02-16-2019, 12:41 AM
And Here is the shoot!
Coming out of the Dark
Fading in it looks like we are in fact fading out until you realize that it is always darkest right before the light of dawn break. Once you understand that, then you look off into the distance and see a man standing alone looking out into the water while standing on a pier. So calm and serene he while busy reflecting on not just where he has been, as well as where he is going and where would like to go, he doesn't seem to have any regard for the world around going on around him, accept for what is beyond the pier.
Not that the world around him has much regard for him either. No, the world it seems would rather just pass him along like a feather floating in the breeze without a care at all about where it might land or even if it can be seen at all in the dark of night. Honestly the world would prefer it if this man wasn't here at all, trying to be part of that same world again, the one that for the most part doesn't want him, not that he cares because he doesn't.
He doesn't care that the world doesn't want him, not because he doesn't about the world mind you. He tried for a long time not caring about the world but now it is different for him. He cares about the rest of the world, and he wants to become part of that,world, but he also knows he has done some rotten, deplorable things too many people, many good people that the world does care about.
So, the man is for now stuck in some sort of purgatory it would seem, caught between wanting do to right for a change and wanting to make sure that he is on redemption path as well, even if that means he is being forced to wait until the world around him is ready for him. Some things never change though for just like the darkness and light there are things that are always constants.
For this man his constant, the one thing about him never seems to change? He absolutely HATES to wait his turn for anything.
Voice: Miami Beach, it really does seem quite fitting I guess that it would all start anew again in Miami. Not that it hasn't before this mind you. It actually started in Sacramento last month, not that a lot of you even noticed though I understand. It is going to take some time before many of you notice, and that is alright by me.
For now, Dante McCaffery noticed and that will have to do right Amber?
Amber: Oh yeah, oh better believe that Dante McCaffrey and all of his friends so totally noticed you babe!
Turning around now and walking slowly toward the camera there is not much light still in the early morning hours on the beach, but there is enough lighy that we can make out fairly new SCW wrestler Kellen Jeffries, a calm demeanor on his face.
Kellen: Ladies and Gentlemen, that is my fiancee, and the one person left who both believes me and believes in me, Amber Sloane. Amber, you have the camera up on the tripod, why don't come out from behind it and join me?
Amber: No, this is all supposed to be about you and what you in store for everyone coming up on Saturday, so I am going stay behind the camera here and just let the focus be about you. That is the way I like it anyway.
Kellen: And that is my stunning fiancee everyone, making the decision to stay behind the camera so that all of the focus will solely be on me and what I would like to achieve this Saturday night. Technically I suppose that I can just start calling it tomorrow night is the noe as this is early Friday morning even though some of us are still celebrating Valentine's Day.
I used to spend a lot of time, and a couple of Valentine's Days right here in Miami. It was right around ten years ago when I first started coming around Miami. That was when I started going out with Kennedy Street, who has of course gone on to greater things than I have so far in the wrestling world, and no greater than here in SCW where she is a two-time World Champion. Personally, I doubt that she is done either. While we have spoken recently for the first time in a while, we didn’t “talk shop” as they say, but I knew long before the rest of the world that Kennedy Street was destined to be one of the very best wrestlers in the World. Having already won the SCW World Championship twice, I believe it’s only a matter of time before she is on top again. Don’t hurt me Kennedy please, but I believe that the only person is stopping a third title reign for Kennedy is Kennedy herself and how bad she wants it. To that end, only time will tell.
Kellen stops and looks at the ocean again, collecting his thoughts while a gentle breeze is blowing in the cool night air. Out in the distance in the ocean, two ship of about the same size pass each other in the night and seeing this brings a hint of a smile two Kellen lips. It is perhaps the hint of a smile that has Amber wondering as she calls out to her fiancée.
Amber: Kellen, is everything alright right babe, because you kind of just looked totally weird a few seconds ago?
Kellen: Oh yeah Amber, don’t you worry about a thing, I am perfectly fine. I was just thinking about a few things to myself is all.
Amber: What kinds of things were you thinking about?
Kellen: Primarily I was thinking that I need talk about why we are here, the SCW Trios Tournament, because that is after all what brought us to Miami. The Trios Tournament can represent a lot of things to a lot of people, but what it all boils down to is one word that everyone can relate to and that word is opportunity. Because you win the Trios Tournament in SCW and suddenly your career as you know it right now has the opportunity to completely change in a heartbeat. Eight teams of three people a piece chosen at random and all of them are competing to win three contracts for a match, any type of match that can happen at in time.
