King of Chaos
This was it the match that Kairi Luna had been waiting for, this was his chance for retribution, and he was going to make it count. He sat in the locker room wrapping his fists in black tape his focus completely on the task that would soon be at hand, “good luck” said a voice from behind him. He turned to see Haven, he smiled acknowledging her presence as she walked closer to him. He stood with a slight smile, probably the first real one in a long time, and Haven gave him a hug filled a soft warmth that seemed to last forever. When they pulled away from each other he noticed there was something about her, it was as if he saw what she felt without her saying it. The kiss on the cheek was soft sweet and, and in his mind, too short. “Don’t get hurt out there, ok?” she said putting her hand on the side of his face. “I promise I won’t” he said smiling back “but now I have to deal with Jay”, he said putting the hood of his windbreaker over his head before walking out and into the hallway.
As he walked his thoughts started racing in the same direction, he became aware of every single muscle and synapse in his body, and he was ready for the fight. As he turned the corner he saw Selene standing as if she had been waiting for him, with tears filling her eyes. “You don’t have to do this” she said fighting her tears, Kairi looked at her and said “Don’t try to save your boyfriend now” with an icy tone that chilled Selene through and through.
“This isn’t about him” she yelled
“Then who?” he replied.,
“You, Elijah” she said holding her head down as the tears rolled down her face “I love you”
He sighed “ I don’t have time for this” as he moved aside of her and headed for the walkway, leaving her with her empty words and her tears.
Now all he had were his thoughts and the echo of his footsteps as he headed into the entrance way, he heard Jay’s music, the music was egotistical self indulgent trash, Kairi thought it represented Jay perfectly. He thought about attacking him as he walked to the ring, but decided to let Jay have his moment of glory, because when it was done he was going to be left writhing on the floor. Then came his entrance, it had been so long since he had experienced this, the blaring music, the lights of the arena , the people screaming and applauding, he’d missed this. He stood soaking it all in before running to the ring and sliding in.
Kairi had Jay in the ring in a match that would not stop until one of them could not stand, and the urge to bloody this b*****d beyond belief burned inside him. The bell rang and Jay rushed him with a fist out, only to be sidestepped and hit in the stomach with a powerful knee followed by a forearm to the side of his head. Jay stumbled from that attack and didn’t have time to respond before Kairi sent a hard boot to his ribs. Kairi was so swift in his viciousness that he hadn’t even taken off his jacket, so as he removed it and threw it out the ring Jay hit him in the balls. He fell to his knees and Jay caught him with a punch that rang his skull like a bell at mass, which was followed by a hard kick to the ribs that sent him rolling. “No way is this son of b***h gonna beat me” thought Kairi as he caught Jay’s foot, before flipping him into the air and onto his back with a thunderous thud. Just as quickly as he hit the ground, Kairi was on top of Jay driving his fists into his face, each hit thumping with the percussive rhythm of the hate that flowed through him. Jay tossed him off and jumped to his feet, as Kairi got up Jay rushed him and slammed him into the corner, then started to choke him. As Kairi struggled to get Jay’s hands from around his neck Jay started whispering “come on...you’re gonna get killed over Selene?” the words seemed to make the already problematic act of breathing harder for Kairi “She doesn’t love you”, as far as Kairi knew the b*****d was right, but getting air was the more important thing at the moment. As he started to get dizzy Kairi heard Jay say “When this fight ends with you on your back, I’ll go home and put Selene on hers.”
With that Kairi swiftly kicked Jay in between his legs then, as he fell gasping for air, followed up with another shot to the baby maker, this time a strong uppercut. As Jay’s eyes rolled back in his head, the stinging in his crotch was quickly accompanied by something hitting his neck and the sudden sensation of flying. Everybody in the crowed roared at the sight of Elijah’s flip-inducing clothesline, finally having caught a full breath he saw Jay getting back up. As Jay leaned against the ropes only one thing came to Elijah’s mind, he ran across the ring and connected with a kick to the face that sent Jay flipping over the ropes and onto the floor.
