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Sleeping Giant
Topic Started: Jun 17 2016, 04:26 PM (19 Views)
Dredd

Jeremy Rayner and Alex Brooks were staring at the behemoth of a man that is Cal Rayner, while he slept drunkenly in his disheveled mess of a bed. Jeremy Rayner had moved back to Deep Ellum to be with his father, but had grown concerned with Cal’s upcoming battle with Indrid Calder.

This turned him back to Alex Brooks.

Alex Brooks came to Deep Ellum to talk with Jeremy Rayner. Together, they decided they would have Cal Rayner’s back in the no-disqualification match at Path of the Warrior.

They would protect him from HATE.

They just had to convince Cal of their plan. The problem was, that he was either drunk or asleep. So now, the pair of them had decided to wait until he woke from one of his many drunken slumbers.

He stirs.

The Monster rolls over in his sleep and the jerkiness and suddenness of the movement startles his two guardians, the both audibly gasp.They had been watching him for so long without anything happening that the action alone was enough to make them react.

“Your old man can certainly sleep.” says Brooks as he turns to face Jeremy Rayner.

“He drinks a lot.” the young Rayner shrugs in reply.

“And you want to be like him?” Brooks questions Rayner.

Jeremy looks at Brooks for a few moments with a puzzled look on his face, taking the time to consider his reply.

“No. I don’t want to be like Dad. I want to be a wrestler. It’s all my family has ever known. Him. His father and his father’s father before. The Rayner name is synonymous in the industry. I don’t want the legacy to end.”

Alex Brooks simply nods.

Rayner continues. “And that’s why I need you here, Alex. HATE want to destroy my father. They want to destroy the legacy of the family name. Calder has the numbers and we have to even it up. Dredd, Cross and Brooks. A New Cadre.”

Brooks frowns at Jeremy. The younger man notices it.

“What?” he asks.

“Dredd. Vendetta. Zero. There is only one Cadre. It will never be replaced or reformed. I was barely a kid then and I know that. Don’t hang on the threads of history, kid. Build your own name in this game.”

Jeremy Rayner nods.

“So what are we going to do at Path of the Warrior.” Brooks asks Jeremy.

“It’s a no-disqualification match…”

“Uh-huh.”

“We just have to make sure that HATE don’t interfere.”

“Ya know, I’ve fought men like HATE in other places and generally they get what they want by any means necessary. Are you up for that sort of fight?”

Alex Brooks reaches into his mouth and removes a plate, showing a gap where a tooth used to be.

“Are you really sure you are ready for that sort of fight, Jeremy.”

Jeremy Rayner nods.

“Then I’ll have your back, kid. And I’ll have your Dad’s back.”

Jeremy Rayner smiles.

“This won’t be war, you know that.”

The young Rayner nods.

“This will be much worse.”

Cal Rayner continues to snore. Soundly asleep and unaware of the eyes watching over him.
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