but I told myself no… I have already pinned Odin, and I have already beaten Bonnie… I need to pin Alex just so that he doesn’t let my kindness get to his head. But I was wrong… It went to your head anyhow. That’s when I decided that I need to beat you one on one but only when it matters… I thought I was going to get my chance here at Endgame, but of course, Mr. Infinity stones Teo Del Sol just had to poke his nose into it. And now we are back in a stupid multi-person match. They say you are at a disadvantage because you don’t need to get pinned to lose my belt. That’s right, I said MY belt… You’re only holding it. Teo thinks for some reason that he can come in to this and have a chance when not only has he never beat you, but he especially has never beaten ME. Maybe he is looking at this as an opportunity to have his grand moment. That he will finally do what he’s never done to accomplish what he has never been able to… How truly sad. Well, I have a little bit of advice for Teo…”
Noble Savage now stands up while the camera pans out all the way. We see that she is now standing beside a statue of Baphomet. There seems to be a bunch of hooded figures hiding behind the statue, but the focal point of our shot is Noble Savage standing in front of it.
SAVAGE:
“Teo, you are a great competitor, I’ll give you that. But you are not good enough to survive in our playing field. You should have remained in the TV Title picture with Razum and them… You couldn’t hold on to that belt when you faced my girl, what makes you think you have a chance to take MY belt from Alex?! Don’t kid yourself little man… They tried to screw me out of my moment at One, and you saw what happened. I swore I would burn the Wells Fargo Arena to the ground, and I did! The only one that was not phased by the Blaze was me… And guess, what? At Endgame it wouldn’t be all that much different. See, you are now trying to screw me out of my moment at Endgame, and while everyone may be affected by the Blaze, I will not be! The other - far more important - similarity with this attempt at a screw job this time around is that at the end of the match, it will be my size 8 steel-toe platform boots crushing the back of Alex Richards’ head for the three-second finale without ANYONE being able to do anything about it!”
Noble Savage now walks off and the camera pans upward slowly zooming in to the face of the Baphomet statue. An ominous hum is heard being harmonized by the hooded figures that hide behind the statue as we fade to black.
The footage fades back in to show us the feet of Noble Savage walking up a set of steps. Noble Savage enters a barricaded building through a crack in between wooden planks and the camera follows into the darkness. We hear her footsteps in hollow hallways, followed by the squeaky sound of a door opening. A light flickers hesitantly and we vaguely see the face of Noble Savage now with an angry sneer. The camera pulls back slowly to reveal that she is actually in front of a mirror. The expression of her reflection changes as if independent from her true self. The reflection seems worried.
NOBLE:
"You are powerful beyond your own limits, Savage, and you cannot even balance it out with self control. You meditate… You come here to speak to me, just to try to gain some sense of harmony, because you know you can never truly function without me.”
Noble Savage now changes her facial expression from worrisome to a sympathetic smirk.
SAVAGE:
“No. That’s not going to be necessary in my bout against Richards. Del Sol cashed in his infinity stones, so this is now an all out war. I don’t need self control or balance for this one. What I need is pure, uncut and unabridged Savagery… And that is exactly what I’ve accomplished.”
NOBLE:
“What am I doing, Savage? You’ve exiled me without warning, yet you return to me just to chit chat? Perhaps they were right… I really am crazy.”
Noble Savage shakes her head with disappointment, which quickly becomes anger. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before speaking.
SAVAGE:
“You’re not crazy… No… I’m not crazy, don’t say that ever again, we’re not CRAZY!! OKAY??!!”
NOBLE:
“Then what are we?”
SAVAGE:
“We are a Savage of the Highest Order.”
NOBLE:
“A Noble Savage.”
SAVAGE:
“THE Noble Savage. You are a piece of a whole, Noble. There is nothing anyone can do to change that.”
NOBLE:
“A piece? Well, I'm thankful that I even AM in one piece.”
SAVAGE:
"Sorry about that. I felt your fleeting sentiments yet again leaning toward the sympathy of that incredulous swine you once called a teammate and I just could not allow you to hold me back any more. So being the cooperative Cleric of Balance, I thought it would only be beneficial to both of us to do what I did. You never react to anything, Noble, except for emotions. And that scares me. That’s what brought us down against The Daughter of Time. When pain and suffering are your two greatest weapons, you simply dance around the opportunity. Your finishing move is a Dance of Sorrow for crying out loud! Who the hell do you expect to defeat with a few slaps and a headbutt anyway? I mean, of course aside from the incompetent animal. You’re always so unenthused, and so unmotivated… You could get slapped in the face, and I’m the one who has to react!"
NOBLE:
“I react.”
SAVAGE:
“The same way you reacted when Bonnie Blue slapped you in the face with that iPad?”
Savage just stares at her own falsely innocent facial expression in the mirror. She becomes infuriated and headbutts the mirror, creating a circular spider crack that distorts her reflection.
SAVAGE:
"So, come on! React!"
Noble Savage’s reflection now looks back in confusion. While she turns her head to look at us over her shoulder, the reflection stays facing front and looks at us as well.
SAVAGE:
"I know you have broken down a few victims in the past. I know you’ve lashed out once or twice! You have this way of storing everything in. You just don't react. And when your tank gets full, you just burst out and then YOU are the one who cannot control herself.”
