The Goldan Jackal and The Silver Falcon
by The Cajun Phoenix
First Match
"How do the Superstars and Divas manage to stay patient in this holding tank?" Maryl was already chewing a wad of Extra Polar Ice long before she even set foot into the arena and she was already losing her patience with the technicians and everybody else.
"Who's the scary-looking new girl?" she heard one of the male Superstars ask as the shorter blond Superstar in the purple-and-silver trunks eyed her with disdain and coldness.
"Who the Hell cares?" the blond snapped rudely at the first Superstar, a lean, muscular, dark-haired high-flyer with a gold-flecked burgundy ankle-length coat and matching tights.
But the blond would live to regret his nasty words, as Maryl kicked him in his shin and again in his groin as hard as she could.
"You will! Next time, say that to my face! And that's when I'll knock out your spiky-haired ass!"
"You were saying, Chris-?" the first Superstar asked as Chris held onto his shin where Maryl had just kicked him.
"Shut the Hell up, John," he snapped as he hobbled away before Maryl kicked him again or worse.
Maryl ignored the commotion around her. As far as she was concerned, as long as the other talent left her alone and didn't try to provoke a fight with her, she was just as happy to ignore them.
But she couldn't ignore what walked past her.
"Who in the Blue Hell just made his way past me? I've never seen him before."
"Miss Goldan, your match is next," she half-heard the backstage technician say.
Spitting her already-flavorless wad into a paper napkin she crumpled into a ball before dumping it in the trash, Maryl stood in Gorilla, which was the holding area between backstage and the ring.
Maryl's jaw nearly fell to the floor when she eyed the slim, heavily-tattooed ash blond young man standing just in front of her. This young man was the one who had walked past Maryl just before her match was to begin.
In spite of seeing him with his back toward her, she could just make out the delicate butterfly-and-scrawls designs across his upper back and shoulders.
"Too many of those jealous curtain-jerkers (1.) in the back might call this pretty new guy's tattoos girly and soft, but I think they suit him just perfectly because unless you saw him with his trunks off or he turned around to face you, you might think you're looking at a girl from the way he's built."
This was because she thought the young man was too slim to fill out his silver-and-many-shades-of-green falcon-print trunks let alone put it all on the line against much-heavier Superstars. She definitely liked his sliced-up silver, green, and black arm sleeves, for she thought the arm sleeves and green fingerless gloves and green knee pads (he did not wear elbow pads) were a nice touch for his in-ring gear.
"I wonder what he looks like once I get to look at him face to face," she pondered before reminding herself to get on with the business of making her in-ring debut.
"From Palatka, Florida-the WWE Women's Champion-MICHELLE MCCOOL!"
"You're Not Enough For Me" blared away as Michelle came to the ring with a blue-and-white-clad Layla in tow, much to the fans' disgust and displeasure. This was because Michelle and Layla were responsible for causing the bitter break-up between Maria and reigning I-C Champion Dolph Ziggler, and they also cost Mickie James her match against Natalya Neidhart. Add the heavier Beth Phoenix and the rest of "SmackDown"'s Divas were in for serious pain and misery at these heel Divas' hands.
"Who do you suppose Michelle McCool's opponent will be?" asked Todd Grisham, one of the "SmackDown" color commentators alongside Matt Striker.
"Our WWE Women's Champion owns victories over every Diva on the "SmackDown" roster, " Matt Striker ran down Michelle's 'Divas Conquests' and pondered, "Who will be her next opponent?"
Okay, here goes nothing to lose.
"And introducing her opponent-from Baton Rouge, Louisiana-MARYL GOLDAN!"
As Breaking Benjamin's "Blow Me Away" blared away in the background, Maryl threw her head backward, her feet spaced apart and her left hand over her hair on the ramp before she made her entrance, not turning her back toward Michelle or Layla. She made her way up one of the turnbuckles and posed with both her arms in a messianic stance.
Michelle and Layla glared hatefully at Maryl's turnbuckle pose, Michelle more so than Layla.
But Maryl would not allow the sour, dour Women's Champion to crush her on her in-ring debut. She had already heard disturbing rumors about how Michelle treated some of the Divas when she was not busy throwing her weight around in the ring. Two former "SmackDown" Divas had already left "SmackDown" after ending up between the sheets with the Women's Champion, and the other Divas who were on "Raw" and "ECW" were too terrified to speak up about Michelle's violent bedroom behavior.
Maryl not only dominated Michelle from the outset with a hard right hook punch to Michelle's jaw, she quickly demonstrated that Michelle might get away with abusing and bullying Divas like Maria and Mickie but all bets were off when it came to getting in the ring with rawboned brawlers like Maryl Goldan.
