[Crystal Zdunich]

Knotts Berry farm
Buena Park, California

Finally after months of being separated from her wife and not in communication with her Crystal through the help of her kids Brayden and Brittany was able to send a message to Seleana and now she was allowed to see her fourteen year old Aurora, and her younger son Elijah Zdunich. Climax Control would be upon them for a very special Halloween edition at this very park but today Crystal was able to make a family day out of her free time. The three of them had already spent the day riding on various roller coasters and other rides but now it was lunch time and they found themselves in the concessions area where they were all enjoying some snacks. Elijah had an ice cream cone in his hands whereas Aurora was eating chicken tenders and french fries. Crystal just sat there taking a sip of a frozen lemonade as her daughter smiled at her.

Aurora: This is so awesome. I am so happy that we can finally spend time with one another. It feels like it has been forever.

Elijah: I miss you mom! I want to see you everyday. It’s not the same when you aren’t there.

Crystal just sighs in return as she keeps her eyes locked on her two youngest. Even though she and Seleana had their share of problems, all of this just felt right to her. She had missed her children and to just have a day with them meant the entire world to her. A few tears fell from her eyes as she looked back at the two.

Crystal: I know, it really has been a while hasn’t it. I think I missed you both even more. You don’t have any idea at how much both of you mean to me. You both along with Brittany and Brayden are the most important people in my life. Without you my entire world would fall apart. I am so sorry that things aren’t good right now but I promise that I am going to do everything in my power to make it better especially when it comes to you Aurora. Next month you are turning 15 and I am going to make sure you have the biggest quinceanera that a girl could ever have. It’s going to be your personal dream come true.

Crystal lets more tears fall from out of her eyes as she keeps looking at the teenage girl.

Crystal: I remember when your mother was on her death bed suffering from cancer. I made a promise that I would take care of you. I would be there for you and I would always protect you. As a little girl of Mexican descent there’s things I want you to have that I didn’t have growing up. I just want the best for you.

Aurora just keeps her eyes locked on her mother as Elijah seems too busy taking licks of his ice cream cone. She leans over and rests her head against Crystal.

Aurora: You don’t have to say anything else. I love you, even before you decided to adopt me you were my hero when I was watching you as an amazing wrestler. What was really special was when you were working for the Golden Ring Casino as the coordinator and you went out of your way to help my mother and I. I will never forget that and I am proud to have you in my life as my mother. I know that Elijah feels the same exact way, isn’t that right Elijah.

Elijah: Yes! You are the best mom, and this ice cream tastes so good!

The little boy is all smiles as he happily eats away at his cone but Aurora looks over at her mother who just seems to be uneasy about everything. Crystal can’t even look back at her daughter but the fourteen year old just reaches into a back pack and pulls out an i-pad and gives it to her little brother along with a pair of headphones.

Aurora: If you don’t mind Elijah why don’t you watch one of your favorite shows.

The little boy nods his head as his mind is more so on his i-pad and with the headphones over her ears he is tuned out from the rest of the world. Meanwhile Aurora looks over at her mother as she sighs back in return.

Aurora: Mom can I ask you a few questions and I want you to be completely honest with me. Please don’t lie.

Crystal: Aurora, I wouldn’t dare to lie to you. I know I have made so many mistakes but I don’t want to ever feel like I can’t be honest to you.

Aurora: I know you love your wrestling career so much. I know you are very passionate about everything that you do. I just want to know if your wrestling career and winning a World Championship means more to you than Elijah, mama Sel, and I.

Crystal’s eyes opened wide up as she couldn’t believe that her daughter had asked that.

Crystal: Of course not, what would even make you say something like that?! Did Seleana say something about me since the two of us haven’t really been seeing one another lately?!

Aurora quickly shakes her head as she looks back at Crystal.

Aurora: She didn’t say anything but I just thought of it all because you hadn’t been home. To be honest I am not that stupid mom. I know when something is going on. I know I may only be fourteen and am turning fifteen but I know a lot. To be honest the only thing that momma Sel has been saying is that she hopes that you would one day come back home and that she misses you so much.

Crystal: So she didn’t say anything bad about me at all?!

Aurora: No. She is holding onto the hope that you two would come back to one another. She thought about hiding all of the things that you bought her as a way to try to show that she doesn’t care but deep down she is hurting. I knew something was up when she tried to stop us from watching your match with one another at the last super card. I had to see what you were doing because I hadn’t seen you in months, and I saw that you and Mercedes were beating down Seleana. I don’t understand how you could do such a thing.