NOBLE:
“I honestly don’t know what you mean by that. I might not have let you fight Alex Richards. But I let you fight Teo Del Sol. Yes, based on those two incidents it might seem like your flavor of crazy works, but that is all just coincidence. That doesn’t justify you locking me in here. Look, the first day we met, you overly reacted. I thought you were just a crazy thought. But then you rudely sent the owner of this vessel - me - out of my own mind for being kind and few hours later you come back and talk to me nice. I mean, whenever you get a chance to show your anger to a person, you pour out everything on them. And I don't mind that, but it leaves you drained, and you then begin to suck my energy to redeem yourself."
SAVAGE:
“And that is exactly what I am doing right now… You’ve hit the nail on the head, Noble. You asked me why I did what I did, and I explained it to you… But you still didn’t understand why I kept you in the Between of our hemispheres, and now - just now - you answered your own question. I need you, Noble. I need your energy. Especially after Endgame when the full force of my wrath soars with a stronger Blaze than Teo and burrows through the guts of Alex Richards to get back my Championship… I will need to come back and feed myself with bits of you.”
NOBLE:
“That answer does not satisfy my logic. If I had any recollection of how you trapped me here, it might make more sense… But I don’t even know what happened, or why Lad Abernathy even allowed it to happen.”
SAVAGE:
“It is all Teo Del Sol’s fault… Once Abernathy and I found that this would be a three-way, we decided to make things a little less fair for our two unfortunate opponents… “
Noble Savage grins fiendishly at her broken reflection and raises her eyebrows in a flirtatious repetition while the scene fades to black.
The following words now appear against the black screen:
SIX DAYS EARLIER...
The words fade back to black and the black screen now slowly begins fading in, along with the sound of gentle winds and rustling leaves. The morning is greyed and cloudy during this unseasonably cold spring. A single raindrop hits the dry pavement, followed by the rumbling sound of rolling thunder in the distance. Even the trees in this park are fooled by the cool air, letting their newly bloomed pink leaves fall off their branches as if it were autumn all over again. From our ground perspective, all we see is a set of legs in tight leather and high heel boots step in and walk left.
The camera begins to drift along with the pace of the walk. The demonic voice of Lady Abernathy resonates, letting us know it is her who is walking although we do not see her face, as a couple of more rain drops hit the asphalt she walks on.
LADY ABERNATHY:
"I was waiting for that moment, Teo... That moment when you looked around you and realized that everything you were working so hard for was being taken from you. Surely, I cannot take credit for Priestess Agatha's pupil beating you, but it isn't credit that I seek to take, it is joy. As much as I enjoyed seeing your blaze extinguished at the hands of Noble Savage back in October, I was left wanting more... More, in the form of a definitive destruction. More, in the form of closure... More... In the form of an End Game."
Cut to another shot from a different part of the same park. A couple of more rain drops meet their doom upon hitting the pavement as rolling leaves dance in the weak winds. Thick platform boots with buckles and rivets stomp into our view and begin walking right as the camera follows. A familiar raspy voice is heard now.
NOBLE:
"So much for a ceremonial coronation. The WCF Championship belt around the fat waist of Alex Richards belongs to me and I am simply allowing him to carry it for the time being, simply because I wanted to make my win against him actually mean something. I defeated the best of the best in the WCF and now for the final pay per view, the best is me, and I have to face... The rest. I have been puppeteering Alex around to my will so that I may have an easy moment of closure when I decide to break his soul. But now, it seems like the little Engine that Could is interfering in our prophecy. You annoying little hummingbird... I beat you within an inch of your life during our first date, and I knew that eventually you would wake up and realize you were not actually dying. Sadly, that moment has now come and you decided to take your last shot of desperation and reach for the unreachable. That's the number one reason the Temptress was able to beat you so easily... She was trying so hard to outshine my match against you that she forgot what was on the line. Pitiful for you, Teo, a novice stepped up and took your belt from you without even knowing it was on the line. And now, you think you can step up and take mine from Richards? Don't insult me."
A second set of legs now catches up to the footsteps of Noble Savage, walking right, while our view is still fixated on their lower body. These boots are more sleek and have chain links around them with small spikes. Noble Savage's voice speaks in a far more raspy growl and lower tone.
SAVAGE:
"It wasn't by his choice that this imbecile was inserted into our business. Teo is nothing more than a victim of circumstance, pre-destined to crumble under a steel toe boot. He doesn't have a choice to make in this whole matter. I get the last say in how the final WCF Championship Match ends because those two little muck-scrapes are incapable of keeping me from imposing my will upon them. The only choice there will be to make is which one of them eats a Tombseeker and which one of them catches a Savage Kick! They will both suffer the full flood of my wrath, regardless, and it was only a matter of time before someone jumped in to soften the blow of what I will do to Alexander Richards."
We cut back to the previous shot of Lady Abernathy's footsteps walking left. The rain drops are now more frequent and the ground is darkened from moisture. The camera slowly widens out as Abernathy speaks.
LADY ABERNATHY:
"Alex Richards does not know how to swim. And by the time that mongrel finally realizes that, he will already be inside of a coffin. His bulbous body trying so hard to wrap Noble Savage's championship belt around his waist, without noticing that he is only sinking into the deep end. He's gone too far, somebody bring him back... He's off the deep end and he's about to go even further, feeling the weight of the mass of water that surrounds him. Suffocating inside of the overbearing presence of Noble Savage. She is everywhere, Alex, everywhere! Inside your eyes, your nose, your ears, your mouth. At Endgame you will feel so much more pressure compressing around your lungs, and by then it will be too late. You will try flapping your fat limbs but in vain. You will already have no energy left as a result of struggling to go above Noble Savage's surface. This isn't hashtag deep blue sea, Alex, this isn't The Witch of your happy place... This is the Witch that will make you wish Bonnie Blue was there to save you from the depths of the turbid waters that overwhelm you. The dark of invisible breathlessness shaking you to your very core. You can’t swim, or what?”
