A Combating Feud And Fairytale:A story of love, adventure, action, friendships, fun, and of course the angst of betrayal. A love triangle that Chris Jericho faces with his ex, Steph, and new best friend while trying to achieve his dream of becoming the world heavyweight champion. Feat OC MS, Kari Ketchum. I hope to make this a VERY long story, many chapters, maybe along the length of WWEZ, maybe even surpassing. This story will include mainly the love triangle between Chris as he tries to achieve his championship dreams, and Stephaine and Kari, a lifelongtime fan of the WWE who longs to achieve her impossible seaming dream amid her first love, but this will also include a love story between Trish Stratus and Christian. There's lots to talk about, tons of storylines, and loads of characters I will be including. I hope this takes off well to many fans and reviewers, I'm going to be very busy with work between now and April/May so I can't promise how often I'll update, but if you review, I promise you this - I WILL update. R&R and enjoy!
Backstage in the world of the WWE…
A man's voice was panting as he ran down the hall. Turning corner after corner as he held the necklace in his hand. On it was a ring, it looked like a promise ring. But what was the promise? Engagement? And better yet who was it too…
"Darn." He growled. Cornered.
"YOU!" The familiar feminine voice called down the hall in an echo, causing the man to turn around as a chair narrowly missed flying right at him. "Chris Jericho!"
"Stephanie." Chris growled back at the McMahon.
"How could you, lie to me?"
"How dare you betray me!" Chris growled and charged at her. Stephanie gasped but Chris jumped to the side and continued running.
"Darn you, get back here!" Stephanie gave chase. Chris ran out of the WWE HQ and across the street to a bar.
He panted inside, "She'll never think to look in here." He looked down at what he held in his hand. He sighed as he thought long and deeply to himself…
"You, you thought I wouldn't find you."
"Steph!" Chris gasped as he stood up.
"Bad move. Die!" Stephanie threw the nearest thing, a fire extinguisher, right at him. He gasped, too shocked to react, and it hit him right square in the chest. He sputtered and groaned and slunk down against the wall as his vision blurred.
"But, Steph… how could you… I don't understand… why?" He reached up to her, but lost consciousness and his arm fell limply by his side.
"Ugh, you…" Stephanie groaned and held her arm, it was hurt badly.
"Stephanie, are you alright?" Linda McMahon ran over upon hearing all the commotion outside.
"I'll, be fine…" Stephanie looked up with tears of pain and sorrow in her eyes, and passed out.
"Stephanie? Stephanie…!" Linda cried as she caught and held her daughter in her arms…
"Bye dad, bye grandma, I'm off!" Kari Ketchum called as she raced out the door of her house, still putting her heel shoes on with her toe. Her brown Chihuahua, Maggie, barked up at her, she bent down to give her a pet, then she stood up and pulled her backpack on over one of her shoulders. She was wearing a long sleeve white jacket with a aqua collar and cuffs, she wore a short jean skirt and had under her coat a light silvery shirt.
Kari was a pretty girl, average. 5'6 height, about 140 lbs from working out when playing sports. In her past she'd played on many sports teams when she didn't make the cuts as a cheerleader. Basketball, baseball, water polo, soccer, those were what she played because what she did want she couldn't have. The wrestling team was strictly for men only, and it burned her up inside. Kari was a nice person with an innocent friendly personality, she had long brown hair and bangs down to her eyes, she often wore it up in a ponytail, but today she was too lazy to do the work and just left it down, letting the wind brush at it as the breeze blew it around.
"Hurry up or we'll be late." The little boy out by the steps pouted. He was wearing dark jeans and a black long sleeve shirt with a white collar, he had short brown hair with bangs on the side about eyebrow level.
"Don't worry George, I'm a fast driver, we'll get there in time."
"Man, I can't wait until I drive." The middle schooler frowned and hoisted his backpack on his back.
"Don't worry kido, when you're my age you won't have to worry about dropping off a younger sibling, and you can take all the time in the world to be late." Kari winked.
"Whatever, come on, let's just go." George sighed and walked towards the dark red car.
"You just don't like riding the bus home after school." Kari grinned as she followed.
Kari Ketchum was a 17 year old high school senior, her brother was 13 and in middle school. She'd finally got a car and passed her drivers test in the summer last year, now she was in the final stretch of months up until graduation. It was the later middle of May. All of her friends were busy filling out college forms and looking for schools away from home. Kari wanted to move away and see the world too, but a university just wasn't for her… she wanted to live her dream, as a life long wrestling fan, her goal was to join the WWE.
"See you tonight." Kari smiled as her brother closed the car door.
"Well just make sure you aren't late for dinner too, you have to help me with my homework remember." George walked off towards the campus.
Kari grinned to herself and drove off to high school. Middle school starts an hour after high school, but he liked to hang out with his friends in the morning. Kari did as well, pending as she wasn't late… which she almost always was. After finding a spot to park, Kari glanced at her watch and smiled victoriously, she still had five minutes to go find her friends before first period.
"Well I guess you'll be on time for English today." An Oriental girl with shoulder length black hair smiled.
"Hi Nance." Kari smiled to one of her friends, Nancy.
"Good morning Kari." Another girl with strawberry red hair brushed over to one side falling over the shoulder smiled.
"Glad to see you're feeling better Lea." Kari turned from her to the third friend in the group. "Hey Marie, how's it going?"
"Not too bad." Maria smiled, she was Hispanic and had long blonde hair tied back into a ponytail. And then the bell rang.
"Well I guess we'll see each other at lunch." Kari sighed with a smirk.
"Alright, later." Everyone waved each other off and walked to class.
