Post by "Venom" Xavier Lux on Oct 20, 2022 22:45:24 GMT -5
OOC: Continued from: James Raven's RP (which was supposed to be linked here, but it's not up yet, so make sure you go read his before you read mine... Go, now, enjoy his abs, shoo!!
“That’s so Raven…”
He looks at the drink and contemplates drinking it.
“Fuck it…”
He chugs it down in one shot. He turns to the bartender.
“Not bad, what’s it called anyway?”
“A blowjob…” the bartender replies, trying to hold back his laughter.
“Motherf-… Raven!” Xavier stands up, and after taking a step or two, he begins to stumble.
“What the hell? I haven’t drunk that much…” He stumbles away from the bar, as he tries to find his footing, going down a stoned path that leads to the beach, but he must stop by a lit torch, grabbing it for balance as his world is turning.
“That son of a bitch, he drugged me…But I’m on his team!” Just then two men dressed in pirate costumes approach Xavier, draw out their swords and hold them up to his throat. He straights himself and blinks rapidly, trying to figure out if this is for real or just a hallucination.
“Ahoy matey, give up the booty!”
“Okay first of all, I don’t swing that way.” He takes two steps back. “Second of all, what?”
“Ya heard me matey, give us you loot or suffer the consequences!”
“Did SEB put you up to this? He’s really going all out for this pirate gimmick for this event huh? Look fellas, I don’t feel so well right now, I think I’ve just been drugged by one of my teammates and I just need to lay down for a second.”
“You can lay at the bottom of the sea for all we care! This is your last chance, give us your gold or else.”
“Or else what man? I don’t got time for this shit!” Xavier brushes the swords off to the side and goes to punch one of the pirates but he’s all slow and the pirate simply side steps him and both watch him stumble and fall down into some nearby bushes.
“What do you reckon we do with him?”
“Search him, if he don’t got no gold, then off to the brig he goes!”
“Yar!”
“Yaaar!”
The pirates grab Xavier, one by each arm and then drag him off to the beach where a small wooden boat is waiting. Off in the distance you see a classic pirate ship, burnt brown in color with your standard skull pirate flags. They toss Xavier into the boat and then push it off the shore until it is deep enough for it to float. Then the two get on and head to the main vessel.
Let’s get the obvious out of the way Team Black, and that is that out of the five of us, you have no idea who I am. You are probably asking who replaced Mac Bane, a name recognized across the wrestling world. That man is a Triple Crown winner, who the hell is Xavier Lux? I can tell you I go by the moniker of “Venom” or “the man with venom in his veins” but all of that will mean nothing to you. I can tell you of all the accolades I had before I took an eleven-year break and how I picked right back up where I left off when I returned to the business in the summer of 2020.
But you still wouldn’t know me.
You probably have drooled all over James Raven’s abs… You have probably had nightmares about “The Mechanic” Peter Vaughn and all the ways he can hurt you, and if you don’t know, check out twitter, he has a damn list. You probably wish you were cool enough to hang with Mark Flynn, not only did he recently win the Universal Championship, but the ‘highest’ of cups, The Cannabis Cup 2022. The man is royalty… and then there is Sebastian Everett Bryce the f’n third, and he’s a damn Pirate Lord! *ahem*… OK, he’s an idiot, they can’t all be winners folks, but if you want a winner, then look no further than our leader, “Chronic” Chris Page. He’s the mastermind behind this team and the one, who at the Cannabis Cup, beat your group leader Corey Black in a death match. Yeah, you may not know me, but you know the men I stand shoulder to shoulder with and the man backing me up with his whole enterprise.
That is all you really need to know.
That is enough.
But… could you still do research on me? Sure, go check out the XWF and read all about my struggles, and some successes, but at the end of the day that will not do you any good because the simple fact is this: this is not the XWF, and this is not Action Wrestling for that matter.
We are in neutral ground and while Waikiki is a beautiful and peaceful place and usually a destination to find complete relaxation, come night four of the Tara Fenix Charity Event, come main event time, what goes down in that ring will be anything but peaceful. Oh, I know this is all for charity, we are just doing this to collect a crap load of cash for charities handpicked by Tara and friends and yeah that’s all fine and well… Mine is The Fatherless Generation Foundation by the way, look it up. But that’s all out of the ring stuff, what I care about is what goes down inside the ring where I practice my craft and guess what boys and girls? I am damn good at it, so regardless of who I face during this elimination match, when it’s all said and done, you will know just who the hell I am.
