Ryan Apollos [vs] Ruby Winters

Subject: Ryan Apollos [vs] Ruby Winters Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:56 am

Battle for the Briefcase Tournament Match
#5 Ryan Apollos [vs.] #8 Ruby Winters

Round 3: FIGHT!

Subject: Re: Ryan Apollos [vs] Ruby Winters Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:07 pm

Dream State Zi
Part 3

"Sao?" Ryan asked.

"Mhm?" Sao didn't look up as he ate his curry. He'd been eating out quite a bit lately, as the two had moved from place to place along the outskirt rest posts. Ryan didn't quite believe he could be so happy merely because he'd inspired a single team to start fighting in a different battle mode, but he wasn't about to inquire into the reasons and ruin his amicable streak. He would use the opportunity though, if only to ask the other question on his mind.

"Back a few days ago, you told off that one guy who wanted to fight with us. Yet you let me join you easily enough. Neither of us had any experience in the different battle modes – why'd you let me in?" Sao swallowed and sighed as he stirred the sauce into his rice.

"That guy just wanted to ride the wave of fame that's trailing us. He would've fought in the different modes out of necessity. You wanted to learn the modes. I respect that. And I never turn down people who want to learn the modes, should they want to challenge me or want to, well, become my disciples I guess." He swallowed another bite. "You weren't lying were you?"

"N-no! Of course not. And I memorized the 940's after that match in the valley. They're all alternative victory conditions! That is, you don't have to defeat all enemies to win."

"Mmm! Good!" Ryan grinned. "This curry is really good!"

From the other side of the restaurant, a certain man made a confident stride towards the middle table where Sao stood. His characteristic yellow jacket with red coattails drew doubtful looks from the surrounding tables.

"Hey, you there!" Ryan raised his face from the table he'd pounded it down on, as Sao continued eating. The man continued with the catchphrase the entire room had to bite their tongues not to groan at.

"My name's Harry Champ! I'm a man destined to be king!"

"…Okay?" Ryan was unsure how to proceed.

Sao gobbled down a fresh spoonful of rice as he spoke. "Gwhaddu yu wannn?"

" I wanna hire you to help me out in a little fight I have planned. I heard you've been winning all over the place – everyone's talking about you! So I figured if anyone could help me destroy that little brat once and for all, it'd have to be you!"

Sao finally swallowed. "Who?"

"The Blitz Team! The stupid Blitz Team!"

"Oh I heard of them!" Ryan piped in, "They won the Royal Cup last year didn't they? Heard they'd been keeping a pretty good record in the S class."

"Yes, them! You have to help me beat them! You wouldn't be afraid right?"

Sao looked up, having now all but finished his plate. "What battle mode?"

"0982 of course."

Ryan held in a laugh, anticipating Sao's answer. He wasn't expecting what came next.

"It'll cost you." Sao's expression hardened. Ryan was puzzled, all but sure he would've refused.

"Name your price! I got more money than anyone you've been up against!"

Sao took a drink as he spoke. "70." Confused looks from around the table and the restaurant proper.

Harry's confusion evaporated first. "70? 70 thousand? No problem! You got a-"

"Not 70 thousand you idiot. 70 million." The confused looks around the room fell into shock.

Harry's voice made no effort to hide his own shock. "7-70 million? I could buy a hundred Zoids for that!"

"That's my price to battle in whatever mode you want. Oh, and I claim the money whether or not you win the battle."

"That- that's crazy!" He looked to the side and muttered to himself, "Even Dad doesn't have that much cash to throw around without a thought…"

"Hmph." Sao drained the rest of his drink.

Ryan looked less shocked and more curious than the rest of the room. "70 million… Sao, what would you use that for?" Sao looked to answer, but before he could, Harry spoke again.

"I got it!" The two seated at the table turned to him.

"Oh?" Sao asked, "Gonna pay after all?"

