Post by That Guy on May 22, 2015 18:18:46 GMT -6
"Fun fact: I beat the hell out of a woman named Kat Jones before. Any relation, Stacy? You both kinda look alike too."
CHAPTER I | ACTING
I make my moves when I feel it is time to.
No one on this green earth can tell me when you want me to do anything.
VoW’s staff learned that the hard way.
I kept getting emails, asking if I wanted to come to their show one day. I can meet Casanova English and spark off something. I choose not to respond. I did not care for Casanova English or Stacy Jones. Not at that point in time. I met Stacy Jones once and she had words to say about me. She made the right choice not to make a scene there. She came into my kingdom uninvited. She was lucky I played nice for Gaia that night. Anyways, I overheard the conversation slightly. Gaia and Stacy formed a team to combat English and his…Orphanage.
I hate poetic types.
Casanova English, the VoW World Champion, had a lot to say on Breakthrough #26. No, I didn’t watch it live. I was preoccupied with setting up the most impactful event in GPW history. I turned on my laptop; my mind played with the idea of this match. I, an excellent competitor, teaming with VoW’s crowned best? We stand off against Gaia Galanos and Stacy Jones, VoW’s Xcel Champion. Fans will be begging for English’s head to meet Gaia’s knee. If he loses, I lose. If that happens, I look bad on a brief excursion. I’m not going to let that happen.
I was also not going to let Casanova utilize numbers to win this match. That’d make me look bad as well. I was determined not to meet him face-to-face until the night of the match. Instead, I got a hold of his email and decided to send him a message. I have demands and if he wants the best that GPW has to offer, and then he would have to advise to them. I sat down in front of my behemoth of a laptop, pulled up G-Mail, and got to typing.
“Dear English,
This is Artemis Kaiser, your partner for this interpromotional match. I will be honest with you. I am dismissive of you and Stacy’s rivalry. You want her dead. She wants you dead. She came out to GPW to recruit the strongest there. Unfortunately, for her, I walked past her, disregarding her existence. If I had not, I might be facing you. Luckily, for you, I am a benevolent woman. I want to help you beat Stacy Jones down. Her face bothers me. I will also tell you that I have an ulterior motive.
If you pay attention to GPW as much as I pay attention to VoW, then you heard the news. I have brought forward a group of people to mold GPW back to the way it was. They dubbed us the Solution. It’s a cute name. Like your group’s name. The Orphanage, I believe you call it. Those people must stay backstage. I know they are your ace in the hole. I need you to depend on your own skill this time around. I am not one to use numbers. If I were, we would have a miniature army at our disposal. I told my group to stay at home base essentially.
Now I am not one to cheat to win, but I laughed at you ramming Gaia’s face with the camera. I need you to do something like that, but with your fists. See, if we take out Gaia here, then I will be the undisputed best champion in GPW. You probably know how this feels. Stacy is probably held above you in higher regard, because she panders to people. You are a worthy champion that fights harder than she does.
I need you to act like it. If you believe yourself to be VoW’s finest, I need you to be VoW’s finest. I have selected you as my partner, not the other way around. No woman in GPW wanted to step foot in VoW. If I did not step up, you would have put out there by yourself against two of the best female wrestlers on the planet. Luckily, for you, the best female wrestler on the planet decided to be your partner. Keep up. I know you can.
You are VoW’s most prestigious champion. I am GPW’s best champion. We are a team made in hell.
Let's make them suffer.
From your ever-dangerous partner,
Artemis Kaiser"
After sending the e-mail, I leaned back into my chair.
Gosh, what did I just get myself into?
CHAPTER II | PROBLEM
I was getting familiar with the backstage environment of a VoW show. As I walked through, I managed to evade people. Or more so, people evaded me. I wanted to do my video in house. It makes it easier for the people here. I made an appointment with their staff and I was here. I wore my "Kill, Arty, Kill" shirt and carried my World Class Championship. Before long, I was in front of a camera. Interesting place VoW was. Maybe one day.
“Thank you for the West Coast Championship?”
I was laughing beforehand. I managed to maintain my composure to put those words out. After such, I erupted into laughter again. Okay, Artemis, get yourself together. People would gladly watch you laugh, but you have something to say. I wiped away a legitimate tear and took a breath.
“Ha, that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard.”
You are almost there, Artemis. Take another breath.
“It’s in front of the whole thing about Kyra. That’s funny too.”
“I will never thank you for ‘giving’ me something that I was going to take anyways. Sabrina Baker’s days were already numbered after the Gift Exchange. I was on a death march, exterminating anyone that stood in my way. Sabrina Baker stood at the end of that path, praying that a godly force would intervene to save her insignificant life," I hissed out, instinctively clutching my World Class Championship closer to me. "She was hoping she could survive the other Kaiser. Fact of the matter is, she was going to lose to me. I was going to be West Coast Champion no matter what. If I walk out with Sabrina Baker’s blood all over my belt, then fine. It was going to happen and I was going to enjoy doing it.”
