[Crimson]

 Prologue

Hidden deep within the Death Valley National Park in Nevada is a hole. The Devil’s Hole to be precise. The site is considered to be cursed by all the locals and park rangers. A few of the old timers can even remember back one night in 1965 when several kids jumped the fence. One was even a senator’s son. They all dove using proper scuba equipment. All of the teenagers came back out of the hole but two. Police divers came in from the city to search for the missing boys with no luck. They believed the teens were trapped in a air pocket deep in the Devil’s Hole that is called “Brown’s Room” after its discoverer, William Brown.

Brown discovered the air pocket in 1953 while diving. The front pocket is accessible but there is a back part that is always flooded out with sharp rocks sticking out essentially hindering further discovery. The park service also advises against this practice.  

The cavern system has to be searched with divers. It is the only way to reach the air pockets that exist throughout. A map was made of the caverns during the 1940’s then added to throughout time.



In the late 1980s, a diver from Reno claimed he had found a way through to the back portion of the Brown’s Room air pocket. Dante Long had found the passage and claimed to have told his young daughter everything that he had seen that fateful day. Dante would return two weeks later in spring of 1989 to reach the passage once more. He would never be heard from again. Nothing was ever found of he or the two boys from the mid sixties that vanished in The Devil’s Hole. Long’s daughter would never tell of what her father told her to anyone. Many scientists, devil worshipers, and treasure seekers have sought her out. After a name change, she has not been heard of by anyone in ten years.







Fury Studios Compound
Malibu Hills, CA
12/6/2017
12:21 A.M.



The compound that Tommy Crimson recently purchased sits quiet. The studio part where the filming takes place. All the magic happens within this large portion of the building. Crimson was inspired by Paisley Park, Prince’s personal estate, where he did most of his work from. A large living room inside the compound comes into focus. Filming never ceases within these walls. The feed picks up and takes turns between other cameras to show the perfect angle.

The walls are covered with newspaper clippings and paperwork inside the large room. Tommy Crimson stands in the middle of this room staring at the wall on the opposite side of the fireplace. The wood crackles and burns hot which leaves a hint of orange throughout. The paper work plastered across the wall are of different things. Tommy’s next match is among these items. All three opponents information covers one whole wall. Different times when they signed autographs that is proven by checks cashed by those wrestlers.

The fire illuminates the entire room. Crimson stares at the wall with priceless intel on all three opponents. The other two walls are covered with news articles about a spot in Nevada he has yet to explore.

The book that Charlie Manson, Tommy’s Grandfather, left him was set in chapters. The final chapter of the book told of the devil’s chair. This chair has never been found by anyone that lived to tell about it and the myth says it is constructed of human bones.

The location of this chair is unknown. Crimson has offered one hundred thousand dollars for just the coordinates to the possible locale of this demonic seat in the recent days. Tommy has information with hundreds of potential leads to locate the devil’s chair. Legend goes if you take a seat and can survive the madness that engulfs your brain that the Devil will then use you as a vessel to carry out his evil on the world. All of this is plastered on the walls on either side of Tommy, who still faces the wall with his opponent's life stories.

A knock at the door brings Tommy back from the depths of his mind suddenly. He turns to face the door as it creaks open.

“Mr. Crimson, you have a visitor!” Juanita the housekeeper calls out.

Tommy turns as his maid opens the door for the person. Crimson appears completely annoyed to be disturbed at this hour while he’s “working”.

An old woman walks into the room. The small lady is dressed as if she just left church or is on the way. The woman wears all black and her eyes are white with Crimson influence. Tommy eases his irritated mood a bit after realizing this. The woman walks over to a chair and takes a seat. She rubs her old knee caps then slouches a bit in the chair. She looks up at Tommy, who stares a hole right through her.

“I had a dream last night. I walked here all day and most of this night to get here.” The old woman looks down at her feet. She has no shoes and the soles are bloody from so much walking.

Tommy notices all of this and stands quiet staring at the woman without even blinking.

“I dreamt that the chair sits empty. The one dwells beneath us in a lake of fire waiting for his vessel to cross into this world.” The old woman continues.

Crimson walks over to the woman then squats in front of her.

“Do you know where the chair is?” Tommy asks immediately.

“The one who sits in the chair and endures the three maddening tests will become The Devil’s vessel to this world.” The old woman reveals.

“So you would be the antichrist after taking a seat then?” Tommy inquires.

The old woman laughs deep.

“No. The antichrist is just a tale to scare the weak into a small building on sunday. The person who sits in the chair and endures three tests of the mind will then become the actual living devil in the flesh.” She reveals further.

Tommy looks off to the side lost again in his thoughts. He gets it together then reaches up and takes hold of the old woman’s shoulders.

“Where is the chair, bitch?” Tommy screams at the elderly lady.

“My name is Pearl. The only way to sit in The One’s chair is to go down his “hole”.” Pearl explains to Crimson.

“Where is the hole?” Tommy follows up quickly.

“Only one person in the world knows. A woman that lives in Carson City, Nevada. She is a whore of the night that knows the devil’s best kept secret.” Pearl exclaims at the young man before her.

Tommy stands up releasing his hold on Pearl’s shoulders. He turns away from her and watches the fire burn in the fireplace.

“How would you even know that?” Crimson asks with his back turned to Pearl.

