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| BloodLust (Part 1); Valec speaks on Exodus | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 13 2004, 03:30 PM (43 Views) | |
| Seth Kross | Jul 13 2004, 03:30 PM Post #1 |
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$70 a night, no waterbed and no cable TV. Just four walls and a roof. The mercenaries reside in the barely illuminated motel room. Seth sits reading the financial pages of various newspapers. Jonny, Phoenix and Blake sit around the table all bearing their best poker faces and Blake deals. Phoenix and Blake have overcast emotionless faces that could bluff their way of deathrow. Jonny however, letting the fact that he is staying in a motel once again, displaying his tells for the others to see as is he were showing them his cards. The largest member of the mercenaries sits on a stool in the corner of the room, but he is not his calm collected self. Slowly he rocks back and forth, his face twisted in obvious discomfort. However it is not his injuries that are causing this, the root of the problem is far more sinister. Valec, his fists clenched and his knuckles white, explodes momentarily in a rage of fury throwing a nearby desk lamp to the hard wooden floor. The suddenness of the act has all of the mercenaries focused of Valec, their eyes locked on him in concern. Seth looks hard at his solider of fortune before looking back down at his business figures. Seth-“Thinks its time for your nightcap Valec, don’t you think?” Seth looks back at Valec awaiting a reply. Valec swallows hard, his throat dry and his mouth clammy. Valec looks at Seth and manages to direct his words towards him. Valec-“Fridge…..is…..empty!” Seth is on his feet, his papers strewn as he approaches Valec. Seth-“How long?” Valec-“Too long!” Phoenix and The disciple have also crossed the room in concern, Jonny however ix oblivious to the escalating situation. Seth-“(Eyes on Leon) Blake!” The disciple acknowledges, knowing exactly what is asked of him. Blake-“I’m on it” Blake pulls his hood to cover his head and prepares to leave. Phoenix grabs the keys to his classic automobile off of the dresser. Phoenix-“I’ll drive ya” Phoenix and Blake make haste as Jonny is more puzzled than ever. Jonny-“What the hell is going on” Valec fists tighten with Jonny’s comment, his pupils dilated fully. Seth-“Shut up Jonny” Seth pulls a chair up close in front of Valec and the roars of the firebird echoes outdoors and the screeching of tires disturbs the night and fades off into this distance. Seth straddles the chair; his arms crossed across the back support and looks deep at Valec. Jonny has stood up and is approaching his father. As he get closer Valec becomes more and more agitated and he begin to swing his fists off the wall and nearby furniture. Jonny-“What the hell is wring with” Seth-“I said be quite Jonny and keep it that way. Now back of a give him room. Now god dammit.” Jonny backs of to the opposite side of the room and Seth tries to calm the huge monster down. Seth-“Valec? Listen to me, concentrate on my voice, only my voice Valec. Its me Seth, you can trust me, listen to me!” Valec begins to calm his Black as coal eyes locking on the floor as he hangs his head. Sweat begins to drip from his forehead as Seth continues. Seth-“Its ok Valec, it’s on its way, you just gotta hold out for me, ok? Valec-“Thirsty!” Seth-“I know buddy…..You wanna beer?” Seth smiles at Valec who raises his head slowly grinning. The sweats have increased and Valec eyes suddenly roll back as he explodes in yet another fit of rage. Valec swings his left arm which Seth grips and with all his strength attempts to restrain Valec. Seth-“Come on big guy, calm down. It wont be long, Blake and Phoenix…..There out there now OK”! Valec continues to struggle, even in his present state his strength is unparalleled. Seth begins to buckle as Jonny joins in restraining Valec. However this seems just to further aggravate Valec. Valec-“GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!” Valec shakes Jonny from his grip who stumbles to the floor. Seth puts his forehead to Valec's while clutching the back of the monster's head. Seth-“Valec….Valec….(Seth repeats himself until Valec dark and desolates eyes answer him)…Its OK……take a deep breath……..sit down…….its me Seth. Yeah I’m your buddy remember, you can trust me right? Come on sit down…….we’ll talk ok, get what you need to get of your chest…..it’ll make you feel better.” Valec begins to submit as Seth guides him down on to the stool. With Valec seated and remaining calm, Jonny picks himself back up but remains at the safest distance possible. Seth perches himself back on his seat, eyes still latched on to the momentarily subdued monster. Seth-“Damn Valec, sure have got a grip. (Seth rubs his forearm, humouring Valec.) You know, I would have liked to seen a guy like you in the business back in my day. Exciting as it were, with a person like you things would just keep on getting interesting.” Seth’s calm, professional voice seems to the best remedy, in the short term, for Valec’s rage as he calms further at every sentence. Seth-“Takes me back to July 76, I was working to James Granger for a small promotion in Ohio. I hated Granger with a passion, the guy had now feel for the business. I mean this guys booking talent was almost extinct. It was a time where we actual wrestlers made the revenue and then guys