It was just another average day in the everyday life of a non wrestling superstar. Kari sighed in math as she rested her head on one hand. The teacher lectured at the front of the room but Kari was zoned out into her own world, tapping her pencil on the paper. Was this what was meant for her, the life she had to live? Going to school and studying for college. It all seemed to remedial and tedious and boring. She closed her eyes, and then the bell rang.
"Remember, we have a test coming up this Friday." The teacher announced as everyone got up.
"Ah, test…?" Kari gulped with a blink.
After school everyone went their own ways, home, work, wherever. But the girls all had the same place to go, across the street there was a McDonalds. They sat at the corner window table like always. On the agenda today…?
"So Lea, how's that boyfriend of yours?" Maria smiled.
"Oh please, after he and my big brother got in that fight, he hasn't even answered my phone calls." Lea sighed.
"Boys I tell ya." Nancy frowned and rolled her eyes.
"You guys are too much." Kari laughed.
"Well how about you, you're the only one who doesn't even have a love life." Nancy smirked.
"Huh?" Kari blushed with embarrassment.
"Come on, in all of school you've never been to a dance of even had a boyfriend." Maria agreed.
"Come on, it's not like anyone would want me." Kari made a smirky face. "Besides, nobody has ever even approached me to ask me out."
"Alright, enough talk about guys and love lives." Lea changed the subject. "How are all of your hunts going?"
"Never better, I finally got admitted to Stanford!" Nancy beamed.
"Wow that's awesome! That's a very elusive school, it's incredible they accepted you." Maria smiled.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Nancy winked sneakily.
"Just that's it's an expensive honors campus, you have to be very smart. Which you are! It was a compliment!"
"Alright." Nancy smiled and turned to Lea. "How about you, I know you were going vocational."
"Yup, I decided to hold off the big time and go to that local college, the trade school downtown."
"Oh that's not too bad. They have good computer business courses I hear." Kari smiled.
"Yup." Lea nodded.
"I'm going to Pepperdine." Maria closed her eyes proudly, and everyone gasped.
"That's a private school." Kari blinked in shock.
"Yeah, wow, way to go." Nancy smiled.
"Thanks." Maria soaked it in.
"How about you Kari, I haven't even seen you looking at those seminars on breaks." Lea looked over at her sneakily.
"Oh, well, uh, um…" Kari blushed and swallowed her bite of fries. "I haven't been looking because, well I don't really wanna go to a university…" Everyone gasped.
"Are you saying you don't want to go to college and earn a degree?" Lea gasped.
"Well no, I, ah…" Kari put the straw to her soda in her mouth. Can't we talk about something else? Subject, what's a good subject…
"Well what are you going to do with your life?"
"You know." Kari blinked quickly. "I want to become a wrestling superstar."
"Well how's that going then?"
"Not too good…"
"Huh, why not?"
"Well it's a male dominated sport, and I'm a female." Kari sighed and looked away. "I've applied to every school in the state and not ONE has accepted me… nothing but rejection letters."
"Well at least they contacted you…" Lea frowned.
Kari was sad now, "I don't think I'll ever be able to, do anything I want…"
"I just don't understand it." Lea became angry. "You're a beautiful, athletic person with a great personality. You've got the desire, you even did backyard wrestling underground! Doesn't that count for something?"
"I guess not." Kari smiled meekly. "But thanks for cheering me up."
"Sure no prob." Lea winked with a grin. "It's what we friends do."
At home…
"Did the mail come?" Grandma asked.
"Yeah." Dad set it down on the tree stump outside the fence and stretched. A gust picked up and blew a letter down next to the wall when he didn't notice. "Let's see what bills I have to pay today." Dad picked the stack back up and thumbed through them, all the while never noticing the missing envelope with the WWE logo on the top side corner…
Kari drove home after spending the afternoon with her friends, it was nearly dinner time. George was watching television when she walked in the door and took off her shoes.
"You're just in time, food's on." Grandma set down the meal on the table.
"Great stuff, you're the best cook ever!" George cheered and dug in.
Dad ate and looked at his daughter, "You alright?"
"Yeah, fine, just not that hungry is all."
"You gotta eat you know that." Grandma spoke up.
"Hey if you don't want your steak can I eat it?" George joked.
Kari poked at it, "Sure." She put the half of what she didn't eat on his plate. "May I be excused?" She put her dishes in the sink and walked off out of the room. George watched her go down the hall to her room and close the door, she seemed sad.
George blinked, "Did she forget about helping me with my homework?"
"Bah she'll be fine, all she needs is a shower." Dad swallowed his food and went to take a drink. "Eat up or it'll get cold."
Kari sighed as she set down her backpack and flopped down sadly on her bed. She sighed to herself and closed her eyes. What was the point, how can you achieve your dream when the world holds you down? She really didn't understand it, she just wanted to be alone, alone with her thoughts… It was just another normal day in her everyday life.
The next day started the weekend. George was sleeping in. Kari was awake and flipping through channels after her shower, but nothing but cartoons was on, so she decided to do her chores. She swept and vacuumed, and cleaned the house, and did the dishes while her dad was at work and her grandma went to the store. After finishing that afternoon she went to take everything out to the trash by the curb. She sighed and whipped her brow after all the hard work.
"Huh?" Something caught her attention from the corner of her eye. She gasped as she saw an envelop and ran over. "Oh no, I hope it's just junk and not another bill to pay that dad forgot!" She bent down and picked it up and gasped. "No way, this can't be right, it's not true at all…! Somebody has to be playing a prank on me." Her voice cracked as her eyes shook. It was true though, it was real, no lie, the envelope had it on it, the label, the trademark signature of the WWE on the top corner. "But how? I don't understand… I never applied to them directly, and no school would've sent my information in if I didn't even get a tryout." She gulped. This could change everything. She turned it over and put her finger under the flap, shaking and looking away as she went to tear it. But did she dare to open it?