“She’s my granddaughter. Her father, Dante, found the chair’s location years ago. He told her then went back to find it once more only that time he did not return.” Pearl informs Tommy.

Crimson continues to watch the fire burn while Pearl continues behind him.

“My granddaughter was born, Brittany Long, but now works as a whore at the Sagebrush Ranch. She changed her name to Star Kinser after being hounded by many different people wanting the knowledge that her father gave her.” The old woman finishes.

Tommy looks up at the walls. Evidence from all over the globe show possible locations of the chair but none are a lead like this one. Crimson turns around to face the old woman to find she has vanished. This shocks The Fury, leading him to look around the chair for her but she has disappeared from the room entirely.

Tommy looks over on a table sitting in the corner of the large living room.

“Alexa.” Crimson calls out.

“Yes, Fury?” The machine replies.

“Have the new production truck meet me outside. We need all the cameras and I need all the nerds to come in to fly the drones. Explain that we have a huge lead on the one’s chair and we need to be mobile and on the road in thirty minutes. We are going to Carson City.” Crimson proclaims to his machine.

“I have informed all thirty three employees of Fury Studios to come into work now. Three have quit because you will be out of work in January.” Alexa informs Crimson.

Tommy shakes his head with frustration realizing he will indeed be out of work come January. Until then he will continue to be the Roulette Champion and one way to ensure that is to find this fucking chair.

“The others have all answered and will be here within the hour.” Crimson’s machine proclaims across the room.

Tommy takes off to get his help to pack his wrestling gear and suits to take along for this trip. He will not have time to come back to the Malibu Hill’s so he will have to pack heavy. Juanita, Tommy’s full time maid, begins packing everything and anything he could ever need. Car begin pulling up to the front gate to the large compound indicating that his workers are complying with his middle of the night order.



Clear Creek Trailer Park
Carson City, Nevada
12/7/2017
11:20 A.M.



A large overhead shot of a trailer park comes into focus. Rows of mobile homes extend out for what seems like forever. The large park is home to many citizens of the Carson City area. An older trailer comes into focus. The bright pink and white mobile home sticks out like a sore thumb even amongst so many other unattractive looking homes.

This particular trailer belongs to Mason King. A local cage fighter that has taken too many licks to the head. He lives in the trailer with his prostitute girlfriend, Star Kinser. This morning Mason woke up to find Star had not gotten enough beer the previous night to last through the day. Fury Studios during the night has taken over all cameras inside the home unbeknownst to Mason or Star. A webcam located on two different laptops including the couple’s cellphones are now all streaming footage to Crimson’s studio company in real time.

This morning would not be any show that any decent human being would ever be interested in watching. After realizing he doesn’t have enough beer, Mason searches through the house for Star. He finds her using her phone to play candy crush saga on the toilet. King hits her in the face with his right fist as hard as he can. She slams into the wall completely breaking a mirror hung on it.

Star ends up on the floor face down with her panties still around her ankles. Mason picks her up and the feed blurs her vagina and breasts as he hammers her in the face over and over. Her right eye swells shut as he continues to hit her. King hits her until his arm gets tired. He then releases her and she bounces off the cheap floor of the trailer. Mason then pulls his penis out of his pants, which is also blurred out, and urinates all over his knocked out girlfriend. He then turns and leaves the house to go to a nearby liquor store. The hacked cameras throughout the house caught the entire brutal beating. Domestic violence is a real problem facing millions of americans everyday and Star is no different.

Star snores on the floor from behind knocked out cold. Suddenly she wakes herself up from the heavy snoring. She comes to life and begins to weep immediately. She folds herself up into the fetal position on the floor. Kinser holds her belly remembering the baby Mason beat out of her two years ago. She sits up in total pain then walks over to her vanity. Star has to look somewhat presentable if she wants to make any money at the ranch when she goes in.

She does her makeup and anything else she can do to hide the bruises. Star uses her brush to cover her swollen up eye that her loving fiance left her with. She cries uncontrollably while attempting to paint herself beautiful. The whorehouse might not even let her work with how she looks right now. She breaths heavy then halts her weeping so she can finish her makeup.

The trailer is clean throughout. She keeps a clean house after her boyfriend wrecks it night after night.  She has few things other than to make herself “fuckable” at work. Mason takes all of her money and spends it any way he see’s hit. Star looks in the mirror to make sure her lipstick looks hott. She stares into it briefly. Suddenly a bloody pentagram flashes across the mirror which shocks her. Star presses her hand up against the mirror and wonders if she is losing it. She snatches up her purse then quickly heads out the door. She locks the door then carefully steps down on two concrete blocks used for steps. Star Kinser then dashes for her early nineties geo metro. She gets in and starts the engine then uses the gear shifter in reverse to back out of the driveway.

“Sex Metal Barbie” by In This Moment blasts over the radio as Star speeds toward her job. The ranch is only seven miles from the trailer park but she is running late today after the beating she took. The music emboldens her after feeling vulnerable,helpless, and weak for most of the previous night.  

The signs for the Sagebrush Ranch are on both sides of the road on her commute. It is touted as one of the more popular whorehouses this side of Reno. A mile out from the ranch a news bulletin comes over the radio.

