Off-Camera
Wednesday ,April 19, 2023
Campsite
Hoia Forest
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
12:07 AM Local Time
Transylvania
The scene of many a story of ghosts, vampires and other paranormal and/or supernatural activity. The Hoia Forest had so many stories about it, that many a paranormal entertainment show from multiple countries had done episodes about the area.
Seleana Zdunich’s own sister, Zenna Zdunich, had even shot a pilot for such a show in Japan that was based on the producers’ love for video games like Fatal Frame/Project Zero. The show had planned to go places like this in the first season had it gotten picked up but an incident during the filming of said pilot had guaranteed it would never see the light of day in that form and ended Zenna’s career as a present before it had even started.
Now, some fourteen years’ time later, eldest Zdunich Sister and SCW Bombshell Seleana Zdunich was the one visiting this area, camping out in the storied Romanian Hoia Forest just outside Cluj-Napoca because Christian Underwood and Mark Ward enjoyed putting their talent to the test.
This would certainly be some test.
As Seleana looks outside the tent she was using alongside her wife, fellow SCW Bombshell, Christina “Crystal Hilton” Zdunich. She stares at the phone she can use to call home and talk to their twelve year-old daughter Aurora. Aurora was in Los Angeles with her other mommy, the third woman in the relationship with Crystal and Seleana, Alexandra “Diamond” Caldwell. As Seleana activates the proper application, the smiling face of her daughter shines back at her.
Aurora Zdunich: Hi, Mommy!
Seleana smiles back.
Seleana Zdunich: Hej älskling. How are things?
Aurora’s smile brightens at her mother’s words.
Aurora Zdunich: It’s been cool having Mommy Alex home more! She seems so much happier lately, like all the pressure’s off and she can just be Mommy Alex.
Seleana nods knowingly. The little girl always showed herself to be way more attentive than most gave her credit for.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, she would laugh at what is going on here.
Aurora grins.
Aurora Zdunich: Why’s that?
Seleana grins.
Seleana Zdunich: Do you remember what I said would happen here?
Aurora nods.
Seleana Zdunich: It is working. I will be keen to tell you when it has all transpired.
The smile on the child’s face brightens again in anticipation.
Aurora Zdunich: When are your matches?
Glancing to the right, Seleana just nods slightly to the phone’s camera.
Seleana Zdunich: Sunday.
Aurora’s eyes light up.
Aurora Zdunich: I can’t wait for you to be back home too!
The Swede looks back to the camera and smiles for her daughter.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja? First we must get to the matches on Sunday and they could be the kind of stories people tell about this place. Christina has a monster at the end of her story this week and in a way, so do I.
Aurora’s smile fades as confusion sets in.
Aurora Zdunich: Monsters?
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: Ja, Christina enters into a match where bad things are encouraged with someone that wishes to do her harm and has since this person’s arrival. I do not know all of the details of the why, simply that this is the monster that had been waiting for Christina to find her way through the maze of evil before her so that it may attempt to devour her.
Aurora shakes her head.
Aurora Zdunich: Mommy won’t let that happen. She is not just someone that gets set-up like a target at a carnival so somebody else can win the prize!
Aurora almost laughs.
Aurora Zdunich: They’re not even good prizes most of the time! Mommy is better than that and always has been!
She pauses.
Aurora Zdunich: How do you mean you might have one too?
Seleana can’t help but smile.
Seleana Zdunich: It is called the Dream Killer. It waits for us at the end of this journey. It fights with no remorse and likes to toy with those it comes across before it takes them. It waits for three to make their way down to see who solves the riddle and seeks to be the one to slay the Dream Killer.
Aurora
Aurora Zdunich: Oh wow!
Seleana nods
Seleana Zdunich: The Saxon Gypsy from South London comes to test herself as her ancestors did against the Great Heathen Army. She is a great warrior who sometimes gets ahead of herself. When this happens, she leaves herself open to defeat in battle because her own self-assuredness has caused her to be too keen on herself.
Aurora adjusts to be able to hear better.
Seleana Zdunich: Also in this great maze of Hoia, we have the Phoenix of New York and this firebird seeks to fly freely above all others on its way through the Maze. She lights her own path through the darkness seeking to avoid crashing and being forced to be reborn from the ashes of her previous direction.
Aurora nods, listening intently.
Aurora Zdunich: Who is the third one?
Seleana nods knowingly.
Seleana Zdunich: The Viking Cat. She travels as the others do into the Hoia maze to seek the Dream Killer. She travels through the shadows, never allowing the darkness to catch her as she makes her way to the glorious end of the Maze.
Aurora Zdunich: What does the Dream Killer think of the three?
Seleana snickers.
Seleana Zdunich: The Dream Killer is almost insulted both because she believes no one is her equal so how dare anyone seek to challenge her but also that there are not more candidates. She is disappointed that she does not get to take more offers as tribute. The Dream Killer waits like the great nothing that knows it is inevitable. She does not believe it will matter whether the Saxon Gypsy of London, the Phoenix of New York or the Viking Cat is the one who emerges from the Maze for none are worthy of the Dream Killer and none can withstand her scorn and fury. Like all good monsters, she is formidable and confident that nothing can defeat her, especially in her own space.
Aurora Zdunich: But one of them can, right?
Seleana nods.
Seleana Zdunich: All of them can, it is simply a matter of if any can find the proper sequence to have a go at the Dream Killer and not fall into the Dream World and find themselves the victim of their own nightmares. It is what the Dream Killer plays on most and she is very good at it. The Saxon Gypsy of London is resistant to this power, as is the Phoenix of New York and the Viking Cat. The real question is…which of them emerges from the Hoia Maze and does that one emerge in one piece enough to have a go at the Dream Killer for her Great Prize for she holds onto a golden treasure?
Aurora giggles excitedly.
Aurora Zdunich: Oooooh!
Seleana smiles.
Seleana Zdunich: I will call you with more story tomorrow. It is late here.
Aurora can’t smile enough.
Aurora Zdunich: Ok, I love you, Mommy!
Seleana smiles back.
Seleana Zdunich: I love you, älskling.
