San Diego, California
Gem Stone Mansion
One of the best things about SCW being in San Diego meant that Crystal had time to visit a close friend. Her journey had taken home to the mansion of the Gem Stones where she could visit her longtime friend Kate Steele. Crystal along with her daughter Aurora had visited the female rock band’s home. Crystal stood outside of the door and waited patiently as Aurora smiled at her mother.
“I love being back in California! I miss seeing Juliet, as much as I know you love being in Las Vegas, I want to move back to California! I miss coming over here and seeing Auntie Kate and Juliet all of the time. I want to spend time with Halo and Brittany. I just miss seeing all of my family and friends…”
Crystal just sighs as she looks back at her teenage daughter. The thirteen year old just looks down as Crystal grabs at her shoulders and gazes into her eyes.
“I know you want to be back in California it’s just that I enjoy being at the hotel…Daniel J. Morgan expects so much out of me. Charlotte and Mackenzie need me and…”
Aurora pouts as she gazes back at her mother. She immediately crosses her arms as she looks right up into Crystal’s eyes.
“I need you too mom! Also I miss my school, I miss my friends. I just want to be back with people that I know. You know I don’t have good memories are being in Las Vegas especially not in that Golden Ring Casino place. It’s where my biological mom… Well…’
Aurora can’t help but let the tears overwhelm her. Crystal just sighs before she grabs at her daughter and pulls her in tightly for a long huge. A few moments go by and the door to the Gem Stones home opens up. Standing on the other side of that door in pajamas is Diamond Steele. Diamond smirks as she looks back at her friend.
“Did I miss something, why is my Goddaughter crying?!”
Kate is confused as she keeps her eyes locked on the teenage girl but it isn’t that long until a brunette girl runs right past her. It is Kate’s daughter Juliet. She embraces Aurora and hugs her as she looks back into her eyes.
“Aurora is everything okay?! It feels like forever since the two of us saw one another. Whatever is going on I am here for you. I won’t let anything happen to my best friend. Not now and not ever…”
The other teenage girl grabs Aurora by the hand and the two of them run off leaving Crystal and Kate standing at the door. Kate welcomes Crystal in and she finally steps inside of the home. Crystal takes a seat on the sofa as Kate just looks upon her friend.
“You look like you have been hit with a truck, can I get you something. Tea, coffee, maybe a glass of wine….”
Kate pauses for a moment as she shrugs her shoulders for a moment.
“I forgot about the whole recovering alcoholic thing and I wouldn’t want you to relapse on my watch…”
Crystal nods her head before she giggles in return as she looks back at her friend.
“It’s hard to relapse at your expense when I already did that a few weeks ago. If you have any I would enjoy a sparkling water. I think that would honestly hit the spot right now…Preferably you could put it over ice…”
Kate nods her head as she walks over to her refrigerator and grabs a bottle of sparkling water. She steps up a glass with ice and pours it over it before she walks back into the living room with two glasses. She passes one to Crystal before she sits down in her rocking chair and gazes back into her eyes.
“So is everything alright with you?! You were one of the strongest people I know when it came to your stance on being strong and letting sobriety take its course. I didn’t take you as the type of woman that would let things get broken so easily. On top of that what was that about with Aurora?! Is everything okay?”
Crystal takes a small sip of her drink as she looks back at Kate.
“…Not really, I wouldn’t have been drinking if anything was okay. Before you even ask yes both of my wives know about my situation. They know that I have relapsed. To be honest I just think that this Las Vegas life is getting to me. I never imagined having so much power within a casino. I feel accomplished like I have managed to accomplish something. Daniel is finally seeing me for something more than just being an events coordinator. I worked hard to move up from being a waitress at the casino sports bar to being an events coordinator to now being the acting director of the casino. Under my watch I have brought in so much money into the establishments. Revenue is going up through the roof and I have just managed to do an extension of the property and it now has a hotel attached…”
Crystal smirks as wide as she can.
“It doesn’t get any better than that. Daniel wanted a hotel for the longest but he was always busy doing other projects. With him being away in London he really is proud of everything that I have accomplished. I feel like I am a valuable asset and you know how much it means to me to be accepted by something. My heart belongs in Vegas. Although Sin City isn’t the safest place for a former junkie like me. You don’t have any idea how often security manages to confiscate cocaine and other drugs. Everybody in the casino are holding a drink in their hand… It’s in my face every day. it becomes hard not to indulge in those things once and a while…”
Kate shakes her head.
