WE'RE GOING TO DISNEYLAND
Jan 6, 2018 18:46:01 GMT -5
Kira Izumi, 𝓓𝓾𝓴𝓮 𝓚𝓸𝓼𝓵𝓸𝓯𝓯, and 2 more like this
Post by Bobby Barratt on Jan 6, 2018 18:46:01 GMT -5
We open at the world famous Disneyland resort in Paris, France. People all around are enjoying what is probably the end of their Christmas break. Kids enjoy meeting their favourite Disney characters, with a slightly sad look in their eyes, knowing their fairytale will soon be coming to an end and they will go back to their mundane lives of school work and online gaming. Even though the slightly sad atmosphere looms, the place is still simply magical and you can see the pure dedication that goes into keeping that vibe going all year round. We see Jackson Grace and his family headed out towards Big Thunder Mountain. One of the most well known rides in the resort. The queue seems to be miles long and the family know they could be there for hours.
So kids. Shall we grab a drink? Make sure you keep warm until it's time!
Yeah listen to your Dad. He might make bad jokes most of the time and at times like today....forget his coat, but you don't want to make yourselves ill!
Well Anthony said if we eat of drink before the ride, it will make us hurl!
Shut up!
No need, kids! We aren't here to argue. I only got a few more days with you guys before I have to head out to Russia again! Do I need to bang your heads together?
Anthony sticks his tongue out playfully at his Dad, as he accepts the hot cup of Tea poured from the flask that his parents bought. Chloe takes hers without hesitation, too. They both stand nursing their cups as Jackson pours one for himself and Vanessa.
Yeah, this week's the big match, huh? Where you take on a "wittel guwl"
Vanessa laughs at her joke. Though she finds pulling Jackson's leg regarding the fact he will be in an intergender match with the FWA World Champion funny, she also knows Lethe is no joke.
Yeah I erm...Still don't know how I feel about that, you know? I mean Lethe has proved herself as absolutely legit. She's the World Champion and the only other competitor in the FWA that hasn't been defeated yet....But I was brought up not to raise a hand to the fairer sex.
Yeah...I kind of wish you would, sometimes.
Vanessa winks as she whispers this comeback to Jackson. He quickly shushes her and glances across at the kids, who are too busy discussing Minecraft or whatever the kids are occupying themselves with nowadays.
I mean she doesn't know this....But I caught just a glimpse of her before the first FWA show. Right before my first match I saw her warming up in the corridor and she looked so....innocent. So fragile....Almost scared. There's this girl who has no idea who she is...She just ups and goes half way across the world into a land of monsters. I mean some of the guys in FWA are huge! Seriously Mr Kosloff's hand is as big as my face! She's there in a testosterone filled environment and I just couldn't help but feel sorry for her. When Wyatt did what he did after she beat him, I was furious. I think the following show, part of me wanted to make him pay for that.
Awww my Champion is a big softie!
Quit it!
No, I love that about you! I love the fact that you can empathize with people so well. You have always been understanding to other people's pain and I love that! It's one of the things that made me fall for you!
Really?
Yeah! When erm...you know what was happening...before we got together....You didn't care who you were out with or what time at night I called you, you came running out for me! To think I'd friend zoned you for all those years!
Oh yeah, you made me work for it, didn't you?
It was weird...one night you went from being the guy I'd complain to about my ex's to the man I wanted to marry!
Oh, nothing to do with the fact I lost 75lbs in a short time, huh?
Vanessa caresses Jackson's arm.
Well that certainly helped, didn't it?
Hey, well if you can't beat the jocks....Beat the jock up! Right?
Shush! The kids will hear and I don't want them learning violence is the answer to all your problems!
Says the woman who literally two minutes ago asked to be treated rougher in bed!
Vanessa shushes Jackson again as they stand there giggling like two school kids caught by the teacher sharing a dirty joke.
We flash back twenty years to a younger Jackson Grace climbing into bed. He's a little bigger now, but by the looks of his clothes, he isn't near the size he used to be. It's 11:45pm and he's climbing into bed after a long day of gaming with his friends. Tekken hadn't too long hit systems and between that and WWF War Zone, he barely saw any day light. Gaming had entered a new era, with the phasing out of classics such as the SNES (Super Famicom) and the Mega Drive (Genesis) in favour of the newer, more technologically advanced systems such as the Playstation and the N64. Jackson climbs into bed and flips the TV on, hitting play on his VHS player to catch up with the latest episode of Monday Night Raw. Just as he is settling in bed, the phone rings. He looks up, confused. Hitting the green button on his Nokia 5110, he notices the name "Vanessa xox" on the screen and sighs before picking it up.
