Chapter 6: Preparing for UPW

The nineteen year old Riley Cena laughed as her boyfriend the first ever Undisputed Champion, Chris Jericho.

"I've got a surprise for you," he whispered in her ear.

Confused she turned to face him, "what is it."
He left from his place beside her to his bag over the other side of his hotel room.

He extracted an envelope and then walked back towards her, handing it to her.

She studied him for a moment before opening it.

Miss Riley Cena,

We have received news that you are interested in becoming a professional wrestler in the Woman's division and that you are currently being trained by WWE superstar, Chris Jericho.

We also have noticed that you are related to the twenty-two year old John Cena, who is also entering the business along with yourself in this years rookie class. We wish the both of you the best of luck in the future of the wrestling business.

Yours Sincerely,

Hayden Wright

(General Manager of UPW)

Riley smiled unable to hide her glee.

She then realised there was another piece of paper.

She studied it, it was a list of that years Rookie's, their UPW names and Personalities…

Men

John Cena – "Prototype" (Half Man, Half Machine)

Randall Keith Orton – "Randy Orton" (The Ex-Porn Star and 3rd Generation superstar)

David Batista – "The Demon of Doom" (A demon, powerful as well as evil)

Kenneth Alan – "Joker" (As the name says Joker, likes to play tricks on fellow superstars.)

Women

Emilie-Marie Carter – "Emily Carter" (The sweet small town girl, who sadly is picked on by the older Diva's)

Riley Cena – "Isis" (The feisty young Diva who has all the male superstars after her, however she will not actually hook up with any, she's really a teaser)

Raquel Williams – "Rachael Williams"(The tough girl from the Bronx.)

Riley was disappointed, yes she was finally achieving her dream but at the same time be portrayed as the bad image of a woman, not settling down for one but flirting with all men, no matter whether she liked them or not.

"What do you think?" Jericho asked.

She turned to him smiling, "I got accepted to become a UPW superstar."

Jericho grinned, "I told you that you would make it." He hugged her.

She returned his gesture before kissing him slowly on the lips.
He returned his kiss, placing his hands on her hips and pulling her closer.

She let her arms snake around his neck as she leaned upwards to deepen the kiss.

He broke away from her.

She stared at him confused, "what's wrong?"

He smiled, "I love you."

She returned his smile, "I love you too."

They kissed again, but this time more passionately. He picked her up and her legs wrapped around him, before he walked over towards his bed and the two fell onto it.

She yawned, blinking as she slowly came to consciousness. She looked around realising she was in Chris Jericho's hotel room. She suddenly realised that she was alone.

She slowly stood getting changed and heading into the small kitchen. She went to a cupboard and extracted a glass before heading to the sink and filling it with water.

She suddenly noticed that a note was lying on the bench beside her, she slowly picked it up reading it…

Rilez,

Melissa Corner (UPW Character appearance designer), will be here to pick you up and 10:00. She has to take all the new Rookie stars out today, so Randy will arrive at 9:30.

Sorry I wasn't there when you woke up, got a call from Vince. He wants me to be at the arena early.

Hope you enjoy your day, especially since you'll be seeing John for the first time in… what was it 4 or 5 months.

I'll see you later at the arena,

Love you,

Chris.

Riley smiled to herself before looking at her watch, 9:00.

She first made the bed and tidied up the room before she headed into the bathroom showering before getting changed into her favourite black canterburies, a light black, short hem-lined top which finished two inches before the bottom of her ribs. She put on her favourite black wrestling boots, which reached right up to her knees and her black finger tipless gloves.

She brushed her dark brunette hair that reached right to her mid back out and finally placed her favourite black Chris Jericho hat backwards on her head.

The doorbell rang.

Riley paused from getting ready and went to open the door.

"Hey," Randy said making his way into the hotel room.

"Hey," she replied heading back into the bathroom applying some make-up.

Randy came to lean against the doorway watching her, "so why are you here anyway?"