We now cut back to the two set of feet that are walking to the right and the rainfall has gotten a lot more consistent. The small drops of water sizzle and evaporate against the leather boots that we see. The camera widens out to an establishing shot in which we can confirm that Noble Savage walking beside… Noble Savage.
NOBLE:
“We are getting closer… I can smell the nauseating unfulfilled death that follows Alex Richards wherever he goes.”
SAVAGE:
“The end is near.”
NOBLE:
“Why do you say it like that?”
SAVAGE:
“How?”
NOBLE:
“As if the end is near… for me.”
SAVAGE:
“No… The end of WCF as we know it is near. The end of Alex’s title reign is near. And the end of Teo Del--
NOBLE:
“If I die, I'll haunt whomever is responsible and kill them where they sleep.”
SAVAGE:
“I said that to myself when I was facing Bonnie that last time. I legit thought I was going to die. But deep down inside I knew I wouldn’t be able to best her even after death. I swear I have never been so frightened in my life… You remember when we joined Alex and her in The Guardians, and then everyone started having weird nightmares?”
NOBLE:
“Of course… I dreamed that of the past that time. My most nightmarish moment as a little girl… And you said you didn’t have a worst nightmare, so you dreamt… Nothing…
SAVAGE:
“Well, I lied… While your nightmare showed you the past, mine showed me the future… And at that time, my future was to face the Witch that I looked up to, Bonnie Blue… And she would defeat me like no one else had ever done before… In that nightmare, The Time Witch took me into the Deep Blue Sea… Something tangled around my ankles. It was like sea-grass but the difference was, this thing was tied around my ankle and were pulling me down. I tried to wiggle out of it by shaking my legs but it got tighter and pulled me with double the force. And everything became dark. I fought hard to avoid that reality from happening, but once something has been set in motion by destiny there is nothing anyone can do to avoid it. We can only alter it, prolong it, never prevent the inevitable. It was going to be at Endgame that Bonnie broke me… I made sure it wasn’t Bonnie… That way my demise wouldn’t be guaranteed. I just took my loss against a significant foe in a less than significant venue, and waited to face the joke of a champion at the paramount of all events.”
NOBLE:
“So, you knew this would happen, yet you kept it from me… Savage, my thoughts and knowledge are open to you at all times. Yours should be equally as open to me.”
SAVAGE:
“And spoil your Endgame?”
NOBLE:
“Again… Why do say it that way? What do you mean MY Endgame? It is Alex & Teo who will perish. Not me.”
Cut again to a shot of Lady Abernathy walking in what has now become a torrential downpour. The camera view is allowing us to see her full body from head to toe, which is inexplicably dry in this increasingly aggressive rain.
LADY ABERNATHY:
“His name was Teddy Blaze, and also went by Teo who claimed to be from the sun, or Del Sol. Noble Savage melted him and melded him and now he is Teo Blaze. His uneventful demise will be even less meaningful that Alex Richards’ Championship Title reign. Teo will call for his God at the hands of Noble Savage… However… It is only when Alex Richards suffers The God Caller that cries will be heard. For the God of Teo Blaze is still dazed and confused… He will shout a helpless gasp, but his voice will seem too weak, too far… Oh so very far… And the response from his God will be a mere whisper…”
DISEMBODIED VOICE ECHOES WITH WHISPER:
“Go away or you will die!”
LADY ABERNATHY:
“The whispers of your God are something to heed to, Teo. This isn’t the Noble Savage of Mercy you once faced, and it surely isn’t the lustful Temptress that Priestess Agatha sent to take your Gold… This is Noble Savage the incomparable Goddess, and she will make a sauce out of you before you can even say Habanero High.”
DISEMBODIED VOICE ECHOES WITH WHISPER:
“Listen to my mother, Teo, and stay away! Listen to mother! I may be God to you, but her words are God to me."
Lady Abernathy smirks subtly, but quickly gets serious again. She now arrives at an old picnic table of worn out wood. Although the table is drenched, Abernathy takes a seat. As soon as Abernathy settles into her spot comfortably, Noble Savage enters our view from the opposite side of the screen that Abernathy did. Noble Savage sits across from Lady Abernathy at the Picnic table and a second Noble Savage enters the scene as well.
NOBLE:
“Scoot over.”
Noble Savage scoots over so that Noble Savage can sit.
LADY ABERNATHY:
“I saw him swimming around you, Savage.”
SAVAGE:
“Alex? No way, Lady, he is the Time Witch’s soon-to-be dead and former partner.
NOBLE:
“He’s a fish, Savage, and you can not even swim.”
SAVAGE:
“I’m a shark, Noble. If Alex falls into the waters in which I dwell, he will sink deep until he is enveloped into my darkness…”
NOBLE:
“Speaking of your darkness… Why aren’t you there now, Savage? Why are you here, in my Sadness? Abernathy has never allowed us to cross in to each other’s hemispheres. I was confused when I opened my eyes and saw you under my cloudy sky.”
SAVAGE:
“That’s because this isn’t YOUR cloudy sky, Noble… You are not in your hemisphere.”
NOBLE:
“But it does not look like hell… Am I in heaven?”
SAVAGE:
“I highly doubt that you will go to heaven when you die."
NOBLE:
“I am not dead.”
LADY ABERNATHY:
“No… You are not.”
