War Isn't Over

I Look at you and I see the future. I look at you and I see the man that you should be. The man that you used to be, and the man that you will become.

I stare at you every morning, every evening before you go to bed.

I see you in your rear view, side view mirrors. I see you when you walk outside of any building and you look into the windows on the first floor.

I see you when you turn on your television. I see you when it rains

I see you when you look into the eyes of your opponent.

I’m looking at you right now.

The Man in the Mirror

I sit and I stare at myself sometimes and I am disgusted at the person that I was. Eager to please, rolling over showing emotion. I showed emotion and the people I loved died, got locked up and left me. Emotions cause mistakes. I will not make the same mistake twice.

I stare at the man in the mirror for so long sometimes its like I don't even recognize myself. Funny thing is that I see more now then I see before.

I was lost and now I am found. The mirrors don't hold me anymore, and I am not free.

Destiny.

| Brother, We need to talk |

The phone vibrates and the caller ID reads, Daniel Kalis. i picked up the phone and he speaks. I have been sitting in this house looking through old paperwork. My girlfriend Kamryn Nicole left a letter for him stating she was off on other ventures, and it looks like Rayn has returned from his incarceration. Things have really fallen apart from when I was here before but that doesn’t really mean anything. I’m ready for a new start, but at what price do I have to pay to make this sudden change in lifestyle. Who else is going to have to pay to live the lifestyle that I am going to implore others to live. My emotions are all but gone and I’m almost afraid of what could happen

“So this is whats been going on since I been gone? “ Daniel Says snifflin over the phone like he has a cold. I take a sip of water from a glass and swallow deeply. “Nothings been going on, just a bunch of nothing, disappointments, you name it.” I replyed.

“Well it’s a new fucking day and its time to start making moves.” Daniel says with excitement. “I don’t know where you have been Daniel but this is time to do something different. “ I get up off the chair and walk towards the window. The sun is beginning to set some and the cool Los Angeles air is caressing my face. I close my eyes while Daniel continues to talk. “Look bro, meet me at the crossroads and we will talk more. “ Daniel finishes up. I tell Daniel that I will meet him and I hang up the phone.

The doc told me to take my medication but sometimes I’m stubborn. I don’t need them. My mind is made up and clear most of the time. I have a major problem with keeping my emotions in check but since I got back from my hiatus I have been really good with it. Thought about making my return to the ring while I was gone but the thought always came into my mind, the day I broke down and gave up the SFT Championship. Excuses, I never have any answers for anything and I couldn’t recover from the type of stress I was under. The war was lost.

I get in my car and take another look at my house. I don’t think I want to live here anymore I thought. Si I turn the ignition key and back the car up. I pull away with the radio on and I make my way to the middle of the city. The bar crossroads is a nice establishment with a list guests. I walk out the car and give the keys to the vale’ and proceed towards the entrance. As I walk in, I bump into a lot of people but I walk through them like they don’t even exist. I see Daniel sitting at the table waiting for me. I make my way over and I sit down on the chair.

“How are you feeling, bro? “ Rayn shakes my hand and sits down.

“I feel good. I feel better then I have felt in a long time rayn.” I replied with a smirk on my face.

“You have a world championship match on the new Monday show I see. Strike towers treating you good now days? “Daniel ask’s taking in a swig of his beer.

“Just taking back what’s mine, you know that rayn. Last time I had the championship I had to just give it to Kyle. Now im going to get it back.” I said to him.

We sit there for a while talking about old times. I mention the death of Fight 1 and a lot of the things that went on while I was on my hiatus. We share a few laugh’s and it seems we still agree on a lot of things. Just as the evening was coming to and end and the catching up seemed to have been done, a group walks into the club. One man in particular seems to have the ego of a blimp. Dressed in a small polo shirt and cargo shorts, he takes his shades off and the crowd of people go to shake his hand. I think to myself, truly a list people do come here. I walk towards the bar and shake hands with the bartender before I head out but as I turn my head I see a women walk through the door. I stare but I can’t believe my eyes at first. I thought I saw kamryn. I walk over but I bump into the douche bag that just walked in and his friend pushes me.