like granger took it you know” Valec, his brow gleaming with seat, sighs with a small laugh. Seth-“Anyway, one night it was a Tuesday I think, I’m booked to face a new guy, Scandinavian he was not sure where exactly. Now I had heard about these Nordic guys. Behemoths apparently will real short tempers. However it wasn’t until he hit the ring that that was the understatement of the month. This guy was nothing short of a Viking. Almost seven foot 350 pounds of rock solid muscle. Back then guys like these were rare. I considered myself in a high standard of fitness but this guy. Well put him one on one with bulldozer and I’d bet against the bulldozer everytime.” Seth’s words are having great effect. Valec no longer has his fists clenched and sits calmly listen to Seth recall his past. Seth-“You would have got on like a house on fire, you two. If not a the sight of him then the fact that after the match that I won, be it not one of the most straight victories I ranked up. Yep, he wasn’t a happy chap so the last thing he wanted was Granger giving him a post match lecture, so he put Granger’s head through his station wagon. Funnily enough it wasn’t last time that Granger would get up close and personal with that station wagon.” Valec now calm and collected. Looks up at Seth. Although being calm, he still sweats profusely. Valec-“Sounds like my kind person!” Though where he stopped with the station wagon I would have continued to introduce him to every windscreen in parking lot. You see you can’t afford to let people take liberties with you.” Valec’s fist reclench. Seth speaks quickly in an attempt to counteract Valec aggression. Seth-“Too true……I remember the fall of 82…………………(Valec interrupts Seth’s history lesson) Valec-“Two pints of blood………….(Valec speaks awkwardly but fluently)…….two pints of blood” Seth desperately tries to turn Valec off the subject of blood but fails in his attempts. Valec-“That’s what they took from me. Pakelika, Brent.!!!! They stole two pints of blood from when they forced me to bleed all over the canvas at Exodus. Can the honestly believe that I am just gonna step back and allow them to do that. Did they honestly think that there would be no consequences.” Seth-“Valec, listen to me OK, my voice only OK!” Harder then it seems as Valec sits hearing the voices of Brent and Pakelika echoing around his skull. Seth’s voice can be heard muffled in this distance of Valec mind. Valec-“They took liberty with me at Exodus. They decided to get aquatinted with me. The one demon they did not want to get to know. Pakelika had a choice. He could have chose to remain on the outside of mental vision, he could have spend the rest of his life, gaining comfort in the fact that he never met me. But he chose wrong and with that choice took from form me the one thing that I can’t afford to lose.(Valec looks up at Seth with his blackhole eyes) I’mThirsty Seth……..very thirsty…………. And soon my thirst will be quenched when I take back from Pakelika what he took from me.” Valec’s breathing escalates. He snaps his head backwards throwing his dark hair out of his eyes. Gritting his teeth, with every breath spit flues from his mouth. His fangs are in clear view and he continues to hyperventilate. Valec-“I need a drink………NOW DAMMIT” Seth puts his hands on Valec’s broad shoulders. Seth-“It’s coming. Trust me.” Valec-“I don’t want your trust I want a damn drink” After spending the majority of the time as a spectator to the situation Jonny attempts to get involved. Jonny-“For god sake give a drink if he wants one, there's beers in the fridge” Valec growls, his head back and his glare piercing the ceiling. Valec-“NOW!!!” Seth gives Jonny a harsh look Seth-“Not that kinda drink, keep quiet” Seth turns his attention back to Valec, who eyes have become bloodshot due to his excess sweating. Seth-“I don’t have a drink for you yet big guy, you got help me and just wait a little longer. Their out getting it for you now” Seth’s words are no longer comforting Valec and now every word Seth speaks seem to serve as a catalyst for Valec’s volatile temper. Valec-“I DON’T WANT TO HEAR DON’T, CAN’T OR WON’T SETH, I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING. I JUST WANT A DRINK.” Valec stands in fury throwing Seth’s hands of him in disgust. Valec picks the stool the throws it with great force off the nearby wall, Jonny having to duck to avoid decapitation. Valec clutches his head with his hands and balances against the dresser. Seth approaches him again, his close proximity only angering Valec further. Valec-“(screaming in discomfort) THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT” Seth-“I know Valec, just sit down and tell me about it ok” Valec-“I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS SETH, I WANT TAKE HIS THROAT IN MY LEFT HAND AND WITH MY RIGHT SQUEEZE OUT HIS BLOOD SO AS I CAN RECLAIM HIS DEBT.