“That’s the issue though… You shouldn’t willingly put yourself in a position where you are setting yourself to fail. That’s not healthy. Don’t get too wrapped up in the power it isn’t going to do you any good. Just take a look at what all of that power did to Scarface. He went into a rage. He killed his sister’s husband, and couldn’t help but go into this big cocaine binge over things. In the end he got killed. It doesn’t matter if he was the biggest drug Lord in all of Miami. He met his maker…I just don’t want you to do anything stupid…”
“Kate…”
“No… Don’t Kate me. You don’t need that type of power. You are happy to run a hotel, funny considering you were at one time married to a man who owned his own hotel chain. You shouldn’t settle for just getting caught up in the moment. You own your own movie studio. California loves you why trade that in?!”
“I don’t want to trade it in but the more I am Vegas is the more I get caught up in the confines of the city. I think the worst of everything is how Aurora feels about the entire ordeal. She misses being around her family. She misses being around you, and I don’t think Vegas is doing anything for her mental state. It’s where her mother passed away and…”
Kate gets up as she walks over to where Crystal is sitting and wraps an arm around her.
“Then leave… Vegas is not your home. Don’t you miss being around here so much?! Don’t you want fir Juliet and Aurora to grow up as best friends who have each other’s back? You are taking away from that by trying to stay in a city that isn’t going to do you any good…”
Kate just stands there but Crystal slowly gazes back into the eyes of her friend.
“You are the one quick to give advice but how do you feel Kate. How does it feel knowing that things didn’t work out in your marriage with Dawn Lohan?! You could have had two years of your life back but instead you got rid of it trying to chase after something based on a physical need and not relying on what your heart needed…Then when your world was crumbling and the world was going to self-destruct around you, you still tried to force something that wasn’t meant to work…”
Kate raises her eyes as she looks back at Crystal.
“You want the truth Crystal?! The truth is I should have never gotten with Dawn Lohan in the first place. I was happy being with Stoyo. I had bought the engagement ring and I was prepared to get down on one knee and propose to that woman. I was just afraid that she might have been too good for me. When I was out of town I met Dawn Lohan on the road and we slept with each other. We had endless upon endless sex and I had betrayed Stoyo. I knew I could never told her what I did. I couldn’t bear to see her cry or watch her break down so I decided to walk away. I walked away and went to something else…”
“And now look at you Kate. You chased Lohan and two annulments later what you thought you wanted wasn’t really what you wanted at all…”
Kate nods her head.
“Exactly… It wasn’t. Dawn is a sweet girl and even though I am now engaged once again and I am hoping that things really work out for the best. The truth is that I should have stayed with Stoyo. She is the one who had my heart. This girl moved all the way out to San Diego just to be with me and I blew it. I saw the same traits in her that I saw in Teddy. I know they truly loved me and they are the best thing for me. Sometimes we go against what’s best and right but want to run on passions alone, and that won’t do anything for a person…Now I am in a wonderful situation. Blayke loves me and I get the same vibes that I got with Teddy and Stoyo…”
“What that tells me is that you need to make sure that you do everything in your power not to mess things up. If Blayke who your heart is set on then by all means really commit yourself to that and don’t look back for anything…”
Kate nods her head as she slowly looks back at Crystal.
“I plan to do that because I know that Blayke is my life but are you willing to do the same Crystal?! Since you have gotten here it just seems like you don’t really know which way to turn. You are having your share of doubts and you are questioning what’s wrong from what’s right. To be honest it’s not really up for discussion because you know somewhere deep in your heart what the only answer should be. As much as being in Vegas us something that you love, there is something much more important. It’s what your daughter thinks. Aurora is your lively hood. She is what you fight for. You can’t just let her down…”
“I know that Kate…”
“Of course I can sit here and talk it up but at the end of the day there is only one person who can make the decision at the end of the day. It’s all about what you want to do. As long as you make that decision and you are content with it nothing else matters…”
Crystal thinks about it for a few moments as she slowly turns her attention to Kate and a small smile escapes her lips.
“I already know what I want to do. The right decision had always been right in front of me. I don’t know why I tried to run away from it for so long but it’s the only thing that makes sense…”
Kate is befuddled as she looks back at her friend.
“And what decision is that?!”
Crystal grins again.
“It’s time to move back to Los Angeles. It’s the only place that I can really call home. The wildfires may have taken our home but that doesn’t mean that we can’t rebuild and find something bigger. A place where I and my family can enjoy and we can create new memories. I know Seleana loves being near the Zoo and Alexandra is from Compton. It’s the only logical decision but they all were waiting on me to decide… Well decision has been made… It’s time to come back…”
Kate smirks as her eyes open wide up.
“Good but don’t you think there’s somebody that you need to tell?!”
Crystal yells at the top of her lungs
“AURORA COME HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The teenage girl runs as she and Juliet are looking at Crystal. The Winter Rose smiles as she begins to speak.
“Good news Aurora… We are moving back to Los Angeles…So you don’t ever have to worry about anything anymore because I won’t split you up from Juliet. I won’t separate you from your friends. Your future is the only thing that’s important to me and I want you to always be happy…”
“Mom….”