“Fuck is your problem! “ I said to his entire entourage. The guy takes his glasses off and stares me in my eyes. “Cody McCarthy is the name that is. “ He extends his hand out for him to shake.

“Are you supposed to impress me? “ I said to Cody. He puts his glasses on the table and laughs at everyone. “Trying to be nice here man. Everyone here knows that im the BEST! “The people around him start agreeing with Cody and giving him handshakes. “To be the best, you have to take OUT the best.” Cody politely points to himself.

“Your definition of the best is a little skewed, if you think someone like you could be better then that of a ant. “ I replied to Cody.

“Well You gotta give the people what they WANT! “ Cody says as the crowd in the bar cheers. The bartender however breaks up the fight. “Take it some where else’s ladies.” He says. Rayn comes behind me and walks me towards the door but I catch a glimpse of the women and her face doesn’t look as familiar anymore, its not Kamryn. Cody turns and picks up his glasses, turns to his friend and says, “why do I feel like I know him?”

“Come on, you have a championship match. “ Rayn says to me. “I know but I know who he is and I thought I saw something...” I stopped. Thinking about what just happened I realized who he was. “What is it Reno?” Rayn ask’s.

“Just something that needed to be handled a long time ago, that will be delt with. “ I tell rayn looking back to the bar.

A blast from the past Cody is. He started wrestling the same time I did, we trained under jeff dypko together in the WWA, he lef the wwa soon after to pursue his own career , but not after making me look like a dumb ass for years. I always told myself that I would see him again, the wars we went through weren’t over. I haven’t heard anything from him in wrestling and thought he was dead. I may just have to google him when I get to my computer.

“What about Kyle, you have to concentrate on him.” Rayn refocuses. “Kyle Murphy won’t be a problem. I told you before, im going to get back what I gave up last November, I will become a 2 time world champion and I will become the new standard in strike towers. I backed down from way to much in my day, and I swore that I would destroy elite domination. Kyle is no different then that asshole in there. The standard of Strike Towers, that makes me fucking laugh, and while im at it, im going to walk in the middle of the ring in the beginning of the show and make examples out of EVERYONE and take the hardcore title while im at it. History will be made on the history making new Monday night show.

Can’t believe I thought about everyone else first instead of myself. Its time for me to become a hall of famer, time for Reno to stop living in the shadows of others. I’ve become a world champion before this, and now that time is here again, my destiny. I hear a voice as I drive past the bar again. Its Cody screaming " happy birthday Destiny! " Right then, I knew that wouldn't be the last time I saw him.

| Scene Fades |

| The night is beautiful, clear skies in the forecast and not a lick of discrepancy in sight. However the setting was murkey, gloomy. Walking behind massive debris, sharp objects, pieces of destroyed houses, Reno is pacing around looking at the destruction, picking up pictures of families and past residents. He turns around and takes a seat on a single standing object that seems to not be affected by the chaos that ripped through this part of the scene. He raises his head slowly towards the camera. |

You look around and see destruction. You look around and you see nothing but the end result of war. Hiroshima, World Trade Center, my birthday wasn’t riddled with a fun week but a week of morning and hatred, retribution. This is not what it’s about now. Now its not personal. We have been walking through his war on terrorism for years now with personal vendetta’s and a sense of something to prove. This war however is nothing personal, its just business. When you make it personal, emotions get involved and decisions get skewed. My mind is clear on the goal and the war will finally come to an end. My pursuit of the world championship comes to a climax as I become a 2 time world champion on the new flagship show for strike towers.

Kyle Murphy, former member of elite domination, 4 time world champion. You call yourself the standard in strike towers and the credentials are there. There is not a man active in sft on the active roster that can virtually match you wrap sheet. From what I can gather Murphy, we are on the same wavelength when it comes to making people see exactly how great we are. You walk out here with sort of a swagger and the reason is because you have a reason to have your nose in the clouds. You have a reason to say you are the standard. Nobody is above the LAW you quote all the time, and right now with the resume that you have, No one is above your law. Unfortunately for your ego that statement won’t be current after the new Monday show when I become the standard here in strike towers and become the new world heavyweight champion.

