Post by Sheriff Caleb on Nov 23, 2013 11:02:02 GMT
And they howled and the nashed, like beasts from
The forest, for they were a kin, same
As the bear who did roar and did froth, friend nor
Foe did they save, all lain to waste, they came
As a swarm, a cloud of death and madness. - Frieke
|~| Berserkers were a group of Norse warriors. They are human, but in battle entered into a nearly uncontrollable, trance-like fury, and transformed into wolves, bears, and wild bulls. This enabled the men to fight more effectively. Their name would give rise to the English word “berserk”. Berserkers were said to wear the pelts of bears and wolves as they entered battle and could make the full transformation as they felt necessary. They are characterized as having bloodshot eyes, incredible strength, and endurance. Various Scandinavian kings used berserkers as part of their army or as hired men and royal bodyguards. Similar behavior is described in the Iliad, in which warriors are possessed by Gods and given the power to exhibit superhuman abilities. The Berserker is a character who throws himself into a fight with such reckless abandon, it seems like he WANTS to die. It could be over-enthusiasm, overconfidence, Unstoppable Rage, or the desire to die (in battle). Whatever the cause, it's usually accompanied by a bellowing warcry. Sometimes with total obliviousness to whether he's actually fighting the enemy. And he never, ever retreats. |~|
Bodvar Bjarki ploughed into them now, hacking two handed, his only thought to do as much damage as he could before he fell. And now they fall in heaps before him, one on top of another, and both his arms are bloodied to the shoulder, and he felled so many, the dead were stacked all about him. He stormed on as if he was insane.
—The Saga of Hrolf Kraki, chapter 51: "Of Skuld's Battle"
Scene 1:
|~| Its the Friday before "Survival of the fittest" and Madison square garden is building the stage to be. To set up for the big match of the year, the big tag match that is Extinction! The Empire vs The Rebellion, some stupid ass play off of star wars making this industry more pathetic in acting than it already is! People keep forgetting one major thing though, there is a virus quickly spreading and no one is bothering to look for a cure. An eerily, creepy feel comes through the back stage of the garden, the works here a commotion coming from the parking lot. The doors burst open and from the darkness, Tank Armod steps to the light. Everyone looks at him as the rest of Virus walks up behind him. He looks around and shakes his head, everyone returns to work and gets out of their way. They walk towards their locker room, Jackhammer to the right and the collection of Lust to his left. They are walking at a fast pace pretty much charging through the backstage, when ever so carefully and slowly Willy Carter steps in front of Tank to get his attention. |~|
"Uhm, hey there, I was wondering if I could get some words with you mr. Tank, Beserker guy...."
|~| Tank takes a step up to Willy and looks at him, he stares into Willy's eyes, he tilts his head to the left, then to the right. He takes a deep breath and makes a gagging noise and gesture towards Willy. He slaps him in the face.... With his heavy accent he speaks to Willy. |~|
"First off boy' you shall address me as Lord Armod, 2nd a man never st-t-t-t-utters if he have' a pair he says whats' on his mind. Slave, take the men and go your way I will meet up later, Jack go with them or whatever I have a rat that needs taken care of."
|~| The group of Lust walk off and Jackhammer follows, Willy leads Tank over to the platforms for interviews. |~|
"I promise not to waste time I will make it quick, just please don't hurt me."
"I never hurt women don't worry."
|~| He said smiling while looking at the camera getting ready for the interview. The camera starts rolling and before Willy could get a sound out, Tank covers his mouth so nothing escapes. |~|
"Hello' lads and gents, my name is Tank, and I am a Virus, a virus meant for the cleanse for the better of all mankind. I fear no fear, I fear no man, I fear no battle. I am god, and at that I THEE god of war and fighting. Over the past two weeks virus has sent strongly stated' messagin' to IWF using human bodies as a way of saying...."WE WON'T BE LEAVIN' SOON!!" In just two mere weeks we took out two teams simply because we can, simply because we just be that damn good! Our first weak we initiated our invade, and like the Viking invasion of England we took out small peasants as a symbol, then we took out larger peasants because we just can! Bernard and Cyrus are sitting at home right now eatin' hot soup because I literally knocked a damned tooth down the throat of Cyrus Daniels....and Lust kicked the face in of Bernard. Last week I said we were a needle full of a virus, a virus that cleansed the weak from the strong....and we weeded out the weak, we were the last one's standing. Now License to Kill won't be here for the pay per view, and in the tag team match, we have Virus vs Defenders of Realm! WE GET TO HURT THEM TWICE!!! Oh joy nothing like good old repetition right? This time those so called "defenders" won't be so lucky because we have all the time in the world to tear them bit by bit and piece by piece. Sure I am not in that match but people need to understand now, Virus is no one man, we are one heart be, one breath, we are one. Hell one of us goes piss we all go, because only the strong survive. That is why this pay-per-view is called survival of the fittest right? Because social Darwinism states only the strong will survive and the weak die because the predators of nature eliminate those who pose a threat or hinder to the evolutionary chain. That is all bull, Odin was the eliminate the week, that is where guys like me came from.
