--:London, England-- --July 7th 2003 22:30 PM-- The wind howls across the large balcony attached to the hotel room of The Wolf Quentin Barnes... He is in the room with the windows open, trying to cool himself from the July heat. He is wearing a pair of Jeans and Boots, the very clothes he wears in the ring. He does not, however, wear a shirt. Sweat glistens from his chest as he sleeps. He is dreaming... *Dream sequence...* Quentin Barnes is stood in the centre of a large room. There are 3 chairs, in a triangle, all facing one another. He is stood wearing a black Armani Suit, White Waist Coat, Black Shirt and White Tie. The white walls and ground offset the brightness of the room. Barnes turns slowly surveying the scene around him. He slowly removes the sunglasses he is wearing. There is no entrance, nor exit to the room... His attention is taken back to the chairs by a voice... Man: "So Quentin... You finally join me..." The Wolf's head snaps into the direction of the chairs. A man is sat on one, wearing a mask... A red and black Mask. He is also wearing leather trousers, a red and black shirt and long hair, he is also wearing a long leather jacket. He is sat back, this man is none other than Nemesis Highlander... QB: "What the... You don't exist... You were me in a mask... This isn't possible..." NH: "Ahhh... but it is Quentin, you see for months I existed, living life in place of you while your psyche took a small break from this world, I took the reins and I continued living your life but under a different name and a whole new set of rules... How ever to some extent, you were still in control because essentially you were still very much alive..." Highlander lightly taps his temple... NH: "... In here..." QB: "What is this... What do you want?" NH: "That, Quentin, is a question that I cannot answer... You see, once we realised that we were one and the same, the dominant half of our split personality took full charge... Yes, Quentin, that was you. However, within your mind I still exist... And we both know it. Every time you need to dig that little bit further to pull a victory out in a match... I am what helps you, like you did me when I was in control. We helped each other Quentin... Neither of us knew the real truth... And now, one of us does..." QB: "And you expect me to believe this...? Are you telling me you know the hows and whys of who we both really are?" Highlander points to the seat opposite him... QB: "No thank you... I'd prefer to stand if its all the same..." Nemesis sighs to himself as he gets to his feet, slowly making his way to wear The Wolf is stood... NH: "For months, we took shots back and forth at one another... You in the more comedic way, me in the more serious, how much I hate you way. I hated you for keeping me locked away. And essentially, Quentin, That's what you did. You kept this ugly, hate-filled side of your persona hidden away from the prying eyes of the world around you... But you see Quentin, one thing that remains constant... I was always going to break free... And there was a man who knew that I was going to break free... A man who you were close to, and someone who had been witnessing a change from within..." QB: "Really? And I suppose your going to tell you who that person is..." Highlander smiles from behind the mask, as another voice startles him... Sitting in one of the other chairs, is another man... One from Barnes' past. Man: "Actually... I was planning on telling you..." QB: "No... It can't be... You can't have had anything to do with this..." Man: "Oh but Quentin..." We finally see the face of this man, the person who is also involved in this confusing parable... James Spyder. JS: "I am... You see, on the night in which your past caught up with you... Your mind finally snapped and you realised that you no longer wanted to be part of this world, I followed you as drove... Flying down the highway much faster than the alloted speed limit. You see, I'd been trying to draw Nemesis Highlander out of you for a long time... I first sensed it in our match in WsW... Something inside you drove you that little bit further... You wereen't Quentin Barnes... You were someone else. So that night, when I saw your car flip, I watched as the car slid to a halt... Then I pulled you out, and you looked up into my face, asking who I was... I knew that THIS was the oppertunity that I needed..." The Wolf's face turns whiter than the room, for the first time in a long time, he is afraid... Afraid of the truth... He moves tothe seats and sits down... NH: "I told you to be seated..." JS: "At that moment, I saw the body of a tramp lying on the ground... He was about your size, it was an amazing coincidence... I pulled him into the car, then stood back as the ruptured fuel tank dripped slowly into the hot engine... It was only a matter of time, before that car exploded and that body was unrecognisable... I then took the imediate steps of taking your confused and damaged body back to your Texas home... Where I took you to the basement, and I helped you regain your memory... Well... A memory that I created for you... One that