* A man is controlled by his destiny. It grabs at his heart and binds him down like chains on a prisoner. There is nothing he can do to escape this. No matter how struggles he can break his bonds. He can not stop the events set in motion for him since the dawn of time. He can not undue the past and he will not change his future. Destiny controls us all.*

* The night sky is cold, like the ice of a dead soul’s heart. The black nothingness seems to engulf the dark one’s surroundings. Lucifer is standing in ashes. The ashes of where his house used to be. He stands in the ashes of his former life. He is wearing a long black trenchcoat with a hood that casts a shadow onto his painted face. His dark eyes are in serious thought. He maneuvers his way through the rubble and debris as he takes a drag from a Marlboro red that rests on his black lips. He exhales dark gray smoke into the midnight black sky. Faith clings to his arm. She has a nervous look about her. He looks down at her and the out towards his once famous graveyard. The pair begin to walk down a long dark path of scorched earth. *

Lucifer: For years this was the house I lived in. My dark sanctuary. Now all that remains are ashes and dust. Now all the remains of my former life is ashes and dust. The grave of my former wife has been disgraced. The lives of my friends have been dishonored. Everything I fought for has been destroyed by an egotistical maniac. Yes, I know what your thinking, how can Lucifer call someone a maniac. How the man who once proclaimed to be the sickest bastard alive, a maniac. Well that’s what Hawke is. He is a seven foot tall maniac with a death wish.

* Lucifer and faith continue to walk down the dark path. He takes another drag off of the Marlboro red and smiles at his beautiful wife. She looks up at him with big blue eyes and smiles back at him. She wraps her arms around the dark man of her dreams. *

Lucifer: But Hawke you need to realize that there are some things more important in this world then my material possessions. There are things more important then the house you burned, then the graves you disgraced. I wanted to keep my peace. I left the CHZ because I wanted to lead a normal life. I was tired of the anger and the hatred. I was tired of the constant barrage of attacks. I earned my place in the echoes of champions. I am in the god damn hall of fame! I did it all. I had nothing left to prove anymore. This place took my very life. I needed to get away from it. Lucifer needed to die.

* Faith nods. A tear falls down the side of her face. Lucifer wipes it from her face and holds her close to him. He wraps his arm around her beautiful figure. Lucifer takes another drag off of his Marlboro and then ashes it into the burn ground. *

Lucifer: Hawke I knew you were going to come back. I knew you wanted to step into the ring and go off and make your own glory. But I didn’t want you running around using my name, and using my mask, to make you a champion. I wanted to Lucifer to die. He was not the man Damian Williams wanted to be. We all saw that Damian Williams didn’t survive in the CHZ, and we all know that Lucifer doesn’t live anywhere else. I had to leave Hawke but you couldn’t let me die. You couldn’t let my name pass on. You had to keep me alive in the eyes of the people. It was only a matter of time before the masses found out I wasn’t dead. I just wanted to be left alone. To be at peace. I was so close. Hawke this match we are going to have, I know you will bring everything you have. I know you will bring every ounce of hated. Every piece of anger. Every single ounce of your being will be used to defeat me. You will use everything you have, and it still wont be good enough. It still won’t matter to anyone Hawke. I trained you. I taught you everything you know about a wrestling ring. You expect to defeat me? Then you are sadly mistaken my friend. You fail to forget that I am Lucifer Reborn. I have come back from the shadows of darkness to take back my glory. I fight to destroy you. I fight to end you Hawke.

* Faith closes her eyes. The beautiful woman clings to Lucifer’s arm. She smiles a perfect smile. He cold blue eyes relentlessly stare into the darkness. Lucifer takes another drag off of his half smoked Marlboro Red. The cherry burns and likes speckles of color in his dark eyes. Faith opens her eyes and exhales. *

Faith: Hawke, when you came back to the CHZ, and I showed up at your door, it wasn’t because I wanted to join you. It was because Lucifer sent me to watch you. He sent me to keep an eye on you. He knows you cant handle it here on your own. He knows you cant take all the mind games. I watched you paint your face the night you were set to return. I watched you bastardize my husbands beautiful visage and inside I cried. I cried because you were disgracing a legacy. I know what you came back for Hawke. You came back to make glory on the name of a friend you believed to be dead. You couldn’t make it on your own anymore could you? You were always Lucifer’s lackey. You ran around and followed him blindly, like you said, Lucifer was a natural born leader. Hawke you are nothing more then a stupid follower. A sheep in the plans of the dark one, and a pawn in this little game.

* Lucifer leans down and for a moment his black lips touch his lover’s lips and they embrace in a dark kiss. Faith’s face is flushed red. Lucifer releases his kiss and flicks his cigarette into the pile of ashes. His long black trenchcoat billows in the wind and his painted face glows like the light of a ghost trapped inside of a man. He has changed, something about his face, his eyes, they have changed. He is quiet for a second. Simply staring into the shadows and darkness, he sighs. *

Lucifer: Hawke, listen one last time. Listen to the sound of my voice. Listen to the words I speak. I am Lucifer. I am the greatest Grandslam Champion in CHZ history. I am the man who has ended careers. I am the man who has made champions cower in fear. I run that ring with fear so strong that even the bravest of men cower at the very whisper of my name. I am the sickest bastard alive. I am the monster Hawke, not you. And you will find this out at hell to pay. You will find out what happens when the darkness takes you in its final embrace. Lucifer died Hawke. He died in his match with Derceto, but you forced him to come back. You forced him to enter the ring one more time. And this time we don’t fight for blood, we don’t fight for power, we don’t fight for gold, we fight for the very right to exist. Hawke if you don’t beat me then you will never see another CHZ ring for as long as you live, do you understand me? As long as you live!

:: Lucifer wraps his long black trenchcoat around Faith and holds her close to him. The two look over the dark ash covered ground as the scene slowly sinks into darkness. ::