We are no mistake, we are chosen by Odin, shaped by Tyri god of war, burnt by Loki for strength and taught trickery, and then we are added to the Aegir, the army of the god's the army of Beserkers and heathans. The only thing is we are immortal, and we are killers by birth. Willy you would use the word Heathen as an insult, call me a Heathen you embrace my lordship you make me truth! Heathen are the hearts of wars, they make up a true Beserkers. And I did not spend my life fighting, and hurting others to not be anything less then that. Cyrus Daniels thought I was asinine, I said I was insane, and some say not that I am insane for calling myself a god. Yet you go ask License to Kill and Defenders of the Realm how insane I just am. I had the chance to permanently end License to Kill last week but I kept them alive as messengers to tell the world of how Virus is true brutality! I can't wait to meet in the ring again though, because they will die in that ring by my hands and they will never show their face around here again!
Lust, you did well last week very well you make me proud that you're apart of my Virus. Jackhammer this week you step up and prove to me giants aren't weak. You do me good man, you do Virus good! Now as for me this week, this week......
You'd think that they wouldn't give lambs to lions, but they give no care to their "talent" I will tear this kid aparts' and spit him out. I destroyed an Australian last week and I have to do it again, I think we all agree that no talent comes out from there aye'? Brock Whitworth? Whats' this? A trustfund baby? You think because you're big you can "fight".... my size comes from my ancestors, but my fight comes from tradition, hell not only tradition but survival. I have had to kill for survival. I have lived the way of the true viking, and I have done the fights of age. What have you done? Gotten your small wicker' wet from pushin' your boyfriend around? Boy I shall be brutal to you, I will tear you down like your own god tore down his temples. I destroy like ashes of houses from pillages.
I am a true beserker and in that ring I will fight as if I shaped my self into bear, fighting for my territory. Or I will fight as if I were the wolf, fighting because I see the weak in you and that you deserve to die for being weak. Or I will be the bull, and out of the pure anger and hatred of my soul I will attack you because I sam 'ell can attack you! I will make you bleed and I will sacrifice to the pagan god's i see fit! Speaking of sacrifice...there is a man who seems to be the spot light of all the world right now....Spike Kane with the cross.
Spike that little cross thing you did was cute really it was, you think that is torture though. You know no pain child, a bloody eagle is far more painful and brutal. If you think you can scare me or any one of my men with that. Then you are a damned joke. If you ever cross paths with Virus I will commit a bloody Eagle, I won't finish you off but I will let you know pain. Keep ya' strap warm' sunny I be' coming for it real real soon."