Crystal feels very dejected as she just sighs in disbelief. The little girl just shakes her head as she watches Crystal try to speak.

Crystal: Pumpkin, I can explain myself, I…

Aurora: You don’t have to say anything. Like I said I am not really as naive as you both think I am. I know when something is wrong. If I can be honest I feel like everything was starting to get messed up when you tried to bring Diamond Caldwell into your marriage. Mama Diamond is good but I don’t know why you could bring yourself to break Seleana’s heart a second time…

Crystal: I am not breaking her heart! You want me to be honest with you Aurora. I love Seleana. I have ALWAYS loved her. I am afraid that we actually have a great thing going and I don’t know how to react to it. My entire life has been filled with broken marriages, and I have always been in a place where I was nothing more than a prized possession or a trophy to somebody else. It happened with T-Will, it happened with Jonathan Millar, it happened with Steve Awesome, and so many more. I look at Seleana and I can’t believe that we have been married for seven years.

Crystal let’s more tears flow from her cheeks as she continues to share more of her heart.

Crystal: Seven years of just being there for me. Seven years of letting me live out my dream and not once has she ever done anything to try to break my heart but on the other side of the coin I feel like I have been doing the opposite. I brought somebody else into our marriage. I made so many mistakes… The truth is I don’t deserve her and I never did. She is the biggest blessing that I could have ever received. One that’s way too good for me. All I do is take, take, take, but she just smiles.

More tears leave her eyes.

Crystal: I love that woman, and you want me to be truthful Aurora?! I didn’t even forget our anniversary. I woke up that day and was shocked that we were married for seven years. I have never been attached to someone for that long in a marriage, and I have never had anybody that was really that much into me in the same way but she is. I don’t do emotions and feelings well, and the thought of actually waking up and feeling that I found my soulmate scares me to no end. Instead of dealing with those emotions I would rather run… I don’t want people making assumptions that I love Mercedes, or that I am doing drugs, or even picking up on alcohol again. The truth is I am just scared and I really want to be able to love Seleana in the same way that she loves me…

Aurora smiles as she nods at her mother.

Aurora: Thank you, doesn’t it feel good to actually admit the truth?! That’s all Seleana could ever ask from you. That’s all me and Elijah need. They just want you to be truthful. It’s okay to be afraid and have emotions. That’s what makes us humans, and that’s what made me look up to you in the first place. When I was choosing my favorite wrestler it had nothing to do with you being an actress or having a bad attitude. It’s the fact that when you really put your mind to something you put all of your emotions into using your heart to achieve what you wanted. That’s all we could ever ask from you. Focus on your heart, and let that be your guide to get you where it needs to get you.

Aurora smirks as she watches her mother cry but she continues to speak her heart.

Aurora: Don’t try to force something you aren’t. Also not everybody is out to be jealous of you mom. There are people that want to see you succeed and they want to celebrate WITH you not stand there and be against you. I am going to be honest. I don’t trust Mercedes for a second. I know she’s a great wrestler but you two have never gotten along. It’s easy for her to be on your side for now but if for some reason you do get back to the place of being on top like you were all of those years ago. Will she still be happy being next to you knowing she is now a step behind because you are the best again.

Crystal: I never really looked at things like that before.

Aurora: It’s just something to think about. On top of that I was scared of things as well. There was a part of me that thought I may never see Juliet again. She’s my best friend but Kate Steele seems to be your friend, and if you and Seleana aren’t together what are the chances that I could end up seeing Kate’s daughter and hanging out?!

Crystal: I would never let that happen. Even if Seleana and I weren’t together I would never let that have an impact on you the children. I love you too much for that to happen. Which is why I want you to have that big 15th Birthday and I want all of your friends to be there.

Aurora keeps her eyes locked on Crystal as she nods.

Aurora: I want it too but on one condition. You need to plan it with mama Seleana. If you and her can’t work together on it, then you can forget me even having a party.

Crystal thinks about it. It had been ages since she really spoke to Seleana. She just sighs as she nods her head in agreement.

Crystal: Fine… But I don’t even know if she will want to work on this together… Let’s not talk about that anymore. Let’s just focus on having this family day together. It’s been a while since i bonded with you both.

Aurora nods as she continues to eat her lunch. She takes Elijah’s headphones off, and the three of them just enjoy their fun day together as we leave on this image.