We find ourselves inside the brig of the pirate ship. Xavier is sitting down, still knocked out in one of the cells, but the ship rocking back and forth makes him sway on the bench and eventually falls forward, face first unto the dirty floor and that wakes him up.
“What the… f…”
He pushes himself off the floor into a sitting position, leaning against the cell wall. He rubs his bald head, filling the effects of the massive headache. He opens his eyes and looks around slowly, once he gets his bearings, he tries to work out what is going on.
“Man, SEB really is going all out isn’t he. But if this is SEB’s doing, where are the rest of the guys? Flynn is not motivated enough to do this…Peter wouldn’t mess with me like this, he just let me stay at his ranch for crying out loud so I could focus on this event and sober up. Well, the sobering part didn’t go as planned, but everything else did. I was feeling good, well trained, ready for the rumble and this survivor series match up. Nah, this got Raven written all over it. He thought I was his opponent up until a minute ago…”
He stands up as best he can, but hangs on to one of the bars for balance… He looks out the small window and sees that while they are at sea, they haven’t gone anywhere as he can clearly see Waikiki beach. He then begins to think harder on who can be behind this plot to capture him and then it hits him.
“Could Corey Black and his team be behind this? I mean I don’t know a damn thing about the history between him and Chris that lead to this match… I thought it was all for charity and shit… Maybe it goes deeper than that. But why capture me? I’m the last guy to join the team, or maybe I’m just the first to get captured? But by whom? One of the other four on his team? Hmm…”
He looks around for something to write, and he grabs a random white shell from the floor and then turns towards the wall of the ship and tries to see if he can write/carve into it with it and what do you know, he can. He begins writing the names of his five opponents but before he can much more, the two pirates from earlier come down the steps and as he turns to face them. they draw their swords and ask him to back up; he does.
“Look man, enough of this shit. I’m supposed to be back on that beach, relaxing, drinking, maybe finding a nice Hawaiian lady to spend the night with, not over here playing Jack f’n Sparrow with you two idiots.”
They hold the swords up to his nose this time and he takes another step back.
“Fine, what do you want.”
“We don’t want nothing, the captain wants to meet you Venom.”
“Ah, you know my name…”
“We know your father…”
“What the…”
Before he can finish, one of the pirates hits him with the pommel of his sword, which knock him back and suddenly Xavier begins to drift between this reality and another one, almost if the hit with the butt end of the sword knocked a screw loose. In the reality he finds himself in, he is back at the beach, at nighttime, sitting on the sand in front of a fire he has built himself. In his hands he holds a deck of five cards with a sticky note on the top of the first one. It’s a note from his friend, and “7 Deadly Sins” stablemate: “Cholo” Giovanni Santana. He, like Xavier will be in the Night 1 Event Rumble. The note reads: “Got these cards made for you, they helped me recently and thought they may help you.” The cards are colorful images of the five wrestlers he will be facing, on the back, all kind of good info on each. He removes the sticky to reveal the first one.
"I guess I’ll breakdown my opponents now huh? Good a time as any while I am getting my ass kicked. Should I start with who I consider the bottom and work my way up? Fantastic. Let’s start with you then, Regan Voorhees, “The Duchess of Pork”. Now don’t get me wrong, me starting with you is not a sign of disrespect at all even if when I read your slogan, I can’t help to think of Peppa Pig’s Mom. I’m sure it has a deeper, better meaning but I digress. I still have respect for your team because you all are or have been at some point drenched in gold. You have been the AW Cruiserweight champion on 3 separate occasions, totaling over a hundred days and that is no easy feat, I’m sure. I mean on your first win you beat Spayde who I know doesn’t get pinned that often. You have done good in the past and I’m sure that’s one of the reasons Corey Black has chosen you to be on his team. Another reason could be that you are a technical brawler who fights dirty. I like that Duchess because I like to get dirty myself. I mean sure if you want a clean, all-out-knuckle-brawl, I’m game too but if you want to really get dirty, then let’s get fucking dirty. Let’s take our fight to the outside, let’s take our fight to the clean white sands of Waikiki and smear them with blood. I’m sure the feel of sand on a freshly opened wound is fantastic but if the blood is too much, we can just wash it off in the ocean water. I’m sure the salt won’t sting too badly. Are you game Porky?"
“Get up!”
Xavier looks up, and he’s back at the brig, looking up at the other pirate who also smacks him with the pommel of his sword, knocking him back down to the beach reality. He continues.
