Everyone has a dream...
"Wow, you should go on Dr. Phil..."
[Up]
[A bright light shines onto your screen, causing you to turn away at first.]
"Maybe you can sit on his lap and tell him all your problems..."
[That voice coming from the screen, draws your attention back towards it's origin. No longer is the screen bright and unbearable. You see the sun shining it's rays down upon the city, blanketing the city street that we have focused on with a heat that looks almost unbearable. Kids running around in shorts and t-shirts, spraying water on each other as they run around on this warm and sunny afternoon.]
"Tell him how no one loved you as a kid..."
[The camera slowly starts to pan towards the left, and we see a lone figure sitting on a park bench. The camera is drawn to him for some reason, and we slowly move closer.]
"Tell him how nothing good ever happened to you..."
[The figure is that of a large african american male, dressed in a throwback Wake Forest #21 Tim Duncan black and silver jersey, some denim jeans that look as if they are loose fitting from the way they hang on the side of him as he sits there on a park bench.]
"Tell him how none of your dreams ever came to be..."
[Right as we get up behind the man, he places a huge size fifteen sueded Timberland boot onto the bench he is sitting on, leaving his other foot on the ground as he relaces his boot.]
"Tell him all your problems, and pray that he gives you the right answers."
[He finishes lacing up the boot, and places his foot back on the ground. Turning towards the camera for the first time, and giving us our first glance at this hulking figure of a man.]
"Cause I don't have none for you."
[The stone like features on his face look as if they were chiseled by hand, his defined jaw line leads up to a set of sideburns formed into a straight line to run into his thin line goatee.]
"I don't have time to play Mr. know it all... I have me a tournament to win, and that starts by crushing your hopes and dreams of making it past this first round."
[His eyes like fine sapphires, glow a brilliant blue and leave you mesmerized as you gaze into them.]
"I'm sure you think otherwise, but hey...even you have to admit the odds are against you on this one. Everything you dream about, everything you have planned and have been hoping for, is to face Maelstrom in the tournament finals."
[It's at this moment that his lips start to form a slight hook on the ends... A smile if you can call it that.]
"Yet, you had just finished crying about how none of your dreams ever come true, how you never get anything you want."
[He slowly starts to shake his head.]
"Why should this time be any different? Why should everything you want simply be given to you?"
[He licks his lips to moisten them.]
"All of a sudden you think life has changed for the better for you, and because you're some psycho, stalker, something or other... Well, we're all going to lose."
[A smirk, one that just reeks of sarcasm.]
"Please... You need to get rid of all the melodramatic crap they taught you over there on Broadway. Come correct, or don't come at all."
[He stands up, rolling his shoulders to crack the bones in his neck.]
"Because I ain't no punk, and I don't play by no one else's rules. I don't have no one in the hospital, and I don't do this for no one else but myself. You want to move on in this tournament? You got plans to face Maelstrom..."
[That slight smirk that looks like a semi smile comes back.]
"Hell, everyone has a plan... Until it get's crushed!"
[With that the man walks away from the bench, never looking back and never saying another word.]
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