-The cameras open in a dark room, panning shots of the stone walls which have the name BELLA scribbled on them over and over. The sounds of Bella Ciao begin to play in Italian, as the cameras show different flashes of the walls with Bellas name-
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
Una mattina mi son alzato
E ho trovato l'invasor
O partigiano, portami via
O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao, ciao, ciao
O partigiano, portami via
Che mi sento di morir
-The cameras flash to Victoria Lyons, sitting on a dark throne in the middle of the room, championship resting on it’s own little table next to her, atop a pillow inside a glass case. She glares daggers into the camera, rapping her fingers along the arm of the throne, a hateful expression on her face, as she speaks[/i]
“One morning I awakened..and I found the invader.” she began “Oh Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao ciao ciao.”
Her head twitches slightly, as she continues.
“You…You.” she scowled, “You RUINED MY UNDEFEATED STREAK!. I WAS KIND ENOUGH TO LEAVE YOU AND KAYLA ALONE, BUT YOU JUST HAD TO SHOW YOUR FACE IN MINE AND SCREW ME OVER. IT’S YOUR FAULT…BELLA MADISON!!!”
She’s almost shrieking as she speaks, her hate for Bella Madison clear as day.
“Now you seek to take Rue away from me?” Victoria continues, “No. Not you. Never you. You damn nepotism baby. Mommy just had to come to your rescue and give you what you wanted. A match you didn’t deserve. Let me ask you Bella. What did I say to you that was so wrong?”
She cocks an eyebrow, before continuing.
“I was out there, celebrating my win. My victory at Summer Xxxtreme.” Victoria continued, “Are we not allowed to celebrate our wins? Despite our differences, at least Alexandra Calaway accepted her defeat with grace. Mercedes didn’t go crying for a rematch. But you, you just can’t get it through your thick skull that you are NOT better than ME!”
She takes another moment to pause, and regroup herself.
“Worst of all, it’s YOUR ugly face on the poster.” Victoria continued, “I’m the champion! Not you! If not me, At least put an actual champion like Kayla Richards up there or something, but YOU? BELLA MADISON?! Just another case of nepotism, and your need to be noticed. That’s why you had to show up in my match. You just want the attention. I get it, you need to prove to mommy you’re a real Madison. That you really deserve to carry the name. But you’ll fail, come up short like you always do. Never really able to grab the brass ring. You’ve been trying and trying, where I just waltzed in and took it. Now you want to take a shot at the queen. You really want to do this? Fine, but just remember you brought all this upon yourself. Now it’s going to be bye bye beautiful to this invader of my queendom."
Bella ciao Bella ciao, Bella Ciao…the song plays for a moment, with a haunting tone.
“You could have prevented all this.” Victoria continued, “You could have made your penance for your crimes against the queen but you chose violence. So violence it shall be. You have nobody to blame for yourself for the pain I’m about to put you through, for disrespecting me, for causing my first loss and for just being a general unpleasant person. Violent Conduct is indeed the perfect name for this show, because I am angry lioness, and I’m going to tear you apart.”
She looks over to her championship, her Rue, resting in its’ case like it’s the rose from Beauty and the Beast.
“She is gorgeous, isn’t she?” Victoria smiled devilishly, “I understand the allure. But Rue is mine Bella. You can not, and you will not take her from me. I don’t care how blinded you are by vengeance, because you haven’t gotten over the Carter Vs Kasey thing. You’ve been waiting ever since I requested that match to get your paws on me. But your failure at Summer Xxxtreme wasn’t enough. You needed more and now you find yourself here, heading toward your own execution.”
She pauses for a moment, reposturing in her throne.
“This is what happens when you don’t mind your own business.” Victoria continued, “You could have been graceful, you could have shown proper respect. Now it’s far too late for any of that, because your execution has been sealed and there is no going back. I am going to make you wish you had just kissed my feet and accepted that it just wasn’t your turn this time. How selfish can you really be Bella? YOU HAD A CHANCE ALREADY!!"
She screeches again, pauses and recollects herself.
“You really have no idea Bella.” she said, “Nobody yet has crossed me as strong as you have, so perhaps you can be the example.You can be the example of what happens when you cross the queen of SCW. When you disobey proper order and don’t mind your own business. Yeah, I mentioned your little name as someone I defeated on the cruise. Was it not the truth? Where was the lie? We all fought hard, I won and YOU are the only one that can’t accept it. Now it’s just me and you Bella. You will have no excuse when I defeat you this time. Then I can go on to face one of the fine ladies who will actually have EARNED it.”