Kyle Innis Murphy, born may 17, 1978. Someone of you invaluable intelligence such as yourself should know that you have a truly inspiring story to tell. Joined insane wrestling 2000 and was trained under someone to whom I have no idea about, Reginald Royce! Now just because that name means nothing to me doesn’t mean that he doesn’t know a move or two. Nevertheless, fast forward a little bit, you met some bitch named Rachel and became one of the, and I quote “most dominate couple in history! “ Bright enough lights for you standard? Continuing, I analyzed you some more and I noticed when you tried to walk into strike towers; you were laughed from the doors and sent back to IWOW2k. This is not far from the disrespect that I was given when I first walked into strike towers. You see there was an impact to be made and it was made, your career speaks for itself. Your impact came by joining the XCW where you and your “Golden Couple “era reigned on again.

While in XCW, you won championships, you plowed your way to greatness once again, taking no names and no prisoners. XCW was a tribute to the people who told you, Kyle couldn’t cut the mustard. However you named yourself the last true XCW World Champion. When it merged over you was cheated out of your shot to fight for the first SFT World Championship, Who none other then THE ICON to replace you in a match that resulted in a double pin, the same man who laughed you out of the SFW. Ironic how years later, Icon isn’t here to defend himself against you anymore, and you have made your way back to being a mutli time world champion, something you should have had the pleasure of being the first to do. Props to madd dogg for being the first champion.

You say countless injuries kept you out of the ring for up to a year after the creation of Strike Towers. I say its an excuse. You managed gallant, I say you were hiding. You grew soft Kyle, your instinct to be the Golden boy of Strike towers died along with your chances of keeping that championship another week longer. That swagger you had back in 2001 is gone. This is a golden opportunity for me to regain something that I worked hard for when I first tasted it. I will not let it pass me.

I’m not without my own story. You see Murphy like I said before, we come from similar pasts. I may not be a Yale graduate but I was one of the jocks that used to string you up on your locker from time to time. I had a righteous past but also a past that not many people would be able to live. You grew with a silver spoon in your mouth; I had to fight with sharp silver objects.

I entered wrestling just like you, a success. Winning world championships at the age of 18, I briefly wrestled when I was 16 just because it was something to do at the time. I was trained under one of the great minds in wrestling before he decided to keep his training to himself, Jeff Dypko of MY XCW. I began my measure of success in the HCWF’s Minor league called the WWA, where SFT Hall Of famers started. “Sweet “ Sean Lane would be just one example, Holding numerous titles till I got good enough to join the ranks in the Major league Hardcore Championship Wrestling Federation. There I held, well you don’t really need to know, Former 2 time World Champion beating JC Stubz and Sean Lane. Shortly after, The “XCW “Was born, I headlined every event, the longest reigning Intercontinental champion, and 3 time world champion until the implosion.

Just like you Murphy I had a woman on my side who basically was the gender opposite of me. She was one of the greatest in ring performers I have ever had the pleasure of knowing, Kamryn Nicole. But her history is just that, history. Unlike you Murphy I make my own way around wrestling instead of piggybacking on the success of a woman. She made her success and I made mine. After I left XCW, I came to Strike Towers in 2003. While it was a short stint, 1 match in fact, I made an impact. I left for a while because XCW Opened again and my loyalties were to my trainer. I will admit that after I came back I was a bit worn down. I joined the military for a year and came back. I thought retirement was the only option for me. I let my mind think that what people like Aidan Morag and Havoc were saying was true, that I would never become the SFT world Champion. I spend time coming back and leaving, Going to Fight 1 and other feds to try to get my motivation back. Did I have a weak mind? Was my resolve crippled by coming and going, listening to people tell me how bad I am? This may be true but in time I started to listen to my own voices, I listened to my own opinion.

I came back to Strike towers a year ago, rejoined my brother Rayn and joined one of the most elite and controversial stables in SFT History, the holocaust. Won Tag team Gold, defeated men that were world champion caliber athletes and ultimately 3 months later , defeated a red hot myris to finally realize my dream of becoming the SFT World Champion. No one, not even myris could believe what just happened when the ref raised my hand in the air and I held the world championship above my shoulders. The very foundation of SFT shook that day when Destiny took his rightful spot among the 90 some odd people who raised it before I did, Havoc , Aidan Morag , Shawn Walsh , Mikhiel Jarvis, Rayn , Nirvana , Madd Dogg.