Hey, how you doi-
Jackson!
Vanessa whispers through sobs.
It's happening again!
He hit you again?!
I know I'm stupid for staying...I'm sorry!
BANG BANG!!
Vanessa shrieks.
Look....where are you? I'm coming to get you!
I'm at Jimmy's! He doesn't know I'm talking to you. He can't!
Sit tight and don't let him in there! I'm on the way!
Jackson hops out of bed and throws on some loose fitting dark clothes. He obviously either didn't get chance to shop for new clothes yet....Or you know...Tekken! He runs down the stairs and kicks his shoes on before heading out of the door, letting it click behind him. Running down his drive way he finds his car. A dark green Peugeot 306. Luckily no one had parked behind him in the cul de sac area, or this would have been a nightmare. He hops in and starts it up, the car judders to life, the familiar judder of a diesel engine being revved way too hard, way too quickly. He heads off down the street as quickly as the cars parked on each side allow, before taking a turn left and really letting the engine make some noise as the scene fades.
We come back and see Jackson parking outside a house. He barely has the engine off and he's out of the car. The door closes and he presses the remote button on his key. The car doesn't respond (they never did back then!) and he heads off anyway. He's almost running up the garden path as he can head commotion coming from inside the house. The banging of a door was a promising sign. It meant Vanessa has kept Jimmy out of the bathroom and the door held up. You can hear inaudible male screaming coming from inside the house though. Jackson rears up and goes to boot the door in, but decides that it would be too obvious he was there to save Vanessa. Instead he steps forward and gives a firm, but light knock at the door.
Knock knock.
Nothing. The screaming continues.
...
KNOCK KNOCK.
The screaming stops momentarily, as if Jimmy doesn't want whoever is at the door know what's going on.
...
A few seconds later it all resumes.
...
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
The commotion dies down again. We hear a window sliding open to see who is at the door, but due to the covering of the canopy over the door, Jimmy can't see without physically climbing out of the window. A few seconds later we hear a final yell and the thumping of footsteps down the stairs towards the front door. Jackson rears up again as the key turns in the lock and the door opens slightly. Jimmy must have been totally oblivious as he opened the door. Jackson grabs him through the smallest opening, by a handful of shirt, pulling him through the door into a firm right fist. Jimmy collapses against the door from the impact. He tries to swing back but this proves to be a poor decision as Jackson is already on top of him, raining lefts and rights on him. Jimmy is covering his face at this point. His only instinct at this point is self preservation. For a guy who has probably 25lbs of muscle mass on Jackson, he really was caught by surprise here.
THUMP!
THUMP!
THUMP!
Jackson continues the assault as Jimmy makes vain attempts to retaliate. Alternating shots between the body and the face of Jimmy, Jackson is sending a message. Finally Jimmy seems to be motionless on the floor as Jackson gets to his feet. His breathing is heavy, his hair is ragged and he's covered in a mixture of his sweat and Jimmy's blood on his hands. He pushes his hair out of his face, behind his ear and sticks his head inside the door to Jimmy's house.
You up there? It's safe!
...
Vanessa? Come on down, hun!
A few seconds pass and you hear the sound of a door opening slowly. Then you see the sight of Vanessa appearing sheepishly around the corner of the stairs. She sees the scene before her and her jaw drops. She never thought her 230lb boyfriend standing over 6 feet tall could be floored by the guy who he used to make fun of. What on Earth had happened down here? She didn't have time to ask. She ran down the stairs, jumping over Jimmy's body. He's slowly beginning to stir at this point. She jumps right into Jackson's arms, telling him thank you repeatedly through cries of happiness. She pulls away slowly and Jackson sees the state of her. Her arms covered in grab marks, her makeup running from the tears and her clothing torn around the neck. As she senses him looking, she covers as much of herself as she can. Jackson looks down at Jimmy in disgust, who is now regaining some form of consciousness. He goes ahead and places his size 11 Dr Marten boot on Jimmy's throat and applies pressure. Not too much, just enough to keep him immobilized, before hissing words Vanessa says she can still hear to this day:
I've seen the marks on her body. Mark's you've felt it's ok to leave in order to mark Vanessa as your own. Now you've seen what I can do! If I ever see you even close to her again, I'll have no hesitation in taking photos of this as evidence down to the Police Station and we can do this the official way! Your call!
With that, Jackson pulls away from Jimmy's throat, leaving him gasping for air. He puts his jacket around Vanessa and escorts her to his car. Pulling away into the distance.
