Author's notes: Glad to see everyone is enjoying the story so far. Thanks for the great reviews.
Disco Inferno1, yes, there is a lot more to come from Emily, but I'll keep you guessing as to what. Glad you like Wanda, it was never really my intent to keep her so low key, but it's working well, but let's just say she's a little different when she loosens up. "As if I wanted to come and watch a load of sweaty men rolling around in spandex pants any way." I know any woman in her right mind would love to see a WWE show but I wanted to get 2 points across: a) Neither Wanda or Emily know much about wrestling:b) Emily has a habit of being a little spoilt. So I hope that line got those points across. Glad the phone calls and incident in the park have got you interested, there's more to come on that too. Again thanks for your review and all your help.
AJ, the "Mr.Baby-soft-hands" comment came about because, in chapter one, I noted Batista's hands were soft and my friend, Polythenegirl21, found this highly amusing and was ribbing me about it all night on M.S.N, so I thought I'd add it as a little in joke. I have a few more things like that planned later on from things I've noticed in the WWE that have amused me. Glad you like it so far and I hope you continue to read.
Mystic-FairyQueen, thanks for reviewing, glad you're enjoying it, and thanks for the comment that I seem to be a natural at it .It means a lot after the bad comments I got for the first chapter.
shady-angel821, thanks for the review. I hope when Wanda and Batista meet again, it won't disappoint.
Also, I'm not going by any T.V cannon's here. Sorry about the over description of wrestlers etc, it was meant to highlight the fact Wanda and Emily have never seen wrestling before.
Chapter Three: Monday night "Raw".
After a pretty boring weekend, it was Monday again and Wanda was back in the office.On arriving there,Wanda received the 3 tickets, along with backstage passes for 'Raw', Shane McMahon had promised her. Originally the tickets were meant for Mr Rodriguez, his wife and their son, but as Mr and Mrs Rodriguez couldn't attend, Wanda had agreed to take Mikhile and Mr Rodriguez had agreed she could have the spare ticket for a guest. So Wanda had invited her cousin Emily. For most of the morning, Wanda finished off the paper work for the WWE deal and prepared the contracts for Vince McMahon to sign later that day. Apart from that, she made and took calls to and from contacts over seas. To her delight, Wanda was given the afternoon off to get ready for tonight under the condition she take Mikhile out for dinner before they went to 'Raw'. Before leaving the office Wanda called Emily to check what time she finished university that afternoon.Then she returned home to get ready herself. Back at Wanda's apartment, every thing was pretty much the same as when she left that morning, apart from the mess left by hurricane Emily. However 'Poochie' was going mental and Wanda had never seen him like this before.He kept yapping about and jumping up at the window. Wanda suspected it was because of her neighbour, Mrs Walker's cat. When Wanda was almost ready to leave, Emily returned from university.
"Hey Em, good day?"
"Not really, I got in trouble because an assignment was late."
"Oh well, at least you have this wrestling show to look forward to. How long will it take you to get ready? 'Cos I have to collect Mikhile soon."
"Mikhile? Why have you gotta collect that brat so early?"
"Please don't call him a brat. He IS my boss' son. Mr Rodriguez was kind enough to give me the afternoon off as long as I took Mikhile for dinner. You're welcome to join us."
"Nah, I'll pass thanks, can't stand that kid."
Then Wanda left, agreeing she'd collect Emily at 6 o'clock, which gave them plenty of time to get to the arena for 'Raw' for a 7 o'clock start. On collecting Mikhile, he insisted they have burgers for dinner, much to Wanda's dislike as she was a vegetarian. During dinner, all Mikhile would talk about was the wrestling, and how 'so-and-so' sucked, or how he hoped he's get to meet 'so-and-so'. Wanda tried to act as interested as possible. She could tell he was a huge wrestling fan, especially since he wore a shirt bearing a picture of some gothic looking guy called 'The Undertaker'. They then went to collect Emily. By the look of the state of her room, Emily had changed her outfit at least 4 times, finally settling on some jeans Wanda thought were far too baggy and a baby pink 'Hello Kitty' mini tee. 'Poochie' was still acting oddly since, at this time, he was usually curled up asleep in Wanda's closet. He was however still jumping around the place like a nutter. When they got to the arena, Wanda produced the tickets sent by Shane. Two official men in smart black suits whisked them through heavy black doors marked 'STAFF ONLY'. They were lead up staircase and down a corridor to a door marked 'BOX 1'. The first man checked their names off a list and then spoke.