"Fourth, I have a man with a million nicknames. I mean damn son, you couldn’t just stick with one, or five? Usually, I never do this, but you know what, screw it, I want everyone who is watching this to know how ridiculous Spencer Adams is. You guys ready? Okay here we go… The Good One, The King of Clash, Strongstyle Adams, okay those are not bad. But I’m not done. “Badmon”, I get it, slang for bad man? Cute. “Mr. AW”, like, the root beer? “Rushmore”, like the movie? Like the mountain? What were you going for here? “KOS”, I got nothing. “Himothy”, again, slang for Timothy? No? You got me. “Farnese”, according to the internets this is a common occupational name for a person who farmed land. I guess this was during your farmer gimmick days huh Adams? But then he goes off the deep end with “Greatest Beyond Time”, “The Damn Best” and “Mr. Tag Team Wrestling”. Alright, you know what, I will give you this last one. You are after all a 5-time, 5-time, 5-time, 5-time, 5-time tag team champion of the world with one of your partners in this event no less, CJ Fenix. The current tag team champions too, my respects. There is one more, “The Antidote”, and this one I can relate to seeing as I call myself Venom and my finisher’s name is “The Cure”. It’s quite simple why, to me, all my opponents are a decease, a virus infecting the world of professional wrestling and I have the cure to get rid of everyone one of you."
“I said get up!”
He looks up and again he’s back at the ship, only to get slapped back to the beach reality.
"This is getting old…Well, since I mentioned your partner, let’s make him number three, “The Luminary of Despair", now that nickname is cool. Don’t know what the fuck it means CJ, but it’s cool, nonetheless. Former US champion and a former Hardcore Champion and if I’m not mistaken, you beat Spencer for this title did you not? I’m glad to see you guys have a strong enough of a bond to not let a singles championship come between the two of you. I know that Corey is the leader of your group, and he is the one all of us should really focus on, but to me, you two are the most dangerous of your entire team and if I’m being honest, you have the advantage over everyone in this match. You guys are a legit tag team, you guys know and trust each other, know when to make the hot tag, know how to keep a man isolated and all of that. Being a tag team wrestler really comes in handy in this type of match. I honestly don’t know if any of my teammates have ever tagged with each other. I know Peter and I had our alliance at one point, but we were never an actual tag team. So, my respects Fenix, I’m going to be keeping my eye on you and your partner and will make sure my team knows that we need to break you guys up as soon as we can. The only question really is: will we get rid of Adams first, or you?"
“We are not going to tell you again!”
Xavier decides to not look up this time, flipping to the fourth card and continuing.
"Second, we have “ILL” Jill Park, the current US and Women’s champion in Action Wrestling. I can see why Corey would want to have you in his team and why the rest of your team would agree to it. You know, you refer to yourself as an “unpolished brawler that talks a lot of trash”, and we’ll comeback to the second part but if you are an unpolished wrestler, how do you explain making both of your opponents in the title matches tap out to win those championships? I think I smell something here and while you may say that you like to talk trash, I think you are full of it as well. You claim to be this Lollipop blonde doll from Venice Beach who looks like a teenage country singer I used to know when in reality, you are a damn wolf in sheep’s clothing aren’t ya? You know exactly what you are doing in the ring and while you may have everyone in Action Wrestling fooled, you ain’t fulling me girly. I can see right through your bullshit and you can come at me and spew all the garbage you want, it will do you know good. I am a professional wrestler and I hope I get a chance to be in the ring one on one with ya and not only expose your game but show the world exactly how polished you are… Hmm, wait, that doesn’t sound right, ah screw it… But I will tell you this too, I don’t think you have it in you to make any of us tap, specially me."
“Let’s go Scorpion Junior!”
That makes him look up, as he just doesn’t get what the connection is here between his father, pirates and this damn Charity Event. Back to reality, or is the other the real reality? Who knows at this point. With each pirate grabbing one arm, they lead him out of the cage without saying another word, and as they are about to go up the steps, the boat shifts violently, as if something hit it and Xavier uses this distraction to quickly turn and spear one of the pirates down to the floor. As they wrestler around, fighting for the sword, the other one tries to figure out a way to get involved and when Xavier manages to flip on top of pirate one, pirate two comes from behind with the sword, looking to stab him but Xavier rolls out of the way at the last second and the pirate two stabs his partner. Xavier, quick on his feet now, grabs one of the few lanterns in the brig and smashes it against the side of the pirate’s head. Not only does he smash it to pieces, but the oil and flames go flying everywhere, including the pirate who is quickly engulfed in flames. He screams and runs off, heading up the steps and not ten seconds after we hear a splash, likely him going overboard to put out the fire. Xavier sees that things around him are quickly catching fire and shrugs.
