NRP: This scene takes place the right after Seleana’s rp from High Stakes https://www.scwrestling.net/boards/index.php?topic=17649.msg64493#msg64493
Crystal’s SCW career hadn’t been going in the way that she he been wanting it to go. She had lost her Roulette Championship to Luna Vanity and hadn’t been bothering to cut a promo or even wrestle with the same vigor that she had been known to doing. Something was definitely off. It didn’t really show until her last wrestling showing at Into the Void where she wrestled Courtney Pierce. Despite the big Super Card match which should have been between a long time veteran and wrestling’s future Crystal didn’t put forth the effort that she should have put in. Something was clearly off and it makes sense considering that would be the last time that we would see the blue haired vixen anywhere near an SCW ring.
In the months following everything would crumble Crystal Zdunich. She would let go from her SCW contract for undisclosed reasons. Hell her name and reputation would be tarnished across various wrestling companies and it was quite clear that she wasn’t the same woman that everybody was accustomed to her being. It was one thing to be considered a vile Bitch for trying to be selfish when it comes to her career but it was a different thing when she just seemed to be a shell of her former self. Things really weren’t working out for her and there needed to be an answer why.
October 21st, 2023
Las Vegas, Nevada
The Day before High Stakes
Crystal was dressed like a Las Vegas prostitute complete with the closed toe heels, the fishnet stockings, miniskirt, and top that showed plenty of mid-drift. The blue haired vixen’s makeup had ran all over her face as she quickly ran through the doors of the Golden Ring Casino. High Stakes was the biggest event of the year. There was plenty of money to be made with SCW in town but Crystal didn’t care as her mind was on something else. Hundreds of wrestling fans tried to run up to her in hopes of getting an autograph but Crystal ignored all of them as she ran right to her office. She shut the door behind her as she walked over to her desk and opened up all of the drawers. She was like a madwoman possessed as she searched and searched but couldn’t kind what she was looking for.
“Where is it?! Where is it?!”
Zdunich looked in every possible location but she couldn’t seem to find what she was looking for. She leaned back in her chair as her eyes started to race rapidly as she was a woman on a mission. She ran her fingers through her hair and it was at that moment that Daniel J Morgan walked calmly through the doors of the room. Crystal was frantic as she looked over at the British man in a suit. He just shook his head sighing as he kept his eyes on her.
“Bloody hell woman you look completely bonkers and like a train wreck. You know it’s not appropriate to be dressed the way that you are…”
Crystal just shook her head as she tried to blow him off as she turned her attention back over to her desk.
“Whatever Daniel I don’t have time for that… I… I am busy… I am looking for something….”
Daniel however calmly walked into the room as he reached into his pocket and pulled out a Ziploc bag of a white substance out of his pocket and held it in front of her.
“Is this what you are looking for?! To be honest I didn’t want to believe it but after your wife called me in tears I had Charlie and Kenzie go through your belongings in order to keep the casino safe and they found this in your desk. This explains everything. You have been addicted to this shit and it’s been happening right under my nose. No wonder why your entire career has been self-destructing. You have a huge problem…”
Crystal quickly rises up as she walks over to Daniel as she tries to snatch the bag from his hands but he keeps a firm a grip on it as she yells at him.
“Fuck you Daniel!!! GIVE THAT TO ME!!!”
Daniel however snatches it back as Crystal begins to get super violet. The addiction is getting the better of him as she does everything in her power to try to get the bag back. In a rage she scratches his face but he plays it cool as he just brushes her off. It isn’t long before Mackenzie and Charlotte burst into the room and they begin to restrain the longtime wrestler.
“No… I am not giving you anything. Don’t you understand that you have a problem?! This is ruining your life! Your wife called me in tears because you have been lying to her for months. You been trying to cover up a serious drug addiction and on top of that Dani has told me that some of our top shelf bottles have been missing from the bar area. Which makes sense considering that you were willing to throw your own sobriety away and for what exactly to piss your life away in your own misery?! You are better than this…”
Crystal tries to explain herself but she is being restrained by the female members of London Underground. They keep her at bay and the tears begin to fall down her cheek as she really doesn’t know what to say.
“I….I…. You don’t understand… Just give me the bag… I need it Daniel… It’s the only thing I need…”
Daniel just sighs as he heads towards her personal bathroom as he shakes his head in disgust.