"No! I got a better idea." He pointed his finger into Sao's face in the most pointlessly dramatic way possible. "I'll challenge you Sao Ensiné!" Sao and Heiden eyed each other. Harry continued, " Any mode you want! And when I win, you'll fight under me against the Blitz Team!"

Sao's expression lightened ever so slightly. "And if I win?"

Harry was taken aback. "Well, uh… I'll add in 400 thousand to the pot!" Gasps from the side tables.

Sao was unfazed. "500." More gasps.

"Ughh… 450!"

"480."

"475!"

Sao clenched Harry's hand. "Deal."

Harry grinned. "Alright! I'll call the Commission today!" He began walking off.

"Hey!" Sao called.

"Hm?" Harry turned around.

"Be sure you set the battle mode."

"Oh, yeah! What to?"

Sao's characteristic grin shone once more.

"Battle Mode 0958 – Restricted Dynamic Cat and Mouse."

The judge capsule flung up thousands of pieces of dried rock as it crashed onto the field. The soil was parched and cracked, full of sharp elevations and depressions that could serve as cover, and block radar signals through their jagged outcroppings. The two sides could barely view the judge capsule as it rose.

"The area within a 35 kilometer radius is a designated Zoid battlefield! Only Competitors and Zoid Commission Personnel have authorized entry! Danger! All unauthorized persons must vacate the premises!"

Harry and his robots Sebastian and Benjamin were piloting their usual maroon Iron Kong units. On the other side, Ryan stared down his barely visible opponents from the light blue cockpit of a white Heldigunner. Next to him, a Redhorn, ironically painted dark blue and gold. Some meters behind the both of them, Sao's Trinity Liger, now with an imposing 120mm beam cannon mounted to its back.

For the first time, the mainstream networks had decided to pick up the unorthodox match, and patrons all over the planet were tuning into Sao's battle. Most were unaware that the battle wouldn't be utilizing a normal mode and would soon be asking their friends what 0958 even meant. Only at the first two rest-stops, the second of which had affectionately renamed itself 'Cafe 0944", had the mangers realized they could please their customers more by telling them what was going on, and had posted large displays of the intricacies of mode 0958. But all around, there were rumors about a miraculous Warrior in these battles – one you had to see to believe. And soon enough, there would be a following devoted to doing just that.

"Area scanned! Battlefield set-up! The Nova Team vs the Champ Team! Battle mode 0-9-5-8! Reaaadyyyy?" The two sides grinned.

"FIGHT!"

"Okay Ryan. This one is mostly in your hands now." Sao declared.

"What, so you mean just go in blasting?" Heiden said, excited.

"You idiot! Have you forgotten how this mode works? Listen!"

Ryan paused and at that very moment, the Judge made a declaration.

"The Champ Team has initiative! 5 Minutes till initiative switch!"

Ryan laid down his head. "Right, sorry for being stupid."

"You should be, but don't let it get to you till we've won. I'll be moving the Redhorn behind you by remote. I need the practice. Don't worry 'bout covering me, but don't rely on me. And if I do get in a pinch, be sure you use it to set yourself up well."

"Got it."

"Let's go." The Redhorn began moving ahead, straight and calculated, and the Heldigunner advanced more organically, toward the battlezone, as the Liger crawled slowly off to the side.

"Alright guys!" Harry exclaimed to his robots, "We have the initiative! Let's go blast the heck out of 'em!"

"Harry, wait!" Called his robot, Sebastian, "We have to be careful! My databanks had indicated that in this Battle Mode, we only get to fire projectile weapons for five minutes at a time! Then we'll be helpless!"

"True enough Sebastian, but right now they're the helpless ones! When one team gains the offensive, the other is automatically prohibited to fire! And besides, you forget – we're using Iron Kongs! There's no way they'll be able to stop us even when they get their guns back again!"