|~| Tank looks towards Willy and pats him on his shoulder, smiles and gives him a nod. He acts like he goes to walk away and the turns around and swings landing a hard right punch to Willy's knows. Willy goes down and blood pours from his nose. Tanks smirks and walks off to his locker room to meet up with Virus.|~|
|~| Odaiba island, Japan. August 11th, 1999. "The Beserker"(Tank) and Dragon Gate wrestling vs Ultimo Dragon and NJPW. Classic Taipei lumber jack death match. Let me set you a back story, in the 1990s pro-wrestling in Japan was hotter than ever. Promotions were popping up every where and money was to be made. The great thing about Japan is they don't run the capitalistic open market. You get a monopoly or buy a business by taking it by force, and we literally were fight for the life of our company, and our jobs. I was still very much the same viking I am today, just in a lot more brutal fashion. You Americans' are gutless with pain, but the Japanese.....they tied me up and caned me. Anyways we get a declaration of war of sorts, Dragon Gate wrestling was facing a legitimate invasion. Takashi Okamura(owner of DG) comes to our locker room of 13 wrestlers and tells us we're done for, I shook my head no. There would be no quitting that day, we were going to fight till the last person couldn't bear to stay away. Me and my roster stood at the door of our little "arena"(if thats what you want to call it) and waited for New Japanese Pro Wrestling to show up and sure enough, little Ultimo walks up and starts screaming gibberish. I pushed him back out simply say this, "You want this company we fight, not wrestle...FIGHT! He understood that English loud and clear, he had 5 guys I would bring 5 guys, me and him go toe to toe. Mono e Mono, in the Taipei death match. You take your hands, dip it in glue, and then dip it and roll it in broken glass. Then you box it out, the match lasted 15 minutes and I still hold the scars on my body today. That's not the point I am getting at though, we won that fight, NJWP ended up taking over all that Japanese wrestling market, but this is what changed my life. Takashi Okamura came up to me after the fight, I had shards of glass in my forehead, in my eye, in my cheeks I had glass everywhere. He say the blood oozing and pouring out of me, he knelled down next to me and looked me in my face.|~|
"You had-no-need to-kill yourself for-me"
"I did it for the last true wrestling business, I did it for these guys that are true warriors."
"You lead men fearless, to-my battle. I give many thank but cannot repay. You know this."
".....If I wanted your money I would have stole it a long time ago. I did this for me, for my partners, for this company. I am still the mean S.O.B you know and hate the world. But no one comes to my home and threatens to take it. In my count'ry we kill to whom that do that!"
"There is name for warrior like you son. ShoGun, its ol' military' officer'. In command, very brutal, never ever' forgave an enemy. You take name and you carry it everywhere. You fought with blood tonight as true ShoGun."
|~| As he left the room I held my wounds closed tight, and thought of that name... "Shogun". I had heard it in movies, I always thought it was a samurai. Turns out its just a leader of the military, just like how I will lead this company as I lead the last. ShoGun sounded a lot like "shotgun", it had a lot of power and if given the chance kills things on contact. It was perfect for me, a leader, a lot of strength and power and I love hurting people. I left Japan two weeks after to never to return. But that name stuck because I was known through out the entire territories of wrestling. Even a few companies new me here as the "Viking Shogun" two different sides of the world clashing! Things that never EVER would go together, and no they are one person. I figure I owed Cyrus a story considering I kicked his face in, thought it'd be good if he heard it. It's something some one had just said. I was given it because I did the things a leader should do . Things this company is lacking in is leadership. People crucifying others, random stipulations for no reason, everythings going off the walls. That is where virus comes in, we are the leaders of today. We are the best IWF has to offer, we proved it the last two weeks with no fear. It doesn't matter who wins that main event on sunday, because who ever wins the gold is coming facing us right off the bat. I will find you and beat you to a bloody pulp if I truly truly have to. But Virus will have their time to shine, and we will seize the day this sunday. It is "Survival of the Fittest" and Virus is exactly that, survival of the fittest. Brock I feel bad for you, I really do my pity is with you because I am coming at you with all I have and I will call the boys out if I have to. We will attack you like a pack of wolves, and we will finish you for ever before you even start. Just do yourself a favor and don't even come. Don't try and come of as a tough either, we all know you're scared and you can' handle any of the Virus. You think you can do this because your size? News flash bud we are all huge and we are all greater than you. 1 giant is worth many but numerous is what wins the war!|~|
"Uhm, hey there, I was wondering if I could get some words with you mr. Tank, Beserker guy...."
|~| Tank takes a step up to Willy and looks at him, he stares into Willy's eyes, he tilts his head to the left, then to the right. He takes a deep breath and makes a gagging noise and gesture towards Willy. He slaps him in the face.... With his heavy accent he speaks to Willy. |~|
"First off boy' you shall address me as Lord Armod, 2nd a man never st-t-t-t-utters if he have' a pair he says whats' on his mind. Slave, take the men and go your way I will meet up later, Jack go with them or whatever I have a rat that needs taken care of."
|~| The group of Lust walk off and Jackhammer follows, Willy leads Tank over to the platforms for interviews. |~|
"I promise not to waste time I will make it quick, just please don't hurt me."