Lady Abernathy smiles at them and Savage now smirks while Noble looks confused. Savage puts her arm around Noble and begins talking to her with sarcastic sympathy.
SAVAGE:
“Death’s head is hovering over you, Noble. That foul stench that follows Alex Richards is all in your mind now, and you know why? Because that foul stench is carried by you, my Twin Soul. And while my biggest fear was shown to me in the form of Bonnie Blue, and believe me I pray to the Elders that I never have to face her or anyone like her ever again, the truth is that it was all because of you. I was drowning in her deep blue sea because you were weighing me down. Just as Abernathy said, your fangirl antics and your emotions all got the best of you, and Bonnie Blue was able to capitalize. But now, looking at the wondrous sadness that surrounds your hemisphere, I finally understand… You’re not sad… See, this rain and these trees? None of this is sad, Noble… This is actually nice… And that is your problem; you are nice. And that’s why I have come here, Noble… Because we cannot afford to be nice to anyone at Endgame, you picking up what I’m throwing down?”
NOBLE:
“I don’t think I’m picking up on any of this. What are you getting at?”
At that point, Savage raises her other hand from her free arm, and we see the pale skin contrasted by long fingernails. Each fingernail is actually painted in a different color, just as Teo’s Infinity Championship gems. Savage softly brings her thumb and middle fingers together and suddenly snaps her fingers.
*SNAP!*
NOBLE:
“What’s going on? A-- Abernathy, I… Don’t feel so good.”
SAVAGE:
“No more Mrs. Nice Bitch.”
Noble now brings her hands up to look at them and they become ashy sand that get carried away by the wind. The rest of Noble’s body quickly drifts off into ashes as well. Savage remains seated and looks at the ashes left behind with a smirk. Her eyes flash with a purple glow and her hand gains a surge of purple current that quickly dissipates. Savage looks at Lady Abernathy now and smiles.
SAVAGE:
"Weakness neutralized, Lady… I can already feel my soul growing more powerful.”
Savage winks at Lady Abernathy. The most shocking thing happens now; Lady Abernathy laughs. She belts out a belly laugh that rustles leaves around them and causes birds to randomly fly through the pouring rain. Savage gets past the initial shock and mimics the laugh of Abernathy.
The camera pulls away and upward, showing us more of the park they are at. They are surrounded by greenery, with the exception of the grey clouds above them. The camera continues to pull away and the park they are in is now revealed to be a floating chunk of dirt in the middle of an empty galaxy. As the camera pulls even further away, the chunk of earth they are in becomes a small spec and we see that it is all within the iris of a smirking Noble Savage.
We see that she is actually laying on a bed of rockstone. Lady Abernathy, Priestess Agatha, Noa Kanon, and Tempest Razum are surrounding her with candles held. Noble Savage sits up on the bed, then looks directly at the camera while the surrounding women bow down.
NOBLE SAVAGE:
“Much to your dismay, gentlemen, this is no longer a four way dance between the two of you and the Two Brandi’s… This has now officially become a handicap match, between ME! The Goddess of Harmony and the two of you… The handicap is in my favor, seeing as even when combined, the two of you are not man enough to serve as a footstool under this woman’s boot. So, pucker up, boys… And kiss your asses good bye. Sorry for your loss.”
The scene now begins to fade to black while Noble Savage begins to chuckle. Her shoulders begin to move with the chuckle and she belts out an upward laugh while the women that surround her start humming. We are now at a fully black screen, and we hear Noble Savage’s voice growl within the laughter.
NOBLE SAVAGE:
“Every blaze has its beginning and its end…. And so does the reign of every Archduke. Get used to existing in nothingness! Because it will be your new permanent home!”
The video feed now melts away as black bubbles corrode the edges and the hint of an orange flame forces it to become completely white. Now against a fully white screen, we hear the low chuckle of Noble Savage quickly turn into an echoing laughter.
WCF Endgame
WCF Championship Match
Alex Richards (c) vs. Teo Blaze vs. Noble Savage
"The Saga Continues"
Wordcount: 5,061
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PHASE 4: THE INFINITY LOOP
The scene opens up with a shot of Noble Savage up close. Her eyelids are lowered to almost closed as she silently whispers to herself in an unknown language. She finishes her final phrase and her eyes open up, fixating her stare right at us.
SAVAGE:
“WCF’s Final show… Endgame! A fitting title, considering what it is that I set out to do the very second I entered this body. Noble wanted me out, but I had bigger plans. I had plans of taking this organization by storm and burning it to the ground in the process. It is not by coincidence that in less than a year after my debut, so many other wrestlers have fled the company that we are on the brink of a shut down. It is also not by coincidence that within my so-called rookie year, I have won accolades, broken records, and main evented more pay per views that some names that have been on the roster for ages. I came in to this place to make it my bitch, and that much I have already accomplished. I promised myself I would decimate every person I look up to, but that I would take my sweet time devouring the final pieces of the softest one… And that’s when you come in, Alex…”
Noble Savage licks her lips and gives away a subtle smirk before she takes a deep breath speaks her next words with a grin.
SAVAGE:
“I looked up to you once upon a time… I looked up to you almost as much as I looked up to Odin before I broke his Godhood. I looked up to Bonnie, too, but we all know how that went. She wasn’t half the person she seemed to be, but you… You are every bit the blob of deceit that you say you are. So, ask yourself this ‘Archduke,’ if Noble Savage had so much love and admiration for Odin Balfore and she ended up crushing him like an ant time and time again, then how come she is taking so long to crush little ol insignificant me? Yes, that is a question that you should always keep present, because I am not doing this just for the love of the arts, it is because you carry a prophetic anti-life with you, a foul stench that I had not yet figured out. See, I defeated Odin when it meant something. I defeated Bonnie when it meant something. But you, I just haven’t faced you when it means something… Until now."