“No… I do understand. You hurt me Christina… If you were having issues you could have come to me and we could have talked. I have been your supporter and if I wasn’t I wouldn’t have given you a job here. What is all of this about?! Is it because that Alexandra Caldwell chick told you that she wanted to do something else, you can’t handle rejection?! Yeah it sucks but you have a wife in Seleana who loves you. I remember you giving up everything to adopt that little girl Aurora! You are that girl’s world and instead of trying to pick yourself up and teaching her to be a fighter. You run to alcohol and drugs…”
Daniel just takes a deep breath as he shrugs his shoulders.
“That’s not how you do things. Not only that but I heard that you lied to that girl. Seleana was heartbroken telling me that your twelve year old found you unconscious and smelling like booze. What is wrong with you?! Do you want the state to take your daughter away because she has an incompetent parent? On top of that you have pissed your entire wrestling career away. I thought you learned a valuable lesson when Bella beat the unholy hell out of you last year. You found a loophole to get into an SCW match and you won their Roulette Championship. That should have been the only spark that you needed but a few months into your reign and you just phone it in… You get released from your contract and it’s sad… I have never seen someone piss their career as much as you have…”
Daniel just looks away as he walks towards the toilet and stares at the water inside.
“I shouldn’t be so concerned but honestly you have a big name to you. You are the legendary five time SCW Champion. Not many people have accomplished what you have and it seems like it’s all down the drain because you would rather focus on this SHIT!!!”
Daniel opens the bag and he pours the contents into the toilet. Hilton is in a rage as she does everything in her power to break free.
“FUCK YOU DANIEL… THAT’S GOOD SHIT… STOP…. JUST STOP!!!!”
Morgan keeps his eyes on Hilton as he forms a concerned look.
“NO!!! This is for your own good! I am trying to save your life and I am not going to let somebody I care about ruin the value of their life but at the same time I have to protect this casino and sometimes I have to make decisions that I don’t want to make but I know it’s the best one…Don’t you care about your wife, your daughter, or anything?!”
Zdunich lets more tears flow from her eyes as he presses the flush button and the drugs go right down the toilet. London Underground let’s up on her as she falls to the ground. She turns her attention to Daniel as she takes a long deep breath and replies back to him.
“I… I don’t want to be like this… Please Daniel… I know you have to make a big decision but don’t fire me… This position as Events Coordinator at Golden Ring is all I got left. I don’t know what else I would do if I didn’t have it… I love Aurora. I love Seleana…. It hurt me that she had to see me snorting cocaine in a bathroom. I don’t know how I got back into this but I didn’t want my life to go this way… I know I am better than this I…”
Before she could say anything that is when Daniel Morgan has a special surprise for Crystal. That surprise comes in the form of Seleana Zdunich who stands there with tears in her eyes. She looks at Crystal as she can’t keep her eyes off of her.
“Estrellita, this isn’t healthy for you. You need to get your life back on track. Please just take care of yourself. I didn’t like that you lied to me on the phone… If you aren’t going to do it for me do it for…”
Before she could even finish that statement that is when we are able to see Crystal’s twelve year old daughter. Aurora just looks deeply at her mother as a sigh escapes her lips.
“Mommy are you drinking and doing drugs again? I thought you promised that you were finally done with it…”
Just hearing the twelve year old girl was enough to shatter Crystal’s entire world. She broke down even more as she slowly turns her attention back over to Daniel who just stands there. Hilton just sobs endlessly as she pours her heart out to her boss.
“I don’t want to be like this… I definitely can’t be like this… Seleana, Aurora I am so sorry…”
Daniel J. Morgan keeps his eyes locked on Crystal as he walks over to her as he gazes into her eyes.
“Listen I have so many thoughts running through my mind but I will be the first to let you know that I am not going to fire you. I am more concerned with the well-being of my employees and as far as I am concerned you do so much for this casino. I would be a fool if I would fire you. However I am not going to tolerate watching you wreck your professional and personal life so your employment as the casino comes with a cause. You can keep your gig here as long as you get promise to get cleaned up. I refuse to watch this little twelve year Old’s life be ruined because you couldn’t act right…”
Crystal finally nods her head as she looks at everybody in the room.
