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Fanning the Flames

Chapter 4

Raw

Raven

I sat all dressed and ready in my gear for the show in the Team Hell No locker room. My high heeled ankle boots clicked against the chair leg as I anxiously swung my legs back and forth. The boys had been booked for separate matches tonight, both against members of the Shield. With the recent escalation between the two teams, I had a right to be nervous. Never in the Team Hell No tag team championship reign had a team proven to be more of a threat to us than the Shield. Plus the fact that I'd sprayed pepper spray in Ambrose's face had kind of taken this rivalry to a whole new level.

"Raven!" Daniel called out. I nearly fell out of my chair in surprise.

"For fuck's sake, you scared me!" I spat as I tried to get my heart rate back down.

"Aww I'm sorry, Rave!" He said coming up behind me and giving me a hug around the shoulders.

"It's alright, Daniel, I was just a little lost in my own thoughts."

"Well I just wanted to come grab you for my match. As the first match of the night, we've got to be on time!"

"Thank you for coming to get me. I totally was spacing out. Are you nervous? I asked following him out of the door into the hallway.

"No!" He said loudly. I couldn't help but chuckle at the use of his catch phrase.

"Good. Where is Kane?"

"At the curtain. He is all focus tonight."

"At this point, that is exactly what we need."

We continued our walk to the curtain and walked straight up to Kane. He was positioned near a monitor as the Raw entrance video began to play.

"Why aren't you in front of the curtain?" Daniel asked, pushing his title onto his shoulder.

"I was informed that the show would kick off with Vickie Guerrero. Apparently she has something to say," Kane said sharply. He wasn't in a very sociable mood tonight evidently. I nervously watched the screen as our managing supervisor of Raw made her entrance. I was very curious to learn what she had to say that warranted pushing our match back a few minutes.

Through all the booing she made it into the ring and began to clear her throat.

"Welcome everybody to Monday Night Raw! As your acting managing supervisor of Raw, I have put together quite a show for you tonight. But before we can get underway, I do have an issue that I have to address. Last week on Smackdown…there was an interesting incident between members of Team Hell No and the Shield. Raven Stone came down ringside and sprayed Dean Ambrose in the face with an unknown substance…Now I shouldn't have to tell you that this is considered unacceptable behavior here in the WWE. So the board, Booker T, and I have no choice but to dole out a suitable punishment. Therefore, I am forced to fine Raven Stone $5,000," she screeched.

I angrily grabbed a mic from the sound tech.

"Come on boys, we're going out there now!" I growled. Our music began and I came stomping out onto the stage. "Hey, Vic!" I jeered.

"Have you come out here to make a public apology for the pepper spray?" she sneered.

"Cute, Vic, real cute. I would never dream of apologizing to that jackass. He's been asking for it...so why don't you zip that giant hole you call a mouth and head back backstage where you belong…"

"How dare you! I-" She began to squeal when I put my hand up to silence her as I continues to walk down the ramp.

"Bye-bye, Vic…" I cooed. She relented and whined all of the way past us and up the steel ramp as I laughed. I know that it seemed ballsy to take a swipe at the managing supervisor but with my reputation and popularity with male fans, I had very solid job security. She knew it and I knew it. "Now that she's gone, it's time to get down to what matters. That being the fact that my men…Kane and Daniel Bryan, Team Hell No, the reigning WWE tag team champions, have a title defense this Sunday at Extreme Rules. 2/3 of the Shield are going to be climbing into the ring with my monsters here to try to take away the gold. The Shield…to put it simply, are a trio of incompetent losers. They always have to team up on their opponents, always playing the numbers game. You know what I think of that? I think that means they are all cowards. Fucking cowards." I looked over to Daniel. "I might need your help a little on this one. Are the Shield cowards?" I asked putting the mic in Daniels face.

"YES!" D-Bry yelled.

"Are they a group of pathetic little weaklings?"

"YES!" He yelled again.

"Are we going to beat the living shit out of them on Sunday night?"

"YES!"

"Will Team Hell No leave Extreme Rules as the god dammed WWE tag team champions!?" I yelled with a wicked smile.

"YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!" he chanted some more, they crowd chanting along with him. We climbed into the ring

That's when the Shield made their entrance.

They were not pleased as they headed down the stairs and through the crowd. Dean especially wore a horrible scowl. They all hopped over the barricade and entered into the ring. Dean made a point to stride right up to me , getting into my face. I didn't back down one bit. We stood nearly nose to nose.

"You're messing with the wrong guys here, Ray-ven," he spat. I could feel his minty breath hit my lips.

"You have no idea who you are messing with, Ambrose," I growled.

"You are going to regret the day you sprayed me, Sweetheart," he said poking me in the shoulder. I scoffed.

"You are going to rue the day you set foot in my ring," I said making contact with his chest and pushing him backward. Suddenly, I felt Kane's giant arms circle my waist and yank me from him.

