[center]Music drifted across Tivoli Gardens, lanterns lighting the pathways as crowds wandered past speaking half a dozen different languages. Zayvion watched from a railing, resting his elbows on the metal, for a while he didn't say anything.
Cleo noticed, she always did.
“You're thinking hard again.” she said.
“Yeah..” he nodded in reply "It's just this whole tour is crazy, you know? I mean we started in Legoland, California right next door to home. I took the family there, drove them back the same night and now look at this. It was just a couple shows ago, I was in my own backyard. Now I'm like ten gazillion miles away from Inglewood in a park that's older than my whole damn city.”
“Well I don't think it's quite that many miles.” Cleo chuckled. “But yeah I get it, I felt the same back in PWS when I went on my first Global tour, I realized everything was so much bigger than just New York.”
Zayvion nodded slowly.
“Yeah bigger..” he said looking back across the glowing lake resting inside Tivoli Gardens. “Back home it was just the same streets, same people, same spots. Now everything feels for the lack of a better term, foreign.”
“That's the job.” Cleo said. “I know it's a culture shock, but you'll get used to it. Just don't let it distract you from the bigger picture.”
The roulette championship in Logan Hunter not in Zayvion and I got to get through Liam Davis again this week, ironically he's the same guy I beat back when this whole tour started, but yet again it just feels different.”
“Because you're drawing closer to your championship match.” Cleo noted “This is the last stop before you get Logan.”
Zayvion nodded.
“Yeah..” he said. “Logan.”
“You know gotta whoop his ass, right?” she said “He was playin’ games with you, playin’ games with Carter. But you got to take that championship from him and show him that you ain't playin’.”
“I got this.” said Zayvion “Just please don't slap me like you did Victoria.”
Cleo laughed.
“Hey she needed some sense smacked into her, she's got a big opportunity too and whether she likes it or not it's representative of all of us.” she said.
“Well that's her fight.” he said “Logan is who I need to be concerned about.”
“You're not wrong about that.” said Cleo “And I got your back if that little trash bag hussy Brooke tries to get involved. Bet yo’ ass I got something more for her ass than just a spear this time.”
Zayvion widened his eyes that certainly didn't sound good for Brooke, but Cleo was her problem. He was going to be Logans.
“For real.” Cleo said “Don't lose focus.”
“I'm not.” he said “I guess maybe I was just hoping for more out of Logan. But I guess he's keen on letting his girl do the talking for him.”
“It be like that sometimes.” Cleo shrugged “ “You just got to show him what kind of man you are. When you get back to your family, you're going to go home a champion."
“Damn right.” said Zayvion
“Good.” Cleo replied.
“All this out here…” he said “It's just the world, “But in the ring it's about the fight, and when we get to Japan Logan will find out what the fight of me is all about and he won't be able to hide behind Brooke.”
“Don't get too ahead of yourself.” Cleo reminded him “You still got Liam to worry about.”
“I beat Liam back in Legoland.“ Zayvion said “It's not going to be any different here in Copenhagen. I'm going to get all the momentum I need by putting down Liam Davis once again “
“Bet.” nodded Cleo.
“I guess I just never thought about how weird it would be going on this world tour.” he said “The places,all the different languages. I mean I know a few Spanish words, but it's nothing like out here.”
“You only know the dirty ones.” grinned Cleo
“Still know a few.” Zayvion grinned in return.
“Well you can call Logan every dirty word in the book and get the crowd to call him whatever you want.” Cleo said “But words ain't going to win you that championship.”
“I know…” said Zayvion “You ain't gotta worry about that. I figured him out when I called him out. When he let the Brooke do the talking for him, I knew then it was a wrap. He ain't ready.”
“Well don't get too cocky.” Cleo said “Logan is a sneaky son of a bitch.”
“No doubt.” he said “But I'll be ready, I ain't come all the way to Japan to leave home with nothing. I'm going to do exactly what you said and bring my family home a championship.”
“That's the energy.” Cleo said “But first you handle business at Climax Control.”
“I got you.” said Zayvion “Liam Davis is going to be my warm up, nothing more. I got him once I know what he brings to the table and I ain't trying to overlook him but I ain't about to lose my momentum either.”
“Then go get it done.” said Cleo.
“I will." he said “Just watch me.”