She smirks, leaning back casually into her dark throne.
“But you’ll be done, humiliated, embarrassed. For all I care you can go be Kaylas problem, or Juliannas. But you and me will be done, and you will be forced to admit that I am not only your queen, but the better woman as well." Victoria went on, "Your fate has been sealed BELLA MADISON, and I’m sorry to say, but it’s not going to play out in your favor. Dark days are ahead of you Bella. I intend to take you to a place where you can find your own inner darkness. Maybe I can pull that darkness out of you and make you actually worth something. Or perhaps like my cousin you will persist to fail again and again because you’re too blinded by the light. The darkness can be beautiful if you embrace it Bella, and embrace it you will. You will feel her warmth, the tender touch of her kiss and then the darkness, my darkness will consume you whole and leave you a broken shell of your former self. Just remember, you only have one person to blame."
She furrows her eyes and scowls.
“BELLA MADISON.” she snarls.
The camera flashes the writings on the wall in rapid succession once more, as the music plays hauntingly again, as everything slowly fades into darkness.
Bella ciao,Bella ciao, Bella ciao
O partigiano
O partigiano
Oh Bella ciao, Bella ciao, Bella ciao
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Buckingham Palace, home to her majesty herself. Queen Camille of course, not Victoria Lyons, the self proclaimed queen of SCW, and as much as she wanted to get into the palace, she remembered how she was accosted in Belgium, and decided the Royal Family simply didn’t deserve her presence. Besides she liked Queen Elizabeth better anyway. King Charles could certainly do better had he chose a real queen like Victoria. Or perhaps she’ll just take out Megan Markle and seduce Prince Harry or something.
No, there was no need. She was her own royal and had her own Queendom, wether her subjects liked it or not. It was getting harder as more and more were turning to rebellion. Even those she had spoke of favorably like Luna Pasilno, and Kayla Richards chose to return her kind words with insults and unkind words. Couldn’t she just have one friend in SCW?
She needed Vincent, those two had been together wherever they went. WWH, Wrestling Coalition PWE, even their short run in OCW. The Lyons Twins were always a package deal. She wasn’t used to being alone without her little brother by her side. She even imagined they could become mixed tag champs together, which was always a childhood dream of theirs.
She had her cousin Alex, but he worked for a different company and seemed to show more loyalty to Alexandra Calaway, even forming his own team with her in PWS. She wasn’t on BAD terms with Alex persay, but they weren’t as good as they used to be. He could probably be convinced to help her out if he thought it was the best thing for himself as well. At the moment though, he was not interested in the whole dual contract thing. Coach Kaiser tended to like keeping his talent in one company anyway. You might see Lyons Den talent in other places, but as PWS was the only place to see Alex or Cleo, SCW was the only place to see Victoria or Eddie.
Eddie. Now he was an interesting one. If push came to shove, he just MIGHT have her back. He was an honorable man who at the end of the day would stand by his family. That’s what good, people did. No matter how far they fall, they always lend a hand to their blood at the end of the day, even the ones they didn’t always like. It was a big maybe, but not as impossible as some might think. It was just about taking advantage of and questioning his honor. Would he really reject a family member, his own blood if they came asking for help? How honorable would that make him if he didn’t?
She shook her head, as she looked through the gates of Buckingham Palace. She needed to figure something out. She didn’t want to deal with another Bella Madison situation, but with rebellion at an all time high she didn’t know what to expect. But Eddie Lyons wasn’t the answer to her problems, and while not impossible he would still be pretty hard to convince.
She wanted her brother. That was really the only way things could be made right again. But where was he? On his little boat trip somewhere. Possibly even crashed on some deserted island, living off snakes and berries turning into some sort of madman….
If only….
Wherever he was, she knew he would return to her one day. Call it that extra sense twins are supposed to have, but she could feel it. Vincent was out there, and he wanted to come home. He wanted to come back to his sister, and take his rightful place by her side. When that would happen, she couldn’t be sure but until then she had to remain strong.
“You’ll return some day brother.” she said to herself, as she turned away from the palace.
Vincent’s absence wasn’t her immediate problem, it was Bella Madison. A problem that she had to solve herself, and solve it she would. Bella was no more than a pest in her eyes, an annoyance. A little girl who needed her mommy to get here. Bella would be handled, and hopefully finally learn her lesson. That you do not cross the queen and get away with it, and that rebellion will not be tolerated.