(Valec drives his fist through the thin plaster board walls) BUT ONCE I HAVE WHAT IS OWED TO ME I WONT STOP THERE. I WILL BE SURE TO SPILL EVERY LAST DROP OF BLOOD FROM THAT WASTED VESSEL HE CALLS A BODY” Seth-“Valec……………..Valec!!!!!!! Look at me dammit” Seth’s sudden harsh words easily captivate Valec’s attention Seth-“You’re right Pakelika will suffer at Exodus and then further more at Rise To Greatness. I have no doubt of that. So save this raw aggression for then. Save every once of energy for Pakelika and Pakelika alone. Don’t waste your energy on quick fixes and easy alternatives (Seth Picks up a splinter from the destroyed stool). You are gifted if not somewhat twisted individual Valec but further more you are a professional dammit and professionals don’t act like this no matter how much discomfort there in. Valec approaches Seth and stands toe to toe with him. Seth does not flinch and looks at him sternly. Seth-“So are you what I hired you to be………….” Valec-“(Growling) A Professional” Valec’s rages seems to pass and his temper calm. He lowers his head and falls to floor. He sits back against the wall, his long hair covering his face, an almost meditative. His breathing slow and shallow in a temporary moment of relaxation. Jonny questions his father on the situation as Seth backs off from Valec and lets out a big sigh. Jonny-“He finished?” Seth-“For the moment yes, but it won’t last long” Jonny-“What the hell is wrong with him” Seth-“What the hell do you think Jonny, the thirst has him” Jonny-“Thirst, what the hell do you mean” Seth-“Could not tell from the fact he keeps talking about Pakelika in a certain way” Jonny-“Are…..Are we talking about Blood here?” Seth-“Yes Jonny, we are talking blood. “ Jonny looks at Valec hunched up in the corner of the room. Jonny-“Hell I thought it was a whole image thing, are you telling me that guys drinks blood. You let a god damn vampire into out team” Before Jonny can continue his verbal assault and awake the sleeping monster, Seth intervenes. Seth-“Listen Jonny, (Seth begins to speak quietly). Ok I was aware of Valec’s condition but I didn’t see it as a problem” Jonny-“Oh right, and you didn’t think anything like this would happen.” Seth-“Keep your voice down. (Seth glances over to Valec who is still in his half comatose state). You want the facts, ok then. Valec has a rare anaemic condition. He lacks haem. You remember high school biology right, didn’t fork out those tuition fees for nothin did I?” Jonny-“I know what it is ok, what it got to do with him” Seth-“Well, Valec’s body itself does not generate its own and so he takes supplements, the best one being blood.” Jonny-“Human blood????” Seth-“Any blood Jonny, its all the same………we usually have a large store of it in the fridge but the injuries he’s sustained must have increased his usage” Jonny ponders the information as he desperately tries to make heads or tails of it. Jonny-“hang on are you telling me that the bottles in the fridge named “Valec’s Hot sauce” is …….blood?” Seth-“Yeah…..Phoenix thought of it as joke help him take the seriousness of his condition” Jonny-“Sick……its just wrong. I mean why blood? Can’t he take medication or something” Seth-“He would but strange thing is, he hates needles, can’t stand em” Jonny looks hard at Valec, lying a broken shell. Jonny-“I say we leave him, let him sort himself out. Look at him he’s crazy and he dresses likes Satan so nobodies go touch him.” Seth-“(Snapping at Jonny for his vile comment) Look at him Jonny, he dresses like that because of his condition. His attire, his persona and his career are all a coping mechanism. He has to drink blood to remain healthy, how do you cope with something like that. Answer, exactly the same way he has. So I don’t want to hear you ever say just leave him or one day you might find yourself left alone yourself.” The tension is broken by a hard knock at the door. The noise disturbs the sleep demon as he begins to stir, moaning with every ache. Seth instructs Jonny To answer the door. Upon doing so a young couple stand half dressed both looking very irritated and angry. Some Guy-“Listen man, what the hell are you people doin” Jonny-“Personal business ok instead of worrying about it just go and have sex with your girl, you don’t wanna over run till the next hour she charge over time.” Some Guy-“Why you …………..(The guy balls his fist but soon realises who he is talking to) Some Guy-“Hey wait a minute..You’re…you’re Jonny Kross, wow man. I was thrilled when I heard you guys were coming to the SCW” The girl in company rolls her eyes and heads back into their own motel room. The guy remains his volume increase with his excitement. Seth notices Valec begin to wake from his brief slumber. Seth pokes his head out of the door. Some Guy…………..”Oh man Seth’s here to……where Phoenix he in there…..HEY” Seth Pushes the crazed fan away from the doorstep and takes out his business card. Seth-“Hey em, what’s your name.?” Some Guy-“Oh its em……..GUY!” Seth-“Well Guy take this (Seth gives him his business card) whenever your in town give me a call and I’ll get you and your lovely lady friend tickets to out next event, courtesy of the Mercenaries.” Guy-“Oh man….thanks a lot man……(Guy runs back into his own motel room)……hey Jeannie guess what?!!!!!” Seth and Jonny Shut the motel room door and look at Valec who is stirring uncomfortably. However Valec’s aches subside from the moment and he drops back into his state of rest. Jonny-“Close call huh?” Seth-“Too close” Seth takes out his cell phone and checks the clock. He slyly passes to his brief case and takes out his medication without drawing \Jonny’s attention. Seth-“I gotta make a call, watch him” Jonny-“What if he wakes up?” Seth-“Pray” Seth enters the bathroom for some privacy leaving Jonny in the room with Valec, his temper ready to reach boiling point at any moment. To Be Continued.................................................. |
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