The WWE was getting ready for Raw, the day after the Royal Rumble, which was in New York this year. Most of the time it was held in Atlanta - which was Micaela's hometown - but it was last year. And she missed it due to the fact that she debuted right after the pay-per-view on Monday Night Raw. With her stuff back at the hotel they were staying at, Micaela decided to go to the gym with Trinity and Ariane, the girls that formed the "Funkadactyls" as Cameron and Naomi. She was gonna have to get used to being without Stephen, so why not go with other girls? Besides, she knew them pretty well.
"Damn, why does it look...just why?" Micaela couldn't think of the words to express her...curiosity? Yeah, let's go with that. Trinity just laughed as she continued rattling two ropes against the pole. It was to exercise the upper arm muscles...or something...
"Girl, why you makin' it seem like a big deal?" she asked before she stopped. She was enjoying the confusion. "You never tried this before?"
Micaela shook her head. "I guess since I don't work on my arms as much as I should, I don't go all out to work on them."
"Try it! The wave motion is a good one." She moved up as Trinity stepped to the side and began the technique that she saw. Pretty simple stuff. "Well look at you!"
Micaela just laughed before noticing someone enter the gym. She slowly stopped whipping the rope as he casually made his way in.
"Hmm."
That one sound caught Micaela's attention quick, her black hair unable to keep up with her head-turning and therefore getting in her sight. So she had to drop the rope and throw her hair out of the way. Her eyes went to Ariane; she knew the voices clearly. "Is someone a little lovestruck?"
She and Trinity began to make little comments to each other, causing Micaela to become a bright red.
"Shush!" It was her new business partner, Leati. She swore she'd had to have dreamed about him before. He was the Samoan Fabio.
"You need to at least talk to him!" Trinity told Micaela as she poked her shoulder. Leati couldn't hear them talking about him because he was wearing headphones. "You two will be working closer together, anyway."
"Yeah, boo." Ariane added. "The better the unit, the more chingle chingle."
Micaela sighed before nodding. They were right, oddly enough. So she sucked it up and moved towards him. Before she stopped in front of him, Leati had removed his headphones.
"Um, h-hi." She tried to get rid of the bad nerves. "I'm Micaela Welson. I was the girl who nearly broke her ankles trying on my friend's shoes while you were heading to the curtains one Raw and you laughed." This got Leati to smile - score one for her.
"Oh yeah, I remember you. Though I think you forget that Jon introduced you to me," he told her as the two shook hands.
This caused her to smack her own forehead. She had forgotten about that day, which was when she was first in Developmental. Her childhood friend, Jon Moxley (Dean Ambrose) had introduced her to the faction before their debut.
"Oh yeah, totally!" She then cleared her throat. "But did the Creative Team speak to you? About..." Leati nodded, deciding to finish it for her.
"Defecting from The Shield. And I'm supposed to be working with you, which is actually pretty awesome in my opinion."
This got Micaela to blush brightly. "R-Really?! W-Wow, I was thinking the same thing about working with you. This should work out well!"
Leati nodded yet again before his phone began to ring in his pocket. "I gotta..."
"No, uh, go ahead!" Micaela then turned around and headed back to Trinity and Ariane.
"So, girl. How'd it go?" Ariane asked as she and her best friend looked on with interest. With a glance back at Leati, Micaela formed a small smirk.
"I think I got this."
It was time for Monday Night Raw. Superstars and staff of the company were all ready for the show, like any other night. Micaela was sitting with Stephen, basically rehearsing what was going to happen that night. Noticing Leati pass by, the two waved at each other.
"Oi, why don't ya just propose to him?" Stephen joked, causing Micaela to blush a bit.
"Hey, shut up..." she looked away, "I was just being nice to my new friend..." Just then, Summer Rae and Eva Marie passed by.
"Sup, girl," the redhead greeted. Summer just waved with a wide grin.
"Hey," Micaela replied, waving to the two before they disappeared around the corner. "I don't really know them well..."
It was then she decided to get to know them later. In the meantime, the two got ready for a segment:
"Sheamus! Sheamus!" Kai called before she found the Superstar sitting on a crate. She then stopped by him. "Sheamus, I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to cost you the match... I was only trying to help."
The Celtic Warrior just shook his head, a small smile crossing his lips. He hopped down from the crate and put a hand to her should. "No worries, lad. It was only an accident after all. We have a tag team match coming up, so scurry along and get ready for it, ya?"