We cut to a flashback of the ending of the Four Way match at One:
In the flashback, things are much more dramaticized; Noble Savage is shown paused with a cat-like stance while looking over her shoulder and a twinkle sparks in her eye. The camera now zooms in to Noble Savage’s eye, and in the reflection we see Alex Richards struggling to get up to his feet. The voice of Freddy Whoa is heard with a dramatic echo and distanced effect: “Is this Noble Savage’s Moment?” The camera quickly pulls back and we see dust pick up under Noble Savage’s foot. She runs in slow motion and catches Alex Richards in the back of the head with a Tomb Seeker Curb Stomp. Noble Savage rolls him up and he three count quickly follows with Tarantino-style freeze frames. A still image of Noble Savage holding the WCF Championship is now shown, while the voice of Zach Davis echoes over: “And we have a new WCF World Champion!” - The bell is heard ringing and the image now fades away in to blackness. From the black screen we fade back in to Noble Savage’s face.
SAVAGE:
“That time we were in the stupid four way at One, I admit I was honored to be in a match with the three best superstars this business has to offer. But the simple fact that I was the fourth person in that match made me realize that I wasn’t just surrounded by greats; I had already become one of the greats. To go into a match like that and walk out victorious would have been its own reward, but I told myself no… I have already pinned Odin, and I have already beaten Bonnie… I need to pin Alex just so that he doesn’t let my kindness get to his head. But I was wrong… It went to your head anyhow. That’s when I decided that I need to beat you one on one but only when it matters… I thought I was going to get my chance here at Endgame, but of course, Mr. Infinity stones Teo Del Sol just had to poke his nose into it. And now we are back in a stupid multi-person match. They say you are at a disadvantage because you don’t need to get pinned to lose my belt. That’s right, I said MY belt… You’re only holding it. Teo thinks for some reason that he can come in to this and have a chance when not only has he never beat you, but he especially has never beaten ME. Maybe he is looking at this as an opportunity to have his grand moment. That he will finally do what he’s never done to accomplish what he has never been able to… How truly sad. Well, I have a little bit of advice for Teo…”
Noble Savage now stands up while the camera pans out all the way. We see that she is now standing beside a statue of Baphomet. There seems to be a bunch of hooded figures hiding behind the statue, but the focal point of our shot is Noble Savage standing in front of it.
SAVAGE:
“Teo, you are a great competitor, I’ll give you that. But you are not good enough to survive in our playing field. You should have remained in the TV Title picture with Razum and them… You couldn’t hold on to that belt when you faced my girl, what makes you think you have a chance to take MY belt from Alex?! Don’t kid yourself little man… They tried to screw me out of my moment at One, and you saw what happened. I swore I would burn the Wells Fargo Arena to the ground, and I did! The only one that was not phased by the Blaze was me… And guess, what? At Endgame it wouldn’t be all that much different. See, you are now trying to screw me out of my moment at Endgame, and while everyone may be affected by the Blaze, I will not be! The other - far more important - similarity with this attempt at a screw job this time around is that at the end of the match, it will be my size 8 steel-toe platform boots crushing the back of Alex Richards’ head for the three-second finale without ANYONE being able to do anything about it!”
Noble Savage now walks off and the camera pans upward slowly zooming in to the face of the Baphomet statue. An ominous hum is heard being harmonized by the hooded figures that hide behind the statue as we fade to black.
PHASE 5: MY CIVIL WAR
The footage fades back in to show us the feet of Noble Savage walking up a set of steps. Noble Savage enters a barricaded building through a crack in between wooden planks and the camera follows into the darkness. We hear her footsteps in hollow hallways, followed by the squeaky sound of a door opening. A light flickers hesitantly and we vaguely see the face of Noble Savage now with an angry sneer. The camera pulls back slowly to reveal that she is actually in front of a mirror. The expression of her reflection changes as if independent from her true self. The reflection seems worried.
NOBLE:
"You are powerful beyond your own limits, Savage, and you cannot even balance it out with self control. You meditate… You come here to speak to me, just to try to gain some sense of harmony, because you know you can never truly function without me.”
Noble Savage now changes her facial expression from worrisome to a sympathetic smirk.
SAVAGE:
“No. That’s not going to be necessary in my bout against Richards. Del Sol cashed in his infinity stones, so this is now an all out war. I don’t need self control or balance for this one. What I need is pure, uncut and unabridged Savagery… And that is exactly what I’ve accomplished.”
NOBLE:
“What am I doing, Savage? You’ve exiled me without warning, yet you return to me just to chit chat? Perhaps they were right… I really am crazy.”
Noble Savage shakes her head with disappointment, which quickly becomes anger. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath before speaking.
SAVAGE:
“You’re not crazy… No… I’m not crazy, don’t say that ever again, we’re not CRAZY!! OKAY??!!”
NOBLE:
“Then what are we?”
SAVAGE:
“We are a Savage of the Highest Order.”
NOBLE:
“A Noble Savage.”
SAVAGE:
“THE Noble Savage. You are a piece of a whole, Noble. There is nothing anyone can do to change that.”
NOBLE:
“A piece? Well, I'm thankful that I even AM in one piece.”