"Here you are, Ms Ravenmoon. Feel free to go down the staircase to your left for the concessions area. Just remember to take your ticket so we can escort you back up. I'm sure Mr McMahon will be in shortly to see you."
Then the 2 men left. Mikhile was desperate to visit the concessions stands, claiming all the good stuff would be gone soon. Wanda agreed as long as Emily went with him, secretly hoping she'd be able to speak with Vince alone. Then Wanda entered "BOX 1" and saw before her a huge room with a glass wall that overlooked the ring and already packed arena. In the middle of the room was a massive black leather couch and, in front of that, a coffee table. The table was laid with fresh fruit, vegetables and fresh dips. Next to the door was an intercom. At either side of the glass wall, in the corners, were 2 huge speakers through which Wanda could hear the excited crowd and the warm up music, which Wanda recognized as "Blink 182". Wanda then noticed a large plasma screen television on the other wall. She turned it on to see a close up shot of the empty ring. Wanda was just getting settled and had helped herself to a nectarine when the door opened. She turned, expecting to find Emily and Mikhile had returned. Instead she saw a man in his mid 50's, with grey hair, dressed in a very smart and expansive suit. Wanda immediately recognized him as Vince McMahon. She was suddenly feeling very nervous and had begun to sweat.
"Good evening, Ms Ravenmoon. Pleased to meet you." Vince said.
By this time Wanda had approached him and extended a sweaty hand for him to shake.
"Very pleased to meet you, Mr McMahon. Thank you very much for these V.I.P tickets. Mr Rodriguez was delighted you've given his son a chance to meet some of his idols and pleased that you've agreed to his company producing your planned movies. I am personally delighted you had the faith to meet with Mr Rodriguez's assistant in his absence."
"Ms Ravenmoon, your talent is noticeable in your work. Your meeting with Shane on Friday and the way you presented the proposal to him reassured me that this will be an excellent business venture for all involved."
They then went over the proposal briefly and Vince signed the contract.
"It has been a pleasure doing business with you, Ms Ravenmoon. I shall fax over the legalities tomorrow so that we can get under way with post production. I'd like it if we could talk again after the show so you'll have a chance to meet with the wrestlers and so that my daughter and son-in-law can speak with you. I know they've both been very keen on meeting you. Please feel free to use the intercom to order refreshments. I hope you enjoy the show."
With that, Vince left and, moments later Mikhile and Emily returned. Mikhile's arms were loaded with posters,T-Shirts, hats and pretty much everything else wrestling related. Wanda also noticed Emily had a poster of her own rolled up.
"You were right about there being hot guys, Wanda. Check him out."
Emily exclaimed unrolling a poster of a muscular, brown haired, baby-faced guy named Randy Orton. Mikhile then insisted that Wanda should see all his merchandise too. Looking through the different things, Wanda recognized 'The Rock", 'The Undertaker' and even 'Triple H'. Then she noticed a poster of someone called 'The Animal' Batista, Wanda recognized him as the man she'd seen speaking with Shane on Friday.
"So, who's this guy?"
"Oh, that's Batista, he's World Heavyweight Champion. Isn't he great? I hope we get to meet him." gushed Mikhile.
Wanda silently agreed as she was very intrigued. He was nicknamed 'The Animal' and was World Heavyweight Champion. With a body like his, Wanda could easily see why. All of a sudden the music changed and it was announced that 'Sunday Night Heat" was about to start.
"Sunday night? Are they dumb or summat? It's Monday." piped Emily, trying to sound smart.
"Heat, is actually filmed a week in advance, before 'Raw'." corrected Mikhile, wiping the smirk off Emily's face.
The crowd cheered and booed as a man announced as Jonathan Coachman made his way down the ramp to the commentators table. Then a man announced as Todd Grisham walked down to take his seat next to the 'Coach'.
"Welcome, everyone, we're just one week after 'Bad Blood' where Batista successfully defended his heavyweight title against Edge,"coach said in opening.
"Yes, and we have an awesome show for you tonight with the main event of 'The Hurricane' taking on 'The Nature Boy' Ric Flair."Todd added.
"But first up, we've got Tajiri going one-one-one with Steven Richards." Coach said to announce the beginning match.
Some oriental sounding music played and a short Japanese man made his way to the ring.