Is all Aurora can say as she hugs Crystal as tightly as she can and we fade out on this image.
What is going on my beautiful and adoring Blossoming Roses?! Can I just say that from the bottom of my heart that it felt so damn good to walk into Inception and to walk out with a big win?! I am going to be honest even though I had a big Super Card match with Cassie Wolfe and it’s one that I managed to win. Truthfully it’s not one that I really wanted. I know that sounds like such an arrogant thing to say and I should be happy to be on any Super Card but the reason why I am not happy is because I know that deep down I am worth so much more than just being in the ring with Cassie Wolfe.
She’s a good up and coming star. Hell I will even say that she might very well be the future of the company, and she is attached to a wrestling family being the sister to Krystal Wolfe, but as great as all of that sounds for her. The truth of the matter is that she simply isn’t me.
She isn’t on my level nor will she ever be on my level as long as I am competing in Sin City Wrestling. These last couple of months I have been dealing with a serious dilemma. I have been trying to balance a double life. I know it’s silly that I keep on harping on the things that Andrea Hernandez had said about me. questioning that I don’t have the drive anymore, pondering why I wouldn’t step up to her when we had a match with one another, and after beating me acting like she had the last laugh and could dust her hands of me like I am yesterday’s trash.
It’s not just her though I have been trying way too hard to be a kiss ass to Kayla Richards. Part of me wants to hold onto the fact that I thought we were friends and I am just waiting around in anticipation just to hear her say that I am a friend. It all sounds good on paper but then I quickly remembered that when I was fighting Kallie Reznik months ago Kayla was quick to tell me that SHE was her friend and I was basically nothing. On top of that I don’t know how I should feel about a woman such as Kayla that constantly disrespects my wife on social media and I am supposed to just sit around and act like it doesn’t hurt?!
Screw that… It does hurt and while I may not have the best track record when it comes to loyalty one thing I will not put up is people who wish to disrespect my wife and more importantly wish to take shots at me. That isn’t going to cut it anymore and that’s why I am making the decision to finally step up and finally put an end to all of that.
I guess what I am saying is that I am not going to tolerate sitting on the backburner anymore. I am not going to be cast aside and act like I don’t know what I want anymore. In the same way I thought that leaving los Angeles was the best decision for my career it was a cop out. I Just wanted to move on towards something else without really facing the harsh realities of what I need to deal with. I know the wild fires may have burnt my home down but that doesn’t mean I need to run away from the problem. Instead I need to face my problems head on and it’s definitely time to come back home. Go back to the place that made me.
That’s why I am making the firm decision that I need to do whatever it takes to make it to the inside of this Elimination Chamber. I need to qualify so that I can put all the critics like Kayla and Andrea Hernandez to rest. I need to showcase that I am still the best damn bombshell in this company and there’s a reason why I am a former five time World Bombshell Champion.
It’s time to get back to the basics and get back to the real task at hand. Become champion at all costs.
I know I will get what I want because I feel like the old Crystal is starting to emerge from out of her shell. The same Crystal that became public enemy number 1 by casting Despy aside, the same Bitch who went on to have one of the greatest Bombshell Championship reigns of all time and nobody could do anything to stop her.
I will be that Bitch again and I will walk into another Chamber and simply do what I do best.
It all sounds good on paper but sadly I know that there’s one woman that is going to try to detract me from doing what I set out to do. That woman is somebody that I am no stranger with. I know I go on record sometimes and say that Roxi Johnson was the reason why I came to SCW but if I can be honest it wasn’t Roxi. It was the woman that I am about to do battle with in the form of Mercedes Vargas.
Behind the cameras, behind what anybody might see on television is a woman that I at one point called a friend in my life! Vargas and I go back to being in two female wrestling companies together. We came up through the circuit competing in Divas Unleashed and the World Women’s Wrestling League. Damn it’s crazy that I could sit here and mention DU and 3WL but that’s where our history begun.
We were bitter enemies at one point and turned into tag team champions with one another. Vargas had always been there for me. I remember when I first came to SCW I really didn’t know anything or anybody. I remember the locker room hating me because Amy Marshall preached how she had to get away from a former wrestling company and had to deal with egotistical women named Zelda Knite and Crystal Hilton. Hearing Amy say those things made me put on a mask and compete as La Paloma when I got here.
However I didn’t want to be stuck behind a mask forever and as soon as the mask came off the locker room cast me aside. Women such as Jessie Salco started pegging me as another member of the Mean Girls but that wasn’t the case at all, maybe it had something to do with my friendship with Mercedes.
When those Mean Girls disbanded Mercedes was right there welcoming me with open arms. Women like her and Natalie McKinley made being in the locker room a friendly place for me. I felt accepted and I definitely felt loved.