SAVAGE:
"Sorry about that. I felt your fleeting sentiments yet again leaning toward the sympathy of that incredulous swine you once called a teammate and I just could not allow you to hold me back any more. So being the cooperative Cleric of Balance, I thought it would only be beneficial to both of us to do what I did. You never react to anything, Noble, except for emotions. And that scares me. That’s what brought us down against The Daughter of Time. When pain and suffering are your two greatest weapons, you simply dance around the opportunity. Your finishing move is a Dance of Sorrow for crying out loud! Who the hell do you expect to defeat with a few slaps and a headbutt anyway? I mean, of course aside from the incompetent animal. You’re always so unenthused, and so unmotivated… You could get slapped in the face, and I’m the one who has to react!"
NOBLE:
“I react.”
SAVAGE:
“The same way you reacted when Bonnie Blue slapped you in the face with that iPad?”
Savage just stares at her own falsely innocent facial expression in the mirror. She becomes infuriated and headbutts the mirror, creating a circular spider crack that distorts her reflection.
SAVAGE:
"So, come on! React!"
Noble Savage’s reflection now looks back in confusion. While she turns her head to look at us over her shoulder, the reflection stays facing front and looks at us as well.
SAVAGE:
"I know you have broken down a few victims in the past. I know you’ve lashed out once or twice! You have this way of storing everything in. You just don't react. And when your tank gets full, you just burst out and then YOU are the one who cannot control herself.”
NOBLE:
“I honestly don’t know what you mean by that. I might not have let you fight Alex Richards. But I let you fight Teo Del Sol. Yes, based on those two incidents it might seem like your flavor of crazy works, but that is all just coincidence. That doesn’t justify you locking me in here. Look, the first day we met, you overly reacted. I thought you were just a crazy thought. But then you rudely sent the owner of this vessel - me - out of my own mind for being kind and few hours later you come back and talk to me nice. I mean, whenever you get a chance to show your anger to a person, you pour out everything on them. And I don't mind that, but it leaves you drained, and you then begin to suck my energy to redeem yourself."
SAVAGE:
“And that is exactly what I am doing right now… You’ve hit the nail on the head, Noble. You asked me why I did what I did, and I explained it to you… But you still didn’t understand why I kept you in the Between of our hemispheres, and now - just now - you answered your own question. I need you, Noble. I need your energy. Especially after Endgame when the full force of my wrath soars with a stronger Blaze than Teo and burrows through the guts of Alex Richards to get back my Championship… I will need to come back and feed myself with bits of you.”
NOBLE:
“That answer does not satisfy my logic. If I had any recollection of how you trapped me here, it might make more sense… But I don’t even know what happened, or why Lad Abernathy even allowed it to happen.”
SAVAGE:
“It is all Teo Del Sol’s fault… Once Abernathy and I found that this would be a three-way, we decided to make things a little less fair for our two unfortunate opponents… “
Noble Savage grins fiendishly at her broken reflection and raises her eyebrows in a flirtatious repetition while the scene fades to black.
PHASE 3: WHEN SHE FINALLY SNAPPED
The following words now appear against the black screen:
SIX DAYS EARLIER...
The words fade back to black and the black screen now slowly begins fading in, along with the sound of gentle winds and rustling leaves. The morning is greyed and cloudy during this unseasonably cold spring. A single raindrop hits the dry pavement, followed by the rumbling sound of rolling thunder in the distance. Even the trees in this park are fooled by the cool air, letting their newly bloomed pink leaves fall off their branches as if it were autumn all over again. From our ground perspective, all we see is a set of legs in tight leather and high heel boots step in and walk left.
The camera begins to drift along with the pace of the walk. The demonic voice of Lady Abernathy resonates, letting us know it is her who is walking although we do not see her face, as a couple of more rain drops hit the asphalt she walks on.
LADY ABERNATHY:
"I was waiting for that moment, Teo... That moment when you looked around you and realized that everything you were working so hard for was being taken from you. Surely, I cannot take credit for Priestess Agatha's pupil beating you, but it isn't credit that I seek to take, it is joy. As much as I enjoyed seeing your blaze extinguished at the hands of Noble Savage back in October, I was left wanting more... More, in the form of a definitive destruction. More, in the form of closure... More... In the form of an End Game."
Cut to another shot from a different part of the same park. A couple of more rain drops meet their doom upon hitting the pavement as rolling leaves dance in the weak winds. Thick platform boots with buckles and rivets stomp into our view and begin walking right as the camera follows. A familiar raspy voice is heard now.
NOBLE:
"So much for a ceremonial coronation. The WCF Championship belt around the fat waist of Alex Richards belongs to me and I am simply allowing him to carry it for the time being, simply because I wanted to make my win against him actually mean something. I defeated the best of the best in the WCF and now for the final pay per view, the best is me, and I have to face... The rest. I have been puppeteering Alex around to my will so that I may have an easy moment of closure when I decide to break his soul. But now, it seems like the little Engine that Could is interfering in our prophecy. You annoying little hummingbird... I beat you within an inch of your life during our first date, and I knew that eventually you would wake up and realize you were not actually dying. Sadly, that moment has now come and you decided to take your last shot of desperation and reach for the unreachable. That's the number one reason the Temptress was able to beat you so easily... She was trying so hard to outshine my match against you that she forgot what was on the line. Pitiful for you, Teo, a novice stepped up and took your belt from you without even knowing it was on the line. And now, you think you can step up and take mine from Richards? Don't insult me."