   

You ever feel like you are doing exactly everything you could have ever imagined but you still know that there’s one thing left to do?! If I can be honest I feel like I have so much relief knowing that I was able to get past Alexandra last week. When I first came back to SCW a few months ago there was two women who I had major issues with one of them was Alexandra and the other one was Bella Madison. As of last week I took care of one but now the woman who scares me the most out of everybody in SCW is going to be standing across from me inside of the ring.

Bella Madison and I are going to be in the ring with one another and the winner will receive the ultimate prize. They will earn a one way trip to competing at the biggest show of the year and will be wrestling for the very chance to be the World Bombshell Championship in a main event level of a match.

I feel like I have been through so much in SCW. It’s been five years since I have been relevant. Five years since I was in a position where I could honestly say that I was in a place where I could rule over the company as the best of the best. Now I can see my future as clear as day and it’s hanging right in front of me. the only thing that I need to do is get past Bella Madison and everything I could have ever wanted and hope for could be mine.

This journey to get to where I am has been a somewhat hard journey. Getting through Harper may have been an easy step if I can be honest but to see her refereeing my last match had caused me to be concerned. Although I never thought she would call my match down the middle after threatening to screw me out of a championship match but after seeing that she would be next in line for my friend’s Internet Championship I realized that it was never about me but it was about getting something she wanted.

Whatever the case I was able to get past Alexandra and with one of my biggest rivals behind me now I will have to deal with the woman who has been my biggest threat to my career within the last five years. I know some might be confused as to why I feel Bella might be a threat but this seems like the perfect time to take a stroll down memory back.

It was on November 20th 2022 in Anaheim California. On that night Bella Madison and I were scheduled for a no disqualification match with one another on Climax Control. I will openly admit and state that I really wasn’t the nicest person at the time. I got on everybody’s nerves. I pissed everybody off. I paraded around dressed up under a mask as La Rosa Ardiente…

It’s was definitely something that annoyed people and they just wanted me to stay away. When it came time for me to take on Bella Madison something snapped within her. She became super aggressive. She got super pissed off and she beat the unholy hell out of me. She hit me with not one, not two, but eleven of her Ashes to Ashes DDT on a chair. It was clear that I couldn’t even defend myself from how badly that Bella beat me up but it’s not like she cared.

She went out of her way just to break me and she used me to try to send a message to Kayla Richards who was the Internet Champion at the time. I felt embarrassed that things had gotten that rough for me. I suffered a concussion on that night, and to add even more insult to injury. Bella was the one driving my ambulance to the hospital.

I know that I probably deserved everything that came in my direction. It’s what I got for always doing the bare minimum, for not taking my job as an SCW bombshell seriously and for wasting people’s time. Maybe that was the only way that things should have ended but that wasn’t the worst of the situation.

What made everything worse was the fact that my daughter Aurora had to see me like that. I didn’t appreciate being forced to be in a hospital on my birthday and of course during Thanksgiving. On top of that I didn’t like that SCW had decided to fire me and I was left without a job.

Over the Christmas break I plotted how I would find a way to get back at Bella Madison and how I would get my job back in SCW. I didn’t have a contract and that’s when there was an open invitational match for the Roulette match. I made my decision that I would take part in that match and especially since Bella was originally supposed to be in that match.

However as the match drew nearer I noticed that she wasn’t going to be in that match and that’s when we found out that she was pregnant. Of course I won that match and took home the Roulette Championship getting my job back but I just didn’t get my hands on Bella.

Bella taking me out and putting me on the shelf was nearly three years ago and I still haven’t moved on beyond that incident. Bella has gotten the better of me. Whenever the two of us are in the ring with one another she always seems to have my number.

I look at Bella and I have come to the realization that the two of us are women who are cut from the same coin. We both are second generation wrestlers who were born and prepared for this moment. The differences being that I didn’t give a damn on what I had to do to get to where I am. I often would be cutthroat to friends and be somebody who used people which included her own wife to get to where she wanted to be. Bella on the other hand is an individual that people have always respected. She is a woman who is adored by all and has done things in the right way.

As much as I despise this woman and what she stands for, I honestly can’t help but say that I actually admire her and am envious of the woman that she is. I wish I could be the caring and compassionate mother that she is. I wish I could be less self-centered and more focused on just being a better human being. This is where we are different.

