Made for this
”Oh shit”
Aiden winced. And shook his head. It was the end of his first day of training. He arrived home after the long drive, he went to get out of the car and felt it. A pain of pain that shot straight through his entire body. He closed his eyes swallowed hard and pushed through standing up as he tried to ignore it.
He shuffled up the concrete path toward his house. The street was quiet, only some faint sounds of cars driving along the highway behind behind Aidan’s house could be heard. He grabbed his keys opening the door and stepping inside softly trying not to wake anyone in the house. Knowing that his parents were probably asleep and the same with his siblings. he closed the door behind him and made his way through the kitchen trying to tiptoe as shocks of pain rang through his body with each step.
He moved over to the fridge opening the freezer and grabbing out a ice pack. He took a deep breath and turned getting ready to go to his bedroom when the light flicked on. Aidan looked up seeing his mother standing in the doorway. Her arms were folded over her chest and she shook her head looking Aiden up and down. And what a sight he must’ve been. Covered in bruises and abrasions. ”Aiden! What happened?”
She fussed over him. Stepping forward and grabbing his arm leading him over to the kitchen table. She forced him to sit down and started looking over him. Noticing a few discoloured patches on his face and neck looking over his shoulders and his upper back seeing the large red and purple marks that had started to fall. Aiden shook his head and looked up at her with a bemused smirk. ”I’m ok, it’s just some bruises” The young man couldn’t help it laugh as he grabbed the ice pack and put it on the back of his neck. He was in pain, he was sore and now knew what he was getting into. But he was loving it.
”Just some bruises?” she repeated with raised eyebrows as she kept studying her son. He swallowed heart and pushed the ice pack harder against the back of his neck. His mother took a deep breath and sat back. ”Well, I was going to ask how your first day training went but I can see how it went by how you’re moving and all of these bruises that you seem to just shrug off like they’re nothing”
”Mum…” Aiden grounded and shook his head.
She put her hands up and sighed ”Oh but what do I know? I just worked as a nurse for years.”
He couldn’t help but roll his eyes. He tried to make it less obvious than it ended up being. He took a flustered breath showing some frustration with his mothers worrying over him. ”I’ll be fine. It’s all part of learning” He winced again, holding his ribs as he felt a stabbing shot in his side.
His mother shook her head and sighed heavily. ”Are you sure you want to do this? There is no shame in trying something and then realising it’s not for you. Or admitting that your body can’t hold up to it.” Her hand moved across the table and grabbed Aiden’s hand, she gave it a squeeze and rubbed her thumb across the back of his hand with a smile. ”You can still get into university and get a degree…”
Aiden took a deep breath in, a sharp inhale, he pushed it out and drowned before shaking his head and sliding his hand back. ”You want me to give up? Is that how you raised me? You and Dad constantly talk about following your dreams and putting 100% into everything you do. So after one training session, one session where I come home and I’m sore because I did put 100% into it. You’re telling me I should quit?” He pauses and shakes his head again, he was clearly upset by the turn of events and the conversation. ”This is my dream and it’s what I want to do. Can’t you just be happy for me that I’m trying? Can’t you be supportive?”
His mother sat there for a moment, her eyes softened as she seem to be deep in contemplation about everything that her son had laid out in front of her. She took a deep breath nodding slowly before reaching over and taking his hand again this time pulling his hand forward and forcing Aiden to look in her eyes.”I’m sorry…” Aiden looked up, his mother smiled wider ”You’re right. You deserve support and understanding…. I just don’t like to see you in a pain.”
Aiden took a deep breath and laughed to himself before standing up ”I understand. And I get it. I love you too, Mum. But you have to let me do this. And I’ll even let you worry about me. They smiled at one another. He took a deep breath and moved past his mother going down the hallway toward his bedroom. Ready to lay down and relax. His mind they are racing with all the things that he learned and the determination to get better.
Australian Underground
”Bloody hell what a rush”
Aiden Reynolds, the current sin city wrestling roulette champion. He stands with a beer in one hand and the roulette championship in the other as he takes a deep breath with a smile on his face.
