Title: The ARK Angels of DX and the Valley of Slaughter
Author: Kaykyaka
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the WWE and TNA characters used within this fictional story. No copyright infringement is intended and no money is being made by this work of fiction.
Ratings: T
Characters: Shawn, Cameron and Cheyenne Michaels, Amy 'Lita' Dumas Michaels, Hunter Hurst Helmsley, LC Helmsley, Aurora Rose Helmsley, The McCools, Chyna, Trish and Randy Orton, Melina and Johnny Hennigan, John Cena, Maria, Jeff Hardy, Stephanie McMahon, Team 3D, Velvet Sky, Christian, Bobby Lashley and Mr. Kennedy.
Summary: Children come back from the dead to kill children in a place known as the Valley of Slaughter. The ARK Angels of DX try to stop them but Carla B. Cool is expecting them and she's not alone.
Chapter One – Twilight
"Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the LORD, "when it will no more be called Tophet, or the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter; for they will bury in Tophet until there is no room." (Jeremiah 7:32)
John Cena's House, Tampa, FL at 12pm:
The Champ headed down towards the front door of his brand new, paid-in-full mansion in Tampa, FL and opened the door to find a familiar face looking back at him.
"John Morrison, what are you doing here?" Cena asked the former IC Champ.
Morrison removed his shades and gave Cena a big smile and before Cena could hesitate he found himself in a big hug courtesy of Melina's husband.
"Its been awhile," John said slapping Cena on the shoulder affectionately. "How's things down South?"
"Pretty sweet, in fact I'm on my way to a meeting with VKM right now, so I might have to reschedule this unannounced visit," Cena said.
"That's alright John he's not here to see you anyway," Maria said from the top of the stairs with baby Marion in her arms.
Morrison waved at Maria who gave him a half-smile, the other half of her face was scowling at Cena who was used to that now.
"I'll see you later Johnny!" Cena said, "Maria I'll call you from the IMPACT! Zone and let you know if I'll be home later or not,"
"Whatever," Maria said indifferently and as the door closed she sighed heavily as Marion clung to her long, auburn hair lovingly.
"I can see things haven't changed, I can't believe I'm expecting you to make me feel better," John said.
"I'm still a Believer Johnny, don't let this face fool you, God would never have brought you to Melina if Randy Orton was going to end your marriage," Maria said.
"Then why, why do I have to stand by and watch while God allows my wife to have an affair with one of His servants?" Johnny said.
"Melina's a good person and she'd never hurt you on purpose," Maria said.
"So who is responsible for this Maria? I thought after everything we've been through I'd never have to worry about Melina secretly being in love with Randy Orton ever again, especially after Romeo was born," Johnny said sitting on the bottom of the steps and Maria came down and sat next to him.
"What did Trish say when she found out about this affair Randy and Melina are gonna have?" Maria asked Johnny.
"She didn't say anything, she's not talking about it," Johnny said and he raked his hands through his hair in frustration and Maria but a comforting arm around him.
"Do you think she'll be able to stay married to Randy once the affair happens?" Maria asked Johnny.
"I don't know, I don't know if my marriage will survive this let alone how Truth is gonna handle it," Johnny said, "All I know is that I don't want to have to deal with this right now,"
Maria nodded and she thought over everything she'd been through with John Cena and Mickie James, the latter of which was finally out of the picture but there was still a lot of work to do to mend her and John's broken relationship. "Yeah, you'd think life with God would be better but actually it's a lot worse," she said, "Melina and I travelled the country, flew to Fiji and I watched that woman of God heal hundreds of people. She changed my life and travelling with her brought me a lot closer to God. And to think that same woman is going to commit adultery with her best friend's husband is just unbelievable,"
"And yet, it is so," Johnny said.
"Yeah, it is so," Maria said sadly.
"I need a drink," Johnny said, "Does John have any beer in this house?"
"No way, just protein shakes," Maria replied.
"Then I think we need to go on a beer run," Johnny said, "I don't think I'm gonna make it through the day sober,"
"Yeah me neither, let's go we can take the corvette," Maria said and the two broken-hearted beauties headed for the garage to drown their sorrows in the devil's mouthwash and forget that there was ever such thing as true love.
"Why don't we make a day of it, let's go on a road trip across the Midwest," Johnny suggested.
"You mean to Missouri?" Maria asked and Johnny turned up his nose at travelling to the place of Randy Orton's home town.
"I was thinking more Ohio," Johnny said.
"Sounds good to me, the country air might clear our heads," Maria said.
"With the amount of drinking we'll be doing I don't know if clear-thinking is realistic," Johnny said and Maria laughed while Marion looked over his shoulder at the man with the sunglasses who his mother seems to like more than his father who never wore sunglasses, ever.
Vince McMahon's Office, TNA HQ, Orlando, FL at 1pm:
Jeff Hardy went down to see Vince McMahon at the TNA owner's request; it had something to do with Ashley, the very woman who Jeff had been trying to talk out of aborting his first child so Jeff didn't hesitate to fly down South to see his former boss. On the way to the IMPACT! Zone Jeff bumped into Team 3D members Brother Ray and Brother Devon but he didn't stop to say hi, instead he flew right past them into Vince McMahon's office.
"Whoa that was Jeff Hardy," Devon said.
"Yeah and he was in a hurry," Brother Ray added wondering what Jeff Hardy could be in such a hurry to talk to their new old boss about.
