Chapter 18 – King of the Ring 1998
Hello everyone this is Vortus. This is another flashback chapter where Purity decides that her future will be with professional wrestling.
Capella was very excited about the pay per view that she was invited to by Mick Foley. The trip up to where the event was taking place was going to cost her just about every penny she had, but hopefully she thought would be well worth it. She was sitting not too far off where Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler were busy commentating the match. She looked up to see the ominous Hell in a Cell was looming and chills ran up and down her young body at the thought of what Mick was getting himself into.
Then she heard the beautiful music of Mankind start to play and Mankind emerged wielding a steel chair. Capella stood up and cheered her lungs out for her hero as he walked the aisle. He was about to walk inside the Cell but stopped to look at the roof, he threw his chair up and began to climb up much to everyone's astonishment. Lawler and Ross were talking about how Mankind might not feel pain or if he does that he enjoyed it. As Mankind stood atop the Cell waiting for his opponent a fear went through Capella that Mick was going to get hurt because he was about to face the Undertaker, another one of Capella's favorites in WWE. This was going to be a brutal match no doubt about it.
Then the arena went black and a loud GONG signaled the arrival of the Phenom. The crowd popped up out of their seats and cheered the Deadman slowly walking down the arena and looking up at Mankind. He took off his coat and crawled up the Cell after his prey. Mankind was there to meet him with a barrage of punches and a smack from the steel chair. Undertaker caught him and proceeded to punch him in the face. All of sudden the crowd lit up as Undertaker caught Mick while he was stunned and threw him from all the way down to the arena floor and Mankind crashed onto the Spanish announcer's table in a messy heap.
Capella's heart jumped to her throat and without even thinking straight bolted for the security railing to see if he was okay. The image of him falling still burned on the inside of her eyes as she pushed through the crowd that gathered where Mick had fallen. When she got there Mick was surrounded by Terry Funk, a legend in the business, Sergeant Slaughter, former WWE champion and Vince McMahon the chairman of WWE along with several referees and EMTs. Mick was still alive much to Capella's relief but was seriously hurt. He was being loaded onto a stretcher as the Undertaker watched still perched atop the Cell. The Cell was being lowered as the match looked to be over and 'Taker was climbing down, but as the stretcher was going through the aisle it fell and a scream left Capella's lips as it seemed that one of the EMT's slipped. However Mick was on his feet and shoved past the referees and climbed back up the Cell with Undertaker on his heels.
Capella was frozen with shock at what she was witnessing. A man who fell 14 feet or it seemed and was going back for more. Unfortunately Mick was grabbed by Undertaker around the throat and choke slammed through the top and the chair he carried fell with him and hit him in the face as he landed in the ring below. Tears started welling in her eyes as he landed hard and didn't look like he was moving again. Terry Funk and the referees surrounded Mick again and the Undertaker dropped down to finish the job. Terry stepped up to fight 'Taker but was met with a choke slam. He cleared out the referees and they shut and locked the Cell behind them.
Capella was leaning on the security railing watching Mick slowly fight back from the onslaught that Undertaker was dishing out. Mick managed to pull of his double - armed DDT and slide out the ring. He came bag with an oversized bag and dumped out thousands of shiny objects, upon squinting her eyes she realized that Mick was dumping out thumbtacks on the ring. She watched with amazement as Mick fought to piledrive the Undertaker onto the thumbtacks but he was back-dropped onto them himself. After a Tombstone Piledriver, the match was over.
As Mick and the other wrestlers left the ring Capella was rooted to the ground as several visions went through her head. She wanted to feel the way she did again and again, but even more so she wanted other people to feel that way as well. By coming to this event, she filled that void in her soul that existed after her parents died. She wanted to become a wrestler no matter what happened to her. She wanted to do this with her life. In the days afterwards she continued to visit with Mick and his family and she told him of what she wanted to do. He agreed to train her but not just he would do it, he was going to need some help from many others to teach her the secret to control that passion within.