"That's Tajiri," enthused Mikhile.
Then Steven Richards made his way to the ring and the match was under way. Emily seemed totally bored by it, but Wanda seemed quite amused, especially when Tajiri spat some sort of green liquid in Richards' face. That match was followed by a tagteam match between Mark Henry and Val Venis versus Simon Dean and Chris Masters. Next there was a woman's match where 2 women named Candice and Maria ran about slapping each other and screaming. Wanda wasn't impressed. Over all, for someone who'd never seen much wrestling before, Wanda quite liked it and every little detail was explained by Mikhile. Then a song that sounded like the space launch music played and an old looking guy, with white blonde hair and announced as Ric Flair, came out. He was wearing a black robe, covered in silver sequins that, said 'The Nature Boy' on the back. He strutted around on the top stage for a bit before making his way down the ramp to the ring. He was followed by an odd superhero(-)looking guy called 'The Hurricane'. Their match ended 'Sunday Night Heat'. The random pop music returned whilst the set and ring were changed. A lot of the audience left at this point, presumably to get refreshments or to visit the concessions stands. Mikhile too wanted refreshments as did Emily. Wanda used the intercom to order 3 large cola's, a large bucket of popcorn and 2 hot dogs. When Wanda asked about paying, she was informed a tab had been set up by Mr McMahon and not to worry, very much surprised her. Shortly after ordering the food and drinks arrived.
"Oh, I can't wait for 'Raw' to start .It was 'Bad Blood' last night, you know, and it was fantastic." Mikhile said between bites of hot dog and gulps of cola.
"Are you as stupid as them? They said earlier 'Bad Blood' was a week ago."
Correcting Emily again, Mikhile told her they had to say that as 'Heat' was aired a week later. By this time, Mikhile was wearing his new Triple H t-shirt and also had a 'Rock' cap on. He became really excited when it was announced that 'Monday Night Raw' was about to start. The random pop music faded away and the crowd went manic as some regal music played and it was announced that Jerry 'The King' Lawler was making his way to the ring .This was followed by the announcement that Jim Ross was on his way to the ring, with subsequent jolly drumming / funfair sounding music. 'The King' and Jim Ross took their seats at a now different and relocated commentators table.
"Good evening and welcome to 'Monday Night Raw'. We're just one day removed from 'Bad Blood' and what a slobberknocker we have for you tonight." J.R. began to open the show.
'Yeah, but will Batista be lucky enough to pull off another win over Edge?" King enthusiastically replied.
"We'll have to wait for the main event for that King," J.R. calmly responded and then continued, "but first the tagteam titles are on the line as La Resistance defends their titles against William Regal and Eugene."
The match soon got under way and Mikhile was disappointed when La Resistance retained their titles. Rob Conway had hit Regal with a low blow when the referee was distracted by Eugene doing some sort of strange airplane dance for the crowd. The following match was handicap between Tyson Tomko and Christian verses Chris Jericho, which ended in some bimbo named Trish Stratus coming down and hitting Jericho with a move Mikhile informed them was called the chick kick. There were lots of advertisements for various soft drinks and snack products between matches. Also between matches was footage that looked as though it was from backstage. Edge was seen arriving at the arena looking battered and dishevelled. Some red headed woman called Lita was seen talking to and then kissing a bald, kind of crazy looking guy called Kane. Mikhile informed them Lita had been forced to marry Kane against her wishes when she found out she was pregnant with his child, but, after the pair had lost the baby they seemed to be growing closer. Emily thought most of the backstage footage and stories were stupid and totally unrealistic.
"Why would a hot chick like that marry a freak like him?" Emily asked in disgust.
But the Intercontinental title match soon got her attention. Champion Shelton Benjamin was defending his title against the guy from her poster, Randy Orton.
"Now, HE is hot, look at those pecs and that stomach. It's enough to make anyone wanna jump in the ring."
Wanda thought Emily was either blind or hadn't see Batista yet to think a baby-faced mamma's boy like Randy Orton was hot. The match was pretty good but Wanda could hardly make out what was going on due to Emily's constant squealing and jumping up and down, which got out of control when Orton was crowned new Intercontinental Champion. The match before the main event was a divas' bra and panties match between Christy Hemme and Stacy Keibler. Wanda was worried someone as young as Mikhile shouldn't be watching women parade around in their underwear, but thankfully he didn't seem to take much notice. Emily wasn't pleased though when Stacy Keibler dedicated her win to her boyfriend Randy Orton.