“I will do it… I will get cleaned up…I won’t ever allow this to happen again. I just need to figure out where to start…”
Seleana looks back at her wife as her and Aurora both surround Crystal as does London Underground. Seleana looks intently into her wife’s eyes as she replies back to her.
“We will all help you. You have friends and that’s what they are here for. As far as what to do perhaps you can try hanging about my sister Zenna. She can sponsor you and help you get through the twelve steps of a program. That’s always a first good step…”
With that Crystal just hugs all of her closest ones as we fade out on this image.
Wow…
It’s been nine months, nine long months since I have last stepped and competed in an SCW ring. It certainly has felt like an eternity but I can say from the bottom of my heart that it feels good to be back. I feel like this is something that I have to do. I know many are questioning why I should even return back to SCW. It’s not like I am the most popular woman in the locker room. It’s not like I have all that much to accomplish considering I have already made it to the very top of the food chain in this company on five different occasions. On top of that I have won Internet Championship, Roulette Championships, along with the Blast From the Past and Queen for a day.
If there is a major achievement in SCW you can say that I have accomplished it. I know when you look at things in that perspective I have done so much but as much as I have done I don’t want to assert my weight by my accolades. Instead I want to focus on what I haven’t done. There is a chapter that is left unfinished and it’s something that I have never been able to do since I came to SCW and that’s simply on being me.
I want to be happy with being the best Crystal Zdunich that I can be and get by on my hard work and determination. My last run in SCW didn’t go in the way that I wanted it to go in. This goes well beyond of that attempt to appease myself by inserting myself into an invitational match and falling through an exit door to become Roulette Champion.
I am talking about that Crystal Hilton that was around before that. The one who paraded around on being La Rosa Ardiente, the same woman who couldn’t even bother to show up for matches and got her ass handed to her by Bella Madison and taken straight to a hospital in an ambulance. That’s not how I want to go out and I want to do much better than that.
That’s why this return is important to me because I want to bust my ass to get back to the top. I don’t want to be looked upon as being as a great veteran who shoves her name around. I want this to be different. I want to grind. I want to work my way through the ranks and start from the very bottom. I feel if I do things that way I will earn people’s respect. I will get back what I lost and I will find my way to getting to the top again.
Rome wasn’t built overnight and what I am seeking for won’t come with the snapping of the fingers, although sometimes one could hope that the Infinity Gauntlet was a real thing because I would certainly snap myself back into the forefront of everything.
However deep down I wouldn’t want things done in that way because it would be a case of people saying it’s the same old, same old. People would just go about calling me egotistical and say that I just want to shove myself into everything.
That wouldn’t get me anywhere and we are about doing everything differently. I know it’s a long road that’s ahead of me. I basically burnt every single bridge during my last run in this company. I dropped the ball in what should have been an amazing match with Courtney Pierce, I lost the Roulette Championship without really putting forth a good effort to defend it. I hurt one of my closest friends Kat Jones on my way and I have hurt Seleana on so many occasions.
I know that there are people in that locker room that don’t want to work with me but it is what it is. The easiest thing would have me to keep far away from SCW and call it quits but the real fight is picking myself back up and jumping into the fray again. The hardest match is going out there night in and night out and showing to the whole world that this company and my career means everything to me so you can bet your bottom dollar that I am emerging ready to fight for what I really want.
It’s already a known fact that i made a promise that I would win all the awards this year. I want to be wrestler of the year; I want to be woman of the year. I want all of it! The only way I can get there and taking it day by day. Not looking too far into the future but taking this journey match by match.
Proving and grinding, showcasing that I am willing to fight every match as if it’s my own. Since leaving SCW I have been on a self-destructive path where it comes to my life. I have broken my sobriety, I picked up on a cocaine addiction and felt at my lowest.
It wasn’t about wrestling; it wasn’t about my marriage or even my children. It was all about getting my next fix and as long as I had that nothing else mattered to me.
Things however changed for the better to end the year. I have completed a ninety day program. I have moved back in with my family and am working as hard as I can to prove that I am a great mother. Things are starting to fall back into place and now there’s only one area left that needs to be realigned and that is in the form of showing to SCW that I am still one of the very best in the business.