Bella Madison. Now she was running her vacation. She couldn’t get the insolent whelp out of her mind. She just wanted to enjoy the view, and admire how beautiful Buckingham Palace was, how beautiful London was. But she just couldn’t get BELLA MADISON out of her head. The only way she could now was to execute her, to make her regret her decision to interrupt my sermon.
She was even becoming distracted from her sermons. She had came here to educate the people on the cruel ways of the world. BELLA MADISON had to ruin everything, now she had to ruin Bella. She had to ruin her for good and make damn well sure BELLA MADISON would never even THINK to rebel again.
In fact, the execution of Bella Madison was going to be an example to everyone else just what happens when you do cross a queen, so if one was say Luna, Alexandra, Seleana or Cassie..then they should probably be watching this one with concerned eyes, because one of them was going to be next to feel the wrath of the queen.
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She sits among the shadows with Rue on her shoulder, crossed legged on the floor, surrounded by the candles that illuminated her, and the Bella Madison effigy that stood behind her, composed of old sticks and straw with a paper mask of Bella, eyes stabbed out.
“Bellaaaa, Bellaaaa, “Bellaaaaa” Victoria sang, a darkness filling her eyes, “Oh sweet Bella, I am going to delight in putting an end to you once and for all.”
She hated Bella Madison. She hated her more than anyone. She wanted not just to beat her, but make her suffer. Make her wish she had taken the out, and just kissed her feet. Make her insolent mother weep for putting her own daughter in this situation.
“Laura really is a terrible mother isn’t she Bella?” Victoria giggled, “Perhaps you should blame her for putting you in this position. She will weep for you, and she will regret her decision to give you this opportunity. The one you didn’t deserve.”
Shes snarls, and you can see the hatred among the darkness in her eyes.
“Back of the line.” she continued, “That’s where you should have gone. But here we are. You get to skip the line. You know, Alexandra Calaway also lost at Summer Xxxtreme, but did she get gifted another chance? No, she’s being ford to earn it. You are such a nepobaby and it makes me sick.”
Victoria stands up, and circles the effigy like a hawk, always keeping her dark hateful fixated on it.
“You wanna fight..” she said, a dark twisted smile forming on her face, “Then let’s fight. Let’s get real fucking violent Bella. I will relish each and every scream that escapes your lips as I rip your hair out. I will enjoy licking the tears from your face as I slice your pretty little face open, so I can chase the tears with your blood.”
She rubs her arms together, smiling gleefully, relishing in the thought of torturing Bella.
“Oh sweet Bella.” she continued circling the effigy, “The curator of her own destruction. The designer of her own failure. It was your own anger and desire for revenge that brought you here. But you did not embrace your anger correctly, you let it consume you instead of learning to control it and allow it to make you stronger. Now you head into what will be both the biggest wakeup call and the biggest embarrassment of your entire life.”
As she comes around to the front of the effigy, she holds Rue up to Bellas “face” and taunts her.
“You think you can take her from me?” she hissed, “Just because you ruined my undefeated streak? No. Nobody is taking her. LOOK AT HER!!”
She shoves the belt right into the face of the effigy.
“LOOK!!!” she screamed, “YOU. WILL.NEVER.HAVE.HER.”
She paused, and took a step back, taking a moment to collect herself.
“Easy Victoria…” she muttered, “This is what she wants. She wants you angry and off your game. Don’t you dare give her the satisfaction.”
She shot another hateful gaze at the effigy.
“I am so done with you after this.” she said, “Trust that you won’t want to deal with me again when all this is settled. You WILL learn your lesson and accept your place as one of my inferiors. You will be forced to admit it to yourself that I am your better. You will be forced to admit that I am the queen of SCW, and there is nothing you can do about it.”
She grabs one of the candles and places it below the effigy, letting it ignite into flames.
“Isn’t it beautiful?” she said, smiling at the flames, “A wonderful picture of the pain your about to endure. Oh, I just might burn you if the wheel requests it. Wouldn’t that be fun? Whatever the all powerful wheel dictates, it will be done. Fire, blood, broken limbs. The queen shall execute Bella Madison in whatever fashion the wheel requests of her.”
With a smile, she sits back down to watch the effigy burn, her lips still curled into a twisted smile.
