Hollywood Hills, California
Zdunich Estate
Despite living in such a large extravagant home that only a movie star could live in there was a void that was left in this luxurious estate. Crystal Zdunich had felt empty. Just a few weeks ago Crystal would be screaming out her submission on Climax Control as her wife Seleana Zdunich beat her yet again but to make matters worse. The woman who she thought was her best friend in the form of Mercedes Vargas had been taking verbal shots at her, making her choose between Fire & Fury and her wife Seleana. As much as she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, she knew at some point she would have to make a decision and it would be one that would affect her life in the immediate future. The only thing that Crystal did feel is that she hated feeling alone. It had been forever since she got to spend time with her spouse and with the current misfortunes inside of the wrestling ring Vargas didn’t want anything to do with her either.
Crystal sat alone in the living room watching television in her Christmas pajamas. She held a cup of hot chocolate in her hand and offered a long sigh as she held the remote control in her hands.
Crystal: Why is there never anything to watch?! I hate being alone for the holdays…
Before anything else could happen the chime of her doorbell could be heard all throughout her house. Crystal raised her eyes in disbelief not really expecting to have any company but she quickly stood up as she walked over to the front door. She opens it and is shocked when she sees the woman that is standing in her entrance.
Crystal: What the hell are you doing here?!
Zelda: It’s the Christmas season and you are obviously feeling alone. I figured I would be doing my duty of community service if I gave back to the needy, and it’s apparent that you definitely need me. You don’t have a spouse to share this home with and you certainly don’t have a best friend because I don’t know what you call Vargas but she is not YOUR best friend because that’s me!
Crystal just stares at Zelda blankly as she shrugs her shoulders at her.
Crystal: I really don’t understand you though. I appreciate you showing up but I really don’t understand?!
Zelda Knite was the long time best friend of Crystal Zdunich and at one point former tag team partner. It had been a long time since the two of them had spoken with one another but with Crystal feeling at her complete lowest and having nowhere to turn, this is when Zelda had decided to show up. Zelda just crossed her arms as she walked inside of the empty Hollywood Hills home. The video gaming nerd looked deeply into Crystal’s eyes as she took a seat on her couch.
Zelda: So what is going on with you Christina?! For as long as I have known you Crystal you should be at the happiest that you have ever been in a long time. You have waited so long to finally be on top of the wrestling world again. You are the best of the best but lately it just seems like you don’t have anything to smile over. That’s not like you.
Crystal: I really want to smile and I thought that winning the title would bring a smile on my face but lately it just seems like that isn’t even the case. I am at a loss of words because I don’t know in which direction I should take my life in. I want to be the best champion I can be. Everybody knows how much my wrestling career means to me. It’s always everything to me but lately I keep feeling that my professional career isn’t bringing the smile to my face as I thought it would. It’s not filling in the void that has been empty since my wife has left the home, and I don’t even want to touch on Mercedes.
Zelda looks back over at Crystal as she just shrugs her shoulders back at the Latina woman. She quickly shakes her head as she replies abc to her.
Zelda: If I can be completely honest you shouldn’t be worried about those things and I saw what Mercedes has been saying. As much as you wish to value her and her opinions she isn’t your best friend nor is she really looking in your best interests. She is supposed to be your tag team partner but she is giving you ultimatums as if her word is important. A real best friend wouldn’t make you choose between your career and your marriage. Only a selfish person would try to put that on you. I don’t even know why you want to hold onto Mercedes for so long. At the end of the day she is only looking out for what is in her best interests. She’s using you just to further her own useless career. Maybe at a point she helped you along the way but when you put your mind to things you know you can accomplish anything!
Crystal nods her head as she looks back at Zelda:
Crystal: I guess you have a point… Somewhere in my brain I know being paired with her is the wrong decision. I know my mind should solely be on trying to make things right with the wife but I just can’t shake the feeling that I am going to make the wrong decision no matter what I decide.
Zelda nods her head.
Zelda: You got that right, nothing you decide will be the right decision but think about things from a logical standpoint. What is more important to you in your life. Is it a piece of championship gold or is it your marriage?! Now before you answer that question a true best friend like myself would never even question you on such a ridiculous thing. Everybody knows that championships in wrestling will come and go. You can always go about and just win yourself another one. Hasn’t that been your story for like twenty four different occasions.
Crystal: Maybe it’s more like twenty five but who is honestly counting?!
Zelda just looks at Crystal shaking her head at her as she sighs in disbelief.
Zelda: You really weren’t supposed to answer that. I am trying to get it as it’s in plain sight that Mercedes is a leech. She’s a woman that wants to use you. Use you to get what she wants, which is getting a piece of relevancy.She may have had that when she was the Internet Champion but since then you have really taken off and she doesn’t mind stepping on you to get what she wants. I know you are a woman who loves to constantly wear her heart on her sleeves but I want you to think over what I said. Vargas is not what is in your best interest. She wasn’t in NCW, she wasn’t in 3WL, and she certainly is not in modern day SCW. I know your wife has been telling you this but you are the only one who needs to see it for yourself.
Crystal: Maybe you are on to something.
Zelda: Crystal don’t be such a goomba. Let’s really look at the facts. You have had a peaceful marriage until you started talking to Mercedes. The moment that you started to let her enter your life is the moment that things started to go astray for you. It’s the moment that Seleana walked out and it’s the moment where you lost everything that you felt was important to you. I could go on and on but at the end of the day you already know what you need the most. You know the decision you need to make but you need to see it for yourself. Once you make that decision you can finally be happy with where things are going to go.
Crystal thinks about it as she forms a wicked grin and looks right into the eyes of her best friend. Zelda cracks a grin in return as she nods her head.