"You tell him Harry! I know we got this one in the bag!" Benjamin chimed in before muttering "If only because the Blitz Team isn't involved, we may actually have a chance…"

"C'mon guys!" Harry yelled as he pushed his Iron Kong forward at top speed into the battle zone, "The man who will be King never loses!"

"To anyone who isn't named Bit-" Sebastian started.

"Do not utter that name in the presence of your future King!"

On the other side, Ryan advanced slowly under an outcropping, recalling Sao's advice on the battle mode the previous day. He had dragged Ryan into the Cargo Bay of the Dragoon Nest to introduce him to the Heldigunner unit, but had quickly moved to his thoughts on the match itself (not that this was an unplanned or unanticipated chain of events).

"0958 isn't called Cat and Mouse for nothing." He'd started. "The teams alternate offence and defense. Well, defense isn't quite the right word – recon perhaps. At all times, one team has their projectile weapons disabled and the other has them active. They switch roles every 5 minutes, and the switch is abrupt. Towards the beginning of the match, the main thing is to find the other team. If we start with initiative, we'll want to get off a few pot shots, then retreat before they follow us. And if we start on recon, the last thing we want to do is sit around waiting for the initiative to change. We need to find them, then stalk them. If we're in shooting distance when the initiative switches and they haven't noticed us, we'll be just where we want to be. Even if we're caught, we have our melees to get in close."

At that point his eyes got a certain, now recognizable look. "We'd really only have to worry if we'd gone through in 0959 – absolute dynamic cat and mouse! There we have no weapons melee or projectile when we're on recon! Really gets your blood pumping, let me tell you. Figured you wouldn't be able to handle it quite this early though, so…"

"Ryan!" Sao of the present called out. "You see 'em? My Liger's radar shows them nearby." Ryan inched out from behind the outcropping. Sure enough, a bunch of dark red ape Zoids were kicking up an absurd cloud of dust as they advanced across the field.

"Oh yeah. They're kicking up a storm running this way…"

A barrage of anti-zoid missiles hit just on the other side of the outcropping.

"Shit! Did they find us?"

"Stay calm." Sao moved the Liger a little closer and kept his eye on the remote feed from the Redhorn.

"C'mon out Nova Team! You can't hide forever!" Harry smashed the triggers on his Iron Kong, launching missiles left and right.

"Harry! We can't waste all our ammo now!"

"If we don't get them in the open now, we won't have a chance to fire later! C'mon guys! Hit everything in sight!" The dust the impacts kicked up soon obscured the Zoids from Ryan's view.

"Damn! Sao, I can't see anything here! Should we move back?"

"You're the one on the ground. Whatever you feel is right." Sao responded, his eyes darting between the Redhorn's clouded visuals, and the rising dust in the shimmering in the distance through his Liger's cockpit.

"Alright, then I'm move- ARGH!" The Heldigunner took a harsh hit from above.

"Harry! I think I got one!"

"You're seeing things, Benjamin!"

"No Harry, look! I can see the shadow there!" Indeed, the endless barrage had, by shear luck, decimated the outcropping shielding Ryan, and a further random missile had found its target and let off a bit of flame – enough to show through the dust.

"Wait you're right! That's it! Take this, Nova!" Harry launched his 10-shot Rocket Bomb launcher in Heiden's direction. Ryan desperately retreated into the dust.

"Damn! They got me Sao!"

"Alright, just keep moving a little longer. Keep them in your sights." Sao pushed the Liger gently forth, watching the enemy fire past his left side. "Redhorn unit – move back 60 meters full speed, and adjust aim 15 degrees left." The Redhorn backed up, mechanical but quick.

The Heldigunner, meanwhile, couldn't escape the assault of the three Iron Kongs – all Ryan could do was move into the smoke of the assault and hope it wouldn't clear. He grit his teeth as the dust cleared.

"Alright my little friend! It was a good run!" Harry shouted into an open channel comlink. "But now your time is up! Fire away boys!"

"5 Minutes elapsed!" The judge declared.