Riley looked at him through the mirror, "what do you mean?"

"Your in his hotel room," Randy explained.

She was about to respond sharply when the phone rang and she rushed to answer it.

"Hello?"

"Hey Rilez."

"Chris, hey."

"How are you?"

"Good, you?"

"I'm always good when I'm talking to you."

She laughed.

"That sounded lame didn't it?"

She laughed again, "Sorry, but yeah."

He laughed as well, "Is Randy there yet?"

"Yeah," she replied, she turned slightly, noticing her friend was watching her.

"What's he doing right now?" Chris asked.

"Sitting on your bed, watching me talk to you."

There was a pause from the other end of the phone, until Jericho spoke again, "give me a call back later when you're alone."

"OK, in a few hours ok?"

"Yeah," he paused, "and Riley you don't regret what happened?"

She shook her head, "no I don't, do you?"

"No… I'll talk to you later Rilez," he concluded.

She nodded, "OK, bye."

When she hung up the phone she turned to Randy.

He was staring at her confused.

"What?" she asked.

He stood up, "Nothing, just thinking… um, can I get I drink of water."

Riley nodded, "sure, the glasses are in the cupboard beside the pantry."

As he left she couldn't help but think about how their friendship had changed. Since the two had gone of the road with the WWE, they had grown slowly apart. In particular when Riley first started dating Chris the two's friendship had become fractured. Randy had moved from being the trusting best friend to somewhat of a over protective brother to the glooming friend and after spending more and more time with his father and being spoilt rotten had become the snobbish brat who took enjoyment in others embarrassment, a prankster.

Riley herself loved to play jokes and prank her friends and family all the time. However Randy had gone to far, too many times.

The doorbell rang and Randy exited the kitchen answering it.

A woman with blonde curly short hair stood at the other side of the door, "Randall Orton?" she asked.

He nodded, "you must be Melissa Corner?" extending his hand.

She nodded shaking his hand, she looked over his shoulder, "and you must be Riley?"

Riley nodded, walking forward to stand beside her friend, "it's nice to meet you." They also shook hands.

"We'll need to head out, I've already picked up the others and we've got a lot to do," Melissa explained.

"I'm ready," Randy noted.

Melissa turned to Riley.

"Uh, I just got to get my phone and purse, but then I'm good to go," Riley explained rushing over to the bedside table and picking up her phone and purse before the three left the hotel room.

As they stood in the elevator Melissa decided to find out a little about her two newest clients.

"So are you two dating?" she asked suddenly.

"No!" Riley laughed, "we're just friends."

Randy nodded, "we both have our own girlfriend or boyfriend anyway."

Melissa nodded, "Riley, I heard you were dating someone famous, I just presumed it was Randy as he's a third generation wrestler."

Riley shook her head, "No actually, I'm dating Chris Jericho."

Melissa was shocked, "the Chris Jericho of WWE?"

Riley nodded.

Melissa was amazed, "I would have never guessed isn't he a lot older than you."

Riley shrugged, "age isn't really important to us."

Melissa nodded, "So your John's little sister."

Riley nodded, "yeah I haven't seen him in the flesh in about six months."

Melissa nodded, "you know he's also a rookie going into UPW."

Riley nodded, "do you know how he got in."

Melissa shrugged, "I believe he had a friend or something with connections."

The lift stopped and they slowly walked out, Melissa leading them out of the hotel and towards a limousine.

Riley screamed with delight when she saw who was leaning against it, and she rushed to hug him, "John!"

He hugged his sister in response, lifting her off the ground. When he put her down he looked her up and down, "what are you wearing?"

She rolled her eyes, "These are the type of clothes I wear now John."

He began taking off his jacket.

She stopped him, "stop being an annoying brother and let's just go."

Melissa walked past them as she got into the limousine, "you better get use to Riley's clothing John, her character Isis wears the same or less clothing."