Trust my partners? To be perfectly honest I do not even know my partners, but for night where the prize is to get the opportunity to make any kind of match, any time I want, well then Regan Street and Glory Braddock? You can consider yourselves Kellen Jeffries two new best friends because you are not going to have to watch your backs, I got you that night. There might be some teams in this tournament who might not be sure whether or not they can trust each other, or worse yet I am positive that there are some teams who are certain that they cannot trust each other at all but our team? That is not going to be an issue for our team because Regan and Glory are both multiple time world champions so they know just like I damn well know even though I have not held a world championship that opportunities like this, the opportunity to go from being just another hunter to the ultimate hunted, it doesn’t come around very often.
When I decided that I was going to come back to wrestling, the was never any doubt as to where I wanted to be. SCW is as advertised everywhere on this planet the very best professional wrestling promotion in the world and home to some of the very best professional wrestlers in the world so there was no choice for me as to where I was going to call home, SCW was going to be home for me. That is because in everything I do in life, my single-minded purpose is to be the very best and so professional wrestling isn’t going to be any different. Anyone who tells you any different about what they aspire to be in professional wrestling just like life is either not being honest or they seriously lack ambition. Trust me, if there is one thing that you will learn about me if you are an SCW wrestler or just an SCW wrestling it is that I do not lack ambition. I am here because the best are here and I want to compete with and beat the best and the Trios Tournament?
That represents the opportunity immediately to be the best. I don’t what everyone else in this tournament is doing with there opportunity should their team go on to win this tournament, and really it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference what anyone else says because Regan, Glory, and I are going to win and when we do? Like it or not, I am going to let everyone know right now that I am going to use my contract to make a match, and take my chances to win SCW World Championship, and more to the point, I am going win it. People may think that sounds incredibly confident for a newcomer to say that he is going to win the World Championship but I really don’t care exactly what you think. I have been in wrestling off and on for 12 years now and do you want to know how many times I have received an opportunity to wrestle for the World Championship in any promotions I have been in? How many times do you think I have wrestled for a world championship Amber?
The camera pans in closer to Kellen and although it is still dark outside for the most part we can see from the light of dawn just starting to shine on his face this morning that Kellen is starting to get agitated while Amber responds.
Amber: None babe, I know that you not gotten even one world championship match and that is like a total miscarriage of justice!
Kellen: That right Amber, in twelve years I have never received one world championship opportunity and it makes me a little bit sick when I think about it. I am not just your run of the mill mid-carder either. I have won several titles throughout my career. In the now defunct SWA that is defunct because of lousy management, I was the United States Champion twice, the Hardcore Champion five times, and yet I never got even so much as a look when it came to look at who was going to compete for the big one, but here in SCW where you are competing against the best in the world night in and night out I am not going to let that happen this time around.
I will get an opportunity to and win the SCW World Championship!
To that though the first thing I need to do along with Regan and Glory, a combined twelve world championship between the two of them, is win the Trios Tournament here in Miami Saturday night, and in order to do that means we must first win our first round match up against Alistaire Allocco, James Evans, and Casterillo.
Alistaire Allocco, I understand that you are the child of someone I used to watch in SCW when I was growing up, Adam Allocco. I also understand that you already surpassed you father because I can remember very vividly watching you, your hand being raised by a man who I have a lot of personal issues with Simon Lyman, who was the special guest referee that night when you won the SCW World Championship.
James Evans, I know your story very well because you James are just like myself in that you are on a path to redemption, in fact you are even one half of a tag team called Redemption that has seen you and your tag team partner Angelica Jones win the SCW World Tag Team Championships. So you have been doing very well for yourself James, but still have not quite back to where you were before when you were a SCW World Champion, just like your partner Alistaire.
Casterillo, you are certainly the odd ball within your own team, and yet you are also the person with which I may closely relate, because you like me have no world championships to your credit. Then again taking a look at what we know about you, Casterillo, it is easy to see why there is no world championship to your credit, because unlike your Trios Tournament partners Alistaire and James, you seem to fall into to one category I have already talked about tonight, you lack ambition! Those who lack ambition will never be at the top of there profession, you can bet on that!
To Alistare and James I will only that the two of you definitely do not lack ambition, because you have both proven yourselves, both grabbed that brass ring, both of you have already been the best of the best and won the SCW World Championship. James you in particular have already been on the road to redemption that I would like very much to follow, walking in your footsteps as it were.
You are a true inspiration, James Evans.
But Alistare and James, both of you have already won the SCW World Championship, you have both already had your time, your place in the sun!
When am I going to have MY TIME?!
The Trios Tournament is going to be MY TIME!!
Regan and Glory they are from Miami, and they are going to be ready just like I spent a lot of time here and I am going to be ready because we are going to give ourselves the proper welcome home party and win the Trios Tournament in Miami!
No one is going to stop me from winning the opportunity to win the SCW World Championship and it is MY TIME!
Kellen turns and looks out again over the ocean, and this time Amber comes up alongside of him, putting her head on his shoulder while his arm is around her and the light of dawn shines on both of their faces, the scene fading.