Also when it comes to Bella she is a woman who has been consistent as much as I have been inconsistent for the past few years. She has been part of the new breed of SCW talent that has been holding down the Bombshell division. She has made it this far and I would say getting past a red hot Victoria Lyons makes her one of the biggest threats in all of this company. I know she wants this World title match and she feels like I am the last hurdle to get there.

That it where we differ though, she may want the moment but damn it I NEED the moment. This is what I live for and this is the very thing that has made me come back to SCW. You may have wiped the floor with me three years ago. You forced me to take that ride in the ambulance and you put me on the shelf but the very thing you have been wanting since I first met you is the very exact thing that you are going to get, and I doubt you will be able to handle it.

You are going to get a very active Crystal Hilton. The Crystal who you complained didn’t give a shit, and was just here to take up a roster space. Guess what Bella?!

After working hard in these last two matches I am finally in a place where I can say that she is officially back. You won't be in the ring with the Crystal that has been wrestling without a purpose for the last five years but you will be in the ring with the woman who lived on being the single female focal point of this company.

With every passing match I feel like I am getting closer and closer to who I used to be. I feel like that I am back to top form and I just need to work out a few more kinks and I will be exactly where I need to be. I know it might be hard to fully invest that I am exactly who I say I am but I think a great way to show that I am back is by walking into that very ring and doing the one thing that I haven’t really been able to do in the past few years.

That one thing being to simply BEAT you!

On any given night I know you can pour your heart out and be the little engine that you could. You build yourself up and you get to be in a good place but on the days where I actually show up, and actually showcase that I give a damn I know I am always going to be the best woman in the ring. I can’t be touched and I know you don’t have a chance at hell in beating me.

You wanted me at my best?! You want me not to waste a roster spot or to pour my heart into everything?!

Be careful what you truly ask for because when you get it you are getting more than you bargained for. There is so much that I have lost in this past year. I don’t have the wife. I don’t even have that much visiting times in seeing my children. I am a woman who has lost just about everything but it’s time to hold onto the one thing that I know I don’t fail at and that one thing is professional wrestling.

What is professional wrestling?! Honestly I can answer that question in so many ways but in a nut shell it’s where I end up finding my true identity. It’s the place where I can find the best version of myself. It’s a place I know that I can succeed when focused.

You can be the better mother…

You can be the better spouse…

You can have the better personal life…

But the one thing and the one area where I refuse to let you showcase that you are better than me is in the ring. I have been doing this since I was seventeen years old wrestling in my father’s gym in Mexico. That was nearly twenty years ago and here I am twenty years and still trying the chase the dream of being the best of the best.

I made mistakes. I had children as a young teenager. My life has been really fucked up but wrestling is the place where I can leave the harsh realities of the world behind me and I can freely soar and spread my wings to be better than what I am. It’s funny to admit that considering I thought it being an actress and being in different movies. It’s easy to wear make-up, portray different roles, and wear different costumes.

But unlike Hollywood I don’t have to change face all the time just to succeed, I can showcase the real Crystal Hilton. Sometimes it’s ugly, sometimes it’s the emotional wreck of a woman with a thousand different names and the unstable woman who can’t stick to a story.

But the stability is in that ring, it’s how I move in the ring, and it’s what I pour into being the best of the best.

You have had a great year Bella. Going back to last November all the way to now you can say you have been a two time Internet Champion and that’s awesome. You still have more growing to do and I know you will eventually get what you are looking for, but sadly it won’t come at my expense. I just want this more and the only way people will ever take this second, or third, hell I lost count…

But the ONLY way people will take this Crystal reunion tour serious is if I make it to the finals and I am in the main event of High Stakes fighting Frankie for the World Championship. Nobody would have ever expected to see me headlining the flag ship Super Card but it’s time to turn non-believers into believers and it’s time to force people to put some respect on my name.

How many times have you been at this where you have failed to win the big one?!

How many times have you felt it wasn’t good enough?!

I know it’s been quite a few but I haven’t had my chance yet. This Sunday everything gets put into perspective and I get exactly what I want. This is my division and I will be the spotlight whether you like it or not. So back up and just fall in line.

Sunday I finally roll the credits on Bella Madison once and for all. I put the nightmare of November 20th 2022 in my rearview and I focus on what’s in front of me, and that’s becoming a six time World Bombshell Champion.

It will happen…

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See you soon, and throughout everything nothing will ever stop from blossoming…