A second set of legs now catches up to the footsteps of Noble Savage, walking right, while our view is still fixated on their lower body. These boots are more sleek and have chain links around them with small spikes. Noble Savage's voice speaks in a far more raspy growl and lower tone.
SAVAGE:
"It wasn't by his choice that this imbecile was inserted into our business. Teo is nothing more than a victim of circumstance, pre-destined to crumble under a steel toe boot. He doesn't have a choice to make in this whole matter. I get the last say in how the final WCF Championship Match ends because those two little muck-scrapes are incapable of keeping me from imposing my will upon them. The only choice there will be to make is which one of them eats a Tombseeker and which one of them catches a Savage Kick! They will both suffer the full flood of my wrath, regardless, and it was only a matter of time before someone jumped in to soften the blow of what I will do to Alexander Richards."
We cut back to the previous shot of Lady Abernathy's footsteps walking left. The rain drops are now more frequent and the ground is darkened from moisture. The camera slowly widens out as Abernathy speaks.
LADY ABERNATHY:
"Alex Richards does not know how to swim. And by the time that mongrel finally realizes that, he will already be inside of a coffin. His bulbous body trying so hard to wrap Noble Savage's championship belt around his waist, without noticing that he is only sinking into the deep end. He's gone too far, somebody bring him back... He's off the deep end and he's about to go even further, feeling the weight of the mass of water that surrounds him. Suffocating inside of the overbearing presence of Noble Savage. She is everywhere, Alex, everywhere! Inside your eyes, your nose, your ears, your mouth. At Endgame you will feel so much more pressure compressing around your lungs, and by then it will be too late. You will try flapping your fat limbs but in vain. You will already have no energy left as a result of struggling to go above Noble Savage's surface. This isn't hashtag deep blue sea, Alex, this isn't The Witch of your happy place... This is the Witch that will make you wish Bonnie Blue was there to save you from the depths of the turbid waters that overwhelm you. The dark of invisible breathlessness shaking you to your very core. You can’t swim, or what?”
We now cut back to the two set of feet that are walking to the right and the rainfall has gotten a lot more consistent. The small drops of water sizzle and evaporate against the leather boots that we see. The camera widens out to an establishing shot in which we can confirm that Noble Savage walking beside… Noble Savage.
NOBLE:
“We are getting closer… I can smell the nauseating unfulfilled death that follows Alex Richards wherever he goes.”
SAVAGE:
“The end is near.”
NOBLE:
“Why do you say it like that?”
SAVAGE:
“How?”
NOBLE:
“As if the end is near… for me.”
SAVAGE:
“No… The end of WCF as we know it is near. The end of Alex’s title reign is near. And the end of Teo Del--
NOBLE:
“If I die, I'll haunt whomever is responsible and kill them where they sleep.”
SAVAGE:
“I said that to myself when I was facing Bonnie that last time. I legit thought I was going to die. But deep down inside I knew I wouldn’t be able to best her even after death. I swear I have never been so frightened in my life… You remember when we joined Alex and her in The Guardians, and then everyone started having weird nightmares?”
NOBLE:
“Of course… I dreamed that of the past that time. My most nightmarish moment as a little girl… And you said you didn’t have a worst nightmare, so you dreamt… Nothing…
SAVAGE:
“Well, I lied… While your nightmare showed you the past, mine showed me the future… And at that time, my future was to face the Witch that I looked up to, Bonnie Blue… And she would defeat me like no one else had ever done before… In that nightmare, The Time Witch took me into the Deep Blue Sea… Something tangled around my ankles. It was like sea-grass but the difference was, this thing was tied around my ankle and were pulling me down. I tried to wiggle out of it by shaking my legs but it got tighter and pulled me with double the force. And everything became dark. I fought hard to avoid that reality from happening, but once something has been set in motion by destiny there is nothing anyone can do to avoid it. We can only alter it, prolong it, never prevent the inevitable. It was going to be at Endgame that Bonnie broke me… I made sure it wasn’t Bonnie… That way my demise wouldn’t be guaranteed. I just took my loss against a significant foe in a less than significant venue, and waited to face the joke of a champion at the paramount of all events.”
NOBLE:
“So, you knew this would happen, yet you kept it from me… Savage, my thoughts and knowledge are open to you at all times. Yours should be equally as open to me.”
SAVAGE:
“And spoil your Endgame?”
NOBLE:
“Again… Why do say it that way? What do you mean MY Endgame? It is Alex & Teo who will perish. Not me.”
Cut again to a shot of Lady Abernathy walking in what has now become a torrential downpour. The camera view is allowing us to see her full body from head to toe, which is inexplicably dry in this increasingly aggressive rain.
LADY ABERNATHY:
“His name was Teddy Blaze, and also went by Teo who claimed to be from the sun, or Del Sol. Noble Savage melted him and melded him and now he is Teo Blaze. His uneventful demise will be even less meaningful that Alex Richards’ Championship Title reign. Teo will call for his God at the hands of Noble Savage… However… It is only when Alex Richards suffers The God Caller that cries will be heard. For the God of Teo Blaze is still dazed and confused… He will shout a helpless gasp, but his voice will seem too weak, too far… Oh so very far… And the response from his God will be a mere whisper…”
DISEMBODIED VOICE ECHOES WITH WHISPER:
“Go away or you will die!”
LADY ABERNATHY:
“The whispers of your God are something to heed to, Teo. This isn’t the Noble Savage of Mercy you once faced, and it surely isn’t the lustful Temptress that Priestess Agatha sent to take your Gold… This is Noble Savage the incomparable Goddess, and she will make a sauce out of you before you can even say Habanero High.”