Coming out of the Dark
Fading in it looks like we are in fact fading out until you realize that it is always darkest right before the light of dawn break. Once you understand that, then you look off into the distance and see a man standing alone looking out into the water while standing on a pier. So calm and serene he while busy reflecting on not just where he has been, as well as where he is going and where would like to go, he doesn't seem to have any regard for the world around going on around him, accept for what is beyond the pier.
Not that the world around him has much regard for him either. No, the world it seems would rather just pass him along like a feather floating in the breeze without a care at all about where it might land or even if it can be seen at all in the dark of night. Honestly the world would prefer it if this man wasn't here at all, trying to be part of that same world again, the one that for the most part doesn't want him, not that he cares because he doesn't.
He doesn't care that the world doesn't want him, not because he doesn't about the world mind you. He tried for a long time not caring about the world but now it is different for him. He cares about the rest of the world, and he wants to become part of that,world, but he also knows he has done some rotten, deplorable things too many people, many good people that the world does care about.
So, the man is for now stuck in some sort of purgatory it would seem, caught between wanting do to right for a change and wanting to make sure that he is on redemption path as well, even if that means he is being forced to wait until the world around him is ready for him. Some things never change though for just like the darkness and light there are things that are always constants.
For this man his constant, the one thing about him never seems to change? He absolutely HATES to wait his turn for anything.
Voice: Miami Beach, it really does seem quite fitting I guess that it would all start anew again in Miami. Not that it hasn't before this mind you. It actually started in Sacramento last month, not that a lot of you even noticed though I understand. It is going to take some time before many of you notice, and that is alright by me.
For now, Dante McCaffery noticed and that will have to do right Amber?
Amber: Oh yeah, oh better believe that Dante McCaffrey and all of his friends so totally noticed you babe!
Turning around now and walking slowly toward the camera there is not much light still in the early morning hours on the beach, but there is enough lighy that we can make out fairly new SCW wrestler Kellen Jeffries, a calm demeanor on his face.
Kellen: Ladies and Gentlemen, that is my fiancee, and the one person left who both believes me and believes in me, Amber Sloane. Amber, you have the camera up on the tripod, why don't come out from behind it and join me?
Amber: No, this is all supposed to be about you and what you in store for everyone coming up on Saturday, so I am going stay behind the camera here and just let the focus be about you. That is the way I like it anyway.
Kellen: And that is my stunning fiancee everyone, making the decision to stay behind the camera so that all of the focus will solely be on me and what I would like to achieve this Saturday night. Technically I suppose that I can just start calling it tomorrow night is the noe as this is early Friday morning even though some of us are still celebrating Valentine's Day.
I used to spend a lot of time, and a couple of Valentine's Days right here in Miami. It was right around ten years ago when I first started coming around Miami. That was when I started going out with Kennedy Street, who has of course gone on to greater things than I have so far in the wrestling world, and no greater than here in SCW where she is a two-time World Champion. Personally, I doubt that she is done either. While we have spoken recently for the first time in a while, we didn’t “talk shop” as they say, but I knew long before the rest of the world that Kennedy Street was destined to be one of the very best wrestlers in the World. Having already won the SCW World Championship twice, I believe it’s only a matter of time before she is on top again. Don’t hurt me Kennedy please, but I believe that the only person is stopping a third title reign for Kennedy is Kennedy herself and how bad she wants it. To that end, only time will tell.
Kellen stops and looks at the ocean again, collecting his thoughts while a gentle breeze is blowing in the cool night air. Out in the distance in the ocean, two ship of about the same size pass each other in the night and seeing this brings a hint of a smile two Kellen lips. It is perhaps the hint of a smile that has Amber wondering as she calls out to her fiancée.
Amber: Kellen, is everything alright right babe, because you kind of just looked totally weird a few seconds ago?
Kellen: Oh yeah Amber, don’t you worry about a thing, I am perfectly fine. I was just thinking about a few things to myself is all.
Amber: What kinds of things were you thinking about?
Kellen: Primarily I was thinking that I need talk about why we are here, the SCW Trios Tournament, because that is after all what brought us to Miami. The Trios Tournament can represent a lot of things to a lot of people, but what it all boils down to is one word that everyone can relate to and that word is opportunity. Because you win the Trios Tournament in SCW and suddenly your career as you know it right now has the opportunity to completely change in a heartbeat. Eight teams of three people a piece chosen at random and all of them are competing to win three contracts for a match, any type of match that can happen at in time.
