Post by Angel Blake on Nov 25, 2023 6:00:06 GMT
You don't know how I got here
You don't know how I feed
You think that you're inside me
But the truth is you don't know a thing
You don't know how I feed
You think that you're inside me
But the truth is you don't know a thing
”Survival of the Fittest…”
The Lord God sits as he always sits atop that enormous throne of bones. His face is pale, painted, a wicked smile spread unnaturally across black lips from ear to ear. His fingernails rap over the skull on the right arm of his throne like the beating of a drum.
”The Extinction Event…”
He seems to reminisce for a moment before continuing.
”This is MY night…”
“MY match…”
“For ten long years I have uttered many truths…”
“But the truest thing I have ever said was…”
“There is NONE more fit than I…”
So what if I say I want it?
What if I say now's the time?
So what if I say I need this?
To come alive again
What if I say now's the time?
So what if I say I need this?
To come alive again
”Sabin…”
His voice trails off like shadows in the night.
”I told you last time…”
“I WARNED YOU…”
“You don’t want this…”
“You don’t want to be me…”
“You have your whole life ahead of you…”
“A family just beginning…”
“You don’t need to walk in my blood soaked wake…”
His cold, black eyes dart from one stained glass window to the next. Each one depicts a foe who fell to the Lord God's hands. Many you recognize as current and past IWF superstars, others you don’t but the message each image sends is perfectly clear.
”You embrace your darkness…”
“You think it gives you strength…”
“But answer me one question, Sabin…”
“What has your darkness wrought you?”
I set fire from the inside
I feel the fever rushing over me
Some would say this is suicide
I'm on the edge of reality
I feel the fever rushing over me
Some would say this is suicide
I'm on the edge of reality
”Over one year ago you lost the IWF Men’s World Championship…”
“In that defeat you fled into your darkness…”
“Your so-called strength…”
“Then you failed to win the Roulette…”
“Failed to win Heir to the Throne…”
“You managed to defeat Nick Danger to capture the IWF World Television Championship…”
“Only to never defend it…”
“Why?”
“Are you afraid of standing on your own two feet again?”
The Lord stops to let the last question really sink in.
”Together we have been an unstoppable force…”
“We have broken every record in the Tag Team Division…”
“But I wonder if I’m simply holding your head above water…”
“Keeping you from drowning in the inky black you call Wraith…”
“Am I just a life preserver for you, Sabin?”
“The door upon which you float waiting for the appropriate opportunity to let go?”
“You don’t need me, Sabin…”
“We both know that…”
“You don’t need to be me, either…”
“I wish you knew that…”
“You don’t need to be your mother…”
“Or your real father…”
“Either…”
“You don’t need to be a Blake…”
“A Docherty…”
“Or a Spencer…”
“You need to be Sabin…”
“You need to find out who he is…”
“What he wants…”
“And what he’s capable of…”
“You need to be your own man…”
I want to stay but I got to go
'Cause this is do or die
I could fall but I gotta know
It's time for me to come alive
With my sacrifice
'Cause this is do or die
I could fall but I gotta know
It's time for me to come alive
With my sacrifice
He sits still, that terrible grin still stretched from ear to ear.
”Take off your pretend crown…”
“Wipe off my face paint…”
“Forget your father’s forged identity…”
“And become who you were meant to be…”
He motions with his hand, imploring his step son to listen.
”I know it pains you to be counted to second…”
“To be looked down upon…”
“To be seen as something lesser than next to me…”
“That is not a position I wanted for you…”
“It is not something I would ever ask of you…”
“What I’ve asked…”
“What I now demand…”
“IS TO STEP UP.”
He stands now, his black robes falling around him on the cobblestone floor.
”STEP UP AND END THE CHARADE!”
“Wraith is nothing more than a crutch…”
“An excuse…”
“A reason for your continued failure to live up to expectations…”
“Your every failure is followed by a pledge to be even more Wraith than before…”
“And still you fail…”
He shakes his head with a hint of disapproval.
”I paint my face…”
“I wear these clothes…”
“I speak ever so matter of factually…”
“Not because I am pretending to be God…”
“But because I am ANGEL BLAKE…”
“GOD OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.”