When Jay came to his feet, Elijah’s feet came to his face as he did a baseball slide under the bottom rope, Jay crashed into the barricade and slumped to the floor. Kairi was a man possessed as he came after Jay, who was getting to his feet, so possessed that he didn’t see Jay grab the beer bottle out of the crowd, that ended up getting smashed over his head . The pain shot down his back and turned his legs to jelly. Jay laughed at him, then ran and kicked him in the face, Elijah’s head fell to the ground, and as he exhaled, a mix of blood and spit flowed past his lips. The throbbing in his head was strong, but nowhere near as strong as the need to beat Jay. He waited as Jay ran at him, and hit a foot sweep that caused Jay to fall his back sounding as if it had shattered against the floor.
“That gave me a second to regroup now what?” ” thought Kairi to himself ,as he saw the empty folding chair on the other side of the barricade a smile formed on his face , a smile that only a truly sadistic b*****d could understand. When Jay got up the first vision he saw was not a pleasant one as the chair connected with his face, Kairi felt a warm fuzzy feeling hit his heart at the sight of Jay’s face folding behind the force of chair. Each shot to the skull became increasingly harder than the one before it as Kairi gleefully rang Jay’s bell till he struck midnight plus an hour. The blood that came down Jay’s head brought a deep sense of satisfaction to Elijah, but that ended when Jay licked his thumb and ran it across the gash on his forehead, and suddenly he was no longer assured that this fight was about to become a one way a** whoopin in his favor.
That thought was followed by searing pain as Jay smacked him across the chest with a hand that was blazing hot, he could have sworn that his sweat evaporated as it floated into the air, the though crossed his mind that this might have been a very bad idea. Nonetheless he had been doing well thus far and was going to continue, now he just had to be a little more cautious. Jay placed his hands on Elijah’s shoulders and tossed him into the ropes, Kairi fell as Jay batted him in the face with both hands, then Jay jumped up and his feet landed in Elijah’s shoulders, the pain was almost unbearable, then he heard Jay say “Cry b***h ” That would be the one thing that pissed Kairi off, as those words rang in his head he started to forget that Jay had been beating him, he was so mad that the blood running down his face was suddenly a non issue. Jay smiled as he picked Elijah’s body up off the ground by the shoulders looking at his eyes going into the back o f his head, then Jay saw the last thing he wanted to, Kairi opened his eyes and the almost silver color in them was now fading to black, if the eyes were the gateway to the soul, then Jay now realized he was staring into the end of existence.
Kairi kicked him in the stomach then stood as though nothing had been happening to him, despite the fact that Jay had hit him in the face harder then he could ever remember being hit. Jay punched him, he took the punch and looked up at Jay with a smile then rushed him. The air around them seemed to tremble in anticipation of what was going to happen, Jay looked at Kairi and noticed the veins in his forearms, he could see the blood pumping through them, and as was shown though his skin the blood was pitch black. Kairi ran at Jay, and before he had a chance to move, locked him up in an under hook hold that seemed to completely immobilize him. Then the onslaught began, Kairi quickly released the lock to deliver a quartet of hard blows to the face, as Jay hunched down Kairi delivered hard clubbing blow to the center of his back, Jay fell as if he had gotten hit by a sledgehammer.
Kairi started kicking him furiously as he hit the floor, the blood flowed from him like wine at communion, Kairi laughed at sound of his feet impacting Jay’s body and the subsequent shots of blood that came. The fight was over, at least it should have been, but after all that Jay had put him through, Kairi was going to prolong the magic. He lifted Jay from the ground only to grab his right arm and dislocate it, then locked fingers on the same arm and with an unnatural strength folded his hand forward, breaking Jay’s fingers as well as his arm at the elbow and forearm. As Jay screamed, Kairi smiled as he held the arm and kicked Jay in the leg, bringing him to his knees..
“Please make it stop” begged Jay, Kairi knew that the fun did have to stop eventually, so he reached into the darkest corner of his mentality for something truly twisted . With that his eyes turned completely black, the veins in his body flowed with so much blood that they looked like black vines in his arms, and with a roar that would strike fear in wild animals he put Jay in the corner and began to work him over with a succession of punches and kicks so rapid that Jay’s body shook as if being hit by automatic gunfire, then as Jay hit the floor Kairi delivered a rib breaking kick that made him roll over onto his back. As Jay laid on his back Kairi looked down on the pitiful sight, smiled, and kicked Jay in the face knocking him out cold. It was an act of violence so astonishing that the entire place fell silent, Kairi stood over his bloody plaything and let out a scream that was so absolutely feral that it could shake any man to his core. As his scream subsided, the veins went down, his eyes returned to normal, and composure became weaker. Then a thunderous applaud came from all corners of the arena, he got out the ring and walked up to the walkway as the people chanted his name, and the medical technicians came down with a stretcher for Jay.