“Sin City Wrestling will be closing down in January. The stars have already began to scatter to other promotions.” The Female Radio Anchor blurts out across the radio waves.

Star pulls into the narrow driveway of the SageBrush Ranch. She has worked her for five years now but new lines creep across her face each and every day. Beauty is no weapon against time.

A new mercedes work van is parked in her parking spot which causes her to slam on the brakes! This large van looks like it’s for some sort of production company or news organization at first glance. Star sits behind the van utterly frustrated and clutching the wheel. Her favorite close to the front door spot has been taken. Star accepts this fact and parks two spots over from the van. She rushes out of the car holding her purse when she catches glance of the side of this white van. A huge bloody pentagram covers the side of it. The same thing she saw in the mirror is plastered across this vehicle and shocks her. Star shrugs it off and picks her purse up off the ground she dropped from jumping back.

“What the fuck, man?” Star mutters to herself as she heads down the parking lot toward the front door of the whorehouse.

She pushes the old glass door open then walks in. Pearl, greets her at the door.

“Hi, Grandma. No one is going to come in here to get blown with that creepy van outside.” Star informs her feeble grandmother who owns the SageBrush Ranch.

“Your face is beaten. Mason is going to kill you. All those times you prayed for a miracle to escape. That miracle is waiting in your room, my dear.” Pearl says softly as she brushes her granddaughters face with a stroke of love to show compassion.

Star accepts the show of affection with an eagerness of one that’s never loved. A confused look then crosses her face as she spins and heads down the hallway.

Hookers are spread out throughout the rooms along the hallway. Men and women alike share in the debauchery that takes place here. Star doesn’t focus on any of the sexual noises coming through the cheap thin walls. She continues down the long hallway that is covered with crimson red carpet it’s entire length. The camera’s throughout the whore house share the feed to film her every move. Manipulated from some unknown outside source. Star reaches the last door and puts her right hand up to the knob. She prays silently before slowly twisting the knob and pushing the door open. It slowly open exposing a large california king bed in the largest room of the entire whore house. Sitting on the bed is a man wearing a very expensive suit from what Star can tell.

She walks and realizes this man is no ordinary customer.

“Hey Sugar! What are you looking for today?” Star blurts out as she walks into the walk in closet to put her purse down without getting a good look at the unknown man’s face.

She turns around and realizes the man is a celebrity she’s seen before. Her eyes widen as it hits her mind and lips at the same time.

“Crimson.” Star softly whispers.

Star then walks over to her door and slams it shut. She then walks over to Tommy Crimson, who is slowly revealed by the cameras in the room. The feed has been hijacked by Fury Studios. Kinser walks closer to Crimson then gets down on both knees.

“What can I do for you, Sir?” Star weeps out.

Crimson leans in close.

“It’s not what you can do for me. It’s what I can do for you, Star.” Crimson replies.

Star wrinkles her forehead with confusion but never loses eye contact with Tommy.

“I can save you. These men want to pay extra to not use a condom while I am here to rescue the infamous Dante’s Daughter.” Tommy reveals further.

Star appears let down by the very mention of her father’s name.

“I’ll never tell what dad told me. Ever.” Star stammers at Tommy.

“Do you want to escape?” Crimson asks her. He then reaches over and flips on a lamp on Star’s nightstand. Star’s beaten face comes to the light. Crimson sits back straight then reaches down and takes Star’s face into both his hands.

“You have to escape now. I know he beats you every single day. He’s raped you and left you for dead numerous times. What else do you have to lose? I will protect you.” Crimson promises the legal prostitute.

Tears stream down each of her cheeks but Tommy quickly wipes them up. Star wipes her eyes then stands up. She nods at Tommy then walks around the large bed. Kinser then walks back into the closet and lifts up a poster of Lord Raab on the far back wall. A safe beneath it she begins to twist the numbers into a particular order to open the safe. She does so then retrieves a notebook with a leather binding. Star allows the poster to fall then clutches the book close to her heart with both arms. She walks back out of the closet then carefully approaches the world famous wrestler slowly. Star sits beside him on the large bed still holding the notebook close. The two sit in silence for a few moments then Star breaks it.

“This was my daddies book. You can have it but only if you take me with you.” Star offers.

“Of course. Where is the chair, Star?” Crimson replies with the real question.

Star opens the book and flips through the pages. An actual photo of the chair is taped to one of the pages. Tommy realizes her father really did locate the chair after seeing her flip through the evidence. A map of all the caverns and some place called Brown’s Room back bunker is drawn out. That seems to be the air pocket they are looking for, Brown’s Room. The evidence mounts with each and every turn of the page.

“The chair is real and my daddy found it. He got out before the test started but decided to go back and face the test. He claimed he could control the fate of the entire world if he could endure the “tests”.” Star admits openly to Tommy.

One of the Kinser’s tears fall from her face then splatters across the paper of the notebook.

“These so called tests will cause most men to go mad with wild thoughts. If you succeed the three then you can take a seat in the chair. The real devil will then attempt to use you as his vessel. You have to die before he can take complete control. Only true evil can tolerate the process and many men have died seeking out the devil’s seat.” Star explains.

“This is all hocus pocus, right? I mean if the devil takes over the body then the war between good and evil will have a commander in chief or what?” Crimson skeptically asks.

