Post by Tyler Storm on Sept 25, 2015 22:10:16 GMT -6
Unleash Your Inner Demons
Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That's not just an emotion. That's a demon.
-Stephen Baldwin
-Stephen Baldwin
UP Health System Hospital - Marquette, Michigan
September 14th, 2015
11:43 PM Central Time
September 14th, 2015
11:43 PM Central Time
"Why have I allowed all of this to happen..."
The sounds of a heart monitor make Tyler Storm twitch as he sits in the uncomfortably soft hospital chair, staring at his wife, Zelda Lawson, as she lays there asleep. Tyler moves his hand onto his wife's abdomen, rubbing there softly as he just shakes his head, a look of utter disgust on his face.
"I should have never let Zelda out of my site, now my sweet angel lays here in front of me in so much pain. She should have never been brought into this, she did nothing to deserve any wrongdoing towards her."
The door to the hospital room opens to reveal the doctor stands there, Tyler ignoring the visiting medical professional as he continues to look over his wife.
"Hello there Mr. Storm. Glad to see you were able to finally arrive."
Tyler slowly moves his head up to acknowledge the doctor.
"Yeah, I would have been here immediately but my General Manager held me back to assess how the attack occurred and who exactly was responsible."
"I was made aware of this by Ms. Jones when she was still here, and I can definitely say she did an excellent job in helping us identify where certain points of injury were. We managed to really stabilize your wife and keep a lot of worse things from occurring to her."
"That's definitely good, I apologize if Stacy ran out of here a bit earlier looking very stressed, she had a hard time coping with the situation a bit. Considering she was in the room, knocked out conscious, while the attack occurred, she kind of blames herself for Zelda turning out how she is."
"Ah, I see. Well regardless of what she thinks, what matters is she got Zelda help quickly that led to a speedy arrival to the hospital."
The doctor looks down at Tyler's hand laying against Zelda's abdomen.
"I can notice that situation is troubling you as well."
Tyler looks down at his hand placement and nods very softly once more.
"We found out about 5 days ago we are finally expecting. Our lifelong dream...and it might have just been crushed because my wife was put in a situation she shouldn't have been in, which honestly is my fault."
"Well I can't really say much about who exactly is to blame for your wife's current condition, that is up to whoever you take that up with. What I can say is that to go along with her quick management of getting help, Ms. Jones may have very well saved your developing child. Now it will require some continuous monitoring over the next couple of months, but because of how quickly we managed to secure your wife's condition, the chances of everything there being OK are very good."
Tyler's eyes brighten up as the doctor says this, a few tears beginning to roll down his face and a small smile forming that makes the situation seem not as bad.
"Thank you so much doctor...that was something laying very heavy on my heart other than the condition of my wife, but seeing how you were able to help my gal and save our dream, I essentially owe my life to you."
"Hey, it's our job here, you owe us nothing more than what your insurance doesn't pay. Which depending on your financial stability can pretty much be your life, but because of your success in professional wrestling and a fitness and rehab industry, I'd say life is something you need not worry about giving us."
"Well I certainly offer my gratitude to go along with anything financially. Just absolutely thank you."
The doctor smiles and nods.
"I think I will go ahead and leave you two alone, we will do another checkup on Ms. Storm in a few hours and then maybe we can give you two a timetable of when you can leave our facility."
The doctor turns around and walks to and out the door, closing it behind him. As he does, the sound of wimpering catches Tyler off guard as he shoots his gaze up to his wife's face. She must have been hiding being asleep during the doctor's conversation with Tyler, which shows in how she is reacting right now, tears rolling down her face and a smile trying to push through the pain she feels through her body.
"We didn't lose the baby...we didn't lose it Tyler."
"I know Zelda, I know. It's gonna be ok...even if we lost it, thank god you are OK. I couldn't have survived if I lost my everything because of Scarlet's savage attack."
Zelda looks towards Tyler as she slowly tries lifting up her broken right arm, to which the pain powers her down to cause more tears to roll down her face.
"It hurts a lot. She just destroyed me, absolutely destroyed me...thank god she is going to be taken care of."
"Indeed she will, because I'm going to be the one to take care of her."
Zelda's look turns grim as Tyler says this, she is clearly unaware of what Tyler had scheduled with Ms. Sangue before his departure from the arena.
"Please don't tell me you are still going through with fighting her. She doesn't deserve to even be in VoW after what she did to me! I don't want her trying to have you end up looking worse than me right now."