It’s very humbling that my very first match back is in the opener but honestly this is how I would want my comeback story to be written. I get to face Harper Mason in my first back.
I am motivated to step into the ring with a woman I have never fought before and I even went as far on social media to offer Harper the best of luck and hoping that we could have a great match together. The moment I say that is the moment that she jumps on Twitter telling me that she isn’t Jessie Salco. It’s also the same moment that Jessie tells me that nobody is buying the crap and all of this other nonsense.
To be quite frank I don’t really care if Harper is a relative of Jessie Salco or not and hopefully I wouldn’t want her to be just like her relative. It reminds me to when I fought Jessie in one of my earlier matches in SCW and she already pegged me as a member of the Mean Girls just because I was friends with Mercedes Vargas before coming to SCW and she cut this long promo that I was part of the meanest and hottest stable in wrestling when I was simply coming into the door.
I am not going to hold anything Harper because in my eyes she is her own individual and has done stuff that she should be proud of on her own accord. Although sometimes the company you keep can rub off of you and people can assume things but I don’t want to judge Harper on that. Harper should be judged on what she has accomplished in SCW and damn she has definitely quite the resume.
She is coming off winning five of her last six matches. She holds a win over Jane McCulligan, she holds a win over wrestling sensation in Laura Phoenix, two wins over Hall of Famer Mercedes Vargas, and a win over Courtney Pierce. Just by those last three names that I named I know that you…
As my former husband would say… indeed MEANS BUSINESS…
So I got to give it to you for grinding girl because it’s no easy thing to beat the names that you have beaten. I give you all of the applause but don’t sit there and take my showing of respect lightly because I am coming to Climax Control to get a win. I am looking to move up in the rankings and you happen to be in my way.
As I look at what Vargas had to say about me, about my record in SCW it has all been mediocre. I don’t even have a winning record in this company. Four more losses than wins is not how I want to be remembered and that’s why I am changing that narrative with our match on Sunday. It’s nothing personal, its business.
I have sat on the sidelines and I heard what Roxi Johnson spoke about when she mentioned how the bombshell division was a Garden and it was one that she was proud of. Different things are blossoming and I definitely agree as well. However you can’t have a garden without having the rose of SCW right in the middle of that garden. I need to be in full bloom and it’s time I do it on the right terms.
Whatever you might think of me or whatever Salco stated you might as well through all of that out of the window. When I left I was happy with being the Burning Rose. I would let the anger light a flame within me and I would let the embers consume me so I can ignite it all over the rest of the division.
I am done of letting the rage be my fuel. I have cooled that down and I am happy with the Winter Rose. It’s time to take a cool approach and it’s time to put the rest of the competition on ice. When people start talking themselves up to be at a status that they aren’t quite at it creates more of an opportunity for pride to come in and cause a major fall.
I don’t want to be about that life. I want to persevere and push ahead. I want to challenge myself and take on each fight as a new opportunity.
You have five wins to your name with only one lost and I am going to be the woman to tell you don’t expect to get your sixth win at my expense because for the first time in my life I feel like I am really fighting for something special. I am fighting for my honor, my integrity, and my reputation. I need to do everything in my power to recover what I lost.
Some might think this is a road of redemption but that’s been played out. This is recovery and I can honestly say for the first time I like who I am. I accept who I am. Everything I have done has always been me and I am not going to hide from that fact. Too many times I have done things for shock value or for instant gratification. It’s been about trying to do what people liked and not what was best for me. That’s where this all changes.
You got some good stuff going Harper.
You got the family legacy. You got the backing of being from Hero Academy. You have so many people that can help teach you the greatest lesson in all of wrestling, which is how you deal with losing.
It’s easy to feel the momentum and motivation when you are on top of the world but what really matters is how you pick yourself up when you are feeling down. Consider this another lesson and one that I am in the mood to teach you personally. Nothing will stop me in my journey to get to the top. This journey starts with you and it will keep on continuing.
Best of luck Harper you certainly will need it seeing as you are getting in the ring with me.
It’s time to put those dream of yours on ice because the Winter Rose is in full bloom and she is going to make sure you take one big chill pill.
For I am the Rose that refuses to wither away, I am Crystal Zdunich and I will find a way to thrive no matter the situation or circumstance…
