Friday, March 5th, 2021 – Houston, TX

For the first time in what felt like a longtime Cedric Harvey was back in an arena as a performer for the global wrestling empire known as World Wrestling Entertainment. He hadn't been seen since his assault at the hands of Triple H a few weeks ago in the middle of the ring. He hadn't had a match since his match against Roman Reigns at the Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View and that was primarily to make sure that he was fully 100% healthy for WrestleMania Hollywood.

Cedric wasn't known for being a guy that frequently got hurt but WWE still didn't want to take any chances.

It was during this time that gave Cedric some time to spend at home and plan his wedding with his fiancé and handle some much-needed business with endorsements and other business ventures. It was also during this time that the young superstar had his 24th birthday. He spent his birthday among his family and his closest friends. And he finally got to see his Denzel's kid, his newest nephew, DeAndre Brown.

To say that the family was growing was an understatement. Both of the young men who started off as best friends in Charlotte, North Carolina were already two proud fathers and two men with women they wanted to live the rest of their lives with.

But currently, Cedric was walking through the arena wearing a simple pair of "Black Cat" Jordan 13s with a pair of black jeans and a black "Game Over?!" tank top similar to the one Triple H wore in the early 2000s. He had taken the time to allow his facial hair to grow more giving him that scruffy look that he needed to have to really sell the intensity of this storyline.

Cedric made a straight beeline to the locker room, he had some more time and he needed to plan out a few more things about tonight before running them by Vince, Shane and creative.

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BEHOLD THE KING! THE KING OF KINGS!

"King of Kings" Hits

The WWE Universe booed as Triple H's music hit on the PA system. The COO of WWE walked out onto the stage with a smug smirk on his face in his grey suit. He looked around at the WWE Universe before he started his descent down the ramp soaking up the boos. He stepped onto the steel steps and walked up onto the steps, onto the apron before entering the ring.

He looked around the arena as he walked close to the ropes grabbing a microphone from the ring crew as his music faded away.

"I have to be honest with you all, I'm very, very disappointed. You know I wanted this fight with Ced, I wanted it really badly. I'm in the best shape of my life. I was prepared. I wanted to kick Ced's ass. I wanted to teach him a lesson at WrestleMania. But Ced just doesn't have the balls to show up here and face me," Triple H said as the WWE Universe booed.

"And everybody has been saying that it's my fault. It's my fault that he's not here. It's my fault that he's a coward. It's my fault that the beating I gave him a few weeks ago was too much for him to handle. The only man that is responsible for that is Ced and each and every single one of you," he said as he pointed around at the crowd.

"You all filled his head with these idiotic notions. You all made him believe that he didn't need me but in reality, he does or he did. The first time I saw Ced in the ring, I thought to myself this kid is gonna be a star but not if he kept wrestling in high school gyms and bars so I extended the olive branch. I gave Ced an opportunity. I gave him the damn blueprint to make it in this business and he spat in my face when I needed him!"

"I gave him the opportunity to become the big star that he claims to be! I gave him the chance to have the life that he dreamed of! I made that son of a bitch! And he showed me no sense of loyalty!"

"I have been this business busting my ass since Day freaking 1 and I never had anyone ever hand me a damn thing! But I took mercy on Ced, I wanted him to have a better chance and he turned his back on me! So, what I did to Ced a few weeks ago, was his fau-"

Triple H was saying but heard an abundance of cheers making him look around the arena looking for the reason. His eyes set upon one of the exits in the crowd seeing a light shining over the 6'3 former apprentice of his.

Ced stood there with a frown on his face and a steel chain around his neck. Triple H looked on as if he saw a ghost in the form of Ced! The fans continued cheering as Ced began walking down the steps with a look of anger and purpose with each step. Triple H took off his suit jacket and threw it off to the side before rolling up his sleeves as Ced hopped over the barricade. Ced quickly rushed into the ring just to be pummeled with stomps from Triple H.

Triple H was putting the boots to Ced who managed to crawl over to the corner. Ced mustered up enough strength to pull himself up to his feet despite the offense from "The Game". Triple H went for a right hand but Ced blocked it and clocked him with a headbutt making Triple H stumble away.