"Zelda, you know as well as I do I am not going to stand for that pathetic bitch to just get her little slap on the wrist and get away with what she did to you. I'm taking care of this personally, and that's why I demanded Ms. Sangue to add a stipulation to my match with Flint so I could inflict true pain onto that psycho...the Wall of Woe."
"You do realize any amount of pain you intend on putting onto her, she has already planned to do 5 times that. Tyler I love you with all my heart, and I know I can always count on you to be my night in shining armor, but this is absolutely insane! You are gonna end up just like you were 5 years ago in a wheelchair after being thrown off a steel cage through a table by Hardcastle."
"So you are saying you don't believe in me?"
"Tyler it's not that, I just d-"
"Don't want to see me making a dumb mistake, I know Zel. But listen to me...Tyler Storm may not be strong enough to push through such a difficult task, but this exact situation is what The Hybrid was created and implanted into my brain for. When he clicks, annihilation occurs. I don't care about winning or losing, I don't care about being in one piece myself, if I can bring that bitch down to hell and keep her there then I accomplish my goal."
Zelda opens her mouth to say something else, but she knows it's useless to argue with Tyler when The Hybrid clearly has a hold of his tongue. She lays there for a second, a couple of tears rolling down her face, worry clearly setting on her mind. Tyler moves his hand over his wife's cheek to wipe the tears away, and looks deeply into her eyes.
"I love you...I know you just don't want to see me in this bed looking worse than you. I don't want to be in that situation either, but to protect you and bring honor to my name and to correct the wrongdoings of anyone who attacks my family, I have to do whatever it takes, even risk my own body and life. But I swear to you, Scarlet may bring me down, and I certainly plan to bring her down with me, but I assure you she isn't taking me away from you. If anything in my soul keeps me here, it is you and that little soul growing inside you right now. Our little soul, our dream come true. You are my strength..."
Zelda smiles softly.
"...you are my power. We are a mighty force..."
"...built like a mighty tower."
Zelda leans up, gritting her teeth a little at her pain, as she lays a kiss softly on Tyler's lips.
"Still as beautiful as when you said that on our wedding day."
Tyler smiles as he delivers a kiss back to his wife, laying his hand back against her abdomen and rubbing softly.
"Our dream is not dying, I'm going to assure that."
Forest Hill Cemetery - Birmingham, Alabama
September 20th, 2015
1:13 PM Central Time
September 20th, 2015
1:13 PM Central Time
Tyler walks slowly along the graveyard path, it looks as gloom as it did those months ago when he had been there. The light rain hits the trees and tombstones to give it all a slick and shiny look, only to be made dull by the shade of the clouds in the sky. As Tyler approaches the end of his walk, he pauses for a moment to take a deep breath.
"Come on Tyler, he wants to see you. You never let dad down, no need to start now."
Tyler jumps at this, looking over to the grave of his deceased father where his brother, Scott Storm, is sitting waiting for his brother. Tyler nods as he walks over and takes a knee into the clumpy wet dirt next to his brother. He places a hand onto the tombstone, moving over the top of it with his thumb, closing his eyes to take a moment to relax.
"To think it's been 5 months since I last saw his face...time goes by way to fast Scott."
"It really does, I miss the old man every single day and to think I've gone this long without seeing him in person is just strange."
The two brothers sit there in silence for a minute, just staring at the grave marker.
"You know he is definitely gonna be missing out when you and Z welcome that new little one into the world."
"Yeah...I hate that my kid won't be able to grow up without a grandpa. Dad could have taught him so much."
"Dad can still teach him a lot, you just gotta be the middleman that relays those messages he tells to your little guy or gal."
Tyler nods as he moves his arm over his brother's shoulder.
"Well I also am gonna need a cool uncle for my kid that makes me and Zel look dumb and we can be pissed at said uncle."
"And you know I have 0 problem having you and Bubbles mad at me."
Tyler smirks and laughs under his breath as he looks over to his brother.
"You are such a lovable jackass."
"Eh, I try. But hey, it's just how us Storms roll. But hey, since we are here and dad kind of is here listening, I wanted to talk to you about Scarlet."
Tyler stays eerily silent as his expression changes to a very distasteful one.
"Do we really have to ruin this moment talking out that inconsiderate bitch?"
"I have 0 plans to ruin a moment bro, but I need to talk to you about this. I can tell how heavy this match with her is on your mind after what she did to Z."
"Alright, go ahead."
"Well let's look at it this way dude, she definitely deserves whatever you have coming to her at that Pay-Per-View coming up. She had 0 reason to attack Zelda, and quite frankly I feel disgusted with that woman for doing what she did to my sister-in-law just to send a message to you. However, you acting the way you are right now whenever she is mentioned is just playing into her plan perfectly."