”I swear to God, part of me didn’t think I’d be able to beat Alexandra Raven. See, everyone knows how good Alexandra Raven is. He is someone who should have been the world champion at least once. Someone who has taken the fight to some of the best this company has ever seen. he should’ve been the one going after Finn Whelan, he should have been at the top of the garden in the main event. And I mean that wholeheartedly. Nine times out of 10, the way I am now, Alexandra Raven beats me. As good as I know I can be I have a lot of growing to do in this company. And someone like him should have been a world champion instead of being in the roulette division.”
“But with that being said I was still able to beat him. At the biggest show of the year when push came to shove I was the one who had my hand raised high and I was the one who walked out of the roulette champion. Of course Alexandra is taking so much deserved and well earned time off and I’m going to be the one waving the roulette flag from here on out. and what a flag waving it will be. You see, I failed at my first run with this championship.”
“I don’t think that’s a controversial thing to say.”
“Hell, you all sort it. I beat Eddie Lyons and became the roulette champion. And I had intentions of trying to do the championship proud. Especially since Eddie was good enough to hold that championship and make it a prize worth chasing. But, two weeks after I won the damn thing Alexander Raven beat me for it. there was no excuses, he was just a better man. And every time I had a shot at getting it or a shot at becoming something more than just a name on the roster I failed. That is until high stakes.”
Aiden took a sip of his beer and sighed heavily
”And now i’m left with a new task. I get a second shot at making sure this championship becomes synonymous with my name. And another shot at red redemption. Now, I’m not the smartest guy in the world and I’m also not someone who believes in any sort of higher power. But if there is a higher power and I’ve been allowed to have this second chance at becoming the roulette champion and doing the championship proud then I’m going to take it with both hands and I’m not going to look back”
“But first, before I look at defending this championship against anyone who comes for me, I have to get past Daniel J Morgan. A member of London Underground. One of the best tagteam styled stables in the history of this company.”
“Daniel was 1/2 of the tagteam champions as well as being a member of London Underground while they were the first mixed tagteam champions. You don’t stumble across that kind of success by accident.”
“But, I know a thing or two about being a tag team champion. In fact that’s all people thought I was for a time. They thought I was a tag team guy. Myself and my tagteam partner Dickie Watson, the younger brother of Finn Whalen were one of the best tag teams going known as the Commonwealth. And we were one of the best teams in the world. However, I was sick and tired of being looked at as just his partner. And I’ve done everything I can to get success as a singles restless since then and I’d like to think I’ve done a good job holding a world championship in one company and then coming here to become the roulette champion not once but twice.”
Aiden smiles slowly
”With that being said I don’t want the narrative to get twisted here. I am not disregarding Daniel Morgan and his success nor am I saying that he isn’t able to beat Me because most of his success has come to tag team. Because that is simply not the case. anyone can beat anyone on their day and Daniel you are someone who should be respected and looked at as a possible champion. And now that you’ve come back to the fold and you are walking around with the rest of the members of London Underground. as well as Crystal Zdunich… then it’s safe to assume you are going to be making a good run in this company once again”
“But, i’m not going to stand here and disagree with the fact that you’re a threat. Because you are. And my championship isn’t on the line but I also know that if you beat the champion you should earn a championship match. So as we close out 2024 and as I hold the roulette championship, I know that you are going to be getting ready to try and beat me to earn a shot at the roulette title. and I need to keep my momentum going.”
“Momentum is a hell of a thing”
“And closing out this year with the wind will do so much for my confidence and for my momentum going into next year. Going in with a win over someone like you and being the roulette champion ball just snowball into 2025 being a year that I’ll never forget. I need to beat you Daniel,, I need to be able to keep going with the momentum that started when I was able to beat Alexandra Raven.And I have nothing against you, I don’t dislike you, I don’t even know you. But I am going to do everything in my power for the final show of the year to walk out as a winner. And it’s up to you to stop me.