As he got back to the locker room, Kairi fell out on a nearby bench a sting went through his shoulders as he felt a touch and heard a familiar voice “don’t move.” It was Haven, she was helping ease the pain in his body. A warm, calm feeling came over him at the sensation caused by her healing touch. Then as his shoulders finally healed she noticed the blood coming from his head where the shards of glass had cut him. When she placed her hands on him, not only did the physical pain go away, but the rage and anxiety that he had felt throughout this entire ordeal as well. His tenseness faded and gave way to relaxation and he was filled with a peace that seemed to last forever. “Take care of yourself” said Haven as she left him to sleep on the bench.
Hours later, he awoke to see a figure sitting in the corner “ I see you still got it ” said a feminine voice, as his vision became clearer Kairi recognized the face. “Bella” he said springing to his feet and hugging her with the type of joy one uses to greet old friends, before immediately hunching back in pain and sitting down. “You ok?” she asked reaching toward him cautiously.
“I’m fine, I just forgot that almost got my a** beat out there” he said with a slight snicker, “so how have you been?”
“Not much, got a corporate contract a while back”
“What did they have you doing, assassin, hero....”
“Spokes model for a gothic clothing company” she said crossing her legs as she sat down “since I am, for all intents and purposes, a vampire”
“Who better to help sell to the Anne Rice crowd” he said completing the idea, before sighing “leave it to corporate America to capitalize on the whole emergence of the stand-out population.”
“You’ve got a lot of companies out to get you, why don’t you take up an offer?” she said with a smile, her tiny, sharp fangs showing slightly past her lips
“Because I get the feeling that none of them would have anything to do with me if I wasn’t a stand-out, blood line, enhanced or otherwise.”
“ So why bother with people who wouldn’t bother with you under different circumstances, right?” she said finishing his idea before putting her hand on the side of his face “Elijah, you have too much potential to stay here, this is the last option for many stand-outs when it comes to surviving. You’re a bloodline, a stand-out since birth, that alone makes companies want you, so why stay at the bottom rung when you have the potential to reach the sky?”
“I’m doing fine, I don’t want to be a part of this bastardized system of heroics. I remember when the first wave did s**t that really meant something to them, and a lot of us today do it not because of meaning, but because money is involved.”
“So what are you saying about me?” she replied somewhat insulted
“Nothing, see you just help sell merchandise, but there are others who die for dollars because big time corporations pay them to.”
“So what do you think is going on down here?” she said raising her voice “ despite what you do you try not to kill your opponents, but if you look up in those stands, there are rich people in good seats who sit and, for there entertainment, watch you and your fellow stand-outs brutalize each other. Even to the point where some of you die.” With that Kairi sat quiet and held his head down, knowing she was right. Then she touched placed her hand under his chin and lifted his head “I don’t want you to fight till you become another dead body, so please consider those offers.” she said her eyes starting to water, he shook his head then stood up and said “could you wait outside, I have to do something.” Bella left him, he striped off his bloody clothes and got in the shower.
The water hit his body, and as it ran down his frame, covered in current bruises and cuts, it became a rich red as though the blood had not even been thinned by the droplets that rushed over him. Thoughts ran through his mind ran just as fast as the water from the shower head, Bella was right, he was pretty much still participating in the bastardization of his kind, and this form may very well be worse than the one he stood so firmly against. But this actually meant something to him, it made him feel alive. Did sponsorship debase the significance of what he was? Did it matter? This was what he knew for the moment, and by the coldness of the water, he realized it was time to quit thinking and get out of the shower. As he was getting his clothes on, Bella came back in to see his slipping on his t-shirt “I see you’ve gotten much fitter” she said with a smile on her face.
“You can quit licking your lips now” he replied jokingly as he put on his jacket and they walked out of the locker room. “So where are you taking me anyway?”
“Don’t worry, you’ll see when we get there” she replied taking him out to her car.
© August 16, 2005 ©
Written by Robyn T. Golphin II
All characters are Intellectual property of Robyn T. Golphin II
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