"You honestly think I don't know that? Scott, I knew that the minute I saw it was Scarlet doing the attack on that footage I watched in Ms. Sangue's office. She got into my head the best way she knew how, by attacking me where I am strongest, my family. The only problem with that is, she has yet to even realize what I am capable of when my family is put into harm's way."
"And I agree, she did a good move, but she isn't exactly aware of what you have done to people in the past that have done something to your family. Hell, I know from first experience that even as your brother, when going after any member of our family, you will retaliate with a force that's hard to explain. But, that's besides the point, what I'm getting at Tyler is I need you to remember what dad always said about protecting the ones you love."
Tyler sat there for a minute, thinking of what his father used to tell him in his younger days, before Scott interrupts him with the answer.
"Dad always said if you want to really protect those close to your heart, you gotta make sure you protect yourself first and foremost. Whether you like it or not, you know for a fact that if you end up in some kind of bad state in that match with Scarlet, even if you accomplish your goal of destroying her, you fail because you leave me and Zelda and that upcoming baby of yours without someone we really consider a connector for this family. We still need you to keep us all safe Tyler, if you use up everything on Scarlet and end up a pile of nothing when other dangerous obstacles come our way, you pretty much just destroyed your family for your own satisfaction of destroying one person."
Tyler stares blankly at Scott for a moment, before nodding and responding to his brother.
"You are right...I mean I always put my body on the line every single time I step in that ring, but I try my best to keep myself safe as well. With Scarlet I have been just stuck on the mindset of destroying her even if that means destroying myself, but Dad's old message still reigns true. With him gone, I have become a big centerpiece of this family now."
"You have. I mean I will say, I am fully capable of handling myself, but having you around makes me feel a lot more secure dude. You definitely are a rock for this family, and we all just want to have you around for a long time."
"And I appreciate that. The only thing that bothers me about this though is what if the only way I can destroy Scarlet is to destroy myself. I mean she is, without a doubt, one of the most dangerous competitors I will ever face in my career. And to make things more dangerous, I put us into this Wall of Woe match. There is gonna be weapons all along that cage wall, and who knows how many dangerous falls we will have in that match while climbing for the I4NI title. It's almost apparent I may have dug my own grave on this one."
Scott chuckles as Tyler looks at him with confusion.
"Are you fucking kidding me? You can't seriously believe you are gonna let a bitch with a mental problem bad enough to make Jerry Springer run just walk all over you. You are Tyler Storm! The Hybrid! The guy I went to battle with myself, and my mental state is very questionable at times, and you made me look like a little unworthy peasant in the middle of a ring. You took Ace Watson to every limit after the things he has said and done to you, and you still are here healthy as day. You were thrown off a steel cage, broke your fucking back, and came back to destroy Tony Hardcastle just for the fun of it! To say you have a little to nothing chance to go into Armed and Dangerous and do exactly what you want to do to Scarlet Flint and still manage to work past any little pain is insane, because I know and the Witnesses know that Tyler Storm is one of the baddest motherfuckers to ever step foot in this scene!"
Scott hops up to his feet and smirks.
"You may be a little bit of an emotional bitch sometimes, but in that ring you rock the house no matter the circumstance. You are human, you are capable of being taken down yourself, but I know that when The Hybrid breaks from it's cage you are basically unstoppable. So, say it to my face again and see if I don't lay your ass out on this muddy graveyard ground for Dad to piledrive some sense into you from the spirit world."
Tyler looks almost stunned by these words his brother said, but after a second Tyler stands up and with a inexpressive look stares right at Scott.
"All right, if that's what you really think, let's go take care of business then. Time to see if The Hybrid goes full on ape shit on some Little Red Demon ass."
Tyler walks off as Scott stands there still smirking, then taking a second to glance down at their father's grave.
"What do you think old man? Tyler ready for war?"
Scott laughs as he goes walking off towards Tyler's direction, the rain beginning to die out as sun light breaks through the clouds above.
Fort Williams Garden concourse - Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
September 24th, 2015
9:55 PM Central Time
September 24th, 2015
9:55 PM Central Time
"Alright, playtime is over!"
Tyler delivers this message as soon as he turns on his camera to show him sitting on a bench in front of Fort Williams Garden.
"So, just to go ahead and get the kindness out of the way, how is it going everyone. My name is Tyler Storm, VoW I4NI Champion, and I'm here today in front of the Fort Williams Garden in beautiful Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada to talk a bit with my Witness Army. But today, I am going to place a bit of an extreme themes warning on this because of who exactly I will be discussing about, so if you are a younger viewer this may not be the time to listen to Tyler."