You know how wrong that could have gone, don't you?
Oh yeah. He beat my arse enough times throughout school to know how it could have gone. I just hit boiling point that night. I had to do something. I couldn't let it go on....What if he'd gone too far that time? Obviously not that he wasn't going too far every time, but any one of those times...He could have...You know.
I only know too well. I'd never seen that side of you before. All the nights we'd spent talking on the phone when I'd walked out of there. All the times you came to pick me up when we'd had a falling out in public. You were always there for me, weren't you?
I always will be. Whether it's you, the kids...Their kids...I won't ever let you down. I promise!
Vanessa snuggles into Jackson as the queue starts to shuffle along. Jackson Ushers the kids through in front of them, where they can see what they are up to.
So given how we met...I can see why you're having such a dilemma about going up against Lethe. It must be breaking every fiber of your being to know that if you wan't to hold onto your Coldwars Championship, you're going to have to get violent. The fact is, baby. Though she might not know much of her own identity, she knows what she's gotten herself into here. She knows that she's in a violent sport with men. She knows that why? Because she has had to run through enough of them to win the FWA World Championship! She's also done that, likely because people have either taken the "little scared girl" lightly, or they've had your attitude of being scared of breaking her! The fact is she's the one person in this company that's ranked above you. She's even replaced you in the "FEATURING" section of the show! They literally changed it after posting the event card live!
Oh yeah, I noticed that. Good on her, but I'm getting what you're sending here. I need to be focused and see her as just another opponent. I can't see her as fragile, weak or confused. She might now know who she is, but she knows exactly what she's doing in the ring!
Think of it this way...You're doing this for your family. For the chance at an FWA Championship match! Win the big one and we'll be making more money than we'll ever need!
Look at you! Considering a few months ago, you hated me leaving and dreaded the thought of me getting hurt out there...You're almost sounding supportive!
Yeah, don't get used to that! You're still doing the dishes come Monday!
The queue moves again and finally, they can see the ride cars. The kids are excited. Vanessa nervously puts everything into her bag and into a locker as they hop into the car. Jackson and Vanessa sit behind the kids and the bars come down. Vanessa grabs Jackson's right arm tightly. This obviously isn't her thing. The car starts to move and he leans across and whispers in her ear.
....Always.
The ride comes back into the station and we see all of the family smiling, laughing and having enjoyed the experience. Vanessa shoots Jackson a dirty look, as he had been telling her it was a terrifying ride all day. She was quaking in her boots as that ride moved away. She realised half way around that Jackson was playing up and had her looking silly, be it in good intention. She whips him with the bag as she picks it out of the locker, causing him to jerk away holding his arm as it caught him by surprise. They walk away, their time in the park is over and they head towards the exit. The kids head over to the local gift shop to pick out a couple of souvenirs.
You know I was hanging around earlier and I watched a promo video that got leaked by someone regarding Lethe. She was hanging around that chap who visited FWA at Coldwars the other week.
The one that bumped into you in the corridor? He was horrible, but did you hear he is the World Champion now? Who knows what could have happened had you have not walked away!
No, not him....and trust me I know all about his win FOURTH WALL WINK it's the other guy. Kid Chaos was it?
Oh, Chaos Kid!
That's the one. Yeah she was hanging around with him. Apparently he knew her former life or something? Calling her Emerald or something? I don't know quite what to make of it...But something hit me really hard. He took her to a grave.....his grave and described how even his own parents thought he was dead! I mean imagine that....Imagine having to bury your own kid! Especially when they're not even dead! I mean if that's the kind of person she associates with, maybe she isn't the nice girl we all know....Maybe she just doesn't know it yet? They said something about opening Pandora's Box whatever that means. One thing's for certain....I'm going to need to forget the scared, confused little girl I thought I saw at the first Coldwars episode. The girl that could have been challenging me for the FWA Coldwars Championship in the final if Wyatt hadn't gone postal on her...I need to see her as what she is. She's the one person other than me with a 100% record. The one person with a zero in the loss column and the one other person with a singles title. Furthermore, she's the one other person that's ranked above me in the FWA official rankings. Come this week, it's a Champion's challenge and like that say of TV....Someone's "OH has gotta go!"
That's the line you want to finish this whole promo on, right?
Promo? What do you mean?
Come on! The way you all of a sudden splashed out on tickets to Disneyland with your new money, the way you are throwing up a lot more content than you've thrown up in weeks prior to your matches, even the way you delivered that last dialogue! That was promo material!
Well what can I say? I'm finally coming around to the FWA way...You could say I'm quite invested!
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