"God, what a bimbo! What does he even see in a tart like her anyway?" protested Emily.
Wanda, however, was highly amused by this, thinking it served her right for fancying a prat like Orton. The bra and panties match was followed by backstage footage of Batista in his locker room, preparing for his match. Unlike Friday when she'd seen him, Batista was now wearing only a little pair of white wrestling pants with a red motive on. His muscular body was covered in baby oil to define his more than ample physic. Wanda swooned inside at the sight of him. Then the scene cut back to the arena and some rock type music played before a tall blonde guy in a long leather coat appeared. The crowd booed incessantly as Edge made his way to the ring and pointed to his waist mouthing 'It's mine.'
Mikhile was irate at this point, screaming.
"It's Batista's title no matter what Edge or anyone else says."
Batista's music played and he appeared at the top of the ramp, looking better than he did only moments ago with the lights picking up every inch of his body. He stood on the stage and shouted to the crowd, flexing his muscles before posing to show off the gleaming title around his waist. Wanda couldn't help but think how attractive he looked. Emily made some comment about Batista using the world's supply of baby oil. Wanda was not impressed. Then the match began and it went to and fro for about 15 minutes, with missed Batista bombs and spears and a few near pin falls. Both Mikhile and Wanda were on the edge of their seats. The two men staggered to their feet, as Triple H appeared and jumped onto the ring apron trying to get into the ring. The referee attempted to stop him. Batista, noticing what was going on, became distracted, leaving him open for a low blow from Edge. Triple H smiled and dropped to the outside mat, taking a seat at ring side with a smirk on his face. Edge then tried to hit the spear, but missed. Causing Edge to impale the referee and knocked him out. Unknowing the referee was down, Batista hit Edge. The crowd went mad whilst Triple H shouted in disbelief. Wanda and Mikhile were both on their feet in jubilation. As Batista lifted Edge up high, Triple H slide into the ring with a sledge hammer. He hit Batista with it, and Batista doubled up in pain, dropping Edge. Whilst Batista was keeled over in pain, Triple H hit him in the back of the head with the hammer. Triple H then pulled Edge onto Batista's lifeless body before waking the referee and returning to his seat at ring side. The crowd were going mental and Mikhile and Wanda were screaming. Slowly the referee made the 3 count and Edge was crowned new World Heavyweight Champion. As Edge's music played through, Batista began to stir, realizing what had just happened. Triple H entered the ring and knelt over Batista's body, screaming something to him about knowing how it felt. The crowd booed wildly and Mikhile was crazed cursing 'The Game.'
Wanda was amazed: Was Triple H meant to have come out? Was Batista going to be ok? Edge had now reached the stage at the top of the ramp, his new belt proudly around his waist. Before disappearing Edge took a mic and shouted, 'It's my time now!' Medical staff were at the ring, taking Batista away on a stretcher. Triple H remained in the ring, looking more than pleased with himself.
"Mikhile, what's going on? Does stuff like that usually happen?" Wanda seemed really worried.
"Don't worry, Wanda, it's all fake. The hammer was probably rubber or summat." Mikhile laughed.
"Oh, thank god for that, I was really scared," sighed Wanda.
"Ha, Mr. Baby oil, isn't all he cracked up to be then?" laughed Emily at Batista's loss.
"Well we can't all be perfect, like Randy Orton can we?" retorted Wanda sarcastically, giving Emily a scathing look.
Then the door opened and it was Vince again. He seemed very pleased.
"Hello, again Ms Ravenmoon, so did you all enjoy 'Raw' ?"
Mikhile leapt to his feet, completely oblivious to Mr McMahon's power and how rude he was being.
"Oh, it was fantastic, but I can't believe Batista lost the title. He's going to kill Triple H now, isn't he?" squealed Mikhile.
Vince didn't seem at all angry at Mikhile's childlike ignorance. In-fact, he seemed happy.
"Glad you enjoyed it, young man. What do you say about rounding off the night by meeting some of our superstars. You might even get a chance to tell Triple H what you think of him," Vince said with a smile.
Mikhile's eyes lit up and he looked as though Christmas had come early. Wanda's heart jumped at the thought of running into Batista and she heard Emily whisper, 'Ohhh, I hope we meet Randy.'
To be continued………..