"Huh?"

"The Nova Team has initiative!"

"Wha! But wait- no!" Harry tapped his triggers repeatedly, but they only elicited a hollow error tone and the message "Function Locked" on his Zoid's computer.

Ryan snickered. "Dynamic Cat and Mouse - that's the name of the game, Champ!" He clicked his triggers and his ARZ 20 mm double barrel beam cannons bore into Harry's Iron Kong in a flash of sparks.

"Ah! R-retreat! Get back!" Harry yelled.

"Roger that Harry!"

"Let's get out of here!" his robots screamed back.

"Redhorn unit," Sao stated, coolly, "Fire AEZ 20 mm Beam guns, and Anti-Zoid Triple Barrel Linear Cannon!" The Redhorn fired off, straight into the incoming Kongs, which hadn't seen the Redhorn before.

"Crap! We're surrounded Harry!"

"Don't be stupid Benjamin!" The other robot called, "We'll just go back where we came from!"

"Yeah, yeah! Good thinking you two! C'mon, let's go!" The Kongs began moving back past the remains of the outcropping, bearing the assault from all sides.

"Dammit!" Ryan scowled, "I'm hitting every strike! How are they still alive?"

"Relax Ryan." Sao had taken his sights off the dust clouds, settling behind and to his left. "They're Iron Kongs. Their tuning's horribly inefficient, but those thing's have had serious dough sunk into them. Just hammer 'em as much as you can for now. Don't let up, don't fall back. The Redhorn will probably go down after this, so make the most of the time."

"Go down?" Ryan bit his lip. "Alright then… Dance you damn apes!"

He pushed forward with the Heldigunner, firing his guns until the barrels started steaming.

"Ahh! Go away! Benjamin! Hold them off!" Harry yelled.

"Me? Why! How?"

"Use your Hammer Knuckles Benjamin!" Sebastian exclaimed.

"Hm? Oh right!" Benjamin wheeled around his Iron Kong, as his cohorts ran onwards, and made straight for the Heldigunner. Ryan raised an eyebrow, but didn't stop his approach, or his firing.

Benjamin yelled on the open channel. "Didn't think I'd try a close range attack did you?" He lunged forward at the Heldigunner and yelled, "Iron Hammer Knuckles!"

Ryan dodged. He avoided the swing easily, leaving the Kong half buried in the ground. "Damn it all! It's not that Iron Kongs don't have melee capabilities!" Benjamin cried in anguish, as Ryan aimed. "They're just too slow to use them!"

"One mouse down." Ryan clicked the trigger – an error beep appeared. Ryan gasped. "Is it time already? No, it's too soon- what?" He looked at his screen and gasped.

"Heh…Hahahah!" Benjamin laughed, "Looks like you're out of ammo!"

"You idiot!" Ryan replied, watching his screen; the barrels had overheated to the point where the safety systems prevented further firing. "I overheated!"

"Oh, well, uh, I'll just let you cool off a bit then!" Benjamin cried out as he pulled his Iron Kong out of the ground and ran.

"Ahh!" Benjamin yelled. The Redhorn's AEZ 20 mm Beam Guns landed a series of solid hits on the Kong, finally, piercing its leg armor and casting it down.

"Ryan! Get out of there! Time's almost up! I'll finish off this one."

"Uh… roger that!" Ryan moved back as the Redhorn moved in.

"Hey! Isn't two on one a little unfair?" Benjamin called out.

"Well," Sao proclaimed, "It's just you and me now. So no problems then?"

"Umm. Heheh?"

"Redhorn unit! Fire high pressure concentrated sulpheric acid powder cannon!"

"Aaah!" The point blank attack flung the Kong back and left it reeling in static.

"Champ Team unit 3 – out of the battle!" The Judge called out.

"Nice work Sao!" Ryan called. Sao grinned, then frowned as the judge made another announcement.

"10 minutes elapsed! The Champ Team has initiative!"

