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Making Friends; [Nightmare RP - Showdown 69]
Topic Started: Jan 30 2011, 05:52 AM (88 Views)
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"Saturday, January 29th, 2011 - Goodfellas Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada"

"... dumb girl."

Nightmare smirks as he lifts his TapOut Title from the ground, brushing it's scuffed plates non-chalantly with his hand before making his escape towards the large golden doors serving as the casino and hotel's main entrance and leaving his latest challenger laying stunned on the floor of the casino.

A sharply dressed concierge tips his hat as he opens the door - Nightmare walks through with a curt grunt in response, leaving the concierge with a scowl on his face as he mutters an unheard obscenity under his breath in the masked champion's direction. Once outside, Nightmare quickly surveys his surroundings before spotting a luxurious limousine bearing the license plate 'COMPANY 2'. He heads straight for it, another concierge opens the door and similarly to the first, tips his hat towards Nightmare - who again grunts in response - the concierge slams the door slightly harder than necessary as he storms off.

"It seems you make friends wherever you go..."

The smiling face of Nightmare's former mentor and current manager, Akira Kimura, taunts the masked man who clenches his jaw as he replies, "You don't know the half of it."

Kimura raises an eyebrow as he glances at Nightmare's disheveled designer suit. "You realize that today you have two radio and one television appearances, right?"

"... yes - so let's get this tedious bullshit out of the way," Nightmare sighs in agitated response.

"You and your brother are exactly alike there..." Kimura grins.

"... don't ever fucking say that!" Nightmare protests, interrupting.

"It's true, he always bitched about promotional events too," the old man explains, "Regardless - couldn't you have taken a bit more care with how you present yourself? You've been begging me to put more effort into managing you, so here we are, I use my contacts to get you these interviews and you show up looking like you were mugged."

Nightmare glares at him and simply points at the TapOut Title.

The old man looks serious as he surveys the masked man before he bursts out laughing leaving Nightmare with a very sour look on his face.

"I'm sorry, Ryuu, but you have to admit, it's very funny," he manages to spurt out between intense bursts of laughter.

Nightmare grinds his teeth, his jaw clenching tighter as he attempts to restrain himself. "I fail to see the humor in it."

Master Kimura readily supplies the answer, "Well, you made such a huge performance about winning the sVo World Title, you sold your soul, you sold out family, friends - and in the end they placate you with a title which most would agree is more of a curse than a blessing!"

Seemingly close to bursting Nightmare speaks very softly with an eerie calm, "Placate me? What do you think I am? Some sort of moron?"

"It would certainly seem you are a happy and ignorant pawn of The Company," Kimura replies, his laughter dying down, leaving him short of breath with a residual smile, "You've done their bidding week after week - the dirty work - and here you are. Your thanks; a title which gets you jumped whenever and wherever you go."

"This title is a stepping stone on my road to the World Title," Nightmare protests.

"That title is the beginning of the end for you - you're already losing your mind to paranoia - you jumped a fan on Showdown! Do you know how much The Company lawyers had to pay that guy not to sue?" Kimura says with a grin, "Face it, you're losing it."

"Well if I didn't have some weaselly little fuck chasing me around in the shadows I wouldn't be so on edge - and since when do you care?" Nightmare replies.

"I don't," says Kimura, still smiling, "I just like telling you that you're screwed - I'm just helping you get some publicity on the way - as you said, I wasn't doing my job."

"You know who that fucker is, don't you?" Nightmare growls, "Who is it, huh? Night? Drake? One of your other boys? Another of the 'Dojo's finest'?"

"I can assure you I have no idea who's chasing you around, but let's face it you've pissed off enough people in the past year that it could be a number of people... perhaps it's a newcomer trying to make a name for himself by toppling a monster. Maybe it's one of those careers you 'ended' for The Company buck," Kimura replies with a confident and defiant smirk, "Whoever it is though, it looks to me like they're getting to you..."

"... 'getting to me'?" Nightmare protests, outraged, "You forget who you are talking to, Akira - and clearly whoever this is has no idea either... no idea who I am... what I am... what I am capable of - and have already done! No one in the sVo can touch me..."

"... yes, yes, 'you're Nightmare and you end careers', blah blah, we've heard it," Kimura says with a roll of his eyes, "But you've gotten awfully cocky lately, Ryu, and clearly whoever is following you is getting to you - you have to remember that you are now a champion. You got your wish. BUT, as you should have already known, and as was proven earlier... you now have a HUGE target on your back. As a defending champion you will face the best of the best, 24/7 - if you don't get your head out of your ass you are going to get beaten sooner or later."

Nightmare scoffs, letting out a condescending laugh, "Beaten? By who? I haven't been beaten in months and you know it! So who's going to stop me? Jay Wildman? Samuel Amos? Certainly not Crippler!"

"Crippler is an accomplished submissions wrestler - given the rules of TapOut Championship defenses I'd say he's..."

"... a threat?" Nightmare interrupts, "You're too predictable old man."

"And yourself in turn," Kimura shoots back, "Because here's the part where you tell me again that I think everyone is a threat to you and you laugh it off - but I'm telling you the truth and if you would ever move back down to the real world with everyone else you would realize that in this business, anyone is a potential threat and I wouldn't have to remind you of that week after week. I'll admit you have pulled out victories - some slightly less honorable than others - but all things come to an end. That includes winning streaks."

"We'll see," Nightmare responds confidently, "For now I want to get this promo shit over with as soon as fucking possible..."

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