“Gaia, you cannot say for a solitary second that I was going to lose to Sabrina Baker. You cannot say I choke at the big matches. Every big match, except the Gift Exchange, I have won," I put up my hand, preparing to count out my most esteemed victories. "When the Pistols were vowing to defeat me, I beat them for the Tag Team Championship. When Fable Rowen said that she was going to embarrass me, I beat her out of the company. I defended this belt from Katalina Star in an acclaimed match. The kicker is I beat Kyra McKnight at 100%. That is something you did not do and probably cannot do.”
I gasped.
“I can see that stony face of yours now. You got a cocky smirk on your face, smugly remarking that you beat her. Let me clarify for you," I shook my head. I was informing this to a child. I almost wanted to raise my voice an octave. Gaia hates being patronized, but she did it to me. I will do it to her. "Gaia, you beat Kyra McKnight while she was still recovering. Kyra is a bit of an idiot, I am afraid. She likes to fight while severely hurt. I commend her for that, but it does not mean it is not stupid. Ever since I beat her, avenging my worst mistake, she has been hobbling around. Some weeks, she manages to stand upright. Other times, she slumps over, barely able to stand. Even in the state she is, she almost beat you.”
Shaking my head, I felt my laughter return, but I defeated it easily. I was more angry now than I was amused.
“You beat your demons. I slay mine. There is a difference. Actually, that is the main reason why we are at odds on many occasions. You are too merciful. I am too merciless. I do not know when to stop. You do not know how to keep going. I am Artemis Kaiser, GPW’s unstoppable monster. You are Gaia Galanos, GPW’s paragon of competition. People look up at you, while people do not want to look at me. I am feared, you are praised.”
I looked to the ground, slightly disappointed this was the reality I lived in. I shifted my precious belt on my shoulder, feeling it slump earlier. I paused for a moment, allowing my imagination to tantalize me. I disconnected myself from the mental video feed, looking back to the camera.
“Gaia, we’re not too far alike. We both have manufactured a methodology. We operate similarly. People would say that we were on the same road…if they did not know us. In the end, we are comparable.”
“I am just better.”
I said that in the gravest tone I could.
“Casanova English is better than Stacy Jones. Artemis Kaiser is better than Gaia Galanos. Casanova English may be better than Gaia Galanos. I am beyond a shadow of a doubt better than Stacy Jones. We are the better team. And in this business, the better team always wins.”
“I do not know English. I have yet to meet him face to face. He plays mental chess, I know that much. He is damn good at it from what I have seen. If Stacy Jones, who I will speak on in a second, has to go to outside sources to get a leg up, he is doing something right! You do not have to worry about the Orphanage. I have sent an e-mail to Casanova asking him nicely to keep his allies away. Stacy, Gaia knows that among all things, I am honorable.”
My hand went on my chest. I almost rose my other hand to the sky. Scout's honor and stuff.
“I might believe you are a coward for coming to my home for help. I might disregard you when you interrupt my conversation with Gaia at Explosion. I might call you a pretentious idiot for that whole ‘Final Penance’ shtick," I stifled a snicker. "I will never allow some people to run in and jump you. I do not win that way. If I am going to beat you, I am going to beat you down myself with no help. When I beat you and Gaia, Stacy, you will know that you lost because you cannot stand to me.”
“You want to know why that is the case, Miss Xcel Champion? Because I am Artemis freakin’ Kaiser. I am the GPW World Class Champion! I am the Champion for Life! I am GPW’s destroyer! I understand why people fear me! I do not need anyone to be afraid of me, because if people were afraid of me, then no one would fight me," I said, smiling brightly. I felt passion course through my veins. "I love to fight! I want to fight new people! I want to beat new people! I want to beat everyone in this whole damn world! My list of fallen opponents is constantly growing. You will be another name on the endless list.”
“With this win, I am going to help Casanova English deal with a problem. He wants you gone. He almost got you too. You had to sit on the sidelines for two shows. Casanova English does not want you gone for two shows. He wants you gone all together. Consider me the solution to that problem, no pun intended. I have no issue getting rid of you, because you will still be another name on my record. It is just so happens that your last match as a professional wrestler will be a loss against Casanova English and Artemis freakin’ Kaiser. That is not a bad thing. It is a damn honor.”
I paused, looking off. A memory of Gaia and I training played in my head like a video tape.
"Gaia, this will be the first time we ever face off. The virginity of this concept is about to disappear, which saddens me. I wanted to face you for your championship for our first time facing off. I wanted it to be at Canadian Conquest, but things did not play out my way. You tend to point that my way. I know that I failed to win the Gift Exchange Battle Royal. I am not going to fail Casanova English. I am not going to fail myself."
"Consider this a preview. When my hand reaches your face and strikes you down, you will know. New knowledge will enter you when I hit you will be revolutionary. You never knew me, Gaia. We trained together. We are not friends. We were hardly allies. All you will know by the end of this match is that I am the better champion."
I went to go turn off the camera, but I stopped. I stepped back into the frame, looking at my championship.
"No, you will not. You will not learn."
"It is not in your nature, Gaia, to learn."
"I guess I have to educate everyone else around you."
"I am not just GPW's solution, Gaia. I am the answer to everyone's problems."
Another pause.
"...And you being GPW World Champion is the biggest problem of them all."
With an almost somber air lingering, I turned the camera off.