“Soul?”

 

Blinking, Chamelion turns his attention to us.  He is leaning against the wall inside his locker room just mere hours before the PPV and he is already dressed for his match against XTC.  He looks at the bottle of water in his hand and smirks.

 

“I think I’ve made it clear I’m not a big fan of the heavy drinker… besides, water is good.. it replenishes the body, keeps you going.. unlike beer or whiskey, which will eventually dry you out and put you in the ground.  But it doesn’t matter.. we all do what we want, don’t we?”

 

Taking a long drink, he sighs and begins to giggle.

 

“A fatal MAYBE life ending accident??? Hehehehe, XTC, you really are a moron… sheesh, boy…Fatal MEANS life ending.. if your brother had a fatal accident, you should be at the morgue, not a hospital room… and as for a soul.. I dunno.. hehehe, lately I’ve not felt much in control of one of those little beauties.. it’s freeing, actually… hehe, to do whatever you want, in whatever way you want too… but…”

 

He stops, clears his throat and his smile fades.

 

“Don’t you fucking accuse me of exploiting your brother’s condition on national television.. because that is exactly what YOU did by letting those HiC camera’s follow you into the hospital to begin with You used that moment, that heart tugging scene, to drop a dime about me and pray that’s all you needed to do… well, news flash, kiddo.. it takes a whole lot more then that to get past the line called Chamelion….. and as for my brother, he takes care of himself.. and would I be angry.. sure, you are.. but I’m here to pick at you emotions, get your blood boiling so that when we do confront each other in the ring…. You’ll be so hell bent on beating me up, you’ll forget how to actually BEAT Me… I know the game, kiddo, I nearly wrote the book on revenge matches.. you’re looking at the most devious SOB in the business today, and you just got pegged!”

 

A wicked grin returns to his features, and the aura around him seems to shift… a darker, more vicious aura…..

 

“Heheh, nothing to lose… nooottthinnnng to lose he says… trust Me, XTC… I have nothing to lose either… do you think I care about winning or losing my BIG COMEBACK match?? You’re just a test… a little fish in the pond, and maybe you’ll pull off an upset.. but who do you think they’re going to look too, for the bigger picture anyway?  XTC, who may or may not show his face every third Thursday of the second month… or Chamelion, who will face and fight anyone, anytime, and put on a show that no other man is capable of…. Yeah, so you go ahead and try to shock the critics, and see how well you fare against Me… heheeh, cause Chamelion doesn’t need to win to make the impact he promises to make… but I can tell you this right now… Chamelion WILL Win… not because he’s better, not because he has too.. simply because.. I want too.”

 

Quirking his head, Chamelion smirks at an inside irony.

 

“I have a friend, she writes to me sometimes.. and she does these incredible run on sentences… I mean, she can go a full length paragraph without a single punctuation… and listening to your last promo, XTC, you reminded me of her.. I mean, stop and take a breath, kiddo… it’s not like you have a 30 second commercial and you have to get everything out.  Stop, smell the roses, breath a little fresh air.. you’ll make more sense!  The best since motorized toothbrushes?  Now that’s an odd statement… I’d rather go with ‘the best thing since sliced bread’.. more cliché but definitely holds more steam then toothbrushes… “

 

Pushing off the wall, Chamelion swallows down the last of his water as he grabs a towel and heads towards the doorway. He stops for a moment.

 

“I’ve told them all a million times, damned right I love the spotlight… and in a few short moments, Chamelion is going to be right back in the middle of it… no man can win every match in his life.. unless he’s bought out the right people.. had enough of that in the AOWF… but Chamelion knows that it’s okay to lose a big match here or there, because it just makes him that much more determined, that much more powerful, and that much more… dangerous… trust me, Kiddo… the next time Chamelion aims for the gold.. he’ll get it.  Because no man, human or otherwise… is going to stop this devious SOB from climbing to the very top again…GOT IT?”

 

Opening the door, Chamelion walks through… and we fade to black.