“A title I’ve earned over two plus decades…”
“A title I’ve defended time and time again against would be usurpers…”
“Non believers…”
“And everything in between…”
“I have risen…”
“I have fallen…”
“And I have risen again…”
“Not because I am God…”
“Not at all…”
“I rise because I am Angel Blake…”
“Because no one on this Earth…
“No one in Heaven..."
"And no on in Hell can put me in the ground…”
I told you, you don't want me
I showed you what I am
I told you I'd consume you
Still you're crawling around my pain
I showed you what I am
I told you I'd consume you
Still you're crawling around my pain
”Not even you, Sabin…”
He looks down, that sinister smile turning into something of a frown.
”At the height of your anger…”
“The peak of your power…”
“You didn’t have the heart to end me…”
“Why?”
“Because Wraith isn’t who you are…”
“It will never be who you are…”
“As much as you try to do what I do…”
“As low as you try to sink…”
“You will never be what I am…”
He looks up with a slight hint of a grin.
”That isn’t an insult…”
“I’m proud of you…”
“If the shoe were on the other foot…”
“If I ever shared the ring with my father at your age?”
“He would’ve left in a body bag…”
“But you showed your humanity…”
“You showed the competitor you could be…”
“Your true greatness shown through that night…”
“You will need to find that again to survive Sunday…”
He once more takes his seat upon the throne.
”Because you have something I want, Sabin…”
“The IWF World Television Championship…”
“A championship meant for the best pound for pound fighters in the world…”
“A championship only the truly elite can hold for any real amount of time…”
“A championship that is never supposed to sit idle…”
“A championship that is not meant to go days…”
“Weeks…”
“Or months without being defended…”
“A championship that it is very clear you are no longer interested in…”
“A championship I will gladly relieve you of…”
So tell me why are you still here?
So tell me why you just won't go?
So tell me what I got to do now?
To come alive again
So tell me why you just won't go?
So tell me what I got to do now?
To come alive again
”You want to reawaken the monster?”
He asks with a slight smirk.
”That is what you don’t understand…”
“The fact I have tried to hammer into your skull…”
“I AM THE MONSTER.”
“I am always the monster…”
“There is nothing to awaken…”
“No beast sleeping deep down inside of me…”
“Everything I have ever done I did because I wanted to…”
“No entity made me…”
“No wayward personality fought its way to the surface…”
“No man in the mirror took control in between eye blinks…”
“There has always been me…”
“What I want…”
“And what I’m willing to do to get it…”
He gestures to the various stained glass windows.
”I have broken friends…”
“Crushed enemies…”
“And betrayed family…”
“All to call myself a champion…”
But I didn’t need to…”
“That’s what I’ve been trying to explain to you since our first match…”
“That’s the lesson I’m going to teach you at Survival of the Fittest…”
“I am a monster…”
“But I don’t need to maim you or any of your partners to win…”
“I never have…”
“I’m that good…”
I set fire from the inside
I feel the fever rushing over me
Some would say this is suicide
I'm on the edge of reality
I feel the fever rushing over me
Some would say this is suicide
I'm on the edge of reality
”Sunday night I’m taking the IWF World Television Championship…”
“The right way…”
“The way I’ve always been capable of doing things…”
“By being better…”
“You think my strength comes from darkness…”
“It doesn’t…”
“It comes from what I’m willing to sacrifice…”
“Now?”
“I’m willing to sacrifice everything the world knows about me…”
“To show you, Sabin…”
“Dean…”
“And the rest of our family there is another way…”
I want to stay but I got to go
'Cause this is do or die
I could fall but I gotta know
It's time for me to come alive
With my sacrifice
'Cause this is do or die
I could fall but I gotta know
It's time for me to come alive
With my sacrifice
”Brooklyn…”
“Alexandra…”
“Do not get between me and my boys…”
“Daddy has a lesson to teach…”
“Survival of the Fittest?”
“Not anymore…”
“Survival of the Best…”
“And there is no one better than me.”
I want to stay but I got to go
'Cause this is do or die
I could fall but I gotta know
It's time for me to come alive
With my sacrifice
'Cause this is do or die
I could fall but I gotta know
It's time for me to come alive
With my sacrifice
Well howdy there pardner.