Go to Sleep (Fall/Awake)
Nov 27, 2022 14:32:55 GMT -5
Downfall, The Golden Idolo, and 1 more like this
Post by Addy A on Nov 27, 2022 14:32:55 GMT -5
“Niobe, have you ever stood on the precipice of a skyscraper and just stared into the horizon? For as far as you can see the world is laid out in front of you. You can see it all. You can look up into the heavens and imagine your ascension to a god-like status as your soar above it all. You look down and see nothing but the harsh environment of nothing concrete and the interference of man on the world around us.” “Three choices - Stay. Climb. Fall.” “Except it’s all an illusion there is only one choice from where you stand, only one place for you to go. Sure, you made that journey to the top through grit and grind or more appropriately in your case, luck and circumstance. But you got here and you’re making the most of your experience. I can’t fault that.” “You can’t stay. What would be the point? Standing still, you’ll become a figure of stone for the world to grow around and swallow.” “You can’t climb, because you’ve already climbed to the top.” “Leaving the only place for you to go is down.” “To fall.” “You’ve come at me in the last two weeks with a fire, you’ve hit me and you’ve hit me - yet you haven’t beaten me. I’ve remained where I belong. You may think you’ve done enough to throw me the edge. You haven’t, Niobe. And this week, at Turmoil, I will hoist you over the edge and watch you descend through the air until there is nowhere else for you to go.” “Then we will find the measure of who you really are, Nightmare. While the momentum has been, mostly, on your side in our battles so far - when I change the momentum in my favour and I keep my Television Title around my waist - that’s when we’ll see whether you can come back - keep pushing forward.” “Whether you can pick yourself up after the fall, dust yourself off and come back for more.” “That’s when we’ll really see if you are the nightmare you say you are or nothing but the fluffy cloud for sheep to jump over as we drift off to sleep.” “That’s the thing with nightmares, Niobe. When we wake up the pain and suffering is gone. It’s a mind trick our sleeping brain is playing on us for reasons unbeknownst. But when we wake, even with a rapid heartbeat, the nightmare is gone. The really scary place is reality and that’s where I reside, Niobe. I live in the world where children starve and we bomb all those with religious differences. Where we shoot our brothers and sisters because they wear the wrong colour clothes.” “This is the world where I survive.” “The world where I thrive.” “The world that kicks the shit out of me, but does not stop me.” “Just as you won’t stop me.” “You had the perfect opportunity not two weeks ago and you just couldn’t do it. You couldn’t find that last little inch to just get the job done. That’s what happens when you ground yourself in the realm of fantasy, you always think near enough is good enough. It never is, never will be. I will bend. I have bent time and time again, but I’ve never been broken, Niobe. You won’t be the first to try and you won’t be the last.” “But I know I can break you.” “I know I can take the fragility of your dreams and nightmares and turn them against you in the ring. No matter how far you are willing to take it, know that I am willing to take it further. I’ve been inside the Execution cage just weeks after an abortion for the chance to get my hands on a pretty little blonde cunt. This time I just have to wait for you to come to me and I will choke the life out of you. It’s the champion’s advantage.” “It’s the same way in the wild.” “The leader of the pride keeps his harem by their side until some young upstart comes for it. They don’t have to chase the fight, the fight has to come to them for the newcomer to take the crown. Just the way it is with the Television Title you have to bring the fight to me to take my title. And I’m ready for the challenge, believe you me. There’s no cheapshot in the back of the head for you this time. I’m not expecting our Turmoil match to be pretty and I’m more than hoping it’s not. It’s the law of the jungle.” “I will remain the King.” “From the top of the world, Niobe - it will be me looking down upon your carcass. Like everyone who quits at life, your body will be broken with many slack jawed yokels looking upon your body in pure shock. Your form will be ripped apart limb from limb by my gnashing teeth. The choice of your oppressive demise in the end is your own nightmare to choose, but it is coming.” “It’s like the storm clouds in the sky - you can watch them roll forward, inching closer and closer. You know what’s coming, you know you need to seek shelter, find protection from the onslaught. Yet, you’re stuck in freeze mode just staring mindlessly at your own expiration and you can’t do anything about it.” “Like the Greek myth you’re named after, I expect you to weep for eternity as if you’ve had your children slain.” “There’s a harshness to that, I understand. But understand that this Television Title is something no one will take from me without interference from the Gods. Those facts are set in stone.” “The day that I claimed this title, Niobe. I was clear I’m carrying it to my grave. You’re not Robert Englund, Freddy - no bad dream is going to kill me.” “This is not your nightmare.” “It’s reality.” |