"Yeah!" Harry's voice ran out over the open channel – it wasn't even clear if he was aware of it any more. "The Champ is back, baby! Let's route 'em, Sebastian!"

"You got it Harry!" The two ran back over the jagged hills, firing an assault of dozens of anti-zoid missiles was too much for the Redhorn, which soon keeled over.

"Nova Team unit 3 – out of the battle!"

"Damn… Just like you said Sao. Now what?"

"Now, Ryan… You run in circles."

"What?"

"Run circles around them, keep em in the same area. Make sure they can see you, but whatever you do, don't let yourself get downed."

"Sao…"

"Hm?"

"That's the stupidest advice I've ever heard!" Sao rolled his eyes. "Run in circles and don't die? How the hell am I supposed to do that!" Sao sighed.

"Just hold 'em off another few minutes. I'm almost ready." He stared down the dust clouds now almost directly left of him again.

"A few minutes? They're gonna keep initiative for five! Now you're just lying to my face! Do you even have a plan-"

"Heads up."

"Huh? Argh!" Sao restrained the urge to grin as the Kongs found their target.

"There you are you damned Iguana! Eat missile!" Heiden pushed the Heldigunner to its limits of speed. He tried to weave in and out of the smaller outcroppings, but the Zoid wasn't that agile and soon he was dashing straight ahead. "Come back here!" Harry called.

"Ryan. Turn around." Sao called, almost mockingly.

"They're right there!" Ryan exclaimed.

"Not all the way around, just circle them! Don't give them any excuse to get out of that central area."

"Oh yeah, easy for you to say- not like you're the one with his ass in their reticles- Wait where are you anyways?"

"Putting you all in my target reticle."

"What's that supposed to-" Ryan fell silent. Sao chuckled.

"You get it now?"

"So that's why you've been so removed from this one…"

"Now you're catching on. Give me a few more minutes."

"Alright!" Ryan switched to open channel. "Hey Losers! You call this a barrage? Feels like a little afternoon rain!"

"You're the losers here! And you haven't seen anything yet!" Harry called out. "Sebastian! Don't hold anything back!"

"Roger that Harry! Eat anti-zoid missiles Nova scum!" The Kongs began their full assault and soon Ryan began having second thoughts about his taunt.

A hit in front. And another just behind! A solid hit to his high cannon left the Heldigunner reeling, and its main projectile weapons totaled. The Kongs surrounded him.

"Hail to the Champ!"

Ryan groaned. "Just kill me, please. It'll be faster."

"With pleasure!" Click! "What? No! It can't be time already!"

Ryan laughed. "It's not, you dumbass!"

"Huh?"

"You finally did it. It took 2 entire Iron Kongs almost 10 minutes of continuous fire, but here you are." Harry realized just before Ryan spelled it out, "You're out of ammo!" The Kongs backed away as the Heldigunner crouched. "C'mon, Champ! Just try and attack close! Why you might even hit me this time! Or my Heldigunner's strike claws might get a piece of your empty silos. Shall we give it a shot?"

"Urgh! Quick Sebastian! Back to the Whaleking!"

"Way ahead of you Harry!" Sebastian's Iron Kong had already begun its retreat.

"Wait up! You can't reload my Iron Kong if I'm not there!"

"Who said I'm reloading your Iron Kong?"

"Sebastian! Ugh. Fine, let's just get mov-" He stopped.

Standing right in the way of the Kongs, directly in front of the path to the Whaleking and opposite the Heldigunner – Sao eyed the Kongs in his cannon-ready Trinity Liger.

"No way! He's been moving around us the whole time?" Harry cried out.

"Well, not the whole time. I've spent the last four minutes adjusting my aim." Sao mused on the open channel.

"Wait- four… Crap! No! Sebastian! Run-"

"15 Minutes elapsed!" The Judge proclaimed, "The Nova Team has initiative!"

