And again, the italicized lettering is Cena's thoughts. The underlined is Trish's thoughts.

Hope you enjoy!

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Chapter 21: Tournament Beginnings

Monday Night Raw

"No chance!

So that's what ya got"

Mr. McMahon walks out onto the stage of the arena to a loud roar of boos. He has a microphone in his hand, which means bad news for someone, or a lot of people. Mr. McMahon has a way of rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.

Mr. McMahon: Shut up, and allow the important person to speak. (The audience all begin to yell insults back at the chairman.)

Mr. McMahon: Since Edge and Lita retained their championships last night, I am going to be holding a tournament over the next month leading into The Biggest Party Of The Summer, Summerslam. Now, whoever wins the tournament, will face the champion in a one-on-one match at Summerslam for the championship. Matches will be held tonight to see who qualifies for the tournament itself. If they win that match, they will advance to the quarterfinals later tonight. Whoever wins that match, will advance to the semi-finals and so on and so forth. So without any further ado, let's get this show in the road. (His music hits again and he leaves the arena. )

Backstage, Trish and John have just seen the announcement on their monitor in the locker room. Trish looks at John. They are sitting next to each other with her left leg draped over his, leaning on his chest and he has his arm wrapped over her shoulders.

Trish: I wonder who's gonna be in it. (Just then there is a knock on the door. They untangle themselves and John gets up to answer it. He opens the door to see Sean standing there with two note cards in his hand.)

Sean: Here. (John takes the two cards from him and looks down at them in confusion.)

John: What's this?

Sean: They're to let you know what's going on tonight. It's gonna get pretty confusing tonight. So just look at the card to know where you and Trish fall in. (Sean walks off like he's really busy. John slowly closes the door as he looks at the cards in confusion.)

Trish:What did he want? What's that? (John sits back down on the couch next to Trish.)

John: It says here that I have a chance to enter into the tournament for the WWE Championship if I defeat Alex Riley. (Trish nods.)

Trish: That's great John. (He smiles.)

John: Yea it is. But you wanna know what's even greater? (Trish looks at him serious.)

Trish: What?

John: If you beat Ashley tonight and enter into the tournament for the Women's title. (Trish's eyes grow wide.)

Trish: I have a chance to be in it! (She grabs her card from John and looks at it.)

Trish: Oh my God! Imagine if we both keep advancing. That would be...

John: Awesome. (Trish looks at him and nods.)

Trish: Yea it would. (They both smile at each other happy they both have a chance at being in the tournament.)

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Later on, Trish has defeated Ashley to advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament for the Women's Championship. Mickie James has defeated Maryse to advance to the quarterfinals. Victoria has defeated Brie Bella to advance while Melina defeated Brie's twin, Nikki, to advance as well. Maria defeated Rosa Mendez and Candice Michelle defeated Cherry to advance. Torrie Wilson defeated Kelly Kelly to advance into the quarterfinals along with Michelle McCool who defeated her former best friend Layla. John Cena has advanced into the quarterfinals for the WWE Championship when he defeated Alex Riley. Other superstars advancing along with John are Mr. Kennedy who defeated Evan "Air" Bourne, Batista who beat Finaly, Rey Mysterio who beat Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton who defeated Sheamus, Ted DiBiase Jr. who defeated Chavo Guerrero, Triple H who defeated R-Truth, and Cody Rhodes who pulled an upset defeating John Morrison.

Trish makes her way backstage drinking bottled water after her victorious match against Ashley to advance into the tournament. She feels pretty warm, so she tilts her head back and sprays the water all over her head and hair.

It's too hot.

John just happens to walk out of the locker room. His match against Alex Riley was a few minutes ago, and he decided to come back to the locker room to see if Trish would get into the tournament. He stops dead in his tracks when he sees Trish dousing herself in water.

John: Mmm, mmm, mmm. (He smiles and raises his eyebrows.)

John: Look at what we have here. (Trish leans her head back to normal and sees it's John. She laughs playfully.)

John: Don't stop because I'm here. That's pretty hot. (Trish smiles.)

Trish: It's too damn hot. (John nods.)

John: Yea I know. (Trish whips her head around to shake loose any extra water. John just watches. It takes her only a second, when she's finished, she looks back at John.)

Trish: So did you see my match?

John: I did, and congratulations on your victory.

Trish: Thanks. You too. (John looks around for a second.)

John: I think we're both gonna have to say that again since we have quarterfinal matches tonight. (Trish nods.)

Trish: Yea, your right. (Mickie walks by them and stops by Trish to talk for a minute.)

Mickie: Hey Trish. (Mickie hugs Trish.)

Mickie: Hey John.

John: Hey. (She shakes John's hand.)

Trish: Hey girl. Did you have your qualifying match yet?

Mickie: Yea, I won. (Trish gets really happy.)

Trish: You did? That's great Mickie. (Mickie nods.)

Mickie: Yea, I beat Maryse earlier to qualify and I just got done beating Candice in the quarterfinals to advance to the semi-finals.

Trish: Aw, that's great Mickie. I still have to win my match against Victoria to be in the semi-finals.

John: Me too. (Mickie smiles.)

Mickie: That's great. And I see you two are getting along well. (Mickie smirks, then goes to leave.)

Mickie: I'm gonna go shower. (Mickie hugs Trish and whispers in her ear.)

Mickie: I see you girl. He's hot. Keep him. (Trish smiles and hugs Mickie back.)

Mickie: Bye John.

John: Bye Mickie. (Mickie turns and leaves. Trish and John look at eachother.)

Trish: Well, I gotta go beat Victoria now. So I'll see you in a little bit. (John shakes his head OK.)

John: Alright. So the next time you see me, we'll both be advanced in the tournament. (Trish smiles.)

Trish: Let's hope so. (They kiss and go their separate ways. Trish ends up winning her match against Victoria to advance in the tournament. Randy Orton defeats Ted DiBiase Jr to also advance, along with John who defeated Mr. Kennedy. Next week, there will be more matches to determine who will advance to the semi-finals.

END OF CHAPTER 21

I know there was a lot of names thrown around in this chapter. It's a pretty confusing one. Hopefully, your all still with me lol also i know it wasnt too exciting either. but hopefully you guys didnt loose faith in me.