“For now I shall enjoy watching you burn.” she said, “Perhaps the flames will speak to me. Show me some new ways to mutilate you. So many ways imaginable. I wonder Bella, do you think you’d look good in an eyepatch? Which eye is your favorite? The left ot the right. I can be merciful enough to let you keep your favorite.”
She giggled.
“Perhaps.” she said, “Who knows what I’ll end up doing to you, but I know it’ll be fun. I know that you did this to yourself. I know that your mother will regret making this happen. Most of all I suppose, you’ll regret not just kissing my feet when you had the chance. It’s time to say goodbye bella, or should I say..Bella Ciao?”
She sings softly to herself.
“Bella ciao Bella Ciao, Bella ciao ciao ciao..” her voice was surprisingly beautiful and haunting. The girl could have a decent music career if she chose to. But she didn’t chose to be a singer, she chose to continue her family legacy. She chose to come to SCW. Now all she wants is Bellas head on a silver platter, and she plans to take it herself. Bella wanted this fight so the queen is going to give it to her, and make sure she never makes such a stupid decision such as rebellion ever again. May she be an example to all of the suffering that will come your way if you choose to cross the queen.
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She was still feeling lonely, as she walked through the pathways of Hyde Park. She would never admit it of course, her loneliness. She had an image to maintain as the Queen of SCW and it’s reigning and defending Bombshell Roulette Champion. She couldn’t let it be known that she just wanted someone who had her back and helped look out for her best interests.
It had been Bella Madison who caused all of this. The nosy little brat who couldn’t accept her own failure, so she asked to receive another. This one more personal. She had gone too far, interrupting the queens sermon, trying to destroy her throne and then choosing to attack her unprovoked.
She had no other options, Bella Madison was a problem that needed solving. A pest that needed to be swatted, taught a lesson and made an example of. But everyone liked Bella, and the same couldn’t be said for Victoria. Not that she cared much, but having at least one one person on team Victoria would be nice.
Why the hell did Vincent have to leave?
She signed, continuing her stroll through the park, when to her surprise she saw a familiar face, spending his own personal time in the park as well. Her cousin Eddie Lyons who was with his girlfriend Sabrina Woods.
“Eddie!” she called to him with a devious smile as she walked up.
She didn’t catch his eye roll, as she was the last person he wanted to see at this moment.
“Eddie!” she said, “Fancy seeing you here dear cousin. Hello Sabrina.”
Eddie looked at her with an annoyed look.
“Victoria.” he said, “...Something you need?”
She smiled back at him, smile still on her face.
“Well.” she said, “I’ve been thinking. I think we need each other. We need to put our differences aside, and team together as family.”
Eddie laughed to himself.
“And why on earth would I do that?” he asked
“Because we need each other.” said Victoria, “You need me to help guide you and fix your floundering career, so maybe next time you will be fighting for a championship instead of squandering TWO opportunities. I could use you as a member of my queensguard, helping make sure nobody tries to attack the queen unprovoked like Bella Madison."
“So you want me for protection then?” Eddie said.
“No. We could be allies.” said Victoria, “We could even compete for the mix tag titles. It would be great, Victoria and Eddie Lyons. Nobody would be able to stop us.”
“Yeah..I’m good thanks.” said Eddie, rejecting her offer.
“Seriously?” she frowned, “But we’re family. We have to stick together. You’re supposed to have my back over everyone else, isn’t that the honorable thing to do? Be there for family?”
“I mean sure.” Eddie shrugged, “But when said family acts like a complete assgoblin then it changes things a little. I can’t help you with anything until YOU change your attitude and want to truly change. You want to team with me? You need to wake up and find the real Victoria, the one I knew growing up.”
“I AM the real Victoria.” she snarled. “The one you speak of was ordinary and boring so I had to kill her. You should do the same thing. Kill off this weak, boring Eddie Lyons and unleash the animal that you bury inside.”
“I’m not like you.” said Eddie, “I’ve always been the real Eddie Lyons. I know who I am.”
‘So you wish to remain weak.” she said, “I should have figured. I know there’s a vicious animal buried inside you. You just need to unleash it. Like I did, like Alex did. Like Vincent once did. We are LYONS, and it’s time you truly unleashed yours. Or at least allowed it to grow from a little cub.”
Eddie sighed.