Trust my partners? To be perfectly honest I do not even know my partners, but for night where the prize is to get the opportunity to make any kind of match, any time I want, well then Regan Street and Glory Braddock? You can consider yourselves Kellen Jeffries two new best friends because you are not going to have to watch your backs, I got you that night. There might be some teams in this tournament who might not be sure whether or not they can trust each other, or worse yet I am positive that there are some teams who are certain that they cannot trust each other at all but our team? That is not going to be an issue for our team because Regan and Glory are both multiple time world champions so they know just like I damn well know even though I have not held a world championship that opportunities like this, the opportunity to go from being just another hunter to the ultimate hunted, it doesn’t come around very often.
When I decided that I was going to come back to wrestling, the was never any doubt as to where I wanted to be. SCW is as advertised everywhere on this planet the very best professional wrestling promotion in the world and home to some of the very best professional wrestlers in the world so there was no choice for me as to where I was going to call home, SCW was going to be home for me. That is because in everything I do in life, my single-minded purpose is to be the very best and so professional wrestling isn’t going to be any different. Anyone who tells you any different about what they aspire to be in professional wrestling just like life is either not being honest or they seriously lack ambition. Trust me, if there is one thing that you will learn about me if you are an SCW wrestler or just an SCW wrestling it is that I do not lack ambition. I am here because the best are here and I want to compete with and beat the best and the Trios Tournament?
That represents the opportunity immediately to be the best. I don’t what everyone else in this tournament is doing with there opportunity should their team go on to win this tournament, and really it doesn’t make a damn bit of difference what anyone else says because Regan, Glory, and I are going to win and when we do? Like it or not, I am going to let everyone know right now that I am going to use my contract to make a match, and take my chances to win SCW World Championship, and more to the point, I am going win it. People may think that sounds incredibly confident for a newcomer to say that he is going to win the World Championship but I really don’t care exactly what you think. I have been in wrestling off and on for 12 years now and do you want to know how many times I have received an opportunity to wrestle for the World Championship in any promotions I have been in? How many times do you think I have wrestled for a world championship Amber?
The camera pans in closer to Kellen and although it is still dark outside for the most part we can see from the light of dawn just starting to shine on his face this morning that Kellen is starting to get agitated while Amber responds.
Amber: None babe, I know that you not gotten even one world championship match and that is like a total miscarriage of justice!
Kellen: That right Amber, in twelve years I have never received one world championship opportunity and it makes me a little bit sick when I think about it. I am not just your run of the mill mid-carder either. I have won several titles throughout my career. In the now defunct SWA that is defunct because of lousy management, I was the United States Champion twice, the Hardcore Champion five times, and yet I never got even so much as a look when it came to look at who was going to compete for the big one, but here in SCW where you are competing against the best in the world night in and night out I am not going to let that happen this time around.
I will get an opportunity to and win the SCW World Championship!
To that though the first thing I need to do along with Regan and Glory, a combined twelve world championship between the two of them, is win the Trios Tournament here in Miami Saturday night, and in order to do that means we must first win our first round match up against Alistaire Allocco, James Evans, and Casterillo.
Alistaire Allocco, I understand that you are the child of someone I used to watch in SCW when I was growing up, Adam Allocco. I also understand that you already surpassed you father because I can remember very vividly watching you, your hand being raised by a man who I have a lot of personal issues with Simon Lyman, who was the special guest referee that night when you won the SCW World Championship.
James Evans, I know your story very well because you James are just like myself in that you are on a path to redemption, in fact you are even one half of a tag team called Redemption that has seen you and your tag team partner Angelica Jones win the SCW World Tag Team Championships. So you have been doing very well for yourself James, but still have not quite back to where you were before when you were a SCW World Champion, just like your partner Alistaire.
Casterillo, you are certainly the odd ball within your own team, and yet you are also the person with which I may closely relate, because you like me have no world championships to your credit. Then again taking a look at what we know about you, Casterillo, it is easy to see why there is no world championship to your credit, because unlike your Trios Tournament partners Alistaire and James, you seem to fall into to one category I have already talked about tonight, you lack ambition! Those who lack ambition will never be at the top of there profession, you can bet on that!
To Alistare and James I will only that the two of you definitely do not lack ambition, because you have both proven yourselves, both grabbed that brass ring, both of you have already been the best of the best and won the SCW World Championship. James you in particular have already been on the road to redemption that I would like very much to follow, walking in your footsteps as it were.
You are a true inspiration, James Evans.
But Alistare and James, both of you have already won the SCW World Championship, you have both already had your time, your place in the sun!
When am I going to have MY TIME?!
The Trios Tournament is going to be MY TIME!!
Regan and Glory they are from Miami, and they are going to be ready just like I spent a lot of time here and I am going to be ready because we are going to give ourselves the proper welcome home party and win the Trios Tournament in Miami!
No one is going to stop me from winning the opportunity to win the SCW World Championship and it is MY TIME!
Kellen turns and looks out again over the ocean, and this time Amber comes up alongside of him, putting her head on his shoulder while his arm is around her and the light of dawn shines on both of their faces, the scene fading.