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Fallen Angel, Chapter 1: Just Before Dawn |
Is it a nightmare? Is it an illusion? Is it an evil? Is it a fantasy? Is it alive? Whatever it is, if this one doesn't scare you...you're already dead. \The scene opens on a street. It is a dark night, with hints of daybreak starting to appear. Phantasm is not allowed to leave the house of his manager Rodney due to a law. It is like house arrest except he can go places as long as his manager is there to keep him in check. Otherwise he'll end up back in prison. And not even Phantasm wants to end up there. Because at this rate he'd end up in a psychiatric ward or in a high security mental hospital. The courts already said he didn't seem like he was mentally stable. The self-defense plea was the only thing that saved him. He hears a noise and jerks around..it's just Rodney./ Rodney: What are you doing out here? I wake up early because we have a flight to make and you're out here, what's up? \Of course Phantasm says nothing. He feels that if anyone is his friend, it's Rodney. But not even his msnager understands him. No one does. Phantasm lets hismelf get angry at the thought that people think he's insane and needs to be locked away. Then he calms himself down. Let them, he tells himself. Let them think what they will. It's now that his thoughts shift to his opponent, and the things that went down before their match, which is just in one day./ Rodney: I know you're angry about Achilles. You'll have a chance to beat him up tomorrow night. And you can also retain your Devil's Ring title in the process. \Holding gold was nice, it showed everyone that he was the best at what he does: hurting people. But if he didn't have gold it wouldn't be a huge loss. The loss would be in being defeated. People saw him as the monster. He was that way for a reason. He was big, destructive, psychotic and undefeated. No one in HWA has been able to pin his shoulders to the mat. He wasn't about to let that change./ Rodney: So you have to stay focused. I know there are other things bothering you, but some of those things you won't be able to deal with, probably ever. \Phantasm stares at his manager and stands up. He takes off walking./ Rodney: Where are you going? The cops told you not to leave this area! \At this point Phantasm doesn't care. Hearing Rodney tell him he wouldn't be able to deal with his problems has angered him beyond comprehension./ Rodney: Obviously I can't stop you, but at least don't hurt anyone and be back before the flight leaves! \Phantasm heard Rodney, and he made a silent vow not to hurt innocent people. And to be back for his flight. He wasn't going to miss the chance to beat Achilles. He is suddenly stopped by a hand on his arm./ Rodney: How am I going to know you'll be back? \Phantasm nods at his manager. That at least tells Rodney that Phantasm will do as promised. Phantasm, to be honest, doesn't know for sure if he'll be back. He doesn't have any idea. He turns away to leave again but Rodney stops him./ Rodney: I'd like to think we're friends now. So whatever you do, be careful.
\The monster nods again in understanding. He respects his manager, but doesn't know if he could consider him a friend. He turns back away and leaves his manager standing there, as the dawn is now breaking./
\He thinks about this incident and other things. His match that he is going to try and be there for. Achilles. How he thinks he can get inside Phantasm's mind by visiting a mental hospital. No one knows truely how Phantasm thinks, but he is slowly showing the world. He didn't like how the rumors started about him being a violent psychopath, but he did agree with it. When he puts his mind to hurting someone there isn't anyone that can stop him./
\Achilles is underestimating the undefeated monster. That is his weakness. Just as his namesake, Achilles has a weakness. His own "Achilles heel". Underestimating the psychotic monster. Phantasm decides to himself that he is going to prove that is a mistake./
\He also decides he will show Rodney that he can handle his problems. He is going to hunt down two people. Two people that are causing these problems. He is going to track down The Angel of Mercy, and get her to come back to wrestling. Then...he is going to find C4./ TO BE CONTINUED....
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