Vince McMahon smiled when he saw Jeff but the Charismatic Enigma was in no mood to be polite, he wanted to know where Ashley was and he wanted to know now. So when Vince McMahon embraced him and rocked him back and forth lovingly, Jeff was beside himself.
"Get off me Mr. McMahon!" Jeff said furiously but he couldn't get out of the mogul's vice-like grip. There was only one way out, Jeff evaporated into thin air leaving Mr. McMahon confused.
"Jeff where'd you go?" Mr. McMahon said looking around his office for the WWE Number One Contender.
"I'm right here Vince," said Jeff who was not visible to the naked eye but he was in VKM's office, "I didn't come here to shoot the breeze I came here for my Ex girlfriend, you said you knew where she was now do you know or not?"
"Yeah I know, come on back will you I can't talk to you while you're invisible," Mr. McMahon said looking under his desk for Jeff.
"You promise you won't hug me?" Jeff Hardy said.
"Okay I promise I won't hug you," Vince McMahon said.
"Alright," Jeff said and he re-appeared in Vince McMahon's chair.
"Oh there you are, how did you disappear into thin air like that?" Vince asked his former employee.
"I'm Aqua Libre, I can transmorph into water and air not to mention fly past a Boeing 777 airplane," Jeff replied.
"Of course that's your Gift from God, well Aqua Libre – GET OUT OF MY CHAIR!!!" Vince McMahon yelled and Jeff shot up to his feet and swiftly exited the chair.
"Sorry Sir," Jeff Hardy said, "Now can we please get to where my Ex girlfriend is?"
"Sure thing – son-in-law," Vince said beaming from ear-to-ear and Jeff laughed to himself at the goofy look on Vince's face, "You didn't think Stephanie wasn't gonna tell me did you? I know you two are getting married!"
"I knew she'd tell you I was just hoping she'd hold off on telling you until I sorted this thing out with Ashley," Jeff said, "But while we're on the subject I love your daughter very much and I can't wait til she's my wife,"
"And I can't wait until you're a McMahon! Jeff you're the answer to my prayers, you are the remedy to years of Jericho and Hunter hell," Vince said.
"I'm sorry Sir but could we please focus on the issue at hand? My Ex-girlfriend wants to have an abortion and I have to talk her out of it, now can you please tell me where Ashley is?" Jeff pleaded.
"Jeff, its me, your father in law. What makes you think I haven't solved your problem for you?" Vince said warmly and Jeff's eyes brightened.
"You talked to Ashley?" he asked surprised.
"Massaro expressed interest in joining the TNA Knockout division which has been a little light on eye candy since The Beautiful People and Mickie James left for DX Inc. I told her to come by my office at 1:30 and we'd discuss it, once she shows up we'll sort this whole abortion nonsense out okay?" Vince said.
Jeff sighed with relief, his future father-in-law was a genius, "Thank you Mr. McMahon," Jeff said and he reached out his hand to shake Vince's hand in appreciation.
"I'm sorry Jeff but a handshake just isn't going to do it for me," Vince said and he gave Jeff another warm smile.
"Okay let's hug it out – dad," Jeff said and Vince grabbed Jeff into another bear-like hug and the Charismatic Enigma got a glimpse of life on the other side of the fence, a fence that would soon be bright, rainbow colored and extremely different from anything Stephanie McMahon had ever known and her father couldn't be more happier.
Ten minutes later, the hug was still going on only to be broken up by a knock at the door.
"Come back later I'm hugging my new son-in-law," Vince replied.
"Well its 1:30 Mr. McMahon and you told me to be on time!" Ashley complained and Jeff tore away from Vince and pulled the office door open to come face-to-face with his angry Ex and boy did she look different.
"Ashley?" he said bemused, her hair was black and her face was painted white and pink.
"Urgh, what are you doing here?!" Ashley said angrily, it was definitely her, she was the only woman Jeff knew who talked to him like that.
"We have to talk," Jeff said pulling Ashley into the room and closing the door behind her.
"I'm not here to talk to you Jeff, Mr. McMahon wants to hire me as a Knockout, you're messing up my new gig now get out of here!" Ashley said.
"Ms. Massaro there's a couple of conditions to you working here at TNA, the first of which is you talk to my new son-in-law with much more respect than that. The second is that you don't abort your child," Mr. McMahon said and Ashley curled her lip cruelly at Jeff and folded her arms stubbornly across her chest.
"Well then we got a problem Mr. McMahon because I am not keeping this child," Ashley said and Jeff's heart sank.
Team 3D listened in from the outside and gasped at what they had heard.
"Jeff and Steph are getting married?" Brother Ray said in shock.
"Ashley wants to abort Jeff's baby?" Devon said in disbelief.
"How is Mr. McMahon gonna deal with this?" Ray wondered.
"The only way he knows how and that's to throw money at Ashley to persuade her to keep the baby," Devon replied.
"But won't that mean that we get a pay cut?" Ray said, "We gotta make sure Jeff doesn't go back to the WWE, fans will flock to the IMPACT! Zone if they know Jeff Hardy's on the roster,"
"Good thinking," Devon said, "You think Raven will be happy about that?"
"Oh I think he'll be ecstatic," Brother Ray said, "Let's go tell him the good news,"
Team 3D went to find Raven and tell him that his old rival might be coming back to The Flock while Jeff Hardy tried to protect his own little flock with help from The McMahon family.