Post by vespertine on Nov 14, 2023 21:34:15 GMT -5
(A buddhist temple somewhere. Dark except for a few candles that are in a circle on the floor. A figure kneels in the center of the candle circle. Vespertine's head is bowed and in front of her lies the United States Championship. A voice, not hers, comes up from the darkness. A deep low gutteral voice that one would expect to hear only in the bowels of hell somewhere. Thankfully, or unfortunately, Buddhists don't believe in heaven or hell so whatever this creature is, is from somewhere else entirely.
Ves: Master, a gift. For you. It has been a year since the last one. I figured it was time I owe you again.
Voice: Yes. I saw. But you don't even own it. You never fought for it. You took it upon a whim and angered a monster. You just took what wasn't yours. Are you sure you were thinking straight when making this arrogant choice... on my behalf.
Ves: Think of it this way: it's a placeholder for-
Voice: You stole this belt as a peaceoffering to placate me and now you tell me, this is not the real thing, that I still have to wait! My patience with you grows limited. You know what happens then...
(She bows her head more)
Ves: Master, I am doing everything you command of me. Give it time, your dark days are coming.
(There is a low growl and from the light comes an emaciated skeletal hand with long claws. It caresses the title belt in front of her and then passes over it and in a poof it is gone, whisps of black fog roil away from it. A low rumbling chuckle, and the hand, takes her by the chin, lifts her head to make her look at it, whatever it is, and then pokes a place in the center of her forehead. Whereupon a light ray shoots from the hand to her forehead and her eyes become beans of violent green energy. The hand pulls back and a moment or two passes while she breathes heavily trying to take in the lifeforce that was given her. She smiles at nothing in particular.)
Voice: Don't fail me again.
(The fingers snap and in an instant the green is gone and her eyes are back to their normal state and color. She gasps as if in pain and looks as if she has aged 100 years.)
Voice: Powerless, defenseless and pathetic should that happen.
(There is whoosh and in an instant the entity is gone.)
Ves: I never fail.....
Ves: Master, a gift. For you. It has been a year since the last one. I figured it was time I owe you again.
Voice: Yes. I saw. But you don't even own it. You never fought for it. You took it upon a whim and angered a monster. You just took what wasn't yours. Are you sure you were thinking straight when making this arrogant choice... on my behalf.
Ves: Think of it this way: it's a placeholder for-
Voice: You stole this belt as a peaceoffering to placate me and now you tell me, this is not the real thing, that I still have to wait! My patience with you grows limited. You know what happens then...
(She bows her head more)
Ves: Master, I am doing everything you command of me. Give it time, your dark days are coming.
(There is a low growl and from the light comes an emaciated skeletal hand with long claws. It caresses the title belt in front of her and then passes over it and in a poof it is gone, whisps of black fog roil away from it. A low rumbling chuckle, and the hand, takes her by the chin, lifts her head to make her look at it, whatever it is, and then pokes a place in the center of her forehead. Whereupon a light ray shoots from the hand to her forehead and her eyes become beans of violent green energy. The hand pulls back and a moment or two passes while she breathes heavily trying to take in the lifeforce that was given her. She smiles at nothing in particular.)
Voice: Don't fail me again.
(The fingers snap and in an instant the green is gone and her eyes are back to their normal state and color. She gasps as if in pain and looks as if she has aged 100 years.)
Voice: Powerless, defenseless and pathetic should that happen.
(There is whoosh and in an instant the entity is gone.)
Ves: I never fail.....