Mercedes did everything in her power to make sure I was assimilated into the company. However as we all know I think the worst thing that has ever happened for Vargas is the fact that I came to this company. I mean me being in SCW meant that she couldn’t be the best Latina in this company.
Although at the same exact thing she should be thanking me. I deserve an Academy Award for my role as the best supporting actress because when you first won the World Championship it wasn’t because you were good enough to beat Sam Marlowe but it was because I came down to ringside caused a distraction which allowed you to pick up a win with your Black Rose Overdrive.
Seriously?! I would have accepted chocolates, some roses or at least a thank you card, but I didn’t get anything. I appreciate what you have gone on to do in this company Mercedes. You have worked so much to get into the industry. I appreciate a woman such like you who had to go through the trials of being born in Argentina and having to learn English as a second language. I can respect you being this Telenovela Actress and breaking your way into wrestling to make something of yourself.
It takes hard work and dedication to do what you have done.
Granted as great of an actress you might be, and as much of a star that you built yourself up into being you just aren’t the woman that I am. I know there was a time where you constantly preached to the world how you always found a way to hold a championship in single calendar year of being in the company. You talk about that you win title after title but it’s sad that when compared to me you just aren’t ME and certainly not on my LEVEL.
Isn’t it a damn shame that I came into this company after you but found my way into the Hall of Fame in the same exact year that you did?! That means I made an everlasting impact on this company that can’t be forgotten.
Winning most improved and woman of the year in the same damn year….
Damn…
Beating Mikah and unifying my Internet Championship with her World Championship?!
Also deserves another damn.
Just looking at your career I guess you deserve some credit because you were a multiple time Tag Team Champion, multiple time Roulette Champion. First woman in the company to win five different championships! If you take away me helping you win the World Championship to be honest we just have a woman whose ceiling is being a glorified mid card champion AT BEST, and if you compare your ceiling with me holding Five World Bombshell Championships it’s a clear cut fact who is the better individual wrestler between the both of us is.
I am a main event caliber wrestle and you are the wannabe who is trying to play make pretend…
Sad considering we both are actresses but honestly one of us is taking the acting thing a bit too much too heart and I refuse to be a pretender like you are.
Besides hanging about in the days of the yesteryears what have you done?! As long as we both been in this company every time we have been in the ring with one another I have dominated you for a good 95 percent of the time. You really only beaten me when you smashed a pumpkin over me in a stupid Halloween stipulation match and I will give you last year.
Last year in May you had beaten the snot out of me. it was a burial from the beginning. You decimated me and used me to send a message to Tempest that you would do everything in your power to take the Internet Championship from her which you didn’t.
You didn’t care about my safety. You delivered three Black Rose Overdrives to me and then you finally decided to pin me after all of that. As if that wasn’t enough you had put your hands on my wife multiple times and delivered a Black Rose Overdrive to her on top of me. You must have thought yourself to be some top shit with the way you abused me in that match.
I have that image of that match playing in my head over and over again. I wasn’t myself back then. I was trying too hard to try to be friends with Tempest and I honestly trying to find a place to fit in with the company because I didn’t believe in myself.
I allowed different women to get the better of me but those days are long gone and I am looking to avenge where I went wrong. I am locked on one purpose now and that’s to beat you and to take my place in the Chamber no matter the costs.
Lately I have been going through my movie collection and I wanted to find out what role I would play in this upcoming season of SCW. The season I have listed as the do whatever it takes to become World Bombshell Champion again.
I could only come up with one movie that best symbolizes what I am about to do and that’s Kill Bill. I am indeed the Uma Thurman in this ordeal. I am the Bride who has been wronged and I know all of you thought you left me for dead.
People like Kayla who kicked me aside, people like Andrea who feel like they had the last word, people like you who you decimated to try to gain an upper hand for an upcoming title match that you didn’t even win.
Anyway as the Bride from Kill Bill I have a list with so many different names of all who wronged me. I plan to cross each and every single name off of this list until I prove that I am indeed the best of the very best.
Vargas you are the first name that I will cross off and I not looking past you, Bitch I plan to go RIGHT THROUGH YOU in order to get to where I need to go.
So let all of that sink in and if anybody is confused you don’t have to be so any longer. Crystal Zdunich is back. You can call me by whatever you wish but it doesn’t matter. Christina “Rose” will still smell just as sweet and it’s going to feel sweeter when I am that much closer to taking what rightfully belongs to me.
I will see you out that Vargas. You may have beaten Song but this is steps up from that, and honestly you don’t have what it takes to beat me when I am focused to do what is necessary to get the job done.
Lights
Camera
Action..
It’s show time and it’s time to finally roll the credits on your meaningless career once and for all.