made you HATE Quentin Barnes... One that made you loath the person that he made you into... Into a person too afraid to take off his mask that he would never learn the truth..." QB: "But... How did I regain my consciousness... How did I become Quentin Barnes once more...?" NH: "Some how, your mind kept stored in the sub-conscious memories of what you used to be like... They were projected into my world, hence, making you my spiritual guidance... Once, you were able to guide me in the "Correct manner" I finally stopped hating you, I embraced your wit and your charm into my life... As soon as I stopped hating Quentin Barnes, our mind no longer had a need to block you out anymore... You became more dominant... And then you exploded back into control... Ending me..." QB: "So... through all of this, I was always just... in a state of amnesia... Your plan, James, never succeded..." JS: "Not true Mr. Barnes... For as I knew would happen, Nemesis Highlander will forever be etched in your mind... Will always be in the forefront of what may, and will always be... You now know that every time your rage builds and your hate forces you to do things you would never normally do... You will be drawing close to becoming Nemesis Highlander once more..." The Wolf lowers his head, and drops the sunglasses to the ground. he begins to remove his jacket... NH: "What are you doing Quentin...?" QB: "Something I should have done a long time ago..." HIghlander begins to remove his long jacket, and Spyder tenses himself also... QB: "Ridding myself of the memory, of Nemesis Highlander..." Flying forward, Barnes spears Highlander to the ground, smashing punch after punch into his mask-covered face... Highlander fights back with a knee to the groin, temporarily maiming The Wolf. Highlander lifts Barnes up and smashes him spine first into the white walls. James Spyder is following this all very closely... Barnes fights back with an elbow to the face... Knocking Highlander's mask slighty of centre. As he fixes it The Wolf takes him down again laying rights and lefts into Nemesis' face. Barnes screams as he rears back to smash one more right hand into the face of Highlander as he feels the imense pain of a wooden chair smash across the back of his head... He falls to the ground bleeding... James Spyder is stook over him... Smiling. JS: "How I've always liked it, me stood over the bloody body of Quentin Barnes... Highlander... Get up..." Highlander slowly gets to his feet, before standing over The Wolf. He drops to his knees and grabs Barnes by the hair. NH: "You see Quentin... You will never end me, because our mind would never let it... So I have just one thing to tell you..." He leans in close and move shis mouth right to the ear of The Wolf... NH: "*Whisparing* I'm coming back... and there is nothing you can do... to stop me..." *End of Dream* The Wolf sits bolt up-right. The sweat pouring off his body. He cracks his neck, and wipes his face on the towel by his bed. Looking at the clock, it is 5 AM... The sun is shining through the window and he can hear a bird chirping on the balcony. Standing from his bed he walks onto the balcony and stares out into the distance... CAS: "HEY!" QB: "What the fu... You scared me dude..." CAS: "Yeah, just like when I beat ya in WsW huh?" QB: "Seriously... NOT in the mood..." CAS: "Sorry... Hang-over? I would be if I'd drank a bottle of JD in my room on my own all night... Did you order porn? Cos I can't seem to find that big box of tissues I bought for my por... Nevermind..." QB: "Dude... Did you order beans? Actually, dont answer that... its on the menu so thats obvious... You can sit next to Conrad on the way to the arena..." CAS: "He already left... Said he wanted to get some ring-time in before the show starts..." QB: "It's 5 AM..." CAS: "Actually its 11... I hoped over there in the middle of the night to plug in my George Forman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling machine... See?" QB: "Dammit dude... Whatsup with the sockets in your room?!" CAS: "They're full..." The Wolf looks over to see 4 other Forman Grills plugged in all with some form of food on, except for one which holds Casualty's socks... QB: "Dude... That's rank..." CAS: "HEY! I need warm toastie socks, its for luck... For our match tonight..." QB: "We dont need luck... Tonight we continue what we started last week. We have no need for luck, did you see those guys running the "Assault Course"... They have no clue what the world Assault means... tonight, they are going to feel what it means to be assaulted... Because the "Trainees" have a date with destiny... A date with fate... a date with something that they have never before whitness... Tonight Cas... They will feel the pain... Of the End... I can feel a Barnes Storm brewing my friend... And I can feel its focus on the CMW Tag Team Champions... They Have No idea..." The Wolf scratches his face as he thinks back to the dream from previous night... QB: "And neither do I..." Not taking much notice, Cas chomps on some more bacon as we fade to Black...
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