“Yes. Hades has existed since the beginning of time and is apart of every major religion in this world. Many christian explorers have gave their lives searching for the chair. If you can withstand taking a seat and the maddening tests… Then you could be immortal.” Star reveals her deepest darkest secrets to this celebrity stranger.

“A witch told me I was the “one” earlier this year. She has a grand scheme I believe and she’s your grandmother. I know she’s a witch and has set all of this up. I will bite because I have searched for this chair for ten years straight because of other relics I have found then used for personal gain. Much like I will use that chair whether it’s real or not.” Tommy exclaims at Star.

Crimson stands up then faces Star, who still sits on the bed.

“You never answered my question. Where is the chair, Star?” Crimson asks once more.

“It’s in The Devil’s Hole.” Star answers.

Crimson takes Star by the hand and they both exit out of her bedroom door and back into the hallway. They walk fast through the hallway and rush toward the front door to get back out into the parking lot area.

They pass Pearl, the woman Tommy is convinced is a witch, and Star’s grandmother. She just smiles at them as they blast through the front door. They walk over to the white van, which is a Fury Studios production vehicle. The door slides open and AJ the camera man greets them. Tommy’s personal assistant sits in the corner searching for the devil’s hole across google after Star’s revelation reached the van.

“Found it.” The assistant asserts then hands the printed off directions to AJ. They slide the van door shut then Crimson begins unloading scuba equipment from a box. His personal assistant then begins opening a box that has a military grade small submarine drone that films underwater. The expensive piece of equipment has a twin in the next box she opens. Both drones are capable of filming in any condition along with gopro’s. AJ drives the van toward the Death Valley National Park speeding like crazy. Star sits quietly in a chair in the corner of the van all alone while everyone else prepares for what comes next.



Death Valley National Park
The Devil’s Hole Front Gate
12/7/2017
10:34 P.M.



The Fury Studios production van pulls into the closed park with caution. They had to cut three sets of chains already to get the vehicle this far. The front gate leading to the small slither in the earth has signs everywhere. The frontgate is locked leading AJ to stop the van and leap out once more with the bolt cutters. After getting the chain cut he swings the large gate open then returns to the driver seat of the van quickly. They drive through and pull as close as possible to the cave entrance of The Devil’s Hole. After the van is parked around twenty feet away from the entrance, the side door slides open and Tommy leaps out. Already dressed in a wetsuit as is Star Kinser. Crimson carefully begins putting on all of his scuba gear while his personal assistant helps Star get into hers. AJ immediately begins to put his on as well. He will carry a waterproof high definition to get footage on this adventure.  

The van is wired to pick up anything the drones or AJ films down there. Every gopro camera snapped on the three will also film. Crimson’s assistant is trained to control all of the feeds being drawn into the van among her many talents. The drones will be controlled by the Nerd Squad back at the Fury Studios compound. They will also get the video produced and ready to put out by Friday night. All systems are go as Star, Tommy and AJ walk off in all the scuba gear. The water here is warm at ninety degrees so cold will not be a factor here. One by one each of them carefully get to the 6 feet wide slit in the earth then dive into the warm water of The Devil’s Hole!

They enter the water cavern. Two splashes above them in the water indicate the submarine drones are active and online. They swirl in the water from the large propellers attached to each on on the back to allow an employee in another state to control it underwater.

The three swim down but allow the drones to catch up so Crimson’s personal assistant back at the van can navigate them to the air pocket using the drones footage.

The drones go ahead and an earpiece attached to Tommy’s right ear begins to talk to him. Crimson swims ahead to led the way behind the sub drones. AJ and Star kick their feet out to swim as fast as they can. They come to a fork in the flooded cavern. The earpiece guides them right that left is impassable. Tommy takes the advice and all three swim right then begin to float up and up. All three kick their feet to swim up and up.

Bubbles trail the trio as they reach the surface of the water. Brown’s Room to be exact. They all surface in a small pool at the foot of the large air pocket cave carved out into the stone. Tommy leaps up and takes hold of the edge small ledge. He then pulls himself up and into the infamous room inside the Devil’s Hole. Tommy then helps AJ and Star up while the sub drones circle inside the pool.

Star stares at the map on the screen and realizes they went the wrong way.

“Uh.. We made a mistake.” Star announces in the air pocket. Her echo carries throughout.

Crimson and AJ walk over and look at the waterproof phone’s screen. Tommy’s assistant got the map upside down which caused the pair to go the way that supposedly ended with a wall of rock. Apparently they have ended up going the wrong way and ending up on the backside of Brown’s Room. Exactly where they wanted to be in the first place. A slight mistake led them directly to the promise land.

“That means we are here. Now we won’t have to squeeze through that small crack on the opposite side of this air pocket to reach this area because here we are.” Tommy announces proudly with excitement in his voice.

AJ immediately takes the high dollar underwater camera and begins to film. The drones in the water bounce the feed directly up to the van. The rocks below have cracks that unbeknownst to anyone leaks gas into the air pocket.

Crimson reaches into a knapsack and retrieves three LED lights while shaking them to life. He then tosses them out across the slick rock floor. The entire rooms lights up exposing the hidden back room of Brown’s Room. A myth most respected divers once called it but now it’s streaming worldwide.  