Crystal: Thank you so much Zelda, I honestly don’t know where I would be if I didn’t have you in my life.
Zelda: Probably relapsing on the street somewhere or being pimped out in the back of a car.
Crystal: …
Zelda: What?! It’s a joke… Listen, just be happy that I came here to talk to you. At the end of the day it’s always about every man’s fantasy and nothing, and nobody can ever replace the best friendship that the two of us have. Now I didn’t come all the way from Texas just to talk. Let’s spend time as best friends should. I do believe we have some video gaming to catch up on, and I bought my joy cons. Hopefully you aren’t that pitiful in Mario Party…
Crystal: Oh it’s on but I have gotten a lot better since the last time the two of us played.
With that the two women just smile at one another as we slowly fade out on this image.
I know it won’t be that long until Inception is upon us and honestly I don’t know how to feel about the match up that I am going to be participating in. No matter what happens I know for a fact that it sucks to be in this position that I am in. it’s going to be Mercedes and I taking on my wife Seleana and her sister Zenna in a tag team match. If I get pinned or submitted then whoever pins me will walk away with the World Bombshell Championship. This is a very unique situation for me because no matter what happens I feel like I am going to walk away as a loser.
I love being the World Bombshell Championship. Winning it for a record breaking and setting sixth time is a feeling that can’t ever be replaced. I poured everything into finally going about and winning the championship but what hurts more than that is now in order to really get through one of my first defenses I need to go through my wife in order to do so. In addition she will be teaming up with my sponsor in the form of my sister in-law. I am not going to lie or bite my tongue. I don’t like being in this situation.
I don’t like it at all. I also don’t appreciate that my supposed partner and best friend is trying to push me to do things that I really don’t want to do. Mercedes the two of us have known each other for a very long time. We have been there through the worst of times and we damn sure have been through the best of times as well. You are the oldest person that I have known in this industry and when everybody gave up on me and told me I was worthless and didn’t have it in me anymore. You kept pushing me to do better.
You were high and mighty on your pedestal as the Internet Champion and you gave me the motivation that I could maybe pick myself back up and make something of my career again. On paper that all sounded good and you were my biggest advocate but that seems to have changed when you lost your title and now I am the one standing tall as the World Bombshell Champion. I possess the title that makes me the best out of all the females on the roster and I know I have a big target on my back.
Lately it just seems like instead of being my biggest supporter you have been taking verbal shots at me. I would be a fool if I didn’t read between the lines and listen to comments such as the Zdunichs are thinking that everything revolves around them, and you don’t want the World Championship scene to be one marriage dispute.
I know when you are using the term Zdunich even though I have been competing under the name of Caldwell that you are including me in the mix. I would be living under a rock if I didn’t see what you are really all about. The entire world keeps telling me what would happen if the focus wasn’t on Vargas anymore. What would happen if I was the one with the title and you are the one that doesn’t have anything?
It seems we are living in that situation right now and what I do know to be true is that I am not a weak individual. I am not going to listen to your ultimatums and have you question me on why I lost to Seleana and trying to put down my wife as if she is trash. Have I ever beaten her in the ring?!
No, I haven’t beaten her in a one on one match ever. She has always gotten the better of me. She has submitted me twice and beat me in that chain match. Maybe people can claim that I had an off night but the truth is as much as everybody loves to talk down my wife. She is not the prized little trophy wife that can’t do anything.
I taught Seleana everything she knows in that ring. She knows me like an open book and there’s a woman who when pushed can do so much. She can beat just about anything when she really puts her mind to it. You don’t have to sit on your high horse and question if the old Crystal Hilton is going to come out and fight like this match means anything.
Of course I am going to fight; of course I am going to show out because that’s what I do. It’s what I always do and I owe it to the people who pay good money to put on the show of a lifetime. Whether it’s booing me to get my ass kicked or if they actually want me to win. I need to go out there and fight to my heart’s content because I poured so much into winning the title but now I need to show that I can also defend it.
I don’t need YOU of all people questioning me if I know what I need to do. Instead of trying to stir something up what I do need from you is let’s keep all of this professional and not personal. I am trying to get back with my wife and I would appreciate if nothing else comes in the way of that. If I can be honest the reason why Seleana and I are separated to begin with is because of YOU. She thought I was sleeping with you and I just let it go.
Now I am at a point where I won’t let anything go and I know what I want and I know who I want. Seleana is the most important treasure in my life. She sees me in ways that others don’t see me and I need to prove to her that the woman she fell in love with is not gone. If that means preparing myself to be at my best and to not hold back so be it.
I am tired of being on the losing side and it’s time I fight for what my heart really wants. Zenna as much as we have gotten into it on numerous occasions I see you for what you are. You are a sister who would do anything to protect her sister. Right now you don’t know if I could be trusted and seeing as you are my sponsor I know you see certain tendencies that might make you think I am using again.
Let me explain something, yes I am on a drug, but the type of drug that I am addicted to is your sister Seleana. She is MY drug, she is the mother bear to my children and I am longing to do whatever it takes to get that back. I won’t let you come in the way of me getting my life back on track and definitely the life that was meant for me to build with your sister.
Everybody wants me to make me a target. Everybody wants my title and by all means if it’s the title you want so badly then you better come after me and give everything you have in order to grab it.
Rest assured though no matter if you have gotten better. No matter if you are a spouse, or a sponsor, or even my best friend. When I walk into that ring it’s as the champion and I plan to do whatever it takes to leave as a champion.
So bring it on, give me all the smoke and I will show that I can handle all the pressure that everybody throws at me. Come Inception Fire & Fury will get past Wild Side and when that’s over I will be looking towards the future and continuing the legacy of being the best damn champion in this company. See all of you soon.