"Alright." Kai grinned before kissing his cheek and heading off to the women's locker room.
A Commercial Break Later...
The bell rings, having attention shoot to the entrance ramp. In the ring stood Lilian Garcia as Sheamus' theme song hit.
"The following intergender tag team match is scheduled for one-fall!" she announced as the Celtic Warrior and his raven haired partner made their way onto the stage. "Introducing first, the team of Kai Loxley and the Celtic Warrior, Sheamus!" The crowd took to its usual reaction as the two headed for the ring. Unlike Sheamus, Kai slid right into the ring and jumped up to the top rope, pandering to the crowd. Sheamus took his pose next to her before their music slowly died.
"And their opponents..."
Style and grace
I'm never gonna be done
Lean on in
No welcome to the Queendom
That was Stephanie McMahon's theme. As usual, The Authority had it's tyranny over everyone. The Divas were no exception. Kai had her own retribution to gain over the boss.
"So I was at the Royal Rumble last night, and I saw - much to the... chagrin of Damien Sandow and Dean Ambrose - that you were at ringside during the 30-man match." Kai shrugged to this as Sheamus stood against the ropes next to her. "This act was unacceptable. Although I don't really care, you could've gotten yourself injured. And you jeopardized your partner Sheamus' chance at going to Wrestlemania for a title shot.
The man mentioned glanced over to his partner as she glared harder.
"But that's fine. Last night presented me with the obvious - partaking in matches with the Divas isn't enough for you. You're one of those... thrillseekers. So I've set up a match to accommodate this urge. An intergender tag team match - Kai Loxley and Sheamus against..." Stephanie turned to the side and pointed to the entrance.
Sheamus pushed his partner off to the side as Damien Sandow's music hit. As he exited through the entrance, Dean Ambrose was trotting down the stairs through the crowd. Kai didn't know whether she was pissed or worried.
When the match finally started, Stephanie was standing at the top of the ramp. Sheamus was wrestling majority of the match, not allowing himself to tag Kai. It was obvious that he had everything under control through the majority of the match, and turned to his partner.
"You want in?" he asked as Sandow was down in the center of the ring. Ambrose was long lost outside of the ring. So Kai agreed to his offer and tagged his hand. They had the same thought then: It was time for Kai's finisher - at least one of them. But she had to tweak it just a bit.
Sheamus picked Sandow up as she climbed to the top rope. He then moved out of the way as Kai grabbed onto Sandow and dropped him into the mat with a diving DDT. She then went for the pin:
"1! 2! -"
Kai felt herself sliding off of the Intellectual Savior suddenly, looking up to see Sheamus glaring hard at her. She sat there confused, staring up at him and asking him why. Instead of responding verbally, he grabbed her by her hair and ended up delivering White Noise to the woman. The raven-haired Diva was laid out before Sheamus exited the ring. Sandow, although rather confused, decided to pin her anyway for the 3-count.
"Here are your winners, Dean Ambrose and Damien Sandow!" As Sandow was celebrating, Ambrose slid into ring. He began stalking the woman who was struggling to her feet. But someone dashed down to the ring.
Kai looked up finally, noticing two out of three members of The Shield. Out of fear, she began to back into a corner.
Stephanie was laughing up at the top of the ramp, "That's right, you Hounds of Justice! Show this little thrillseeker her place!" She then began looking around. "Aren't you missing a member?"
Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose began stalking Kai, the woman having nowhere to go. It was then the final member of The Shield dashed for the ring, but he didn't seem to be in the same mindset as the other two.
"What are you doing?!" Rollins shouted to a stoic Roman Reigns. He stayed in front of Kai, not saying a word. This was her cue to leave and Stephanie was rather pissed, marching down to the ring.
The black-haired woman was holding her back as she sat on the floor next to the ring, terrified and confused. Though Micaela had other thoughts:
He's always drenched in water...
She would've laughed if she wasn't busy being in character.
{I had to stop at some point, considering I think I almost exceeded 1,500 words XD My minimum is 500 less, so I couldn't just put everything in one chapter. Also, I apologize about the pause - I get busy (sometimes lazy) and possibly forgetful. But watching a bunch of old school wrestling videos on YouTube during my summer boredom helps! Soo... hopefully I'll be able to keep this up.}