"I never hurt women don't worry."
|~| He said smiling while looking at the camera getting ready for the interview. The camera starts rolling and before Willy could get a sound out, Tank covers his mouth so nothing escapes. |~|
"Hello' lads and gents, my name is Tank, and I am a Virus, a virus meant for the cleanse for the better of all mankind. I fear no fear, I fear no man, I fear no battle. I am god, and at that I THEE god of war and fighting. Over the past two weeks virus has sent strongly stated' messagin' to IWF using human bodies as a way of saying...."WE WON'T BE LEAVIN' SOON!!" In just two mere weeks we took out two teams simply because we can, simply because we just be that damn good! Our first weak we initiated our invade, and like the Viking invasion of England we took out small peasants as a symbol, then we took out larger peasants because we just can! Bernard and Cyrus are sitting at home right now eatin' hot soup because I literally knocked a damned tooth down the throat of Cyrus Daniels....and Lust kicked the face in of Bernard. Last week I said we were a needle full of a virus, a virus that cleansed the weak from the strong....and we weeded out the weak, we were the last one's standing. Now License to Kill won't be here for the pay per view, and in the tag team match, we have Virus vs Defenders of Realm! WE GET TO HURT THEM TWICE!!! Oh joy nothing like good old repetition right? This time those so called "defenders" won't be so lucky because we have all the time in the world to tear them bit by bit and piece by piece. Sure I am not in that match but people need to understand now, Virus is no one man, we are one heart be, one breath, we are one. Hell one of us goes piss we all go, because only the strong survive. That is why this pay-per-view is called survival of the fittest right? Because social Darwinism states only the strong will survive and the weak die because the predators of nature eliminate those who pose a threat or hinder to the evolutionary chain. That is all bull, Odin was the eliminate the week, that is where guys like me came from.
We are no mistake, we are chosen by Odin, shaped by Tyri god of war, burnt by Loki for strength and taught trickery, and then we are added to the Aegir, the army of the god's the army of Beserkers and heathans. The only thing is we are immortal, and we are killers by birth. Willy you would use the word Heathen as an insult, call me a Heathen you embrace my lordship you make me truth! Heathen are the hearts of wars, they make up a true Beserkers. And I did not spend my life fighting, and hurting others to not be anything less then that. Cyrus Daniels thought I was asinine, I said I was insane, and some say not that I am insane for calling myself a god. Yet you go ask License to Kill and Defenders of the Realm how insane I just am. I had the chance to permanently end License to Kill last week but I kept them alive as messengers to tell the world of how Virus is true brutality! I can't wait to meet in the ring again though, because they will die in that ring by my hands and they will never show their face around here again!
Lust, you did well last week very well you make me proud that you're apart of my Virus. Jackhammer this week you step up and prove to me giants aren't weak. You do me good man, you do Virus good! Now as for me this week, this week......
You'd think that they wouldn't give lambs to lions, but they give no care to their "talent" I will tear this kid aparts' and spit him out. I destroyed an Australian last week and I have to do it again, I think we all agree that no talent comes out from there aye'? Brock Whitworth? Whats' this? A trustfund baby? You think because you're big you can "fight".... my size comes from my ancestors, but my fight comes from tradition, hell not only tradition but survival. I have had to kill for survival. I have lived the way of the true viking, and I have done the fights of age. What have you done? Gotten your small wicker' wet from pushin' your boyfriend around? Boy I shall be brutal to you, I will tear you down like your own god tore down his temples. I destroy like ashes of houses from pillages.
I am a true beserker and in that ring I will fight as if I shaped my self into bear, fighting for my territory. Or I will fight as if I were the wolf, fighting because I see the weak in you and that you deserve to die for being weak. Or I will be the bull, and out of the pure anger and hatred of my soul I will attack you because I sam 'ell can attack you! I will make you bleed and I will sacrifice to the pagan god's i see fit! Speaking of sacrifice...there is a man who seems to be the spot light of all the world right now....Spike Kane with the cross.