"That's enough," the big red machine insisted as he carried me towards the turnbuckle as I squirmed and swatted in Dean's direction.

"You two…out of the ring," the ref yelled at us. "You two, out!" he yelled turned to Dean and Roman.

We did as we were told and the match got underway. Kane stood close to me like a protective big brother, making sure to keep himself between me and Dean at all times. He really was a sweetheart despite what people thought of the masked man. Although he'd be mad if I told anybody.

The match progressed with the two men battling for control. It was going quite swimmingly for D-Bry. As usual, he was flying all over the place, his beard flipping around as he hit Seth senseless. That's when I noticed that Dean and Roman were on the move.

"I'm going in," I said quickly to Kane as I shuffled over to where Ambrose had begun to climb onto the apron. He saw me coming and dipped into the ring. I slipped into the ring after him. I ran across the apron as fast as I could with my high heels on. Ambrose got out of the ring but I wasn't so lucky. The referee stepped into my path, stopping me.

"Raven, you need to get out of the ring. Now!" I was instructed.

"But he-"

"Now!"

"Fuck you!" I said spitting on the mat in disgust before turning to exit the ring. I heard a thud and turned to see Daniel had been rolled up.

1...2...3

I let out a piercing scream in pure anger and frustration. They got us again…or should I say Ambrose got me again. I hurried over to Daniel who was laying on the mat holding his groin. Obviously he was hit with a lowblow.

"You okay, D-Bry?" I asked with concern.

"Mmmhm."

"I'm so sorry I got in the way!" I said apologetically.

" 's okay," he mustered.

"Uh, Raven? Maybe you should wait and have this conversation when he isn't nursing sore junk," Kane said being unintentionally comedic as he pulled the smaller man to his feet.

"Right," I said feeling a little insensitive as we helped him out of the ring.

Later that night…

Once again I found myself ringside. Kane was taking on Roman Reigns. It was a power blowout. Both were big men that could really pack a punch. It was almost overly brutal to watch. I looked around to see if anybody was looking at me. Nobody was. I slowly began to mosey around the ring. I began to get pretty close to Seth and Dean. They eyed me closely as I neared.

"Come back for more, sweetheart?" Ambrose sneered. I smiled sweetly and punched Dean straight in the throat. He began to cough and I hopped onto the edge of the apron.

"Get her!" he ordered hoarsely between coughs. I ran around the apron.

"Hey Roman!" I yelled out. He looked over at me causing a distraction. Kane delivered a big boot to Reigns' chest and went for the pin.

1...2...3!

I ducked into the ring and leapt into Kane's big, strong arms.

"You did it!"

"With a little help!" he said sounding amused.

I hopped back down before Kane was struck in the back by Seth and Dean.

"Out!" Daniel yelled at me.

I moved to the steel stairs and stood at the top, watching nervously as they got teamed up on by the three men. Finally, Kofi came bounding down the ramp. He was Dean's opponent for Sunday after all. It was an out of control 3 on 3. At one point, Daniel took a particularly rough kick to the head and dropped to the mat like a sack of potatoes. The perpetrator was quickly taken out by a kick by Kingston. I climbed back into the ring, amongst the chaos and tried to help D-Bry to his feet. Once he steadied, I released my grip. I turned to look for Kane. I didn't see him. I was a bit concerned as I turned back around only to see a collision that was much to late to fix.

I was hit by what felt like a fucking train. I felt the impact and fell backwards with incredible force. My head felt tingly and almost light headed. I stared up at the ceiling, my vision spotted. Then the world went dark…

Dean

Seth hit me in the arm and pointed to Roman. He was standing over Raven who was completely knocked out cold. Things really had gotten out of hand.

"Come on, man," he said urgently. I nodded and followed him back into the ring.

"Oh my god," Roman said a little freaked out, running his hands through his hair.

"What the hell did you do?" Seth asked.

"Obviously he speared her in half, Seth," I spat.

"What should we do?"

"What do you mean, what do we do? She's not our problem. She's theirs," I said pointing to Daniel and Kane's fallen bodies. They laid groaning in their respective spots.

"I hit a girl, man. I can't just leave her here," The big man insisted.

"I'm with Roman. We're taking her with us." I looked at them both and rolled my eyes.

"Fine. You two are ridiculous and getting soft on me!"

"Its not being soft, it's being human being..." Seth spat seriously. I shook my head.

Roman scooped the fit woman into his arms and carried her out of the ring. Her brown and blonde hair swayed with every step. I couldn't believe we were taking the enemy back with us to our secret locker room. It made us look weak. But I guess there was just something about Raven that was just so captivating that they couldn't find it in their hearts to leave her behind. I had to admit I felt guilty. We didn't mean for things to get so out of control in that ring. We didn't want her to get caught in the physical crossfire…

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