There is a good story that will come out of this Murphy; I have been battling in my head for a long time to final destruction of the last remnants of elite domination. Also I have been going back in forth through my mind that, you are the one who ended my first world championship reign. Last year after a month of holding the championship you brought my reign to an abrupt end, a premature end that no one will remember, to become a 4 time world champion. Some people would probably look at you among the top competitors in the history of Strike Towers, I look at you as just another target. You see the difference between me and you is that I am hungrier, I'm motivated. I wish to take what is left of Strike Towers and rock its foundation again and ultimately be the best that this company has ever seen. The history is there Kyle, you and I have had this wonderful story of coming up being doubted, and we have shown and proved the nay sayers wrong time and time again. This was supposed to happen, me and you Murphy. Fate has brought us together one more time for the top prize in strike towers, but this time I will be taking it from you instead of you taking it from me. Last November you took away my dreams and now I am back almost a year later to return the favor.

You followed Aidan Morag around with elite domination, your fame came from the shadows of a has been and a few other world champions who are not here anymore, Brass Martin, and Von Drake to name a few. You garnered your success of of other people, just like they said about me. Like I said one thing is for certain kyle, its that we come from the same cloth. You can say because I didn’t graduate from a prestigious school and trained with a top notch wrestler that me and you aren’t the same, deep down inside you know that we are. Unfortunately Kyle, it is over. You got the world championship from me via forfeit. I wasn’t around to rightfully defend my championship so now im coming back for it. The championship you claim to be yours is in the hands of the wrong man and I am back to reclaim what is mine.

Think to yourself for a second Kyle and remind yourself of your own career. You have seen the world and have dominated wherever you have walked. You are currently on top of the Strike Towers world and controlling it with an iron fist, However when I stepped back into the SFT that changed. There are few competitors in this business that can compete for the championship right now, no one on our level Murphy! The thing is that, there can be only 1 man on top. To be the best you have to take out the best. I find it hard to say that Kyle Murphy is the best in SFT right now, but only the best on paper. The only credible men you have defeated were rayn and your whip bearer, Aidan Morag. Most of your championship reigns come from people who can’t hold the jock of a midget. You beat people like twilight, mike zybala , Daniel Jacobson, those wrestlers can’t beat me if I lost all my limbs. I’m going to expose you as a standard of mediocrity. The superiority of destiny will be shown and I will finally ridden the SFT of the threat of and elite domination ending to this story of war.

I’m standing in this field today to show you that this was the path of destruction I left for your faction. The years I spent waging war against you and your people. Aidan Morag was destroyed and thrown out of the SFT. I may not have been able to take him in his own arena but this here. This ring is where I do business. I look at this single standing tribute to this war and you know what it represents? It represents the last man standing. That last thing standing will be me. Destiny is in my hands Murphy; the law doesn’t have any jurisdiction in this war.

As far as becoming hardcore champion is concerned. I will show up for the match. I have been a hardcore champion before and I am no stranger to a little murder and mayhem. I have faced men like Johnny Legend and The Guyver, a long line of greats to hold onto my hardcore championship. If I have to go through Red, the Chinese dating service promoters, Jack Jones , Allisa , Or even Kyle Murphy himself I will walk into The new Monday show and make history like I have always promised I would. I always said that I would make history in Strike Towers and that I will make it to the Hall Of Fame. This is a big stepping stone for me. Not only will I become a 2 time world champion, I will become a 2 time hardcore champion. Monday Nights will never be the same. The new era is Strike Fantasy Wrestling is here and it will start with RENO DESTINY!

| Destiny looks at the single standing tribute to the war as he walks off leaving it behind. The camera stays on the figure, it’s a figure of a old championship belt, charred with ash, tarnished gold. The name on the plate doesn’t have a name because most of it was scratched and worn off. The rain starts to fall on the area, and thunder rolls through as the camera fades |