“See, thats the problem.” said Eddie, “You come to me, in my private time with my girlfriend asking for an alliance, and when I’m not interested. It’s straight to the insults. I won’t align with you, not while you’re like this. You just want power, someone who will do your bidding. You want me for your own personal gain, it’s always about you. If you truly want MY support, you have to convince me it would be about US. Then maybe I’d think about it.”
“I should have known.” she said, “I should have known you’d be so weak minded. Alexander Raven is right about you. You will never learn. You cling so tightly so things like honor that don’t even matter. Do you know how DANGEROUS you could be if you let all that go? You might be the most dangerous man on the roster. Right now you’re just…average.”
“I’ll be fine.” said Eddie.
“We’ll see.” Victoria smirked, “In any case. This was a waste of my time. I should have known better than to come to you. I knew you were still blind. How about you come to ME, when you finally open your eyes?”
“Yeah sure thing.” Eddie said with compete disinterest, "Anyway, Good luck with Bella Madison.”
Victoria scowled.
“Don’t say THAT name in my presence, and she’s the one who needs luck.” she hissed. "You’ll see. You’ll ALL see. BELLA MADISON will be dealt with, she will be made an example of. Watch it close Eddie, because maybe it’ll open your eyes to the truth. I am going to do unimaginable things to Bella for her transgressions. She should have never stepped to me. BELLA MADISON is an ugly little rat faced Nepobaby. I HATE HER!!!! I HATE HER!!!
Eddie and Sabrina both look at each other eyebrows raised as Victoria starts to lost her cool some.
“Bella Madison?” he said with a cheeky grin, looking at Sabrina who smiled.
“I HATE BELLA MADISON!!” she shrieked, “I HATE HER!! I HATE HER!”
She glared at Eddie, then at Sabrina before stomping off angrily, hands on her head, quietly muttering to herself.
“Bellabellabellabellabellabelabella.” she muttered Bellas name rapidly.
She didn’t turn back to see Eddie or his stupid girlfriend. He didn’t want an alliance, fine. But he had reminded her of the ultimate goal. Her ultimate goal.
The execution of Bella Madison.
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A video opens the scene, replaying the fight between Bella and Victoria from a few weeks ago, carefully edited to make Bella seem like the aggressor. As it replayed her laying shots into Victoria, we can hear Victorias haunting singing voice again over it.
“And who are you, the brave lady said, that I should bow so low?” she sang, “Only a cat of a different coat, that’s all the truth I know. In a coat of gold, or coat of red a lion still has claws. And mine are long and sharp like yours, as sharp as yours my queen…”
We get a jarring cut to Victoria sitting with her championship among the ashes of the effigy she had burned earlier. She smiles devilishly at the camera.
“I have to be honest.” she said, “I do admire your bravery. Or perhaps it’s just stupidity. But you stood up to me, your queen. There is something admirable about it. You tried Bella, you really did. You should take this execution in pride. They’ll hail you as one of their heroes. But like all heroes, you will meet your end.”
She looks down at her sweet Rue as she continues.
“I know you all think I’m heartless.” she smirked, “But I promise you I do. I have a black heart that beats for you Bella. It yearns for your blood, and it will get it. But fear not, for the songs they shall write about you will be remembered for decades. Bella The Brave the’ll call you. A stark reminder of true bravery, but also a stark reminder of when that bravery can be misplaced. You chose the wrong time to rebel Bella, as brave as it might make you. I am the WRONG queen to rebel against."
She glares into the camera, tired of the poison Bella has infected her mind with the past few weeks. The only cure was to put an end to Bella, and prove her own dominance.
“I will rid my mind of you BELLA MADISON.” she said with gritted teeth. “You will be remembered, but that’s all you will be. A memory. Because I’m sick of your damn face, so I’m going to be scarring it. I might go Iron Mike on you and bite off an ear. Who knows. I just know I’m going to make you wish you never crossed me. I’m going to make sure others bear witness to what happens. I am Victoria Lyons, and I am the queen of SCW and I am your Bombshell Roulette Champion, and NOBODY is taking any of that from me. Especially not BELLA MADISON.
She glares into the camera, as we jarringly cut back to the fight, this time edited to make Victoria the aggressor, ending with a shot of a cutout of Bella’s face among the ashes Victoria was sitting in, we can hear her singing as the scene fades to black.
“And so she spoke…and so she spoke.” she sang, “The lady of Madison….but now the rains weep o’er her halls, without a soul to hear….without a soul to hear.”
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