The bright LED lights show the walls of the cave which are blood red. In the center of the room toward three small pools sits something white. The trio carefully and slowly approaches it. They realize after getting closer it is bones molded into something.

“Holy Fuck! The chair!” Star screams out.

Tommy inspects it and realizes this is the chair he has searched ten years for. The bones appear to be human but there’s no way to prove that. The bones are molded together by what looks like melted gold. The chair has a small keychain dangling from the front. Star notices it dangling too and comes in close to inspect it too. Tommy realizes it’s a locket and pops it open. Star falls to her knees after seeing the pictures inside. Small photos of a small girl and what could be her mother are inside. Tommy turns to Star, who holds her mouth to contain her weeping.

“What? Do you know them?” Crimson asks her sharply.

“That’s.. That’s my dad’s locket. He said the chair used people’s bones who sought it out and failed to repair itself. That locket and bones belonged to my dad.” Star replies.

Crimson bunches up his forehead with a skeptical take on her explanation. The gas leaking in through the cracks has begun to cause AJ to hallucinate. He walks over the cave wall and falls to a seated position so he can lean up against the large wall. Tommy turns to face him, allowing the gopro attached to him to film his camera, who is tripping out.

“We should leave.” AJ blurts out as his eyes widen.

Tommy looks around to figure out what has happened to his most trusted camera man. Crimson attempts to sit down in the chair but is unable? He begins to stagger even after thinking about taking a seat in the devil’s chair. Star falls back away from the chair also and now all three of them are sitting on their butt’s on the cave floor.

The Oracle at Delphi also endured these same conditions in Greek Mythology. The oracle lived in a volcano and the gases from the rocks caused her to hallucinate and predict the future with explicit detail. This crosses Crimson’s mind, leading him to stagger to his feet. Tommy can remember that if he can endure the madness then he can become the vessel.

The camera AJ brought has a wide lens that films the entire air pocket besides he and Star. It catches Tommy enduring the first “test”. The walls of the cave come alive from Tommy Crimson’s perspective. Fire consumes the entire room in his mind and all that’s left is whiteness. AJ’s camera films Crimson’s trip. Tommy envisions Jeremiah “Big Tiger” Hardin in this hallucination.

“You.” Crimson calls out at his hallucination.

Tommy begins to catch his bearings and pops his neck. Tommy can hear a live crowd cheering for his opponent loudly. The hallucination completely takes over his brain but the camera films in HD and picks up the sound all crisp and clean. Crimson puffs out his chest and appears ready to cut a promo on a hallucination of Jeremiah Hardin!

“You think you are so good. So loyal to morals that have got you dick in this cruel world.” Tommy calls out.

Crimson can hear the non existent crowd slow the cheers for Hardin by using sharp words of his own. He then lays into the mirage.

“Hardin… What did you do exactly to earn this shot? You are the one I respect the least in this match because you didn’t earn your shot. You want my strap? Then take it. We both know you are incapable of doing anything of the sort. Sit down before I fuck you up so bad you will wish your mom had dug you out of her with a clothes hanger while you were still in the womb.” Tommy dishes out the malicious threat.

Crimson continues to stare down his hallucination of Hardin. With each sharp word hurled, the mirage of the man becomes smaller and smaller. Tommy continues to work him down.

“Could you be anymore boring? Where is the edge you need to beat a guy like me? You are dull and I hate everything you stand for. You are only in the main event because you are facing Tommy Crimson. That’s it.” Crimson continues to berate the hallucination of his future opponent.

“You are just a pretty boy that’s outgunned. You can’t win. What part of your game leads you to believe you can even compete? I wish you would point it out because I must have looked over it. Second thought, just take this ass whipping and move on. Accept that you will never ever be able to draw like I can.” Tommy uses the business term to further insult.

The hallucination continues to shrink in Tommy’s mind but he doesn’t let up and his laser focus never fails.

“You should just get the fuck out of my business all together. The passion it takes to succeed in this cut throat business is not afforded to all men. I have it. You don’t. Simple as that. I don’t fear you what so ever because you pose no real threat to my title reign. SCW will close its doors with Tommy Crimson as it’s final Roulette Champion. This story isn’t like cinderella or any other fairy tale your brain can manage to conjure up. Oh No. It’s more like an 80’s slasher film where the killer, me, is just behind you.” Tommy snarls as he finishes Hardin off.

The hallucination disappears completely with a huge pop. Star and AJ continue to lay on the floor unable to move from being so intoxicated from the fumes. Tommy endures.

Crimson shakes his head and attempts to breath to regain his bearings completely with little success. The other two in the cave have now passed out but AJ’s camera catches every move that Tommy makes. He begins to see an explorer in the distance on the cave wall now. The hallucination is just as vivid in Crimson’s mind as the one of Hardin was. A make shift raft approaches Tommy who now believes he is on the ocean. He can even feel the water beneath his feet which is true, the cave floors has began to flood.

Tommy looks down and realizes he is a pirate standing on a ship. AJ’s camera continues to film the second hallucination in high definition. The raft that approaches has the Modern Day Crusader aboard. A few of his deck hands that he refers to as “crusaders” also appear in the mirage. Tommy begins to strut across the cave once more believing he is a pirate captain. He begins to scream at his opponent from across the water.