Ced caught Triple H with a series of right hands before hitting Hunter with a right uppercut making him drop fall flat on his back. Ced looked around for his steel chain before picking it up and wrapping it around his fist. He stalked and waited for Triple H to reach his feet before CLOCKING HIM IN THE HEAD WITH THE FIST!

The WWE Universe cheered as Triple H lied flat on his back staring up at the lights. It's no question that "The Game" just got his lights knocked out. Ced reached down for the mic that Triple H dropped earlier and put it up to his face.

"Hunter, At WrestleMania, I'm going to end you. I'm going to kick your ass. I'm going to make you wish you never pissed me off. At WrestleMania, I want your career on the line!" Ced said before he threw the mic down while the fans cheered.

Ced's music hit on the PA system as "Young Simba" looked around the arena with a frown as he raised his arms into the air.

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Friday, March 12th, 2021 – Phoenix, AZ

In just 16 Days the WWE would be going to Inglewood, California for WrestleMania 37 or WrestleMania Hollywood as the media was dubbing it. The Main Event of the WWE's Super Bowl was confirmed earlier this morning as Roman Reigns vs Edge vs Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship. Everyone knew the title match was gonna happen it was just a question of its place on the card.

Another headlining match that many fans of the WWE were looking forward to was Ced vs Triple H at WrestleMania. And with Ced's stipulation that he added last week, the stakes of the match just got bigger. Ced demanded that Triple H's near 26-year career be put on the line in the match-up which makes the stakes just that much bigger.

Tonight, in the middle of the ring would be the contract signing for their match to close out the show, or at least that was the plan unless Vince McMahon changed anything heading into the program. During WrestleMania season Vince McMahon was known to be very intense when it comes to every show and was known to change everything for a show that day just because he didn't like the plans.

But so far there was no word on any changes.

Currently, Cedric was in the back on his phone texting his fiancée back and forth about the travel plans for WrestleMania. Cedric had gotten tickets for his fiancée and his son so they could attend the event, now it was just a matter of figuring out the flight plans and figuring out if Kala's place in LA was still suitable, she had been renting out for a few months an Airbnb since she had moved in with Cedric.

"Everything alright Ced?" Mercedes asked as she walked over to her friend with her title on her shoulder.

"Yeah, I've just been planning on getting Kala out here with baby CJ for WrestleMania. Everything good with you?" He asked as he raised his head, turning to look towards

"Couldn't be any better, I heard a rumor that Bianca is gonna be the one to dethrone me for the title."

"How do you feel about it?"

"I have mixed feelings about it. For so long, people criticized my WWE career saying I could never hold onto a title for long periods of time and now I have and it still feels like I have something to prove."

"That's how it is when you're at the top. You can't get complacent and I'm not saying you are but maybe this supposed loss to Bianca you're supposed to take, is a good thing so you can come back and maybe get it back later on down the line. You gotta take a negative and turn it into a positive." Cedric said as Mercedes simply nodded along.

"That's a good way to look at it. Are you a motivation coach or something?"

"Nah, I just watch Eric Thomas every morning before I go to the gym," Cedric joked as Merecedes punched Cedric in the arm, rolling her eyes as she did so.

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"Icon" Hits

The WWE Universe cheered as the music of Ced played on the PA system. Ced walked out onto the stage decked out in a simple pair of blue jeans with black Timbs and a white V-neck. The lights in the arena were going on in a frenzy as Ced spit out his water in a mist and quickly started his descent down the ramp with a frown on his face. He walked around the steel steps and up onto the apron before he entered the ring, looking around at the crowd. He took a seat at the contract table looking on with a frown as he looked at the stage with intensity.

BEHOLD THE KING! THE KING OF KINGS!

"King of Kings" Hits

Triple H walked out onto the stage with a frown on his face with a folder in his hand. He looked around at the booing crowd before he started his descent down the ramp. He walked down the ramp starting a hole in the soul of Ced. He walked around to the steps and walked up the steps onto the ring apron. He entered the ring and walked towards the table placing the folder down on the table and taking a seat as his music faded. He opened the folder revealing a WWE contract.