Tyler breathes in for a second, and then looks right into the camera with a seriousness to his expression.
"Alright, so as many of you were probably aware, at Breakthrough 33 my beautiful wife Zelda Lawson was attacked backstage along with a close friend of ours Stacy Jones. During this attack, my wife was put under an immense amount of pain, and as a result she ended up being hospitalized with a concussion, 3 broken ribs, a broken arm, and several very bad lacerations around her body as well as your typical bruises and cuts. As you can imagine, I was very upset about this attack and that upset feeling only grew more into pure anger when I learned that the very person who did this attack was none other than Scarlet Flint, the woman I was earlier in the night on that show told I would face at Armed and Dangerous in a simple no-DQ match for my I4NI Championship. I had a lot of respect for Scarlet, and as a competitor I still respect her ability to wrestle, however her doing to my wife what she did for the sole purpose of sending a message to me was absolutely uncalled for."
Tyler readjusts himself on the bench.
"The anger I felt towards Ms. Flint resulted in me demanding a change to my match despite the want by Ms. Sangue for my opponent to be taken care of by management for what she had done to my wife, who is a non-competing employee of this company. Through my demands, me and Scarlet are now scheduled to face off in that arena behind me in just a few nights for my I4NI Championship, where we will now be fighting in the return of the Wall of Woe match. A single cage wall, covered in weapons, a platform above with the title hanging there. You win by climbing the shaky and dangerous cage wall, grab the title from the platform, and bring it to the ground for the victory. It's a simple concept, with a very extreme amount of pain you must put yourself through as you compete in it. Basically put it, it is gonna fuck someone if not both competitors up. It's going to be a mad house for two mentally mad individuals."
Tyler scoffs as he puts his hand into his pocket, pulling out a single razor blade.
"Let me quickly apologize to a good friend for taking this, but when I found this laying on the ground next to my wife's beaten body, something told me to hang on to this. Scarlet, it's time we chat, because something tells me that we are really starting to figure out what exactly makes each other tick. You see my sweet red devil woman, I know exactly what you are thinking right now. You will say I don't know a single damn thing about you, you will laugh at any progress I made, frankly you will make me out to be an idiot among my fans you consider sheep. But Scarlet, although our paths are different in so many ways, from tragedy to triumph, there are so many similarities as well."
Tyler puts the blade up to his face, twirling it around between his index finger and thumb as he smiles.
"Tell me, what was it like when you had this blade in your hand, using it to slice chunks of flesh from my defenseless wife? It must have been so thrilling to watch her struggle and cry, see the blood seep from her body as she begged and pleaded for you to put down this blade. You must have felt so alive when you got to kick my wife while she lay unconscious on the ground, breaking her ribs and trying to kill our child we had only just learned we were having. I mean you absolutely wanted to destroy our dreams, and that was a thrill for you, wasn't it?!?"
As Tyler says this, he takes the blade and cuts very slowly along his right cheek, flinching in pain as the blood begins to seep from his face.
"Man do I love the feeling of metal peeling through my skin as the blood flows against me. That is the kind of shit that gets the adrenaline rolling through your body, it feels so fucking amazing!"
Tyler laughs as he drops the blade to the ground, using his hand to wipe the seeping blood from his cheek across his face.
"If you can't tell quite yet Scarlet, I very well can be at times a madman that could be defined also as an idiot. I'm mad for trying to pull a stunt like this with absolutely no purpose, some say I'm an idiot for ever thinking I could just look you in the eye and not expect you to retaliate in the ways you have. Yet I still play my role the way I always do, because my career is anything but conventional. I like doing crazy shit, it get's your audience captured and paying attention, plus it's better to get used to this sort of pain. After all, then I know what exactly you will feel when I dig this very blade into your flesh as a bit of payback."
Tyler goes back to a bit of a serious look, a beam of confidence showing off his eyes.
"But enough about that, let's just get on to the main reason you and I are not on the same eye level here Scarlet. Look, I get it! I get your life, especially compared to mine, is about as comparable as a pile of shit next to a shiny new diamond. You have been under turmoil almost every waking moment, while I have had a fairly great life with a few bad moments here and there. You had no love put onto you by your parents, they felt you were an outcast and frankly many in this world do. I had 2 parents that loved me unconditionally and supported me through everything. You probably have had a lot of rough relationships and maybe got caught up in some situations where you did some things you weren't proud of or was forced into things as you begged for the pain to stop. Meanwhile I have my beautiful wife who has shown to be my rock and my everything through life, her love being something I cherish a lot. In every essence, you are supposed to be the bottom of the barrel underdog, while I am the perfect life guy everyone should hate."