When they were all seated in the limousine, Riley noticed that there were four others also there. Two men and two women. Melissa introduced the other four to them. A man in his late 30's with raven hair's name was David Batista, but he preferred to be called Dave. There was a red haired man in his late twenties, his name was Kenneth Alan, who Riley recalled from the note she had received the night before to be known as Joker.

As she set her eyes on the two women, she realised she would not get along with either of them. One had olive skin, dark brown eyes and hair, not quiet so dark as her own. It hung to an inch beyond her shoulders in ringlets. Her attitude was clearly, 'don't mess with me', and her name was Raquel Williams. Riley soon learnt that she would be known as Rachael Williams, as it would be easier for the commentators, other superstars, managers and ofcourse the fans to pronounce.

The final girl had beautiful blonde hair, and reminded Riley of a more ditzy version of her old best friend Whitney. Her name was Emilie-Marie Carter, but she would be known as, Emily Carter in the UPW.

She suddenly noticed that Raquel was staring at her.

"What?" she asked.

Raquel laughed, "you. You have to be some rich little snob who's bought her way into UPW, bet you couldn't even wrestle to save your life."

A silence broke out as Riley slowly began to laugh, "and you could?"

Raquel nodded, "I've never missed a WWF or WCW show yet. Not to mention I'm good friends with the one of their Diva's named Chyna."

Riley nodded, "Wow, that's amazing."

Raquel smiled, "I know."

Riley acted shocked, "you know, I could never compete with that. I mean I'm friends with 'Cowboy' Bob Orton's son, Randy Orton," she said gesturing to Randy who sat on one side of her, (John on the other.) "I mean, I've been trained by Chris Jericho for three years. Hell, I've been to every single WWF show, whether it be a house show, a live event or a Pay Per View. I personally know Vince McMahon and his daughter Stephanie is one of my best and closest friends. Oh wait did I mention I've been trained by the undisputed champion Chris Jericho?"

Raquel shook her head, "You liar."

Riley laughed, "you want me to show you," she extracted her phone from her pocket and dialled her boyfriends number, before she pressed speaker phone.

"uh…Hello?"

Riley was confused as she didn't recognise the voice to be her boyfriends, "who is this?

"Eddie Guerrero," was the simple replie.

"Oh, hey Eddie!"

"Is that you little Rilesy?"

She laughed, "yeah, don't call me that, it's Rilez or Riley or Ri Ri."

Eddie laughed, "What's up homes?"

"Nothing much, have you got a match tonight?"

"Yeah," he responded, "tag team match with Chris."

"Which one, Benoit or Jericho?"

"Benoit… Jericho's got a match against Shawn Michaels."

Riley nodded, "is Chris there?"

On his end of the phone Eddie looked around as Chris Jericho walked out of the bathroom and into the locker room, that the two Chris's and Eddie shared.

"Yeah, I'll just get him ese… Chris!
"What?" Chris Jericho asked, he had a horrible headache.

"Calm down homes, Riley's on the phone for you."

Chris Jericho walked over to the phone taking it from his friend, "Rilez, why are you calling me, I thought you wouldn't call for a few hours?"

"Yeah, I know but this chick I got to work with, one of the new Rookie's, been calling me a liar and rich snob. Plus she's been boasting about know Chyna," Riley explained.

"Yeah, what's her name?"

"Raquel Williams."

"Ok, Hold on a sec…. Eddie, can you go next door to the locker room, Shawn Micheals, Hunter and Chyna are sharing, and get Chyna to come in here."

As Eddie left John made a loud comment about there being a bar fridge.

"Have you got me on speaker phone?" Jericho asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Lucky I didn't say anything I'd regret, with your brother there."

John took the phone from his sister, "and you better not either."

"Yeah… Yeah…"

One the other end of the line Eddie re-entered the room followed by Chyna.

"What's going on Jericho," she asked highly annoyed.

"I was just wonder have you ever heard of a girl called… what was it Rilez?"

