A lake is one of the most peaceful places on this planet, For it hold life, and the area that surrounds it is full of life, the trees, the birds, the raccoons, the fish, the gators, the air it self, all filled with life, and you can feel it as it moves around you. The wind is so pear out here, nothing has poised it, the life you can feel from miles away from this spot. Trees surround it hiding it, but there is a small entrance over near the left side, that leads to this oasis, a body of water as far as the eye can see, surrounded by the trees, for the trees keep it hidden. 

The tiny birds are chirping for there mothers as they are out getting food for there young, as do all mothers do, even the gators take there part in providing for there young.  

In the middle of the lake, we can see a small boat, it shaped like a normal sized fishing boat, it has no motor and its painted black, the person in side it, he just sitting there with one knee bent up on the seat and the other hanging down, the man has on a pair of light blue jeans, and a white t-shirt. As we look up to his face, his hair and a little messy, but we then soon notice, that it’s the world champion, Erik Dean. 

Ever sense Dean has joined SFT back in the late 01. He has known about this place, he comes here whenever he is troubled, or needs to think. Him and his sister would come out here for the weekend with a few friends and her husband and would just stay out here all weekend. This is his privet get away, for him only, as we can tell, Dean does not have on his normal black jeans, black t, and his black trench coat. You see, this is the real Erik Dean. This is the man that is real, not the show he puts on for every one. This is him, this is the champion. 

For so long Dean would hide behind something, because he was afraid that people would not accept him for what he was unless he put on a mask so to speak, so he put of a front, so no other could see the real him, only the ones that were true to him would see who he was inside. The only person that was true to him died. 

Every so often Dean will take this boat out, and just have it drift into the lake for a day, did nothing but sit there and think. That is what he is doing now. He is trying to get things off his mind. He came here for a reason….  

 {The roads are very busy on this day, this day is no different then others, but the fact that it is 5 o’clock does not help. As we take a look down the walking path we notice a black trench coat, as we fallow the man is were black jeans, and has on a pair of sunglasses. The man can be made out to be Erik Dean.  

He walks down the street, he does not notice very much, he reaches a cross walk, but does not take the time to look and see if its clear, for he does not care. He is very troubled right now, inside him self right now, is something trying to be set free. Dean wants to be set free from the world; he just wants to let go. 

But he cant do that for some reason, something is stopping him, and Dean thinks it’s the world title, which is why he wants to get rid of it. He expects to lose this Sunday to Switch, and he expects the title to be handed away from him, which that is the only thing that brings him happiness right now. 

Dean walks into the street, a loud noise can be herd, almost like a buzzer noise, Dean turns his head and a red ford pick up truck is heading right for Dean… But it stops. 

Dean looks up, not knowing what is going on, he should have been hit, he turns around and finds Lisa, his sister standing behind him, her white dress is just glowing, and the wind just blows through her brown hair and really makes it shine, and her sky blue eyes are just sparkling.

Lisa: You’re not ready to go yet. 

Erik Dean: Why couldn’t you just let me die here, the pain would have went away, and I would have been set free. Why did you stop me? 

 Lisa: Do you wish to be set free? 

 Erik Dean: Yes. 

Lisa: Then go to the place were life never stops, and come as your self, the real you as I remember. Then and only then will you be set free. 

 Erik Then walks across the street, once to the side walk, he turns around and looks at Lisa, she looks back at him, then time goes back to normal, and she disappears as the cars pass by.} 

Come as him self, as she remembers. He has done that. He its over the water waiting for the time, already he is feeling better about him self because of this area. He has not thought about the match with Switchblade at all. Up in till now, as he thinks, he images the cage, he sees the scenarios of him falling, and Switch falling, what would happen if Switch was the one to fall, would people respect him? 

He has won the title, but people still do not respect him, that is all that Dean wants from people, but people are harsh, and cruel, and UN caring. Even Switch is that way now, for he would kill Dean by sending him off the cage just to get the title from him.  

For the first time today, clouds are in the sky, they move in closer and block the light from the sun, birds fly in the air, but then just stop, light then breaks through the clouds, and standing on the Water, is Lisa. With her same white dress. 

Lisa: So you finally want to stop hiding, and show your self as the person you really are. A champion. 

Erik Dean: Yes, I want to be the champion that people see me as, and for that to happen, I must be set free . 

 Lisa: Done. 

 Erik Dean: Done? You did nothing. 

 Lisa: You are in charge of setting your self free Erik, and by showing up here today, you set your self free, You have always been a champion. Sense day one when you joined SFT, you have been a champion in the making. You have always been one of the wrestlers that they keep an eye on. 

You have just never noticed it Erik, your skills are far better then you have let on, they surpass most wrestler in SFT right now, even switchblade. You are truly a remarkable wrestler Erik, but you refuse to see it, and you hold back, that’s why it has taking you so long to get were you are at now. 

But maybe now that you have let go, you can defeat Switchblade, and break this so called curse that the title holds.  

I am going to let you in on something Erik, there is really no curse on the title, People just lose the title because they are lazy, and do not care for it any more. That’s the real curse; you are not like that Erik. You will show every one that you are the best.  

Show Switchblade that you will not back down from him, that you will stand up and fight, and you I will not be thrown off the cage, you will hold on with all your energy, that you will hold on with every ounce of straight in your body, from your head all the way down to your toes. You will hold on. For me Erik, for me…. 

The water then starts to ripple and time restarts, the birds begin to fly again, and Dean is just starring at the water, the spot were his sister was standing. He just stairs down into the water, he can see the fish swim back and forth, almost like they are playing a game of tag. Dean then stairs into the sky and starts to smile, inside he has changed. He has been set free. 

Erik Dean: I have been set free, free from what I was, and I am now ready to step up and take my place in SFT. 

Ii see in my head a desperate man, trying to bring down an entire building with a sledgehammer.

He pound and pound away but he get ever more tired, but he fails to see that the building is old, and there’s that 1 in a million chance he could hit that weak point in the building and do some real damage, He keeps swinging away against unbeatable odds, but you hope to hit that one weak spot, and where there is hope there is life, He still has life, I still have life. 

See switch, some time soon I am going to hit the 1 spot, that 1 spot that will bring the whole thing down, and I will clam my spot at the top. Were nothing can hurt me, not even you Switch. You can throw me off a thousand cages, and you still wont be able to hurt me.  

You can’t hurt me any more, I am no longer going to stand back and have you walk over me, I will not let you take what is mine for now. I am the Champion, no madder what any one tells me, I am the champion, and there is nothing u can do about it. 

You will have to break me to get it from me, and you will find that hard to do come Sunday, when both of us are placed on top of the 20 feet tall steel cage, fearing for out lives, only I wont be scared any more, I wont fear this thing. If I am to fall, then I am to fall with out fear. I am to fight with no fear, with a clear mind of my surrounding, can you do that switch? Push all the fear aside, and move forward and face me; you have proven to the world that you can, but have you proven it to your self? 

I don’t think you have, because when I hear your voice, I can hear the fear, I can sense it, you cant hide it from me, I am the world champion, I know these things. I have to know them. And I will defeat you on Sunday, I will not like what I have to do, but I will do what I must. 

Here I stand before god, and all men as the champion of the world, but i have yet to be judged, but my day is coming, and it comes soon. Switchblade and the rest of the fed as well as the fans have all deemed themselves my judge, jury and if must be my executioner. But I stand before you a humble man, and whatever will be.... will be.  

That is the truth, let it be written, and let is be said. 

 Dean then stands up in the boat, in the sun he looks like a new man, a new champion, the sight then draws back to were all we can see is a shadow standing on the water

Fade Out-