Tyler smiles as he goes on.
"But see, then there is the part about how we cope in social settings. You Scarlet, you just hate everybody, and anyone who shows you sympathy you shrug it off and take it as an insult to your character. Meanwhile I dedicate my life to making sure every single person around me is happy and helped as long as they allow me to give them that happiness and help. It's the same gesture I have even tried extending to you, my dear rival, but alas you deny me because in your mind you can't allow yourself to stoop to accepting help from a true genuine person. You live your days as a hateful fiend, and it honestly makes me pity you Scarlet. I very rarely show pity, for I feel anyone can through and get through rough times, but you have been such a special case that I now begin to question everything I once thought about you. Maybe, just maybe, you and I are just at two different eye levels, maybe I don't understand, maybe I never will. But I pity how you refuse such help because of your straight forward way of thinking. If that is how you wish to live your life, then I guess my methods of help are truly useless. Which surprisingly is actually a good thing for me, because that means I now get to focus on the exact reason I am thinking the way I am now about you, and that is because you are basically one of the most sinister yet pathetic bitches I have ever met in my life."
Tyler again goes back to a serious look, he grabs down at his feet and pulls up onto his shoulder the I4NI Championship.
"Scarlet Flint, the actions you took at Breakthrough 33 were uncalled for and honestly were very unprofessional, very childish, and very stupid. Why stupid, you might ask? Because you broke a huge commandment in my way of thinking, and that is if you touch my family in a harmful way, The Hybrid shall beat your ass into the ground! Look, I don't underestimate your abilities, and quite frankly I really do feel you are one of the best here in VoW and you have just as good a chance to beat me as Casanova English did against me and Cameron Behringer at Breakthrough 32. And at Armed and Dangerous you could very well walk out with this title, another trophy alongside that nice UWF Ultimate Championship that I did notice you win recently, I pay attention to my opponents accomplishments and I must say that was a fantastic one you had."
Tyler smiles as he looks at his trophy.
"Yeah, I could see this looking really nice next to any title, in fact it makes me consider making a stake at another piece of gold once I finish dismantling you. Oh but wait, that is way to arrogant of me right? To already assume I will walk out of this Pay-Per-View with my title is insane, a disrespectful gesture to a mighty competitor such as Scarlet flint. Well, frankly my dear, I don't give a flying fuck if I disrespect you now. I don't know how powerful you think you are, I mean I know your power, but you very much overestimate your capabilities sometimes and I imagine you plan on absolutely killing me at Armed and Dangerous. Scarlet, you ain't going to have enough strength to kill me. Go ahead and try bitch, because I am not going to let this match get by me and become my end of days. This is my retribution, my moment, my match! The Wall of Woe was made for Tyler Storm, made for The Hybrid, I live for these kinds of moments when I get to take hold of weapon after weapon, driving it into my opponent's body as they beg for mercy, take the highest of risk and risking my own health I do moves that make me look insane but deliver perfectly with the amount of pain I want them to have. Scarlet people may think I dug my grave giving you this match, bitch I dug a grave but the marker is for you, and you may take my body to some tough limits, break some bones, decimate me at moments, but you will not in any circumstance kill me!"
Tyler leans towards the camera, still smiling, and breathes in.
"At Armed and Dangerous, The Hybrid will be unleashed from his cage, the chains will be cut, he will have no mercy on the bleeding Scarlet bitch. Tyler Storm can go fuck himself from being in this body inside that arena, ain't no time for nice guys right now. The Hybrid has no one he has to coddle to, The Hybrid has no one he has to make happy, The Hybrid only focuses on delivering pain and torment to those who oppose him. Maybe I'll let Tyler get a little revenge for the sweet Zelda, but The Hybrid runs this bitch and will own that Wall of Woe match. That is not a warning, not a threat, it is a fact and a statement. Scarlet Flint, you have only a few nights left to say goodbye to anyone who cares about you. Because when that clock strikes 0, The Hybrid is ripping into your chest and eating your harsh heart. I dare you, and anyone in VoW, to fucking stop me."
Tyler throws his title to the ground, and his smile once again disappears.
"The Hybrid's Haven calls, but I'm ready to truly introduce myself to you Ms. Flint. Until then...stay cool love. And Be Witness...to The Hybrid..."
Tyler covers the lense up with his hand as the roar of a demonic beast is heard in the background, and the footage cuts out.