Both men sat across from each other with the contract in front of them. Hunter had a microphone in hand as he stared at Ced.

"I want you to realize what this is before you sign it. I want you to know exactly what it means. You sign this contract; it means that your ass is mine inside the ring. It means that everything that happens at WrestleMania is on you and not me. It means that at WrestleMania, you're locked in with me. It means that at WrestleMania that our match isn't just some simple ass wrestling match but rather it's a match inside Hell in a Cell!" Triple H said as he damn near shouted that last part while the fans in the arena cheered hearing that.

"I get to kick your ass inside Hell in a Cell and you get the satisfaction of my career being on the line in the match. But if I'm being honest, you're not going to win man. I've been in 9 Hell in a Cell matches in my career. How many have you had? Oh I know 0. I know what it takes to win one. I know what it takes to survive that cell. It takes a certain strength, a certain resilience that you just don't have."

"Ced, you're not a man. You're nothing more than a boy pretending that he can stand in a man's ring. I thought you had it. I thought you had that X-Factor that the WWE has been missing for some time but you don't. You're just all these worthless millennials in this crowd today," Triple H said on the mic as the fans booed as Ced looked on while a smirk snaked its way onto his face.

"And at WrestleMania, I'm gonna show the world just how much of a boy you are and I'm going to end the man that I once thought would be my greatest creation." Hunter said as he grabbed a pen off the table and signed his name across the dotted line of the contract. Ced picked up a mic as he locked eyes with "The Game"

"I know how this goes. You hit me with some cheap insults, you get me riled up. We brawl, we fight and then security comes out and breaks up the fight. Hunter, growing up I wanted to have a career just like you. I wanted to be the next Triple H and there's a small, small part of me that still wants to do it. It's probably the little 6-year-old boy that remembers sitting up on the couch on a Monday Night watching Raw, watching you step into this ring and put on a show that only "The Game" can do."

"You don't think I'm as ruthless, as vindicative, as sadistic as you are. That's where you're wrong. Go back and check my tapes. Check out the matches I wrestled in before I met you, Hunter. Check out my match with Jaden Sennoa. Jaden could tell you exactly how sadistic I am. He can tell you exactly how ruthless I am. He can tell you exactly how tough I am."

"I realize Hunter, that in order to become the man I need to be to be the top guy here, I have to take you out first. I realize that in order for Ced to be the man around here, it has to be Game Over for you at WrestleMania and I know that going inside that cell, makes you an entirely different man coming and I'm prepared for that. I'm prepared for a night in hell, my only question is, are you?" Ced said looking on with a frown as he grabbed the pen and signed his name across the dotted line as Hunter looked on with a frown.

Both men stood up and started mouthing off to each other before Hunter kicked the table into the knee of Ced making him stumble back a bit. This allowed Hunter to throw the contract off to the outside and push the table off to the side before he started to pile in a series of right hands at Ced was dazed in the ropes. Ced managed to push Hunter off of him giving him enough space to run towards Hunter and take him down with a double leg takedown before piling in the shots on the forehead of "The Game".

Ced eased up on his series of rights and instead stood up walking towards the table. He lifted the table up and pulled off a sledgehammer that Triple H had planned to use. He raised it up into the air as the fans cheered while Hunter gripped onto the ropes and used them to pull himself up. He stumbled around before walking towards Ced but he was quickly able to react and drop down, rolling out of the ring while Ced stood tall in the ring with the sledgehammer while the fans cheered.

Triple H and Ced continued staring each other down as the WrestleMania logo stood tall in the corner behind Ced as "Icon" played in the background.

"At WrestleMania, I'm gonna kick your ass!" Ced shouted at his childhood hero.

A/N: Alright y'all this was simply just a transition chapter to transition to WrestleMania Hollywood. I changed the location and date to coincide with what was originally supposed to happen because remember in this story COVID doesn't exist. So, I have some news, and its actually good news. I have decided to write Destiny: Book 2. So that makes this Destiny Book 1. Book 2 will start after WrestleMania and it'll cover Ced's main event rise and his rise to the World title. So, WrestleMania 37 or WrestleMania Hollywood is gonna be the last chapter of this book.

And I should have that chapter out today.