“You. Again? Haven’t we already done this, Crusader? What are we going to prove if I own you one more time? Not a goddamn thing.” Tommy insults the hallucination immediately.

Crusader is blurry through the fog on the water but Crimson continues.

“So you like to ride on boats and you do this and that with deck hands. I don’t care if you molest other crusaders for fun on the weekends or not. You are no match for me now just like you were no match for me in our first match. I outsmarted you then like I am about to once again. None of you men have it like I got it. Isn’t that fucking crystal clear yet? FIRE!” Tommy screams out while pointing at the cave wall, completely enthralled in his own mirage now.  

Tommy rocks back and forth thinking the canons of his pirate ship just fired on the crusaders. A small hole forms in the raft but the brave men keep coming. Crimson believes all of this real and continues to gut opponents.

“You like having cannonballs shot at you? Someone needs to sink you before people like you run this company into the ground. Oh, Wait. You already fucking did. Thanks for leaving me without a job you piece of shit! Watered down versions of shit that use to be good. The Modern Day Crusader is what has destroyed this company. If you had even one ounce of substance you could move up but you don’t. You are a failure at this craft and I mock men like you every single day of my life by being what they will never be. A Success.” Tommy’s forehead is wrinkled in anger as he projects it at Crusader once more.



“FIRE!” Crimson screams once more.

The ship fires another cannon ball at the raft and this times tears it in two. One piece sinks in the fog taking a few crusader helpers to the deep. AJ’s camera continues to film Crimson fight with his mind inside the cave.

“Now you can drown in a pool of shit you created. You won’t touch my strap. The tools it requires to beat someone on my level eludes you. How can you defeat something you don’t understand, Crusader? How can you proclaim to be this great leader when you haven’t done dick to further yourself here. You won that king for a day bullshit on blind luck then lost to Harris with your biggest opportunity. Fail. I would have beaten Harris. Still will at two hundred if they book it. FIRE!” Crimson screams out then rocks indicating the cannons on the boat he believes he’s on, fired.

The shot finishes off the crusader as bubbles indicate every one of the hallucinations have now drowned. Crimson smiles then metaphorically pours salt in the wound.

“You need to reboot and start over, Crusader. It’s time to put that brain you got to use and be a real version of something great instead of a cardboard copy of it. Do those words hurt? I know. It’s because they are true. If you try real hard and do everything just right that you possibly can in this business, you still won’t be what I am.” Crimson finishes then falls back flat on his butt.

He looks over and realizes he is now back in the cave. That last mirage engulfed his entire brain. The vivid projections leaves Crimson breathing heavy and totally confused. AJ begins to stir slightly but Star is still out cold on the cave floor. The three pools of water in front of the devil’s chair sparkle from the LED lights. Crimson stumbles back to his feet and again tries to make his way to the chair to take a seat. He gets closer and closer. Tommy reaches out to take hold of the demonic chair but falls back instead. The gas continues to leak in through the cracks of the rock walls leading to the third demon or “test” Crimson must face down.

The walls all around him begin to crumble. Tommy believes the small air pocket is caving in and crouches down in a ball. He covers his head the best he can hoping to survive this final test. The cave rocks or at least it does in his mind. Crimson has a sensation that he is free falling. The fall seems to take forever in the mind of The Fury.

AJ’s camera films on and now he watches on awake. Tommy has been overtaken completely by a hallucination. The cave hasn’t caved in or moved even slightly. Tommy however, rolls around the cave floor and flails both arms about as if he were falling through the air. The entire scene confuses the already groggy cameraman.

Tommy continues to flail but then covers his head with both arms to protect himself from something. Inside his mind, Tommy continues to fall to depths he has never been to before. Deep and deeper he falls into an abyss of his own mind. Crimson hits a floor with a huge thud. He continues to keep his head covered in order to protect himself. A bright light engulfs him then darkness again. Crimson raises up and realizes he can see Samuel McPherson in the distance. This mirage seems more real than the others but Tommy continues to adjust his eyes.

McPherson has highlights from his entire career surrounding him as he walks around. All these small youtube video boxes confuses Crimson further. He pushes at one when it floats by him, which sends it off in the opposite direction.

All these videos show the wrestling legend doing his thing with Rabb and even now on his own. Tommy watches on completely taken into a third hallucination. The little youtube screens float all around like they are bubbles but square boxes instead. Tommy watches them float along but realizes that McPherson is unproven in the singles division. The monster persona he wishes to be perceived as dilutes him to Tommy substantially. Samuel breaths heavy while he stands around small screen projecting his greatest moments. Crimson snarls a bit then wobbles to his feet. He staggers up to face his final demon in this cursed cave.

Crimson throws both arms out suddenly sending literally hundreds of the small youtube boxes flying away from him. The boxes hit the walls of the mirage and shatter. Tommy’s hallucination of Samuel McPherson begins freezes then digitally continues. Crimson realizes by destroying the small floating boxes of his opponents greatest moments weakens him.

“Everyone has a weakness. Some men are built on what they achieved in the past while others live in the here and now. I thrive in every moment because I live like it’s my last. Samuel, you are weakened by the destruction of these boxes for the same reason I will beat you Sunday.” Tommy reveals.