"Let's go Trinity Liger!"

The beam cannon cut through the air and slammed into the side of Sebastian's Kong. "You have a whole lot of money, Harry." Another hit, into the same spot, even as Sebastian kept struggling away. "But you don't have the first idea about conservation, deception, or strategy."

"Arrgh!" Sebastian called out as his right arm blasted off his Zoid, which flew, flaming, into the nearest rocky depression.

"Champ team unit 2 – out of the battle!"

A sustained blast right into the back of Harry's fleeing Kong. A beeping sound filled Sao's Liger cockpit. The screen read OVERHEAT. Sao ejected the Beam cannon and dashed forward at full speed. "Harry Champ, you're not worth my Photon Cutter. My Hardened Alloy Claws are enough for you!"

"Ahhh!" Harry turned back.

"Hey, glad you're back!" Ryan called. Harry gasped, realized he'd been trapped between the Heldigunner and the Liger.

Harry felt his heart racing. I thought the only one who could give me this much of a run for my money was Bit and his crowd. This can't be happening!

Ryan moved in, "Striiike!"

Sao attacked from the other side, "Hardened allooooy!" The two flew in from either side.

"CLAAAAAWS!" They both yelled as they slashed through the final Iron Kong.

"Battle over! Battle over! The winner is… The Nova Team!"

"I never knew the battle mode could change so much. The Prince is humbled by your prowess!" Sao kept as indifferent a face as he could manage as Harry attempted to rationalize his loss to the entire group in attendance. "If I use modes like this, I know I can finally take down that horrid Blitz team and claim my beloved Leena!" Harry let out a sigh so sincere it sounded forced. Ryan let out an audible groan. "But first-" Harry pointed straight at Sao. "I challenge you to a rematch, Sao Ensiné!" Heiden face-palmed. "I wanna battle in another one of those strange modes! That's what you want right? Think you'd be ready tomorrow?"

"…I think I'll just take the money."

"Oh…" Harry, seeing the cold looks, resisted the temptation to press the group and called for Sebastian to retrieve the 475,000 BP he had assembled.

As he handed over the cash, held in several large bags, he paused and looked as serious as he ever had that day. "Hey, can I ask a question before you go?"

"Shoot."

"You asked for 70 million before to battle in 0982 like I wanted. Why 70 million? Seems kinda random. Did you want to do something particular?"

"Ya Sao," Ryan piped in, "I was curious about that too."

Sao looked up, distantly. "70 million…" The group watched him closely. "That's how much it takes to build a stadium."

"A stadium?" Ryan asked.

"Yeah." He grinned, a subtle grin Heiden hadn't recalled seeing before. "It's my dream, to build a stadium out south of the wastelands. Get a new generation into the battles and such with regular battles…" The smile gained a hint of his normal manner, "All in the non-standard modes."

"Well," Harry interjected, " If you want, you can always use my stadium! Well, it's not mine exactly, but my Dad owns a majority stake in the stadium at West Renses! I'm sure I could get it so you could have whatever matches you wanted!"

"Heh. Thanks for the offer, but my stadium's gonna be mine and mine alone, at least at the start." He hoisted one of the moneybags over his shoulder. "Take care, Harry Champ. If you need help choosing your battle modes, call me up. Josef! Get these four bags, will you? Ryan, take those two. We're going."

The group moved back towards the carrier Zoid, and drove off swiftly into the distance, unaware, for better and for worse, of the true extent of their newfound fame.

Subject: Re: Ryan Apollos [vs] Ruby Winters Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:33 pm

"For the last two weeks, I have gone out there and have done what I needed to do. I beat Beno, no matter the circumstances, and I beat Chad in the middle of the ring. That doesn't mean I'm against Natural Law now nor does it mean that I'm thinking about leaving it. I'm the First Lady of Natural Law for a reason after all. I've simply seen my chance to shine so much brighter than I already have. Others don't think as I do...I look for chances for myself as well as my team, but I will always look for myself first. Oh sure others say that it's all about them, but how many can honestly say that they look out for their team as well? But that's not really here nor there when it comes to my match with Ryan Apollos.