""SmackDown"'s newest Diva is really laying it into the Women's Champion!" Todd exclaimed as Maryl continued to pummel Michelle with everything she had.
But Michelle was not the Women's Champion for nothing. Retaliating against Maryl for slapping her in her face in the Divas' Locker Room earlier, Michelle attacked by leveling Maryl with a jumping knee to Maryl's jaw, almost knocking Maryl out. Michelle thought she had an easy pinfall win signed, sealed, and hers.
"1..2.." Maryl kicked out of Michelle's pin attempt. Michelle countered with a standing drop kick to Maryl's head.
To Michelle's dismay, Maryl ducked out of the way and countered with a throat thrust and an uppercut-style palm strike to Michelle's face. At one point, the referee was knocked out and distracted by Layla, enabling Michelle to strip one of the turnbuckle covers and expose the steel rings holding the ring ropes together.
"She's tearing the turnbuckle cover off," Matt said as the referee struggled to make it to his feet.
"What's the new Diva going to do now?" Todd asked when he and Matt saw Maryl go on the offensive.
Maryl pummeled the Women's Champion with several strikes in the corner, forcing Michelle to cover herself up to no avail. Michelle might have had the advantage in experience, speed, ruthlessness, deceit, numbers, in-ring technique, and athleticism, but whatever else Maryl lacked in finesse and skill, she more than compensated for in physical strength, extreme stamina, and stark brutality. When Michelle missed a big boot running kick to Maryl's head, she failed to see her head being slammed into the exposed turnbuckle hard enough to slice open her forehead.
"And the Women's Champion is bleeding from her face," Matt noted how Michelle sliced open her forehead. Maryl Irish-whipped Michelle head-first into the exposed turnbuckle before slamming the dazed Women's Champion's forehead into the steel rings with a two-handed bulldog facebuster that left her reeling.
"Why don't you watch where you're going, you arrogant slut?" barked Maryl as Michelle tried to pull herself into a standing position with the ring ropes. Before Michelle could attack, Maryl slapped her across her face violently enough to knock her down. Layla started to scream incoherently for the paramedics to fix Michelle's injuries.
"What the fuck?" Maryl stared at Michelle's already-reddening forehead and realized she was bleeding. If it had been Kelly Kelly or Jillian Hall, she might have shown mercy to Michelle.
"And I'm betting my workshop and all its equipment that's how almost all of Michelle's opponents end up flat on their backs staring stupidly at the floodlights while she gets to preen and strut her way back up the ramp and brag about her latest in-ring conquest!"
She shook her head indignantly at the very idea that Michelle would get to add her name to her rapidly-lengthening list of 'Diva Conquests.' These were all Divas she had either brutalized in the ring or ravished in the bedroom or sometimes both if she was feeling particularly brutal AND sexually insatiable. By now, Layla was already being forcibly dragged away from the ring by several other referees on tap.
Once Maryl realized Michelle was bleeding, she stepped up the pace and doubled the pain she inflicted on the already-wobbly Michelle. It was really quite easy for Maryl to do-simply picture Michelle gawking stupidly at her tits like a rabid animal. Maryl dodged Michelle's Faithbreaker, which was a standing finisher similar to the Pedigree finisher "Raw"'s Triple H used against his opponents to demoralizing effect. The difference was Michelle's victims were held upside-down before she forced her feet between her victims' arms and dropped onto her knees, her victims' faces slamming onto the mat. TNA's AJ Styles also used the Faithbreaker several years before Michelle did, only he called his version the Styles Clash.
Maryl combined chop blocks to Michelle's ankles with running spears to her ribs and abdomen and fist drops to her already-bleeding forehead, countering the Women's Champion move for move before she leveled Michelle with the Goldan Guillotine, which was a body blow to the torso followed up with a low blow and a modified headlock combined with a thumb across her throat in an off-with-my-opponent's-head motion before she leveled the Women's Champion with a swinging sit-out facebuster similar to Edge's Edgecution that began with her using her legs in a low scissor grab just below Michelle's right knee and impacted with Michelle falling face-down onto the mat. Maryl scored the pinfall and the win.
"Here is your winner-Maryl Goldan!"
"I don't believe this," a stunned Matt said as he saw Maryl's right hand raised to indicate she was the winner.
"I think "SmackDown"'s newest Diva might be our WWE Women's Champion's next #1 Contender," said Todd as Maryl left the brutalized, demoralized Michelle laying in the ring.
A/N: Let me know what you think of Maryl's debut and of my decision to have Michelle job (to lose a match) to Maryl.
1. An opening-match Superstar, usually a jobber.