“See… every time someone forgets about one of these moments you become weaker because that’s all that holds you up now. The past. That’s where you thrived before and currently continue to dwell now. This lapse of judgement will cost you. You have no Rabb or any other help this week. When I break something you will need to continue, you will reach for a tag and find no one. You will call out for help only to find a man who has no mercy for anyone.” Tommy struts across the cave as AJ and Star use the scuba gear to avoid breathing the gas. They attempt to regain their bearings while Tommy endures. Crimson begins smashing all the small boxes filled with youtube videos of McPherson’s greatest wrestling moments.

“I want to make an example of out of you, Samuel. Do you feel safe? How does it feel to know that a man like me is coming for you. Does that make your handicapped brain work gooder?” Tommy mocks the intelligence of his autistic opponent openly.

“You can’t create new moments without Rabb because he was the brains of the operation. I know you hate seeing me bring up your more successful partner so that’s why I do it. I want under your skin because that’s real. I have to fight a guy with autism and can’t wait. That’s the kind of guy I am, Samuel.” Tommy laughs while insulting people with learning disabilities openly.

“I know. That’s a cheap shot. That’s why I took it. You can wear that mask to hide that hair lip you got but I will rip it the fuck off. I want the world to see that face. I want you mocked world wide for being legally stupid.” Tommy continues to hammer on while busting all the small boxes.

Crimson grins from the controversial comments he’s just made. One box remains as the hallucination of McPherson freezes then unfreezes. This continues as if he were some sort of glitch now in Crimson’s mind.

“You can’t do anything to me, honestly. You are mentally handicapped in a match with a genius. I mean what else can I really say? Someone told me you stuttered too. That’s hilarious. I asked the higher ups for a real challenge and they send me a dude that should be wearing a helmet not wrestling. Great.” Tommy sarcastically expresses his opinion.

Crimson smashes the final remaining youtube box. McPherson disappears like a glitch on a computer screen would. Tommy grins slightly.

“That’s all you are. Memories of a time that has passed you by. Rabb carried you while he was here and now that he’s gone you have no back to jump on to. No more talented partner to suck the tit of. Now you find yourself in a match with the greatest wrestler sucking air today. Me, Tommy Crimson. I don’t fear you or any learning disability you have. Those aren’t superpowers, it means you are just a dumbfuck. That’s all. I’m about to hold you down and take what I want.” Tommy licks his lips after the creepy last words to Samuel.

Crimson staggers around after the entire hallucination fades away. All the pieces of glass piled on the floor from the busted youtube boxes disappear too. Tommy then turns his focus to the chair as water begins to flood the air pocket at a faster pace now.

Tommy regains his sight inside the cave and focuses on the devil’s chair. The cave continues to flood with water. AJ and Star are now both up and walk toward Tommy, who approaches the chair once more.

Crimson turns his back to the chair then slowly takes a seat. He sits back in the chair and his eyes turn white from his own influence. The solid white eyes changed in mere moments which shocks Star but not AJ who see’s this all the time.

Tommy becomes fused the chair. Crimson continues to see things and above his head a large achievement unlocked video pops up. The xbox 360 styled achievement box reads, “Achievement Unlocked: Become The Devil.”

The water floods the part of the cave where Tommy is. He holds his head above the water for as long as possible but before Star or AJ can reach him, Crimson becomes totally emerged under the water stuck to the chair.

AJ and Star both put their scuba masks on and dive under the water to save Tommy. They float on either side of the chair but every time even a flipper touches the cave floor they become consumed with haunting pictures in their heads. AJ gets ahold of Tommy and realizes he is fused to the chair made of bones. The devil’s chair has him and refuses to release. AJ looks at his friend and boss and realizes Tommy is about to take a breath. He does so and accepts the water into his lungs. A stream of bubbles indicate to AJ and Star that Crimson may have just drowned. The water subsides briefly leaving an opening for the cameraman and legal whore to save Tommy. AJ feels for a pulse while Star listens for a heartbeat. She turns to AJ slowly.

“He didn’t survive. The devil tried to take over his body but he died before this could happen. This fucking chair has claimed another victim.” Star weeps out after removing her mask.

AJ nods in agreement then closes Tommy’s eyes. The cave begins to shake suddenly then flood with water.

“We have to get out of here.” AJ screams out over the loud water.

Both Star and AJ then swim toward the pool from which they came into the cave to begin with. AJ turns around and can’t believe he has to leave Crimson here alone and dead. They swim through the pool then re enter the flooded caverns quickly while a earthquake shakes the whole area. Both kick to swim faster and faster. Star can see light above their heads after five minutes of hard swimming. They finally emerge in the pool at the entrance of The Devil’s Hole. AJ discovers a scuba tank on the surface that’s leaking air to keep it afloat. He snatches it as both he and Star exit the water. Noise outside the cave can be heard. Crimson’s personal assistant dispatched all the employees to come to the location. They have arrived and work above.

Star and AJ walk out of the cave then down a narrow path that leads to the Fury Studios production van. Tommy’s traveling bus has arrived to take him back to arena to compete. Other employees of Fury Studios all stand facing the opening of the cave. The employees all watch on in disbelief as AJ and Star walk toward them without Crimson. His personal assistant approaches the two immediately.

“He survived the tests and they were all too real. Then he took a seat in the devil’s chair and drowned before anything happened. The chair like fused to him or something, I can’t explain it or make any sense of it.” AJ blurts out at Crimson’s personal assistant.