Ryan...you and me are a bit alike, aren't we honey? Both in a team, both trying to shine brighter than we ever have in the past. We both want to make sure that these pathetic and idiotic morons at home remember us completely for years beyond now. You desire to be at the top, someone great, and you desire to be the face of the company, don't you? You think that you, just very possibly, beating me on Battlegrounds will do just that. But here's a news flash for you honey...I'm on a roll with my matches, and I don't plan on getting off of it anytime soon. It's destined for me to kick some major ass in this tournament. You're just my next victim in all of this craziness.

Something that you don't realize, you pathetic little boy, is that I am on the top of my game. I'm destined to be at the top if the company, as the face of the company. I'm destined to become great in IWF, and wrestling alone, one way or another no matter who gets in my way. Ryan, you're just my next victim in a long line of quite a few others. If you don't believe me then just look at y match history. Oh sure I've got some losses, but who really gives a fuck when you're set to be someone that's brilliantly amazing. It's sad that you're stuck with the patheticness of the Human Highlight Reels honestly. You could be so much better than them, but you choose to be aligned with such idiots. Personally, I would give out of there while I still could, but it doesn't seem like you're going to. Have fun being a loser with them Ryan because I'm going I make sure that you feel quite at home among the rest f those idiots. I'll see you at Battlegrounds."

Subject: Re: Ryan Apollos [vs] Ruby Winters Sat Sep 22, 2012 11:59 pm

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I was sitting at the airport with one of the only friends I had in my modeling career, a fellow model named James. While he never understood why I put my body on the line in wrestling, which also made it a lot chancier in losing my modeling career, he never had minded sitting with me at the airport when I would be flying out from home. I knew that today would probably be another day where he continued to try and reason with, as well as bitch at, me for wrestling. The poor guy had been wasting his breath in trying to get me to quit since I had started in the squared circle and today was no different.

"I just don't understand why you think you have to do this shit so much, Rubs. You've got a kick ass modeling career going, why risk that just to wrestle with guys that usually wind up being 2 or more of you? You're either going to get seriously hurt to where you can't do anything, or you're going to get to where your looks get screwed up. Why take the chances?"

"I've told you a million times that it's because modeling alone wasn't fulfilling enough for me. Now that I'm wrestling, I truly feel complete and feel like I'm doing what my mon always told I was destined for. She never was specific, but she always told me I was destined for such great things. She was right in so many ways, and I just have a hard time not feeling like by doing all of this, she's here with mr so much more than she was before."

I knew that James would never fully understand why I needed that feeling of my mom since both of his parents were still alive. My mother had been gone for 13 years, and I knew that most people would never understand the feeling of wanting their parent's spirit so close to them even after so long. I knew that very few others would know the feeling of being stronger, or even quicker simply because of a parent's spirit being so close to you because of what you're doing with your life. It was the way that I felt by being in the ring. I looked up when I heard my flight called and looked over at James with a sad grin. We both stood up, and I have him a hug before I grabbed my bag and spoke again.

[color:7f4e=666699]"I'll call you when I land. Please make sure that the kittens are taken care of please. But it's time for me to get on that plane and go kick Ryan's ass to keep up my streak and winning roll that I'm on."

"Kick his ass a little extra for me. I may not understand why you do this, but I know you're damn good at it and that you enjoy it, so make are that you keep that hot little ass of yours in this tounament. This is something you truly and fully deserve no matter what anyone else may say to you."

I smiled and nodded before I kissed his cheek and walked off. As I got to security, I turned and gave him a quick wave before continuing on to where I needed to go. It didn't take long for me to go through security or find my gate. And it was pretty easy for me to get settled. All I knew was that I was continuing my journey again.

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