Spike that little cross thing you did was cute really it was, you think that is torture though. You know no pain child, a bloody eagle is far more painful and brutal. If you think you can scare me or any one of my men with that. Then you are a damned joke. If you ever cross paths with Virus I will commit a bloody Eagle, I won't finish you off but I will let you know pain. Keep ya' strap warm' sunny I be' coming for it real real soon."
|~| Tank looks towards Willy and pats him on his shoulder, smiles and gives him a nod. He acts like he goes to walk away and the turns around and swings landing a hard right punch to Willy's knows. Willy goes down and blood pours from his nose. Tanks smirks and walks off to his locker room to meet up with Virus.|~|
Scene 2: Old Days Rise of the Shogun
|~| Odaiba island, Japan. August 11th, 1999. "The Beserker"(Tank) and Dragon Gate wrestling vs Ultimo Dragon and NJPW. Classic Taipei lumber jack death match. Let me set you a back story, in the 1990s pro-wrestling in Japan was hotter than ever. Promotions were popping up every where and money was to be made. The great thing about Japan is they don't run the capitalistic open market. You get a monopoly or buy a business by taking it by force, and we literally were fight for the life of our company, and our jobs. I was still very much the same viking I am today, just in a lot more brutal fashion. You Americans' are gutless with pain, but the Japanese.....they tied me up and caned me. Anyways we get a declaration of war of sorts, Dragon Gate wrestling was facing a legitimate invasion. Takashi Okamura(owner of DG) comes to our locker room of 13 wrestlers and tells us we're done for, I shook my head no. There would be no quitting that day, we were going to fight till the last person couldn't bear to stay away. Me and my roster stood at the door of our little "arena"(if thats what you want to call it) and waited for New Japanese Pro Wrestling to show up and sure enough, little Ultimo walks up and starts screaming gibberish. I pushed him back out simply say this, "You want this company we fight, not wrestle...FIGHT! He understood that English loud and clear, he had 5 guys I would bring 5 guys, me and him go toe to toe. Mono e Mono, in the Taipei death match. You take your hands, dip it in glue, and then dip it and roll it in broken glass. Then you box it out, the match lasted 15 minutes and I still hold the scars on my body today. That's not the point I am getting at though, we won that fight, NJWP ended up taking over all that Japanese wrestling market, but this is what changed my life. Takashi Okamura came up to me after the fight, I had shards of glass in my forehead, in my eye, in my cheeks I had glass everywhere. He say the blood oozing and pouring out of me, he knelled down next to me and looked me in my face.|~|
"You had-no-need to-kill yourself for-me"
"I did it for the last true wrestling business, I did it for these guys that are true warriors."
"You lead men fearless, to-my battle. I give many thank but cannot repay. You know this."
".....If I wanted your money I would have stole it a long time ago. I did this for me, for my partners, for this company. I am still the mean S.O.B you know and hate the world. But no one comes to my home and threatens to take it. In my count'ry we kill to whom that do that!"
"There is name for warrior like you son. ShoGun, its ol' military' officer'. In command, very brutal, never ever' forgave an enemy. You take name and you carry it everywhere. You fought with blood tonight as true ShoGun."
|~| As he left the room I held my wounds closed tight, and thought of that name... "Shogun". I had heard it in movies, I always thought it was a samurai. Turns out its just a leader of the military, just like how I will lead this company as I lead the last. ShoGun sounded a lot like "shotgun", it had a lot of power and if given the chance kills things on contact. It was perfect for me, a leader, a lot of strength and power and I love hurting people. I left Japan two weeks after to never to return. But that name stuck because I was known through out the entire territories of wrestling. Even a few companies new me here as the "Viking Shogun" two different sides of the world clashing! Things that never EVER would go together, and no they are one person. I figure I owed Cyrus a story considering I kicked his face in, thought it'd be good if he heard it. It's something some one had just said. I was given it because I did the things a leader should do . Things this company is lacking in is leadership. People crucifying others, random stipulations for no reason, everythings going off the walls. That is where virus comes in, we are the leaders of today. We are the best IWF has to offer, we proved it the last two weeks with no fear. It doesn't matter who wins that main event on sunday, because who ever wins the gold is coming facing us right off the bat. I will find you and beat you to a bloody pulp if I truly truly have to. But Virus will have their time to shine, and we will seize the day this sunday. It is "Survival of the Fittest" and Virus is exactly that, survival of the fittest. Brock I feel bad for you, I really do my pity is with you because I am coming at you with all I have and I will call the boys out if I have to. We will attack you like a pack of wolves, and we will finish you for ever before you even start. Just do yourself a favor and don't even come. Don't try and come of as a tough either, we all know you're scared and you can' handle any of the Virus. You think you can do this because your size? News flash bud we are all huge and we are all greater than you. 1 giant is worth many but numerous is what wins the war!|~|
Well howdy there pardner.