“Not my ship, let it all burn…”
He grabs the other lanterns and smashes them against the walls of the ships, causing them to catch on fire right away. The sounds of more pirates rushing down is heard and Xavier quickly rushes under the stairs to hide. About 5 pirates come down with buckets of water and get to work on the fire and Xavier uses this distraction to head up the steps himself. Once on the top deck, he looks around, and sees the captain quarters.
“Alright, let’s find out who’s behind this foolishness.”
He starts to head that way when he hears a scream come from below deck.
“The barrels of gunpowder caught fire, run, abandon ship!”
“Oh shit!” shouts Xavier, and as he begins to turn, to head for the stern of the ship, it blows up, sending him flying some 20 feet into the air and then down into the water where his body splashes hard and quickly disappears under water.
We now come to the leader of the group: "Deathproof" Corey Black, the owner of the longest Hardcore championship title reign in your promotion. The only one of the bunch, to be a former World Champion too; 112 days your reign lasted didn’t it Corey? The 13th world champion, lucky number for you huh? Clearly you are not superstitious; neither am I. I must admit that while I know I can go toe to toe with everyone in your team, you would be the toughest, you are indeed the crème de la crème. When I look at the rich history of AW, your name is all over it, cited in multiple locations, multiple championships, multiple events. It’s been a long time since I’ve faced someone of your caliber, and while James, Peter, Flynn and even SEB, may want to be the ones to take you on, I do hope I get my chance. Some may say that I just want the rub, but I don’t care, what I am after, is the competition. Like I mentioned at the beginning, I know I am the least known of my group but going up against a wrestler of your caliber gets my gears going and reminds me of why I got into the business in the first place: to be the best wrestler I could possibly be. You can only do that by facing the best and facing an all-rounded wrestler like yourself who lives in the technical strong style, IS facing the best. So come event time, I guess I’ll be fighting my teammates for a crack at you, and if I can somehow be the one that eliminates you, if I can replicate what Chris Page has already done and pin you for the one, two, three. Man, that would make me feel invincible…That would make me feel… death proof.
After a few seconds, Xavier re-emerges, taking a deep breath before going under and then re-emerging again. He does this a couple of times until he can settle in the water, adjust his imaginary compass and find the island. Blocking his view is what’s left of the ship, up in flames and he stares at it in amazement, he can’t help but wonder…
“Did I just blow up my father?” but he quickly shakes the thought off. “Nah you idiot, he’s already dead. Stop it.” He instead turns his attention to all the pieces of wood of all sizes scattered all around him, but nothing big enough to carry him. He then notices the small wooden boat the two pirates brought him in completely untouched, but a good swimming distance away.
“Well, sink or swim has never been more appropriate I guess, let’s go X, you got this.”
He begins to swim his way over, fighting the waves, the debris which some, again, is still on fire. Thirty minutes later, he manages to make it to the boat and with whatever strength he has left, he is able to pull himself unto the boat. Unfortunately for him, here is where he finds the pirate that he half burnt to death. They begin to fight, or wrestle, in the small boat and it’s only a matter of time before it flips over. The fight seems to continue under water, as for a few moments we don’t see either of them. Then, a body floats up, face down, it’s the burnt pirate. Behind him, Xavier pops up, gasping for air. He then grabs one of the oars floating nearby and somehow uses it to flip over the boat. He gets back on it, and lays there, breathing heavily, looking up at the sky above before passing out.
The boat has made its way very near the shore, Xavier can be heard inside of it groaning. There is someone at the beach, looking right at the boat and after trying to figure out what he is looking at, he decides to approach it. As he gets close to the boat, he pulls out his phone and uses the light on it to get a better look. Once he reaches the boat, he looks in and is shocked, recognizing Xavier. He says something we can’t quite make out and then begins to pull the boat towards the shore until the boat is stabilized. He then reaches in, slapping the shit out of Xavier, causing him to wake up right away. He looks up to him, raising his right arm to cover the light blinding him.
“What the fuck Peter?”
Peter Vaughn, one of Xavier’s partners in the survivor series match looks at him, still shocked and asks him what happened. Xavier thinks hard, and all he can manage to say is…
“That was some blowjob…”
He passes out again.