“He said he would die then come back.” She replies in a soft whisper. She continues to look past the two and at the opening of the devil’s hole.

Star and AJ realize all of the employees are watching and waiting for him to pop up out of the water. He shakes his head unable to understand why they can’t explain what was filmed below. AJ knows they all saw the footage.

“He’s dead. We need to try to get someone in their to get his body out. Here’s his scuba tank.” AJ calls out to the crowd while holding Tommy’s tank up for all to see.

“He can’t make that swim on one breath even if he was still alive. We both watched him die and felt the life leave him.” AJ continues on.

Two cars pull up suddenly and Pearl leaps out of one. Mason, Star’s abusive boyfriend, jumps out of the other. They both walk up the bank toward Star, who clutches AJ close to protect her from Mason. A splash is heard from the cave which shocks everyone especially Star and AJ. They even turn to look back. They can now hear something walking toward them. The moonlight overhead illuminates the path to the cave but not the actual opening. They wait and watch on. Nothing. Pearl screams, “He found your map in your room, run Star!”

Mason comes closer to Star as all the employees continue to stare at the devil’s hole opening. AJ turns to walk away when he hears something else. He turns to look back at the top of the path and can see a man now walking toward him.

Crimson staggers down the path to a roaring applause from all his employees. AJ, Star and Crimson’s personal assistant all rush up to him. They halt when they see his face! Tommy’s eyes are solid white but all four corners are leaking blood. The crowd notices this and a few even gasp. AJ can’t move because he can’t figure out if this man is his boss or the devil.

Tommy walks on down the path and blinks suddenly then wipes his eyes. He smears the blood but when he opens his eyes they are now brown. Tommy has cuts and bruises all over him from the rough swim without any gear. One that is virtually impossible for any mortal man.

Everyone just goes back to work suddenly once they figure out Crimson is fine. This shocks both AJ and Star, who watch on as Crimson’s personal assistant rushes up to him. Mason continues walking toward his girlfriend who backs up into Tommy looking for protection. Crimson pushes her away directly into her abuser’s waiting arms. She screams and begs as Mason drags her off for a real beating. No one intervenes and Pearl passes out from the excitement.

“I knew you would survive, Sir. We all knew.” Crimson’s personal assistant assures Tommy.

“We need to get back to Reno, right now.” Tommy replies sharply.

They both then walk to the Crimson’s official tour bus. He walks on board and by three women he pays no attention to. The Fury is bleeding from being beaten against the rocks and the blood from his eyes still cover his face from where he smeared it earlier. His assistant indicates the college girls have been located that have stories to tell.

Tommy staggers over to the women waiting by the door. Two are beautiful girls but one stands off in a dark corner, all are nineteen years old. Crimson wipes the blood from his brow then looks over the first girl. She hands him a folder and he flips through it. A bloody thumbprint now stains the back of the folder.

“Hired. Now take this.” Crimson replies after handing the folder back to the young college student.

Tommy’s personal assistant walks over and hands the young lady another folder. Tommy looks at the young woman whose name appears across the folder as, “Tammy”.

“Samuel McPherson sexually assaulted you last year when you got his autograph? The money in that folder will pay any “legal” fee’s you may encounter.” Tommy uses both hands to quote.

Tammy opens the folder and finds a stack of hundred dollar bills. Enough to pay for college and anything else right now.

She shakes Crimson’s hand then walks out the door. Tommy’s assistant from his production company then hands the next lady a folder after Crimson looks over her credentials briefly.

“Hired. Take this folder and use the money anyway you see fit to bring Big Tiger to justice for groping you last winter when you got his autograph.” Tommy continues. The young lady who’s name is written across the folder as, “Jessica”.

The final woman stands in front of Crimson but he appears to be confused a bit. The personal assistant's name tag comes into focus and reads, “Martha”, finally revealing her identity.

Tommy then takes the folder from the tall female.

“It says here that you are male.” Crimson exclaims then realizes what this means.

“So you are a tranny that was violated by The Modern Day Crusader? Says here, you got his autograph also which proves you two have met. Also says that he grabbed your junk then ran off scared of what he had gotten ahold of?” Crimson asks as he reads it aloud.

“That’s right. He grabbed ahold of it hoping for a vagina but instead grabbed my nine inch long penis.” The drag queen proclaims.

Tommy begins laughing beyond control. “Danielle” is written across the folder that Martha hands to Crimson. He gets another bloody fingerprint on it as he hands it over to the transgendered individual.

“Here ya go, Dude. Go tell your story to CNN. The Crusader can’t get away with dick grabbing random he bitches now can he?” Crimson riles up Danielle.

“No, Sir! I am a lady and demand respect!” Danielle screams as she adjusts her double d fake breasts then takes off out the door with the money.

Martha, Fury Studios assistant, walks up beside Tommy as they watch the woman walk away from the building out now open door.

“This could ruin their careers, Tommy.” Martha informs her boss.

“Good.” Crimson exclaims the faces Martha to hold side eyed contact with his employee.

“I am empowering women.” Tommy laughs then turns away from Martha and stumbles off still bleeding a bit.

“Hail Satan.” Crimson exclaims as the bus driver starts the engine to head towards Reno.

The End.