The passersby by in the park were taken in by all the sights, the lights, the boats and everything Tivoli Gardens had to offer. Zayvion did as well, but the number one thing on his mind was the Roulette Championship and nobody, Liam Davis, Logan Hunter, none of them were going to stand in his way.
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Cameras open up on the close up of saving on Lyons with his headphones as music begins to play the sounds of riding dirty by Chamillionaire.
//They see me rollin'
They hatin'
Patrollin' and tryna catch me ridin' dirty
Tryna catch me ridin' dirty
Tryna catch me ridin' dirty\\
The music fades out as Zayvion looks up into the camera lowering his headphones.
“So we meet again Liam Davis..” he began “Last time I told you I had no choice but to beat you because you were a cop, and I got people that might look at me differently if I let a cop beat me. Now some of that still remains true, but now I need to do this for me.”
He pauses.
“It's about momentum.” he said “My momentum. I'm trying to make a statement to Logan Hunter before we get to Japan. You're just the unlucky bastard who stands in my way. I ain't trying to get too ahead of myself but it feels like I'm making some waves around here, and I need to put the cap on that by bringing a championship home when we get back to the states.”
He pauses shortly.
“Still banged up after that big parking lot brawl are you?” Zayvion asked “Doesn't matter to me, that's your problem to deal with. I'm going to whoop your ass just the same as I did back in Legoland. I just hope Logan Hunter is paying attention.”
He keeps his eyes locked on the camera.
“Are you paying attention Logan?” he said “Because I'm going to do to Liam what so many of his cop friends have been doing to my friends over the years and that's make him a victim, and then I'm going to go to Japan and I'm going to do even worse to you. I'm going to make you a victim and I'm going to take that championship from you.”
His words come through firm and confident.
“The confidence I have right now.” he said “I just know there ain't nothing that's going to stop me from getting that championship. Whatever training Cleo has to put me through I'm going to do it. I promise you don't want to step in there with me right now. Liam Davis, perhaps your best course of action is to… stand aside, officer.”
A cheeky grin appears on his face, lingering for a moment.
“But you won't..” he said “It's not in your nature, that's your whole thing as a cop right? Stand your ground and hold the line? I know how it goes. You're going to go in there thinking you're bringing order and keeping somebody like me in check.”
He waved a finger at the camera and shook his head.
“Ain't nobody checking me, you understand?” He said “Back in Legoland, you were the first test, and here in Copenhagen you're still a test, but the stakes are bigger because Logan Hunter is going to be watching and I need to send him a message so he knows exactly what's coming for him. He needs to know that Brooke isn't going to be able to save him. Nothing will stop what that boy got coming his way.”
He exhales, as he continues.
“See to me, this match is nothing more than a step backwards.” Zayvion said “And I don't like stepping back. I certainly don't like stepping back and failing. Zayvion Lyons is about moving forward, bottom line.”
He pauses again.
“Everything I've gone through in my life.” he said “All the struggles of just trying to survive. Being harassed by your friends just for how I look or how I dress. They've all led me here and I ain't looking to slow down they couldn't break me and you can't break me Liam, and neither will you when we get to Japan Logan.”
He pauses shortly again.
“I'm going to have my big moment at Into The Void.” he said “And nothing's going to slow me down, y'all can try but it ain't finna happen. Zayvion Lyons is ready to run through anybody and everybody. I know what my last name is and I hope you all understand I'm no man of honor but I don't got my head completely up my ass either. But if I have to fight fire with fire, I'll fight fire with fire.”
He exhales again.
“See I didn't get to where I'm at acting how people told me to, at least not all the time.” he said “I got here by surviving every person thinking they had me figured out. Those who thought I was another kid they could push around. All that did was make me harder to stop and I'm here and I'm on the verge of calling myself a champion, making everything I've fought for mean something and prove that it was all worth it.”
He keeps his confident gaze into the camera.
“I'm not going to assume no position or slow down for you at all Liam.” said Zayvion “There's nothing at all you're going to do to stop me, because at the end of the day, one things for sure officer.
He pauses.
“Right now…you're out of your jurisdiction.”
He nods confidently and puts his headphones back on has the music picks up again
//My music's so loud
I'm swangin'
They hopin' that they gon' catch me ridin' dirty
Tryna catch me ridin' dirty\\
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