Chapter 17 – Nevermore
The World Champion Randy Orton posed over the bloody fallen Diva Purity. The newest members of Neo-Evolution smiled wickedly over their recent betrayal of their so-called friend. Orton picked up the microphone again and addressed the shocked crowd. "Let this be a warning to you chump-stains back in the locker room area as well as the rest of the wrestling world who continue to doubt me. I am the future of this business and you will get used to it because I will not go away."
Stage music started to play interrupting the champion and some people in the crowd started to cheer. The music sounded like birds cawing interloping with guitar riffs and a long haired man walked down the ring. The man was wearing a leather jacket over a large skull on his black shirt. The man posed by stretching his arms to the side looking like a bird was none other than former ECW heavyweight champion Raven. Orton looked shocked as well as everyone else in the ring at the intruder as Raven had left WWE in 2003 but returned as abruptly as he left. Raven looked like he was pulling something from behind his pants but still kept it from view.
Randy yelled at the approaching Raven "Hey jackass, you have no business interrupting me during my hour, but if you want to join this short freak down here come on in, there's plenty of RKO's for you as well. Raven said nothing but kept his eyes on Orton as he slid into the ring. He went up to Orton and stared him down; unseemingly known to Orton was Edge telegraphing Raven for one of his spears. Yet when Edge started to run Raven swung around and caught edge in the face with the steel pipe he held in his hand. Randy outstretched his hands to connect the RKO on Raven, but Raven turned quickly, stuck Orton's head in his armpit and slammed him down to the mat with an Evenflow DDT.
Neo-Evolution fled the ring but Orton angrily stared at Raven silently vowing revenge for this outrage. Raven knelt down and took the unconscious Purity's head in his hands. There was a dent in her forehead deep enough to put a finger inside. Blood was still leaking from the gash, Raven placed his hand next to her neck feeling for a pulse, there was a faint one, Raven felt himself actually fuming over this senseless violence toward this newcomer to the wrestling world. He looked up and saw his fellow ECW alumnus Steven Richards and his lady friend former women's champion Victoria coming down the ramp with worry on their faces.
Victoria noticed keys on the mat floor; Lita must have dropped them as they fled. She picked them up and handed them to Raven who undid the handcuffs on the ring ropes. As he did Purity collapsed on the floor in a heap. Victoria and Richards got between Purity and helped her to her feet and out of the ring. As the two wrestlers took the diva to the EMTs backstage the fans looked at the solemn wrestler in the ring looking at the mask on the floor. He picked it up and noticed the blood on his hands. No one will ever know what went on in his head as he looked at the ramp where the champion Randy Orton left that night.