DISEMBODIED VOICE ECHOES WITH WHISPER:
“Listen to my mother, Teo, and stay away! Listen to mother! I may be God to you, but her words are God to me."
Lady Abernathy smirks subtly, but quickly gets serious again. She now arrives at an old picnic table of worn out wood. Although the table is drenched, Abernathy takes a seat. As soon as Abernathy settles into her spot comfortably, Noble Savage enters our view from the opposite side of the screen that Abernathy did. Noble Savage sits across from Lady Abernathy at the Picnic table and a second Noble Savage enters the scene as well.
NOBLE:
“Scoot over.”
Noble Savage scoots over so that Noble Savage can sit.
LADY ABERNATHY:
“I saw him swimming around you, Savage.”
SAVAGE:
“Alex? No way, Lady, he is the Time Witch’s soon-to-be dead and former partner.
NOBLE:
“He’s a fish, Savage, and you can not even swim.”
SAVAGE:
“I’m a shark, Noble. If Alex falls into the waters in which I dwell, he will sink deep until he is enveloped into my darkness…”
NOBLE:
“Speaking of your darkness… Why aren’t you there now, Savage? Why are you here, in my Sadness? Abernathy has never allowed us to cross in to each other’s hemispheres. I was confused when I opened my eyes and saw you under my cloudy sky.”
SAVAGE:
“That’s because this isn’t YOUR cloudy sky, Noble… You are not in your hemisphere.”
NOBLE:
“But it does not look like hell… Am I in heaven?”
SAVAGE:
“I highly doubt that you will go to heaven when you die."
NOBLE:
“I am not dead.”
LADY ABERNATHY:
“No… You are not.”
Lady Abernathy smiles at them and Savage now smirks while Noble looks confused. Savage puts her arm around Noble and begins talking to her with sarcastic sympathy.
SAVAGE:
“Death’s head is hovering over you, Noble. That foul stench that follows Alex Richards is all in your mind now, and you know why? Because that foul stench is carried by you, my Twin Soul. And while my biggest fear was shown to me in the form of Bonnie Blue, and believe me I pray to the Elders that I never have to face her or anyone like her ever again, the truth is that it was all because of you. I was drowning in her deep blue sea because you were weighing me down. Just as Abernathy said, your fangirl antics and your emotions all got the best of you, and Bonnie Blue was able to capitalize. But now, looking at the wondrous sadness that surrounds your hemisphere, I finally understand… You’re not sad… See, this rain and these trees? None of this is sad, Noble… This is actually nice… And that is your problem; you are nice. And that’s why I have come here, Noble… Because we cannot afford to be nice to anyone at Endgame, you picking up what I’m throwing down?”
NOBLE:
“I don’t think I’m picking up on any of this. What are you getting at?”
At that point, Savage raises her other hand from her free arm, and we see the pale skin contrasted by long fingernails. Each fingernail is actually painted in a different color, just as Teo’s Infinity Championship gems. Savage softly brings her thumb and middle fingers together and suddenly snaps her fingers.
*SNAP!*
NOBLE:
“What’s going on? A-- Abernathy, I… Don’t feel so good.”
SAVAGE:
“No more Mrs. Nice Bitch.”
Noble now brings her hands up to look at them and they become ashy sand that get carried away by the wind. The rest of Noble’s body quickly drifts off into ashes as well. Savage remains seated and looks at the ashes left behind with a smirk. Her eyes flash with a purple glow and her hand gains a surge of purple current that quickly dissipates. Savage looks at Lady Abernathy now and smiles.
SAVAGE:
"Weakness neutralized, Lady… I can already feel my soul growing more powerful.”
Savage winks at Lady Abernathy. The most shocking thing happens now; Lady Abernathy laughs. She belts out a belly laugh that rustles leaves around them and causes birds to randomly fly through the pouring rain. Savage gets past the initial shock and mimics the laugh of Abernathy.
The camera pulls away and upward, showing us more of the park they are at. They are surrounded by greenery, with the exception of the grey clouds above them. The camera continues to pull away and the park they are in is now revealed to be a floating chunk of dirt in the middle of an empty galaxy. As the camera pulls even further away, the chunk of earth they are in becomes a small spec and we see that it is all within the iris of a smirking Noble Savage.
We see that she is actually laying on a bed of rockstone. Lady Abernathy, Priestess Agatha, Noa Kanon, and Tempest Razum are surrounding her with candles held. Noble Savage sits up on the bed, then looks directly at the camera while the surrounding women bow down.
NOBLE SAVAGE:
“Much to your dismay, gentlemen, this is no longer a four way dance between the two of you and the Two Brandi’s… This has now officially become a handicap match, between ME! The Goddess of Harmony and the two of you… The handicap is in my favor, seeing as even when combined, the two of you are not man enough to serve as a footstool under this woman’s boot. So, pucker up, boys… And kiss your asses good bye. Sorry for your loss.”
The scene now begins to fade to black while Noble Savage begins to chuckle. Her shoulders begin to move with the chuckle and she belts out an upward laugh while the women that surround her start humming. We are now at a fully black screen, and we hear Noble Savage’s voice growl within the laughter.
NOBLE SAVAGE:
“Every blaze has its beginning and its end…. And so does the reign of every Archduke. Get used to existing in nothingness! Because it will be your new permanent home!”
The video feed now melts away as black bubbles corrode the edges and the hint of an orange flame forces it to become completely white. Now against a fully white screen, we hear the low chuckle of Noble Savage quickly turn into an echoing laughter.