"Raquel Williams." She said.

"Raquel Williams?" Jericho repeated to Chyna.

Chyna shook her head, "No, I don't think so."

Riley laughed, "You really know Chyna, hey?" she said to Raquel.

Raquel's face was read, "That's not fair!"

Riley only shrugged.

The limousine slowed and Riley rounded up her conversation with her boyfriend, "Chris, I got to go, but say hi to Chyna for me and tell Steph that I'll meet her in her dad's office at 5:30."

Jericho nodded, "how are you getting here?"

"Randy's driving me and John."

"Oh, great… the one night I want to be with my girlfriend and her brother's coming."

Riley giggled, not noticing that both Emilie-Marie and Raquel were staring at her in shock after they had heard the word, girlfriend.

"Ok, I got to go, I'll see you later."

Jericho nodded, "Ok, I'll see you later."

Riley hung up the phone, noticing that the majority of the residents in the car were staring at her in shock.

As soon as the car pulled to a stop she clambered out after her brother John and prepared for the long day ahead.

"Your dying my hair white?" Riley said in shock.

The hairdresser shook her head, "no darling, placid blonde."

Riley gasped, "but I like my hair brown."

Melissa came to sit beside her, "Riley, at UPW we need you too follow our instructions on how your character will look. Randy's already had his hair shortened and John has had his died blonde. You need to do this."

Riley nodded alright, "fine."

And the hairdresser began her work.

Riley's day had been especially exhausting, she had been taken shopping for four hours, picking our wrestling attires and other clothing that would most suite her character, before she was taken to the hair dresser and her hair was died placid blonde.

"Riley."

She looked over at her brother that had spoken, "Randy and I are going to his dad's locker room."

Riley nodded as she turned making her way down the corridor in the opposite direction, stopping and knocking on the door of Vince McMahon office.

"Come in," she heard Vince McMahon call from inside.

She opened the door, walking inside.

"Riley Cena, is that you?" Vince McMahon asked.

Riley nodded, "yeah, I had to have my hair dyed for my character on UPW."

Vince McMahon nodded, "you know I would hire you Riley, I've seen you wrestle and your better than most women in this business, but…"

"I'm too young," Riley finished.

Vince McMahon nodded, "yeah… give it a few more years and some more experience and I promise you that you will be on the WWF roster."

Riley smiled, "thankyou Mr McMahon."

The door opened again and Stephanie McMahon entered her father's office.

"Ri Ri, Oh my god… your hair," she commented.

Riley nodded, "I had to get it dyed for UPW."

Stephanie nodded, "oh, I was just heading up to the Top box, did you want to come?"

Riley nodded, "and on our way we can stop in at Chris's locker room."

Stephanie nodded, "yeah, alright, as long as you two don't kiss or anything while I'm there."

Riley laughed, "sure whatever."

Riley knocked on the door of the locker room of which held a sign on the door.

Jericho, Guerrero

& Benoit

"Who is it?" Someone called from inside, it wasn't Eddie or Chris so she supposed it must be Chris Benoit.

"Riley," she replied, "Steph's here too."

The door opened and Chris Benoit stood on the other side, "Riley, good to see you."

"Is Chris here?' she asked.

Benoit shook his head, "He went down to the trainer's room."

Eddie Guerrero appeared behind Chris Benoit, "What's up ese?"

"Hey Eddie," she said.

"Hey Eddie," Steph also said beside her.

"You looking for Chris homes?" Eddie asked.

Riley nodded, "Chris just said he went down to the trainers room," Riley repeated.

Eddie nodded, "that he did. If you going down there I'll come with you, I gotta get my hands taped up for my match."

"OK, we'll we're gonna head off now," Riley announced, "Steph and I are watching the show from the top box."

Eddie nodded, "well let's head off then, Chris I'll be back in fifteen minutes or so. That OK ese?"

Benoit nodded and Eddie and the two girls headed off to the trainer's room.